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Music in the Horror Films of Val LewtonVal Lewton's horror films revolutionized a popular genre through a much-studied and still widely emulated visual style emphasizing shadows and absences. By denying audiences visual confirmation of horror, his reforms placed a fresh burden on the soundtrack of his films. This book offers a...
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The Vagrant Trilogy: Three Plays by Mona Mansour: The Hour of Feeling; The Vagrant; Urge for Going"The [Vagrant Trilogy] extends far beyond the timeline of devastating events, and instead shows us something greater: humanity." -Broadway World The Vagrant Trilogyis a set of three plays by award-winning Arab American playwright Mona Mansour which explores the Palestinian condition prior to, during, and...
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Transmasculinity on TelevisionThis book explores how television and streaming services portray transgender characters who identify as male or nonbinary in television media. Transmasculinity on Television takes a closer look at transmasculine and nonbinary characters on broadcast, cable, and streaming services between 2000 and 2021. Significant changes...
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Thirty Years a DresserDennis Milam Bensie sees himself as way more Thelma Ritter in Mankiewicz's All About Eve than Tom Courtney in Ronald Harwood's harrowing play and movie, The Dresser.Watching The Tony Awards as a teenager in the early 1980s, Bensie knew he wanted to be in...
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Unwritten Literature of Hawaii: The Sacred Songs of the HulaUnwritten Literature of Hawaii: The Sacred Songs of the Hula (1909) is a collection of hulas and essays by Nathaniel B. Emerson. Translating previously unwritten songs, interviewing native Hawaiians, and consulting the works of indigenous historians, Emerson provides an entertaining and authoritative look at...
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Badhai: Hijra-Khwaja Sira-Trans Performance Across Borders in South AsiaThis is the first full-length book to provide an introduction to badhai performances throughout South Asia, examining their characteristics and relationships to differing contexts in Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan. Badhai's repertoires of songs, dances, prayers, and comic repartee are performed by socially marginalised hijra,...
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Immaculate Deception and Further Ribaldries: Yet Another Dozen Medieval French Farces in Modern EnglishDid you hear the one about the Mother Superior who was so busy casting the first stone that she got caught in flagrante delicto with her lover? What about the drunk with a Savior complex who was fool enough to believe himself to be...
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Tap Dap Flap: Rooh Learns to TapRooh loves trying new things and making people smile. So, when her Granny gets sick and goes to the hospital, she decides to take on tap dancing. Rooh wants to encourage her Granny to get better and thinks bringing her joy will help her....
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German #Metoo: Rape Cultures and Resistance, 1770-2020This volume of new essays represents a collective, academic, and activist effort to interpret German literature and culture in the context of the international #MeToo movement, illustrating and interrogating the ways that "rape cultures" persist. Responding to the worldwide impact of the #MeToo movement,...
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Greek Tragedy and the DigitalAdopting an innovative and theoretical approach, Greek Tragedy and the Digital is an original study of the encounter between Greek tragedy and digital media in contemporary performance. It challenges Greek tragedy conventions through the contemporary arsenal of sound masks, avatars, live code poetry, new...
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The Aerial Teacher's HandbookThe process of teaching in the aerial arts is a powerful opportunity to support students in their physical and personal growth. While other resources in the aerial industry focus on the break-down of specific skills or moves, this book dives into the actual teaching...
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The Reenactment in Contemporary Screen Culture: Performance, Mediation, RepetitionDuring the first decades of the 21st century, a critical re-assessment of the reenactment as a form of historical representation has taken place in the disciplines of history, art history and performance studies. Engagement with the reenactment in film and media studies has come...
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Movies Without Baggage: A Guide to Ultra-Low-Budget FilmmakingThe Ultimate guide for guerrilla filmmakers.Through in-the-trenches tales detailing the making of dozens of films th is book covers all aspects of making full-length features for less than $30,000.Author: Alain Silver, Obren BokichPublisher: Silman-James PressPublished: 02/01/2022Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.93lbsSize: 9.01h x 6.10w x 0.79dISBN:...
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The Self and Community in Star Trek: VoyagerAfter they are pulled 700,000 light-years away from Alpha Quadrant, the captain and crew of Star Trek: Voyager must travel homeward while exploring new challenges to their relationships, views of others, and themselves. As the first extended, critical study dedicated to Star Trek: Voyager,...
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The History of French Literature on FilmFrench novels, plays, poems and short stories, however temporally or culturally distant from us, continue to be incarnated and reincarnated on cinema screens across the world. From the silent films of Georges Méliès to the Hollywood production of Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary directed by...
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Cora Witherspoon: A Life on Stage and ScreenBorn into an upper-crust family in New Orleans, Cora Bell Witherspoon (1890-1957) was an orphan by the age of 10 and a professional actress by 15. She was seen on Broadway from 1910 till 1946 in 36 productions and was a popular character actress...
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Preparing for the Global Blackout: A Disaster Guide from TV and CinemaPublisher: Ibidem PressPublished: 11/29/2022Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.70w x 0.80dISBN: 9783838216614
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Across Texts: Essays on Different Forms of French TextualityThe essays grouped together here reflect a career-long preoccupation with aspects of modern French culture. These range from the canonical (no French or indeed European film-maker is more universally admired than Renoir; few screen actresses have aroused such strong feelings as Arletty), by way...
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Waterloo - Making an Epic (hardback): The spectacular behind-the-scenes story of a movie colossusHistory has thrown up few events as dramatic and decisive as the four-day campaign that culminated in the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. In 1970, Italian producer Dino De Laurentiis spent $25 million to re-stage Napoleon's tumultuous encounter with Wellington, portrayed by Rod Steiger...
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Queer Cinema in Contemporary France: Five DirectorsJacques Martineau, Olivier Ducastel, Alain Guiraudie, Sébastien Lifshitz and Céline Sciamma. The films of these five major French directors exemplify queer cinema in the twenty-first century. Comprehensive in scope, Queer cinema in contemporary France traces the development of the meaning of queer across these...
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