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Velvet Light Trap
Author: The Velvet Light Trap
Author: The Velvet Light Trap 2013-2014
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Author: Hardie Grant BooksPublisher: SBS
ISBN: 9781740669139
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Satire TV
Author: Jonathan GrayPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 081473216X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 299
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A fascinating look into what happens when comedy becomes political and politics becomes comedy Satirical TV has become mandatory viewing for citizens wishing to make sense of the bizarre contemporary state of political life. Shifts in industry economics and audience tastes have re-made television comedy, once considered a wasteland of escapist humor, into what is arguably the most popular source of political critique. From fake news and pundit shows to animated sitcoms and mash-up videos, satire has become an important avenue for processing politics in informative and entertaining ways, and satire TV is now its own thriving, viable television genre. Satire TV examines what happens when comedy becomes political, and politics become funny. A series of original essays focus on a range of programs, from The Daily Show to South Park, Da Ali G Show to The Colbert Report, The Boondocks to Saturday Night Live, Lil’ Bush to Chappelle’s Show, along with Internet D.I.Y. satire and essays on British and Canadian satire. They all offer insights into what today’s class of satire tells us about the current state of politics, of television, of citizenship, all the while suggesting what satire adds to the political realm that news and documentaries cannot.
The Persistence of History
Author: Vivian Carol SobchackPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415910842
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Imitations of Life
Author: Marcia LandyPublisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814320655
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
On melodrama.
The Casablanca Man
Author: Dr James C RobertsonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136158448
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 209
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Michael Curtiz (1888-1962) was without doubt one of the most important directors in film history, yet he has never been granted his deserved recognition and no full-scale work on him has previously been published. The Casablanca Man surveys Curtiz' unequalled mastery over a variety of genres which included biography, comedy, horror, melodrama, musicals, swashbucklers and westerns, and looks at his relationship with the Hollywood studio moguls on the basis of unprecedented archive research at Warner Brothers. Concentrating on Curtiz' best-known films - Casablanca, Angels With Dirty Faces, Mildred Pearce and Captain Blood among them - Robertson explores Curtiz' practical creative struggles and his friendships and rivalries with other film celebrities including Errol Flynn, Bette Davis and James Cagney, and his discovery of future stars. Casablanca Man is the first comprehensive critical exploration of Curtiz' entire career and, linking his European work and his subsequent American work into a coherent whole, Robertson firmly re-establishes Curtiz' true standing in the history of cinema.
The Classical Hollywood Cinema
Author: David BordwellPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134988095
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 791
Book Description
Acclaimed for its breakthrough approach and its combination of theoretical analysis and empirical evidence, this is the standard work on the classical Hollywood cinema style of film-making from the silent era to the 1960s.
Politics and the Media
Author: M. J. ClarkPublisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 1483155161
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
Politics and the Media: Film and Television for the Political Scientist and Historian focuses on the use of film and television in the study of history and political science. Television-based history teaching in the context of the traditional university is discussed, along with the impact of broadcasting in democratic politics and the possibilities of using film in courses on American government and politics. This book is comprised of 14 chapters and begins with an analysis of some of the ramifying problems of media production in the political field, paying particular attention to the priorities and constraints within which the political message has been conceived, stored, and transmitted. The experience of the BBC in the presentation of political and current affairs on television is highlighted. Attention turns to problems associated with availability of material; the political content of broadcasting; and Hollywood feature films as social and political evidence. Subsequent chapters explore film as a teaching resource; the structural approach to film analysis; broadcast television archives; and audiovisual sources and research into modern British politics. The final chapter presents an annotated list of some European film collections. This monograph will be of value to political scientists, historians, teachers, students, researchers, and the general public interested in broadcast media.