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The idea of American musical theatre often conjures up images of bright lights and big city, but its lifeblood is found in amateur productions at high schools, community theatres, afterschool programs, summer camps, and dinner theatres. In Beyond Broadway, author Stacy...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-11-15
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This book offers a wide-ranging examination of acts of ‘virtual embodiment’ in performance/gaming/applied contexts that abstract an immersant’s sense of physical selfhood by instating a virtual body, body-part or computer-generated avatar. Emergent ‘immersive’ practices...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-15
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Whether you want to participate in ballet or just watch it, the ballet experience can excite and inspire you. Ballet is among the most beautiful forms of expression ever devised: an exquisite mix of sight and sound, stunning, aesthetics, and awesome technique. Ballet...
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For Dummies
Parution :
2019-11-14
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This book examines the theoretical affiliations between the most notable proponent of literary realism, Honoré de Balzac, and two understated but key representatives of the French New Wave, Éric Rohmer and Jacques Rivette. It argues that their film criticism, which...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-14
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Bestseller in the UK, Sunday Times, November 2019.The complete Fleabag. Every Word. Every Side-eye. Every Fox.Fleabag: The Scriptures includes new writing from Phoebe Waller-Bridge alongside the filming scripts and the never-before-seen stage directions from the Golden...
Editeur :
Sceptre
Parution :
2019-11-12
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This book interrogates the various manifestations of rival systems of justice in the plays and films of Martin McDonagh, in analysis informed by the critical writings of Michael J. Sandel, Steven Pinker, Julia Kristeva, and in particular Amartya Sen on violence,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-11-11
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Running off the Anger. British New Wave includes several areas of research that suggest interpreting the cinema of the British New Wave in relation to social realism, the construction of the main characters, popular culture and the way New Wave played with film-making....
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2019-11-11
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This book analyzes Hollywood storytelling that features an American crimefighter—whether cop, detective, or agent—who must safeguard society and the nation by any means necessary. That often means going “rogue” and breaking the rules, even deploying ugly violence, but...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-08
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“In this insightful book, Cat Mahoney offers a fascinating analysis of contemporary TV dramas such as Home Fires, Land Girls and The Bletchley Circle. Developing the idea that history is told through the preoccupations of the present, she argues compellingly that...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-11-07
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For armchair travelers, film buffs, tourists, and city dwellers alike, Turner Classic Moviestakes you on a one-of-a-kind tour of the cinematic sites of New York City.Highlighting the great films set in the Big Apple since the dawn of cinema to the present, Cinematic...
Editeur :
Running Press Adult
Parution :
2019-11-05
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Turner Classic Movies
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Maternal Representations in Twenty-First Century Broadway Musicals: Stage Mothers analyzes Broadway productions within the context of their presentation and assessment of motherhood and the variety of roles for mother figures. Using a frame of feminist and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-11-01
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It makes us jump.It makes us scream.It haunts our nightmares. So why do we watch horror? Why do we play it? What could possibly be appealing about a genre that tries to terrify us? Why would we subject ourselves to shriek-inducing shocks, or spend dozens of hours...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-11-01
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The practice of blurring the line between score and sound design has transformed contemporary film soundscape by challenging not only the long-established hierarchical relationships between dialogue, music, and sound effects, but also the modes of perception shaped by...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-11-01
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Reading Shakespeare in the Movies: Non-Adaptations and Their Meaning analyzes the unacknowledged, covert presence of Shakespearean themes, structures, characters, and symbolism in selected films. Writers and directors who forge an unconscious, unintentional connection...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-10-31
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Everything you ever wanted to know about making a movie but were afraid to ask… Lights, camera, action! We all have at least one movie in us, and the amazing and affordable advances in digital technology makes it increasingly easy to make your dream a reality and...
Editeur :
For Dummies
Parution :
2019-10-31
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Legendary cricket broadcaster Henry Blofeld takes the reader on a journey from A-Z through the world of cricket. In his trademark charming style, Blowers goes through the alphabet, explaining some of the puzzling cricket terminology and regaling his favourite anecdotes...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2019-10-31
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How can we describe movements in animated films? In Figure and Force in Animation Aesthetics, Ryan Pierson introduces a powerful new method for the study of animation. By looking for figures--arrangements that seem to intuitively hold together--and forces--underlying...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-10-28
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This book gathers eleven scholarly contributions dedicated to the work of Mexican director Arturo Ripstein. The collection, the first of its kind, constitutes a sustained critical engagement with the twenty-nine films made by this highly acclaimed yet under-studied...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-10-24
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The book deals with the most challenging issues which the Slovak Mass Media are currently facing, including matters of public criticism.The first chapter describes the media influence on power control in Slovakia. It does not avoid the controversial question of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2019-10-24
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Der Band ist die erste monothematische Studie zu Bertolt Brechts „Messingkauf“, seinem wichtigsten Versuch, eine Theorie seines Theaters zu verschriftlichen.Der erste Teil stellt eine Rekonstruktion der Entstehungs-, Überlieferungs- und Editionsgeschichte des Fragments...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2019-10-23
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