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Don't dance for the audience. Dance for yourself.The basis for a lavish new drama series from Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, Fosse is the definitive book on one of Broadway's and Hollywood's most complex and dynamic icons.The only person ever to win Oscar, Emmy...
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Bbc Digital
Parution :
2019-04-04
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'You're strong, you're a Kelly Clarkson song, you got this.'Everything that comes out of Jonathan Van Ness's mouth is a gift from god. He's the man who taught us about hair, self-care and CON-FI-DONCE. The Little Book of Sass is a collection of the most iconic quotes...
Editeur :
Trapeze
Parution :
2019-04-04
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This book examines queer characters in popular American television, demonstrating how entertainment can educate audiences about LGBT identities and social issues like homophobia and transphobia. Through case studies of musical soap operas (Glee and Empire), reality...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-04-03
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This book critically assesses the artistry of contemporary directors. Its discussion includes the work of Declan Donnellan, Thomas Ostermeier, Deborah Warner, Simon Stone and Krzysztof Warlikowski. Alongside the work of wider theorists (Patrice Pavis and Erika...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-04-02
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Filled with rare images and untold stories from filmmakers, exhibitors, and moviegoers, Forbidden Hollywood is the ultimate guide to a gloriously entertaining era when a lax code of censorship let sin rule the movies.Forbidden Hollywood is a history of "pre-Code" like...
Editeur :
Running Press Adult
Parution :
2019-04-02
Collection :
Turner Classic Movies
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In Search of Marie-Antoinette in the 1930s follows Austrian biographer Stefan Zweig, American producer Irving Thalberg, and Canadian-American actress Norma Shearer as they attempt to uncover personal aspects of Marie-Antoinette’s life at the French court in the late...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-04-02
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Exploration, intertwined with home-seeking, has always defined America. Corbin argues that films about significant cultural landscapes in America evoke a sense of travel for their viewers. These virtual travel experiences from the mid-1970s through the 1990s built a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-03-30
Collection :
Screening Spaces
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This book argues that African American theatre in the twentieth century represented a cultural front of the civil rights movement. Highlighting the frequently ignored decades of the 1940s and 1950s, Burrell documents a radical cohort of theatre artists who became...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-03-27
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Die Besetzung von Laien im Kinospielfilm hat eine lange Geschichte und ist bis heute verbreitet. Anna Luise Kiss analysiert Laiendarstellerinnen und Laiendarsteller erstmals als diskursive Phänomene, die auf der Basis filmischer und paratextueller Informationen durch...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2019-03-23
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The chapters inThe Oxford Handbook of Canadian Cinema present a rich, diverse overview of Canadian cinema. Responding to the latest developments in Canadian film studies, this volume takes into account the variety of artistic voices, media technologies, and places which...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-03-20
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This book presents distinct perspectives from both geographically-oriented creative practices and geographers working with arts-based processes. In doing so, it fills a significant gap in the already sizeable body of non-representational discourse by bringing...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-03-15
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This book uses contemporary film to articulate a philosophical account of raising children. It forms part of a revaluation of the parent as a pedagogical figure, which stands in contrast to the instrumental accounts dominant in contemporary ‘parenting’ culture. Hodgson...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-03-09
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This book asks what, if any, public role drama might play under Project Austerity – an intensification phase of contemporary liberal political economy. It investigates the erosion of public life in liberal democracies, and critiques the attention economy of deficit...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-02-26
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In Politics in Gotham, scholars from a variety of fields—political science, philosophy, law, and others—provide answers to the question: “What does Batman have to do with politics?” Contributors use the Batman canon, from the comics to the feature films, to explore a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-02-21
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From the dance floor of a tango club to group therapy classes, from ballet to community theatre, improvised dance is everywhere. For some dance artists, improvisation is one of many approaches within the choreographic process. For others, it is a performance form in its...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-02-21
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This book traces the history of noh and kyogen, the first major Japanese theatrical arts. Going beyond P. G. O'Neill's Early No Drama of 1958, it covers the full period of noh's medieval development and includes a chapter dedicated to the comic art of kyogen, which has...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-02-21
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This collection examines literature and film studies from the late colonial and early postcolonial periods in Taiwan and Korea, and highlights the similarities and differences of Taiwanese and Korean popular culture by focusing on the representation of gender, genre,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-02-19
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This collection of essays illuminates the intersection of queer and adaptation. Both adaptation and queerness suffer from the stereotype of being secondary: to identify something as an adaptation is to recognize it in relation to something else that seems more original,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-02-15
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This book focuses on a representative group of contemporary Chinese female celebrities including actors, directors, writers and reporters, notably personalities such as Liu Xiaoqing, Hong Huang, Chai Jing and the most sought after young generation actors, Yang Mi and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-02-15
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Andy Räder untersucht erstmals alle Regiearbeiten des beliebten DEFA-Schauspielers Ulrich Thein (1930-1995) für das Fernsehen der DDR. Er weist nach, dass Thein mit seinen acht Fernsehfilmen und Mehrteilern als einer der bedeutendsten Protagonisten der DDR-Television...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2019-02-13
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