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  • The LEGO Movie

    de Dana Polan ...
    Series series 21st Century Film Essentials
    What happens when we set out to understand LEGO not just as a physical object but as an idea, an icon of modernity, an image—maybe even a moving image? To what extent can the LEGO brick fit into the multimedia landscape of popular culture, especially film culture, today? Launching from these questions, Dana Polan traces LEGO from thing to film and asserts that The LEGO Movie is an exemplar of key ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Patty Duke Show and the American Sixties

    Hot Dogs and Crêpes Suzette

    de Caryl Flinn, Dana Polan ...
    In this fascinating book, the first ever published on The Patty Duke Show (1963-66), Caryl Flinn and Dana Polan examine the significance of this classic US sitcom within popular culture and within American society at the time. Child acting sensation Patty Duke plays the all-American Patty as well as her staid British counterpart Cathy, who comes to live with Patty's family in Brooklyn. Far from ... Leer más

    $28.79 USD

  • Pulp Fiction

    de Dana Polan ...
    Series series BFI Film Classics
    Pulp Fiction was one of the films that defined American cinema of the 1990s, and remains one of the stand-out movies of its director Quentin Tarantino. Tarantino's style - violent, fast, funny and full of knowing pop culture references - epitomises 90s post-modernism. Pulp Fiction was a phenomenal cult success and one of the first films to generate hot debate in internet chatrooms and on fan ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • Close Encounters of the Third Kind

    de Dana Polan ...
    Series series BFI Film Classics
    Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) is a film very much of its cinematic moment, combining the gritty realism of entrapment in the everyday with furtive dreams of escape.Dana Polan's compelling study of the film examines its significance to New Hollywood cinema and the science fiction genre. He argues that Close Encounters is a film that is an allegory of the cinematic ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • Dreams of Flight

    "The Great Escape" in American Film and Culture

    de Dana Polan ...
    The first full-length study of the iconic 1960s film The Great Escape and its place in Hollywood and American history.Escaped POW Virgil Hilts (Steve McQueen) on a stolen motorcycle jumps an imposing barbed wire fence—caught on film, the act and its aftermath have become an unforgettable symbol of triumph as well as defeat for 1960s America. Combining production and reception history with close ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • Looking Past the Screen

    Case Studies in American Film History and Method

    de Dana Polan, Shelley Stamp ...
    Film scholarship has long been dominated by textual interpretations of specific films. Looking Past the Screen advances a more expansive American film studies in which cinema is understood to be a social, political, and cultural phenomenon extending far beyond the screen. Presenting a model of film studies in which films themselves are only one source of information among many, this volume brings ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Pulp Fiction

    de Dana Polan ...
    Series series BFI Film Classics
    Dana Polan sets out to unlock the style and technique of 'Pulp Fiction'. He shows how broad Tarantino's points of reference are, and analyzes the narrative accomplishment and complexity. In addition, Polan argues that macho attitudes celebrated in film are much more complex than they seem. ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • The Skin of the Film

    Intercultural Cinema, Embodiment, and the Senses

    de Laura U. Marks, Dana Polan ...
    Memories that evoke the physical awareness of touch, smell, and bodily presence can be vital links to home for people living in diaspora from their culture of origin. How can filmmakers working between cultures use cinema, a visual medium, to transmit that physical sense of place and culture? In The Skin of the Film Laura U. Marks offers an answer, building on the theories of Gilles Deleuze and ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • The Sopranos

    de Dana Polan ...
    Series series Spin Offs
    “In its original run on HBO, The Sopranos mattered, and it matters still,” Dana Polan asserts early in this analysis of the hit show, in which he sets out to clarify the impact and importance of the series in both its cultural and media-industry contexts. A renowned film and TV scholar, Polan combines a close and extended reading of the show itself—and of select episodes and scenes—with broader ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • Jane Campion

    de Dana Polan ...
    Series series World Directors
    With the phenomenal success of 'The Piano' (1993), Jane Campion became revered by many as the leading female film director of the 1990s. In this book, Dana Polan examines the phenomenon of 'The Piano' and how it develops from the early shorts and first features which evoke an often surreal and critical distanced style of looking at everyday issues. Looking at all of Campion's work before and since ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • Impersonal Enunciation, or the Place of Film

    de Christian Metz, Dana Polan ...
    Traducido por Cormac Deane ...
    Series series Film and Culture Series
    Christian Metz is best known for applying Saussurean theories of semiology to film analysis. In the 1970s, he used Sigmund Freud's psychology and Jacques Lacan's mirror theory to explain the popularity of cinema. In this final book, Metz uses the concept of enunciation to articulate how films "speak" and explore where this communication occurs, offering critical direction for theorists who ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Julia Child's The French Chef

    de Dana Polan ...
    Series series Spin offs
    Julia Child’s TV show, The French Chef, was extraordinarily popular during its broadcast from 1963 until 1973. Child became a cultural icon in the 1960s, and, in the years since, she and her show have remained enduring influences on American cooking, American television, and American culture. In this concise book, Dana Polan considers what made Child’s program such a success. It was not the first ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD