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The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Book: The Behind-The-Scenes Story of a Television ClassicDrawing on extensive interviews with the cast and crew of The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Jon Heitland has assembled an incredibly comprehensive, fully illustrated account of the show's history, including: -the program's conception in conference with Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond-U.N.C.L.E.'s remarkable surge in...
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Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth: Inside the Creation of a Modern Fairy TaleDiscover the dark secrets of Guillermo del Toro's masterpiece, Pan's Labyrinth, in this thrilling exploration of the film's creation.Released in 2006, Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth was hailed as a dark, thrilling masterpiece and announced the filmmaker as a major creative force, garnering him...
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Fun Home Vocal SelectionsContains the following songs: It All Comes Back (Opening) Welcome to Our House on Maple Avenue Come to the Fun Home Changing My Major Maps Raincoat of Love Ring of Keys Days and Days Telephone Wire Edges of the World Flying Away (Finale) Bonus...
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Close-Up on Suset Boulevard: Billy Wilder, Norma Desmond, and the Dark Hollywood DreamBilly Wilder's Sunset Boulevard, a classic film noir and also a damning dissection of the Hollywood dream factory, evokes the glamour and ruin of the stars who subsist on that dream. It's also one long in-joke about the movie industry and those who made...
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What's the Story: Essays about Art, Theater and StorytellingAnne Bogart is an award-winning theatre maker, and a best-selling writer of books about theatre, art, and cultural politics. In this her latest collection of essays she explores the story-telling impulse, and asks how she, as a 'product of postmodernism', can reconnect to the...
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The Hippest Trip in America: Soul Train and the Evolution of Culture & StyleAn authoritative history of the groundbreaking syndicated television show that has become an icon of American pop culture, from acclaimed author and filmmaker Nelson George, "the most accomplished black music critic of his generation" (Washington Post Book World).When it debuted in October 1971, seven...
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The Holy MountainAlejandro Jodorowsky's El Topo helped inaugurate the midnight movie phenomenon. Its success spawned The Holy Mountain, through interventions by John Lennon and Allen Klein. After a scandalous release and a 16-month midnight career, The Holy Mountain was relegated to the underground world of fan...
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Busking as a Mercenary Art: or How to Hustle a Bar, Restaurant, or StreetA "how-to" manual written for the independent travelling magician or any other street performer. Includes the specific details on different approaches for street, bar and restaurant. Some of the topics are: picking the right bar, entering the bar, working the crowd, building the tip,...
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British Women's CinemaBritish Women's Cinema examines the place of female-centred films throughout British film history, from silent melodrama and 1940s costume dramas right up to the contemporary British 'chick flick'. Author: Melanie BellPublisher: RoutledgePublished: 09/15/2009Pages: 228Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 8.70h x 6.00w x 0.90dISBN: 9780415466974About the...
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The Elephant to HollywoodCharming, engaging, and surprisingly forthright, Michael Caine gives us his insider's view of Hollywood and the story of his brilliant second act When he was in his late fifties, Michael Caine believed his glamorous, rags-to-riches Hollywood career had come to an end. The scripts...
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RelapseAs featured on Deadliest Catch A fourth generation fisherman, Jake Anderson grew up in the rich fishing environment of Anacortes, Washington. At age seventeen, Jake began salmon fishing in Bristol Bay, Alaska, and by the age of twenty-five he was crab fishing in the...
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African Cinema: Politics and Culture"Manthia Diawara is quite simply the best critic (in any language) currently writing on African cinema." --Robert Stam"Diawara has produced a useful history, a cogent analysis, and, in his arguments on how African cinema should develop, an undoubtedly controversial book." --Studies in Popular Culture"This...
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Ballerina!"In my view, life without dancewould be quite unthinkable. In thisbook, Peter Sís confirms" -- MikhailAuthor: Peter SisPublisher: Greenwillow BooksPublished: 05/31/2005Pages: 30Binding Type: Board BookWeight: 0.58lbsSize: 5.78h x 6.07w x 0.67dISBN: 9780060759667Audience: Ages 4-8About the AuthorSis, Peter: - Peter Sís is an internationally acclaimed...
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Latino Images in Film: Stereotypes, Subversion, and ResistanceThe bandido, the harlot, the male buffoon, the female clown, the Latin lover, and the dark lady--these have been the defining, and demeaning, images of Latinos in U.S. cinema for more than a century. In this book, Charles Ramírez Berg develops an innovative theory...
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Ring Shout, Wheel about: The Racial Politics of Music and Dance in North American SlaveryIn this ambitious project, historian Katrina Thompson examines the conceptualization and staging of race through the performance, sometimes coerced, of black dance from the slave ship to the minstrel stage. Drawing on a rich variety of sources, Thompson explicates how black musical performance was...
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4000 MilesGenre: Drama Character: 1 male and 3 females Scenery: Interior After suffering a major loss while he was on a cross-country bike trip, 21 year-old Leo seeks solace from his feisty 91 year-old grandmother Vera in her West Village apartment. Over the course of...
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Sleuth: A PlaySleuth has all the ingredients of a top-class thriller, which it undoubtedly is - a plot whose twists and turns are breathtakingly audacious and fiendishly cunning; suspense and excitement galore; and a brilliant parody of the Agatha Christie country-house thriller, mercilessly satirizing the genre...
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L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black CinemaL.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema is the first book dedicated to the films and filmmakers of the L.A. Rebellion, a group of African, Caribbean, and African American independent film and video artists that formed at the University of California, Los Angeles, in...
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NetworkI'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore. Howard Beale, news anchorman, isn't pulling in the viewers. In his final broadcast he unravels live on screen. But when the ratings soar, the network seize on their newfound populist prophet,...
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A Short History of the MoviesThe eleventh edition of A Short History of the Movies continues its long-standing tradition of scrupulously accurate details, up-to-date information, and jargon-free writing style that has made it the most widely adopted film history textbook. This edition offers students a panoramic overview of the...
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