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The Prison of Time: Stanley Kubrick, Adrian Lyne, Michael Bay and Quentin TarantinoWe are imprisoned in circadian rhythms, as well as in our life reviews that follow chronological and causal links. For the majority of us our lives are vectors directed toward aims that we strive to reach and delimited by our birth and death. Nevertheless,...
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A Curiously Curious Coloring Book of CuriositiesIndulge in over 50 illustrations designed to fuel your nightmares along with your creativity. Whether you choose to bring life into a three-headed-man-bunny, a field of jumbo strawberries, or even a cat with with fabulous eyebrows, "A Curiously Curious Coloring Book of Curiosities," will...
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Detroit Opera HouseThe theater known today as the Detroit Opera House has been an integral part of the city's culture and history as well as the live entertainment industry. Its existence has been threatened in the past, but it has survived wars, the Great Depression, civil...
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Fooling with the Amish: Amish Mafia, Entertaining Fakery, and the Evolution of Reality TVUsing Amish Mafia as a window into the interplay between the real and the imagined, this book dissects the peculiar appeals and potential dangers of deception in reality TV and popular entertainment.When Amish Mafia was released in 2012, viewers were fascinated by the stories...
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The Oberon Book of Modern Monologues for Women: Teens to ThirtiesMonologues are an essential part of every actor's toolkit. Actors need them for drama school entry, training, showcases and when auditioning for roles in the industry. Edited by Dee Cannon, author of the bestselling In-Depth Acting, this book showcases selected monologues from some of...
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Music in the Horror Films of Val LewtonVal Lewton's horror films revolutionized a popular genre through a much-studied and still widely emulated visual style emphasizing shadows and absences. By denying audiences visual confirmation of horror, his reforms placed a fresh burden on the soundtrack of his films. This book offers a...
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The Vagrant Trilogy: Three Plays by Mona Mansour: The Hour of Feeling; The Vagrant; Urge for Going"The [Vagrant Trilogy] extends far beyond the timeline of devastating events, and instead shows us something greater: humanity." -Broadway World The Vagrant Trilogyis a set of three plays by award-winning Arab American playwright Mona Mansour which explores the Palestinian condition prior to, during, and...
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Transmasculinity on TelevisionThis book explores how television and streaming services portray transgender characters who identify as male or nonbinary in television media. Transmasculinity on Television takes a closer look at transmasculine and nonbinary characters on broadcast, cable, and streaming services between 2000 and 2021. Significant changes...
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Thirty Years a DresserDennis Milam Bensie sees himself as way more Thelma Ritter in Mankiewicz's All About Eve than Tom Courtney in Ronald Harwood's harrowing play and movie, The Dresser.Watching The Tony Awards as a teenager in the early 1980s, Bensie knew he wanted to be in...
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Unwritten Literature of Hawaii: The Sacred Songs of the HulaUnwritten Literature of Hawaii: The Sacred Songs of the Hula (1909) is a collection of hulas and essays by Nathaniel B. Emerson. Translating previously unwritten songs, interviewing native Hawaiians, and consulting the works of indigenous historians, Emerson provides an entertaining and authoritative look at...
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Badhai: Hijra-Khwaja Sira-Trans Performance Across Borders in South AsiaThis is the first full-length book to provide an introduction to badhai performances throughout South Asia, examining their characteristics and relationships to differing contexts in Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan. Badhai's repertoires of songs, dances, prayers, and comic repartee are performed by socially marginalised hijra,...
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Immaculate Deception and Further Ribaldries: Yet Another Dozen Medieval French Farces in Modern EnglishDid you hear the one about the Mother Superior who was so busy casting the first stone that she got caught in flagrante delicto with her lover? What about the drunk with a Savior complex who was fool enough to believe himself to be...
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Tap Dap Flap: Rooh Learns to TapRooh loves trying new things and making people smile. So, when her Granny gets sick and goes to the hospital, she decides to take on tap dancing. Rooh wants to encourage her Granny to get better and thinks bringing her joy will help her....
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German #Metoo: Rape Cultures and Resistance, 1770-2020This volume of new essays represents a collective, academic, and activist effort to interpret German literature and culture in the context of the international #MeToo movement, illustrating and interrogating the ways that "rape cultures" persist. Responding to the worldwide impact of the #MeToo movement,...
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Greek Tragedy and the DigitalAdopting an innovative and theoretical approach, Greek Tragedy and the Digital is an original study of the encounter between Greek tragedy and digital media in contemporary performance. It challenges Greek tragedy conventions through the contemporary arsenal of sound masks, avatars, live code poetry, new...
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The Aerial Teacher's HandbookThe process of teaching in the aerial arts is a powerful opportunity to support students in their physical and personal growth. While other resources in the aerial industry focus on the break-down of specific skills or moves, this book dives into the actual teaching...
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The Reenactment in Contemporary Screen Culture: Performance, Mediation, RepetitionDuring the first decades of the 21st century, a critical re-assessment of the reenactment as a form of historical representation has taken place in the disciplines of history, art history and performance studies. Engagement with the reenactment in film and media studies has come...
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Movies Without Baggage: A Guide to Ultra-Low-Budget FilmmakingThe Ultimate guide for guerrilla filmmakers.Through in-the-trenches tales detailing the making of dozens of films th is book covers all aspects of making full-length features for less than $30,000.Author: Alain Silver, Obren BokichPublisher: Silman-James PressPublished: 02/01/2022Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.93lbsSize: 9.01h x 6.10w x 0.79dISBN:...
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The Self and Community in Star Trek: VoyagerAfter they are pulled 700,000 light-years away from Alpha Quadrant, the captain and crew of Star Trek: Voyager must travel homeward while exploring new challenges to their relationships, views of others, and themselves. As the first extended, critical study dedicated to Star Trek: Voyager,...
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The History of French Literature on FilmFrench novels, plays, poems and short stories, however temporally or culturally distant from us, continue to be incarnated and reincarnated on cinema screens across the world. From the silent films of Georges Méliès to the Hollywood production of Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary directed by...
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