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Elephants, lions, tigers and leopards evoke fascination and awe, fear and excitement. This book analyzes trained acts in twentieth-century live circus and cinema, reveals how humans anthropomorphize animals with their emotions, and interrogates the notion that animals...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-11-16
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The stage portrayal of the Victorians in recent times is a key reference point in understanding notions of Britishness, and the profound politicisation of that debate over the last four decades. This book throws new light on works by canonical playwrights like Bond,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-11-15
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Modern international studies of world theatre and drama have begun to acknowledge the Arab world only after the contributions of Asia, Africa and Latin America. Within the Arab world, the contributions of Algeria, Tunisia, and Morocco to modern drama and to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-11-01
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Die Möglichkeit des Theaters als Raum für kritische Erfahrungen geht über die Erweiterung des Theaters als musikalischen Erfahrungsraum, d.h. als ein musikalisch gedachtes und strukturiertes Theater, hinaus. Damit vereint sich in diesem Buch die Frage nach Kritik und...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-11-01
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An eclectic and insightful collection of essays predicated on the hypothesis that popular cultural documents provide unique insights into the concerns, anxieties and desires of their times. 1950s popular culture is analysed by leading scholars and critics such as...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-10-04
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Julian Mann, the hard drinking, preening, and sexually provocative star of the TV sitcome Richard the Nerd, feels caught on the horns of a dilemma: should he be concentrating on his career, which is on the slide after an unseemly bout of fisticuffs at the BAFTA awards;...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2011-09-30
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OMG. It's Chuck Bass and Nate Archibald from Gossip Girl in one book. We're all mad about the boys, but is it Ed Westwick's bad-guy allure that ticks your box, or Chace Crawford's pretty-boy looks? Or - naughty - both? Well, to help you decide, Gossip Boys, the...
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Virgin Digital
Parution :
2011-09-29
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The automaton, known today as the robot, can be seen as a metaphor for the historical period in which it is explored. Chapters include examinations of Iconoclasm's fear that art might surpass nature, the Cartesian mind/body divide, automata as objects of courtly desire,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-08-26
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Der vorliegende Band versammelt Forschungsbeiträge und Diskussionsergebnisse der Internationalen Konferenz Exil – Glaube und Kultur: 1933-1945. «Der Tag wird kommen» (Lion Feuchtwanger), die im Frühling 2009 an der Universität Wien von der International Feuchtwanger...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-08-18
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Questo libro affronta per la prima volta in maniera complessiva l’attività teatrale di Italo Calvino, dagli anni della produzione giovanile fino alla tormentata riscrittura di Un re in ascolto che accompagnerà l’autore fino alla morte nel 1985. La ricostruzione...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-08-12
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Vic Reeves' vivid, enchanting, and utterly hilarious childhood memoir is a comic masterpiece.Before there wasVic Reeves, there was a boy called James Moir who was much the same as any other lad.Obsessed with owning a pet crow, a master at writing his name and terrified...
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Virgin Digital
Parution :
2011-06-30
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The easy way to craft, polish, and get your play on stage Getting a play written and produced is a daunting process. From crystallizing story ideas, formatting the script, understanding the roles of the director stagecraft people, to marketing and financing your...
Editeur :
For Dummies
Parution :
2011-06-28
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'We have had diaries from other Cabinet Ministers, but none I think which have been quite so illuminating... It is a fascinating diary... It is shorter than Barbara Castle's... and although it is rather more accurate than Dick Crossman's, itis distinctly funnier' - Lord...
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Bbc Digital
Parution :
2011-06-08
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Truth Be Told is a revealing and irresistibly entertaining look back on Larry's remarkable run at CNN, and an honest look at Larry's own life behind the scenes. After more than a half-century of asking questions, Larry King suddenly found everyone wanted answers from...
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Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2011-05-31
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Marilyn Monroe, Vincent van Gogh or the victims of rendition flights – the number and variety of historical and contemporary figures represented on British stages is amazing. This book develops a new theoretical framework for the representation of real life figures on...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-05-27
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In German-speaking Europe, as in other parts of the western world, questions of religious identity have been discussed with sudden urgency since the attacks of ‘9/11’. Nowhere was this clearer than in the heated controversy over the building of a mosque in the city of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-03-07
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Through the lens of TV news anchors, this book examines the impact that television news has had on traditional journalistic standards and practices. While TV news anchors boost the power, adulation, and authority of journalism in general, internally, the journalistic...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2011-03-03
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There are certain films and shows that resonate with audiences everywhere—they generate discussion and debate about everything from gender, class, citizenship and race, to consumerism and social identity. This new ‘teachable canon’ of film and television introduces...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-02-25
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Wiley-Blackwell Series in Film and Television
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Over the last century, many 16th- and 17th-century events and personalities have been brought before home, cinema, exhibition, festival and theatrical audiences. This collection examines these representations, looking at recent television series, documentaries,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-02-08
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Applying research into assessments of community theatre, epidemiology, and young people's shared and private stories using a wide range of methodologies, this book explores the potential efficacy of community theatre to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS in Tanzania with...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-01-19
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