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A delicious, and somewhat drunken, dinner party segues into a murder mystery game created by the hostess. However, the parlour game may hold clues about the dark truths hiding just under the surface of this genteel gathering...As suspects, clues and red herrings are...
Editeur :
Orion
Parution :
2023-11-09
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This monograph centres on the history of musical theatre in a space of cultural significance for British identity, namely the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, which housed many prominent American productions from 1924-1970. It argues that during this period Drury Lane was the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-10-24
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Ecuadorian cinema has been largely overlooked in film scholarship, usually being limited to brief descriptions in Latin American compendiums. Ecuadorian cinema for the 21st century would be the first major publication in English to fill this...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-10-13
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Dieses Buch umfasst eine filmanalytische Betrachtung filmischer Interpretationen des Androgyniemotivs. Rückbezogen auf dessen mythische Ursprünge in Ovids Metamorphosen und Platons Kugelmenschenmythos wird nachvollzogen, inwieweit diese Darstellungen auf mythische...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2023-09-30
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Lively, sophisticated, and filled with first-person tributes and glorious images, Sondheim: His Life, His Shows, His Legacy lifts the curtain on a Broadway legend. "Aside from Sondheim's own exceptional books...this may be the best coffee-table volume...
Editeur :
Black Dog & Leventhal
Parution :
2023-09-19
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This book focuses on Once (2006), Begin Again (2013), and Sing Street (2013), to date the most successful feature films by John Carney (Dublin, 1972). Drawing mainly on narrative, formalist, and genre theories of film, it presents an in-depth examination of how the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2023-09-11
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This book provides key critical tools to significantly broaden the readers’ perception of theatre and performance history: in line with posthuman thought, each chapter engages Actor-Network Theory and similar theories to reveal a comprehensive range of human and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-08-14
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The Simpsons, Matt Groening's animated sitcom, is arguably the greatest show in TV history. To its critics, the dysfunctional family embodies the decline of wholesome values. To its fans, the show provides a window into America's soul, with each new season seeing the...
Editeur :
OH
Parution :
2023-08-08
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This book focuses on the analysis of sensorial representations of violent images in contemporary films that portray embodied violation in urban environments of street clashes and prisons in Northern Ireland and Brazil during the late twentieth century. There is an...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-07-19
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Shaw emerged as a playwright in the politically charged environment of 1892, for both female suffrage and Irish independence. His plays quickly advocated for societal changes with regard to women’s roles, while expanding this advocacy into considerations of Ireland....
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-07-19
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Since the 1880s, electrical energies started circulating in European theaters, generated from fossil fuels in urban power plants. A mysterious force, which was still traded as romantic life force by some and for others had already come to stand in for...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-06-29
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The untold stories of seven revolutionary teen shows (The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, My So-Called Life, Dawson’s Creek, Freaks and Geeks,The O.C., Friday Night Lights, and Glee) that shaped the course of modern television and our pop cultural landscape forever.The...
Editeur :
Running Press Adult
Parution :
2023-06-27
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Is there anyone with a track record like Sarina Weigman? Undefeated at any finals she is the epitome of success, so shouldn't you... be more Sarina?Here are 80 scenarios in which Sarina would operate with flawless efficiency, such as:Sarina would never wear a...
Editeur :
Cassell
Parution :
2023-06-01
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Chinese martial arts cinema is held to be a synthesis drawing on artistic conventions of traditionalChinese theatre. Film sound and music perform as the legitimate heirs of some of the aesthetic ideas and norms of traditionalChinese theatre. This book critically...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-05-16
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Um das Jahr 2000 ist vielfach von einer medial bedingten ‚Entwirklichung’ des Realen die Rede, als deren Auslöser der digitale Medienumbruch gilt. Regine Leitenstern untersucht, wie sich die Filme zweier der profiliertesten Vertreter des europäischen Autorenkinos...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2023-05-09
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The essays in this volume seek to expose the scandals of adaptation. Some of them focus on specific adaptations that have been considered scandalous because they portray characters acting in ways that give scandal, because they are thought to betray the values enshrined...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-04-21
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This book explores how television in the global South is ‘future-proofing’ its continued relevance, addressing its commercial, social and political viability in a constantly changing information ecosystem. The chapter contributions in the book are drawn from countries...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-04-11
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This monograph provides the first sustained, chronological account of Northern Irish police officers’ representation in theatre. Importantly, its scope comprises a critical period of national and organisational development, beginning with the Partition of Ireland in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-03-31
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Packed with compelling facts and trivia from all ten seasons, The Friends Book of Lists breaks down the memorable series in a collection of 100+ easy-to-digest lists focusing on themes, characters, and favorite moments in an irresistible package. Each entry in this...
Editeur :
Running Press Adult
Parution :
2023-03-28
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This book explores closely related aspects of the historical study of humour. It challenges much that has been taken for granted in a field of study for which history has been marginal. It disputes the conventional genealogical view that humour theory dates from...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-03-17
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