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In examining the relationship between the spectacular, iconic and vibrant New York of the musical and the off-screen history and geography of the real city—this book explores how the city shaped the genre and equally how the genre shaped representations of the city....
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-09-26
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Die Oper gehört seit vierhundert Jahren zu den stabilsten Kulturinstitutionen Europas. Weder Revolutionen noch Wirtschaftskrisen haben daran etwas geändert. Im 19. Jahrhundert wird die Oper schließlich zu einem internationalen Phänomen. Zur Institution Oper gehören...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2016-09-26
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This revelatory study explores how Scottish history plays, especially since the 1930s, raise issues of ideology, national identity, historiography, mythology, gender and especially Scottish language. Covering topics up to the end of World War Two, the book addresses the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-09-24
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This book is the first critical anthology to examine the controversial history of the zoo by focusing on its close relationship with screen media histories and technologies. Individual chapters address the representation of zoological spaces in classical and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-09-24
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A myth-busting, mind-blowing, jaw-dropping and fun-filled expedition through the world of Game of Thrones.Do dragons actually exist? Is it possible to crush a person's head with your bare hands?What really happened when royal families interbreed? How does wildfire win...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2016-09-22
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This book details the history of Chinese theatre, and British representations of Chinese theatre, on the London stage over a 250-year period. A wide range of performance case studies – from exhibitions and British Chinese opera inspired theatre, to translations of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-09-21
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Through close textual and contextual analysis of British films spanning a century, this book explores how pupils, teachers and secondary education in general have been represented on the British screen. The author addresses a number of topics including the nature of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-09-20
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Representing the first comprehensive analysis of Gaga and Ohad Naharin's aesthetic approach, this book follows the sensual and mental emphases of the movement research practiced by dancers of the Batsheva Dance Company. Considering the body as a means of expression,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-09-18
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This book provides a detailed and engaging account of how Hollywood cinema has represented and ‘remembered’ the Sixties. From late 1970s hippie musicals such as Hair and The Rose through to recent civil rights portrayals The Help and Lee Daniels’ The Butler, Oliver...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-09-17
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This innovative account of the Gilbert and Sullivan partnership provides a unique insight into the experience of both attending and performing in the original productions of the most influential and enduring pieces of English-language musical theatre.In the 1870s, Savoy...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-09-16
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This book renews thinking about the moving body by drawing on dance practice and performance from across the world. Eighteen internationally recognised scholars show how dance can challenge our thoughts and feelings about our own and other cultures, our emotions and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-09-14
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This book is the first monograph in English that comprehensively examines the ways in which Italian historical crime novels, TV series, and films have become a means to intervene in the social and political changes of the country.This study explores the ways in which...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-09-11
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In this book, Faye Woods explores the raucous, cheeky, intimate voice of British youth television. This is the first study of a complete television system targeting teens and twenty somethings, chronicling a period of significant industrial change in the early 21st...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-09-09
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In this book, Tal S. Shamir sets out to identify cinema as a novel medium for philosophy and an important way of manifesting and developing philosophical thought. The volume presents a comprehensive analysis of the nature of philosophy’s potential—or, more strongly put,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-09-07
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The Sopranos hat neue künstlerische Maßstäbe gesetzt. Das über die Episoden fortlaufende Geschehen verlässt die Vertrautheit automatisierter Schemata, die in jeder Folge aktualisiert werden und den meisten TV-Serien bis heute zugrunde liegen. Bisherige, im...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2016-09-02
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The «Western» embodies many of the stereotypes of masculinity: rugged, independent men in cowboy hats roam the barren landscapes of the American West, resolving conflicts with guns and tough talk. Where did these cowboys come from? What historical trends led to their...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-08-31
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People all over the world dance traditional and popular dances that have
been staged for purposes of representing specific national and ethnic groups.
Anthony Shay suggests these staged dance productions be called “ethno identity
dances”, especially to replace the term...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-08-30
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This book explores the role and centrality of women in the development of collaborative theatre practice, alongside the significance of collective creation and devising in the development of the modern theatre.
Tracing a web of women theatremakers in Europe and North...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-08-29
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This book examines the popular and critically acclaimed
films of Pixar Animation Studios in their cultural and historical context.
Whether interventionist sheriff dolls liberating oppressed toys (Toy Story)
or exceptionally talented rodents hoping to fulfill their...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-08-26
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Band 6 deckt das Gesamtwerk mit Registern ab. Er enthält ein Titelregister, das sämtliche Titel der besprochenen Theaterstücke nennt, Namen- und Ortsregister der Bände 1 bis 5, eine Chronik und eine thematisch gegliederte Bibliografie. Ein unverzichtbares Arbeitsmittel.
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2016-08-25
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