Comparative literature

This innovative new work suggests that The Wire reflects, not simply a cultural take on contemporary America, but a structural critique of the conditions of late-modernity and global capitalism.

Ein guter Vortrag ist nicht nur eine Sache der pers nlichen Begabung oder Ausstrahlung des Redners.

This book explores the concept that, as participation in traditional religion declines, the complex and fantastical worlds of speculative television have become the place where theological questions and issues are negotiated, understood, and formed.

This two-volume co-authored study explores the history of the concept 'barbarism' from the 18th century to the present and illuminates its foundational role in modern European and Western identity.

In the two decades bracketing the turn of the millennium, large-scale weather disasters have been inevitably constructed as media events.

What Greek philosopher thought writing would harm a student's memory?

As entertaining as it is enlightening, Creating Dialogue for TV: Screenwriters Talk Television presents interviews with five Hollywood professionals who talk about all things related to dialogue - from naturalistic style to the building of characters to swearing and dialect.

This multidisciplinary collection of essays provides a critical and comprehensive understanding of how knowledge has been made, moved and used, by whom and for what purpose.

Horror is a universally popular, pervasive TV genre, with shows like True Blood, Being Human, The Walking Dead and American Horror Story making a bloody splash across our television screens.

Es gibt eine Vorgeschichte des Ehebruchromans, der in der zweiten Hälfte des 19.

Expertenwissen für jedermann: Diese Auskopplung aus dem "Handbuch der Lebensmitteltoxikologie" beschreibt umfassend und kompetent die für die Ernährung wichtigsten Vitamine und Spurenelemente.

In this multidisciplinary book, Sanda Iliescu articulates a rich, multi-faceted approach to the aesthetic experience.

Israeli television, currently celebrating fifty years of broadcasting, has become one of the most important content sources on the international TV drama market, when serials such as Homeland, Hostages, Fauda, Zaguory Empire and In Treatment were bought by international networks, HBO included.

This collection of essays focuses on the way blurred boundaries are represented in pre-modern texts and visual art and how they were received and perceived by their audiences: readers, listeners, and viewers.

Jewish Partisans of the Soviet Union is a classic compilation of original Russian and Jewish sources on the anti-Nazi resistance in Eastern Europe.

The Politics of Broadcasting (1985) examines the state of broadcasting in a variety of Western democracies from a political viewpoint, written at a time when new telecommunications and information technology revolutionised television and radio.

This long awaited collection brings together in one volume the definitive essays on Anton Chekhov by renowned Chekhov scholar Robert Louis Jackson, including work that has never appeared in English as well as brand new essays published here for the first time.

From Darkness to Light is a compilation of personal testimonies of six Holocaust survivors, written in a short story format.

This book presents a map of the application of memory studies concepts to the study of translation.

Satellite Technology in Education (1991) provides a coherent introduction to the potential of satellite technology in education.

This book uses the discipline-specific, computational methods of the digital humanities to explore a constellation of rigorous case studies of modernist literature.

The book explores how Chinese TV series and Asian Diaspora fiction are consumed, experienced, and adapted by and for audiences worldwide, particularly those of the Chinese diaspora.

This book examines the creative strategies, narrative characteristics, industrial practices and stylistic tendencies of complex serial drama.

Channel 4 had been a matter of controversy for years even before it came on the air in November 1982.

Since the 1990s there has been a dramatic increase in cultural flows and connections between the countries in the East Asian region.

The relationship between information and the nation-state is typically portrayed as a face-off involving repressive state power and democratic flows: Twitter and the Arab Spring, Google in China, WikiLeaks and the U.

El Chavo del Ocho is one of the most influential pieces of popular culture to have hit Latin America in the last 50 years, having, at the peak of its popularity in the mid-1970s, reached an approximate audience of 350 million across the Americas.

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The complete and groundbreaking "e;The L Word"e; is now out on DVD and this book makes the perfect companion, covering the series in its entirety.

This book offers innovative investigations of the concept of life in art and in theory.

Mit jährlich mehr als sechs Millionen Besucherinnen und Besuchern und einer länger als 200-jährigen Tradition ist das Münchner Oktoberfest das weltweit größte und nahezu älteste säkulare Volksfest, welches über eine enorme Strahlkraft weit über die bayerischen und deutschen Grenzen hinaus verfügt und die internationalen Vorstellungen über deutsche Wesensarten prägt.

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A collection of engaging essays on some of the most significant figures in cyberpunk culture, this outstanding guide charts the rich and varied landscape of cyberpunk from the 1970s to present day.

This book observes and analyzes transnational interactions of East Asian pop culture and current cultural practices, comparing them to the production and consumption of Western popular culture and providing a theoretical discussion regarding the specific paradigm of East Asian pop culture.