Performing Arts

When Superbad was released on August 17th in 2007, it proved itself to be a massive success right out of the gate, especially for those in the film's target millennial demographic. The film wound up dominating at the box office, bringing in $170 million...

HOUSE AND PHILOSOPHY Is being nice overrated? Are we really just selfish, base animals crawling across Earth in a meaningless existence? Would reading less and watching more television be good for you?Is House a master of Eastern philosophy or just plain rude?Dr. Gregory House...

Hollywood Unions is a unique collection that tells the stories of the unions and guilds that have organized motion picture and television labor: IATSE, the DGA, SAG-AFTRA, and the WGA. The Hollywood unions represent a wide swath of the workers making media: from directors...

A Hollywood history told from the perspective of those that fought for diversity, inclusion and acknowledgement Are the Oscars (still) so white? Is it even possible to decolonize the film industry? Why is Hollywood's race problem everyone's problem? Ignoring the systemic racial inequalities in...

Hamlet is a tragedy that follows Prince Hamlet of Denmark as he grapples with the sudden death of his father, King Hamlet, and the swift remarriage of his mother, Queen Gertrude, to his uncle, Claudius, who has assumed the throne. The ghost of King...

Author: Joan Howard MaurerPublisher: BearManor MediaPublished: 01/10/2025Pages: 370Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.41lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.77dISBN: 9798887715384

Author: Joan Howard MaurerPublisher: BearManor MediaPublished: 01/09/2025Pages: 370Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.89lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.88dISBN: 9798887714608

In the same way that Italian post-war film poster art set new standards of innovation, so the Italian lobby card, or fotobusta, would also become renowned for pushing the boundaries of promotional design. Classic Italian lobby cards from the unfettered cult movie zone combine...

Why have dynamic and shifting hairstyles, from Katniss Everdeen's Power Plait to JoJo Siwa's outsize bows, become such a significant part of how girlhood is articulated in contemporary visual cultures? What do they tell us about how girlhood combines the qualities of resilience and...

Dancers train for long hours to condition the body to perform stunning acts of artistry through movement expression. Daily tasks outside of dance training can unwittingly compromise the diligent efforts during classwork and rehearsals. The book goes beyond descriptions of the musculoskeletal system to...

Exposes a stylistic tradition of flamboyantly failed passing in queer literature and film This book posits formal experimentation as an index for evolving expressions of male homosexuality from literary modernism to the German New Wave and the present day. Ian Fleishman exposes a tradition...

Author: Eduardo LedesmaPublisher: State University of New York PressPublished: 12/01/2024Pages: 474Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.77lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.06dISBN: 9798855800500About the AuthorEduardo Ledesma is Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Radical Poetry: Aesthetics, Politics,...

Author: Elio Della NocePublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublished: 01/30/2025Pages: 332Binding Type: HardcoverISBN: 9783031707285About the AuthorElio Della Noce is a researcher and teacher in film studies at the Universit? Jean-Jaur?s in Toulouse, France. His research focuses on ecological practices and commitments in experimental and contemporary Indigenous cinema....

In 1993 when Robert Lepage suggested to his colleagues that a specific identity and image be found for his next working group, he imposed one condition. The word "theatre" was not to be part of the name of the new company. This gorgeous full-colour...

Make music with Mickey, Elsa, Simba, Winnie the Pooh, Rapunzel, Nemo, and more Disney and Pixar friends! This box set includes 8 themed storybooks and a portable keyboard composer that plays 25 songs. Use the keyboard composer to play songs in different ways by...

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library as part of the Opening the Future project with COPIM.The 2008 financial crisis prompted the most significant social protests since 1968 in the Middle East,...

How are David Lynch's films as much in dialogue with literary and musical traditions as they are cinematic ones? By interrogating this question, David Lynch's American Dreamscape broadens the interpretive horizons of Lynch's filmography, calling for a new approach to Lynch's films that goes...

From Oklahoma! and West Side Story, to Spring Awakening and Hamilton, dance remains one of the most important and key factors in musical theatre. Through the integration of song and dance in the 'dream ballets' of choreographers like Agnes De Mille; the triple threat...

This student edition consists of the French text of Cocteau's Orph?e with English introduction and explanatory notes.Author: Jean CocteauPublisher: Bristol Classical PressPublished: 03/31/2011Pages: 192Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.50dISBN: 9781853992841

Chinese Animation: Multiplicities in Motion is the first edited volume that explores the multiple histories, geographies, industries, technologies, media, and transmedialities of Chinese animation, from early animated special effects to socialist classics, from computer-generated-imagery (CGI) blockbusters to edgy independent films, and from stop-motion to...