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And Now for Something Completely Different: Critical Approaches to Monty PythonExamining Monty Python's enduring status as an unconventional, anti-authoritarian comedy touchstone, this book reappraises Python's comedy output from the perspective of its 50 years of cultural circulation. Reconsidering the group's originality, impact and durability, a range of international scholars explores Python's influences, production contexts,...
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Who Makes the Franchise?: Essays on Fandom and Wilderness Texts in Popular MediaFans and the billion-dollar franchises in which they participate have together become powerful agents within popular culture. These franchises have launched avenues for fans to expand and influence the stories that they tell. This book examines those fan-driven narratives as wilderness texts, in which...
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The Rhythm of My SoulWelcome to Roseheart Ballet Academy, where the best dancers have the biggest secrets...Taryn Foster has her eyes set on becoming the first aro-ace ballerina in the academy's company of professional dancers, and all she needs to do is graduate. But she's haunted by the...
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An Introduction to Film and TV Production: From Concept to MarketThis streamlined, step-by-step guide provides students and newcomers in the field of media with an overview of the complete production process, from conceiving of an idea to marketing the final product.Readers will learn what it takes to create a concept, develop it, and then...
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First Acts: A Black Playwright Comes of AgePlaywright and television writer Kermit Frazier began life as a precocious Negro boy growing up in southeast Washington, D.C., during the Civil Rights era of the 1950s and 1960s. As a student at an all-Black elementary school, Kermit was selected for a newly formed...
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We Are Gotham: Finding American Society in the Television SeriesThe television series Gotham gave viewers a unique perspective on the fascinating world of Batman, the legendary comic book character. More than a simple "origin story," the series introduces viewers to a pre-Batman Gotham City, where young hero-cop James Gordon fights a one-man war...
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Waterloo - Making an Epic: The spectacular behind-the-scenes story of a movie colossusHistory has thrown up few events as dramatic and decisive as the four-day campaign that culminated in the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. In 1970, Italian producer Dino De Laurentiis spent $25 million to re-stage Napoleon's tumultuous encounter with Wellington, portrayed by Rod Steiger...
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Creative Practice Research in the Age of Neoliberal HopelessnessIn Creative Practice Research in Film and Media, creative practitioners discuss their experiences and examine how to retain integrity during times of political and economic battles in higher education, and attempts to quantify creative work. It uses the notion of tactical compliance to evaluate...
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Refocus: The Films of Michel GondryThe acclaimed French auteur behind the mind-bending modern classic Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, Michel Gondry has directed a number of innovative, ground-breaking films and documentaries, episodes of the acclaimed television show...
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Film RebootsThrough a set of vibrant case studies, this collection investigates rebooting as a practice that seeks to remake an entire film series or franchise, with ambitions that are at once respectful and revisionary.Author: Daniel HerbertPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPublished: 08/09/2022Pages: 288Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.81lbsSize: 9.21h...
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Refocus: The Films of Teuvo Tulio: An Excessive OutsiderTeuvo Tulio (1912-2000) was one of the most original directors in Finnish film history. Growing up in the newly independent Finland, he lived most of his life in the Finnish cultural and social context, yet he always remained something of an outsider and ended...
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British Music Videos 1966 - 2016: Genre, Authenticity and ArtBased on new archival evidence and interviews, and setting out a new theoretical framework for music video analysis, Emily Caston presents a major new analysis of music videos from 1966-2016, identifying not only their distinctive British traits, but their parallels with British film genres...
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White Cottage, White House: Irish American Masculinities in Classical Hollywood CinemaWhite Cottage, White House examines how Classical Hollywood cinema developed and deployed Irish American masculinities to negotiate, consolidate, and reinforce hegemonic whiteness in midcentury America. Largely confined to discriminatory stereotypes during the silent era, Irish American male characters emerge as a favored identity with...
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The way she spokeA haunting and theatrical one-woman play, The Way She Spoke travels from a New York stage to the treacherous streets of Juárez, Mexico, where thousands of women have been murdered in an epidemic of violence that has yet to stop. Written by Isaac Gómez...
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Acting the Essence: The Performer's Work on the SelfActing the Essence examines the theory, practice, and history of the art of the performer from the perspective of its inner nature as work on oneself, within, around, and beyond the pedagogy of the actor. Ref lecting primarily on the legacy of Jerzy Grotowski,...
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Musicals at the Margins: Genre, Boundaries, CanonsBut is it a musical? This question is regularly asked of films, television shows and other media objects that sit uncomfortably in the category despite evident musical connections. Musicals at the Margins argues that instead of seeking to resolve such questions, we should leave...
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The Disappearing Mr. JacquesTa-da! A dazzling magician is willing to teach readers his most closely-held tricks in this cheekily fun, interactive picture book. Do you believe in magic? No? Well, clearly you have never witnessed the astonishing, bewildering, disappearing Mr. Jacques. Watch closely. He can wedge himself...
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Discovering the Movies in New Brunswick: A History of CinemaA Surprising History of Cinema.When David Folster discovered that some of the earliest documentary motion pictures were made in New Brunswick-wildlife and wilderness adventure movies-he began the research that led to this book. This lively account of movie making pioneers in New Brunswick includes...
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ChouIf you want to learn something about Chinese culture, then Peking Opera can be a great start. It is a major opera genre of the nation and definitely one of the most colorful, exquisite, and powerful expressions of art--you don't want to miss out!...
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DanIf you want to learn something about Chinese culture, then Peking Opera can be a great start. It is a major opera genre of the nation and definitely one of the most colorful, exquisite, and powerful expressions of art--you don't want to miss out!...
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