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The Magic FluteFrom Caldecott Medalist and New York Times bestselling author-illustrator Chris Raschka comes a gorgeously illustrated retelling of Mozart's classic opera, The Magic Flute. The Magic Flute is the favorite choice of many opera lovers. But ask any of them to tell you the rambunctious,...
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Nate Expectations"The Nate series by Tim Federle is a wonderful evocation of what it's like to be a theater kid. Highly recommended." --Lin-Manuel Miranda, star and creator of the musical, Hamilton "An exceptional swan song for a beloved character." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Third time's...
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Animation By FilmationANIMATION BY FILMATION, by Michael Swanigan and Darrell McNeil. The book is in EXCELLENT condition. 176 pages... all black & white... 8.5" x 11". This is an extremely rare and long out-of-print historical retrospective of FILMATION STUDIOS. Filmation Studios, which for over 25 years...
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The Best American Short PlaysFor more than 70 years, The Best American Short Plays has been the standard of excellence for one-act plays in America. From its inception, it has identified cutting-edge playwrights - Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, and others - who have gone on to establish award-winning...
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One on One: The Best Monologues for Mature ActorsWhile contemporary American culture may be fixated on youthful sex appeal, the truth is that the most complex and interesting characters in dramatic literature have been (and still are) those over 40 years old. Whether it's Big Daddy in Cat on a Hot Tin...
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The Hollywood Jim Crow: The Racial Politics of the Movie IndustryThe story of racial hierarchy in the American film industry The #OscarsSoWhite campaign, and the content of the leaked Sony emails which revealed, among many other things, that a powerful Hollywood insider didn't believe that Denzel Washington could "open" a western genre film, provide...
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Ricanness: Enduring Time in Anticolonial PerformanceHonorable Mention, 2020 Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History, given by the American Society for Theatre Research Argues that Ricanness operates as a continual performance of bodily endurance against US colonialism In 1954, Dolores "Lolita" Lebrón and other members of the...
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Katie's Noisy MusicKatie loves music, and she'd like to make music of her own. She enjoys all of the instruments her dad and friends play, but none seem right for her. What instrument will match the music in Katie's heart?Author: Fran ManushkinPublisher: Picture Window BooksPublished: 01/01/2015Pages:...
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The Many Cinemas of Michael CurtizDirector Michael Curtiz was the mastermind behind some of the most iconic films of classical Hollywood--Casablanca, Yankee Doodle Dandy, The Sea Hawk, White Christmas, and Mildred Pierce, to name only a few. The most prolific and consistently successful Hollywood generalist with an all-embracing interest...
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A Place of Darkness: The Rhetoric of Horror in Early American CinemaHorror is one of the most enduringly popular genres in cinema. The term "horror film" was coined in 1931 between the premiere of Dracula and the release of Frankenstein, but monsters, ghosts, demons, and supernatural and horrific themes have been popular with American audiences...
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The Classical Mexican Cinema: The Poetics of the Exceptional Golden Age FilmsFrom the mid-1930s to the late 1950s, Mexican cinema became the most successful Latin American cinema and the leading Spanish-language film industry in the world. Many Cine de Oro (Golden Age cinema) films adhered to the dominant Hollywood model, but a small yet formidable...
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Blossoms and Blood: Postmodern Media Culture and the Films of Paul Thomas AndersonFrom his film festival debut Hard Eight to ambitious studio epics Boogie Nights, Magnolia, and There Will Be Blood, Paul Thomas Anderson's unique cinematic vision focuses on postmodern excess and media culture. In Blossoms and Blood, Jason Sperb studies the filmmaker's evolving aesthetic and...
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Willful Monstrosity: Gender and Race in 21st Century HorrorTaking in a wide range of film, television, and literature, this volume explores 21st century horror and its monsters from an intersectional perspective with a marked emphasis on gender and race. The analysis, which covers over 70 narratives, is organized around four primary monstrous...
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Uncovering Stranger Things: Essays on Eighties Nostalgia, Cynicism and Innocence in the SeriesThe Duffer Brothers' award-winning Stranger Things exploded onto the pop culture scene in 2016. The Netflix original series revels in a nostalgic view of 1980s America while darkly portraying the cynical aspects of the period. This collection of 23 new essays explores how the...
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Jack Lord: An Acting LifeBefore his rise to superstardom portraying Detective Steve McGarrett on the long-running police drama Hawaii Five-O, Jack Lord was already a dedicated and versatile actor on Broadway, in film and on television. His range of roles included a Virginia gentleman planter in Colonial Williamsburg...
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A History of the Doc Savage Adventures in Pulps, Paperbacks, Comics, Fanzines, Radio and FilmDoc Savage is the prototype of the modern fictional superhero. The character exploded onto the scene in 1933, with the Great Depression and the gathering clouds of war as a cultural backdrop. The adventure series is examined in relation to historical events and the...
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Lotte Reiniger: Pioneer of Film AnimationFor three years during the 1920s, in an attic in Potsdam, a young woman crafted what is today the oldest surviving animated feature film. Equipped with scissors, cardboard, sheets of lead, glass panes and a camera, animation pioneer Lotte Reiniger filmed Die Abenteuer des...
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Tanaka Kinuyo: Nation, Stardom and Female SubjectivityBringing together a range of Japanese and western scholars, this is the first book in English dedicated to the actress and director Tanaka Kinuyo. Praised as amongst the greatest actors in the history of Japanese cinema, Tanaka's career spanned the industrial development of cinema...
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Othello: Arden Performance Editions'I wish I had copies like this at Drama School. Essential notes on the language for those who will get up and speak it, not purely for those who will sit and study it. An incredibly useful tool with room on every page to...
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The Semiotics of Clowns and Clowning: Rituals of Transgression and the Theory of LaughterDuring the last 300 years circus clowns have emerged as powerful cultural icons. This is the first semiotic analysis of the range of make-up and costumes through which the clowns' performing identities have been established and go on developing. It also examines what Bouissac...
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