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MetallicaThis book was written mostly in calendar year 2008 either before the Death Magnetic album had been released or after it was released but before we had heard it. It reflects the anger and betrayal many fans of our generation, who had supported Metallica...
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Twenty-First-Century Hollywood: Rebooting the SystemTwenty-First-Century Hollywood looks into the contexts of studio film production in the new century in order to understand what shapes the style and content of present-day cinema. In an era dominated in box-office terms by the franchise and the family film, this book combines...
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Theatre & FeelingHow does a tragedy arouse pity and fear? How do music and lighting set a mood or convey an emotional tone for an audience? Why does theatre move us? Theatre & Feeling explores the idea that, for many people, theatre is a passion. It...
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Religion & Popular Culture: A Cultural Studies ApproachLooking at the intersection of religion and popular culture through a theoretical lens, this new text offers an insightful treatment of this topical area of study. Each chapter outlines different theories and explores how key ideologies inform and interact with aspects of popular culture,...
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Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working ClassFor over two centuries, America has celebrated the same African-American culture it attempts to control and repress, and nowhere is this phenomenon more apparent than in the strange practice of blackface performance. Born of extreme racial and class conflicts, the blackface minstrel show appropriated...
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Film and Cinephilia in Pakistan: Beyond Life and DeathThis volume is a carefully curated selection of recently published academic research, critical essays, translations, and interviews on Pakistani cinema. Indispensable for film enthusiasts, students, and scholars of cinema in Pakistan and beyond, it brings cutting edge works previously trapped behind paywalls together with...
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Eyes Wide Shut: Stanley Kubrick and the Making of His Final FilmTwenty years since its release, Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut remains a complex, visually arresting film about domesticity, sexual disturbance, and dreams. It was on the director's mind for some 50 years before he finally put it into production. Using the Stanley Kubrick Archive...
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Le Cid and the LiarRichard Wilbur's translations of the great French dramas have been a boon to acting troupes, students of French literature and history, and theater lovers. He continues this wonderful work with two plays from Pierre Corneille: Le Cid is Corneille's most famous play, a tragedy...
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Scandals of Classic Hollywood: Sex, Deviance, and Drama from the Golden Age of American CinemaCelebrity gossip meets history in this compulsively readable collection from Buzzfeed reporter Anne Helen Peterson. This guide to film stars and their deepest secrets is sure to top your list for movie gifts and appeal to fans of classic cinema and hollywood history alike....
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Electra and Other PlaysFour seminal tragedies by the master Greek dramatist, in sparkling new translations Of the more than one hundred plays Sophocles wrote over the course of his long life, only seven survive. This volume collects four of them, all newly translated. Electra portrays the grief...
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Bravo, Amelia Bedelia!She's got the beat! Bravo for a funny Amelia Bedelia story.Even though Amelia Bedelia can't play a musical instrument, she plays a big part in the school concert. She is just as happy flattening a bee as playing a B flat, and her favorite...
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Thanksgiving DayThanksgiving is almost Here It's time for Mrs. Madoff's class to put on the Thanksgiving play. Charlie is the ship called the Mayflower, Sarah is a Pilgrim, and Eveline is Chief Massasoit. Everyone has a role to play and a reason to be thankful...
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The Skin of Our Teeth: A PlayWinner of the Pulitzer Prize"Wilder has become a prophet again, searching for values that make humanity worth saving, in a world constantly on the verge of being destroyed either by pitiless nature or by human rage, selfishness, and folly." --Michael Feingold, Village VoiceA timeless...
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Case Closed: Stolen from the StudioLauren Magaziner's hilarious and high-stakes middle grade series gets a touch of Hollywood glamor Pick-your-own-path and puzzle-packed mystery collide in this star-studded sequel in which the reader must help Carlos and his friends solve the disappearance of a famous teen actress.In this wildly entertaining...
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Pinkalicious: Tutu-rrificReaders can watch Pinkalicious and Peterrific on the funtastic PBS Kids TV series Pinkalicious & Peterrific Pinkalicious takes a twirl in this special I Can Read anniversary edition of Pinkalicious: Tutu-rrific Pinkalicious can't wait to go to ballet class with her best friend, Alison,...
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Unfiltered: No Shame, No Regrets, Just Me.This international bestseller--now with a brand-new cover--features a new chapter and never-before-seen photos In her groundbreaking debut essay collection, actress Lily Collins--Golden Globe-nominated star of Rules Don't Apply, Mortal Instruments, and To the Bone--is opening a poignant, honest conversation about the things young women...
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The Billy Bob TapesThere is--and could only ever be--one Billy Bob Thornton: actor, musician, Academy Award-winning screenwriter, and accidental Hollywood badass. In The Billy Bob Tapes, he leads us into his Cave Full of Ghosts, spinning colorful tales of his modest (to say the least) Southern upbringing,...
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MIA and the Big Sister BalletMia the kitten who loves ballet is back in another sweet I Can Read story perfect for fans of Tallulah books and aspiring ballerinas everywhere.When Mia grows up, she wants to be just like her big sister, Ava Ava is a ballerina in a...
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MIA and the Too Big TutuMeet Mia, the kitten who loves ballet This sweet I Can Read story's adorable illustrations and dance dictionary is perfect for fans of the Tallulah books and for aspiring ballerinas of all ages. On her first day at dance class, Mia can't wait to...
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Viola in Reel LifeI'm marooned. Abandoned. Left to rot in boarding school . . . There are four reasons why Viola Chesterton knows she'll never survive her first year at Prefect Academy: Her parents have heartlessly dropped her there against her will She has to leave behind...
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