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Al-Jazeera: The Inside Story of the Arab News Channel That Is Challenging the WestWith more than fifty million viewers, Al-Jazeera is one of the most widely watched news channels in the world. It's also one of the most controversial. Now, journalist Hugh Miles uncovers the true story behind the Arab world's most influential outlet. Financed by one...
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True Romance: The ScreenplayTrue Romance, directed by Tony Scott, is a hilarious, twisted road movie about which Interview raved, A pop-crazy, instant B classic with A clout. Alabama, a hooker, and Clarence, a comic-book store clerk, fall in love and hit the road in a purple Cadillac....
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Natural Born Killers: The Original ScreenplayNatural Born Killers is a disturbing and brilliant indictment of violence in the media and American celebrity culture. Mickey and Mallory Knox, outlaw lovers on the run, go on a killing spree of startling viciousness -- and find themselves transformed into cult celebrities by...
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Au Revoir Les EnfantsWinner of the Venice Film Festival's Golden Lion Award for 1987, Louis Malle's Au revoir les enfants has been acclaimed as a masterpiece wherever it has been shown. One of the great filmmakers of our time, Malle both wrote and directed this delicate and...
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Indian InkFrom Tony Award-winning playwright Tom Stoppard, Indian Ink is a rich and moving portrait of intimate lives set against one of the great shafts of history--the emergence of the Indian subcontinent from the grip of Europe. The play follows free-spirited English poet Flora Crewe...
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All the Way"A magnificent work. . . . a brilliant portrayal no less epic than the great tragedies of classic literature."--Roma Torre, NY1 Winner of the 2014 Tony Award for Best Play, as well as Best Play awards from the New York Drama Critics' Circle, the...
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Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat(Vocal Selections). 10 vocal selections from one of Lloyd Webber's 1st blockbusters. Includes: Any Dream Will Do * Close Every Door * Go Go Go Joseph * Jacob and Sons * Joseph's Coat * One More Angel in Heaven * Those Canaan Days *...
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Tony Sarg: Genius at Play: Adventures in Illustration, Puppetry, and Popular CultureTony Sarg (1880-1942), an American artist born in Guatemala to a diplomatic family, first achieved professional success as an illustrator in London and New York. But in the 1920s, he gained even greater renown for his touring puppet shows based on classic tales like...
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'80s Action Movies on the Cheap: 284 Low Budget, High Impact PicturesThe 1980s was the decade when the action film as it's now known came into being. Nonstop, big-budget excitement became the standard as epic adventures like Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Road Warrior set the tone for the summer blockbusters of Sylvester...
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The Werewolf Filmography: 300+ MoviesFrom the horrific to the heroic, cinematic werewolves are metaphors for our savage nature, symbolizing the secret, bestial side of humanity that hides beneath our civilized veneer. Examining acknowledged classics like The Wolf Man (1941) and The Howling (1981), as well as overlooked gems...
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Sandy Dennis: The Life and FilmsThis is the first book-length study of the American actress Sandy Dennis (1937-1992). Winner of two successive Tony Awards for her work in the theatre in 1963 and 1964, she moved into film in supporting roles. For her performance in Who's Afraid of Virginia...
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The Natyasastra and the Body in Performance: Essays on Indian Theories of Dance and DramaThe Natyasastra is the deep repository of Indian performance studies. It embodies centuries of performance knowledge developed in South Asia on a range of conceptual issues and practical methodologies of the body. The composition of the Natyasastra is attributed to Sage Bharatha, and dates...
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Gene Tierney: A BiographyCalled the most beautiful woman in movie history, Gene Tierney starred in such 1940s classics as Laura, Leave Her to Heaven and The Ghost and Mrs. Muir. Her -on--screen presence and ability to transform into a variety of characters made her a film legend....
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From Broadway to the Bowery: A History and Filmography of the Dead End Kids, Little Tough Guys, East Side Kids and Bowery Boys Films, with Cast BioIn 1935 Sidney Kingsley's play about streetwise urban kids, Dead End, opened on Broadway featuring 14 adolescent actors. For two years on Broadway and then on tour, Kingsley's play delivered its social commentary contrasting affluent neighborhoods and tenement slums on New York City's East...
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The IRA on Film and Television: A HistoryThe Irish Republican Army (IRA) has for decades pursued the goal of unifying its homeland into a single sovereign nation, ending British rule in Northern Ireland. Over the years, the IRA has been dramatized in motion pictures directed by John Ford (The Informer), Carol...
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Dana Andrews: The Face of NoirDana Andrews, arguably the finest minimalist actor of his generation, as one critic commented, could convey more with one look than many actors could with a soliloquy. In a film career spanning nearly five decades, Andrews appeared in some of Hollywood's most prestigious productions,...
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Oskar Panizza and the Love Council: A History of the Scandalous Play on Stage and in Court, with the Complete Text in English and a Biography of the AIn 1894, German society was introduced to The Love Council, a scandalous new play by the playwright Oskar Panizza. The carnivalesque satire, dealing with the first recorded outbreak of syphilis in 1495, portrays the scourge as divine punishment for the rampant sexual excesses in...
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Booking Hawaii Five-O: An Episode Guide and Critical History of the 1968-1980 Television Detective SeriesOn September 26, 1968, Hawaii Five-O premiered on CBS. The show's exotic locale and quality writing and acting made it a fixture in the network's line-up for the next 12 years. Today the detective series continues to be very popular in syndication. The show's...
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In the Theatre of Dionysos: Democracy and Tragedy in Ancient AthensAncient Athens was unique in its politics, extraordinary in its religion and fanatic about its poetry. Yet its creativity peaked in a time of prolonged, avoidable and catastrophic war; the brilliance of Greek tragedy blazed while the people who made it were bringing ruinous...
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Motion Picture Photography: A History, 1891-1960In 1891, William Dickson, a researcher at Thomas Edison's firm, developed the Kinetograph, a motion picture camera that used Eastman Kodak's new celluloid film. Almost immediately, an industry was born. The new artistic and technical discipline of motion picture photography matured as the film...
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