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The Starsky and Hutch Trivia Quiz BookIn 1970s America, the landscape of modern television had started to change from the iconic Western to the Crime Drama. Offerings like Beretta, The Streets of San Francisco and Hawaii Five-O competed for the viewer's attention along with a show featuring two dynamic lead...
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Italian Film in the Present TenseFor observers of the European film scene, Federico Fellini's death in 1993 came to stand for the demise of Italian cinema as a whole. Exploring an eclectic sampling of works from the new millennium, Italian Film in the Present Tense confronts this narrative of...
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Visualising Lost Theatres: Virtual Praxis and the Recovery of Performance SpacesAuthor: Joanne Tompkins, Julie Holledge, Jonathan BollenPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 08/25/2022Pages: 220Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.02lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56dISBN: 9781108476751
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Film and Its TechniquesIn a manner completely acceptable to the professional film maker, yet thoroughly understandable and of great value to the amateur cinematographer, Spottiswoode presents the essential, unwritten lore of documentary film making. The book deals first with the ideas for a documentary film, and shows...
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Applied Arts and Health: Building Bridges Across Art, Therapy, Health, Education, and CommunityFresh insights into research approaches within the arts, in and for health and well-being. This forward-thinking collection documents diverse approaches to creative arts engagement, building metaphoric bridges across the field with an emphasis on creativity and well-being in education and community development. The book...
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Endless Intervals: Cinema, Psychology, and Semiotechnics Around 1900Revealing cinema's place in the coevolution of media technology and the humanCinema did not die with the digital, it gave rise to it. According to Jeffrey West Kirkwood, the notion that digital technologies replaced analog obscures how the earliest cinema laid the technological and...
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The Taylor Mac Book: Ritual, Realness and Radical PerformanceThis is the first book to dedicate critical attention to the work of influential theater-maker Taylor Mac. Mac is particularly celebrated for the historic performance event A 24-Decade History of Popular Music, in which Mac, in fantastical costumes designed by collaborator Machine Dazzle, sang...
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Abbas Kiarostami's Cinema of Life: From Homework to Like Someone in LoveStanding apart from celebrated Iranian ideals of war and martyrdom, revolutionary filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami was known as a man who praised life and celebrated it in all his works. Creating films for more than 40 years during times of unending war and political turmoil,...
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Cinema Studies: The Key ConceptsNow in its sixth edition, this essential guide for students provides accessible definitions of a comprehensive range of genres, movements, world cinemas, theories and production terms. This fully revised and updated book includes new topical entries that explore areas such as film and the...
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Dance Legacies of Scotland: The True Glen Orchy KickDance Legacies of Scotland compiles a collage of references portraying percussive Scottish dancing and explains what influenced a wide disappearance of hard-shoe steps from contemporary Scottish practices. Mats Melin and Jennifer Schoonover explore the historical references describing percussive dancing to illustrate how widespread the...
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Boxing and Performance: Memetic HauntingsBoxing and Performance is the first substantial piece of work to place the lived experience of female and male boxers in dialogue with one another.Crews and Lennox critically reflect on their ethnographic experiences of boxing and their reading of the cultural representations of the...
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Practices of Relations in Task-Dance and the Event-Score: A Critique of PerformanceIn this study, Josefine Wikström challenges a concept of performance that makes no difference between art and non-art and argues for a new concept. This book confronts and criticises the way in which the dominating concept of performance has been used in art theory...
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The Amazing MartikaDazzling lights! Amazing stunts! Tricks that leave you wondering, how did they do that?! Martika first saw the circus as a child when her father's Air Force job brought her family to Europe. She was mesmerized! Martika wanted to know everything about circus, its...
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Where Dreams LiveFor as long as Sarah could remember she wanted to be a ballerina. While pursuing her dream with single-minded determination, she learns to accept the reality that life doesn't always bring you to where you want to go. Filled with dreams, memories, and vibrant...
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Constant Comedy: How I Started Comedy Central and Lost My Sense of HumorDiscover the riveting, hilarious true story of the birth of Comedy Central in what New York Times bestselling author, Dan Lyons, calls the "funniest behind-the-scenes memoir I've ever read, full of crazy characters, plot twists, and suspense." Award-Winning Finalist in the Narrative: Non-Fiction category...
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The Prison of Time: Stanley Kubrick, Adrian Lyne, Michael Bay and Quentin TarantinoWe are imprisoned in circadian rhythms, as well as in our life reviews that follow chronological and causal links. For the majority of us our lives are vectors directed toward aims that we strive to reach and delimited by our birth and death. Nevertheless,...
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A Curiously Curious Coloring Book of CuriositiesIndulge in over 50 illustrations designed to fuel your nightmares along with your creativity. Whether you choose to bring life into a three-headed-man-bunny, a field of jumbo strawberries, or even a cat with with fabulous eyebrows, "A Curiously Curious Coloring Book of Curiosities," will...
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Detroit Opera HouseThe theater known today as the Detroit Opera House has been an integral part of the city's culture and history as well as the live entertainment industry. Its existence has been threatened in the past, but it has survived wars, the Great Depression, civil...
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Fooling with the Amish: Amish Mafia, Entertaining Fakery, and the Evolution of Reality TVUsing Amish Mafia as a window into the interplay between the real and the imagined, this book dissects the peculiar appeals and potential dangers of deception in reality TV and popular entertainment.When Amish Mafia was released in 2012, viewers were fascinated by the stories...
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The Oberon Book of Modern Monologues for Women: Teens to ThirtiesMonologues are an essential part of every actor's toolkit. Actors need them for drama school entry, training, showcases and when auditioning for roles in the industry. Edited by Dee Cannon, author of the bestselling In-Depth Acting, this book showcases selected monologues from some of...
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