Performing Arts
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Inside Tap: Technique and Improvisation for Today's Tap DancerThis comprehensive guide to tap offers traditional and improvisational instruction for the beginner and new, innovative material for the intermediate and advanced dancer. It reviews the basics, and then progresses through creativity and musicality, rhythm, dynamics, and syncopation. Traditional steps such as the Shim...
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Art in Motion, Revised Edition: Animation AestheticsArt in Motion, Revised Edition is the first comprehensive examination of the aesthetics of animation in its many forms. It gives an overview of the relationship between animation studies and media studies, then focuses on specific aesthetic issues concerning flat and dimensional animation, full...
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Fort Lee: The Film Town (1904-2004)During the 1910s, motion pictures came to dominate every aspect of life in the suburban New Jersey community of Fort Lee. During the nickelodeon era, D.W. Griffith, Mary Pickford, and Mack Sennett would ferry entire acting companies across the Hudson to pose against the...
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Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American FilmsThis classic iconic study of black images in American motion pictures has been updated and revised, as Donald Bogle continues to enlighten us with his historical and social reflections on the relationship between African Americans and Hollywood. He notes the remarkable shifts that have...
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The Forms of the AffectsWhat is the relationship between a cinematic grid of color and that most visceral of negative affects, disgust? How might anxiety be a matter of an interrupted horizontal line, or grief a figure of blazing light?Offering a bold corrective to the emphasis on embodiment...
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Nothing Happens: Chantal Akerman's Hyperrealist EverydayThrough films that alternate between containment, order, and symmetry on the one hand, and obsession, explosiveness, and a lack of control on the other, Chantal Akerman has gained a reputation as one of the most significant filmmakers working today. Her 1975 film Jeanne Dielman,...
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Ishiro Honda: A Life in Film, from Godzilla to KurosawaThe first comprehensive biography of the director behind Godzilla and other Japanese sci-fi classicsIshiro Honda was arguably the most internationally successful Japanese director of his generation, with an unmatched succession of science fiction films that were commercial hits worldwide. From the atomic allegory of...
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Legacies of Twentieth-Century DanceSelected writings illuminate a century of international dance.Lynn Garafola has written some of the most influential historical studies and criticism in the field of dance. Legacies of Twentieth-Century Dance is a selection of her essays and reviews that together document the extraordinary transformation of...
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Television's Second Golden Age: From Hill Street Blues to ErThis is an insider's tour, touching on the network's dizzying decision-making process, and the artists who have revolutionized the medium.Author: Robert ThompsonPublisher: Syracuse University PressPublished: 10/01/1997Pages: 220Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 8.95h x 6.01w x 0.63dISBN: 9780815605041About the AuthorRobert J. Thompson is professor at S....
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The Business of TelevisionIn this book, esteemed television executive and Harvard lecturer Ken Basin offers a comprehensive overview of the business, financial, and legal structure of the U.S. television industry, as well as its dealmaking norms. Written for working or aspiring creative professionals who want to better...
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African American Cinema Through Black Lives ConsciousnessAfrican American Cinema through Black Lives Consciousness uses critical race theory to discuss American films that embrace contemporary issues of race, sexuality, class, and gender. Its linear history chronicles black-oriented narrative film from post-World War II through the presidential administration of Barack Obama. Editor...
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Im Kwon-Taek: The Making of a Korean National CinemaKorean cinema was virtually unavailable to the West during the Japanese colonial period (1910-1945), and no film made before 1943 has been recovered even though Korea had an active film-making industry that produced at least 240 films. For a period of forty years, after...
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Dreams of ChaosIn spite of the difficulty of most American avant-garde films, one can read volumes and find almost no mention of how to view these films. Dreams of Chaos, Visions of Order addresses precisely this question: how--and to what extent--can viewers make sense of American...
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Funny, You Don't Look Funny: Judaism and Humor from the Silent Generation to MillennialsIn this comprehensive approach to Jewish humor focused on the relationship between humor and American Jewish practice, Jennifer Caplan calls us to adopt a more expansive view of what it means to "do Jewish," revealing that American Jews have, and continue to, turn to...
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Film AdaptationSome of the earliest feature films were derived from classic literature. Even today, most of the movies we see are adaptations of one kind or another. People who have never read Jane Austen can see her characters on the screen; but filmgoers can also...
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The Healing Stage: Black Women, Incarceration, and the Art of TransformationOver the last five decades, Black women have been one of the fastest-growing segments of the global prison population, thanks to changes in policies that mandate incarceration for nonviolent offenses and criminalize what women do to survive interpersonal and state violence. In The Healing...
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He's Got Rhythm: The Life and Career of Gene KellyHe sang and danced in the rain, proclaimed New York to be a wonderful town, and convinced a group of Parisian children that they had rhythm. One of the most influential and respected entertainers of Hollywood's golden age, Gene Kelly revolutionized film musicals with...
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Raoul Walsh: The True Adventures of Hollywood's Legendary DirectorRaoul Walsh (1887-1980) was known as one of Hollywood's most adventurous, iconoclastic, and creative directors. He carved out an illustrious career and made films that transformed the Hollywood studio yarn into a thrilling art form. Walsh belonged to that early generation of directors-along with...
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Twelfth NightA pair of twins are separated by a shipwreck, each believing the other has drowned. A lovesick duke woos a countess deep in mourning for her brother, while her rowdy household plots the downfall of her puritanical steward. Disguise, confusion, and mistaken identity follow...
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The Hollywood Posse: Story of a Gallant Band of Horsemen Who Made Movie History, theAfter 1912, when the great cattle empires began to crumble, hundreds of seasoned cowboys found themselves jobless. A handful of discarded horsemen, however, stumbled upon an entirely new frontier-Hollywood. In a rare insider's view, Diana Serra Cary tells the story of these cowboys, who...
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