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The Woman Who Dared: The Life and Times of Pearl White, Queen of the SerialsAuthor: William M. DrewPublisher: University Press of KentuckyPublished: 03/07/2023Pages: 672Binding Type: HardcoverISBN: 9780813196831Review Citation(s): Library Journal 12/01/2022 pg. 104
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Canadian Cinema in the New MillenniumAt the turn of the millennium Canadian cinema appeared to have reached an apex of aesthetic and commercial transformation. Domestic filmmaking has since declined in visibility: the sense of celebrity once associated with independent directors has diminished, projects garner less critical attention, and concepts...
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Putting My Heels Down"If your father practiced medicine the way you dance, he'd be under a million lawsuits."That's what Miss Lorraine used to tell Kara as a young dancer in between yelling, "Put your heels down!" In dance, criticism is considered a compliment, so as a young...
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Classical Ballet: A Complete Manual of the Cecchetti Method: Volume 1The sensational discovery of this work by Grazioso Cecchetti, son of the great Italian ballet master Enrico (1850-1928), is now made extremely valuable since it represents the only direct testimony of the famous Cecchetti method of classical ballet (the Italian School), until now passed...
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Dance and EthicsDance and Ethics: Moving Towards a More Humane Culture is an introductory study of ethical issues as applied to the history and field of Western theatrical dance. It is the first sustained work of its kind, inspired by the belief that there are serious...
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The Holiday in His Eye: Stanley Cavell's Vision of Film and PhilosophyFrom The World Viewed to Cities of Words, writing about movies was strand over strand with Stanley Cavell's philosophical work. Cavell was one of the first philosophers in the United States to make film a significant focus of his thought, and William Rothman has...
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Nabokov Noir: Cinematic Culture and the Art of ExileNabokov Noir places Vladimir Nabokov's early literary career--from the 1920s to the 1940s--in the context of his fascination with silent and early sound cinema and the chiaroscuro darkness and artificial brightness of the Weimar era, with its movie palaces, cultural Americanism, and surface culture....
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Monologues for AdultsNeed a killer monologue for an audition? Discover a wealth of fresh options in this detailed tome----Winner of the 2021 Best Indie Book Award in the Acting Book category..Sick of the same scripts being done to death? Looking for a soliloquy relevant to today's...
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The Body in Sound, Music and Performance: Studies in Audio and Sonic ArtsThe Body in Sound, Music and Performance brings together cutting-edge contributions from women working on and researching contemporary sound practice. This highly interdisciplinary book features a host of international contributors and places emphasis on developments beyond the western world, including movements growing across Latin...
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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 Trilogy is a set of three plays by award-winning Arab American playwright Mona Mansour which explores the Palestinian condition prior to,...
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The Improv Book: Improvisation for Theatre, Comedy, Education and LifeA smart, witty and accessible guide to the rewarding and joyful practice of improvisation. Classic improv games and variations Telling stories and creating characters Using improv to make theatre and comedy, from monologues to full-scale productions An asset to students and teachers of improvisation...
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Allegro Non Troppo: Bruno Bozzetto's Animated Music"A film that will let you see the music and listen to drawings; in a word, a film full of Fantasia!" Bruno Bozzetto's Allegro non Troppo tips its hand right away: it is an unabashed, yet full of admiration, retake on Walt Disney's 1940...
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Pimple's Progress: Fred Evans, Britain's First Film Comedy StarIn 1915, British moviegoers voted Fred Evans second only to Charles Chaplin as their favorite film comedian. Appearing as the roguish and anarchic ""Pimple,"" Fred made 200 silent movies between 1910 and 1922, running amok in frantic chases and sending-up current events and fashions....
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Humanity in a Black Mirror: Essays on Posthuman Fantasies in a Technological Near FutureThe presentation of technology as a response to human want or need is a defining aspect of Black Mirror, a series that centers the transhumanist conviction that ontological deficiency is a solvable problem. The articles in this collection continue Black Mirror's examination of the...
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The Complete Book of 1900s Broadway MusicalsBroadway musicals of the 1900s saw the emergence of George M. Cohan and his quintessentially American musical comedies which featured contemporary American stories, ragtime-flavored songs, and a tongue-in-cheek approach to musical comedy conventions. But when the Austrian import The Merry Widow opened in 1907,...
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Experimental and Independent Italian Cinema: Legacies and Transformations Into the Twenty-First CenturyDiscussing a variety of independent and experimental Italian films, this book gives voice to a critcically neglected form of Italian cinema. By examining the work of directors such as Marinella Pirelli, Mirko Locatelli and Cesrae Zavattini, the book defines, inspects and studies the cinematic...
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Women in the WesternIn Westerns, women transmit complicated cultural coding about the nature of westward expansionism, heroism, family life, manliness and American femininity. As the genre changes and matures, depictions of women have transitioned from traditional to more modern roles. Frontier Feminine charts these significant shifts in...
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My Dancing FeetDancing Feet is a book for young dancers about doing what they love. Dancing!! A wonderful book about the joys and nerves involved in learning to dance. The book includes an activity section for dancers to record their own dance goals and accomplishments. A...
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Citizenship on Catfish Row: Race and Nation in American Popular CultureA radical reinterpretation of three controversial works that illuminate racism and national identity in the United StatesCitizenship on Catfish Row focuses on three seminal works in the history of American culture: the first full-length narrative film, D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation;...
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Breaks in the Air: The Birth of Rap Radio in New York CityIn Breaks in the Air John Klaess tells the story of rap's emergence on New York City's airwaves by examining how artists and broadcasters adapted hip hop's performance culture to radio. Initially, artists and DJs brought their live practice to radio by buying time...
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