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  • Brian Friel
    Mary Ellen Snodgrass
    Surveying the life, work and accolades of Irish playwright Brian Friel, this literary companion investigates his personal and professional relationships and his literary topics and themes, such as belonging, violence, patriarchy and hypocrisy. Character summaries describe his most significant figures, particularly St. Columba, the victims of Derry’s Bloody Sunday, and Hugh...
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    73,11 €

  • The Social Construction of Death
    Chapter 12 of this book is open access under a CC BY license. Well-established scholars from a variety of disciplines - including sociology, anthropology, media and cultural studies, and political sciences - use the social construction of death and dying to analyse a wide variety of meaning-making practices in societal fields such as ethics, politics, media, medicine and family...
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    47,83 €

  • Male Trouble
    F. Walsh
    A rich analysis of the discourses and figurations of ’crisis masculinity’ around the turn of the twenty-first century, working at the intersection of performance and cultural studies and looking at film, television, drama, performance art, visual art and street theatre. ...
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    48,08 €

  • Affective Sexual Pedagogies in Film and Television
    Kyra Clarke
    Popular film and television hold valuable potential for learning about sex and sexuality beyond the information-based model of sex education currently in schools. This book argues that the representation of complicated-or 'messy'-relationships in these popular cultural forms makes them potent as affective pedagogical moments. ...
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    254,44 €

  • Bradypedia
    Erika Woehlk
    BRADYPEDIA is the newest, grooviest book about The Brady Bunch.  The book tells the story of the development of the original series through its end and then delves into the many spin-offs that ensued.  There’s a price guide for the memorabilia, a chapter on the 80+ songs recorded by the Brady kids, and biographical info on the actors and their families.  New revelations abound....
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    41,61 €

  • Tony Soprano’s America
    Booker / Isra Daraiseh / M. Keith Booker / MKeith Booker
    A sophisticated but accessible account of the series and its place in American cultural history, this book helps readers appreciate the importance of The Sopranos as a cultural touchstone and looks at the show from various cultural perspectives (e.g. ethical, religious, ethnic, etc.). ...
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    55,75 €

  • Women and Comedy
    Women and Comedy: History, Theory, Practice brings together leading researchers from Canada, the United States, and Europe in an interdisciplinary collection of essays to chart the future of critical inquiry in gender and comedy studies. ...
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    63,67 €

  • The BBC and national identity in Britain, 1922-53
    Thomas Hajkowski
    This book is the first study of how the BBC, through radio, tried to represent what it meant to be British. The book combines an examination of the BBC’s desire to construct a strong, unitary sense of Britishness (through empire and the monarchy) with a thorough consideration of the broadcasting in the non-English parts of the United Kingdom. ...
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    35,63 €

  • Before the Camera Rolled (hardback)
    Jason Norman
    The road from entertained to entertainer may seem longer than the yellow brick road to Oz, but finally the secret steps have been revealed. Go from behind a camera to in front of a camera by following such inspiring, award-winning coaches as Mike Starr, Kathryn Joosten, Will Sampson, Beata Poźniak, Richard Dreyfuss, Ernie Hudson, Irma Hall, James Gammon, Bill Erwin, Erick Avari...
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    36,29 €

  • Broadway Actors in Films, 1894-2015
    Roy Liebman
    Many Broadway stars appeared in Hollywood cinema from its earliest days. Some were 19th century stage idols who reprised famous roles on film as early as 1894. One was born as early as 1829. Another was cast in the performance during which Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. One took her stage name from her native state. Some modern-day stars also began their careers on Broadw...
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    73,47 €

  • Food Television and Otherness in the Age of Globalization
    Casey Ryan Kelly
    Food Television and Otherness in the Age of Globalization examines how food television represents cultural difference in an age of globalization and multiculturalism. Casey Ryan Kelly analyzes popular food television programs to illustrate how representations of food normalize global economic, political, and cultural inequalities. ...
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    129,45 €

  • The Oberammergau Passion Play
    Kevin J. Wetmore
    Every ten years since 1634, the Bavarian village of Oberammergau has performed the world’s most famous Passion Play, recounting the last days of Jesus Christ. In 2010, presenting the play for the 41st time, the village broke with tradition to offer a new interpretation for a post-millennial, international audience. Drawing on interviews with villagers and international res...
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    57,56 €

  • Television’s Moment
    Christina Von Hodenberg
    Television was one of the forces shaping the cultural revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, when a blockbuster TV series could reach up to a third of a country's population. This book explores television's impact on social change by comparing three sitcoms and their audiences. The shows in focus Till Death Us Do Part in Britain, All in the Family in the United States, and ...
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    44,10 €

  • Adapting Graham Greene
    Andrew Purssell / Richard J. Hand
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    55,42 €

  • Living with Zombies
    Alexander H Cohen / Alexander H. Cohen / Chase Pielak
    Depictions of the zombie apocalypse continue to reshape our concept of the walking dead (and of ourselves). The undead mirror cultural fears--governmental control, lawlessness, even interpersonal relationships--exposing our weaknesses and demanding a response (or safeguard), even as we imagine ever more horrifying versions of post-apocalyptic life. This critical study traces...
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    42,94 €

  • The Story of My Life (hardback)
    Burt Prelutsky
    This is the HARDBACK edition. Not exactly a memoir, My Story is the saga of one man's fifty-year, often hilarious, journey through a life filled with assorted notables, nut cases, celebrated fiends, and, yes, even a few famous friends.Along the way, you will bump into the likes of Groucho Marx, Oscar Levant, Billy Wilder, Tiny Tim, Ginger Rogers, Spiro Agnew, Jimmy Stewart,...
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    32,29 €

  • The Story of My Life
    Burt Prelutsky
    Not exactly a memoir, My Story is the saga of one man's fifty-year, often hilarious, journey through a life filled with assorted notables, nut cases, celebrated fiends, and, yes, even a few famous friends.Along the way, you will bump into the likes of Groucho Marx, Oscar Levant, Billy Wilder, Tiny Tim, Ginger Rogers, Spiro Agnew, Jimmy Stewart, Norman Lear, George Kennedy, ...
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    19,05 €

  • thirtysomething at thirty
    Scott Ryan
     Babyboomers in their thirties never possessed a collective voice until thirtysomething (1987-1991), a thirteen-time Emmy Award-winning series, captured the essence of their angst. Author Scott Ryan now gives the cast and crew their voice on the making of all 85 episodes. Revealing behind-the-scenes stories are recalled by Ken Olin, Timothy Busfield, Mel Harris, Melanie Mayron,...
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    38,52 €

  • Vampira and Her Daughters
    Robert Michael 'Bobb' Cotter
    From Vampira to Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, female horror movie hosts have long been a staple of late-night television. Broadcast on local stations and cable access channels, characters such as Moona Lisa, Stella, Crematia Mortem and Tarantula Ghoul brought an entertaining blend of macabre camp and after-prime-time sexuality to American living rooms in the 1950s through 19...
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    43,77 €

  • Text & Presentation, 2016
    Graley Herren
    Bringing together some of the best work from the 2016 Comparative Drama Conference in Baltimore, this collection of essays presents the latest research in comparative drama, performance and dramatic textual analysis. A variety of approaches and formats--including twelve research papers, five book reviews and one transcript--cover topics ranging from Ancient Greece to 21st ce...
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    93,95 €

  • Now and Then We Time Travel
    Fraser A. Sherman
    More than 400 films and 150 television series have featured time travel--stories of rewriting history, lovers separated by centuries, journeys to the past or the (often dystopian) future. This book examines some of the roles time travel plays on screen in science fiction and fantasy. Plot synopses and credits are listed for films and TV series from England, Canada, the UK ...
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    58,73 €

  • Tarzan, Jungle King of Popular Culture
    David Lemmo
    From his first appearance in 1912, Tarzan became a multimedia franchise whose cultural influence extended well beyond mere entertainment. The original 20th century superhero, the Lord of the Apes was the inspiration behind such early archetypes as The Shadow and Doc Savage, themselves the basis for heroes like Batman and Superman. Long before Comic-Cons and Trekkies, the f...
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    42,82 €

  • Representing ethnicity in contemporary French visual culture
    Joseph McGonagle
    An investigation of the representation of ethnicities across a range of media in contemporary France. ...
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    157,26 €

  • The Silent Appalachian
    Vicki Sigmon Collins
    Appalachian literature is filled with silent or non-discursive characters. The reasons for their wordlessness vary. Some are mute or pretend to be, some choose not to speak or are silenced by grief, trauma or fear. Others mutter monosyllables, stutter, grunt and point, speak in tongues or idiosyncratic language. They capture the reader’s attention by what they don’t say. ...
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    42,86 €

  • Cognitive Approaches to German Historical Film
    Jennifer Marston William
    This book explores how minds at the movies understand minds in the movies and introduces readers to some fundamental principles of Cognitive Studies-namely conceptual blending, Theory of Mind, and empathy/perspective-taking-through their application to film analysis. A cognitive approach to recent popular historical films demonstrates cinema’s potential to stimulate viewers’ cr...
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    48,35 €

  • La cultura de las series
    Concepción Cascajosa Virino
    Las series de televisión se han convertido en uno de los productos culturales más relevantes de la contemporaneidad, hasta el punto de que hoy prácticamente todos tenemos una o varias series de cabecera. Títulos como Los Soprano, The Wire, Breaking Bad, Mad Men, Homeland o Juego de tronos son objeto de análisis filosóficos, artículos de opinión en periódicos, temas de tesis doc...
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    19,76 €

  • Film and Television Genres of the Late Soviet Era
    Alexander Prokhorov / Elena Prokhorova
    Most histories of Soviet cinema portray the 1970s as a period of stagnation with the gradual decline of the film industry. This book, however, examines Soviet film and television of the era as mature industries articulating diverse cultural values via new genre models. During the 1970s, Soviet cinema and television developed a parallel system of genres where television texts ce...
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    226,19 €

  • Soap Opera Super Couples
    Henrietta Roos
    A television genre best known for romantic storytelling, daytime soap operas have for decades spun tales of couples embroiled in passion, lust and adventure. Yet it was not until the early 1980s that star-crossed lovers became standard and the term 'super couple' was coined by the media, marking a new era of experimentation and growth in daytime soaps. This book documents ...
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    42,86 €

  • Personality Presenters
    Frances Bonner
    Television presenters are key to the sociability of the medium, speaking directly to viewers as intermediaries between audiences and those who are interviewed, perform or compete on screen. As targets of both great affection and derision from viewers and the subjects of radio, internet, magazine and newspaper coverage, many have careers that have lasted almost as long as post-w...
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    89,68 €

  • The Soap Quiz Book
    Mark Bennison
    Can you remember Hilda Ogden, Annie Sugden and Dirty Den or are you more familiar with the current soap stars who keep us hooked with the ever changing dramatic events that shape their onscreen lives? All your favourite characters from yesteryear can be found in this quiz book alongside those more contemporary villains television audiences just love to hate. The 1,000 testing q...
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    12,13 €


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