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Players and Arenas : the Interactive Dynamics of Protest
Players and Arenas brings together a diverse group of experts to examine the interactions between political protestors and the many strategic players they encounter, such as cultural institutions, religious organizations, and the mass media—as well as potential allies, competitors, recruits, and funders. Discussing protestors and players as they interact within the “arenas” of specific so…
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- 9789048524235
- Collation
- 322 p.
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- 303.484 PLA J
Revolutionary bodies: Chinese dance and the socialist legacy
This book examines the history of concert dance in China from 1935 to 2015, with a focus on Chinese dance and its relationship to revolutionary performance culture in PRC history. The book argues that Chinese dance, not revolutionary ballet, was the primary legacy of Maoist dance research and innovation. Showing the relationship between dance and politics, it discusses dance developments during…
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- edision 16
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- 9780520971905
- Collation
- xv, 305p.: ill.
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- 792.80951 WIL r
Beyond observation : a history of authorship in ethnographic film
This book analyses the authoring of ethnographic films between 1895 and 2015. It is based on the general argument that the ethnographicness of a film should not be gauged according to whether it is about an exotic culture, but rather by the degree to which it conforms to the norms of ethnographic practice more generally. On these grounds, it considers films made in a broad range of styles, on a…
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- 9781526147295
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- xviii, 525 p. : bnw, ill.
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- 301 HEN b
The political economy of local cinema : a critical introduction
The globalization and digitalization of cultural markets presents formidable challenges for local cinema and storytelling. The essays in this collection address some of these challenges from the perspective of a critical political economy of local cinema. Inspiring these contributions is the effort of supporting local cinema as a form of valuable storytelling that is at risk of market-driven ex…
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- 9783631813300
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- 257p. : ill.
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- 302.2343 RAJ t
Advertising and the transformation of screen cultures
Advertising has played a central role in shaping the history of modern media. While often identified with American consumerism and the rise of the 'Information Society', motion picture advertising has been part of European visual culture since the late nineteenth century. With the global spread of ad agencies, moving image advertisements became a privileged cultural form to make people experien…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789048541560
- Collation
- 340p.: ill.
- Series Title
- Film culture in transition
- Call Number
- 659.14 FLO a
Cinematic Histospheres: on the theory and practice of Historical Films
In this Open Access book, film scholar Rasmus Greiner develops a theoretical model for the concept of the histosphere to refer to the “sphere” of a cinematically modelled, physically experienceable historical world. His analysis of practices of modelling and perceiving, immersion and empathy, experience and remembering, appropriation and refiguration, combine approaches from film studies, s…
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- 9783030705909
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- xvi, 219p.: ill.
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- -
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- 791.43 GRE c
Animating Truth documentary and visual culture in the 21st century
Animating Truth examines the rise of animated documentary in the 21st century, and addresses how non-photorealistic animation is increasingly used to depict and shape reality.
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- 9781474463386
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- 791.4334 EHR a
Realist cinema as world cinema : non-cinema, intermedial passages, total cinema
"Lúcia Nagib redefines realism not as a mere question of rhetoric or style, or a product of a certain age and place, but as a deep and steadfast commitment of filmmakers to an "ethics of the real" based on various forms of engagement with physical reality, which may include "passages" provided by the other arts. Her incisive theoretical arguments and finely nuanced close readings will change f…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789048539215
- Collation
- 301 p.
- Series Title
- Film Culture in Transition
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- 791.43 NAG b
Development of the global film industry : industrial competition and cooperat…
The global film industry has witnessed significant transformation in the past few years. Regions outside the US have begun to prosper while non-traditional production companies, such as Netflix have assumed a larger market share, and online movies adapted from literature have continued to gain in popularity. How have these trends shaped the global film industry? This book answers this question …
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- 9781003051503
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- XXV, 243 p.
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- China perspectives
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- 384.8 DEV d
The structures of the film experience by Jean-Pierre Meunier : historical ass…
For the first time this volume makes Jean-Pierre Meunier's influential thoughts on the film experience available for an English-speaking readership. Introduced and commented by specialists in film studies and philosophy, Meunier's intricate phenomenological descriptions of the spectator's engagement with fiction films, documentaries and home movies can reach the wide audience they have deserved…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789048537846
- Collation
- 354 p.
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- -
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- 791.43019 STR s
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