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A student overview of one of the most popular film genres.

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An essential overview of the most exciting period in Scottish film history, an account which is both broad in historical scope and textually grounded in specific films

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A close study of the relationship between text and film versions of Great Expectations. Literature and film studies students will find plenty of material to support their courses and essay writing on how the film versions provide different readings of the original text.

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Pride and Prejudice is a classic piece of literature and with several screen versions available (featuring stars such as Keira Knightley), as well as a Bollywood version. This book offers a rich source of study material to help students understand the reciprocal relationship between film and literature.

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Focussing on several film versions and adaptations, the book discusses: King Lear in its historical context, key themes and dominant readings of the text, how the text is adapted for screen and how adaptations have changed our reading of the original text.

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A close study of the relationship between text and film versions of The Tempest. Literature and film studies students will find plenty of material to support their courses and essay writing on how the film versions provide different readings of the original text.

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A visual cultural history of contemporary borders and border outlooks through a film and television tour of Europe. Screen borders explores what screen representations of European borders, with France as a starting point, reveals about popular and institutional outlooks on European borders.

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In this insightful text, Cherry Potter has used her extensive experience to provide a combination of analysis and inspiration. She uses sequences from films to present a series of master classes on the technique and meaning of classic film moments, and includes practical exercises and advice.

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Peter Brunette and David Wills extend the work of Jacques Derrida into a new realm--with rewarding consequences. Although Derrida has never addressed film theory directly in his writings, Brunette and Wills argue that the ideas he has developed in his critique of the logocentric foundations of Western thought, especially his notion of "Writing," ca

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This book analyzes how twenty-first century film adaptations of Shakespeare's comedies interpret gender-related concepts of their source texts. Examining the negotiations between early modern and contemporary gender politics, Cielak identifies the main strategies of accommodating early modern gender constructs for todays audiences.

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Screening Minors in Latin American Cinema is the first book to examine how Latin American filmmakers represent the subjectivity of children and adolescents in an adult medium. The chapters analyze childrens developing agency in diverse social contexts across Latin America.

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Screening Minors in Latin American Cinema is the first book to examine how Latin American filmmakers represent the subjectivity of children and adolescents in an adult medium. The chapters analyze childrens developing agency in diverse social contexts across Latin America.

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"Through a focus on recent film, this study examines the representation of neoliberal subjects from contemporary European, Russian and American cinema"--

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"Explores the ways in which contemporary US cinema engages with the multiple political, social and cultural manifestations of the Great Recession and raises awareness both of the challenges we face and the possibilities that open up for us"--

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"Explores the ways in which contemporary US cinema engages with the multiple political, social and cultural manifestations of the Great Recession and raises awareness both of the challenges we face and the possibilities that open up for us"--

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This expansive study brings to light a neglected history of suburban Paris as seen and reimagined by French filmmakers before the emergence of the 'film de banlieue'. -- .

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Historians and filmmakers explore how and why history is portrayed on film.

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