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City In American Cinema - Film And Postindustrial Culture

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 How has American cinema engaged with the rapid transformation of cities and urban culture since the 1960s? And what role have films and film industries played in shaping and mediating the "postindustrial" city? This collection argues that cinema and cities have become increasingly intertwined in the era of neoliberalism, urban branding, and accelerated gentrification. Examining a wide range of films from Hollywood blockbusters to indie cinema, it considers the complex, evolving relationship between moving image cultures and the spaces, policies, and politics of US cities from New York, Los Angeles, and Boston to Detroit, Oakland, and Baltimore. The contributors address questions of narrative, genre, and style alongside the urban contexts of production, exhibition, and reception, discussing films including The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973), Cruising (1980), Desperately Seeking Susan (1985), King of New York (1990), Inception (2010), Frances Ha (2012), Fruitvale Station (2013), Only Lovers Left Alive (2013), and Doctor Strange (2016).
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Origins Of The Film Star System - Persona, Publicity And Economics In Early Cinema

by Andrew Shail

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 Drawing on a wide range of archival sources, Andrew Shail traces the emergence of film stardom in Europe and North America in the early 20th century. Modifying and supplementing Richard deCordova''s account of the birth of the US star system, Shail describes the complex set of economic circumstances that led film studios and actors to consent to the adoption of a star system. He then explores the film industry''s turn, from 1908, to making character-based series films. He details how these characters both prefigured and precipitated the star system, demonstrating that series characters and the ''firmament'' of film stars are functionally equivalent, and shows how openly fictional characters still provide the model for ''real'' film stars.
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Chinese Revolutionary Cinema - Propaganda, Aesthetics And Internationalism 1949-1966

by Jessica Ka Yee Chan

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 A historic study of the innovative aesthetic experiment that was post-war, pre-Cultural Revolution, socialist revolutionary cinema in China.
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Positioning Art Cinema - Film And Cultural Value

by Geoff King

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 Art cinema occupies a space in the film landscape that is accorded a particular kind of value. From films that claim the status of harsh realism to others which embody aspects of the tradition of modernism or the poetic, art cinema encompasses a variety of work from across the globe. But how is art cinema positioned in the film marketplace, or by critics and in academic analysis? Exactly what kinds of cultural value are attributed to films of this type and how can this be explained? This book offers a unique analysis of how such processes work, including the broader cultural basis of the appeal of art cinema to particular audiences. Geoff King argues that there is no single definition of art cinema, but a number of distinct and recurrent tendencies are identified. At one end of the spectrum are films accorded the most ''heavyweight'' status, offering the greatest challenges to viewers. Others mix aspects of art cinema with more accessible dimensions such as uses of popular genre frameworks and ''exploitation'' elements involving explicit sex and violence. Including case studies of key figures such as Michael Haneke, Pedro Almodóvar and Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, this is a crucial contribution to understanding both art cinema itself and the discourses through which its value is established.
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Joss Whedon Vs. The Horror Tradition - The Production Of Genre In Buffy And Beyond

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 Although ostensibly presented as "light entertainment," the work of writer-director-producer Joss Whedon takes much dark inspiration from the horror genre to create a unique aesthetic and perform a cultural critique. Featuring monsters, the undead, as well as drawing upon folklore and fairy tales, his many productions both celebrate and masterfully repurpose the traditions of horror for their own means. Woofter and Jowett''s collection looks at how Whedon revisits existing feminist tropes in the ''70s and ''80s "slasher" craze via Buffy the Vampire Slayer to create a feminist saga; the innovative use of silent cinema tropes to produce a new fear-laden, film-television intertext; postmodernist reflexivity in Cabin in the Woods; as well as exploring new concepts on "cosmic dread" and the sublime for a richer understanding of programmes Dollhouse and Firefly. Chapters provide the historical context of horror as well as the particular production backgrounds that by turns support, constrain or transform this mode of filmmaking. Informed by a wide range of theory from within philosophy, film studies, queer studies, psychoanalysis, feminism and other fields, the expert contributions to this volume prove the enduring relevance of Whedon''s genre-based universe to the study of film, television, popular culture and beyond.
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Classic French Noir - Gender And The Cinema Of Fatal Desire

by Deborah Walker-Morrison

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 French film noir has long been seen as a phenomenon distinct from its Hollywood counterpart. This book - an innovative departure from conventional noir scholarship - now adopts a biocultural approach to exploring the French genre through the years 1941-1959. Chapters reveal noir as a product of the social and cultural factors at play in occupied, liberated and post-war France: marked by malaise at military defeat, Nazi collaboration and the impact of industrialisation. Furthermore, the book uncovers the evolutionary mechanisms of sexuality and reproduction beneath the national context that drive gendered behaviour on screen. During this period, for example, the emerging urgent demand for population growth, coupled with the severe shortage of eligible males, rendered the mating game particularly perilous for traditional women beginning to enter the workplace. This explains the cynical yet seductive behaviour of the femme fatale. Deborah Walker-Morrison focuses on the dangerous, often deadly, desires of an array of male and female character-types: moving past the celebrated, fatal `femme'' to tragic heroines, psychopathic narcissists, fatal `hommes'' and gangster anti-heroes. The book re-examines productions by directors such as Henri-Georges Clouzot, Jacques Becker and Jules Dassin and pulls together strands of sociological, biological, psychological and evolutionary science to create an illuminating study of the intense human passions underlying the cut-throat world of noir.
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International Film Festivals - Contemporary Cultures And History Beyond Venice And Cannes

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 More than 5,000 film festivals take place globally and many of these have only been established in the last two decades. International Film Festivals collects the leading scholarship on this increasingly prominent phenomenon from both historical and contemporary perspectives, using diverse methods including archival research, interviews and surveys and drawing widely from fields like sociology, urban studies and film criticism to patent technology and history. With contributors from across the world and covering the major festivals - Cannes, Venice, Toronto, Berlin - as well as niche, genre and online film festivals, this book is an authoritative and exemplary guide to the evolution of these key sites for film distribution, exhibition and reception. Chapters unravel topics such as the relationship between corporations and festivals, the soft power function they can perform for their host nations and the changing identities of audiences on arrival at, and during exploration of, a given festival venue. Tricia Jenkins'' edited volume reconceives the film festival for the global, digital age whilst drawing out its historic importance and ultimately makes a major intervention in film festival studies as well as film and cultural studies more widely.
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The Age Of The Seljuqs - The Idea Of Iran

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 The book further explores key topics relating to the innovative Seljuq era, including: conflicted Sunni-Shi'a relations between the Sunni Seljuq empire and Ismaili Fatimid caliphate; art, culture and ceramics; and poetry and architecture.
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Shattered World

by Gayle Baggott

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Grade By Grade Double Bass Grade 3

by Catherine Elliott

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 The Grade by Grade series now encompasses strings In each of five volumes of pieces from the wealth of Boosey Hawkes catalogue, the student can discover new, carefully graded repertoire. Incl. CD and numerous exercises.
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Grade By Grade - Double Bass - Grade 1

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The T&T Clark History Of Monasticism - The Eastern Tradition

by Dr. John (Institute Of Orthodox Christian Studies, Uk) Binns

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Hands-On Android Ui Development

by Jason Morris

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Embedded Linux Development Using Yocto Projects -

by Daiane Angolini e Otavio Salvador

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Let It Snow

by Anne Fine; Illustration: Kerry Hyndman

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 A classic Christmas picture book from multiple award-winner and former Children's Laureate Anne Fine.
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R Data Visualization Recipes

by Vitor Bianchi Lanzetta

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Mastering Proxmox - Third Edition

by Wasim Ahmed

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Aws Automation Cookbook

by Nikit Swaraj

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Unity 2017 Game Optimization -

by Chris Dickinson

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Neural Network Programming With Tensorflow - Implementing Multilayered Perceptrons, Cnn, Rnn And More Using Tensorflow

by Manpreet Singh Ghotra e Rajdeep Dua

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Creating The Culture Of Peace - A Clarion Call For Individual And Collective Transformation

by Anwarul K. Chowdhury e Daisaku Ikeda

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Turkish Intelligence And The Cold W - The Turkish Secret Service, The Us And The Uk

by Egemen Bezci

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After The Genocide In Rwanda - Testimonies Of Violence, Change And Reconciliation

by Grayson Hannah

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Africa Is The World

by Chambers Eddie

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