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  • Global Cinema Studies in Landscape Allegory

    by Susan Barber, Ebrahim Barzegar, Fatemeh Gholami, Rocío Gordon, Hajnal Király, Filipa Rosário, Sabrina Y. Tao, David Melbye ...
    Global Cinema Studies in Landscape Allegory explores the narrative and stylistic approaches to imbuing natural settings in audiovisual media with a psychological dimension – or, in other words, configuring a ‘landscape’ to function beyond its typical role as a backdrop – and the cultural contexts for this aesthetic impulse. Contributors argue that while audiovisual allegory can be understood as ... Read more

    $115.89 CAD

  • Irony in The Twilight Zone

    How the Series Critiqued Postwar American Culture

    by David Melbye ...
    Series series Science Fiction Television
    Rod Serling’s pioneering series TheTwilight Zone (1959 to 1964) is remembered for its surprise twist endings and pervading sense of irony.While other American television series of the time also experimented with ironic surprises, none depended on these as much as Serling’s. However, irony was not used merely as a structural device—Serling and his writers used it as a provocative means by which to ... Read more

    $126.99 CAD

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  • The Wire

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  • Friday Night Lights

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    The Untold History of Television provides a captivating glimpse behind the scenes of the groundbreaking series that have both defined and changed the pop culture landscape.Honest, compelling and full of heart, Friday Night Lights brought small-town Texas football into the lives of television viewers across North America. From book to movie to the small screen, Friday Night Lights struggled against ... Read more

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  • Freaks And Geeks

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    The Untold History of Television provides a captivating glimpse behind the scenes of those groundbreaking shows that have both defined and changed the pop culture landscape.A short-lived cult classic, Freaks and Geeks proved that a television show about teenagers could reach beyond the superficial by confronting—and redefining—high school stereotypes. In this text, Kathleen Olmstead investigates ... Read more

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    From Creation to Syndication

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