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The Broadway Sound: The Autobiography and Selected Essays of Robert Russell BennettThe previously unpublished autobiography and additional essays by the orchestrator-composer of some of America's most important musical theatre productions. The remarkable career of composer-orchestrator Robert Russell Bennett [1894-1981] encompassed a wide variety of both "legitimate" and popular music-making in Hollywood, on Broadway, and for...
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Barbara Stanwyck: The Miracle WomanAuthor: Dan CallahanPublisher: University Press of MississippiPublished: 01/11/2023Pages: 272Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.89lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.62dISBN: 9781496843432About the AuthorDan Callahan is author of Vanessa: The Life of Vanessa Redgrave; The Art of American Screen Acting, 1912-1960; The Art of American Screen Acting, 1960...
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The Art and Soul of Blade Runner 2049 - Revised and Expanded EditionThe official and definitive companion book to Denis Villeneuve's 2017 sequel to Ridley Scott's 1982 original film. This revised and enhanced edition adds 20 new pages of original content which include the movie's spoiler scenes. In 1982's ground-breaking science-fiction film Blade Runner, the world...
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Elena, Princesa of the Periphery: Disney's Flexible Latina GirlIn the summer of 2016, Disney introduced its first Latina princess, Elena of Avalor. Princesa of the Periphery explores this Disney property using multiple case studies to understand its approach to girlhood and Latinidad. Following the circuit of culture model, author Diana Leon-Boys teases...
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The NutcrackerBring a timeless holiday classic to life for your little one with this unique board book shaped like a Nutcracker!On Christmas Eve, a little girl named Marie receives a special Nutcracker doll that is on a fight with the evil Mouse King! Can Marie...
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Inside Comedy: The Soul, Wit, and Bite of Comedy and Comedians of the Last Five DecadesThe world of comedy and comedians of the last five decades. By the man the New York Times calls a comic institution himself, the only comedian (twenty-six years in stand-up) to have made Elie Wiesel laugh, as well as having appeared on The Tonight...
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Acting Is Believing: Stanislavski in the 21st CenturyActing is Believing has remained one of the classic acting texts that continues to set the standard in the field, using the Stanislavski method to teach students the fundamentals of acting for stage or screen--now updated for the 21st century student and actor. Author:...
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Trinh T. Minh-Ha: The Twofold CommitmentAn inventive reimagining in book form of the revered filmmaker and theorist's cinematic meditation on Vietnam's originsAt once an artist's book and an interview collection by Vietnamese filmmaker, writer and feminist and postcolonial theorist Trinh T. Minh-ha (born 1952), The Twofold Commitment centers on...
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Voyages of Discovery: The Cinema of Frederick WisemanFrederick Wiseman is America's foremost chronicler of public institutions. His films have focused on city, state, and local governments; hospitals; asylums; creative organizations and museums; schools; libraries; and more. In recent years, Wiseman's work has reached a new level of popularity, with films such...
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Something Wonderful Right Away: The Birth of Second City--America's Greatest Comedy TheaterDiscover the behind-the-scenes story of how The Second City theater created a generation of world class great actors, directors, and writers. In the late Fifties and Sixties, iconoclastic young rebels in Chicago opened two tiny theaters--The Compass and The Second City--where they satirized politics,...
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Halloween: The Official Making of Halloween, Halloween Kills and Halloween EndsOfficial companion book to the most recent trilogy of Halloween films featuring behind-the-scenes photography and interviews with cast and crew. Four decades after the original Halloween took the world by storm, Miramax, Blumhouse Productions and Trancas International bring a terrifying new trilogy of films...
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I Grab the MICKiss stage fright goodbye...You're superfly. Grab that mic! I Grab the Mic is this first in a picture book series featuring kids overcoming challenging scenarios and building confidence, all written through the lyrical hip-hop inspired verse. In this first story, a young girl and...
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The Story Orchestra: The Planets: Press the Note to Hear Holst's MusicDiscover the spellbinding magic of The Planets in this musical reimagining of one of Holst's most famous suites.Push the button on each beautiful scene to hear the vivid sound of an orchestra playing from Holst's score. This tale is about a brother and sister...
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Everything I Know about Life I Learned from James BondCelebrate the heroic swagger of Agent 007 with the ultimate fan's guide to all things James Bond.For millions of American men who grew up in the 1950s and 60s, James Bond was the ultimate masculine icon. He was stylish, smart, and sophisticated. He was...
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Mythic Realms: The Moral Imagination in Literature and FilmA sequel of sorts to Bradley Birzer's Beyond Tenebrae (Angelico Press, 2019), Mythic Realms seeks to pursue excellences in the last hundred years of literature and film. Still rooted in Christian Humanism and Burke's moral imagination, Birzer offers here a series of autobiographical vignettes,...
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Adobe Premiere Pro 2023: An Illustrated Step-By-Step Guide for BeginnersUnleash your Creativity and Master the art of Video Editing with "Adobe Premiere Pro 2023 - An Illustrated Step-By-Step Guide for Beginners." Whether you're a beginner or an experienced editor, this book is designed to help you achieve your video editing goals with ease....
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Terrors from Worlds Unknown: 150 Classic Science Fiction Film Posters From ItalyClassic Italian film poster art is renowned as being among the most innovative, creative and dynamic of its kind. From the post-war period through to early 1990s, Italian artists consistently produced posters with sumptuously stunning designs and seductive imagery - not least in the...
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Movies Go FourthMovies Go Fourth is a celebration of the fourth movies in the most popular film franchises of all time. It offers behind-the-scenes stories of fourth films from such beloved series as Star Wars, Star Trek, and James Bond. It also explores infamous fourth films,...
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The Comedians: Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels, and the History of American ComedyIn The Comedians, comedy historian Kliph Nesteroff brings to life a century of American comedy with real-life characters, forgotten stars, mainstream heroes and counterculture iconoclasts. Based on over two hundred original interviews and extensive archival research, Nesteroff's groundbreaking work is a narrative exploration of...
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The Night Before Xmas: A Futurama Christmas StoryJingle all the way with the crew of Planet Express in this hilarious retelling of the Christmas classic. Join Fry, Leela, and Bender as they battle Robot Santa on Xmas Eve. This delightful book reimagines the traditional poem with the beloved characters of Groening's...
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