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This book provides a comprehensive overview of influential and popular Chinese drama actors and actresses, innovative directors, and emerging playwrights. It also offers insights into the features of Chinese stage design and the most prominent theatres in China,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-05-23
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Ew, David!Schitt's Creek and the Rose family have entered the hearts and homes of viewers all over the world. The heartwarming sitcom follows the newly destitute magnate Johnny Rose, his wife, eccentric soap opera actress Moira, and their two adult children, the...
Editeur :
OH
Parution :
2025-05-08
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This book offers a non-anthropocentric account of a national cinema. Drawing on cutting-edge developments in Animal (film) studies, the book gathers a wide range of species and genres to discuss the Greek cinematic animal.This en-tails recalibrating the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-05-02
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Stanislavsky’s Use of Improvisation is the first work that brings together material acrossStanislavsky’s entire career to survey his use of improvisation. Improvisation was a key concern for Stanislavsky, one that impinged on his acting, directing, and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-04-28
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Das Buch untersucht in drei Fallstudien den Einbruch des gesellschaftlichen Zeitgeschehens ins Theater. Dabei liegt der Fokus auf Momenten politischer Aushandlung: Im ersten Teil werden postrevolutionäre Angriffe auf die Weimarer Republik anhand von Bühnenräumen für...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2025-03-19
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A great deal has been written about early modern temporality, both by scholars of Renaissance drama and historians of chronometry. Much of the former has focused, unsurprisingly, on Shakespeare. This book seeks to broaden the discussion of temporality and the early...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-03-13
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This is a book of the history of China’s contemporary drama. It provides a panorama of the ups and downs of Chinese drama. It tells how this western art has been adapted to the Chinese context and what it has offered to the world of theatre. It illustrates who the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-03-10
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This open access book seeks answers to a series of questions about the little studied subject of prologues or theatrical presentations in American movie theaters from the late 1910s to the mid-1920s. How did prologues emerge out of prior practices? Who were the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-12-28
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This collection of essays, covering a broad historical range, shows that women working in theatre and drama since the time of Aphra Behn have been engaged in pushing the boundaries of conventional representation and dramaturgical convention. Collectively the authors...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-11-14
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'The song is you.'For fans of musical theatre, Stephen Sondheim is one of the true titans – the genius who brought us Sweeney Todd and West Side Story, Into the Woods, and Company. With acclaimed revivals of his landmark shows regularly performed in London and New York,...
Editeur :
Ebury Digital
Parution :
2024-11-14
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Singing Utopia is a unique and ambitious work which asks us to listen differently to voice in musical theatre. Across fifteen case studies from Florodora to Hadestown, Ben Macpherson hears something utopian in the extraordinary, emotional, and situational directness of...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-11-08
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Almost 25 years have passed since Gilmore Girls first hit our TV screens, but the iconic show continues to captivate audiences with its warmth, humor, and irresistible storytelling. Celebrated for its loveable cast of characters and relatable moments, the series has...
Editeur :
OH
Parution :
2024-11-07
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'The best comedy the UK has ever created' GUARDIAN'One of the most satisfying endings in TV history' INEWS 'Endlessly entertaining and richly rewarding' DAILY TELEGRAPH Inside No. 9 is the twisted, darkly comic, boundary-pushing creation of Steve Pemberton and Reece...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2024-11-07
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How many eggs have been broken in the making of this programme? What is the worst thing Alex has eaten? Are you more likely to win Taskmaster if you wear a hat? Why is the Taskmaster always right?This hilarious compendium celebrates a decade of Taskmaster's inspired...
Editeur :
Quercus
Parution :
2024-11-07
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This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the writing and production strategies used in live-action fiction film and television produced for children and young audiences, in a period marked by remarkable change in screen consumption. Building on ideas and research...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-10-18
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Romans! Madrigals! The Dark Ages! Evolutions! Trumpets! The Oranges of The First World War!All of this (except trumpets) and more is covered in this de?nitive, illustrated, easy-clean history of all world history so far, written by the twenty-?rst century's leading...
Editeur :
John Murray
Parution :
2024-10-03
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DOUBLE THE COMEDY,DOUBLE THE LAUGHS: THE BEST OF BILLY CONNOLLY!Tall Tales & Wee StoriesA collection of the very best of Billy's most famous routines including The Last Supper, Jojoba Shampoo, Incontinence Pants and Shouting at Wildebeest. With an introduction and...
Editeur :
John Murray
Parution :
2024-09-12
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THREE TIMES THE LAUGHS: THE BEST OF BILLY CONNOLLY! 'Our greatest living comedian' Daily Mail'One of stand-up's great naturals. No one told a story better.' Guardian 'Furious, funny and foul mouthed' Sunday TimesTall Tales & Wee StoriesA collection of the very best of...
Editeur :
John Murray
Parution :
2024-09-12
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This open access book examines how TV professionals in Germany have negotiated “quality TV drama” from 2015 to the present. As practitioners have adapted quality TV – a term most strongly associated with US series – to their own national context, they have...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-08-01
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Die multimodale Studie zum Spannungs- respektive Angsterleben im Horrorfilm ist Teil eines von der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft geförderten Kooperationsprojektes zwischen Filmwissenschaft (Universität Mainz) und Informatik (Universität Hannover), das dem Ausbau der...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2024-06-19
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