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Ballet is for EveryoneBallet is for Everyone brings to life the wonderful and welcoming world of ballet. Within these pages readers will learn that the beauty of ballet is meant to be shared with anyone and everyone, and this story of friendship and fun will surely make...
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Encyclopedia of Television Miniseries, 1936-2020In 1936, as television networks CBS, DuMont, and NBC experimented with new ways to provide entertainment, NBC deviated from the traditional method of single experimental programs to broadcast the first multi-part program, Love Nest, over a three-episode arc. This would come to be known...
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Lockdown Shakespeare: New Evolutions in Performance and AdaptationThis edited collection offers the first in-depth analysis and sourcebook for 'Lockdown Shakespeare'. It brings together scholars of stage, screen, early modern and adaptation studies to examine the work that emerged during the Covid-19 pandemic and considers issues of form, liveness, reception, presence and...
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Mothers of Invention: Film, Media, and Caregiving LaborMothers of Invention: Film, Media, and Caregiving Laborconstructs a feminist genealogy that foregrounds the relationship between acts of production on the one hand and reproduction on the other. In this interdisciplinary collection, editors So Mayer and Corinn Columpar bring together film and media studies...
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The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and MusicThe Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Music showcases the latest international research into the captivating and vast subject of the many uses of music in relation to Shakespeare's plays and poems, extending from the Bard's own time to the present day. The coverage is...
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Space Exploration on FilmOver the course of several decades, scientific fact has overtaken science fiction as humankind's understanding of the universe has expanded. Mirroring this development, the cinematic depictions of space exploration over the last century have evolved from whimsical sci-fi fantasies to more fact-based portrayals. This...
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The AmericansBased on the actual KGB strategy of planting illegals into American life during the Cold War, The Americans (FX 2013-2018) focuses on Philip and Elizabeth Jennings (Matthew Rhys and Kerri Russell), Soviet spies posing as middlebrow travel agents in the Virginia suburbs. Groundbreaking and...
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Analyzing Film: A Student CasebookAnalyzing Film: A Student Casebook is a film textbook containing fifteen essays about sixteen historically and artistically significant films made between 1920 and 1990. This casebook is geographically diverse, with sixteen countries represented: Germany, Russia, Spain, France, the United States, Denmark, Japan, India, England,...
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Queer Horror Film and Television: Sexuality and Masculinity at the MarginsIn recent years, the representation of alternative sexuality in the horror film and television has outed itself from the shadows from which it once lurked, via the embrace of an outrageously queer horror aesthetic where homosexuality is often unequivocally referenced. In this book, Darren...
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Gender and Austerity in Popular Culture: Femininity, Masculinity and Recession in Film and TelevisionFrom the gritty landscapes of The Hunger Games and The Walking Dead, to the portrayal of the twenty-first-century precariat in Girls, this book explores how transatlantic visual culture has represented and reconstructed ideas of gender in times of financial crisis. Drawing on social, cultural...
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Renoir: Father and Son / Painting and Cinema: Painting and CinemaBeloved Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir left a vibrant legacy that influenced the life and films of his son, the acclaimed director Jean Renoir. The Impressionist paintings of Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841‒1919) are characterized by portraits and lively episodes from daily life, portrayed in rich color...
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Institution is a Verb: A Panoply Performance Lab CompilationINSTITUTION IS A VERB is a compendium of community-contributed texts, scores, notes, and documentation culminating and indexing 7 years of collaboration, para-capitalist research, and performative institution during Panoply Performance Laboratory's operations as a laboratory site at 104 Meserole Street in Brooklyn, NY. Gathering texts,...
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Refocus: The Films of Mary HarronMary Harron's diverse career includes cult films like I Shot Andy Warhol, American Psycho and The Notorious Bettie Page, as well as a range of network and cable television episodes. This is the first book to examine an overlooked filmmaker in relation to feminist...
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Mina's Rain DanceThe fate of a small drought-stricken town rests on a brave, empathic little girl, and her 'terrible' dancing.This uplifting, humorous and beautifully illustrated picture book, celebrates the magnificence of kindness, compassion and community.Mina loves dancing but she is a terrible dancer. She is even...
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25 Plays from the Fire This Time Festival: A Decade of Recognition, Resistance, Resilience, Rebirth, and Black TheaterWhile the past decade proved to be some of the most tumultuous times in modern US history, the Black community has been resilient, opening up dialogues and sustaining advocacy. Nowhere has this been more apparent than at the Obie Award-winning The Fire This Time...
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Bruce Lee: The Big boss Iconic photo Collection - 50th AnniversaryThe Big Boss (1971) was Bruce Lee's first starring role that catapulted him to worldwide stardom as the Number one Box office martial arts star.2021 see's the 50th Anniversary of this iconic movie.(Chinese: 唐山大兄, lit. "The Big Brother from Tangshan"; originally titled Fists of...
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James A. Bailey: The Genius Behind the Barnum & Bailey CircusAlthough history has swept James Anthony Bailey into the iconic shadow of P. T. Barnum, Bailey was the hard-working manager and the driving force behind The Greatest Show on Earth. He is considered to have been one of the most successful circus managers of...
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The Villain's Journey: Descent and Return in Science Fiction and FantasyThe villain's journey is rare in popular culture--most characters are fully-formed tyrants with little to no story arc. However, a few particularly epic series take the time to develop complex villains, including Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, Smallville, Babylon 5, Game of Thrones, and Buffy...
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Karl Freund: The Life and FilmsKarl Freund is the most important film pioneer you've never heard of. From the silent film era to the rise of the American sitcom, Freund was there at every turn. Countless camera techniques can be traced back to his unchained camera. His lighting setup...
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Sleeping Around: A Young Adult Coming of AgePublisher's Weekly 2022 BookLife Prize Finalist and YA/MG Winner!A teen violinist hopes to leave her foster care baggage behind at college. Instead, she starts sleeping around campus-from air mattresses to random couches-after a roommate nightmare."Exploring trauma and resilience in gritty first-person detail, Sleeping Around...
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