New Blood in Contemporary Cinema: Women Directors and the Poetics of Horror, Hardcover - Patricia Pisters

Since the turn of the millennium, a growing number of female filmmakers have appropriated the aesthetics of horror for their films. In this book, P...

The question of the materiality of the book has surprising consequences when applied to dramatic writing. In Print and the Poetics of Modern Drama,...

Liberating Hollywood examines the professional experiences and creative output of women filmmakers during a unique moment in history when the socia...

This book includes academic studies from established scholars and early career researchers, as well as fans of horror cinema. It is written for its...

1. Expands understanding of how postcolonial identity finds expression in cinema. 2. Introduces readers to unfamiliar postcolonial narratives from ...

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What does it mean to "fail" in performance? How might staging failure reveal theatre’s potential to expand our understanding of social, political a...

Description The Nasty Woman and the Neo Femme Fatale in Contemporary Cinema puts forward the theoretical notion of the 'nasty woman' as a means of ...

The Poetics of Insecurity addresses a key concern of modern America - security - through close readings of American literary works. It combines lit...

Athenian comedy was written for performance in competitions at religious festivals. This book applies traditional philological techniques to five o...

Publisher: New York University PressAuthor(s): Michael DavidsonIllustration(s): 24 b/w illustrationsNumber of pages: 256Collection: CripPublication...

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A sweeping history of premodern architecture told through the material of stonePublisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s): Fabio BarryIllustration(s...

Reducere. Reveals the presence of God in the creative works of human life and culture What are the "poetics of everyday life"? What can they teach us about G...

Reducere. Description"A lively encounter with identity and American military history in Okinawa. Night in the American Village is by turns intellectual, hip,...

This book locates Polwhele's work within key preoccupations of the age and will be of interest to those working in the field of late eighteenth and...

Reducere. In the early twentieth century, three women of color helped shape a new world of ethnographic discovery. Ella Cara Deloria, a Sioux woman from Sout...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Tobias WilkeIllustration(s): 5 color plates, 39 halftonesNumber of pages: 272Publication date:...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Tobias WilkeIllustration(s): 5 color plates, 39 halftonesNumber of pages: 272Publication date:...

The official art book for the new Netflix/Intrepid Pictures horror TV series Midnight Mass, from creator Mike Flanagan. A small town on an island e...

DescriptionContemporary Women Stage Directors opens the door into the minds of 27 prolific female theatre directors, allowing you to explore their ...

Reducere. Chilean filmmaker Raoul Ruiz is the author of some 100 feature-length films, along with numerous plays and multi-media installations. In Poetics of...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Antonello (University of Pisa, Italy) BoschiIllustration(s): 42 Line drawings, black and white; 76 Halfto...

This book examines major literary texts by and about the Irish in the Middle Ages, providing an analysis of a spatial poetics developed over 600 ye...

Reducere. In Her Voice is the first book that takes the words and experiences of a diverse group of celebrated women film directors and puts their voices fro...

Offers the first book-length, English-language examination of three adaptations of Greek tragedy produced by the gay and Marxist Italian filmmaker ...

Reducere. This volume focuses on the singing voice in contemporary cinema from 1945 to the present day, and rather than being restricted to one particular ge...

Reducere. Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. African & African American Studies. Art. Music. Black artists of the avant-garde have always defined the future. BLACK...

Early American naturalists assembled dazzling collections of native flora and fauna, from John Bartram's botanical garden in Philadelphia and the a...

This... is a brilliant work." --Choice Sternberg] has written a very important book, both for his comprehensiveness and for the clearly-avowed fait...

The first literary and cultural reading of Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica, a major Greek epic from the height of the Roman Empire which tells the ...

Reducere. This eye-opening book identifies factors that impede the success of women in STEM professions and demonstrates the negative impact of sexual harass...

DescriptionContents- Shibboleth: For Paul Celan- "A Self-Unsealing Poetic Text" Poetics and Politics of Witnessing- Language Does Not Belong: An In...

Reducere. DescriptionRhythm constitutes an untapped resource for understanding poetry, making legible a range of ways poetry affects us that cannot be parsed...

Blood in the Streets investigates the various ways in which 1970s Italian crime films were embedded in their immediate cultural and political conte...

The stories of H. P. Lovecraft have been a source of fascination for readers since they were published in the early twentieth century, and legions ...

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DescriptionMeet the women writers who defied convention to craft some of literature's strangest tales, from Frankenstein to The Haunting of Hill Ho...

Reducere. DescriptionThe New York Public Library amazing women in American HistoryJoin Susan B. Anthony's fight for voting rights. Follow Sandra DayO'Connor ...

The Gothic is haunted by the ghost of William Blake. Scholars of the Gothic have long recognised Blake's affinity with the genre, often invoking hi...

Both politically and aesthetically, the contemporary German and Austrian film landscape is a far cry from the early days of the medium, when critic...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Emily (Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley) ZazuliaNumber...

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DescriptionA small dolphin on the ankle, a black line on the lower back, a flower on the hip, or a child's name on the shoulder blade--among the wo...

Bernard continually returns to the classical idea that the quality of desire shapes theological imagination. By attending to the multiple ways he d...

The Pulse in Cinema acknowledges that the pulse is "felt" in the body, yet also argues that the pulse has a wider reaching effect in cinema than si...