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Dramatising Disaster

Author : Christine Cornea
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443846481
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Dramatising Disaster written by Christine Cornea and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2013-02-14 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The imagining of disaster has intensified across a wide range of media entertainment formats and genres in recent years and themes of disaster are regularly deployed in fictional films, television drama series, drama-documentaries, comic books and video games. This being the case, it is therefore vital that film and media scholars pay attention to the ways in which disaster is presented to us, to the figurative strategies employed, to the representational history of disaster in media, to the metaphorical resonances of disaster themes, and even to the ways in which entertainment media texts might be understood as part of a broader discourse of disaster within certain historical and cultural contexts. Dramatising Disaster presents new and innovative research from both early career and more established academics. Some of the chapters in this edited collection are based upon papers originally presented at a highly successful conference study day held by the School of Film, Television and Media at the University of East Anglia in 2011, while others are specifically solicited contributions. Distinct from previous, more particularised film and media studies in this area, this edited collection is focused not upon a specific disaster or specific disaster context, but upon the wider topic of disaster in popular culture.

Science, Entertainment and Television Documentary

Author : Vincent Campbell
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137385383
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Science, Entertainment and Television Documentary written by Vincent Campbell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The shift from traditional documentary to “factual entertainment” television has been the subject of much debate and criticism, particularly with regard to the representation of science. New types of factual programming that combine documentary techniques with those of entertainment formats (such as drama, game-shows and reality TV) have come in for strident criticism. Often featuring spectacular visual effects produced by Computer Generated Imagery these programmes blur the boundaries between mainstream science and popular beliefs. Through close analysis of programmes across a range of sciences, this book explores these issues to see if criticisms of such hybrid programmes as representing the “rotting carcass of science TV” really are valid. Campbell considers if in fact; when considered in relation to the principles, practices and communication strategies of different sciences; these shows can be seen to offer more complex and rich representations that construct sciences as objects of wonder, awe and the sublime.

The Dead City

Author : Paul Dobraszczyk
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786722402
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book The Dead City written by Paul Dobraszczyk and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dead City unearths meanings from such depictions of ruination and decay, looking at representations of both thriving cities and ones which are struggling, abandoned or simply in transition. It reveals that ruination presents a complex opportunity to envision new futures for a city, whether that is by rewriting its past or throwing off old assumptions and proposing radical change. Seen in a certain light, for example, urban ruin and decay are a challenge to capitalist narratives of unbounded progress. They can equally imply that power structures thought to be deeply ingrained are temporary, contingent and even fragile. Examining ruins in Chernobyl, Detroit, London, Manchester and Varosha, this book demonstrates that how we discuss and depict urban decline is intimately connected to the histories, economic forces, power structures and communities of a given city, as well as to conflicting visions for its future.

The Apocalypse in Film

Author : Karen A. Ritzenhoff
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442260297
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book The Apocalypse in Film written by Karen A. Ritzenhoff and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-12-30 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in a world at risk. Dire predictions about our future or the demise of planet earth persist. Even fictional representations depict narratives of decay and the end of a commonly shared social reality. Along with recurring Hollywood blockbusters that imagine the end of the world, there has been a new wave of zombie features as well as independent films that offer various visions of the future. The Apocalypse in Film: Dystopias, Disasters, and Other Visions about the End of the World offers an overview of Armageddon in film from the silent era to the present. This collection of essays discusses how such films reflect social anxieties—ones that are linked to economic, ecological, and cultural factors. Featuring a broad spectrum of international scholars specializing in different historical genres and methodologies, these essays look at a number of films, including the silent classic The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the black comedy Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, the Mayan calendar disaster epic, 2012, and in particular, Lars Von Trier’s Melancholia, the focus of several essays. As some filmmakers translate the anxiety about a changing global climate and geo-political relations into visions of the apocalypse, others articulate worries about the planet’s future by depicting chemical warfare, environmental disasters, or human made destruction. This book analyzes the emergence of apocalyptic and dystopic narratives and explores the political and social situations on which these films are based. Contributing to the dialogue on dystopic culture in war and peace, The Apocalypse in Film will be of interest to scholars in film and media studies, border studies, gender studies, sociology, and political science.

The Palgrave Handbook of Posthumanism in Film and Television

Author : Michael Hauskeller
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113743032X
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Posthumanism in Film and Television written by Michael Hauskeller and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-13 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does popular culture's relationship with cyborgs, robots, vampires and zombies tell us about being human? Insightful scholarly perspectives shine a light on how film and television evince and portray the philosophical roots, the social ramifications and the future visions of a posthumanist world.

Dr. Strangelove or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Author : Peter Krämer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1838715444
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book Dr. Strangelove or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb written by Peter Krämer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) has long been recognised as one of the key artistic expressions of the nuclear age. Made at a time when nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union was a real possibility, the film is menacing, exhilarating, thrilling, insightful and very funny. Combining a scene-by-scene analysis of Dr. Strangelove with new research in the Stanley Kubrick Archive, Peter Krämer's study foregrounds the connections the film establishes between the Cold War and World War II, and between sixties America and Nazi Germany. How did the film come to be named after a character who only appears in it very briefly? Why does he turn out to be a Nazi? And how are his ideas for post-apocalyptic survival in mineshafts connected to the sexual fantasies of the military men who destroy life on the surface of the Earth? This special edition features original cover artwork by Marian Bantjes.

Reconstructing Strangelove

Author : Mick Broderick
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231851006
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Reconstructing Strangelove written by Mick Broderick and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During his career Stanley Kubrick became renowned for undertaking lengthy and exhaustive research prior to the production of all his films. In the lead-up to what would eventually become Dr. Strangelove (1964), Kubrick read voraciously and amassed a substantial library of works on the nuclear age. With rare access to unpublished materials, this volume assesses Dr. Strangelove's narrative accuracy, consulting recently declassified Cold War nuclear-policy documents alongside interviews with Kubrick's collaborators. It focuses on the myths surrounding the film, such as the origins and transformation of the "straight" script versions into what Kubrick termed a "nightmare comedy." It assesses Kubrick's account of collaborating with the writers Peter George and Terry Southern against their individual remembrances and material archives. Peter Sellers's improvisations are compared to written scripts and daily continuity reports, showcasing the actor's brilliant talent and variations.

Future Cities

Author : Paul Dobraszczyk
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1789141044
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book Future Cities written by Paul Dobraszczyk and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2019-02-11 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though reaching ever further toward the skies, today’s cities are overshadowed by multiple threats: climate change, overpopulation, social division, and urban warfare all endanger our metropolitan way of life. The fundamental tool we use to make sense of these uncertain city futures is the imagination. Architects, artists, filmmakers, and fiction writers have long been inspired to imagine cities of the future, but their speculative visions tend to be seen very differently from scientific predictions: flights of fancy on the one hand versus practical reasoning on the other. In a digital age when the real and the fantastic coexist as near equals, it is especially important to know how these two forces are entangled, and how together they may help us best conceive of cities yet to come. Exploring a breathtaking range of imagined cities—submerged, floating, flying, vertical, underground, ruined, and salvaged—Future Cities teases out the links between speculation and reality, arguing that there is no clear separation between the two. In the Netherlands, prototype floating cities are already being built; Dubai’s recent skyscrapers resemble those of science-fiction cities of the past; while makeshift settlements built by the urban poor in the developing world are already like the dystopian cities of cyberpunk. Bringing together architecture, fiction, film, and visual art, Paul Dobraszczyk reconnects the imaginary city with the real, proposing a future for humanity that is firmly grounded in the present and in the diverse creative practices already at our fingertips.

The Kubrick Legacy

Author : Mick Broderick
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429594909
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book The Kubrick Legacy written by Mick Broderick and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The six chapters assembled in The Kubrick Legacy showcase important trends in the evolution of filmmaker Stanley Kubrick’s artistic legacy. In the 20 years since his death an enormous range of information and scholarship has surfaced, in part from the Kubrick estate’s public preservation, archiving, exhibition and promulgation of the auteur’s staggering collection of research materials and film artefacts. These essays from international scholars chart incarnations of the official Kubrick exhibition of extensive artifacts touring the globe for the past decade; the filmmaker’s lasting impact on established authors with whom he collaborated; the profound influence of Kubrick’s use of existing music in film scores; the exponential rise of conspiracy theories and (mis)interpretation of his work since his death; the repeated imitation of and homage to his oeuvre across decades of international television advertising; and the (re)discovery of Kubrick on screen in both documentary form and dramatic characterization. The Kubrick Legacy provides a tantalizing, critical snapshot of the enduring impact and influence of one of the twentieth century’s most enigmatic and consummate screen artists.

27000 English-Korean Words Dictionary With Definitions

Author : Nam H Nguyen
Publisher : Nam H Nguyen
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2725 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book 27000 English-Korean Words Dictionary With Definitions written by Nam H Nguyen and published by Nam H Nguyen. This book was released on 2018-04-27 with total page 2725 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: is a great resource anywhere you go; it is an easy tool that has just the words completed description you want and need! The entire dictionary is an alphabetical list of English words with their full description plus special Alphabet, Irregular Verbs and Parts of speech. It will be perfect and very useful for everyone who needs a handy, reliable resource for home, school, office, organization, students, college, government officials, diplomats, academics, professionals, business people, company, travel, interpreting, reference and learning English. The meaning of words you will learn will help you in any situations in the palm of your hand. 어디서나 훌륭한 리소스입니다. 당신이 원하고 필요로하는 설명을 완성한 단어를 가진 쉬운 도구입니다! 전체 사전은 알파벳과 불규칙 동사 및 음성의 부분을 포함하여 전체 설명과 함께 영어 단어의 사전 순 목록입니다. 집, 학교, 사무실, 조직, 학생, 대학, 공무원, 외교관, 학자, 전문가, 기업가, 회사, 여행, 통역, 참고 및 학습을 위해 편리하고 신뢰할 수있는 리소스가 필요한 모든 사람들에게 완벽하고 매우 유용합니다. 영어. 당신이 배울 단어의 의미는 손바닥의 어떤 상황에서도 당신을 도울 것입니다.

27000 English-Vietnamese Words Dictionary With Definitions

Author : Nam H Nguyen
Publisher : Nam H Nguyen
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2312 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book 27000 English-Vietnamese Words Dictionary With Definitions written by Nam H Nguyen and published by Nam H Nguyen. This book was released on 2018-04-26 with total page 2312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: is a great resource anywhere you go; it is an easy tool that has just the words completed description you want and need! The entire dictionary is an alphabetical list of English words with their full description plus special Alphabet, Irregular Verbs and Parts of speech. It will be perfect and very useful for everyone who needs a handy, reliable resource for home, school, office, organization, students, college, government officials, diplomats, academics, professionals, business people, company, travel, interpreting, reference and learning English. The meaning of words you will learn will help you in any situations in the palm of your hand. là một nguồn tài nguyên tuyệt vời ở bất cứ đâu bạn đi; nó là một công cụ dễ dàng chỉ có những từ hoàn thành mô tả bạn muốn và cần! Toàn bộ từ điển là một danh sách theo thứ tự chữ cái các từ tiếng Anh với mô tả đầy đủ của chúng cùng với Bảng chữ cái đặc biệt , Động từ bất quy tắc và các phần của lời nói. Nó sẽ trở nên hoàn hảo và rất hữu ích cho tất cả những ai cần một nguồn đáng tin cậy có ích cho gia đình, trường học, văn phòng, tổ chức, sinh viên, cán bộ đại học, chính phủ, các nhà ngoại giao, các viện nghiên cứu, các chuyên gia, b usiness người, công ty, du lịch, phiên dịch, tham khảo và học tiếng Anh. Ý nghĩa của những từ bạn sẽ học sẽ giúp bạn trong bất kỳ tình huống trong lòng bàn tay của bạn.

27000 English Words Dictionary With Definitions

Author : Nam H Nguyen
Publisher : Nam H Nguyen
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1228 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book 27000 English Words Dictionary With Definitions written by Nam H Nguyen and published by Nam H Nguyen. This book was released on 2018-04-23 with total page 1228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 27000 English Words Dictionary With Definitions is a great resource anywhere you go; it is an easy tool that has just the words completed description you want and need! The entire dictionary is an alphabetical list of English words with their full description plus special Alphabet, Irregular Verbs and Parts of speech. It will be perfect and very useful for everyone who needs a handy, reliable resource for home, school, office, organization, students, college, government officials, diplomats, academics, professionals, business people, company, travel, interpreting, reference and learning English. The meaning of words you will learn will help you in any situations in the palm of your hand.

Roman Tragedy

Author : Anthony J. Boyle
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113469685X
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Roman Tragedy written by Anthony J. Boyle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-12 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first detailed cultural and theatrical history of a major literary form, this landmark introduction examines Roman tragedy and its place at the centre of Rome’s cultural and political life. Analyzing the work of such names as Ennius, Pacuvius and Accius, as well as Seneca and his post-Neronian successors, Anthony J. Boyle delves into detailed discussion on every Roman tragedian whose work survives in substance today. Roman Tragedy examines: the history of Roman tragic techniques and conventions the history of generic form and change the debt that Rome owes to Greece, and text owes to text the birth, development and death of Roman tragedy in the context of the cities evolving, institutions, ideologies and political and social practices tragedy proper and the historical drama (fabula praetexta), which the Romans allied to tragedy. With parallel English translations of Latin quotations, this seminal work not only provides an invaluable resource for students of theatre, Roman political history and cultural history, but it is also accessible to all interested in the social dynamics of writing, spectacle, ideology and power.

The Experience of Disaster in Early Modern English Literature

Author : Sophie Chiari
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000569918
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Experience of Disaster in Early Modern English Literature written by Sophie Chiari and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-04-27 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the concept of ‘disaster’ through a variety of literary texts dating back to the early modern period. While Shakespeare’s age, which was an era of colonisation, certainly marked a turning point in men and women’s relations with nature, the present times seem to announce the advent of environmental justice in spite of the massive ecological destructions that have contributed to reshape our planet. Between then and now, a whole history of climatic disasters and of their artistic depictions needs to be traced. The literary representations of eco-catastrophes, in particular, have consistently fashioned the English identity and led to the progress of science and the ‘advancement of learning’. They have also obliged us to adapt, recycle and innovate. How could the destructive process entailed by ecological disasters be represented on the page and thereby transformed into a creative process encouraging meditation, preservation and resilience in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries? To this question, this book offers nuanced, contextualised and perceptive answers. Divided into three main sections ‘Extreme Conditions’, ‘Tempestuous Skies’, and ‘Biblical Calamities,' it deals with the major environmental issues of our time through the prism of early modern culture and literature.

The Titanic and Silent Cinema

Author : Stephen Bottomore
Publisher : The Projection Box
ISBN 13 : 9781903000007
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Titanic and Silent Cinema written by Stephen Bottomore and published by The Projection Box. This book was released on 2000 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Number nine in a series of monographs on pre-cinema and early film."

27000 English-Mandarin Chinese Words Dictionary With Definitions

Author : Nam H Nguyen
Publisher : Nam H Nguyen
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2024 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book 27000 English-Mandarin Chinese Words Dictionary With Definitions written by Nam H Nguyen and published by Nam H Nguyen. This book was released on 2018-04-27 with total page 2024 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: is a great resource anywhere you go; it is an easy tool that has just the words completed description you want and need! The entire dictionary is an alphabetical list of English words with their full description plus special Alphabet, Irregular Verbs and Parts of speech. It will be perfect and very useful for everyone who needs a handy, reliable resource for home, school, office, organization, students, college, government officials, diplomats, academics, professionals, business people, company, travel, interpreting, reference and learning English. The meaning of words you will learn will help you in any situations in the palm of your hand. 無論你走到哪裡都是一個很好的資源這是一個簡單的工具，只需完成描述你想要和需要的話！整個字典是一個英文單詞的字母順序列表，其全部描述以及特殊字母，不規則動詞和詞性。對於需要為家庭，學校，辦公室，組織，學生，大學，政府官員，外交官，學者，專業人員，商務人士，公司，旅行，口譯，參考和學習提供便利，可靠資源的人員英語。你將學習的單詞的含義將幫助你掌握任何情況

27000 English-French Words Dictionary With Definitions

Author : Nam H Nguyen
Publisher : Nam H Nguyen
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2515 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book 27000 English-French Words Dictionary With Definitions written by Nam H Nguyen and published by Nam H Nguyen. This book was released on 2018-04-26 with total page 2515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: is a great resource anywhere you go; it is an easy tool that has just the words completed description you want and need! The entire dictionary is an alphabetical list of English words with their full description plus special Alphabet, Irregular Verbs and Parts of speech. It will be perfect and very useful for everyone who needs a handy, reliable resource for home, school, office, organization, students, college, government officials, diplomats, academics, professionals, business people, company, travel, interpreting, reference and learning English. The meaning of words you will learn will help you in any situations in the palm of your hand. est une excellente ressource partout où vous allez; C'est un outil facile qui a juste la description complète des mots que vous voulez et dont vous avez besoin! Le dictionnaire entier est une liste alphabétique des mots anglais avec leur description complète plus l' alphabet spécial , les verbes irréguliers et les parties de discours. Ce sera parfait et très utile pour tous ceux qui ont besoin d'une ressource pratique et fiable pour la maison, l'école, le bureau, l'organisation, les étudiants, le collège, les fonctionnaires, les diplomates, les universitaires , les professionnels , les gens d' affaires , compagnie, voyage, interprétation, référence et apprentissage de l'anglais. La signification des mots que vous apprendrez vous aidera dans toutes les situations dans la paume de votre main