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Inside The Film Factory
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A collection of essays that use new methodological approaches and original archival material to study Soviet film. The book includes the first account in English of the car... [Read more]
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Moving Words
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Moving Words provides a direct line into the most pressing issues in contemporary dance scholarship, as well as insights into ways in which dance contributes to and creates... [Read more]
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New Visions in Performance
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New Visions in Performance features the work of twelve performers and academics who are concerned with the integration of digital technologies into theatrical performance. [Read more]
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Raindance Producers' Lab Lo-To-No Budget Filmmaking
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Offers comprehensive advice and professional tips on how to make a successful film on a low budget. [Read more]
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The Art Of The Moving Picture
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""The Art Of The Moving Picture"" by Vachel Lindsay is a classic work of literature that can be enjoyed by all. Download ""The Art Of The Movi... [Read more]
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Museum Movies
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Haidee Wasson provides a rich cultural history of cinema's transformation from a passing amusement to an enduring art form by mapping the creation of the Film Library of th... [Read more]
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Media Rituals
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The media are an inescapable part of our everyday life. Drawing on sociological and anthropological approaches to the study of ritual, Nick Couldry applies the work of theo... [Read more]
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British Science Fiction Cinema
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Explores the breadth of British sci-fi films through readings of key films, examining the factors that shaped them, and the concerns they reflect, through the postwar boom ... [Read more]
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Understanding Dance
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By focusing on the work of a number of major choreographers, companies and critics, McFee explores the nature of our understanding of dance. He provides detailed insights i... [Read more]
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Media Ethics
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Concerns about the role and responsibilities of the media have become an increasingly important part of public debate. Media Ethics brings together philosophers, academics ... [Read more]
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Liveness
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Addresses what may be the single most important question facing all kinds of performance today. What is the status of live performance in a culture dominated by mass media? [Read more]
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Introduction to Feminism and Theatre
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An accessible and intelligent introduction to the dynamic and challenging relationship between feminism and theatre. Discusses wide-ranging theoretical topics and provides ... [Read more]
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At Work with Grotowski on Physical Actions
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A unique resource for actors and students from Grotowski's long-time collaborator - the first available statement of the current working practices and theoretical positions... [Read more]
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Acting
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This classic work on acting is one of the very few that stands beside Stanislavsky as a must-have for all acting students and professionals. Richard Boleslavsky's Acting: T... [Read more]
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Acting
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Harrop deals with the intellectual, practical and spiritual issues of what acting is about. Covering the range of actor training and practice from Stanislavski to the Post-... [Read more]
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Contemporary Black and Asian Women Playwrights in Britain
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The first monograph to examine plays by Black and Asian women in Britain, including writers such as Tanika Gupta, Winsome Pinnock, and Amrit Wilson, among others. The volum... [Read more]
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Elements of Classical Ballet Technique
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Elements of Classical Ballet Technique is ideal for the dance teacher who strives to nourish mental flexibility and dexterity of character in their students, as well as to ... [Read more]
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The Public Sphere
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In this book Alan McKee provides an introduction to the concept of the public sphere, the history of the term and the philosophical arguments about its function. [Read more]
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The Politics of Irish Drama
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The Politics of Irish Drama analyses some twenty-five of the best-known Irish plays from Dion Boucicault to Sebastian Barry, including works of Shaw, Yeats, Lady Gregory an... [Read more]
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The Borzoi Book of Modern Dance
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Originally published in 1949, The Borzoi Book of Modern Dance captures the beginnings of modern dance history fresh from its inception. Margaret Lloyd creates a detailed, w... [Read more]
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British Crime Cinema
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The first substantial study of this neglected genre, British Crime Cinema stresses the centrality of the crime film to understanding masculinity in British cinema, and the ... [Read more]
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Systems of Rehearsal
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Compares Peter Brook's rehearsal techniques with those developed by Stanislavsky, Grotowski and Brecht. The result is an invaluable introduction to modern theatre practice. [Read more]
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Hollywood, Interrupted: Insanity Chic in Babylon — The Case Against Celebrity
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Hollywood, Interrupted is a sometimes frightening, occasionally sad, and frequently hysterical odyssey into the darkest realms of showbiz pathology, the endless stream of m... [Read more]
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Dream That Kicks
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A classic account of the prehistory and early years of cinema in Britain. This new paperback edition provides a fascinating account of the rich and hitherto hidden history ... [Read more]
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Theatre and the World
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In this passionate and controversial work, Rustom Bharucha presents the first major critique of intercultural theatre from a `Third World' perspective. [Read more]
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Red Screen
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An original collection of essays by leading international Soviet cinema scholars, covering seventy years of cinema history, providing a clear understanding of the aesthetic... [Read more]
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Dangerous Border Crossers
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This latest anthology of Gomez-Pena's chronicles, diary entries, poems, essays and texts, documents the extraordinary life and work of this influential performance artist a... [Read more]
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A.R. Gurney
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This is the first full-length study devoted to the art of A.R. Gurney, a major contemporary American playwright who has written over thirty plays, including Love Letters. [Read more]
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The Mixtake Files: A Fan's Guide to the "X-files"
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Covering the first three series of The X-Files, the author of this text points out the errors in continuity, logical inconsistencies, plot discrepancies and other "&qu... [Read more]
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Inside Oscar 2
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FINALLY, A SEQUEL AS GOOD AS THE ORIGINAL! Enlivened by humorous incidents, brewing controversies, and deeply moving personal dramas, Inside Oscar 1995-2000 offers the comp... [Read more]
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The Big Picture
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During the heyday of the studio system spanning the 1930s, 40s, and 50s, virtually all the American motion picture industrys money, power, and prestige came from a single a... [Read more]
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Overhearing Film Dialogue
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Since the birth of cinema, film has been lauded as a visual rather than a verbal medium; this sentiment was epitomized by John Ford's assertion in 1964 that, ""Wh... [Read more]
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Australian Cinema After Mabo
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Australian Cinema After Mabo is the first comprehensive study of Australian national cinema in the 1990s. Using the 1992 Mabo decision as a starting point, it looks at how ... [Read more]
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Bunuel and Mexico
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Though Luis Bunuel, one of the most important filmmakers of the twentieth century, spent his most productive years as a director in Mexico, film histories and criticism inv... [Read more]
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Your Move
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In Your Move Ann Hutchinson Guest establishes a fresh and original framework for looking at dance. [Read more]
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French National Cinema
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An examination of France's national cinema through its primary artefact, the feature film, discussing both popular cinema and the `avant-garde' cinema that contests it, and... [Read more]
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Avant Garde Theatre
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`Innes has produced a brilliant, sensitive, articulate statement. It deserves serious study by all those whose practice and commitment is toward an understanding and expres... [Read more]
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Dance, Modernity and Culture
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By examining the development of modern dance in the USA in the inter-war period, Thomas develops a framework for analysing dance from a sociological perspective. She applie... [Read more]
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Realism and Tinsel
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Looking at popular British film in the 1940s, Realism and Tinsel goes beyond the established histories of the Ealing Comedies to excavate a rich tradition of melodrama, mor... [Read more]
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Classic Country
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Provides insights into the history of country music which will fascinate not only fans and scholars of country music, but anyone interested in the roots of American popular... [Read more]
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Michael Chekhov
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This volume provides, for the first time, a fully comprehensive introduction to Chekov's life and times, his most notable productions, his classic writings and his practica... [Read more]
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Virtual Theatres
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This is the first full-length book of its kind to offer an investigation of the interface between theatre performance and digital arts. [Read more]
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The Nitpicker's Guide for X-Philes
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The truth is, the nits are out there.... What's weird about Samantha T. Mulder's birthday? (She has two of them: January 22 and November 21.) What's amazing about Mulder's ... [Read more]
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Eugenio Barba
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Eugenio Barba is one of the most important theatre practitioners working today. This guidebook provides exercises for both students and teachers, and also offers an histori... [Read more]
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Videogames
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This lucid and engaging introduction guides the reader through the world of videogaming, providing a history of the videogame, from its origins in the computer lab to its c... [Read more]
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Aussiewood
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A generation of Australians have conquered Hollywood - Boland and Bodey interview the A-list to find out how they got there. [Read more]
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Understanding Cinema
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Understanding Cinema analyzes the moving imagery of film and television from a psychological perspective. Per Persson argues that spectators interpret, feel, make use of kn... [Read more]
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Modern Dance Techniques and Teaching
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Modern Dance Techniques and Teaching is truly one of a kind: it is the only book to be published documenting Martha Graham's movement philosophy, as recorded by two of Grah... [Read more]
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Indelible Shadows
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The third edition of Indelible Shadows includes five new chapters. It addresses the treatment of rescuers, as in 'Schindler's List'; the controversial use of humor, as in '... [Read more]
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Science Fiction Film
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Examines one of the most enduring genres of Hollywood cinema, suggesting how the science fiction film reflects the development of twentieth century American attitudes towar... [Read more]
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The Body Is a Clear Place
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A collection of ten intelligent, lyrical essays that serve as a testament to Erick Hawkins' long career in dance. The last two essays were written especially for this volum... [Read more]
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Producing Videos
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A comprehensive update of this widely-used guide to producing videos for both professionals and amateurs, now written for an international readership. [Read more]
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The Coen Brothers' Fargo
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This volume explores Fargo from a variety of methodological perspectives. Providing a detailed account of the film's production, reception and place within the career of th... [Read more]
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Speaking Of Dance
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Including interviews with 12 distinguished and innovative American choreographers and presenting in-depth conversations that focus on the art of dance, this book tells the ... [Read more]
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Emblems of Eloquence
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Drawing upon a complex web of early modern sources and ancient texts, this study is a treatment of women, gender and sexuality in 17th-century opera. It explores the operat... [Read more]
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Gardzienice
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This is one of the first detailed attempts to assess developments in Polish experimental theatres since 1989. The author questions whether those artists can maintain their ... [Read more]
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No Place Like Home
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This is the first comprehensive account of Germany's most enduring film genre, the Heimatfilm, which has offered idyllic variations on the idea that ""there is no... [Read more]
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Practical Cinematography
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Film-making is an art, but, like so many art forms, there are basic underlying tools and techniques and a body theoretical knowledge that must be understood and mastered be... [Read more]
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Sex, Love, and Romance in the Mass Media
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This research-based text offers both foundational theories and practical applications of analysis and criticism of mass media portrayals of sex, love and romance in a wide ... [Read more]
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Lure of Perfection
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This book offers a unique look at how ballet influenced contemporary fashion and women's body image, and how street fashions in turn were reflected by the costumes worn by ... [Read more]
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Only Entertainment
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This new edition of Dyer's text on entertainment and the pleasures of popular culture features a revised introduction and five new chapters on topics from serial killer mov... [Read more]
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Philosophy goes to the Movies
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This is a new kind of introduction to Philosophy that uses the movies to explore philosophical ideas. Ideal for the beginner, this book guides the student through philosoph... [Read more]
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What is Scenography?
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A provocative re-evaluation of the traditional role and methods of theatre designers, pointing towards a more holistic approach to making theatre. [Read more]
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Twentieth Century Theatre
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A diverse selection of original texts on theatre by its most creative practitioners - actors, writers, directors and designers. Contributors include Jarry, Ionescu, Shaw, B... [Read more]
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Opera
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Covering over 320 composers and 43 countries, this book will be invaluable to opera scholars, researchers and serious listeners throughout the world. [Read more]
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Architecture, Actor and Audience
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Explores the contribution the design of a theatre can make to the theatrical experience. It also examines the failure of many modern theatres to appeal to audiences and the... [Read more]
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Spectacular Bodies
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An examination of the importance of questions of gender, sexuality and genre in popular action films such as Rambo and Thelma and Louise [Read more]
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Happenings and Other Acts
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Articles, statements, interviews and essays by and about some of the most influential avantgarde artists and performers are presented here for the first time since they wer... [Read more]
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The Finest Crew in the Fleet: Star Trek 'The Next Generation' Cast On Screen and Off
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A biography of the cast of ""Star Trek: The Next Generation"", which reveals information about the actors who starred as the crew of the ""Ent... [Read more]
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Theatre of Howard Barker
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This revised edition includes: *a new interview with Barker; *a revised introduction, *an updated bibliography *a full production chronology. [Read more]
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Anton Chekhov at the Moscow Art Theatre
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Moscow Art Theatre is recognized as having more impact on modern theatre, than any other company. This facsimile edition of a Russian journal documents, photographically, t... [Read more]
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From Celluloid to Cyberspace
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The arts in America are entering a new era that will pose many challenges for the arts community. However, our current knowledge of the operation of the arts world and its ... [Read more]
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John Ford's Stagecoach
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Stagecoach is one of the classics of Hollywood cinema. Made in 1939, it revitalized the Western genre, served as a milestone in John Ford's career, and made John Wayne a st... [Read more]
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Theatrical Convention and Audience Response in Early Modern Drama
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In this comprehensive survey of the diverse, theatrically vital formal conventions of the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, Lopez proposes that understanding the... [Read more]
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The Cognitive Semiotics of Film
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Warren Buckland argues that the conflict between cognitive film theory and contemporary film theory is unproductive. Presenting a survey of cognitive film semiotics, this s... [Read more]
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The Insider's Guide to Film Finance
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A comprehensive guide to the legal and commercial issues of film finance transactions [Read more]
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Mimomania
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When Nietzsche dubbed Richard Wagner ""the most enthusiastic mimomaniac"" ever to exist, he was objecting to a hollowness he felt in the music, a crowdi... [Read more]
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Revealing Masks
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W. Anthony Sheppard considers a wide-ranging constellation of important musical works in this fascinating exploration of ritualized performance in twentieth-century music. ... [Read more]
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The Dark Mirror
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Lutz Koepnick analyzes the complicated relationship between two cinemas--Hollywood's and Nazi Germany's--in this theoretically and politically incisive study. The Dark Mirr... [Read more]
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Performance Analysis
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This revolutionary introductory performance studies coursebook brings together classic texts in critical theory and shows how these texts can be used in the analysis of per... [Read more]
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Genre And Hollywood
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Neale discusses all the major concepts, theories and accounts of Hollywood and genre, as well as key genres which theorists have written about, from horror to the Western. [Read more]
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Letters From Europe
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Letters from theatre makers, artists and critics, each one a framing device examining Europe's performance forms - the old and new dramaturgies and the shifting relationshi... [Read more]
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Migrating to the Movies
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The rise of cinema as the predominant American entertainment around the turn of the last century coincided with the migration of hundreds of thousands of African Americans ... [Read more]
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The Performing Arts in a New Era
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This work examines the state of the performing arts in America. The authors idendify key trends affecting audiences, artists and performing groups and their financial healt... [Read more]
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Media Effects
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This work covers topics such as intermedia processes and powerful media effects, political communication effects and media influences on marketing communications. [Read more]
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Digital Photographic Capture
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For the first time, ""Digital Photographic Capture"" addresses the photographers need to become familiar with digital capture technology in order to mak... [Read more]
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Anthropocosmic Theatre
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In this work the author traces his researches with Grotowski and Strasberg, at the Old Vic in London, and in Nahuatlan and Tibetan theatre to arrive at his design for a uni... [Read more]
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Argumentation
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This title teaches step by step the insights that are required to perform the different tasks that have to be carried out well to analyze, evaluate, and present argumentati... [Read more]
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Dance Theatre
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Kurt Jooss was born shortly after the turn of this century, a time that ushered in the Age of Modernism. His achievement places him in the ranks of those leading artists wh... [Read more]
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Certain Fragments
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An exploration of what lies at the heart of contemporary theatre. Written by the artistic director of Forced Entertainment, it investigates the process of devising performa... [Read more]
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Site-Specific Art
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Site-Specific Art is the first major study of site-specific theatre and performance in North America and Europe since the 1950s. This volume is an astonishing addition to t... [Read more]
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Power Without Responsibility
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This book is a classic and authoritative introduction to the history, sociolgy, theory and politics of students and teachers of media and communication studies. [Read more]
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Fifty Contemporary Filmmakers
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From Luc Besson to Quentin Tarantino, Fifty Contemporary Film-makers offers an up-to-date guide to the individuals who are shaping modern cinema. [Read more]
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Stardom
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Stardom brings together for the first time major writing of the last decade which seeks to understand the phenomenon of stars and stardom. It draws on a range of approaches... [Read more]
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And There Was Television
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Argues that television is the central apparatus of consumer society and its success is measured not in terms of whether we enjoy programs, but how much we spend as a result... [Read more]
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Routledge Reader in Politics and Performance
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The Routledge Reader in Politics and Performance brings together for the first time a comprehensive collection of extracts from key writings on politics, ideology, and perf... [Read more]
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Screening the Male
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A series of essays from an impressive group of international scholars re-examines the problematic status of masculinity both in Hollywood cinema and feminist film theory. [Read more]
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Re-Dressing the Canon
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Solomon examines the relationship between gender and performance in a series of essays which combine the critique of specific live performances with an astute theoretical a... [Read more]
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Working Without Boal
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This issue looks at the influence of Augusto Boal's work on theatre practice in Britain and Northern Ireland. Contributions come from a range of practitioners who acknowled... [Read more]
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The Great Movies
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From Americas most trusted and best-known film critic, one hundred brilliant essays on the films that define for him cinematic greatness. For the past five years Roger Eber... [Read more]
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