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Chekhov: The Essential Plays: The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters & the Cherry OrchardBecause Chekhov s plays convey the universally recognizable, sometimes comic, sometimes dramatic, frustrations of decent people trying to make sense of their lives, they remain as fresh and vigorous as when they were written a century ago. Gathered here in superb new renderings by...
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Complicated Women: Sex and Power in Pre-Code HollywoodIn the pre-Code Hollywood era, between 1929 and 1934, women in American cinema took lovers, had babies out of wedlock, got rid of cheating husbands, enjoyed their sexuality, led unapologetic careers, and, in general, acted the way many think women only acted after 1968....
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Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood YearsIn this New York Times bestselling follow-up to her critically acclaimed memoir, Home, Julie Andrews reflects on her astonishing career, including such classics as Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music, and Victor/Victoria.In Home, the number one New York Times international bestseller, Julie Andrews recounted...
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Digging Up Mother: A Love StoryDoug Stanhope is one of the most critically acclaimed and stridently unrepentant comedians of his generation. What will surprise some is that he owes so much of his dark and sometimes uncomfortably honest sense of humor to his mother, Bonnie. It was the cartoons...
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The Heist Film: Stealing with StyleA concise introduction to the genre about that one last big score, The Heist Film: Stealing With Style traces this crime thriller's development as both a dramatic and comic vehicle growing out of film noir (Criss Cross, The Killers, The Asphalt Jungle), mutating into...
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The Cinema of Michael Mann: Vice and VindicationMichael Mann is one of the most important American filmmakers of the past forty years. His films exhibit the existential concerns of art cinema, articulated through a conspicuous and recognizable visual style and yet integrated within classical Hollywood narrative and genre frameworks. Since his...
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The Critical Practice of Film: An IntroductionThe Critical Practice of Film introduces film studies and production through the integration of criticism, theory and practice. Its approach is that of critical practice, a process that explores the integration and intersection between the critical analysis of films and the practical aspects of...
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Flicker: Your Brain on MoviesHow is it that a patch of flickering light on a wall can produce experiences that engage our imaginations and can feel totally real? From the vertigo of a skydive to the emotional charge of an unexpected victory or defeat, movies give us some...
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Look Back in AngerJimmy Porter, frustrated and bitter in his drab flat, lives with his middle-class wife, Alison. Also sharing the flat is Cliff who keeps things tenuously together. Alison's friend Helen arrives and persuades her to leave Jimmy only to fall for him herself. When Alison...
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Future Noir Revised & Updated Edition: The Making of Blade RunnerRediscover the groundbreaking magic of Blade Runner with this revised and updated edition of the classic guide to Ridley Scott's transformative film--and published in anticipation of its sequel, Blade Runner 2049, premiering October 2017 and starring Ryan Gosling, Jared Leto, Robin Wright, and Harrison...
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Hoop Dreams: True Story of Hardship and Triumph, theFor nearly five years Arthur Agee's and William Gates' remarkable lives were chronicled by a team of filmmakers. Roughly 250 hours of film were devoted to their journeys from the playgrounds to high school competition to college recruitment and -- whittled down to three...
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At the Edges of Sleep: Moving Images and Somnolent SpectatorsA free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.Many recent works of contemporary art, performance, and film turn a spotlight on sleep, wresting it from the hidden, private spaces to which it is commonly relegated. At the Edges of Sleep...
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Recollecting Lotte Eisner: Cinema, Exile, and the Archive Volume 3Recollecting Lotte Eisner provides the first in-depth examination of the remarkable transnational career of film journalist, archivist, and historian Lotte Eisner (1896-1983). From her early years as a film critic in interwar Berlin to her escape from prison in occupied France and from her...
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Classical Ballet: A Complete Manual of the Cecchetti Method: Volume 2The sensational discovery of this work by Grazioso Cecchetti, son of the great Italian ballet master Enrico (1850-1928), is now made extremely valuable since it represents the only direct testimony of the famous Cecchetti method of classical ballet (the Italian School), until now passed...
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The Godfather Tarot: Includes: A 78-Card Tarot Deck and a Book on the Corleone Family and Its HistoryIn celebration of the greatest film series of all time, this deluxe gift set updates the classic Rider-Waite tarot deck to capture the world of The Godfather. The King of Swords, The Emperor, Death, Justice, and the Wheel of Fortune are just a few...
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The Methuen Drama Book of Queer MonologuesThe first collection of its kind, The Oberon Book of Queer Monologues chronicles over one hundred years of queer and trans performance. Combining stage plays with spoken word and performance art, this anthology features over forty extracts from some of the most exciting stage...
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James Cameron: A RetrospectiveJames Cameron is the most successful filmmaker of all time by some margin. Which is something we tend to take for granted. The question at the heart of his story isn't only how this came about, but what is it about Cameron that makes...
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Our Love Affair with DanceThe creation of this work is an invitation to step into the world of the dancer and vicariously experience the passion and motivation for the dance arts.This book's focus centers on the power and spirituality of the dance told through the life stories of...
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Dancing on Broken AnklesAubergine White, a talented ballerina and a self-professed mean girl, who enjoys all the advantages of being a gorgeous, rich girl at her elite New York City private school, seems to have it all-until her parents get fed up with the hustle of city...
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The Hollywood Motion Picture Blacklist: Seventy-Five Years LaterAuthor: Larry CeplairPublisher: University Press of KentuckyPublished: 09/06/2022Pages: 246Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 8.79h x 5.83w x 0.86dISBN: 9780813195889Review Citation(s): Library Journal 07/08/2022 pg. 1
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