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Film NoirFilm Noir offers new perspectives on this highly popular and influential film genre, providing a useful overview of its historical evolution and the many critical debates over its stylistic elements. Brings together a range of perspectives on a topic that has been much discussed...
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The Theatre of the AbsurdIn 1953, Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot premiered at a tiny avant-garde theatre in Paris; within five years, it had been translated into more than twenty languages and seen by more than a million spectators. Its startling popularity marked the emergence of a new...
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The Coming Death: Traces of Mortality Across East AsiaThe Coming Death explores the question of death and mortality in several key texts of East Asian literature and cinema. By exposing the specific fields of Japanology and Sinology to the more general discourse of thanatology, Richard Calichman aims to define death more expansively...
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A History of Television News Parody in America: Nothing But the TruthinessIn this book, Curt Hersey explores the history of U.S. media, demonstrating how news parody has entertained television audiences by satirizing political and social issues and offering a lighthearted take on broadcast news. Despite shifts away from broadcast and cable delivery, comedians like Samantha...
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Practice as Research in the Arts (and Beyond): Principles, Processes, Contexts, AchievementsThis project addresses the contexts of Practice as Research and how to undertake it. This second iteration updates thinking and practices but sustains a direct and clear approach on how to become a practitioner-researcher. New features include an extension of range "beyond" the arts...
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The Films of Walter Hill: Another Time, Another PlaceIn The Films of Walter Hill: Another Time, Another Place, Brian Brems explores how, as action emerged as a full-fledged genre of cinema, Walter Hill established his position in the genre, first as a screenwriter and then as a director. Hill, Brems argues, helped...
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Not Another One!: A Play For PeaceNOT ANOTHER ONE! A PLAY FOR PEACE is a collection of stories generated to address gun violence and negative police-youth interactions by BIPOC artists and 16-24 year old youth in Saint Louis, Missouri.Saint Louis Story Stitchers artists hope that schools, community centers, juvenile detention...
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The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance HistoriographyThe Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance Historiography sets the agenda for inclusive and wide-ranging approaches to writing history, embracing the diverse perspectives of the twenty-first century and Critical Media History. Written by an international team of authors whose expertise spans a multitude of...
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Urban Playmaking: Constructivist Teaching with a Radical AgendaThis book explores the concept of playmaking and activism through three research projects in which culturally and linguistically diverse high school students and young adults created original theatre around the issues that inform their lives and constrain their futures. Each study discussed by the...
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Cinema of Exploration: Essays on an Adventurous Film PracticeDrawing together 18 contributions from leading international scholars, this book conceptualizes the history and theory of cinema's century-long relationship to modes of exploration in its many forms, from colonialist expeditions to decolonial radical cinemas to the perceptual voyage of the senses made possible by...
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Fakten - Bilder - Töne - Story: Dokumentarische Filmdramaturgie: TV - Video - Netz - KinoDokumentarische Filme aller Genres in TV, Kino und Netz entfalten ihre informative Kraft erst dann, wenn sie dramaturgisch als Erzählungen strukturiert sind, nicht als Aufzählungen. Sie müssen die Emotionen des Publikums wecken, damit die filmische Information verstanden werden kann. Wirksame dokumentarische Filmgestaltung ist begründet...
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Hollywood: The Oral HistoryThe real story of Hollywood as told by such luminaries as Steven Spielberg, Frank Capra, Bette Davis, Meryl Streep, Harold Lloyd, and nearly four hundred others, assembled from the American Film Institute's treasure trove of interviews, reveals a fresh history of the American movie...
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Screenage: How TV Shaped Our Reality, from Tammy Faye to Rupaul'(tm)S Drag Race'Like a superheated kernel of corn, the world has gone Pop... Drag has become mainstream. Being gay became cool. From being the criminal outsider, being queer has even become representative of the way the outsider voice is common to us all.' When he moved...
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The Australian Film Yearbook - 2021 EditionThe Australian Film Yearbook features the work of the flourishing Australian film industry, with over one hundred Australian feature, non-fiction, and short films released to cinemas, streaming platforms, and film festivals during 2021. Discover a thriving and vital film industry that is positively buzzing...
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The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia, Volume 2: 2000-2010This is a comprehensive overview of zombie movies in the first 11 years of the new millennium, the most dynamic and vital period yet in the history of the zombie genre. It serves not only as a follow-up to its predecessor (The Zombie Movie...
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Virtual Storytimes: A Practical Guide for LibrariansThis is the first book to provide practical guidance for library staff on virtual storytime planning and production. Learn how to design virtual youth services tailored to patrons in different communities, and how virtual programs serve as a form of community outreach. Included in...
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Shelley Lasica: When I Am Not ThereThe work of Shelley Lasica reveals a sustained exploration of dance, movement, and the varying contexts in which they can occur. WHEN I AM NOT THERE has been produced to accompany a performance exhibition reflecting on forty years of Lasica's choreographic practice. Held at...
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Quest for the Dragon StarQuest for the Dragon Star: An Oral History of WMAC Masters is the behind-the-scenes story of the legendary 90's martial arts television phenomenon, told by the athletes who lived it! For the first time ever find out what was supposed to happen before its...
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The Laurel & Hardy Movie Scripts, Volume 2: Lost Films and ClassicsDiscover Stan and Ollie's Lost Films - and Delve Deeper into the Classics!The Laurel & Hardy Movie Scripts Volume 2: Lost Films and Classics presents priceless, never-before-published documents created between 1927 and 1935 for 23 of the team's movies. For the first time, you...
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Rhythms, Music, Dances with Percussion Instruments: Ages 4-6How to teach students ages 4 to 6 in the year before kindergarten, and kindergarten, with varying abilities or special needs rhythms, floor exercises / axial movements, large motor skills, expressive dance, kinesthetic mini-lessons, and full dances using percussion instruments as music. Pictures of...
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