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ALCESTIS, MEDEA, HIPPOLYTUS
[Euripides; Translated by Diane A Svarlien]
This volume of three of Euripides' most celebrated plays offers graceful, economical, metrical translations that convey the wide range of effects of the playwright's verse, from the idiomatic speech of its dialogue to the high formality of its choral odes.
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206pp,
140x215mm,
October 2007;
PB,
£6.95,
0872208222:9780872208223
, Hackett Publishing
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CANADIAN TELEVISION TODAY
[Bart Beaty & Rebecca Sullivan]
Takes a in-depth look at the formidable challenges facing the Canadian television industry at the dawn of the twenty-first century. The current consensus within the industry alternates between a paternalistic model that promotes national culture & identity, & a laissez-faire approach that calls for a large-scale de regulation of the industry. To better understand why the industry is confronted with this difficult choice, the authors begin by exploring a number of key political decisions that have helped shape the way television is integrated into the Canadian social fabric. First, they consider the complex relationship between the nation, state & culture in the political formation of a sovereign country, & the often delicate balance between culture & polity. Secondly, they look at the impact of multiculturalism & globalization on the regulatory framework & the potential development of international markets & audiences. Thirdly, they examine the nature of the audience & the cultural value of television as a 'mass' medium. Lastly, the technological environment is addressed & the subsequent impact on the cultural value of meaning is considered. From this careful examination, the authors demonstrate that in order for the Canadian television industry to survive it must organise itself around new conceptions of multiculturalism, globalization, & technological determinism. The authors thus contend that the industry must embrace a more heterogeneous model of languages, cultures, & viewing strategies, with the ultimate goal of re-imagining the nation by the revitalisation of one of the principal cultural conduits of national identity.
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168pp,
130x205mm,
November 2006;
PB,
£14.99,
1552382222:9781552382226
, University of Calgary Press
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FOUR TRAGEDIES
: Ajax, Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes
[Sophocles; Translated, with Introduction & Notes by Peter Meineck & Paul Woodruff]
Meineck and Woodruff's new translations of these plays combine accuracy with concision, clarity, and powerful speech. Each translation includes foot-of-the-page notes, stage directions, and line numbers to the Greek. The Introduction discusses the playwright, Athenian theatre and performance, plots and major characters of each play, and major critical interpretations of the plays.
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267pp,
140x215mm,
October 2007;
PB,
£6.95,
0872207633:9780872207639
, Hackett Publishing
} |
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GREAT CANADIAN FILM DIRECTORS
[George Melnyk (ed)]
Great Canadian Film Directors is the first major study that reflects the cultural and linguistic diversity of Canada’s most dynamic film directors. The 19 essays in this collection focus on each filmmaker’s ability to create a vision that both reveals and redefines our national cultures. Together, these essays, by established and emerging scholars, highlight the diversity, imaginative power, and talent of Canadian filmmakers. This collection’s value is in its contemporary analysis of major figures as well as critical discussions of the work of women directors and young filmmakers. Filmographies and selected bibliographies for each director provide film students and the movie-going public with an unrivalled study of a cinema that now garners world attention.
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468pp,
155x230mm,
July 2007;
PB,
£20.99,
0888644795:9780888644794
, University of Alberta Press
} |
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HARMONY & DISSENT
: Film & Avant-garde Art Movements in the Early Twentieth Century
[R Bruce Elder]
Offers a new look at avant-garde art movements of the 1910s and 1920s. In this work, R. Bruce Elder argues that the authors of many of the manifestoes that announced in such lively ways the appearance of yet another artistic movement shared a common aspiration: they proposed to reformulate the visual, literary, and performing arts so that they might take on attributes of the cinema. The cinema, Elder argues, became, in the early decades of the twentieth century, a pivotal artistic force around which a remarkable variety and number of aesthetic forms took shape. To demonstrate this, Elder begins with a wide-ranging discussion that opens up some broad topics concerning modernity's cognitive (and perceptual) regime, with a view to establishing that a crisis within that regime engendered some peculiar (and highly questionable) epistemological beliefs and enthusiasms. Through this discussion, Elder advances the startling claim that a crisis of cognition precipitated by modernity engendered, by way of response, a peculiar sort of 'pneumatic (spiritual) epistemology'. Elder then shows that early ideas of the cinema were strongly influenced by this pneumatic epistemology and uses this conception of the cinema to explain its pivotal role in shaping two key moments in early-twentieth-century art: the quest to bring forth a pure, “objectless” (non-representational) art and Russian Suprematism, Constructivism, and Productivism.
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462pp,
155x230mm,
October 2008;
HB,
£49.99,
1554580285:9781554580286
, Wilfrid Laurier University Press
} |
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MASTERS & MASTERPIECES OF IRANIAN CINEMA
[Hamid Dabashi]
The rise of Iranian cinema to world prominence over the last few decades is one of the most fascinating cultural stories of our time. There is scarcely an international film festival anywhere that does not honour the aesthetic and political explorations of Iranian artists. MASTERS & MASTERPIECES OF IRANIAN CINEMA celebrates this remarkable emergence. It focuses on twelve of the most important Iranian filmmakers of the past half-century -- among them, such pioneers as Forugh Farrokhzad, Dariush Mehrjui, Abbas Kiarostami, and Jafar Panahi. In his examination of their lives and their greatest works, Hamid Dabashi explains how, despite the censorship of both the Pahlavi monarchy and the Islamic Republic, the creativity of these filmmakers has transcended national and cultural borders. His account traces the ascendancy of Iranian cinema in modern Iranian intellectual history and also probes its links to Persian poetry, fiction, art, and philosophy. In Europe and in North America, in Asia and in Latin America, in Australia and Africa, the thematic and narrative richness of Iranian cinema has met with tremendous acclaim. Indeed, its particular modes of realism -- building on such cinematic antecedents as Italian, French and German neorealism -- have become truly transnational, contributing a new visual vocabulary to filmmaking everywhere. Masters & Masterpieces of Iranian Cinema studies the role that prominent film festivals have played in fostering the global success of Iranian cinema, and investigates the reception of these films within Iran, an intriguing story in its own right. This is a book that will reward not only the scholar and the film aficionado but also anyone interested in the cultural history of modern Iran.
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456pp,
165x240mm,
February 2007;
HB,
£39.99,
093421185X:9780934211857
/
PB,
£16.99,
0934211841:9780934211840
, Mage Publishers
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MEDEA
[Euripides, Translated by Diane Arnson Svarlien]
Introduction and Notes by Robin Mitchell-Boyask.
REVIEW: "The excellent Introduction by Robin Mitchell-Boyask displays an admirable command of up-to-date scholarship and judiciously leaves controversial matters open to one's own interpretation. Arnson Svarlien's verse translation has both elegance and power -- it reads well, not just to the eye, but (happily for the director and actors) also to the ear." -- Ian Storey, Department of Classics, Trent University
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71pp,
140x215mm,
April 2008;
PB,
£4.45,
0872209237:9780872209237
/
HB,
£14.95,
0872209245:9780872209244
, Hackett Publishing
} |
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PROGRAMMING REALITY
: Perspectives on English-Canadian Television
[Zoe Druick & Patsy Kotsopoulos (eds)]
The first anthology dedicated to the exploration of Canadian television content, "Programming Reality" considers the shapes that content takes in particular programs and genres, audience reception to programming, and the policies that guide program content in Canada. " Programming Reality" combines television studies with a wide range of contemporary perspectives to explore Canada’s national narrative as it is expressed by the interplay between fiction and reality on Canadian television.
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341pp,
155x230mm,
August 2008;
PB,
£20.99,
1554580102:9781554580101
, Wilfrid Laurier University Press
} |
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SCIENCE & THE POWER OF TV
[Jaap Willems & Winfried Göpfert (eds)]
Has the advent of internet diminished the role television plays in science communication? Some might think so, but we don't. We are convinced that television still plays an important role in keeping the general public informed of developments from the world of science and technology, and its influences on society. Television might still even be the most important channel, given that in Europe and the US almost everybody watches it, much more so than surfing the internet regularly or reading newspapers and magazines. Still, television programmes on science are hard to find. It is a fact that academics and public affairs officers do not always appreciate the power of this medium. By showing the possibilities television has to offer, this book intends to change this attitude. Besides documentaries, other formats are equally suited to help popularise science and technology-related subjects: news-items, soaps, docudrama's, talk shows and quizzes.
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184pp,
180x260mm,
December 2006;
PB,
£24.50,
9053839844:9789053839843
, V U University Press
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THEATRE OF THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC
[John Willett]
The most definitive, comprehensive study of the origins, development, achievements and ultimate destruction of the performing arts in Germany from World War I through the rise of Hitler, "The Theatre of the Weimar Republic" is an invaluable record of creativity born out of conflict. John Willett focuses on the intellec-tual and sociocultural factors that brought Weimar theatre to its peak and analyses the theatrical theories and movements of the era. In addition, he includes a unique section of appen-dices, spanning 1916 to 1945, supple-menting the text and providing detailed information on theatres, actors, perfor-mances, films, and radio and gramo-phone recordings. The theatre during this period was marked by bold, innovative playwright-ing and directing as well as by impor-tant advances in theatrical architecture, lighting, and stage design. Renowned talents such as Brecht, Piscator, Toller, and Weill were nurtured, and influen-tial movements and credos -- including Expressionism, agitprop, and Bauhaus theatre projects -- developed. A rigorous, fascinating assessment of the world-wide influences of Weimar theatre during its lifetime and in later years, the book will appeal to all readers interested in the art and politics of this turbulent period.
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350pp,
180x260mm,
January 1988;
HB,
£40.25,
0841907595:9780841907591
, Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc
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TWIN CITIES PICTURE SHOW
: A Century of Moviegoing
[Dave Kenney]
From the stories of our classic theatres to tales of industry and intrigue featuring the savvy and tough entrepreneurs of movie entertainment, this first-ever history of cinema in the Twin Cities reveals the influence of Hollywood on the lives and imaginations of Minnesotans -- and that of Minnesotans on the film industry today. Filled with photos of the dazzling marquees and great theaters of yesterday and today, historian Dave Kenney's highly readable account offers rich histories of some of the grandest theatres ever constructed. Featured are movie palaces like the Minnesota in downtown Minneapolis, with its well-synchronised phalanx of ushers and cavernous yet elegant interior, and the Cooper in St. Louis Park, with its films projected larger-than-life in 70 mm Cinerama. Yet behind many of these cinemas' electrifying facades are the impresarios and business leaders who took the risks and made the fortunes, like nationally known theatre mogul and Hollywood producer Ted Mann, who transformed Minnesota movie going in the fifties and sixties, and porn king Ferris Alexander, whose unconventional business activities resulted in the preservation of many now treasured historical monuments. Then there are the people of the Twin Cities, who have seen and tested some of the biggest movies of all time.
{
256pp,
180x255mm,
November 2007;
HB,
£19.99,
0873515951:9780873515955
, Minnesota Historical Society Press
} |
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VISIONS OF AGING
: Images of the Elderly in Film
[Amir Cohen-Shalev]
The interface of old age and cinema provides a fascinating yet uncharted territory in the humanities and social sciences. Two central perspectives are explored: movies on old age by old filmmakers; and movies on old age by younger artists. The first perspective focuses on the cinematic representation of ageing from within, whereas the second examines the ways ageing is viewed from the outside. The distinction is based on the schism between the phenomenology of ageing and its social representation: The one hinges on intrinsic qualities of 'old age style' or 'late style'; the second addresses attitudes towards old age in general as well as towards ageing artists and the reception (or rejection) of their late films. The author combines these general perspectives as it shifts between text and context, beginning with ageing from the outside in order to introduce the semantics and pragmatics of the context (reception and filmmaking stylistic change, midlife images of old age), and continuing into the world of ageing as cinematically represented from within, by old filmmakers, an often idiosyncratic, metaphysical and sometimes unapproachable world. By providing a roadmap that charts previous scholarly paths of inquiry, this book offers a panoramic view of the direction of this new field of cinematic gerontology, and is essential reading for students and scholars of cinema, humanistic gerontology, psychology of art, and the sociology of old age and popular culture.
{
140pp,
152x229mm,
September 2008;
HB,
£45.00,
184519280X:9781845192808
, Sussex Academic Press
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