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Sally Rand: American Sex SymbolShe would appear in more than thirty films and be named after a Road Atlas by Cecil B. DeMille. A football play would be named after her. She would appear on To Tell the Truth. She would be arrested six times in one day...
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The Outer LimitsIn this TV Milestone, author Joanne Morreale highlights the differences of The Outer Limits (ABC 1963-65) from typical programs on the air in the 1960s. Morreale argues that the show provides insight into changes in the television industry as writers turned to genre fiction-in...
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Tesla: All My Dreams Are TrueTesla jolts and flows between the extraordinary life of the inventor Nikola Tesla, the making of a feature film about him by the celebrated director Michael Almereyda, and episodes from the filmmaker's own restless, quixotic career. In these pages, we encounter Tesla's colleagues and...
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The Storytelling Almanac: A Weekly Guide To Telling A Better StoryThe Storytelling Almanac is a tool that will improve your skills as a story creator. Regardless of the industry you work in, the mediums you employ, or the audience you create for, this book will help you begin to understand the underlying psychology beneath...
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Noah McNichol and the Backstage Ghost"Will make a theater lover of any young reader." --Booklist Perfect for fans of The Wednesday Wars, this raucous and delightful middle grade mystery from Edgar Award-nominated author Martha Freeman is filled with backstage fun, relatable family drama, and maybe even a ghost. Break...
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Campari and CinemaAn illustrated history of Campari's hands-on patronage of the film industryThis volume examines the longstanding and fruitful relationship between Campari and the film industry. Tracing Campari's long history as an enthusiastic and involved patron of cinema, the book details how the company's support has...
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Jia Zhangke on Jia ZhangkeJia Zhangke on Jia Zhangke is an extended dialogue between film scholar Michael Berry and the internationally acclaimed Chinese filmmaker. Drawing from extensive interviews and public talks, this volume offers a portrait of Jia's life, art, and approach to filmmaking. Jia and Berry's conversations...
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Monologues for Teens II: 60 New Monologues to InspireTeenage drama student tired of playing middle-aged grownups? Find stage pieces tailored to the real-world in this amazing new collection.Monologues for Teens II is the latest installment in The Young Actor Series and the long-awaited follow-up to the award-winning Monologues for Teens. Full voting...
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Breaking Into Song: Why You Shouldn't Hate Musicals'This book is a fascinating cri de coeur and made me question everything I think about musicals.' Alan CummingPeople rarely say they hate books, or television, or films. But they often say they hate musicals. Moreover everyone seems to have a fixed idea of...
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Becoming Carole Lombard: Stardom, Comedy, and LegacyBecoming Carole Lombard: Stardom, Comedy and Legacy is a historical critique of the development and reception of Carole Lombard's stardom from the classical Hollywood period to present day. Based on original archival research, Olympia Kiriakou combines theoretically informed textual analyses of Lombard's performances and...
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Eco Soma: Pain and Joy in Speculative Performance EncountersModeling a disability culture perspective on performance practice toward socially just futures In Eco Soma, Petra Kuppers asks readers to be alert to their own embodied responses to art practice and to pay attention to themselves as active participants in a shared sociocultural world....
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Anime's Identity: Performativity and Form Beyond JapanA formal approach to anime rethinks globalization and transnationality under neoliberalism Anime has become synonymous with Japanese culture, but its global reach raises a perplexing question--what happens when anime is produced outside of Japan? Who actually makes anime, and how can this help us...
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The West Wing Playing CardsWalk and talk with your favorite characters from The West Wing, illustrated on this unofficial deck of cards. If you don't love The West Wing, the chances are you don't actually have a pulse and should seek immediate medical treatment. It's one of the...
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Good Times Roll: A Children's Picture BookRic Ocasek's rock and roll classic, Good Times Roll--one of the Cars' hit songs--leaps off the page in this exhilarating picture book. Let the good times roll Let them knock you around Let the good times roll Let them make you a clown ....
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Another Miserable Love SongWhen a punk band asks Kallie to sing for them, she must decide if she's got the heart. Kallie Echo is starting to think dreams are dangerous. Her dad had one--to be a rock star--and then he died. Now Kallie is practically homeless and...
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Winning Westeros: How Game of Thrones Explains Modern Military ConflictSet in the fictitious world of Westeros, the hit television series Game of Thrones chronicles the bitter and violent struggle between the realm's noble dynasties for control of the Seven Kingdoms. But this beloved fantasy drama has just as much to say about the...
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Mean...Moody...Magnificent!: Jane Russell and the Marketing of a Hollywood LegendBy the early 1950s, Jane Russell (1921--2011) should have been forgotten. Her career was launched on what is arguably the most notorious advertising campaign in cinema history, which invited filmgoers to see Howard Hughes's The Outlaw (1943) and to "tussle with Russell." Throughout the...
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Democracy Moving: Bill T. Jones, Contemporary American Performance, and the Racial PastOn the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth, renowned choreographer and director Bill T. Jones developed three tributes: Serenade/The Proposition, 100 Migrations, and Fondly Do We Hope . . . Fervently Do We Pray. These widely acclaimed dance works incorporated video and audio text...
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Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made RadioEmpire of the Air tells the story of three American visionaries--Lee de Forest, Edwin Howard Armstrong, and David Sarnoff--whose imagination and dreams turned a hobbyist's toy into radio, launching the modern communications age. Tom Lewis weaves the story of these men and their achievements...
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The Afterlives of Kathleen Collins: A Black Woman Filmmaker's Search for New LifeAn absorbing portrait of a groundbreaking Black woman filmmaker.Kathleen Collins (1942-88) was a visionary and influential Black filmmaker. Beginning with her short film The Cruz Brothers and Miss Malloy and her feature film Losing Ground, Collins explored new dimensions of what narrative film could...
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