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Published for the first time in the UK, Syd Field, acclaimed writer and director, tells you step-by-step how to identify and fix common screenwriting problems, providing the professional secrets that make films brilliant - secrets that can make your screenplay a...
Editeur :
Ebury Digital
Parution :
2008-09-04
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Lawrence Epstein's The Haunted Smile tackles a subject both poignant and delightful: the story of Jewish comedians in America. For the past century and more, American comedy has drawn its strength and soul from the comic genius of Jewish performers and writers. An...
Editeur :
PublicAffairs
Parution :
2008-08-05
ePub
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The film theories of Jean Epstein, Dziga Vertov, Béla Balázs, and Siegfried Kracauer have long been studied separately from each other. In Doubting Vision, film scholar Malcolm Turvey argues that their work constitutes a distinct, hitherto neglected tradition, which he...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2008-07-31
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Eleven authors analyse recent dance practices in the theatre, in club culture and on film, addressing dance in interdisciplinary relationship with music, painting and play texts. This text attempts to fill a gap with an up-to-date account of exciting and challenging new...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-07-24
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Since the early 1990s there has been a trend towards narrative complexity within popular cinema. This book examines a number of contemporary films that play overtly with narrative structure, raising questions of chance and destiny, memory and history, simultaneity and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-07-11
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Theatrical Improvisation provides an in-depth analysis of short form, long form, and sketch-based improv - tracing the development of each form and the principles that define and connect the styles of performance. Brimming with original interviews from leaders in the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-07-01
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From the silver screen to the Great White Way, small community theatres to television sets, the musical has long held a special place in America's heart and history. Now, in The Oxford Companion to the American Musical, readers who flocked to the movies to see An...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2008-06-02
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In the first book-length study of this topic, D.W. McKiernan examines the way mainstream commercial cinema represents society's complex relationship with the idea and practice of community in the context of rapidly changing social conditions. Films examined include Ae...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-05-21
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As You Like It is Shakespeare's most light-hearted comedy, and its witty heroine Rosalind has his longest female role. In this edition, Alan Brissenden reassesses both its textual and performance history, showing how interpretations have changed since the first recorded...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2008-05-08
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Are you young, eager, smart, and heading off to LA to make it big in the entertainment business? Time for a reality check: Leave your diploma at home, put your grandiose dreams on hold (where hopefully they'll get tired and hang up), and start by repeating the first...
Editeur :
Workman Publishing Company
Parution :
2008-05-07
ePub
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Speaking about the kind of filmmaking now known as Classic Hollywood, the most popular and influential cinema ever invented, Vincente Minnelli once gave away its secret: "I feel that a picture that stays with you is made up of a hundred or more hidden things. They're...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2008-04-30
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Russia's interactions with the West have been a perennial theme of Slavic Studies, and of Russian culture and politics. Likewise, representations of Russia have shaped the identities of many western cultures. No longer providing the 'Evil Empire' of 20th American...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-04-25
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This book presents an exploration of the under-explored terrain of visuality, demonstrating the use of new theoretical insights into vision for the analysis of theatre and performance and simultaneously shows theatre and performance to be an excellent 'theoretical...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-04-17
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Performed variously as escapist fantasy, celebratory fiction, and political allegory, The Tempest is one of the plays in which Shakespeare's genius as a poetic dramatist found its fullest expression. Significantly, it was placed first when published in the First Folio...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2008-04-17
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Television Truths considers what we know about TV, whether we love it or hate it, where TV is going, and whether viewers should bother going along for the ride. This engaging volume, written by one of television's best known scholars, offers a new take on the history of...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
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Television is one of the most important socializing forces in contemporary culture. This book is a cultural history of prime-time television in America during the 1990s. Examines changes that took place in programming, such as the rapid adoption of cable, the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
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A Companion to Literature in Film provides state-of-the-art research on world literature, film, and the complex theoretical relationship between them. 25 essays by international experts cover the most important topics in the study of literature and film adaptations. ...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
Collection :
Blackwell Companions in Cultural Studies
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This volume of specially commissioned work by experts in the field of film studies provides a comprehensive overview of the field. Its international and interdisciplinary approach will have a broad appeal to those interested in this multifaceted subject. Provides a...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
Collection :
Blackwell Companions in Cultural Studies
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A Companion to Television is a magisterial collection of 31 original essays that charter the field of television studies over the past century Explores a diverse range of topics and theories that have led to television’s current incarnation, and predict its likely...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
Collection :
Blackwell Companions in Cultural Studies
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This is one of the first books to offer a rigorous analysis of the enormous changes in the musical theatre during the 1980s and 90s. In addition, it focuses on the contribution of well-known, serious theatre directors to the mainstream Musical Theatre and it is the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-04-14
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