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Sensing the past : Hollywood stars and historical visions
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ISBN: 0199927650 9780199927654 Year: 2013 Publisher: Oxford, [England] ; New York, New York : Oxford University Press,

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Sensing the Past explores perennial themes in American culture as manifested through the works of six of Hollywood's biggest movies stars: Clint Eastwood, Daniel Day-Lewis, Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, and Jodie Foster.


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Ancient worlds in film and television : gender and politics
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ISBN: 9789004183209 9789004241923 9004241922 9004183205 1283854899 Year: 2013 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill,

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More than a century ago, filmmakers made their primary focus innovative and widely promulgated visions of antiquity, creating a profound effect on the critical, popular, and scholarly reception of antiquity. In this volume, scholars from a variety of countries and varying academic disciplines have addressed film’s way of using the field of Classical Reception to investigate, contemplate, and develop hypotheses about present-day culture, society, and politics, with a particular emphasis on gender and gender roles, their relationship to one another, and how filmic constructions of masculinity and femininity shape and are shaped by interacting economic, political, and ideological practices.


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A companion to the historical film
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ISBN: 9781444337242 Year: 2013 Publisher: Malden : Wiley-Blackwell,

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"Broad in scope, this interdisciplinary collection of original scholarship on historical film features essays that explore the many facets of this expanding field and provide a platform for promising avenues of research"-- "Broad in scope, this interdisciplinary collection of original scholarship on historical film features essays that explore the many facets of this expanding field and provide a platform for promising avenues of research. Offers a unique collection of cutting edge research that questions the intention behind and influence of historical film Essays range in scope from inclusive broad-ranging subjects such as political contexts, to focused assessments of individual films and auteurs Prefaced with an introductory survey of the field by its two distinguished editors Features interdisciplinary contributions from scholars in the fields of History, Film Studies, Anthropology, and Cultural and Literary Studies "--


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Handbuch Nachkriegskultur
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ISBN: 9783110221398 311022139X 3110221403 9783110221404 9783110462005 3110462001 Year: 2013 Publisher: Berlin Boston

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Das Handbuch erschließt die in den letzten Jahren zunehmend komplexer werdende Forschung zur Kultur im Nachkriegsdeutschland (1945-1962). Virulente Themenkomplexe wie Krieg, Trümmer, Heimkehr, Flucht, Vertreibung, Schuld, Alltag, Religion usw. werden anhand exemplarischer Werke systematisch aufgearbeitet, wobei fiktionale Literatur, Sachbuch und Film in beiden deutschen Staaten im Mittelpunkt stehen. Das Kompendium wurde von Historikern, Literatur- und Filmwissenschaftlern erarbeitet und beantwortet maßgebliche Fragen zur ästhetischen Repräsentation und Formation von Zeitgeschichte. Excerpt Open publication This book discusses research on the culture of postwar Germany (1945-1962), a topic that has become increasingly complex in recent years. Virulent topics such as war, destruction, homecoming, flight, expulsion, guilt, daily life, religion, etc., are explored systematically, using examples and by focusing on fiction, nonfiction, and film in the two German states. Historians and scholars in the field of literature and film have contributed to this compendium. They address various core questions concerning aesthetic representation and the formation of contemporary history.


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Jean-Luc Godard, Cinema Historian
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ISBN: 9780253007285 9780253007223 0253007224 0253007283 0253007305 9780253007308 1299807089 Year: 2013 Publisher: Bloomington

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Originally released as a videographic experiment in film history, Jean-Luc Godard's Histoire(s) du cinéma has been widely hailed as a landmark in how we think about and narrate cinema history, and in how history is taught through cinema. In this stunningly illustrated volume, Michael Witt explores Godard's landmark work as both a specimen of an artist's vision and a philosophical statement on the history of film. Witt contextualizes Godard's theories and approaches to historiography and provides a guide to the wide-ranging cinematic, aesthetic, and cultural forces that shaped Godard's groun

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