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Peter Lang Oxford is pleased to announce the launch of the new book series Disability, Media, Culture Series Editors: Dr Alison Wilde and Dr Murray Simpson (University of Dundee) Globally today, television, film and the internet comprise the principal sources of cultural consumption and engagement. Despite this, these areas have not featured strongly in the… Continue reading New Book Series! #Disability, #Media, #Culture #proposals welcome @BAFTSS @SCMStudies @MeCCSA2020
From Self-Portrait to Selfie: Representing the Self in the Moving Image edited by Muriel Tinel-Temple, Laura Busetta and Marlène Monteiro will be launched at the Birkbeck Cinema in London on Friday 5 July from 6 to 9 pm. Please register for the event here. The book will be launched with screenings and discussions in collaboration… Continue reading Book launch: From Self-Portrait to #Selfie
The English Language and Foundation Studies Centre will be launching two new books by ELFSC staff. Among them is Unbridling the Western Film Auteur, edited by Emma Hamilton and Alistair Rolls. The book renders a complex portrait of the Western auteur by considering the genre in a transnational context. It proposes that narrow views of auteurism should… Continue reading Book launch: Unbridling the Western Film Auteur
Danielle Hipkins will be speaking about her book Italy's Other Women: Gender and Prostitution in Italian Cinema, 1945-1960 on Tuesday 24 April at Cinema Trevi in Rome. The event forms part of a special exhibition entitled Donne proibite, organized by Emiliano Morreale in collaboration with Italy's national film archive, the Cineteca Nazionale. It will also… Continue reading Danielle Hipkins speaking about Italy’s Other Women at Cinema Trevi in Rome
What is the Gothic? From ghosts to vampires, from ruined castles to steampunk fashion, the Gothic is a term that evokes all things strange, haunted and sinister. This volume offers a new look at the world of the Gothic, from its origins in the eighteenth century to its reemergence today. Each short essay is dedicated… Continue reading The Gothic published
«In the age of Trump, cinema’s relationship to politics has become more important than ever. In Frame’s brilliant book, the way presidents – real and fictional – have been portrayed on film becomes almost a playbook for the rise and conduct of the forty-fifth chief executive.» (Ian Scott, author of «American Politics in Hollywood Film»)… Continue reading New revised paperback edition available: The American President in Film and Television
According to Jim Kitses (1969), the Western originally offered American directors a rich canvas to express a singular authorial vision of the American past and its significance. The Western’s recognizable conventions and symbols, rich filmic heritage, and connections to pulp fiction created a widely spoken «language» for self-expression and supplemented each filmmaker’s power to express… Continue reading Unbridling the Western Film Auteur published
The new, revised edition of The American President in Film and Television: Myth, Politics and Representation by Gregory Frame will be launched at the Pontio Arts and Innovation Centre in Bangor on Wednesday 31 January 2018. The launch will include a screening of The American President (dir. Rob Reiner) at 5:30pm introduced by the author.
This study proposes a new definition of Frank Capra’s work as a cinema of identity, focusing on his reflection on American national identity as well as his own positioning as a US immigrant. The interplay of celebration and interrogation is used to show the two poles of his films’ narrative structure, placing in a new… Continue reading ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ Frank Capra and the Cinema of Identity published
Peter Lang will have a bookstand at MeCCSA on 10-12 January 2018 at London South Bank University. Please plan to come by our bookstand to see our latest publications and speak with our Publishing Director, Lucy Melville (l.melville@peterlang.com), and our Senior Commissioning Editor, Laurel Plapp (l.plapp@peterlang.com). We are also happy to schedule appointments in advance… Continue reading Peter Lang at MeCCSA
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