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Written by fans for fans, Fan Phenomena: Twin Peaks is an intelligent yet accessible guide to the various aspects of the show and its subsequent film. With commentary from both first-generation and more recent followers, essays capture the fascinating universe of Twin Peaks, from Audrey Horne's sense of style to Agent Cooper's dream psychology.

In this anthology, a panel of rising and established popular culture scholars examines the phenomenon of Star Trek fan culture and its most compelling dimensions. The resulting collection is both critical and respectful, capturing the practices and attitudes of a fan culture that is arguably the world's best-known and most misunderstood.

The rapid development of Hong Kong has occasioned the demolition of buildings and landscapes of historic significance, but film acts as a repository for memories of these lost places, vanished vistas, and material objects. This book offers a glimpse into the history of film production practices in Hong Kong.

The continued relevance of Star Wars owes much to the passion of its fans. For millions of people around the world, the films are more than diversions - they are a way of life. Addressing the films from a variety of cultural perspectives, this book explores various aspects of Star Wars fandom, from its characters to its philosophy.

Few could have predicted the enduring affection inspired by the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. With its origins in a script Joss Whedon wrote for a 1992 feature film of the same name, the series gathered a devoted audience that remains loyal to the show. This book explores how this devotion is internalized, celebrated, and critiqued.

From his debut in a six-page story in 1939 to his portrayal in the Dark Knight Rises, Batman is perhaps the world's most popular superhero. This book explores the unlikely devotion to the Dark Knight, from his inauspicious beginnings on the comic book page to the cult television series of the 1960s and on to films and video games of today.

Following the two previous volumes in this series of practitioner interviews with Danish directors, this title focuses on Danish documentary cinema. Emphasizing the documentary cinema, it features filmmakers who belong to the generation born in the 1970s.

Tracing key critical positions, people, and institutions in Australian film, this book interrogates not only the origins of Australian film theory but also its relationships to adjacent disciplines and institutions. It examines the position of film theorists and their relationship to film industry practitioners and policy makers.

Conflict photographer and critical theorist Rita Leistner applies Marshall McLuhan's semiotic theories of language, media and technology to iPhone photographs taken during a military embed in Afghanistan. In a series of iProbes - a portmanteau of iPhone and probe - Leistner reveals the face of war through the extensions of man.

The first comprehensive guide to filmic representations of Sao Paulo, this book serves as an introduction to the city for film enthusiasts, visitors and tourists while simultaneously opening scholarly debates on global concerns such as marginalization, rapid urbanization and child poverty.

An extraordinarily beautiful city that has been celebrated, criticized, and studied in many films, San Francisco is both fragile and robust. Gathering more than forty short pieces on specific scenes from San Franciscan films, this book includes essays on topics that dominate the history of filmmaking in the city.

Exploring legendary Prague landmarks as they appear on-screen - including the Charles Bridge, Old Town, Mala Strana, Liechtenstein Palace, Wenceslas Square, and Prague Castle, this book discusses the intersection of the capital city and its cinematic representations; Prague and the Czech New Wave; and the iconic Barrandov Studios.

One of contemporary music's most significant and controversial figures, Brian Ferneyhough's music draws inspiration from painting, literature, philosophy and more. This book balances critical analysis of the music and close scrutiny of its aesthetic and philosophical contexts, also examining the issues fundamental to understanding the composer.

Setting new standards in assessing how masculinity in Argentina has been represented in film, literature, and music, this collection untangles Argentine construction of masculinity, manhood, and gendered difference from the nineteenth century to the present. It offer a fresh multidisciplinary approach to modern Argentine masculinity.

Both sides in controversies tend to claim that they have logic on their side. This book proposes that the interminable nature of these controversies suggests there is a problem with the main tool of logic, the syllogism. It argues that metaphors are not just aesthetic tools; they can also be used to judge phenomena.

Includes forty essays that are written in the artists' own voices and take the form of narratives, statements, and interviews.

Drawing primarily on the Western dramatic canon, on contemporary British theatre, on popular culture and on paratheatrical practices, Staging Ageing investigates theatrical engagement with ageing. It also explores the relationship of the plays, performances and practices to the material, social and ideological conditions that produced them.

Theatre teachers are forced to adapt constantly and they struggle to serve both their students and craft. This book uses a theatre arts programme at a Midwestern high school to explore how change, good or ill, directly impacts students and teachers. Gonzalez shows teachers how to sustain confidence and outlines 'critically conscious' teaching.

Directory of World Cinema: Russia 2 is an essential companion to the filmic legacy of one of the world's most storied countries.

Directory of World Cinema: Argentina focuses on Argentina's film industry, one of the most popular, diverse and successful industries in Latin America. This book contains essays, reviews, full-colour stills, interviews, references and trivia. Topics include a survey of the country's key films, the Buenos Aires film festival and iconic directors.

Maps the rebirth of the manifesto as it appears at the crossroads of philosophy, performance, and politics. Featuring contributions from trailblazing artists, scholars, and activists currently working in the United States, the United Kingdom, Finland, and Norway, this volume is suitable to scholars across the disciplines.

Suitable for teachers and those in the caring professions, this title intends to clarify the power of contextual drama as a beneficial learning medium for children and adults, both within and beyond the classroom.

Focuses on issues of power, social positioning, and practices among creators, producers, practitioners, wearers, and consumers of fashion. This book offer a critique of some of the fundamental assumptions of ethical fashion and exposes how products are often framed as fair trade in order to relieve consumers' guilt.

Identifies a momentous change in what it means to be part of an audience for a live arts performance. This book also presents case studies of audience engagement and methodology, reviewing both conventional and innovative ways of collecting and using audience feedback data.

Presents and illustrates diverse fashions, including shoes, hats, jewellery, undergarments, and outerwear. This book explains the environmental influences that shape fashion. It helps readers learn that fashion is a reflection of the way of life at a given time, rather than an arbitrary and unpredictable force.

Cinematic representations of Helsinki range from depictions of a northern periphery to a space of cosmopolitanism, from a touristic destination to a substitute for Moscow/St Petersburg during the Cold War. This volume on Europe's northernmost capital, Helsinki, explores the relationship between the city and cinema and Finnish cultural history.

Marseilles, France's oldest city, has a significant cinematic culture, dating back to the 1890s when Lumiere brothers shot many films there. This book features maps of film scenes, high quality screengrabs, and images of movie locations as they appear today, accompanied by original texts penned by leading international film scholars and critics.

World Film Locations: Vancouver offers insight into how the city functions as the fourth largest film and television production center in North America. This book provides new perspectives on the relationship between the movies and the metropolis, using analyses of different film scenes and spotlight essays to highlight Canadian filmmaking.