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Retrovisions
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Author : Deborah Cartmell
language : en
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Release Date : 2001
Retrovisions written by Deborah Cartmell and has been published by Pluto Press (UK) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Performing Arts categories.
This innovative book studies how films and texts re-imagine the past, and what it reveals about our contemporary culture.
Representing The Eighteenth Century In Film And Television 2000 2015
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Author : Karen Bloom Gevirtz
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-07-06
Representing The Eighteenth Century In Film And Television 2000 2015 written by Karen Bloom Gevirtz and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-06 with Performing Arts categories.
This book analyzes early twenty-first century film and television’s fascination with representing the Anglo-American eighteenth century. Grounded in cultural studies, film studies, and adaptation theory, the book examines how these works represented the eighteenth century to assuage anxieties about values, systems, and institutions at the start of a new millennium. The first two chapters reveal how films like Gulliver’s Travels (2010) or the remake of Poldark (2015) use history to establish the direct relationship between the eighteenth century and the twenty-first. The final chapters examine pairs of productions for how they address and legitimate different aspects of contemporary ideology such as attitudes toward race and gender, or the connection between technological and social progress.
Janespotting And Beyond
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Author : Eckart Voigts-Virchow
language : en
Publisher: Gunter Narr Verlag
Release Date : 2004
Janespotting And Beyond written by Eckart Voigts-Virchow and has been published by Gunter Narr Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Cultural industries categories.
British Science Fiction Film And Television
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Author : Tobias Hochscherf
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2014-01-10
British Science Fiction Film And Television written by Tobias Hochscherf and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-10 with Performing Arts categories.
Written by international experts from a range of disciplines, these essays examine the uniquely British contribution to science fiction film and television. Viewing British SF as a cultural phenomenon that challenges straightforward definitions of genre, nationhood, authorship and media, the editors provide a conceptual introduction placing the essays within their critical context. Essay topics include Hammer science fiction films, the various incarnations of Doctor Who, Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange, and such 21st-century productions as 28 Days Later and Torchwood.
New Boundaries In Political Science Fiction
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Author : Donald M. Hassler
language : en
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Release Date : 2008
New Boundaries In Political Science Fiction written by Donald M. Hassler and has been published by Univ of South Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Fiction categories.
Surveying the vast expanse of politically-charged science fiction, this book posits that the defining dilemma for these tales rests in whether identity and meaning germinate from progressive linear changes or progress, or from a continuous return to primitive realities of war, death and the competition for survival.
Living With Star Trek
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Author : Lincoln Geraghty
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2007-03-30
Living With Star Trek written by Lincoln Geraghty and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-03-30 with Social Science categories.
There is a wealth of literature on "Star Trek", and this book is a welcome and original contribution to it. The book not only sets "Star Trek" in dialogue with ideas and stories of utopia, community, self-improvement, that are central to American culture and history, but goes further to examine the ways in which these are taken up and used by 'ordinary' fans, who engage with "Star Trek" in complex and significant ways. Lincoln Geraghty explores, for example, "Star Trek's" multiple histories and how "Star Trek" has used the Puritan American Jeremiad, one of the nation's foundational texts to create a narrative that relates how through communal effort and personal change, utopia can be achieved. He discusses how fans define the series as a blueprint for the solution of such social problems in America as racism and war and shows how they have used the series to cope with personal trauma and relate to such characters as Data and Seven of Nine in moments of personal transformation. This is all in all an enjoyable and revealing book on "Star Trek's" active relationship with its many thoughtful fans.
Positive Images
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Author : Dion Kagan
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2018-04-05
Positive Images written by Dion Kagan and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-05 with Health & Fitness categories.
A tidal wave of panic surrounded homosexuality and AIDS in the 1980s and early 1990s, the period commonly called 'The AIDS Crisis'. With the advent of antiretroviral drugs in the mid '90s, however, the meaning of an HIV diagnosis radically changed. These game-changing drugs now enable many people living with HIV to lead a healthy, regular life, but how has this dramatic shift impacted the representation of gay men and HIV in popular culture? Positive Images is the first detailed examination of how the relationship between gay men and HIV has transformed in the past two decades. From Queer as Folk to Chemsex, The Line of Beauty to The Normal Heart, Dion Kagan examines literature, film, TV, documentaries and news coverage from across the English-speaking world to unearth the socio-cultural foundations underpinning this 'post-crisis' period. His analyses provide acute insights into the fraught legacies of the AIDS Crisis and its continued presence in the modern queer consciousness.
Narrative Strategies In Television Series
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Author : G. Allrath
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2005-08-10
Narrative Strategies In Television Series written by G. Allrath and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-08-10 with Performing Arts categories.
In the context of a systematic overview of the possibilities of applying narratological concepts to a study of TV series, ten case studies are explored in depth, demonstrating how series such as 24, Buffy, Twin Peaks, Star Trek, Blackadder, and Sex and the City make use of innovative audiovisual means of storytelling. Transgressing the traditional confines of narrative theory, the chapter authors address the question of how form, content, and function intersect in these series.
Carnivale And The American Grotesque
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Author : Peg Aloi
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2015-02-13
Carnivale And The American Grotesque written by Peg Aloi and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-13 with Performing Arts categories.
HBO's Carnivale was a critically-acclaimed, elaborate period narrative set in Depression era America that set the stage for the current explosion of cinematic storytelling on television. Despite an ambitious and unusual storyline, remarkable production design and stellar cast, the show was cancelled after only two seasons. No other television series has been so steeped in history, spirituality and occultism, and years later it retains a cult-like following. This collection of fresh essays explores the series through a diverse array of topics, from visual aesthetics to tarot symbolism to sexuality to the portrayal of deformity.
The Contemporary Femme Fatale
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Author : Katherine Farrimond
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2017-07-06
The Contemporary Femme Fatale written by Katherine Farrimond and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-06 with Social Science categories.
The femme fatale occupies a precarious yet highly visible space in contemporary cinema. From sci-fi alien women to teenage bad girls, filmmakers continue to draw on the notion of the sexy deadly woman in ways which traverse boundaries of genre and narrative. This book charts the articulations of the femme fatale in American cinema of the past twenty years, and contends that, despite her problematic relationship with feminism, she offers a vital means for reading the connections between mainstream cinema and representations of female agency. The films discussed raise questions about the limits and potential of positioning women who meet highly normative standards of beauty as powerful icons of female agency. They point towards the constant shifting between patriarchal appropriation and feminist recuperation that inevitably accompanies such representations within mainstream media contexts.