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| Author | : Deborah Cartmell |
| Publisher | : Pluto Press (UK) |
| Total Pages | : 184 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
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This innovative book studies how films and texts re-imagine the past, and what it reveals about our contemporary culture.
| Author | : Karen Bloom Gevirtz |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 139 |
| Release | : 2017-07-06 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 3319562673 |
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.
| Author | : James Augustus Henry Murray |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 1030 |
| Release | : 1910 |
| Genre | : English language |
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| Total Pages | : 784 |
| Release | : 1903 |
| Genre | : Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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| Author | : Lincoln Geraghty |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 241 |
| Release | : 2007-03-30 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0857714457 |
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.
| Author | : Katherine Farrimond |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 201 |
| Release | : 2017-07-06 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1317208188 |
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.
| Author | : Robert Hunter |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 798 |
| Release | : 1903 |
| Genre | : Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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| Author | : Dion Kagan |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 320 |
| Release | : 2018-04-05 |
| Genre | : Health & Fitness |
| ISBN | : 1838608990 |
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.
| Author | : Peg Aloi |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 203 |
| Release | : 2015-02-13 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1476619123 |
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.
| Author | : Paul Booth |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 338 |
| Release | : 2024-11-25 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1040254632 |
The multiverse has portaled into the mainstream. Entering the Multiverse unpacks the surprising growth of the multiverse in media and popular culture today, and explores how the concept of alternate realities and parallel worlds has acted as a metaphor for centuries. Edited by leading media and popular culture scholar Paul Booth, this collection explores the many different manifestations of the multiverse across different genres, media, fan-created works, and cultural theory. Each chapter delves into different aspects of the multiverse, including its use as a metaphor, as a scientific reality, and as a media-industry strategy. Addressing the multiplicity of multiversal meanings through multiple perspectives and always with an eye toward engagement with contemporary cultural issues, the chapters also examine various distinctions and contradictions, in order to provide a strong basis for further thinking, writing, and research on the concept of the multiverse. Chapters in this collection tell the story of the multiverse in multiple realities: creative nonfiction, academic essay, screenplay, art, poetry, video, and audio essay. A compelling read for students, researchers, and scholars of media and cultural studies, film and media culture, popular culture, comics studies, game studies, literary studies, and beyond.
