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Hardcover. The Fascination of Film Violence is a study of why fictional violence is such an integral part of fiction film. How can something dreadful be a source of art and entertainment? Explanations are sought from the way social and cultural norms and practices have shaped biologically conditioned violence related traits in human behavior. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 145 x 19. Weight in Grams: 406.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137476432
- ISBN
- 9781137476432
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.09
€ 64.09
Hardback. Children and youth perform both innocence and knowingness within Hitchcock's complex cinematic texts. Though the child often plays a small part, their significance - symbolically, theoretically, and philosophically - offers a unique opportunity to illuminate and interrogate the child presence within the cinematic complexity of Hitchcock's films. Num Pages: 285 pages, 12 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: APFB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 490.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 285
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137475541
- ISBN
- 9781137475541
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.84
€ 122.84
Hardcover. How did Caribbean rituals helped form new currents in the performing and visual arts of the United States? This book answers this question through an examination of the Caribbean-inspired dance creations of dancer/choreographer Katherine Dunham and the experimental films of avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJ; APF; ASD; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 394.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137475534
- ISBN
- 9781137475534
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Condition: New
€ 63.94
€ 63.94
Hardcover. This book explores connections between the diverse ideas of Melanie Klein, Jean-Paul Sartre and Ingmar Bergman. These ideas are explored in relation to their shared focus on imagination and through detailed readings of a number of Bergman's key films. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 19. Weight in Grams: 428.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137471970
- ISBN
- 9781137471970
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.46
€ 64.46
Paperback. How is The Simpsons a satirical artwork engaged with important social, political, and cultural issues? Henry offers the first comprehensive understanding of the show as a satire and explores the ways in which The Simpsons participates in the so-called "culture war" debates taking place in American society. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: APT; JFDT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 484.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 307
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137471789
- ISBN
- 9781137471789
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 69.79
€ 69.79
Hardcover. This pioneering study on fan translation focuses on Italian fansubbing as a concept, a vibrant cultural and social phenomenon which is described from its inception in 2005 to today. It explores far-reaching issues related to fansubbing and crowdsourcing, highlighting in particular the benefits and drawbacks of Web 2.0. Num Pages: 148 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APT; CFP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 147 x 18. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137470362
- ISBN
- 9781137470362
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.54
€ 63.54
Hardcover. An exploration of how educational institutions have been portrayed in horror film, this book examines the way that scary movies have dealt with the issue of school violence, focusing on movies set in high schools, colleges, and summer camps. Num Pages: 213 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFN; JFD; JNKS; JNL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 224 x 20. Weight in Grams: 398.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137469199
- ISBN
- 9781137469199
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 50.67€ 45.00
€ 50.67
€ 45.00
Hardcover. This book explores television's current fascination with the Edwardian era. By exploring popular period dramas such as Downton Abbey, it examines how the early twentieth century is represented on our screens, and what these shows tell us about class, gender and politics, both past and present. Num Pages: 184 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 145 x 16. Weight in Grams: 352.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137467881
- ISBN
- 9781137467881
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.71
€ 63.71
Hardcover. Screen Hustles, Grifts and Stings identifies recurrent themes and techniques of the con film, suggests precedents in literature and discusses the perennial appeal of the con man for readers and viewers alike. Num Pages: 98 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; APFD; APFN; APTD; FFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 224 x 15. Weight in Grams: 274.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137466884
- ISBN
- 9781137466884
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 73.85
€ 73.85
Hardcover. Cinema has long played a crucial role in the way that societies represent themselves. Hedges discusses the role of cinema in creating cultural memory within a global perspective that spans five continents. The book's innovative approach and approachable style should transform the way that we think of film and its social effects. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Num Pages: 190 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 145 x 18. Weight in Grams: 368.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137465115
- ISBN
- 9781137465115
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.91
€ 63.91
Hardcover. Hybrid Heritage on Screen provides a long overdue thorough analysis of the 1980s 'Raj Revival'. It examines imperial nostalgia and troubled ethnic, gender and class relations during the Thatcher Era as represented in cinema and television. Num Pages: 236 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1FKA; 3JJPN; APF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 19. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137463968
- ISBN
- 9781137463968
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.41
€ 122.41
Hardcover. Relocating Popular Music uses the lens of colonialism and tourism to analyse types of music movements, such as transporting music from one place or historical period to another, hybridising it with a different style and furnishing it with new meaning. It discusses music in relation to music video, film, graphic arts, fashion and architecture. Editor(s): Mazierska, Ewa; Gregory, Georgina; Miller, William L. Series: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies. Num Pages: 264 pages, 20 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AVA; AVGP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 514 x 21. Weight in Grams: 444.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137463371
- ISBN
- 9781137463371
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.61
€ 122.61
Hardcover. Japanese animation has been given fulsome academic commentary in recent years. However, there is arguably a need for a more philosophically consistent and theoretically integrated engagement. While this book covers the key thinkers of contemporary aesthetic theory, it aims to reground reflection on anime within the aesthetics of R.G. Collingwood. Num Pages: 173 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; APFV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 15. Weight in Grams: 332.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137463340
- ISBN
- 9781137463340
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.30
€ 111.30
Hardcover. The BBC TV series Doctor Who celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2013; this book analyses how promotion, commemorative merchandise and 3D cinema screenings worked paratextually to construct a 'popular media event' while sometimes uneasily integrating public service values and consumerist logics. Num Pages: 154 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJP; 3JM; APFA; JFCA; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 224 x 18. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137463319
- ISBN
- 9781137463319
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.66
€ 63.66
Hardback. Dead women litter the visual landscape of the 2000s. In this book, Clarke Dillman explains the contextual environment from which these images have arisen, how the images relate to (and sometimes contradict) the narratives they help to constitute, and the cultural work that dead women perform in visual texts. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; APT; JFSJ1; JHBZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 405.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 218
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137457684
- ISBN
- 9781137457684
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.71
€ 63.71
Hardcover. Human rights film festivals have been steadily growing in number in recent years. They are all bound by a common thread, human rights, and yet show distinctly different films. What leads them to be so different, and how is the universalism of human rights made sense by each? Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 139 x 19. Weight in Grams: 432.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137454232
- ISBN
- 9781137454232
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.31
€ 64.31
Hardcover. Black Magic Woman and Narrative Film examines the transformation of the stereotypical 'tragic mulatto' from tragic to empowered, as represented in independent and mainstream cinema. The author suggests that this transformation is through the character's journey towards African-based religions. Num Pages: 212 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 223 x 18. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137454171
- ISBN
- 9781137454171
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.94
€ 63.94
Hardcover. Drawing upon the philosophical insights of Friedrich Schlegel, Walter Benjamin, Theodor W. Adorno, and Blixa Bargeld, this book explores the persistence of a critical-deconstructive approach to musical production, consumption, and reception in the German cultural sphere of the last two centuries. Series: Studies in European Culture and History. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JH; 3JJ; AV; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 143 x 18. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137453365
- ISBN
- 9781137453365
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.12
€ 122.12
hardcover. Series: Palgrave Gothic. Num Pages: 270 pages, 10 colour illustrations, 10 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: APFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2017
- Number of pages
- 270
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137450500
- ISBN
- 9781137450500
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 134.25
€ 134.25
Hardcover. This book surveys the cultural, literary, and cinematic impact of white-authored films and imaginative literature on American society from Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin to Kathryn Stockett's The Help. Editor(s): Garcia, Claire Oberon; Young, Vershawn Ashanti; Pimentel, Charise. Num Pages: 265 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; APFA; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 538.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137446251
- ISBN
- 9781137446251
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.19
€ 123.19
Hardcover. Spectatorship, Embodiment and Physicality in the Contemporary Mutilation Film explores 'physical spectatorship': the representation of mutilation on the screen and the physical responses this evokes. The book is organised around the study of a series of dynamic engagements that reconfigure the film-viewer relationship. Num Pages: 200 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 223 x 16. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137444370
- ISBN
- 9781137444370
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.89
€ 63.89
Photography, Music and Memory: Pieces of the Past in Everyday Life (Pa...
Keightley, Emily, Pickering, Michael
Hardcover. This book explores how photography and recorded music act as vehicles or catalysts in processes of remembering, and how they are regarded, treated, valued and drawn upon as resources connecting past and present in everyday life. It does so via two key concepts: vernacular memory and the mnemonic imagination. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Num Pages: 224 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, 1 black & white tables. BIC Classification: AJC; AVG; JFCA; JMRM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 17. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137441201
- ISBN
- 9781137441201
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 132.90
€ 132.90
Hardcover. Postmodern Metanarratives investigates the relationship between cinema and literature by analyzing the film Blade Runner as a postmodern work that constitutes a landmark of cyberpunk narrative and establishes a link between tradition and the (post)modern. Num Pages: 227 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 18. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137439727
- ISBN
- 9781137439727
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.31
€ 64.31
Hardcover. This book looks at the historic and contemporary links between music's connection to emotions and men's supposed discomfort with their own emotional experience. Looking at music tastes and distaste, it demonstrates how a sociological analysis of music and gender can actually lead us to think about emotions and gender inequalities in different ways. Num Pages: 256 pages, 10. BIC Classification: AVA; JFSJ2; JFSK2; JMQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 20. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137436085
- ISBN
- 9781137436085
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 175.52
€ 175.52