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For the last 70 years, the guests of Woman’s Hour have been entertaining listeners with their compelling combination of wit, warmth, insight and humour. Woman’s Hour has interviewed many of the biggest female names from entertainment, politics, the arts and beyond.Words...
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Bbc Digital
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2017-03-02
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What happens when machines teach humans to dance? Dance video games transform players' experiences of popular music, invite experimentation with gendered and racialized movement styles, and present new possibilities for teaching, learning, and archiving choreography....
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-03-01
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Hollywood makes the most widely successful pleasure-giving artworks the world has ever known. The industry operates under the assumption that pleasurable aesthetic experiences, among huge populations, translate into box office success. With that goal in mind,Hollywood...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-03-01
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Drawing on the work of scholars and practitioners such as Augusto Boal, Gloria Anzaldua, and Trinh Minh-ha, these essays advocate oral history and oral history-based performance as means to challenge and expand upon traditional ways of transmitting historical knowledge....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-02-28
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Witty, comedic and engrossing, this second collection showcases the range of W. Somerset Maugham’s talent as a playwright. The delightful satires of marriage Lady Frederick and Home and Beauty are included here alongside the insightful war drama For Services Rendered,...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2017-02-23
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In his day, W. Somerset Maugham was most celebrated as a playwright, and the breadth of his ability is manifested in this collection of his most popular plays. Included here are the noirish mystery The Sacred Flame, the hilarious satires The Circle, The Constant Wife,...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2017-02-23
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This book explores ways in which diverse regional cultures in Indonesia and their histories have been expressed in film since the early 1950s. It also explores underlying cultural dominants within the new nation, established at the end of 1949 with the achievement of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-02-16
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A Companion to Steven Spielberg provides an authoritative collection of essays exploring the achievements and legacy of one of the most influential film directors of the modern era. Offers comprehensive coverage of Spielberg’s directorial output, from early works...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2017-02-15
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to Film Directors
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This book is the first anthology of research devoted to the booming world of Chinese film festivals, covering both mainstream and independent films. It also explores festivals in the Chinese-speaking world and festivals of Chinese films in the rest of the world. The...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-02-15
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This “what is”—rather than “how to”— volume proposes a theoretical framework for understanding dance leadership for dancers, leaders, and students of both domains, illustrated by portraits of leaders in action in India, South Africa, UK, US, Brazil and Canada. What is...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-02-14
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Intimate Violence explores the consistent cold war in Hitchcock's films between his heterosexual heroines and his queer characters, usually though not always male. Decentering the authority of the male hero, Hitchcock's films allow his female and queer characters to vie...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-02-13
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This companion volume to The New Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works concentrates on the issues of canon and chronology--currently the most active and controversial debates in the field of Shakespeare editing. It presents in full the evidence behind the choices made...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-02-10
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This book offers a comprehensive and systematic overview of the flourishing genre of the contemporary Latin American road movie, of which Diarios de motocicleta and Y tu mamá también are only the best-known examples. It offers the first systematic survey of the genre...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-02-09
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This book focuses on Romeo Castellucci’s theatrical project, exploring the ethical and aesthetic framework determined by his reflection on the nature of the image. But why does a director whose fundamental artistic tool is the image deny this key conceptual notion?...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-02-09
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Split Screen Nation traces an oppositional dynamic between the screen West and the screen South that was unstable and dramatically shifting in the decades after WWII, and has marked popular ways of imagining the U.S. ever since. If this dynamic became vivid in Quentin...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-02-01
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Every great scholar begins as a student. But what does it take to get there? And what is the journey like? This book explores the lifespan development of some of the best-known communication scholars in the United States. Grounded in 30 in-depth interviews, personal...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-02-01
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This volume investigates the ways in which Italian women writers, filmmakers, and performers have represented female identity across genres from the immediate post-World War II period to the turn of the twenty-first century. Considering genres such as prose, poetry,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-01-28
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Andreas Dresen is a leading European filmmaker whose œuvre now spans three decades and includes some of the most acclaimed German films of recent times, such as Halbe Treppe (Grill Point, 2002), Sommer vorm Balkon (Summer in Berlin, 2005) and Halt auf freier Strecke...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-01-25
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Mit dem Konzept der Mise-en-scène definiert der Band die Medialität telekinemati-scher Medien neu. Dabei arbeitet die Studie telekinematische Inszenierungsprakti-ken und ihre Subjekteffekte ebenso heraus wie sie die Frage beantwortet, warum und auf welche Weise...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2017-01-23
Collection :
Neue Perspektiven der Medienästhetik
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This book explores the idea that while we see the vampire as a hero of romance, or as a member of an oppressed minority struggling to fit in and acquire legal recognition, the vampire has in many ways changed beyond recognition over recent decades due to radically...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2017-01-23
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