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The currency is fame, and it's bigger than money, more desired than power. Each season American Idol delivers on a promise whose epic scope is unparalleled in the annals of competition: to take an unknown dreamer from the middle of America and turn him or her into a...
Editeur :
Grand Central Publishing
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2011-01-18
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Through My Eyes is the first official book from Cheryl Cole. Featuring a series of stunning exclusive new photos plus informal shots from her own personal collection, it gives us a unique glimpse into the life of our favourite star.From the recording studio in LA as she...
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Transworld Digital
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2010-12-23
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Assembling a remarkable group of scholars, these essays explore how the circulation and exchange of 'vectors of the radical' shape the avant-garde. Mapping the movement of scripts, theatre activists, performances, and other material entities, they provide unprecedented...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-11-30
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The finest TV critic of our time talks about Sport, Sitcoms, News, the Weather, Children's programmes and 'Reality Television'.A.A. Gill has been the must-read television critic in the SUNDAY TIMES 'Culture' section for more than ten years. This collection of some of...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2010-11-25
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In 50 Years on the Street: My Life with Ken Barlow, William Roache reflects on half a century of treasured memories accumulated during his time working on the long-running soap. He revisits the programme's most memorable moments and ponders the secret of its success...
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Mainstream Digital
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2010-11-23
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This unique book examines theatre practice that takes place within a range of health and care settings from medical training to advocacy projects for service users. Drawing on a range of case studies, the book provides insights into working practices as well as posing...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-08-20
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Gail Porter burst on to our TV screens in the late 90s presenting The Movie Chart Show, Alive and Kicking and Top of the Pops. Bright, sparky and beautiful she soon attracted an entirely different audience, posing for a number of men's magazines and rapidly becoming the...
Editeur :
Ebury Digital
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2010-07-06
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From oral culture, through the advent of literacy, to the introduction of printing, to the development of electronic media, communication structures have radically altered culture in profound ways. As the first book to take a critical realist approach to culture,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-06-21
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This book considers popular culture's confrontations with the history, thought, and major figures of the English Renaissance through an analysis of 'period films,' television productions, popular literature, and punk music.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-04-26
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When we watch and listen to actors speaking lines that have been written by someone else-a common experience if we watch any television at all-the illusion of “people talking” is strong. These characters are people like us, but they are also different, products of a...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2010-04-07
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Combining an exciting methodology alongside high-interest case studies, Television in Transition offers students of television a guide to a medium that has weathered the challenges of first-run syndication, a multi-channel universe, netlets, major media conglomerates,...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2010-02-05
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Music has always been at the heart of American television. Amongst the many roles it plays in broadcasting, music entertains viewers with live and videotaped performances, evokes moods and identifies characters and settings, and sells products through commercial...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2009-12-17
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Theatre and Religion on Krishna s Stage examines the history and form of India's râs lila folk theatre, and discusses how this theatre functions as a mechanism of worship and spirituality among Krishna devotees in India. From analyses of performances and conversations...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-05-25
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With a political agenda foregrounding collaborative practice to promote ethical relations, these individually and joint written essays and interviews discuss dances often with visual art, theatre, film and music, drawing on continental philosophy to explore notions of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-04-23
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Over the past two decades, theatre practitioners across the West have turned to documentary modes of performance-making to confront new socio-political realities. The essays in this book place this work in context, exploring historical and contemporary examples of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-04-08
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The much-loved TV star Fern Britten tells her story for the first time in her Sunday Times bestselling memoir.For years now, Fern Britton has been widely loved as the presenter ofReady Steady Cook, and, more recently, co-presenter of This Morning with Philip Schofield....
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2008-11-06
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The candid and highly entertaining autobiography of one of the UK's most popular TV presentersEamonn Holmes is one of the most popular TV presenters in the UK. For twelve years he was the main anchor at GMTV drawing daily audiences of six million viewers. His humour,...
Editeur :
Orion
Parution :
2008-09-18
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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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Peter Jennings was the sole anchor of ABC's World News Tonight from 1983 until his death from cancer in 2005. For many Americans, he was the voice and face that gave shape and meaning to every day's news. But who wasPeter Jennings really? In this absorbing biography,...
Editeur :
PublicAffairs
Parution :
2007-12-10
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This title offers insight into a range of art and performance practices that have emerged as a result a more technological world. These practices are integral to alternative and mainstream performance culture and the author explores their aesthetic theorisation and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2007-07-07
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