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The Ultimate Book of Movie MonstersDo you believe in monsters?We dare you to take a look inside this cursed tome containing some of the most iconic and obscure monsters from the history of cinema.Cower in fear of Count Dracula and his dreaded children of the night. Abandon hope as...
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Chantal Akerman: AfterlivesChantal Akerman was one of the most significant directors of our times. A radical innovator of cinematic forms, she was at the forefront of feminist and women's filmmaking. In the 1990s, she developed an important installation practice and began to experiment with self-writing.Focusing on...
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Spoofing the Vampire: Essays on Bloodsucking ComedyFamous for being deathly serious, the vampire genre has a consistent yet often critically overlooked subgenre--the comedic spoof and satire. This is the first book dedicated entirely to documenting and analyzing the vampire comedy on film and television. Various types of comedy are discussed,...
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Jean Gabin: The Actor Who Was FranceJean Gabin was more than just a star of iconic movies still screened in film festivals around the world. To many, he was France itself. During his 45-year career, he acted in 95 films, including Le Quai des Brumes, La Grande Illusion, Touchez Pas...
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Care Aesthetics: For artful care and careful artWhat if the work of a nurse, physio, or homecare worker was designated an art, so that the qualities of the experiences they create became understood as aesthetic qualities? What if the interactions created by artists, directors, dancers, or workshop facilitators were understood as...
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Love from the Pink Palace: Memories of Love, Loss and Cabaret Through the AIDS Crisis'I read the book in one go. I laughed and cried like a baby, and was transported back to a time of innocence, clouded by the enormity of the harsh reality . . . Just amazing' CATHERINE ZETA JONES 'As it happens, I was...
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The Many Lives of Scary Clowns: Essays on Pennywise, Twisty, the Joker, Krusty and MoreThe frightening yet comic clown is one of the best and most enduring characters in literature, theater, television, and film. Across the centuries, from Shakespeare's Porter in Macbeth to Edgar Allan Poe's Hop-Frog, or Stephen King's Pennywise, horror and comedy have blended to create...
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Lakewood Theatre CompanyDiscover through historic photographs how a little theater that traveled from pillar to post with costumes, props, and flats became the Lakewood Theatre Company at Lakewood Center for the Arts.In 1952, a small group gathered at the home of Dorothy Peetz in Lake Oswego,...
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Solid Ivory: MemoirsThe irreverent, brilliant memoirs of the legendary filmmaker James Ivory In Solid Ivory, a carefully crafted mosaic of memories, portraits, and reflections, the Academy Award-winning filmmaker James Ivory, a partner in the legendary Merchant Ivory Productions and the director of A Room with a...
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Teaching Performance Practices in Remote and Hybrid SpacesThis collection of insightful essays gives teachers' perspectives on the role of space and presence in teaching performance. It explores how the demand for remote teaching can be met while at the same time successfully educating and working compassionately in this most 'live' of...
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Puzzling Stories: The Aesthetic Appeal of Cognitive Challenge in Film, Television and LiteratureMany films and novels defy our ability to make sense of the plot. While puzzling storytelling, strange incongruities, inviting enigmas and persistent ambiguities have been central to the effects of many literary and cinematic traditions, a great deal of contemporary films and television series...
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Performing Care: New Perspectives on Socially Engaged PerformanceThis edited collection brings together essays presenting an interdisciplinary dialogue between theatre and performance and the fields of care ethics, care studies, health and social care. The book advances our understanding of performance as a mode of care, challenging existing debates in this area...
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The Cinema of Disorientation: Inviting ConfusionsPrecisely, perhaps, because they are so immediately absorbing, narrative films can also be profoundly confusing and disorienting. This fascinating book neither proposes foolproof methods for avoiding confusion; nor does it suggest that disorientation is always a virtue. Instead it argues that the best way...
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Antonioni and the Aesthetics of Impurity: Remaking the Image in the 1960sInfluential, innovative and aesthetically experimental, the films of Michelangelo Antonioni are widely recognized as both exemplars of cinema and key in ushering in its 'new' or 'modern' incarnation around 1960. Antonioni and the Aesthetics of Impurity offers a radical rethinking of the director's work....
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Black Matters: Lewis Morrow Plays: Baybra's Tulips; Begetters; MothersonBlack Matters: Lewis Morrow Plays is a play anthology that maps the impact of emotional, social, cultural, and economic forces that shape the quality of African American life in the 21st century. Focusing on the narratives of Black men and women carrying the hopes...
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The Switch Image: Television PhilosophyTelevision is the most powerful system of images in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Nonetheless, TV has attained only little philosophical attention so far, especially compared to other (visual) media such as film. This book looks at TV as what happens on...
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A History of ButôButô is rarely given the credit it deserves as one of the most innovative forms of dance and theater that emerged throughout the 20th century. One of the world's leading experts on the form, author Bruce Baird offers in The History of Butô a...
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Refocus: The Films of Rachid BoucharebExamines the diverse oeuvre of internationally recognised French-Algerian director Rachid Bouchareb.Author: Michael GottPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPublished: 08/25/2022Pages: 264Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.82lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.55dISBN: 9781474466523
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The Rigging Math Made Simple WorkbookThe Rigging Math Made Simple Workbook 8 is a companion to Rigging Math Made Simple, Eighth Edition. It contains additional rigging math problems to help riggers hone their math skills. The chapters in this book parallel the lessons in Rigging Math Made Simple, Eighth...
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Applied Theatre: A Pedagogy of UtopiaShortlisted for the 2022 TaPRA David Bradby Monograph Prize Applied Theatre: A Pedagogy of Utopia offers a critical consideration of long-term applied and participatory theatre projects. In doing so, it provides a timely analysis of concepts that inform applied theatre and outlines a new...
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