The People’s Pictures
National Lottery Funding and British Cinema
When the UK’s National Lottery began funding “the people’s pictures,” a debate was sparked. Should public money support popular hits the public wants to see, or experimental cinema that requires state support? This book explores the controversies.
When the UK’s National Lottery began funding “the people’s pictures,” a debate was sparked. Should public money support popular hits the public wants to see, or experimental cinema that requires state support? This book explores the controversies.
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Visual Conflicts
On the Formation of Political Memory in the History of Art and Visual Cultures
This collection of essays explores how visual cultures engage with armed conflict and violence. Each author considers how visual representations of conflict across various media—from painting to photography—shape the meanings of events, identity, and memory.
This collection of essays explores how visual cultures engage with armed conflict and violence. Each author considers how visual representations of conflict across various media—from painting to photography—shape the meanings of events, identity, and memory.
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Merry Murderers
The Farcical (Re)Figuration of the Femme Fatale in Maurine Dallas Watkins’ Chicago (1927) and its Various Adaptations
This book explores the femme fatale in American culture through Maurine Dallas Watkins’s story, Chicago. It argues that Chicago’s revivals produce a unique figure: the farcical femme fatale, who combines tragedy with comedy to get away with her crimes.
This book explores the femme fatale in American culture through Maurine Dallas Watkins’s story, Chicago. It argues that Chicago’s revivals produce a unique figure: the farcical femme fatale, who combines tragedy with comedy to get away with her crimes.
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Bound by Love
Familial Bonding in Film and Television since 1950
The bonds of love can bring bliss or demand sacrifice; they can save us or destroy us. This book explores how familial bonds in film and television reveal a cultural dialogue about the changing nature of love and the American family.
The bonds of love can bring bliss or demand sacrifice; they can save us or destroy us. This book explores how familial bonds in film and television reveal a cultural dialogue about the changing nature of love and the American family.
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Looking Through Gender
Post-1980 British and Irish Drama
This book explores the shaping and performing of gender identity in British and Irish theatres since the 1980s. From a queer theory standpoint, it reads several plays to unmask exploiting mechanisms of gender regulation and resist confining notions of identity.
This book explores the shaping and performing of gender identity in British and Irish theatres since the 1980s. From a queer theory standpoint, it reads several plays to unmask exploiting mechanisms of gender regulation and resist confining notions of identity.
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Intermingled Fascinations
Migration, Displacement and Translation in World Cinema
This collection of essays analyzes Sinophone and Franco-Japanese transnational cinema, exploring films about migration, exile, and imprisonment. United by themes of displacement and liminality, this anthology reveals how cinema represents diasporic communities.
This collection of essays analyzes Sinophone and Franco-Japanese transnational cinema, exploring films about migration, exile, and imprisonment. United by themes of displacement and liminality, this anthology reveals how cinema represents diasporic communities.
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Docudrama Performs the Past
Arenas of Argument in Films based on True Stories
Docudramas offer performance as persuasion. By re-creating true stories of war, tragedy, and the lives of noteworthy individuals, they perform the past. This performance of memory makes the memories of others our own, shaping public memory itself.
Docudramas offer performance as persuasion. By re-creating true stories of war, tragedy, and the lives of noteworthy individuals, they perform the past. This performance of memory makes the memories of others our own, shaping public memory itself.
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Pasolini, Fassbinder and Europe
Between Utopia and Nihilism
This collection of essays compares the legacy of Pier Paolo Pasolini and Rainer Werner Fassbinder, two of Europe's last radical filmmakers. Their uncompromising films oscillate between utopia and nihilism, inviting us to reconsider lost questions.
This collection of essays compares the legacy of Pier Paolo Pasolini and Rainer Werner Fassbinder, two of Europe’s last radical filmmakers. Their uncompromising films oscillate between utopia and nihilism, inviting us to reconsider lost questions.
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An essential gateway to understanding Central Asia. Leading experts present cutting-edge research on the region's history, politics, culture, and environment, making this collection a vital resource for any student or scholar.
An essential gateway to understanding Central Asia. Leading experts present cutting-edge research on the region’s history, politics, culture, and environment, making this collection a vital resource for any student or scholar.
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South American Cinematic Culture
Policy, Production, Distribution and Exhibition
This study of South American cinema offers a new approach, revealing the interconnectivity between state, altruistic, and commercial film organizations. It produces a rich overview of a key non-Western filmmaking site, tracing how films circulate nationally and globally.
This study of South American cinema offers a new approach, revealing the interconnectivity between state, altruistic, and commercial film organizations. It produces a rich overview of a key non-Western filmmaking site, tracing how films circulate nationally and globally.
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Feminisms is Still Our Name
Seven Essays on Historiography and Curatorial Practices
This anthology critically debates the current status of feminisms in visual art. Essays by leading scholars connect past art histories to possible feminist futures, initiating a needed debate on strategies for renewing feminisms in art history and curating.
This anthology critically debates the current status of feminisms in visual art. Essays by leading scholars connect past art histories to possible feminist futures, initiating a needed debate on strategies for renewing feminisms in art history and curating.
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On the Verge of Tears
Why the Movies, Television, Music, Art, Popular Culture, Literature, and the Real World Make Us Cry
Why do stories bring us to tears? This multi-vocal collection of essays offers personal, cultural, and political ruminations on why art, music, and film make us weep, inviting us to imagine tears as a language we can all, in some manner, understand.
Why do stories bring us to tears? This multi-vocal collection of essays offers personal, cultural, and political ruminations on why art, music, and film make us weep, inviting us to imagine tears as a language we can all, in some manner, understand.
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Meanings of Ripley
The Alien Quadrilogy and Gender
This collection offers varied interpretations of sci-fi icon Ellen Ripley. Is she a feminist hero? A patriarchal mother? Does she move beyond dichotomous gender roles? Voices from multiple disciplines explore these questions against the backdrop of Second Wave Feminism.
This collection offers varied interpretations of sci-fi icon Ellen Ripley. Is she a feminist hero? A patriarchal mother? Does she move beyond dichotomous gender roles? Voices from multiple disciplines explore these questions against the backdrop of Second Wave Feminism.
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Celluloid Saviours
Angels and Reform Politics in Hollywood Film
In "film blanc," a spirit helps a hero reform. This book traces the genre from *It's a Wonderful Life* to *The Truman Show*, linking its history to the rise and fall of American liberal thought.
In “film blanc,” a spirit helps a hero reform. This book traces the genre from *It’s a Wonderful Life* to *The Truman Show*, linking its history to the rise and fall of American liberal thought.
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Impossible Worlds, Impossible Things
Cultural Perspectives on Doctor Who, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures
These essays draw on a variety of critical approaches for a wide-ranging interdisciplinary discussion of Doctor Who, classic and new, and its spin-offs. This volume is accessible to everyone, from interested academics to the general public.
These essays draw on a variety of critical approaches for a wide-ranging interdisciplinary discussion of Doctor Who, classic and new, and its spin-offs. This volume is accessible to everyone, from interested academics to the general public.
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Ruminations, Peregrinations, and Regenerations
A Critical Approach to Doctor Who
A critical approach to Doctor Who, this book examines the famous science fiction show as a cultural artifact. It explores the show’s dialogue with politics, religion, and culture, as well as the peculiarities of its audience response.
A critical approach to Doctor Who, this book examines the famous science fiction show as a cultural artifact. It explores the show’s dialogue with politics, religion, and culture, as well as the peculiarities of its audience response.
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PostGender
Gender, Sexuality and Performativity in Japanese Culture
A collection of articles by leading researchers on gender, sexuality, and performativity in Japanese culture. This volume considers representations of the body across contemporary art, manga, photography, and performance art.
A collection of articles by leading researchers on gender, sexuality, and performativity in Japanese culture. This volume considers representations of the body across contemporary art, manga, photography, and performance art.
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Exploring the body's role in cultural memory, these essays consider how the body is a canvas for cultural meaning and a mnemonic for a shared past. Required reading for those interested in how bodies, both on stage and in everyday life, 'perform' meaning.
Exploring the body’s role in cultural memory, these essays consider how the body is a canvas for cultural meaning and a mnemonic for a shared past. Required reading for those interested in how bodies, both on stage and in everyday life, ‘perform’ meaning.
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Movies on Home Ground
Explorations in Amateur Cinema
This exploration of British amateur cinema (1930–1980) reveals a significant but under-explored film practice. It shows how this leisure activity assumed remarkable aesthetic forms, widening the recognised canon of British filmmaking in fascinating new directions.
This exploration of British amateur cinema (1930–1980) reveals a significant but under-explored film practice. It shows how this leisure activity assumed remarkable aesthetic forms, widening the recognised canon of British filmmaking in fascinating new directions.
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About Face
Depicting the Self in the Written and Visual Arts
How do we represent ourselves and the cultures we live in? To represent the self is to create it. This book explores the multifaceted nature of self-representation from the Middle Ages to contemporary culture through literature, philosophy, and the visual arts.
How do we represent ourselves and the cultures we live in? To represent the self is to create it. This book explores the multifaceted nature of self-representation from the Middle Ages to contemporary culture through literature, philosophy, and the visual arts.
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