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  • Women at Work in Twenty-First-Century European Cinema

    by Barbara Mennel ...
    From hairdressers and caregivers to reproductive workers and power-suited executives, images of women's labor have powered a fascinating new movement within twenty-first-century European cinema. Social realist dramas capture precarious working conditions. Comedies exaggerate the habits of the global managerial class. Stories from countries battered by the global financial crisis emphasize the ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Emerging German-Language Novelists of the Twenty-First Century

    by Lyn Marven, Professor Julian Preece, Kate Roy, Executive Dean Rebecca Braun, Sonja Klocke, Professor Stephen Brockmann, Stuart Taberner, Valerie Heffernan, Andrew Plowman0, Anke S. Biendarra1, Barbara Mennel2, Brigid Haines3, Emily Jeremiah4, Frauke Matthes5, Heike Bartel6 ...
    After the international success in the 1990s of authors such as Bernhard Schlink, Marcel Beyer, and Thomas Brussig, an impressive number of new German-language novelists are making a significant impact. Some, like Karen Duve, Daniel Kehlmann, and Sasa Stanisic, have achieved international recognition; some, like Julia Franck, have won major prizes; others, like Clemens Meyer, Alina Bronsky, and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Mädchen in Uniform

    by Barbara Mennel ...
    Series series BFI Film Classics
    Leontine Sagan's Mädchen in Uniform (1931) is a groundbreaking German film that showcases women's agency and desire behind and in front of the camera.Adapted from Christa Winsloe's lesbian play, the story follows Manuela, an orphan in a boarding school for impoverished Prussian nobility. When she declares her love with her female teacher, the oppressive principal punishes her, leading to a ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Su Friedrich

    by Barbara Mennel ...
    Series series Contemporary Film Directors
    Auteurism expandedWith acclaimed films like Sink or Swim and The Odds of Recovery, Su Friedrich’s body of work stands at the forefront of avant-garde and Queer cinema. Barbara Mennel examines the career of an experimental auteur whose merger of technical innovation and political critique connects with both cinephiles and activists. Friedrich’s integration of cinematic experimentation with lesbian ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Queer Cinema

    Schoolgirls, Vampires, and Gay Cowboys

    by Barbara Mennel ...
    Series series Short Cuts
    Queer Cinema: Schoolgirls, Vampires, and Gay Cowboys illustrates queer cinematic aesthetics by highlighting key films that emerged at historical turning points throughout the twentieth century. Barbara Mennel traces the representation of gays and lesbians from the sexual liberation movements of the roaring 1920s in Berlin to the Stonewall Rebellion in New York City and the emergence of queer ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Cities and Cinema

    by Barbara Mennel ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City
    The second edition of Cities and Cinema provides an updated survey of films about cities, from their significance for modernity at the beginning of the twentieth century to the contemporary relationship between virtual reality and urban space. The book demonstrates the importance of the filmic depiction of capitals for national cinemas in the twentieth century and analyzes the transnational ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Turkish German Cinema in the New Millennium

    Sites, Sounds, and Screens

    Edited by Sabine Hake, Barbara Mennel ...
    Series Book 13 - Film Europa
    In the last five years of the twentieth century, films by the second and third generation of the so-called German guest workers exploded onto the German film landscape. Self-confident, articulate, and dynamic, these films situate themselves in the global exchange of cinematic images, citing and rewriting American gangster narratives, Kung Fu action films, and paralleling other emergent European ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Syntactic Theory and First Language Acquisition

    Cross-linguistic Perspectives -- Volume 1: Heads, Projections, and Learnability -- Volume 2: Binding, Dependencies, and Learnability

    Edited by (Vol.1)Barbara Lust, Margarita Su¤er, John Whitman, (Vol.2)Barbara Lust, Gabriella Hermon ...
    Universal Grammar (UG) is a theory of both the fundamental principles for all possible languages and the language faculty in the "initial state" of the human organism. These two volumes approach the study of UG by joint, tightly linked studies of both linguistic theory and human competence for language acquisition. In particular, the volumes collect comparable studies across a number of different ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Syntactic Theory and First Language Acquisition

    Cross-linguistic Perspectives -- Volume 1: Heads, Projections, and Learnability -- Volume 2: Binding, Dependencies, and Learnability

    Edited by Margarita Su¤er, John Whitman, Gabriella Hermon, (Vol.1)Barbara Lust, (Vol.2)Barbara Lust ...
    Universal Grammar (UG) is a theory of both the fundamental principles for all possible languages and the language faculty in the "initial state" of the human organism. These two volumes approach the study of UG by joint, tightly linked studies of both linguistic theory and human competence for language acquisition. In particular, the volumes collect comparable studies across a number of different ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

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  • Beginning film studies

    Second edition

    by Andrew Dix ...
    Beginning film studies offers the ideal introduction to this vibrant subject. Written accessibly and with verve, it ranges across the key topics and manifold approaches to film studies. Andrew Dix has thoroughly updated the first edition, and this new volume includes new case studies, overviews of recent developments in the discipline, and up-to-the-minute suggestions for further reading.The book ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Understanding Film Theory

    by Dr. Ruth Doughty, Christine Etherington-Wright ...
    This essential core textbook provides an approachable and extensive introduction to film theory, written by two highly experienced senior lecturers. Bringing a fresh, contemporary and accessible approach to what is often perceived to be a challenging and old-fashioned area of film studies that requires time and effort to grasp, the text illustrates why theory is important and demonstrates how it ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Teaching Film

    by Mark Lynn Anderson, Dudley Andrew, Michael Aronson ...
    Series Book 35 - Options for Teaching
    Film studies has been a part of higher education curricula in the United States almost since the development of the medium. Although the study of film is dispersed across a range of academic departments, programs, and scholarly organizations, film studies has come to be recognized as a field in its own right. In an era when teaching and scholarship are increasingly interdisciplinary, film studies ... Read more

    $17.99 USD