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Amateur Filmmaking: The Home Movie, the Archive, the WebWith the advent of digital filmmaking and critical recognition of the relevance of self expression, first-person narratives, and personal practices of memorialization, interest in the amateur moving image has never been stronger. Bringing together key scholars in the field, and revealing the rich variety...
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American Film and Society Since 1945One of the few authoritative books about American film and society, American Film and Society since 1945 combines accessible, fun-to-read text with a detailed, insightful, and scholarly political and social analysis that thoroughly explores the relationship of American film to society and provides essential...
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Laurel & Hardy: From the Forties ForwardScott MacGillivray is the author of The Soundies Book (with Ted Okuda), Gloria Jean: A Little Bit of Heaven (with Jan MacGillivray), and Castle Films: A Hobbyist's Guide. Scott MacGillivray's Laurel & Hardy: From the Forties Forward was the first book to fully chronicle...
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Circus TrainThe circus train pulls into town with lions, tigers, elephants, and many other animals.Author: Craig Cameron, Adria F. KleinPublisher: Stone Arch BooksPublished: 01/01/2013Pages: 32Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 8.80h x 5.70w x 0.20dISBN: 9781434248831Audience: Ages 4-8Accelerated Reader:Reading Level: 0.7Point Value: 0.5Interest Level: Lower GradeQuiz #/Name:...
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Bundle: Communicate! Loose-Leaf Version, 15th + Mindtap Speech 1 Term (6 Months) Printed Access CardStudents save money when purchasing bundled products. This bundle contains a loose-leaf version of Communicate! 15th Edition and access to MindTap Speech for 1 term (6 months) via printed access card. MindTap Speech�provides you with the tools you need to better manage�your limited time�you...
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The Importance of Being EarnestA classic satire of Victorian society, Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest" is one of the author's most frequently performed works. The story trivializes its characters, who through a series of deceptions pretend to be people that they are not in order to...
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On PointeOur feet slip into satin shoes with stiff shanks, hard boxing, tight elastic, and slippery ribbons that wrap and end in hard knots. The frayed edges are crammed out of sight. We stand. A row of bound feet rises to its toes. For as...
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FartisteAcross the world there are many an artiste - But none so outrageous as Joe, the Fartiste. The Fartiste doesn't sing, he doesn't dance, and he doesn't act. But that doesn't stop him from taking the stage at Paris's famed Moulin Rouge, where he...
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Horace and Morris Join the Chorus (But What about Dolores?)Best friends Horace, Morris, and Dolores do everything together. So when they try out for the chorus and Dolores (who sings notes no one has ever heard before) doesn't get in, she feels hurt and angry and -- not like Dolores at all --...
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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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