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Cruisy, Sleepy, Melancholy: Sexual Disorientation in the Films of Tsai Ming-LiangA brilliant approach to the queerness of one of Taiwan's greatest auteurs A critical figure in queer Sinophone cinema--and the first director ever commissioned to create a film for the permanent collection of the Louvre--Tsai Ming-liang is a major force in Taiwan cinema and...
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The Art of Film: Working on James Bond, Aliens, Batman and MoreLegendary Art Director Terry Ackland-Snow lifts the lid on his extraordinary career in cinema Terry Ackland-Snow has been a legendary figure in the film and television industry for more than 40 years. Having worked on over 80 feature films, including two James Bond pictures...
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Romeo and Juliet, Adaptation and the Arts: 'Cut Him Out in Little Stars'Romeo and Juliet is the most produced, translated and re-mixed of all of Shakespeare's plays. This volume takes up the iconographic, linguistic and performance layers already at work within it and tracks the play's dispersal into neighbouring art forms - including ballet, opera, television...
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What You Never Knew about Demi LovatoDemi Lovato rose to stardom as a child actor, and went on to fame as a talented singer and performer. But what is this high-profile star like offstage? High-interest details and bold photos of Demi's fascinating life will enthrall reluctant and struggling readers, while...
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The Sound of Cinema: Hollywood Film Music from the Silents to the PresentWhile some film scores crash through theater speakers to claim their place in memory, others are more unassuming. Either way, a film's score is integral to successful world building. This book lifts the curtain on the elusive yet thrilling art form, examining the birth...
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BerlinersA riveting story about the rivalry between two brothers living on opposite sides of the Berlin wall during its construction in the 1960s, and how their complicated legacy and dreams of greatness will determine their ultimate fate. A city divided. A family fractured. Two...
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ParisEmmie is one of the only Black people living in Paris, Vermont, and she desperately needs a job. When she is hired at Berry's, a store off the interstate selling everything from baby carrots to lawnmowers, she begins to understand a new kind of...
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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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The Ballet DressA barefoot Mary has danced to soaring ballet music from an old gramophone, in her back garden ever since she learned to walk. Her head is filled with dreams of someday becoming a ballerina. Even when she is old enough to go to school,...
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The Other Side of the Rainbow: Behind the Scenes on the Judy Garland Television Series"The Judy Garland Show," which aired Sunday nights at nine on CBS twenty-six times between June 1963 and March 1964, was the last glimmer of a fading star. As Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz Judy Garland had charmed the world, singing and dancing...
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Faith and the Zombie: Critical Essays on the End of the World and BeyondThemes of faith and religion have been threaded through popular representations of the zombie so often that they now seem inextricably linked. Whether as mindless servants to a Vodou Bokor or as evidence of the impending apocalypse, the ravenous undead have long captured something...
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It's me, Billy - Black Christmas RevisitedIt's Me Billy: Black Christmas Revisited is a brand-new definitive book chronicling the making of Bob Clark's seminal 1974 Christmas slasher film. which is gearing up to celebrate its 50th anniversary while still being acclaimed by critics around the world as well as loved...
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Movies with Stanley Cavell in MindIn Movies with Stanley Cavell in Mind, some of the scholars who have become essential for our understanding of Stanley Cavell's writing on film gather to use his landmark contributions to help us read new films-from Hollywood and elsewhere-that exist beyond his immediate reach...
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Seven SamuraiAuthor: Joan MellenPublisher: British Film InstitutePublished: 05/19/2022Pages: 112Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 7.40h x 5.53w x 0.26dISBN: 9781839024771About the AuthorJoan Mellen is Professor of English and Creative Writing at Temple University, Philadelphia, USA. Among her books are Marilyn Monroe (1973), Voices from the Japanese Cinema...
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Performing Copyright: Law, Theatre and AuthorshipBased on empirical research, this innovative book explores issues of performativity and authorship in the theatre world under copyright law and addresses several inter-connected questions: who is the author and first owner of a dramatic work? Who gets the credit and the licensing rights?...
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La RutaTo the U.S.-owned factories in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, La Ruta is just a bus. But to the hundreds of women who live, work and often disappear along the route, it's so much more than that. Inspired by real testimonies, and using live music to...
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Tears of a Ballet MumThis candid memoir opens a fascinating window on the emotive journey of a ballet mum, the mother of Yasmine Naghdi, Principal ballerina of The Royal Ballet. She presents a unique perspective on the many trials and tribulations she has lived through: from her initial...
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Bay Area Stand-Up Comedy: A Humorous HistoryComedians of the San Francisco Bay Area changed comedy forever.From visiting acts like Richard Pryor, Steve Martin and Whoopi Goldberg to local favorites who still maintain their following and legacy, the Bay Area has long been a place for comedians to develop their voice...
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Divergent Tracks: How Three Film Communities Revolutionized Digital Film SoundBy examining three case studies of award-winning soundtracks from cult films-Barton Fink(1991), Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), and The English Patient (1996)-it becomes clear that major American film communities, when confronted with the initial technological changes of the 1990s, experienced similar challenges with the inelegant...
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Horror Film and OthernessWhat do horror films reveal about social difference in the everyday world? Criticism of the genre often relies on a dichotomy between monstrosity and normality, in which unearthly creatures and deranged killers are metaphors for society's fear of the "others" that threaten the "normal."...
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