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Providing a fresh angle on adaptation studies, this study looks at how avant-garde directors and filmmakers have treated literary works in distinct ways. It examines films by Peter Greenaway, Jean-Luc Godard, Guy Maddin, Jan Svankmajer and many others.

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Providing a fresh angle on adaptation studies, this study looks at how avant-garde directors and filmmakers have treated literary works in distinct ways.

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Offering a critical reappraisal of a prolific and popular genre, this text also brings new material into the broader field of television studies. It surveys the traditional discourses about adaptation, unearthing assumptions and misconceptions, and explores the problems of previous approaches.

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Includes a list of movies in back of book.

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Includes a list of movies in back of book.

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Presents ways in which "The Matrix Trilogy" adapts Jean Baudrillard's "Simulacra and Simulation". This book draws on adaptation theory and feminist philosophy in order to create a fresh methodology for interlinking philosophical and filmic texts.

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Presents ways in which "The Matrix Trilogy" adapts Jean Baudrillard's "Simulacra and Simulation". This book draws on adaptation theory and feminist philosophy in order to create a fresh methodology for interlinking philosophical and filmic texts.

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William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Jack Kerouac were three of the most significant figures of the Beat Generation, whose writings have been adapted and appropriated for graphic novels, feature-length films, and other media. Adapting the Beat Poets looks at film versions...

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"Explores films of the long 60s that were assigned an "X" certificate by the British Board of Film Censors alongside new and emerging social and sexual practices of the time"--

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This book provides an in-depth, holistic examination of evaluative aesthetics and criticism and how they apply to film. Suitable for students of films studies and philosophical aesthetics, undergraduates and postgraduates, it also provides a supportive framework for academics researching or teaching in the area. -- .

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This book provides an in-depth, holistic examination of evaluative aesthetics and criticism and how they apply to film. Suitable for students of films studies and philosophical aesthetics, undergraduates and postgraduates, it also provides a supportive framework for academics researching or teaching in the area. -- .

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Aesthetics and the Cinematic Narrative examines the manner in which disparate Aesthetic traditions inform the conception, creation and reception of cinematic narrative while placing film, as an art form, in a wider historical and aesthetic context.

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Aesthetics and the Cinematic Narrative examines the manner in which disparate Aesthetic traditions inform the conception, creation and reception of cinematic narrative while placing film, as an art form, in a wider historical and aesthetic context.

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This work brings together theories and practices from the disciplines of urbanism, architecture and African cinema studies to examine, through African screen media, how African artists are bringing attention to issues of urban precarity, climate change, survival and growth, and creativity on the continent.

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"Assesses the influence and legacy of Stanley Kubrick's films and thought in 21st century cinema and culture"--

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Susan Bluestein Davis tells the heart-wrenching story of her life with her longtime partner, Hollywood star Brad Davis--from his rise to fame through his role in the movie "Midnight Express" to the painful struggle with AIDS, the disease that finally took his life. of photos.

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Explores new nonfiction film about the Holocaust and analyzes a number of currently emerging tendencies that define the field for the new millennium.

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Explores new nonfiction film about the Holocaust and analyzes a number of currently emerging tendencies that define the field for the new millennium.