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Shorty's ArkShorty's Ark is a book for young readers, a collaborative effort between singer Will Oldham and graphic artist Lori Damiano, based on work by Oldham and musician Matt Sweeney. Drawing inspiration from the story of Noah, Shorty's Ark names and pictures a wild variety...
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What If?: Twenty-Two Scenarios in Search of ImagesAn imagination of possibilities, of miscalculations, of futures off-kilter "Probability is a chimera, its head is true, its tail a suggestion. Futurologists attempt to compel the head to eat the tail (ouroboros). Here, though, we will try to wag the tail." --Vilém Flusser Two...
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Beyond the Hero's Journey: Crafting Powerful and Original Character Arcs for the ScreenTelling a story is simple, right? You take a 'hero' and send them on a 'journey'. There's a beginning, middle and an end. But what if your story doesn't fit into that basic structure?In Beyond the Hero's Journey, BAFTA award-winning screenwriter Anthony Mullins presents...
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Bruce Lee: Eastern Heroes Special collectors Edition No 1Bruce Lee: Eastern Heroes Special collectors Edition No 1After the success of the relaunch of Eastern Heroes magazine, we have now created a new Special edition, focusing on Bruce Lee.Packed with many new articles from various authors. Including "Enter the Dragon" reimagined, Brett Ratner,...
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Social TV: Multi-Screen Content and Ephemeral CultureOn March 15, 2011, Donald Trump changed television forever. The Comedy Central Roast of Trump was the first major live broadcast to place a hashtag in the corner of the screen to encourage real-time reactions on Twitter, generating more than 25,000 tweets and making...
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Fear City Cinema: The Dark Side of New York in Film, 1965-1995This book studies a grouping of films set in New York City between 1965 and 1995, reflecting a town besieged by rampant criminality, social distress and physical decay. Fear City is a term the NYPD used to label New York as a frightening environment,...
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Can You Dig It: The Phenomenon of The WarriorsCAN YOU DIG ITWalter Hill's The Warriors was not just a motion picture-it was a social phenomenon on every level.The tale of a Coney Island street gang who, framed for murder, have to make the perilous journey back to home turf across the terrain...
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Experiencing Cinema: Participatory Film Cultures, Immersive Media and the Experience EconomyFilm is often conceived as a medium that is watched rather than experienced. Existing studies of film audiences, and of media reception more broadly, have revealed the complexity of viewing practices and cultures surrounding cinema-going and its exhibition spaces. Experiencing Cinema offers the first...
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Ethical Encounters: Transnational Feminism, Human Rights, and War Cinema in BangladeshEthical Encounters is an exploration of the intersection of feminism, human rights, and memory to illuminate how visual practices of recollecting violent legacies in Bangladeshi cinema can conjure a global cinematic imagination for the advancement of humanity. By examining contemporary, women-centered Muktijuddho cinema--features and...
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Deconstructing Will Smith: Race, Masculinity and Global StardomAcclaimed actor and rap artist Will Smith has achieved a level of Hollywood fame rarely attained by a Black celebrity. Early in his career, Smith aspired to be the world's most famous movie star and being named the world's top film attraction in 2008,...
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Contingent Encounters: Improvisation in Music and Everyday LifeContingent Encounters offers a sustained comparative study of improvisation as it appears between music and everyday life. Drawing on work in musicology, cultural studies, and critical improvisation studies, as well as his own performing experience, Dan DiPiero argues that comparing improvisation across domains calls...
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Design in Motion: Film Experiments at the BauhausThe first comprehensive history in English of film at the Bauhaus, exploring practices that experimented with film as an adaptable, elastic "polymedium." With Design in Motion, Laura Frahm proposes an alternate history of the Bauhaus--one in which visual media, and film in particular, are...
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The Day Nina Simone Stopped SingingOn the evening of her father's funeral, while his family recites suras from the Koran, Noun interrupts the ceremony. Faithful to the memory of her father, a writer and journalist, a freedom fighter, she decides to put an end to this memorial and to...
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Staging Technology: Medium, Machinery, and Modern DramaThrough an examination of a range of performance works ranging from Jean Cocteau's ballet The Eiffel Tower Wedding Party (1921) to Julie Taymor's monumental production of Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark (2010) and Mexican playwright Isaac Gomez's La Ruta(2018), Staging Technologyasks what becomes visible...
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History by HBO: Televising the American PastBalancing historical and film theory in her assessment of the roles of mise-en-scène, characterization, narrative complexity, and sound in the production of effective historical dramas, Weeks' evaluation acts as an ode to the most recent Golden Ageof TV, as well as a critical look...
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Mia's Life: Best Friends for NeverWhen IRL YouTube star Mia Fizz gets involved in a school play, the drama doesn't stay onstage...YouTube sensation Mia Fizz loves three things: her family, the Miacorns (her fans!), and her BFF, Briony. When Briony is chosen to direct a play for her after-school...
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On CueCan Randi find a way to make it all work out? Randi wants to be an actress and is excited about practicing her craft in drama class. So she is devastated to learn the program has been cut. When her friends put together a...
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TV Gothic: The Golden Age of Small Screen HorrorMost horror film fans are familiar with the movie classics, from the early Universal archetypes to the Hammer landmarks--all of which have been celebrated in countless books and magazines. But what about the parallel universe of television horror? The series, made-for-TV-movies and specials? With...
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Transpacific Convergences: Race, Migration, and Japanese American Film Culture Before World War IIDespite the rise of the Hollywood system and hostility to Asian migrant communities in the early twentieth-century United States, Japanese Americans created a thriving cinema culture that produced films and established theaters and exhibition companies to facilitate their circulation between Japan and the United...
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Cherished Memories: Tales from Perry County StorytellersNative Perry Countians are a proud bunch, who had the privilege of growing up in a peaceful rural county in central Pennsylvania. Today, we still strive to preserve our special way of life. Part of the preservation effort is to share our stories, and...
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