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Worldmaking: Race, Performance, and the Work of CreativityIn this bold, innovative work, Dorinne Kondo theorizes the racialized structures of inequality that pervade theater and the arts. Grounded in twenty years of fieldwork as dramaturg and playwright, Kondo mobilizes critical race studies, affect theory, psychoanalysis, and dramatic writing to trenchantly analyze theater's...
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Art of BraveBrave is Pixar's thirteenth feature film, but it marks two big firsts for the award-winning animation studio. It's Pixar's first feature film driven by a female lead and its first set in an ancient historical period. Against a backdrop of castles, forests, and highlands,...
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She Always Knew How: Mae West: A Personal BiographyActress, playwright, screenwriter, and iconic sex symbol Mae West (1893-1980) created a scandal and a sensation on Broadway with her play Sex in 1926. Convicted of obscenity, she was sentenced to ten days in prison. She went to jail a convict but emerged a...
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Uncomfortable TelevisionFrom The Wire to Intervention to Girls, postmillennial American television has dazzled audiences with novelistic seriality and cinematic aesthetics. Yet this television is also more perverse: it bombards audiences with misogynistic and racialized violence, graphic sex, substance abuse, unlikeable protagonists, and the extraordinary exploitation...
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Investigating Death in Paradise: A Critical Study of the BBC SeriesFirst televised in 2011, Death in Paradise remains one of the most popular shows in the U.K. The detective series is frequently ignored, panned or belittled by television critics, but viewers disagree. Bringing in more than eight million viewers a season, it is accessible...
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Starstruck - How I Magically Transformed Chicago into Hollywood for More Than Fifty Years (hardback)"For many of us, Michael Kutza brought the great city of Chicago to life with his infectious love of film."- Oliver Stone, Oscar(R)-winning director of Platoon, JFK, and Born on the Fourth of July"Michael is the real deal. He has heart, a great sense...
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FluteThis fun book offers early readers a simple introduction to playing the flute. Vibrant photos closely match the text to help early readers build vocabulary. The book also includes a table of contents, a picture glossary, and an index. This Little Blue Readers title...
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Jordan PeeleJordan Peele is a groundbreaking moviemaker and the first Black screenwriter to win an Academy Award. His unique horror films explore important issues while drawing huge crowds. This book explores his life and his fascinating films. Includes table of contents, glossary, index, author biography,...
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Chadwick Boseman: Actor and ActivistAs a child, Chadwick Boseman read stories about people who inspired him. As an adult, he became an actor to tell inspiring stories to others. Chadwick fought to make his career a legacy that shares the stories he was passionate about. Learn all about...
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Hi Honey, I'm Homo!: Sitcoms, Specials, and the Queering of American CultureThere's a secret storyline hidden across some of the most popular sitcoms of the 20th century. For decades, amidst the bright lights, studio-audience laughs, and absurdly large apartment sets, the real-life story of American LGBTQ+ liberation unfolded in plain sight in front of millions...
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Bex Plays GuitarBex Plays Guitar is an adventure about Bex learning something new. He is excited to learn how to play the electric guitar with his new teacher. Bex learns a valuable lesson along the way, practice is the only way to learn something new. Follow...
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Angelina Ballerina's Ballet TourAngelina Ballerina goes on a tour like a real ballerina in this chapter book featuring an all-new, original Angelina Ballerina story and black-and-white illustrations throughout! Angelina and the other little dancers at Miss Lilly's Ballet School are going on a ballet tour! They are...
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Tap! Tap! Tap!: Dance! Dance! Dance!Author: Herve TulletPublisher: Chronicle BooksPublished: 05/16/2023Pages: 64Binding Type: HardcoverISBN: 9781797221465Audience: Baby-Preschool
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The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of HollywoodFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Fifth Avenue, Five A.M. and Fosse comes the revelatory account of the making of a modern American masterpiece Chinatown is the Holy Grail of 1970s cinema. Its twist ending is the most notorious in American film...
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The Art of Pixar: The Complete Colorscripts and Select Art from 25 Years of AnimationOver the past 25 years, Pixar's team of artists, writers, and directors have shaped the world of contemporary animation with their feature films and shorts. From classics such as Toy Story and A Bug's Life to recent masterpieces such as Up, Toy Story 3,...
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It's Saturday Morning!: Celebrating the Golden Era of Cartoons 1960s - 1990sWith concept art, archival images, all-new interviews, and a foreword by Bobby's World creator and funnyman Howie Mandel, It's Saturday Morning celebrates the shows, characters, songs, and commercials that made Saturday mornings a pop culture event--decade by decade. Broadcasting into family living rooms from...
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From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German FilmAn essential work of the cinematic history of the Weimar Republic by a leading figure of film criticism First published in 1947, From Caligari to Hitler remains an undisputed landmark study of the rich cinematic history of the Weimar Republic. Prominent film critic Siegfried...
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Audrey Hepburn, an Elegant Spirit: Audrey Hepburn, an Elegant SpiritNow in paperback, an intimate look at the woman the world adored, by the son who adored her with unique photos, drawings, and other rare Audrey memorabilia. She dazzled millions as Gigi. Eliza Doolittle. Holly Golightly. But to her most adoring fan, Audrey Hepburn...
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Confrontation with Evil: The 1949 Saint Louis ExorcismKnown as the 1949 St. Louis Exorcism, the story of possessed boy was immortalized in the groundbreaking novel and film, The Exorcist. Much has been written about the case, but the truth has been shrouded in secrecy...until now.Join Steven A. LaChance, as he shares...
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Skeleton CrewAt the start of the Great Recession, one of the last auto stamping plants in Detroit is on shaky ground. Each of the workers have to make choices on how to move forward if their plant goes under. Shanita has to decide how she'll...
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