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African film and literature : adapting violence to the screen / / Lindiwe Dovey
| African film and literature : adapting violence to the screen / / Lindiwe Dovey |
| Autore | Dovey Lindiwe |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Columbia University Press, , [2009] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (550 p.) |
| Disciplina | 791.43096 |
| Collana | Film and culture |
| Soggetto topico |
Motion pictures - Africa
Violence in motion pictures |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 0-231-51938-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Cinema and violence in South Africa -- Fools and victims : adapting rationalized rape into feminist film -- Redeeming features : screening HIV/AIDS, screening out rape in Gavin Hood's Tsotsi -- From black and white to "coloured" : racial identity in 1950s and 1990s South Africa in two versions of A walk in the night -- Audio-visualizing "invisible" violence : remaking and reinventing Cry, the beloved country -- Cinema and violence in francophone West Africa -- Losing the plot, restoring the lost chapter : Aristotle in Cameroon -- African incar(me)nation : Joseph Gaï Ramaka's Karmen geï (2001) -- Humanizing the Old Testament's origins, historicizing genocide's origins : Cheick Oumar Sissoko's La genèse (1999). |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910462474903321 |
Dovey Lindiwe
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| New York : , : Columbia University Press, , [2009] | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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African film and literature : adapting violence to the screen / / Lindiwe Dovey
| African film and literature : adapting violence to the screen / / Lindiwe Dovey |
| Autore | Dovey Lindiwe |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Columbia University Press, , [2009] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (550 p.) |
| Disciplina | 791.43096 |
| Collana | Film and culture |
| Soggetto topico |
Motion pictures - Africa
Violence in motion pictures |
| ISBN | 0-231-51938-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Cinema and violence in South Africa -- Fools and victims : adapting rationalized rape into feminist film -- Redeeming features : screening HIV/AIDS, screening out rape in Gavin Hood's Tsotsi -- From black and white to "coloured" : racial identity in 1950s and 1990s South Africa in two versions of A walk in the night -- Audio-visualizing "invisible" violence : remaking and reinventing Cry, the beloved country -- Cinema and violence in francophone West Africa -- Losing the plot, restoring the lost chapter : Aristotle in Cameroon -- African incar(me)nation : Joseph Gaï Ramaka's Karmen geï (2001) -- Humanizing the Old Testament's origins, historicizing genocide's origins : Cheick Oumar Sissoko's La genèse (1999). |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786264903321 |
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Dovey Lindiwe
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| New York : , : Columbia University Press, , [2009] | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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African film and literature : adapting violence to the screen / / Lindiwe Dovey
| African film and literature : adapting violence to the screen / / Lindiwe Dovey |
| Autore | Dovey Lindiwe |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Columbia University Press, , [2009] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (550 p.) |
| Disciplina | 791.43096 |
| Collana | Film and culture |
| Soggetto topico |
Motion pictures - Africa
Violence in motion pictures |
| ISBN | 0-231-51938-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Cinema and violence in South Africa -- Fools and victims : adapting rationalized rape into feminist film -- Redeeming features : screening HIV/AIDS, screening out rape in Gavin Hood's Tsotsi -- From black and white to "coloured" : racial identity in 1950s and 1990s South Africa in two versions of A walk in the night -- Audio-visualizing "invisible" violence : remaking and reinventing Cry, the beloved country -- Cinema and violence in francophone West Africa -- Losing the plot, restoring the lost chapter : Aristotle in Cameroon -- African incar(me)nation : Joseph Gaï Ramaka's Karmen geï (2001) -- Humanizing the Old Testament's origins, historicizing genocide's origins : Cheick Oumar Sissoko's La genèse (1999). |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910819821303321 |
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Dovey Lindiwe
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| New York : , : Columbia University Press, , [2009] | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Blood, guns, and testosterone [[electronic resource] ] : action films, audiences, and a thirst for violence / / Barna William Donovan
| Blood, guns, and testosterone [[electronic resource] ] : action films, audiences, and a thirst for violence / / Barna William Donovan |
| Autore | Donovan Barna William <1970-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, : Scarecrow Press, Inc., c2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (281 p.) |
| Disciplina | 791.43655 |
| Soggetto topico |
Action and adventure films - History and criticism
Masculinity in motion pictures Violence in motion pictures |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-282-48042-1
9786612480423 0-8108-7263-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Violence and Much More; Part I. THE CONTROVERSIES, THE CRISIS, AND THE FILMS; Chapter 01. The History of a Modern Crisis; Chapter 02. The Audience Matters; Chapter 03. The Modern American Action Film; Part II. THE AUDIENCE; Chapter 04. The Need for Speed: The Appeal of Fast-Paced Storytelling; Chapter 05. Mirror Image: Finding a Personal, Social, and Moral Identity in the Action Film; Chapter 06. Man Talk: Managing the Modern Male Identity (Crisis) in the Genre; Chapter 07. The Opposition: Men with a Challenge-Managing a Well-Deserved "Crisis"
Chapter 08. What Women Want: Women Talk about Modern Masculinity in the Action FilmChapter 09. Bloody Fun: The Appeal of Watching Violence; Chapter 10. Conclusion: I'll Be Back? The Future of Action and Masculinity in Popular Culture; Bibliography; Index; About the Author |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910459011303321 |
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Donovan Barna William <1970->
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| Lanham, : Scarecrow Press, Inc., c2010 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Blood, guns, and testosterone [[electronic resource] ] : action films, audiences, and a thirst for violence / / Barna William Donovan
| Blood, guns, and testosterone [[electronic resource] ] : action films, audiences, and a thirst for violence / / Barna William Donovan |
| Autore | Donovan Barna William <1970-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, : Scarecrow Press, Inc., c2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (281 p.) |
| Disciplina | 791.43655 |
| Soggetto topico |
Action and adventure films - History and criticism
Masculinity in motion pictures Violence in motion pictures |
| ISBN |
1-282-48042-1
9786612480423 0-8108-7263-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Violence and Much More; Part I. THE CONTROVERSIES, THE CRISIS, AND THE FILMS; Chapter 01. The History of a Modern Crisis; Chapter 02. The Audience Matters; Chapter 03. The Modern American Action Film; Part II. THE AUDIENCE; Chapter 04. The Need for Speed: The Appeal of Fast-Paced Storytelling; Chapter 05. Mirror Image: Finding a Personal, Social, and Moral Identity in the Action Film; Chapter 06. Man Talk: Managing the Modern Male Identity (Crisis) in the Genre; Chapter 07. The Opposition: Men with a Challenge-Managing a Well-Deserved "Crisis"
Chapter 08. What Women Want: Women Talk about Modern Masculinity in the Action FilmChapter 09. Bloody Fun: The Appeal of Watching Violence; Chapter 10. Conclusion: I'll Be Back? The Future of Action and Masculinity in Popular Culture; Bibliography; Index; About the Author |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910792378503321 |
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Donovan Barna William <1970->
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| Lanham, : Scarecrow Press, Inc., c2010 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The Brothers Coen [[electronic resource] ] : unique characters of violence / / Ryan P. Doom
| The Brothers Coen [[electronic resource] ] : unique characters of violence / / Ryan P. Doom |
| Autore | Doom Ryan P |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Santa Barbara, Calif., : Praeger, c2009 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (226 p.) |
| Disciplina | 791.4302/330922 |
| Collana |
Modern filmmakers
Introduction: violently original -- Murder most simple: Blood simple (1985) -- Babies, bikers, and buffoons: Raising Arizona (1987) -- The professional kill: Miller's crossing (1990) -- Life of the imaginary mind: Barton Fink (1991) -- Reinventing the circle of suicide: The Hudsucker proxy (1994) -- What's the deal with greed and wood chippers?: Fargo (1996) -- Abiding by Chandler: The big Lebowski (1998) -- Three convicts and the KKK: O brother, where art thou? (2000) -- Cutting Cain's law: The man who wasn't there (2001) -- Cruel intentions: Intolerable cruelty (2003) -- The killing joke: The ladykillers (2004) -- The unrelenting country: No country for old men (2007) -- Burning paranoia: Burn after reading (2008) |
| Soggetto topico | Violence in motion pictures |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-282-56636-9
0-313-35599-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Series Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Violently Original; 1 Murder Most Simple: Blood Simple (1985); 2 Babies, Bikers, and Buffoons: Raising Arizona (1987); 3 The Professional Kill: Miller's Crossing (1990); 4 Life of the Imaginary Mind: Barton Fink (1991); 5 Reinventing the Circle of Suicide: The Hudsucker Proxy (1994); 6 What's the Deal with Greed and Wood Chippers?: Fargo (1996); 7 Abiding by Chandler: The Big Lebowski (1998); 8 Three Convicts and the KKK: O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000); 9 Cutting Cain's Law: The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)
10 Cruel Intentions: Intolerable Cruelty (2003)11 The Killing Joke: The Ladykillers (2004); 12 The Unrelenting Country: No Country for Old Men (2007); 13 Burning Paranoia: Burn After Reading (2008); Notes; Filmography; Academy Awards and Nominations; Bibliography; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910459345703321 |
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Doom Ryan P
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| Santa Barbara, Calif., : Praeger, c2009 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The Brothers Coen [[electronic resource] ] : unique characters of violence / / Ryan P. Doom
| The Brothers Coen [[electronic resource] ] : unique characters of violence / / Ryan P. Doom |
| Autore | Doom Ryan P |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Santa Barbara, Calif., : Praeger, c2009 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (226 p.) |
| Disciplina | 791.4302/330922 |
| Collana | Modern filmmakers |
| Soggetto topico | Violence in motion pictures |
| ISBN |
1-282-56636-9
0-313-35599-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction: violently original -- Murder most simple: Blood simple (1985) -- Babies, bikers, and buffoons: Raising Arizona (1987) -- The professional kill: Miller's crossing (1990) -- Life of the imaginary mind: Barton Fink (1991) -- Reinventing the circle of suicide: The Hudsucker proxy (1994) -- What's the deal with greed and wood chippers?: Fargo (1996) -- Abiding by Chandler: The big Lebowski (1998) -- Three convicts and the KKK: O brother, where art thou? (2000) -- Cutting Cain's law: The man who wasn't there (2001) -- Cruel intentions: Intolerable cruelty (2003) -- The killing joke: The ladykillers (2004) -- The unrelenting country: No country for old men (2007) -- Burning paranoia: Burn after reading (2008) |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910792337903321 |
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Doom Ryan P
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| Santa Barbara, Calif., : Praeger, c2009 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Cinema inferno [[electronic resource] ] : celluloid explosions from the cultural margins / / edited by Robert G. Weiner, John Cline
| Cinema inferno [[electronic resource] ] : celluloid explosions from the cultural margins / / edited by Robert G. Weiner, John Cline |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, Md., : Scarecrow Press, 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (421 p.) |
| Disciplina | 791.43/6164 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
WeinerRobert G. <1966->
ClineJohn |
| Soggetto topico |
Horror films - History and criticism
Thrillers (Motion pictures) - History and criticism Violence in motion pictures |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-282-71361-2
9786612713613 0-8108-7657-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I. REALISM(S); CHAPTER 1. The Neorealist Transgressions of Pier Paolo Pasolini; CHAPTER 2. From Chicago to Watts by Way of Paris and Hollywood: Art-Film Influence on Melvin Van Peebles's Early Features; CHAPTER 3. At the Heart of The Heart of the World Guy Maddin in the Twenty-First Century; Part II. ITALIAN HORROR/GIALLI; CHAPTER 4. Menopausal Monsters and Sexual Transgression in Argento's Art Horror; CHAPTER 5. The More You Rape Their Senses, the Happier They Are: A History of Cannibal Holocaust
CHAPTER 6. A Postcard from the Grindhouse: Exotic Landscapes and Italian Holidays in Lucio Fulci's Zombie and Sergio Martino's Torso CHAPTER 7. Body in a Bed, Body Growing Dead: Uncanny Women in Joe D'Amato's Italian Exploitation Cinema; Part III. NEW YORK STATE OF MIND; CHAPTER 8. Bernie's "Deathwish": History and Transgression in New York City; CHAPTER 9. Troma Entertainment: The Boobs, Blood, and Brains of Reel Independence; CHAPTER 10. Exploitation Films and Success: The Half-Told Melodramas of Andy Milligan; Part IV. EXTREME EUROPEAN CINEMA CHAPTER 11. B Is for Bile, Blood, and Bones: On Corporeal Bodies in the Films of Peter Greenaway CHAPTER 12. The Films of the Vienna Action Group; CHAPTER 13. Reveries of Blood and Sand: The Cinema of Jean Rollin; CHAPTER 14. A Shadow Poet: Michael Haneke; Part V. CULTURE AT THE MARGINS; CHAPTER 15. Through the Looking Glass Darkly: Considering Theories of Nazi Film and Concepts of Transgression; CHAPTER 16. Christian Scare Films: The Unlikely Pairing of Director Ron Ormond and Preacher Estus Pirkle; CHAPTER 17. Stray Cat Rock: The Politics of Nikkatsu's "Bad Youth" Movies of the Early 1970's Part VI. CONTEMPORARY FILM CHAPTER 18. Flirting with Subversion: Mainstream Filmmaking, Transgression, and the Case of Joel Schumacher's 8MM; CHAPTER 19. HATED: GG Allin and the Murder Junkies: Scum Rock and the Unlikely Career of Todd Phillips; CHAPTER 20. Cinema of Regression: Grindhouse and the Limits of the Spectatorial Imaginary; Index; About the Editors and Contributors |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910458833703321 |
| Lanham, Md., : Scarecrow Press, 2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Cinema inferno [[electronic resource] ] : celluloid explosions from the cultural margins / / edited by Robert G. Weiner, John Cline
| Cinema inferno [[electronic resource] ] : celluloid explosions from the cultural margins / / edited by Robert G. Weiner, John Cline |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, Md., : Scarecrow Press, 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (421 p.) |
| Disciplina | 791.43/6164 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
WeinerRobert G. <1966->
ClineJohn |
| Soggetto topico |
Horror films - History and criticism
Thrillers (Motion pictures) - History and criticism Violence in motion pictures |
| ISBN |
1-282-71361-2
9786612713613 0-8108-7657-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I. REALISM(S); CHAPTER 1. The Neorealist Transgressions of Pier Paolo Pasolini; CHAPTER 2. From Chicago to Watts by Way of Paris and Hollywood: Art-Film Influence on Melvin Van Peebles's Early Features; CHAPTER 3. At the Heart of The Heart of the World Guy Maddin in the Twenty-First Century; Part II. ITALIAN HORROR/GIALLI; CHAPTER 4. Menopausal Monsters and Sexual Transgression in Argento's Art Horror; CHAPTER 5. The More You Rape Their Senses, the Happier They Are: A History of Cannibal Holocaust
CHAPTER 6. A Postcard from the Grindhouse: Exotic Landscapes and Italian Holidays in Lucio Fulci's Zombie and Sergio Martino's Torso CHAPTER 7. Body in a Bed, Body Growing Dead: Uncanny Women in Joe D'Amato's Italian Exploitation Cinema; Part III. NEW YORK STATE OF MIND; CHAPTER 8. Bernie's "Deathwish": History and Transgression in New York City; CHAPTER 9. Troma Entertainment: The Boobs, Blood, and Brains of Reel Independence; CHAPTER 10. Exploitation Films and Success: The Half-Told Melodramas of Andy Milligan; Part IV. EXTREME EUROPEAN CINEMA CHAPTER 11. B Is for Bile, Blood, and Bones: On Corporeal Bodies in the Films of Peter Greenaway CHAPTER 12. The Films of the Vienna Action Group; CHAPTER 13. Reveries of Blood and Sand: The Cinema of Jean Rollin; CHAPTER 14. A Shadow Poet: Michael Haneke; Part V. CULTURE AT THE MARGINS; CHAPTER 15. Through the Looking Glass Darkly: Considering Theories of Nazi Film and Concepts of Transgression; CHAPTER 16. Christian Scare Films: The Unlikely Pairing of Director Ron Ormond and Preacher Estus Pirkle; CHAPTER 17. Stray Cat Rock: The Politics of Nikkatsu's "Bad Youth" Movies of the Early 1970's Part VI. CONTEMPORARY FILM CHAPTER 18. Flirting with Subversion: Mainstream Filmmaking, Transgression, and the Case of Joel Schumacher's 8MM; CHAPTER 19. HATED: GG Allin and the Murder Junkies: Scum Rock and the Unlikely Career of Todd Phillips; CHAPTER 20. Cinema of Regression: Grindhouse and the Limits of the Spectatorial Imaginary; Index; About the Editors and Contributors |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910791585603321 |
| Lanham, Md., : Scarecrow Press, 2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The Cinema makers [[electronic resource] ] : public life and the exhibition of difference in south-eastern and central europe since the 1960s / / by Anna Schober
| The Cinema makers [[electronic resource] ] : public life and the exhibition of difference in south-eastern and central europe since the 1960s / / by Anna Schober |
| Autore | Schober Anna |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Bristol, : Intellect, 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (258 p.) |
| Disciplina | 791.43094 |
| Soggetto topico |
Motion pictures - Europe - History - 21st century
Violence in motion pictures |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 1-78320-069-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1: In the middle of things: city, cinema and the public sphere; 1.1. Cinema's potential for creating a public sphere; 1.2. Difference and the unfamiliar; 1.3. The subject in process: rituals, revolt and storytelling; Chapter 2: Movements and places: modern order and the cinema-squats of the 1960's; 2.1. Cinema and the modern attempt to eliminate ambivalence; 2.2. To become cinema-makers: expanded and other cinemas, the Crni Talas and OHO
2.3. Transnationality: interaction and struggle vis-à-vis official strategies 2.4. Difference, privatized ambivalence and the (informal) public sphere; Chapter 3: Films and urban interventions: the rediscovery of difference since the 1960's; 3.1. The migrant guest worker: Fassbinder's interventions in the projection spaces of the imagination; 3.2. The figuration of difference as aesthetic, sexual and ethnic difference in Yugoslav cinema since the 1960's; Chapter 4: Follow-up initiatives; 4.1. Violence and humour: cinema activism in times of war 4.2. Enthusiasm and critique: cinema between flash mob, new urban transition spaces and art Interviews Cited; References; Back Cover |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910462909403321 |
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Schober Anna
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| Bristol, : Intellect, 2013 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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