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The Fast Runner: Filming the Legend of AtanarjuatOne of the most important Native films of all time, Atanarjuat, the Fast Runner tells a powerful and moving story about honor, betrayal, vengeance, and redemption. Set in the vast, visually stunning Arctic landscape, it was the first feature film written, directed, and acted...
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Guernica and Other Plays: The Labyrinth; The Tricycle; Picnic on the Battlefield; And They Put Handcuffs on the Flowers; The Architect and the EThe celebrated Spanish playwright Fernando Arrabal, who lived in Madrid under the oppression of the Franco regime, writes passionately of human atrocity and of hope. This collection of plays embodies Arrabal's "theatre of panic," named after the god Pan. The homme panique is a...
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Art and Artifice: And Other Essays of IllusionFrom the author of Hiding the Elephant and The Glorious Deception comes a collection of five essays that shows how the great stage illusions were integrally products of their time, based on the traditions and fashions of the people, and the offspring of the...
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Gunsmoke 2 Volume Set: A Complete History and Analysis of the Legendary Broadcast Series with a Comprehensive Episode-By-Episode Guide to BotThe series ran nine years on radio and twenty on television--the all-time longest running prime-time program with continuing characters. It introduced to the American people a cast of characters that quickly took on mythic proportions. There are 74 -in-depth interviews and reminiscences by principal...
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21st Century Superhero: Essays on Gender, Genre and Globalization in FilmSuperhero films are one of the most enduring genres of cinema, and their popularity is only increasing in the 21st century. These ten critical essays explore the phenomenon through the lenses of numerous academic disciplines, and cover topics such as the role of globalization...
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Music and Dance Traditions of Ghana: History, Performance and TeachingThe music and dance traditions of Ghana's four main ethnic groups are covered comprehensively in this book. It discusses concepts of music, dance and performance in general, and also goes into cultural perspectives, performance practices and the form and structure of 22 musical types...
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American Zombie Gothic: The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of the Walking Dead in Popular CultureZombie stories are peculiarly American, as the creature was born in the New World and functions as a reminder of the atrocities of colonialism and slavery. The voodoo-based zombie films of the 1930s and '40s reveal deep-seated racist attitudes and imperialist paranoia, but the...
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Cornell Woolrich from Pulp Noir to Film NoirExtremely popular and prolific in the 1930s and 1940s, Cornell Woolrich still has diehard fans who thrive on his densely packed descriptions and his spellbinding premises. A contemporary of Hammett and Chandler, he competed with them for notoriety in the pulps and became the...
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Blood in the Moonlight: Michael Mann and Information Age CinemaDirector and screenwriter Michael Mann is the creative force behind such movies as Last of the Mohicans and Ali. Markedly reticent, Mann prefers that his personal background remain an enigma, but his disparate films contain clear and consistent messages. One of Mann's focuses is...
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The Theatricality of Robert LepageSince the 1980s, multimedia and new technologies have had a great impact on theatre, allowing performance to establish its own language of communication with the audience independent of the written text. The author offers a comprehensive analysis of Lepage's creative process.Author: Aleksandar Sasa DundjerovicPublisher:...
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Rocky Zang in the Amazing Mr. MagicAbracadabra Kalamazoo Rocky and Judy astound and amaze in the Greatest Backyard Magic Show on Earth Rocky is perfecting the tricks for his magic show when Judy Moody offers to be his assistant. Rocky agrees, but it turns out that Judy -- or Stella...
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The Starfleet Survival GuideAs the brave men and women of Starfleet carry out their duties -- mapping countless solar systems, greeting new species and establishing ties with civilizations large and small -- they live, work, and face the possibility that they could die in space. How do...
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Fabien Baron, Works 1983-2019The much-anticipated book from one of the most sought-after art directors in the world, showcasing 30+ years of his talentPart design manual, part manifesto, the first career retrospective of Fabien Baron, whom Vanity Fair called 'the most sought-after creative director in the world, '...
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How to Avoid The Cutting Room Floor: an editor's advice for on-camera actorsWhat steps can an actor take to avoid being cut out of a movie or TV show? Emmy-winning editor Jordan Goldman, A.C.E. takes you inside the cutting room and pulls back the curtain on how and why directors, showrunners, and editors decide whether your...
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The 10-Day Screenplay: How to Write a Screenplay in 10 DaysThe Step-By-Step Course That Shows You How to Write Your Screenplay in Just 10 Days "If you want to write screenplays for a living, there is nothing more valuable for a writer than being able to produce a quality screenplay quickly. We created this...
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Teaching Drama: Fundamentals and Beyond: A System Using more than 250 Exercises, Improvisations and ActivitiesMr Crockett has written a comprehensive guide to teaching and performing drama. Rich in detail, description, and explanation of day-to-day exercises, improvisations, activities, and lessons, this book will enrich and encourage any novice or experienced teacher, professional, or student. While the basis of the...
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6-13 A Friday the 13th Movie Trivia Book6-13 A Friday the 13th Movie Trivia Book is a comprehensive compilation of more than 700 trivia questions and facts all about the most popular slasher film franchise of all-time. Jason turned 68 years old on Friday, June 13th, 2014 (according to the original...
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Louise Brooks, the Persistent StarLouise Brooks, the Persistent Star brings together 15 years work by Thomas Gladysz, the Director of the Louise Brooks Society. Gathered here are a selection of his articles, essays, and blogs about the silent film star. The actress' best known films--Beggars of Life, Pandora's...
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Plays by African Americans: The Recent Period 1935-TodayThis collection features plays written between 1935 and 1996. This revised and expanded Black Theatre USA broadens its collection to fifty-one outstanding plays, enhancing its status as the most authoritative anthology of African American drama with twenty-two new selectionsAuthor: James V. Hatch, Ted ShinePublisher:...
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Cahiers Du CinémaCahiers du Cin ma is the most prestigious and influential film journal ever published. An anthology devoted entirely to its writings, in English translation, is long overdue.The selections in this volume are drawn from the colorful first decade of Cahiers, 1951-1959, when a group...
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