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    A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs vol 1

    In this series of books, based on the hit podcast A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs, Andrew Hickey analyses the history of rock and roll music, from its origins in swing, Western swing, boogie woogie, and gospel, through to the 1990s, grunge, and...
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  • O mia bedda madunina O mia bedda madunina
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    O mia bedda madunina

    Sottotitolo: Storia breve dei leghisti di Sicilia.Sono qui raccolti una serie di testi pubblicati in rete nel corso del 2019. ? il frutto di un breve ma intenso viaggio tra i militanti e i quadri leghisti in Sicilia. Sono documentate le conseguenze del...
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  • Richard Adolf Zutt - sein Leben für Kunst Handwerk Arbeit Richard Adolf Zutt - sein Leben für Kunst Handwerk Arbeit
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    Richard Adolf Zutt - sein Leben für Kunst Handwerk Arbeit

    Peter K. Jakob präsentiert in dieser Dokumentation das Leben und Werk von Richard Adolf Zutt als Künstler, Metall- und Keramik-Kunsthandwerker und als Lehrer für Schüler, Studenten, Laien und Arbeitslose. 1887 in Basel geboren, als Autodidakt in München...
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  • Basic TV Technology Basic TV Technology
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    Basic TV Technology

    Basic TV Technology is the essential basic guide to the fundamentals underlying all television and video systems, written for students and nontechnical professionals. You don't need to have a math or science background in order to understand this...
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  • Technique of Film Editing, Reissue of 2nd Edition Technique of Film Editing, Reissue of 2nd Edition
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    Technique of Film Editing, Reissue of 2nd Edition

    The single most comprehensive and engaging volume on film editing. Reisz and Millar introduce readers to every aspect of the editor's craft, providing a concise history of editing and describing editing style as it applies to every genre of moviemaking,...
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  • 21st Century Film Student PRIMER 21st Century Film Student PRIMER
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    21st Century Film Student PRIMER

    What if there was an easy-to-follow roadmap for beginner filmmakers to realize their best film school experience? 21st Century Film Student PRIMER is thoughtfully geared towards helping students ensure that their investment in post-secondary film...
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  • Queer Biopic in the AIDS Era Queer Biopic in the AIDS Era
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    Queer Biopic in the AIDS Era

    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...
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  • Elia Kazan Elia Kazan
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    Elia Kazan

    From the late forties through the sixties, Elia Kazan was the most important and influential director in America, and the only one who managed simultaneously to dominate both theater and film. In that role he manifestly shaped the conception and writing,...
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  • The British Invasion of Broadway Continues The British Invasion of Broadway Continues
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    The British Invasion of Broadway Continues

    Elizabeth Sharland THE BRITISH ON BROADWAY The Great White Way • Charisma in Action • Famous British stars on Broadway • Broadway versus the West End • Following in Noel Coward's footsteps • Ivor Novello and the British musical • Cameron Mackintosh and...
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    Carefully Taught

    Ginell’s research of contemporary theater reviews and in-depth studies of productions’ back stories play off his knowledge gained from his quarter century as a theater critic in Southern California.The combination is a complete overview of...
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  • Four Scores and Seven Reels Ago
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    Four Scores and Seven Reels Ago

    Four Scores and Seven Reels Ago: The U.S. Presidency Through Hollywood Films investigates the numerous ways Hollywood has portrayed the presidency of the United States, both through biographical portraits of those who served and fictional presidents for...
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  • Till the last drop! Till the last drop!
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    Till the last drop!

    This book will amuse vampire fans and academics alike. But most of all, it will show you that science is not boring at all. The books is a mixture of a popular science literature and vampires classics. The existence of vampires is proved by mathematics...
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  • Plankton Soup Plankton Soup
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    Plankton Soup

    Based On A True Story!The book that the C.I.A. don't want you to read!I would not recommend this book to anybody - Senior C.I.A. Agent (not his real name).I laughed so much I had loose stools for a week! - DIY FURNITURE ASSEMBLERI on the other hand...
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  • Momager Notes Momager Notes
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    Momager Notes

    This book is designed to help parents who want to act in the capacity of "manager" to their child's entertainment career. I was a mom who managed her daughter which is why I was a "Momager".Some of The Topics Covered In Momager Notes Are: Unions,...
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  • Cal Stewart, Your Uncle Josh Cal Stewart, Your Uncle Josh
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    Cal Stewart, Your Uncle Josh

    An American recording icon of the early 1900s, Cal Stewart created the popular Uncle Josh Weathersby character; Josh's town, Punkin Center; and the many colorful characters who inhabited his fictional town from Way Down East. Stewart's recordings were...
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  • It All Started With A Mouse It All Started With A Mouse
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    It All Started With A Mouse

    "It All Started with a Mouse" - The Unofficial Guide to Animated Movies: Disney and Pixar by Philip R Clarke"It All Started with a Mouse" is a journalistic review of animated movies. This volume concentrates on the feature-length animated productions of...
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  • Hamleti Hamleti
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    Hamleti

    LIBRASHQIP sjell përkthimin e pavdekshëm të "Hamletit" nga pena e të nderuarit Fan Noli.Kjo tragjedi epike përshkruan ngritjen dhe rënien e Princit Hamlet, një hero i mbushur me dyshime ekzistenciale të thella, i cili përpiqet të zbulojë të vërtetën pas...
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  • Torre del Aire Torre del Aire
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    Torre del Aire

    Recreación dramática de un momento en el que una ciudad universitaria y anclada en un pasado burgués y provinciano empieza a convulsionar desde los movimientos estudiantiles hacia la libertad. Historias que componen un friso de la vida acosada por el...
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  • Jack Nicholson in the 1970s Jack Nicholson in the 1970s
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    Jack Nicholson in the 1970s

    With the New Hollywood boom in swing, a fresh breed of movie idols were capturing the attention of cinema goers. Though there were others who helped define the period, many feel that the Zeitgeist was captured the most by one actor. That man was known by...
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  • The Story Is True, Second Edition The Story Is True, Second Edition
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    The Story Is True, Second Edition

    Delves into the meaning of stories, their tellers, and those who experience them.In The Story Is True, folklorist, filmmaker, and professor of English Bruce Jackson explores the ways we use the stories that become a central part of our public and private...
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  • Fugue Analysis Fugue Analysis
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    Fugue Analysis

    The book also provides a plethora of examples and analytical samples, drawn from the celebrated fugues of Johann Sebastian Bach. It walks students through different elements of fugal counterpoint and their mechanisms, offering a list of exercises and...
    $108.00

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  • The Works Of Shakespeare... The Works Of Shakespeare...
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    The Works Of Shakespeare...

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...
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  • Make Believe in Film and Fiction Make Believe in Film and Fiction
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    Make Believe in Film and Fiction

    This study provides the first detailed contrast between the experiences of reading a novel and watching a movie. Kroeber shows how fiction evokes morally inflected imagining, and how movies reveal through magnification of human movements and expression...
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  • Moscow Theatres for Young People Moscow Theatres for Young People
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    Moscow Theatres for Young People

    This book shows how the totalitarian ideology of the Soviet period shaped the practices of Soviet theatre for youth. It weaves together politics, pedagogy and aesthetics to reveal the complex intersections between theatre and its socio-historical...
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  • Hollywood Films about Schools Hollywood Films about Schools
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    Hollywood Films about Schools

    What do the Hollywood 'school films' of the 1980's and 1990's communicate about education and race? This book looks at The Graduate , Blackboard Jungle , The English Patient , Dead Poets Society , Pulp Fiction , Ghost , The Wizard of Oz , Top Gun and...
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  • Ghosts of Theatre and Cinema in the Brain Ghosts of Theatre and Cinema in the Brain
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    Ghosts of Theatre and Cinema in the Brain

    Pizzato focuses on the staging of Self and Other as phantom characters inside the brain (in the 'mind's eye', as Hamlet says). He explores the brain's anatomical evolution from animal drives to human consciousness to divine aspirations, through...
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  • New Women Dramatists in America, 1890-1920 New Women Dramatists in America, 1890-1920
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    New Women Dramatists in America, 1890-1920

    Please note this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title (PTO). Stock of this book requires shipment from an overseas supplier. It will be delivered to you within 12 weeks. This study rediscovers the lives and notable accomplishments of five prominent, yet...
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  • Localizing Caroline Drama Localizing Caroline Drama
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    Localizing Caroline Drama

    This book redefines the plays and theatrical culture of the years 1625 to 1642 as something more than simply post-Shakespearean in character. Scholars reveal the drama's mixture of political engagement, urbane cosmopolitanism, and commercial ingenuity...
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  • Action Figures Action Figures
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    Action Figures

    What accounts for the massive global popularity of action films and adventure literature? How do men and women respond to iconic screen stars such as Jackie Chan, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Steve McQueen, and Charlton Heston? Action genres have been...
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  • Staging Politics and Gender Staging Politics and Gender
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    Staging Politics and Gender

    In Staging Politics and Gender , Cecilia Beach examines the political and feminist plays of French playwrights who have largely been overlooked until now. Beach highlights the importance of theatrical endeavors which women perceived as a powerful way to...
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  • American Protestants and TV in the 1950s American Protestants and TV in the 1950s
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    American Protestants and TV in the 1950s

    Americans in the 1950s faced the challenge of negotiating the new medium's place in the home and in American culture in general. Using the American Protestant experience of the introduction of television, Rosenthal illustrates the importance of the...
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  • Nietzsche's Dancers Nietzsche's Dancers
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    Nietzsche's Dancers

    This book investigates the role Nietzsche's dance images play in his project of "revaluing all values" alongside the religious rhetoric and subject matter evident in the work of Isadora Duncan and Martha Graham, who found justification and guidance in...
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  • English Historical Drama, 1500-1660 English Historical Drama, 1500-1660
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    English Historical Drama, 1500-1660

    Many readers today associate the early modern history play with Shakespeare. While not wishing to ignore the influence of Shakespeare, this collection of essays explores other historical drama between 1500 and 1660, covering a wide range of different...
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  • Rock Music in Performance Rock Music in Performance
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    Rock Music in Performance

    In this new study, David Pattie examines the apparent contradiction between authenticity and theatricality in the live performance of rock music, and looks at the way in which various performers have dealt with this paradox from rock music's early...
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  • Early Modern Tragedy and the Cinema of Violence Early Modern Tragedy and the Cinema of Violence
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    Early Modern Tragedy and the Cinema of Violence

    This study considers parallel issues in revenge tragedies of the early seventeenth-century and violent cinema of the last thirty years. It offers a series of provocative explorations of death, revenge and justice, and gender and violence. What happens...
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  • American Television on British Screens American Television on British Screens
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    American Television on British Screens

    This work explores how American programmes have become an important part of British television culture since the 1950's, moving from schedule fillers to cornerstones and 'must see' attractions. The book analyses popular and industrial discourses, the...
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  • Popular Spanish Film Under Franco Popular Spanish Film Under Franco
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    Popular Spanish Film Under Franco

    Popular Spanish Film Under Franco is the first book of its kind to analyze cinematic comedy during the initial two decades of Francisco Franco's dictatorship. Focusing on the intersection between popular culture and political populism, it breaks new...
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  • Reading the Body in the Eighteenth-Century Novel Reading the Body in the Eighteenth-Century Novel
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    Reading the Body in the Eighteenth-Century Novel

    McMaster's lively study looks at the various codes by which Eighteenth-century novelists made the minds of their characters legible through their bodies. She tellingly explores the discourses of medicine, physiognomy, gesture and facial expression,...
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  • Cyborg Cinema and Contemporary Subjectivity Cyborg Cinema and Contemporary Subjectivity
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    Cyborg Cinema and Contemporary Subjectivity

    This book breaks new ground in providing an in-depth critical assessment of cyborg cinema, arguing that it remains one of the most intriguing and provocative cycles to have emerged in contemporary screen culture. Tracing the cinematic cyborg's transition...
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  • The Films of Martin Scorsese, 1978-99 The Films of Martin Scorsese, 1978-99
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    The Films of Martin Scorsese, 1978-99

    A detailed, theoretically attuned analysis of all of the Scorsese-directed features from The Last Waltz  to Bringing Out the Dead . Grist illuminates Scorsese's authorship, but also reflects back upon a range of informing contexts.
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  • The Theatre of Joseph Conrad The Theatre of Joseph Conrad
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    The Theatre of Joseph Conrad

    Although the dramatic dimension to Joseph Conrad's fiction is frequently acknowledged, his own experiments in drama have traditionally been marginalized. However, in all of Conrad's plays we see a distinct effort to investigate seriously the dramatic...
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