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Making a splash : mermaids (and mermen) in 20th and 21st century audiovisual media /
Mermaids have been a feature of western cinema since its inception and the number of films, television series, and videos representing them has expanded exponentially since the 1980s. Making a Splash analyses texts produced within a variety of audiovisual genres. Following an overview of mermaids in...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Herts, United Kingdom :
John Libbey Publishing,
[2017]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction. Tails, tresses and elusive otherness
- 1. Becoming Ariel, becoming Ursula
- 2. Flauntation and fascination : the alluring mermaid and her charms
- 3. Sonic seduction : mermaid vocality and its expression in screen soundtracks (co-authored with Jon Fitzgerald)
- 4. Making out : sexuality and the transformative mermaid
- 5. Channeling the anima : inspirational folklore in The mermaid chair
- 6. "Mermaid-like a while" : juvenile mermaids and aficionado culture
- 7. At the margins : mermen on the screen
- 8. Crypto-science and hoax TV : Animal Planet's mermaid documentaries.