Performing Arts

A Surprising History of Cinema.When David Folster discovered that some of the earliest documentary motion pictures were made in New Brunswick-wildlife and wilderness adventure movies-he began the research that led to this book. This lively account of movie making pioneers in New Brunswick includes...

If you want to learn something about Chinese culture, then Peking Opera can be a great start. It is a major opera genre of the nation and definitely one of the most colorful, exquisite, and powerful expressions of art--you don't want to miss out!...

If you want to learn something about Chinese culture, then Peking Opera can be a great start. It is a major opera genre of the nation and definitely one of the most colorful, exquisite, and powerful expressions of art--you don't want to miss out!...

Single Lives is a collection of singleness studies essays from the interdisciplinary humanities that explores the last two hundred years of literature and popular media by, about, and for single women in the US and the UK. Independent women have always been a center...

In 1968, Suzuki Seijun-a low-budget genre filmmaker known for movies including Branded to Kill, Tokyo Drifter, and Youth of the Beast-was unceremoniously fired by Nikkatsu Studios. Soon to be known as the "Suzuki Seijun Incident," his dismissal became a cause for leftist student protestors...

A TIMES BEST COMEDY BOOK OF 2021 'The funniest man in the world has written the funniest book in the world.' DAVID WALLIAMS 'A brilliant insight in to what it takes to go from regular funny bloke to one of the best stand ups...

A new critical approach to cinema and media based on Buddhism as a philosophical discourse How can a philosophical discourse generated in Asia help us reframe and renew cinema and media theory? Cinema Illuminating Reality provides a possible way to do this by using...

Star Trek has transcended science fiction through its use of elements that have crucial roles in classical utopian tradition. New technologies change a civilization, a miniature society unfolds on a spaceship, and an android teaches humanity. Star Trek has been answering many questions about...

The small screen is getting bigger all the time, making it the perfect avenue to find an audience for your scripts.Award-winning screenwriter Roslyn Muir offers clear and simple advice for beginners and experts alike on how to master the popular TV movie thriller and...

A historically rigorous and thorough account of the most influential producer of American motion pictures during the silent era, Erish draws on valuable primary material long overlooked by other historians to introduce readers to the fascinating, forgotten pioneers of Vitagraph.Author: Andrew A. ErishPublisher: University...

This book presents a nuanced view of Northern Ireland, a place at once deeply mired in its past and seeking to forge a new future for itself as a 'post-post-conflict' place within the context of a changing United Kingdom, a disintegrating Europe, and a...

José! Nacido para bailar cuenta la historia de un niño que nació en un pequeño pueblo mexicano y que se convirtió en uno de los más grandes bailarines de todos los tiempos: José Limón. José era un niño con una canción en su corazón...

Su Friedrich (b. 1954) has been described as an autobiographical filmmaker, an experimental filmmaker, a documentary filmmaker, an independent filmmaker, a feminist filmmaker, and a lesbian filmmaker--labels that she sprucely dodges, insisting time and again she is, quite simply, a filmmaker. Nevertheless, the influences...

Two friends wait for god beside an x-ray-cum-time-machine, eating invisible shirts and speaking into their bras like megaphones. They're joined in their theological vigil by a man named after a vegetable and a narcoleptic goat who just might be god. Welcome to the sixth...

What are you Looking at? details a series of public, performance-based social experiments. Framed within personal essays, Wakeland reflects on the relationship between worthiness, ordinariness, and what happens to people's attention in a capitalist system.Author: Erin WakelandPublisher: Ann Arbor District LibraryPublished: 11/07/2021Pages: 162Binding Type:...

An exciting new strand in The Television Series, the 'Moments in Television' collections celebrate the power and artistry of television, whilst interrogating key critical concepts in television scholarship. Each 'Moments' book is organised around a provocative binary theme. Complexity / simplicity addresses the idea...

Griselda Gambaro is arguably one of Argentina's most important dramatists, as well as a playwright of international significance, whose poetics not only interpret Argentine reality but transcend cultural and geographical borders. Despite international recognition, her plays remain little performed in the UK, an absence...

Anita Kerr, a softly spoken, petite lady from Memphis, Tennessee is a window into history. What this gifted and disciplined artist achieved in the man's world that was Nashville in the 50's, and her West Coast ascent in the 60's, is the great untold...

The Queer Biopic in the AIDS Era offers a new account of the AIDS crisis and the emergence of New Queer Cinema. Author Laura Stamm asks why queer filmmakers repeatedly produced biographical films of queer individuals living and dead throughout the years surrounding the...

Featuring a lineup of distinguished academics, this collection remedies the absence of scholarly attention to French cinematic legend Isabelle Huppert. This volume deconstructs Huppert's star persona and public profile through critical and theoretical analysis of her various screen roles-from her very early appearances alongside...