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Ending In CadenceGrowing up, Ash Bane and his sister had one rule to follow when they visited their grandma: never enter her art studio.An odd rule, if you asked Ash, but when he finds himself staring at the painting his sister vanished into, it doesn't seem...
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Devotional Fanscapes: Bollywood Star Deities, Devotee-Fans, and Cultural Politics in India and BeyondDevotional Fanscapes: Bollywood Star Deities, Devotee-Fans, and Cultural Politics in India and Beyond examines how fans worship film stars as deities. Focusing on temples dedicated to Bollywood (Hindi cinema) stars and the artifacts produced by Hindi and Tamil cinema fans, Shalini Kakar illustrates how...
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So What, or How to Make Films with WordsA series of philosophical meditations on the nature of aesthetics across a wide array of filmmaking styles Images, whether filmic or not, cannot be replaced by words. Yet words can make images. This is the general thesis underlying So What, a collection of essays...
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La Música de Nuestro PaísLa Musica de Nuestro Pais es un libro infantil que se trata de una Dominicanita llamada Mechi que aprende a bailar Bachata con su familia en su apartamento en el Alto Manhattan.El cuento se ve en un Sábado en la mañana. Al despertar, Mechi...
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A Dramatic Disappearance: A Boxcar Children Book 3Jessie's next article is taking a dramatic turn. When a traveling theater production comes to town, Jessie is excited to write a profile of its star, a talented performer who grew up in Greenfield and is making a big splash around the world. But...
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The Starsky and Hutch Trivia Quiz BookIn 1970s America, the landscape of modern television had started to change from the iconic Western to the Crime Drama. Offerings like Beretta, The Streets of San Francisco and Hawaii Five-O competed for the viewer's attention along with a show featuring two dynamic lead...
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Italian Film in the Present TenseFor observers of the European film scene, Federico Fellini's death in 1993 came to stand for the demise of Italian cinema as a whole. Exploring an eclectic sampling of works from the new millennium, Italian Film in the Present Tense confronts this narrative of...
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Visualising Lost Theatres: Virtual Praxis and the Recovery of Performance SpacesAuthor: Joanne Tompkins, Julie Holledge, Jonathan BollenPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 08/25/2022Pages: 220Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.02lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56dISBN: 9781108476751
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Film and Its TechniquesIn a manner completely acceptable to the professional film maker, yet thoroughly understandable and of great value to the amateur cinematographer, Spottiswoode presents the essential, unwritten lore of documentary film making. The book deals first with the ideas for a documentary film, and shows...
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Applied Arts and Health: Building Bridges Across Art, Therapy, Health, Education, and CommunityFresh insights into research approaches within the arts, in and for health and well-being. This forward-thinking collection documents diverse approaches to creative arts engagement, building metaphoric bridges across the field with an emphasis on creativity and well-being in education and community development. The book...
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Endless Intervals: Cinema, Psychology, and Semiotechnics Around 1900Revealing cinema's place in the coevolution of media technology and the humanCinema did not die with the digital, it gave rise to it. According to Jeffrey West Kirkwood, the notion that digital technologies replaced analog obscures how the earliest cinema laid the technological and...
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The Taylor Mac Book: Ritual, Realness and Radical PerformanceThis is the first book to dedicate critical attention to the work of influential theater-maker Taylor Mac. Mac is particularly celebrated for the historic performance event A 24-Decade History of Popular Music, in which Mac, in fantastical costumes designed by collaborator Machine Dazzle, sang...
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Abbas Kiarostami's Cinema of Life: From Homework to Like Someone in LoveStanding apart from celebrated Iranian ideals of war and martyrdom, revolutionary filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami was known as a man who praised life and celebrated it in all his works. Creating films for more than 40 years during times of unending war and political turmoil,...
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Cinema Studies: The Key ConceptsNow in its sixth edition, this essential guide for students provides accessible definitions of a comprehensive range of genres, movements, world cinemas, theories and production terms. This fully revised and updated book includes new topical entries that explore areas such as film and the...
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Dance Legacies of Scotland: The True Glen Orchy KickDance Legacies of Scotland compiles a collage of references portraying percussive Scottish dancing and explains what influenced a wide disappearance of hard-shoe steps from contemporary Scottish practices. Mats Melin and Jennifer Schoonover explore the historical references describing percussive dancing to illustrate how widespread the...
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Boxing and Performance: Memetic HauntingsBoxing and Performance is the first substantial piece of work to place the lived experience of female and male boxers in dialogue with one another.Crews and Lennox critically reflect on their ethnographic experiences of boxing and their reading of the cultural representations of the...
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Practices of Relations in Task-Dance and the Event-Score: A Critique of PerformanceIn this study, Josefine Wikström challenges a concept of performance that makes no difference between art and non-art and argues for a new concept. This book confronts and criticises the way in which the dominating concept of performance has been used in art theory...
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The Amazing MartikaDazzling lights! Amazing stunts! Tricks that leave you wondering, how did they do that?! Martika first saw the circus as a child when her father's Air Force job brought her family to Europe. She was mesmerized! Martika wanted to know everything about circus, its...
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Where Dreams LiveFor as long as Sarah could remember she wanted to be a ballerina. While pursuing her dream with single-minded determination, she learns to accept the reality that life doesn't always bring you to where you want to go. Filled with dreams, memories, and vibrant...
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Constant Comedy: How I Started Comedy Central and Lost My Sense of HumorDiscover the riveting, hilarious true story of the birth of Comedy Central in what New York Times bestselling author, Dan Lyons, calls the "funniest behind-the-scenes memoir I've ever read, full of crazy characters, plot twists, and suspense." Award-Winning Finalist in the Narrative: Non-Fiction category...
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