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Cora Witherspoon: A Life on Stage and ScreenBorn into an upper-crust family in New Orleans, Cora Bell Witherspoon (1890-1957) was an orphan by the age of 10 and a professional actress by 15. She was seen on Broadway from 1910 till 1946 in 36 productions and was a popular character actress...
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Preparing for the Global Blackout: A Disaster Guide from TV and CinemaPublisher: Ibidem PressPublished: 11/29/2022Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.70w x 0.80dISBN: 9783838216614
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Across Texts: Essays on Different Forms of French TextualityThe essays grouped together here reflect a career-long preoccupation with aspects of modern French culture. These range from the canonical (no French or indeed European film-maker is more universally admired than Renoir; few screen actresses have aroused such strong feelings as Arletty), by way...
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Waterloo - Making an Epic (hardback): The spectacular behind-the-scenes story of a movie colossusHistory has thrown up few events as dramatic and decisive as the four-day campaign that culminated in the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. In 1970, Italian producer Dino De Laurentiis spent $25 million to re-stage Napoleon's tumultuous encounter with Wellington, portrayed by Rod Steiger...
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Queer Cinema in Contemporary France: Five DirectorsJacques Martineau, Olivier Ducastel, Alain Guiraudie, Sébastien Lifshitz and Céline Sciamma. The films of these five major French directors exemplify queer cinema in the twenty-first century. Comprehensive in scope, Queer cinema in contemporary France traces the development of the meaning of queer across these...
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The New Wave Cinema in Iran: A Critical StudyThe New Wave Cinema in Iran is a historical and analytical study of the Iranian New Wave Cinema (Mowj-e No) as an artistic and intellectual movement that came to its best early productions between 1958 and 1978. As the movement has a long history,...
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Refocus: The Films of Zoya AkhtarFrom her relatively small-scale feature debut Luck By Chance (2009) to her recent premieres of Gully Boy (2019) and Made in Heaven (2019) to local and global audiences via the Berlin Film Festival and Amazon Prime Streaming services, Zoya Akhtar has become a prominent...
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Cinema of Crisis: Film and Contemporary EuropeNow more than ever, the idea of Europe as grounded in a shared cultural heritage cannot be taken for granted. For all its diversity, complexity and internal tensions, Europe remains a powerful economic and political superstate. But it is one in crisis, where the...
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Refocus: The Films of Pablo LarraínPablo Larraín is among the most prominent filmmakers in contemporary Chilean cinema. Having created a highly original cinematic language and established a focused critical dialogue about Chile's troubled contemporary history, his work presents an unflinching portrait of one of the most notorious regimes of...
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The Champ & the Chump**WINNER OF BEST SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT BOOK AT THE BRITISH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2022** 'Hard-hitting and hilarious' - James Acaster 'Funny, moving and compelling' - Mike Costello A heart-warming, hilarious true story about fighting and family, based on the acclaimed stage show. For fans of...
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Ballet in Western Culture: A History of Its Origins and EvolutionFirst Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Author: Carol LeePublisher: RoutledgePublished: 08/09/2002Pages: 384Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.42lbsSize: 9.23h x 7.02w x 0.81dISBN: 9780415942577About the AuthorCarol Lee established the ballet program at Florida State University in 1965, and has...
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Beyond the Canon's Plays for Young Activists: Three Plays by Women from the Global MajorityA first-of-its-kind anthology, Beyond The Canon's Plays for Young Activists combines plays, toolkits, and an online guide to empower young people into activism. With award-winning plays from the UK's most revolutionary female writers of colour, as well as bespoke multimedia learning guides, this collection...
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Black Matters: Lewis Morrow Plays: Baybra's Tulips; Begetters; MothersonBlack Matters: Lewis Morrow Plays is a play anthology that maps the impact of emotional, social, cultural, and economic forces that shape the quality of African American life in the 21st century. Focusing on the narratives of Black men and women carrying the hopes...
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Mira Monkey's Magic Mirror Adventure: A Dance-It-Out Creative Movement Story for Young MoversMira the monkey enjoys carnival day until crazy things start happening. Could fairies be causing the mischief? Will Mira make it home? Will she ever be the same? Ballerina Konora appears on each page encouraging kids to act and dance the story along with...
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The Lives of Others: (Das Leben Der Anderen)This study offers a fresh approach to the remarkable German film The Lives of Others (2006), known for its compelling representation of a Stasi surveillance officer and the moral and ethical turmoil that results when he begins spying on a playwright and his actress...
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So You Want to Sing Musical Theatre: A Guide for Performers, Updated and Expanded EditionFrom television shows like Glee and Smash to the phenomenon of the Broadway show Hamilton, musical theatre has never been more popular. In So You Want to Sing Musical Theatre, Updated and Expanded Edition, Broadway vocal coach Amanda Flynn provides an in-depth look at...
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The Florida ProjectIn Sean Baker's award-winning 2017 film The Florida Project, a young girl, her single mother, and her friends live in rundown motels near Disney World, the children's summer fun contrasting with the grim conditions around them. In this book, J. J. Murphy delves deep...
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Chess for Beginner Kids: Understand BETTER each piece, 600 easy chess puzzles to perfect your learningYou now know the rules of chess! Well done! You have just taken a big step! Welcome to the great community of chess players. But, what to do now? Facing the chessboard, you feel a bit lost, and this is quite normal. How do...
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On Site: Methods for Site-Specific Performance CreationOn Site: Methods for Site-Specific Performance Creation is a practical book for artists and students at all levels who create or are learning to create making sited dance works. Author Stephan Koplowitz covers specific, hands-on strategies for an array of issues to consider before,...
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Infected Empires: Decolonizing ZombiesGiven the current moment--polarized populations, increasing climate fears, and decline of supranational institutions in favor of a rising tide of nationalisms-- it is easy to understand the proliferation of apocalyptic and dystopian elements in popular culture. Infected Empires examines one of the most popular...
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