This book argues that the digital revolution has fundamentally altered the way musicals are produced, followed, admired, marketed, reviewed, researched, taught, and even cast.
This innovative study claims camp as a critical, yet pleasurable strategy for women's engagement with contemporary popular culture as exemplified by 30 Rock or Lady Gaga.
This book explores responses to authoritarianism in Turkish society through popular culture by examining feature films and television serials produced between 1980 and 2010 about the 1980 coup.
This book examines the paradox of China and the United States' literary and visual relationships, morphing between a happy duet and a contentious duel in fiction, film, poetry, comics, and opera from both sides of the Pacific.
This book brings together the fields of theatre, gender studies, and psychology/sociology in order to explore the relationships between what happens when women engage in violence, how the events and their reception intercept with cultural understandings of gender, how plays thoughtfully depict this topic, and how their productions impact audiences.
This book offers the first broad-based survey of the way artists, audiences and society at large are making use of social media, and how the emergence of social media platforms that allow two-way interaction between these groups has been held up as a 'game changer' by many in the theatre industry.
This book investigates the September 11, 2001 attacks as a case study of cultural trauma, as well as how the use of widely-distributed, easily-accessible forms of popular culture can similarly focalize evaluation of other moments of acute and profoundly troubling historical change.
This text offers a theoretical engagement with the ways in which private and public interests - and how those interests have been understood - have framed the changing rationale for broadcasting regulation, using the first century of UK broadcasting as a starting point.
This book explores the idea that while we see the vampire as a hero of romance, or as a member of an oppressed minority struggling to fit in and acquire legal recognition, the vampire has in many ways changed beyond recognition over recent decades due to radically shifting formations of the sacred in contemporary culture.
This book examines how the Cold War had a far-reaching impact on theatre by presenting a range of current scholarship on the topic from scholars from a dozen countries.
This volume explains how Star Trek allows viewers to comprehend significant aspects of Georg Hegel's concept the absolute, the driving force behind history.
In this volume, Richard Gilmore explores film as a channel through which to engage in philosophical reflection and analyzes the relationship between philosophy and film.
This book offers a much-needed focus on Palestine solidarity films, supplying a critical theoretical framework whose intellectual thrust is rooted in the challenges facing scholars censored for attempting to rectify and reverse the silencing of a subject matter about which much of the world would remain uninformed without cinematic and televisual mediation.
This book reveals for the first time the import of a huge network of connections between Tennessee Williams and the country closest to his heart, Italy.
Nach den drei wichtigsten Regeln des Filmemachens gefragt, antwortete Billy Wilder bekanntlich: »Du sollst nicht langweilen, du sollst nicht langweilen, du sollst nicht langweilen.
Viele Filmkenner halten Citizen Kane von Orson Welles für den besten Film aller Zeiten, praktisch alle wichtigen Filmwissenschaftler haben über ihn gearbeitet.
An einem trüben Februarmorgen finden sie sie am Flussufer – mit Sandkrümeln in den Haaren, eisblau verfärbten Lippen, in eine Plastikfolie verpackt und auch als Leiche immer noch unerhört schön: Laura Palmer.
Die neue filmgeschichtliche Reihe, die in ausführlichen Essays über einzelne Epochen sowie in einlässlich interpretierenden Artikeln zu deren 50 wichtigsten Filmen jeweils die Blütezeiten großer nationaler Filmproduktionen vorstellt, widmet sich mit diesem Band dem klassischen Hollywood – der Epoche von Tonfilm, Starsystem und Mega-Studios von den frühen Dreißigern bis zur künstlerischen Krise um 1960, der Epoche, die mit Gene Kelly tanzte, mit Vivien Leigh weinte, mit Henry Fonda litt, mit Humphrey Bogart den Überblick behielt und sich in Marilyn verliebte.
This book develops a comprehensive understanding of the unique sound worlds of key regions in the Global South, through an auto-ethnographic method of self-reflective conversations with prominent sound practitioners from South Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America.
The Festival Cities of Edinburgh and Adelaide examines how these cities' world-famous arts events have shaped and been shaped by their long-term interaction with their urban environments.
