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Uncover the twisted tales that inspired the big screen's greatest screams.Which case of demonic possession inspired The Exorcist? What horrifying front-page story generated the idea for A Nightmare on Elm Street? Which film was based on the infamous skin-wearing...
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Dk
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2020-07-16
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This volume explores the issue of collaboration: an issue at the centre of Performance Arts Research. It is explored here through the different practices in music, dance, drama, fine art, installation art, digital media or other performance arts. Collaborative processes...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-07-13
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This book is an anthology focused on Shaw’s efforts, literary and political, that worked toward a modernizing Ireland. Following Declan Kiberd’s Foreword and the editor’s Introduction, the contributing chapters, in their order of appearance, are from President of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-07-13
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This book is about how the representations of romantic love in television reflect the change and the dilemma of the dominant values in post-socialist Chinese mainstream culture. These values mainly center on the impact of individualism, consumerism, capitalism, and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-07-13
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This book locates the philosophy of Ubuntu as the undergirding framework for indigenous dance pedagogies in local communities in Uganda. Through critical examination of the reflections and practices of selected local dance teachers, the volume reveals how issues of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2020-07-13
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A new biography of one of the key composers of 20th-century American popular song and jazz, Eubie Blake: Rags, Rhythm and Race illuminates Blake's little-known impact on over 100 years of American culture.A gifted musician, Blake rose from performing in dance halls and...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-07-13
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In the first book-length study of the work and legacy of West End actor-manager George Alexander since the 1930s, George Alexander and the Work of the Actor Manager examines the key part this figure played in presenting new drama by authors including Oscar...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-07-03
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Expanded cinema: avant-garde moving image works that claim new territory for the cinematic, beyond the bounds of familiar filmmaking practices and the traditional theatrical exhibition space. First emerging in the 1960s amidst seismic shifts in the arts, multi-screen...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-07-01
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This book draws on the author’s experience as a storyteller, drama practitioner and researcher, to articulate an emerging dialogic approach to storytelling in participatory arts, educational, mental health, youth theatre, and youth work contexts. It argues that oral...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-06-30
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A captivating, richly illustrated full account of the making of the ground-breaking movie classic West Side Story (1961).A major hit on Broadway, on film West Side Story became immortal-a movie different from anything that had come before, but this cinematic victory...
Editeur :
Running Press Adult
Parution :
2020-06-30
Collection :
Turner Classic Movies
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DreamWorks is one of the biggest names in modern computer-animation: a studio whose commercial success and impact on the medium rivals that of Pixar, and yet has received far less critical attention.The book will historicise DreamWorks’ contribution to feature...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-06-30
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During the mid-1950s, when Hollywood found itself struggling to compete within an expanding entertainment media landscape, certain producers and studios saw an opportunity in making films that showcased performances by rock 'n' roll stars. Rock stars eventually found...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-06-30
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The extraordinary true story of the first Girl Scout troop designated for homeless girls - from the homeless families it brought together in Queens, New York, to the amazing citywide and countrywide responses it sparked.Giselle Burgess, a young mother of five, and her...
Editeur :
Sphere
Parution :
2020-06-25
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Ukrainian dancer and choreographer Serge Lifar (1905-86) is recognized both as the modernizer of French ballet in the twentieth century and as the keeper of the flame of the classical tradition upon which the glory of French ballet was founded. Having migrated to France...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-06-24
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An inspiring, hilarious memoir about learning to resist the pressures of conformity, love yourself for who you are, embrace your flaws, and unlock your true potential.Winner of the African American Literary Award for Memoir!Now cohost of Fox's The Real and...
Editeur :
Balance
Parution :
2020-06-23
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This book explores the circus as a site in and through which science and technology are represented in popular culture. Across eight chapters written by leading scholars – from fields as varied as performance and circus studies, art, media and cultural history, and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-06-22
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Anhand paradigmatischer sowjetischer, ost- und westdeutscher Filme über den Zweiten Weltkrieg, die die kollektive Gewalterfahrung und vor allem die zentralen historischen Ereignisse der jeweiligen Staaten nach 1945 verarbeiten und so entsprechend Erinnerungs- und somit...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2020-06-17
Collection :
Neue Perspektiven der Medienästhetik
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Over the last two decades, philosophers have been increasingly inclined to consider science fiction films as philosophical exercises that center on the nature of human consciousness and existence. Albert Camus’ philosophy of the absurd, however, has almost never been...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-06-17
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'Playboys of the Western World is a model of contemporary performance studies.'
'The book is remarkably well-focused: half is a series of production histories of Playboy performances through the twentieth century in the UK, Northern Ireland, the USA, and Ireland. The...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-06-15
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This transdisciplinary study scientifically reports the way the established contemporary dance sector in Europe operates from a micro-perspective. It provides a dance scholarly and sociological interpretation of its mechanisms by coupling qualitative data (interview...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-06-13
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