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  • Teaching Dance Improvisation Teaching Dance Improvisation
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    Teaching Dance Improvisation

    Teaching Dance Improvisation serves as an introduction to, and a springboard for the author's theories, practices, and curriculum building of dance improvisation as a technique.
    $347.00

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  • How to Read a Play How to Read a Play
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    How to Read a Play

    Now in a fully updated second edition, How to Read a Play offers methods for analyzing play scripts from a diverse range of perspectives, giving directors practical tools as they prepare for production.
    $90.00

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  • Jatinder Verma Jatinder Verma
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    Jatinder Verma

    Jatinder Verma has been a pioneering figure in the development of British South Asian theatre, and a prominent spokesperson for the importance of increased diversity amongst playwrights, actors, directors, designers, and producers on the mainstream...
    $97.00

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  • Reflections of Dance along the Brahmaputra Reflections of Dance along the Brahmaputra
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    Reflections of Dance along the Brahmaputra

    This volume brings a critical lens to dance and culture within North East India. Through case studies, first-hand accounts, and interviews, it explores unique folk dances of Indigenous communities of North East India that reflect diverse journeys,...
    $373.00

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  • The Playful Politics of Memes The Playful Politics of Memes
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    The Playful Politics of Memes

    This book studies how memes disrupt and reimagine politics in humorous ways. Memes create a playful activity that follows a shared set of rules and gives a (shared) voice, which may generate togetherness and political identities but also increase...
    $105.00

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  • Theatre in Towns Theatre in Towns
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    Theatre in Towns

    Theatre in Towns offers a contemporary perspective on the role of theatre in the cultural life of towns in England. Exploring volunteer-led, professional and community theatres, this book investigates the rich and diverse ways that theatres in towns...
    $54.00

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  • Horror and Science Fiction Cinema and Society Horror and Science Fiction Cinema and Society
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    Horror and Science Fiction Cinema and Society

    Examining how horror and science fiction films from the 1950s to the present invent and explore fictional "us-versus-them" scenarios, this book analyzes how such films employ allegory and/or satire to interrogate the causes and consequences of ...
    $105.00

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  • Venus's Palace Venus's Palace
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    Venus's Palace

    This book lays bare the dialogue between Shakespeare and critics of the stage, and positions it as part of an ongoing cultural, ethical, and psychological debate about the effects of performance on actors and on spectators.
    $105.00

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  • The VES Handbook of Virtual Production The VES Handbook of Virtual Production
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    The VES Handbook of Virtual Production

    This book is a comprehensive guide to everything about virtual production available today - from pre-production to digital character creation, building a stage, choosing LED panels, setting up Brain Bars, in-camera compositing of live action and CG...
    $131.00

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  • Don't Dress for Dinner Don't Dress for Dinner
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    Don't Dress for Dinner

    Comedy / Characters: 3 male, 3 femaleScenery: Interior This boulevard comedy was a smash hit in Paris, where it played for over two years, and in London, where critical acclaim greeted the Apollo Theatre production. Bernard is planing a weekend with his...
    $41.00

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  • Food in Film Food in Film
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    Food in Film

    Using an interdisciplinary approach combining film, semiotics, social-anthropology and history, this book examines food sciences in selected films to reveal food's power to direct and impose values and beliefs, to understand how dining venues may become...
    $373.00

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  • The Screenwriter Activist The Screenwriter Activist
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    The Screenwriter Activist

    Hotel Rwanda. Philadelphia.  Silkwood. Some of the most important films ever made have tackled real-world social issues, from genocide to homophobia to corporate greed. As storytellers, activist screenwriters recognize that social issues make great...
    $100.00

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  • What Media Classes Really Want to Discuss What Media Classes Really Want to Discuss
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    What Media Classes Really Want to Discuss

    You probably already have a clear idea of what a "discussion guide for students" is: a series of not-very-interesting questions at the end of a textbook chapter. Instead of triggering thought-provoking class discussion, all too often these guides are...
    $373.00

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  • Fashion In Focus Fashion In Focus
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    Fashion In Focus

    The study of fashion has exploded in recent decades, yet quite what this all means, quite where it might take us, is not clear. This new book helps to bring fashion into focus, with a comprehensive guide to the key theories, perspectives and developments...
    $373.00

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  • The Senses in Performance The Senses in Performance
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    The Senses in Performance

    The first anthology dedicated to critically assess the role of the human sensorium in performance - from ritual to theatre, from dance to architecture. The anthology gathers original essays by leading international scholars and artists.
    $373.00

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  • The Action and Adventure Cinema The Action and Adventure Cinema
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    The Action and Adventure Cinema

    This exciting collection addresses action and adventure from the silent to the contemporary period exploring diverse questions of aesthetics, industry and ideology. Action has established itself as one of the leading commercial genres of the New...
    $373.00

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  • Media Practices, Social Movements, and Performativity Media Practices, Social Movements, and Performativity
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    Media Practices, Social Movements, and Performativity

    As individuals incorporate new forms of media into their daily routines, these media transform individuals' engagement with networks of heterogeneous actors. Using the concept of media practices, this volume looks at processes of social and political...
    $111.00

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  • Contemporary British Television Crime Drama Contemporary British Television Crime Drama
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    Contemporary British Television Crime Drama

    Contemporary British Television Crime Drama examines one of the medium's most popular genres and places it within its historical and industrial context. The television crime drama has proved itself capable of numerous generic reinventions and continues...
    $113.00

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  • The Contemporary Femme Fatale The Contemporary Femme Fatale
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    The Contemporary Femme Fatale

    The femme fatale occupies a precarious yet highly visible space in contemporary cinema. From sci-fi alien women to teenage bad girls, filmmakers continue to draw on the notion of the sexy deadly woman in ways which traverse boundaries of genre and...
    $111.00

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  • Community Filmmaking Community Filmmaking
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    Community Filmmaking

    This book examines the role of community filmmaking in society and its connection with issues of cultural diversity, innovation, policy and practice in various places. Deploying a range of examples from Europe, North America, Australia and Hong Kong, the...
    $111.00

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  • US Youth Films and Popular Music US Youth Films and Popular Music
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    US Youth Films and Popular Music

    This book brings theory from popular music studies to an examination of identity and agency in youth films while building on, and complementing, film studies literature concerned with genre, identity, and representation. McNelis includes case studies of...
    $111.00

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  • Girlhood on Disney Channel Girlhood on Disney Channel
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    Girlhood on Disney Channel

    Since the early 2000s, Disney Channel has been dominated by original live-action programming popular among tween girls. The shows' successes rely not only on their popularity among girl audiences, but also on the development of star personae by girl...
    $111.00

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  • The Modern Superhero in Film and Television The Modern Superhero in Film and Television
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    The Modern Superhero in Film and Television

    Hollywood's live-action superhero films currently dominate the worldwide box-office, with the characters enjoying more notoriety through their feature film and television depictions than they have ever before. This book argues that this immense...
    $111.00

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  • The Rise of Transtexts The Rise of Transtexts
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    The Rise of Transtexts

    This volume builds on previous notions of transmedia practices to develop the concept of transtexts, in order to account for both the industrial and user-generated contributions to the cross-media expansion of a story universe. On the one hand exists...
    $111.00

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  • Intersecting Art and Technology in Practice Intersecting Art and Technology in Practice
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    Intersecting Art and Technology in Practice

    This book focuses on the artistic process, creativity and collaboration, and personal approaches to creation and ideation, in making digital and electronic technology-based art. Less interested in the outcome itself - the artefact, artwork or performance...
    $111.00

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  • The Silents of Jesus in the Cinema (1897-1927) The Silents of Jesus in the Cinema (1897-1927)
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    The Silents of Jesus in the Cinema (1897-1927)

    While Jesus has attracted the sporadic interest of film-makers since the epics of the Sixties, it is often forgotten that between the advent of motion pictures in the 1890s and the close of the "silent" era at the end of the 1920s, some of the longest,...
    $113.00

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  • Il crollo del falso comunismo è incominciato all'ovest Il crollo del falso comunismo è incominciato all'ovest
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    Il crollo del falso comunismo è incominciato all'ovest

    L'Unificazione del mercato mondiale e la crisi di accumulazione iniziata negli Stati Uniti hanno fatto saltare i classici anelli deboli. Tre testi: sul crack borsistico dell'87, sul crollo del muro di Berlino e sulla crisi del sistema bancario americano...
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  • ELDER LATIMER IS IN LOVE ELDER LATIMER IS IN LOVE
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    ELDER LATIMER IS IN LOVE

    Elder Latimer is here to talk about the truth. But when the young Mormon lands in London fresh from the States, his world of absolutes starts to crumble. He falls in love with Dina, a young Muslim who's even more convinced of her faith than he is of his,...
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    Hold What You've Got

    In the history of American soul music, perhaps no other artist has been more overlooked than Joe Tex. During the golden age of soul music in the 1960's, Tex was not only a tremendous singer and dancer, but he wrote many hit songs, including his own four...
    $73.00

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  • Resonance Fleeting Resonance Fleeting
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    Resonance Fleeting

    Resonance Fleeting is a short story compilation composed from the best works of three previous books. Made of both fiction and non, the stories are divided into three sections. Dancing into Existence, which explores the beginning of my evolution toward...
    $22.00

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  • Birds of Baseball Birds of Baseball
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    Birds of Baseball

    In the Birds of Baseball, author Marisa L. Williams creates a colorful description of the animal kingdom playing baseball. In this screenplay, a teacher is tasked with teaching birds how to speak English, so they can play baseball. Through trial and...
    $41.00

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  • France's First Mega Stars France's First Mega Stars
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    France's First Mega Stars

    France's First Mega Stars: Gaby Deslys, Mistinguett, Maurice Chevalier. 9th Edition. Published by Times Square Press, Paris, New York. From the Contents: "Follie-Richelieu" 1779. France's first cabaret for the aristocrats. Gaby Deslys and Harry Pilcer...
    $35.00

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  • Silent Film Quarterly Issue 1 Silent Film Quarterly Issue 1
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    Silent Film Quarterly Issue 1

    Silent Film Quarterly is the only print magazine dedicated exclusively to the silent era of cinema. Issue 1 was released in the Fall of 2015 to widespread praise. It features 56 pages of original articles and republished content from the 1910s and 20s,...
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  • Living Vicariously Living Vicariously
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    Living Vicariously

    Living Vicariously - experiencing someone else's stories, adventures or tales through conversations, reading, listening or photos and videos. This is the first in the series of Living Vicariously. Each new book will tell of other people's stories. In...
    $37.00

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  • LA RIFORMA COSTITUZIONALE 2016 LA RIFORMA COSTITUZIONALE 2016
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    LA RIFORMA COSTITUZIONALE 2016

    In un contesto economico-finanziario particolare, caratterizzato da una crisi profonda a livello internazionale, il nostro Paese si prepara ad affrontare una importante riforma istituzionale con la quale si intende modificare la Costituzione italiana...
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  • A Flower of the Lips A Flower of the Lips
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    A Flower of the Lips

    In this new play by Australian playwright Valentino Musico, the author tries to come to terms with the murder of his great - grandfather Bruno Aloi, born in the Calabrian village of Pietracupa in 1883 and now long dead. Based on a 500 page document...
    $26.00

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  • Corporate Video Production Corporate Video Production
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    Corporate Video Production

    In this updated edition of Corporate Video Production, Stuart Sweetow teaches aspiring and seasoned videographers how to make imaginative corporate videos with eye-catching designs, rhythmic editing tricks, and essential scriptwriting and interview...
    $131.00

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  • Performing in Comedy Performing in Comedy
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    Performing in Comedy

    Ian Wilkie contends that comic acting is a distinct art form, and as such demands a unique skillset. By exploring the ways in which performance choices and improvised moments can work in conjunction with texts themselves, Performing in Comedy offers an...
    $102.00

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