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Gokken is geen spel
  • Language: nl
  • Pages: 202

Gokken is geen spel

Gokken is een miljardenindustrie die wereldwijd enorm gegroeid is gedurende de laatste tien jaar. Met veel geld en lobbywerk beïnvloedt de industrie de regelgeving en het onderzoek. Door het internet is gokken overal en op elk moment beschikbaar. Velen doen het af en toe. Een deel verliest de controle en krijgt grote problemen. Wat trekt mensen aan in gokken? Wat is een kansspel? Wat is een gokstoornis? En hoe evolueert dat precies? Zijn alle gokspelen even riskant? Zijn alle mensen er even gevoelig voor? Hoe kan je herkennen wanneer het fout gaat? Wat kan je zelf doen? Waar kan je hulp vinden en hoe ziet een behandeling eruit?

City on Fire
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 392

City on Fire

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1999
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  • Publisher: Verso

Hong Kong's film industry gained global attention in the 1980s, at the time of negotiations over Great Britain's return of the colony to China. Uncertainty about the post-handover era accelerated Hong Kong's race for economic growth, and found expression in cinema's depictions of a 'city on fire.' In this accessible introduction to the extraordinary cinematic output of the colony, Michael Hoover and Lisa Stokes review the directors and films that have established Hong Kong cinema internationally: John Woo's martial arts flicks, Tsui Hark's wire-worked fantasies, Ann Hui's exile melodramas, Stanley Kwan's limpid romances, and Wong Kar-wai's stylish art films.

Remaking Chinese Cinema
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 234

Remaking Chinese Cinema

From melodrama to Cantonese opera, from silents to 3D animated film, Remaking Chinese Cinema traces cross-Pacific film remaking over the last eight decades. Through the refractive prism of Hollywood, Shanghai, and Hong Kong, Yiman Wang revolutionizes our understanding of Chinese cinema as national cinema. Against the diffusion model of national cinema spreading from a central point—Shanghai in the Chinese case—she argues for a multi-local process of co-constitution and reconstitution. In this spirit, Wang analyzes how southern Chinese cinema (huanan dianying) morphed into Hong Kong cinema through trans-regional and trans-national interactions that also produced a vision of Chinese cinema...

World Cinema through Global Genres
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 464

World Cinema through Global Genres

World Cinema through Global Genres introduces the complex forces of global filmmaking using the popular concept of film genre. The cluster-based organization allows students to acquire a clear understanding of core issues that apply to all films around the world. Innovative pedagogical approach that uses genres to teach the more unfamiliar subject of world cinema A cluster-based organization provides a solid framework for students to acquire a sharper understanding of core issues that apply to all films around the world A “deep focus” section in each chapter gives students information and insights about important regions of filmmaking (India, China, Japan, and Latin America) that tend to be underrepresented in world cinema classes Case studies allow students to focus on important and accessible individual films that exemplify significant traditions and trends A strong foundation chapter reviews key concepts and vocabulary for understanding film as an art form, a technology, a business, an index of culture, a social barometer, and a political force. The engaging style and organization of the book make it a compelling text for both world cinema and film genre courses

A2RC Architects
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 434

A2RC Architects

Brussels-based architecture firm A.2R.C is renowned for its steadfast dedication to the continuing urbanisation of the city of Brussels. Critical of attempts over the years to 'modernise' Brussels, A.2R.C's aim is to pursue the reintegration of the city

Contemporary Indonesian Film
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 253

Contemporary Indonesian Film

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-01-01
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  • Publisher: BRILL

This highly informative book explores the world of Post-Soeharto Indonesian audio-visual media in the exiting era of Reform. From a multidisciplinary approach it considers a wide variety of issues such as mainstream and alternative film practices, ceremonial and independent film festivals, film piracy, history and horror, documentary, television soaps, and Islamic films, as well as censorship from the state and street. Through the perspective of discourses on, and practices of film production, distribution, and exhibition, this book gives a detailed insight into current issues of Indonesia’s social and political situation, where Islam, secular realities, and ghosts on and off screen, mingle or clash.

Index of Patents Issued from the United States Patent and Trademark Office
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 4402

Index of Patents Issued from the United States Patent and Trademark Office

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  • Published: Unknown
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Geschichte des deutschen Films
  • Language: de
  • Pages: 596

Geschichte des deutschen Films

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The Overlook Film Encyclopedia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 500

The Overlook Film Encyclopedia

Since the initial publication of the first three groundbreaking volumes -- Horror, Science Fiction, and The Western -- The Overlook Film Encyclopedia series has been deemed the most authoritative, stylish, and compulsively readable film reference series ever. In The Gangster Film, series editor Phil Hardy has created yet again a landmark in film reference. Included in this lavish volume are critical entries on more than 1,500 gangster films, complete with plot synapses and credits, and 650 black and white photographs to capture the look of this exciting genre. Arranged chronologically, The Gangster Film offers deliciously opinionated and detailed descriptions, statistical information, credits and trivia from early classics such as Public Enemy, Key Largo, Dragnet, and On the Waterfront to contemporary blockbusters such as The Grifters, Chinatown, The Godfather, and Pulp Fiction. Essential, authoritative, and entertaining, The Gangster Film is the guide for serious students of film, film buffs, and home viewers.

The Arizona Quarterly
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 416

The Arizona Quarterly

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2004
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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