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A leading figure in the debate over the literary canon, Jane Tompkins was one of the first to point to the ongoing relevance of popular women's fiction in the 19th century, long overlooked or scorned by literary critics. Now, in West of Everything, Tompkins shows how...
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Oxford University Press
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1993-04-29
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We all talk about the "tube" or "box," as if television were simply another appliance like the refrigerator or toaster oven. But Cecilia Tichi argues that TV is actually an environment--a pervasive screen-world that saturates almost every aspect of modern life. In...
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Oxford University Press
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1992-10-29
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Hollywood, Walter Winchell quipped, is where they shoot too many movies and not enough actors. Always looking for an angle, always, scheming, always the scene of clashing egos, the movie industry is where they place you under contract instead of observation--and if you...
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Oxford University Press
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1991-12-12
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Based on the classic History of Broadcasting in the United States, Tube of Plenty represents the fruit of several decades' labor. When Erik Barnouw--premier chronicler of American broadcasting and a participant in the industry for fifty years--first undertook the...
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Oxford University Press
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1990-05-31
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Based on the classic History of Broadcasting in the United States, Tube of Plenty represents the fruit of several decades' labor. When Erik Barnouw--premier chronicler of American broadcasting and a participant in the industry for fifty years--first undertook the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
1990-05-31
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Offering the first book-length exploration of network television's relations with advocacy groups, Kathryn C. Montgomery presents a comprehensive picture of the impact of organized pressure on prime-time TV. She vividly describes, for example, how the Catholic Church...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
1989-03-23
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Television has changed drastically in the Soviet Union over the last three decades. In 1960, only five percent of the population had access to TV, but now the viewing population has reached near total saturation. Today's main source of information in the USSR,...
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Oxford University Press
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1988-08-18
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Mike Leigh’s 1970s classic play ‘Abigail’s Party’ focuses on an evening of domestic hell in the guise of a suburban drinks soirée. While teenager Abigail parties a few doors away, the pretentious Beverly and her estate agent husband, Laurence, entertain their neighbours...
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Penguin
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1983-05-26
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Both a history of film theory and an introduction to the work of the most important writers in the field, Andrew's volume reveals the bases of thought of such major theorists as Munsterberg, Arnheim, Eisenstein, Balazs, Kracauer, Bazin, Mitry, and Metz.
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Oxford University Press
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1976-04-15
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Flying SOULO details the innovative SOULO storytelling and creation method that can transform personal experience into a moving, entertaining, and powerful one-person show. Tracey Erin Smith leads readers step-by-step through the method she developed and has been using...
Editeur :
J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing
Parution :
2025-07-04
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Like most Canadian playwrights of his generation, John Lazarus figured out the craft on his own. In doing that, he discovered a technique involving a dual approach: constructing plot on the one hand and improvising dialogue on the other. He's been using that technique...
Editeur :
J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing
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2025-06-02
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Five Minutes to Curtain: A Teacher's Guide for Creating and Staging Original Plays is an invaluable resource for teachers who want to create original productions in collaboration with their students. Burgess provides a step-by-step guide to her unique system for...
Editeur :
J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing
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2025-02-28
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Rimasta incompiuta al momento della morte dell'autore, La Scolastica è una commedia che rappresenta uno degli ultimi e più maturi lavori teatrali ariosteschi. Completata postuma dal fratello Gabriele, l'opera si distingue per la sua struttura elegante e per...
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Cactus
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2025-02-25
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Sonora Carver was an American entertainer, most notable as one of the first female horse divers. Carver answered an ad placed by "Doc" William Frank Carver in 1923 for a diving girl and soon earned a place in circus history. Her job was to mount a running horse as it...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2024-05-22
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Egri's treatise The Art of Dramatic Writing was first published in 1946 and remains today one of the best creative writing how-to books ever written.
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2024-05-22
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Mabel Elsworth Todd is considered the founder of what has come to be known as 'Ideokinesis', a form of somatic education that became popular in the 1930s amongst dancers and health professionals. Todd's ideas involved using anatomically based, creative visual imagery...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2024-03-13
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The Big Secret Book is an invaluable guide on the subject of creativity, no matter the preferred artistic discipline. Written by Denise Clarke, director of One Yellow Rabbit Summer Lab Intensive, the book outlines methods and methodologies of the Lab that have inspired...
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UpRoute Books and Media
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2024-02-24
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A behind-the-scenes account of a cultural institution that made a distinctive mark on Canadian film
Establishing Shots captures a diverse group of filmmakers in an immersive oral history of one of the most important and notorious artist-run centres in Canada: the...
Editeur :
University of Manitoba Press
Parution :
2023-03-10
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