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Webster: The White Devil
Shakespeare Handbooks

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This introductory guide to one of Webster's most widely-studied plays offers a scene-by-scene commentary of the play in performance, a brief history of the...
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The Catholic Church and Hollywood
Censorship and Morality in 1930s Cinema
International Library of Cultural Studies

I.B. Tauris
During the 1930s, the Catholic Church in the US was engaged in a metaphorical "war" against the increasingly modern and secular values of the American public....
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Media, Place and Mobility
Key Concerns in Media Studies

Palgrave Macmillan
Media, Place and Mobility offers a new understanding of media uses as place-making practices in everyday living. Drawing primarily on phenomenological...
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Middleton and Rowley: The Changeling
Shakespeare Handbooks

Palgrave Macmillan
This introductory guide to one of Middleton and Rowley's most widely-studied plays offers a scene-by-scene theatrically aware commentary, a brief history of...
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Liveness and Recording in the Media
Key Concerns in Media Studies

Palgrave Macmillan
Explaining the key theories of technology and media, this book cuts through the jargon and tech-speak to provide a guide to the dynamics of digital...
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Secret Manoeuvres in the Dark
Corporate Spying on Activists

Pluto Press
The exposure of undercover policeman Mark Kennedy in the "eco-activist" movement revealed how the state monitors and undermines political activism. This book...
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New Technologies and the Media
Key Concerns in Media Studies

Palgrave Macmillan
Explaining the key theories of technology and media, this book cuts through the jargon and tech-speak to provide a guide to the dynamics of digital...
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Consuming Reality
The Commercialization of Factual Entertainment

Palgrave Macmillan
Consuming Reality examines TV's response to the increasing pressure to brand content in a post-advertising era. June Deery's comprehensive analysis of the...
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Staging Holocaust Resistance
Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History

Palgrave Macmillan
Gene A. Plunka argues that drama is the ideal art form to revitalize the collective memory of Holocaust resistance. Drama of and about the Holocaust can be...
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Love and Monsters
The Doctor Who Experience, 1979 to the Present
Investigating Cult TV

I.B. Tauris
Scholar and Whofan Miles Booy has written the first historical account of the public interpretation of Doctor Who. Love and Monsters begins in 1979 with the...

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Understanding Digital Humanities

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The application of new computational techniques and visualisation technologies in the Arts and Humanities are resulting in fresh approaches and methodologies...
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Thelma and Louise

British Film Institute
Thelma and Louise sparked a remarkable public discussion about feminism, violence and the representation of women in cinema. Here, Sturken examines the...
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The Actor Speaks
Voice and the Performer

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In The Actor Speaks, Patsy Rodenburg takes actors and actresses, both professional and beginners, through a complete voice workshop. She touches on every...
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Speaking Shakespeare

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Patsy Rodenburg presents the Actor's Bible of Shakespeare for the stage.
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Psychology of the Media
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From body image to social networking, the media has a huge influence on how we view ourselves and others and this engaging text is ideal for students studying...
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The Godfather
BFI Film Classics

British Film Institute
Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather (1972) marked a transition in American filmmaking, and its success - as a work of art, as a creative property exploited by...
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Cache (Hidden)
BFI Film Classics

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Catherine Wheatley's study of Michael Haneke's 2005 thriller Cache ('Hidden') explores how,in depicting the relationship between an affluentParisian family and...
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Visual and Other Pleasures
Language, Discourse, Society

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This new edition of Laura Mulvey's first collection of essays contains a new introduction in which she re-assesses her essay "Visual Pleasure and Narrative...
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Joan Myers Brown & the Audacious Hope of the Black Ballerina
A Biohistory of American Performance

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Founder of the Philadelphia Dance Company (PHILADANCO) and the Philadelphia School of Dance Arts, Joan Myers Brown's personal and professional histories...
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Star Wars
BFI Film Classics

British Film Institute
Will Brooker's illuminating study takes issue with many commonly held ideas about Star Wars. He provides a close cinematic analysis, carefully examining its...
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2001: A Space Odyssey
BFI Film Classics

British Film Institute
Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey is widely regarded as one of the best films ever made. Based on new research in the recently opened Stanley Kubrick...
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Godzilla on My Mind
Fifty Years of the King of Monsters

Palgrave Macmillan
This year, to mark the fiftieth anniversary of his first appearance on the screen, the original, uncut version of Godzilla was released in American theaters to...
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Blade Runner
BFI Film Classics

British Film Institute
This text details the making of Blade Runner and its steadily improving fortunes after its indifferent reception in 1982. The film is situated in terms of the...
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Back to the Future
BFI Film Classics

British Film Institute
Back to the Future was the top-grossing film of 1985 and winner of the 1986 People’s Choice Award for Favorite Motion Picture. This fascinating study places...