Using case studies, Jungen recounts the history of the Cannes Film Festival from an American perspective surveying the complex interplay of talent, money and corporate clout. He traces the growing influence of the Hollywood studios on the festival's rise to the key film event.
This book covers a broad range of issues related to family dimensions of international migration, including public discourses on migrant families, the role of state policies, family norms and practices, transnational families, the economic role of families, care and gender.
A comprehensive and up-to-date account of the current state of the field of digital archaeology.
Melis Behlil examines the ownership structures and financial arrangements of today's Hollywood studios and how they are reflected in the employment of international directors.
Michael Bommes was one of the most brilliant and original migration studies scholars of our time. This is a selection of the most important text on immigration.
This Data Guide provides the documentation of a national survey on religious and secular attitudes and behaviour in Dutch society 2011-2012.
A close reading of the colour aesthetics in film, tracing the historical development of film styles in relation to colour.
A remarkable and wide-ranging examination of some of the crucial issues in film theory, drawing on the Foucauldian concepts of the dispositif and the episteme.
This volume traces continuities between the medieval and early modern period in the Nordic realm, enabling the Reformation and its changes to be seen in a new light.
This groundbreaking study assesses the genre of Indian-English fiction in the first decade of the twenty-first century.
This book offers a new way of looking at Saint Thomas Aquinas-not as a living man, but as a posthumous source of relics.
An in-depth exploration of digital culture and its dissemination,this book offers a counterpoint to the dominant view that file sharing is piracy, analyzing it rather as the modern form of long recognized rights to share in culture.