Cinematic Sociology: Social Life in Film, Paperback - Jean-Anne Sutherland

Reducere. DescriptionThe only text of its kind to explore central topics in sociology through feature films This one-of-a-kind text takes readers beyond watc...

Reducere. Academy Award--winning director Michael Curtiz (1886--1962) -- whose best-known films include Casablanca (1942), Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), Mildre...

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Reducere. The vital synergy between dress and the cinema has been in place since the advent of film. Broaching topics such as vampires, noir, and Marie Antoi...

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressAuthor(s): Thomas Deane (Chadron State College) TuckerIllustration(s): 10 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber...

Horror films revel in taking viewers into shadowy places where evil resides, whether it is a house, a graveyard or a dark forest. This title leads ...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Gregory (University of Auckland, New Zealand) CampIllustration(s): 15 Halftones, black and white; 15 Illu...

Examining the special relationship between footwear and film, Shoe Reels explores images of shoes in cinema. It questions what shoes mean in the co...

Reducere. DescriptionWritten by world-renowned social anthropologist, Jean Lave, with an afterword by Brazilian anthropologist Ana Maria R. Gomes, this book ...

Reducere. George Toles's Curtains of Light explores the ways in which various kinds of theatrical space in film engage with the film reality adjacent to them...

Reducere. DescriptionLike no other book before it, this work delves into the deep, dark, and mysterious undertones hidden in Tinsel town's biggest films. Eso...

Reducere. Hedy Lamarr's life was punctuated by salacious rumors and public scandal, but it was her stunning looks and classic Hollywood glamour that continuo...

Superhero films are one of the most enduring genres of cinema. These ten critical essays explore the phenomenon through the lenses of numerous acad...

The aesthetic of body horror has its origins in the ideas of the Marquis de Sade and the existential philosophies of Arthur Schopenhauer and Friedr...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Robert B. PippinThe crime melodramas of the 1940s known now as film noir shared many formal and thematic elements, from unu...

The Government of Social Life in Colonial India: Liberalism, Religious Law, and Women's Rights - Rachel Sturman

#1 New Release on Amazon Backwards and in Heels ─ women in film and their struggle against bias ..".but don't forget that Ginger Rogers did everyth...

DescriptionIn the summer of 1963, anthropologist Jean Briggs journeyed to the Canadian Northwest Territories (now Nunavut) to begin a seventeen-mon...

Drawing from forty years of experience, Julia Brannen offers an invaluable account of how research in family studies is conducted and 'matters' at ...

Circuses and film are a natural pairing, and the new essays making up this volume begin the exploration of how these two forms of entertainment hav...

Towards a Feminist Cinematic Ethics develops an account of non-normative ethics that can be used to think about filmmaking and viewing, using two p...

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The endangered and dangerous female figures of "Rebecca", of "Jagged Edge" and "What Lies Beneath" have a deserved and endures fascination. This wo...

Reducere. Highly innovative and unique in its approach, The Dancer's Gift: Sociology in Life introduces readers to over 200 sociological concepts, cleverly e...

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Reducere. The power of music in everyday life is widely recognized and this is reflected in social theory from Plato to Adorno that portrays music as an infl...

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Reducere. The contributors to this volume examine how things are sold and traded in a variety of social and cultural settings, both present and past. Bridgin...

Zones of social abandonment are emerging everywhere in Brazil's big cities--places like Vita, where the unwanted, the mentally ill, the sick, and t...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Professor Jess (Monash University, Australia) BerryIllustration(s): 48 bw illusNumber of pages: 224P...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Steve RyfleAuthor: Ed GodziszewskiOther: Yuuko Honda-YunIshiro Honda was arguably the most internationally successful Japan...