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  • Invitation to the Party
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    Invitation to the Party

    Acknowledged as the nation's foremost expert on audience development involving America's growing multicultural population by the Arts and Business Council, Donna Walker-Kuhne has now written the first book describing her strategies and methods to engage...
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    Company (TCG Edition)

    "A landmark musical, one of those few shows that enter the permanent lore of the theatre by altering the vocabulary of dramatic possibilities." Time"There's never been a franker, more sophisticated work written for the musical stage." San Francisco...
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    The Reality Shows

    "Ms. Finley hasn't lost the power to disturb."-Ben Brantley, The New York TimesNo other performing artist has captured the psychological complexity of this decade as Karen Finley has. In her inimitable style, she has embodied some of the most troubling...
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    The Film That Changed My Life

    The movie that inspired filmmakers to direct is like the atomic bomb that went off before their eyes. The Film That Changed My Life captures that epiphany. It explores 30 directors' love of a film they saw at a particularly formative moment, how it...
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  • Manila by Night
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    Manila by Night

    A Queer Film Classic on IshmaelBernal's 1980 film that follows a dozencharacters, all denizens of Manila's sordid yet exuberant underworld, as theypursue life, love, and pleasure. Bernal cited Robert Altman's Nashville as one of the influences onhis...
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  • C.R.A.Z.Y.
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    C.R.A.Z.Y.

    A Queer Film Classic on the 2005 film debut by French-Canadian director Jean-Marc Vallee (best known for Dallas Buyers Club and Wild), about a young gay man named Zac growing up in the 1960s who struggles to find his sense of...
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  • Forbidden Love
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    Forbidden Love

    A Queer Film Classic on the 1992 feature documentary on lesbian experience from the 1940s to the 1960s as seen through the lens of lesbian pulp fiction. The film interweaves an historical dramatization with interviews with women who speak frankly about...
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    Politics, performance and popular culture
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    Politics, performance and popular culture

    This collection brings together studies of popular performance and politics across the nineteenth century, offering a fresh perspective from an archivally grounded research base. It works with the concept that politics is performative and performance is...
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  • Film audiences
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    Film audiences

    Reception studies have made film audiences increasingly visible, while surveys track trends and policymakers gather information about audience preferences and demographics. But little attention has been paid to the specific contextual relationships and...
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  • Screening the Hollywood rebels in 1950s Britain
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    Screening the Hollywood rebels in 1950s Britain

    This book examines issues of censorship, publicity and teenage fandom in 1950s Britain surrounding a series of controversial Hollywood films: The Wild One, Blackboard Jungle, Rebel Without a Cause, Rock Around the Clock and Jailhouse Rock. It also...
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  • Beckett's afterlives
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    Beckett's afterlives

    Despite the steady rise in adaptations of Samuel Beckett's work across the world following the author's death in 1989, Beckett's afterlives is the first book-length study dedicated to this creative phenomenon. The collection employs interrelated concepts...
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  • Doctor Who  New Dawn
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    Doctor Who New Dawn

    Doctor Who new dawn explores the latest cultural moment in this long-running BBC TV series: the casting of a female lead. Analysing showrunner Chris Chibnall and Jodie Whittaker's era means considering contemporary Doctor Who as an inclusive, regendered...
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  • Screening the Paris suburbs
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    Screening the Paris suburbs

    Decades before the emergence of a French self-styled 'hood' film around 1995, French filmmakers looked beyond the gates of the capital for inspiration and content. In the Paris suburbs they found an inexhaustible reservoir of forms, landscapes and social...
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  • The never-ending Brief Encounter
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    The never-ending Brief Encounter

    This is a book for all those who have been absorbed and moved by Brief Encounter in the seventy or so years since its first appearance. It explores the central relationship of the film, where two people who fall unexpectedly in love come to realise that...
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  • Cultural value in twenty-first-century England
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    Cultural value in twenty-first-century England

    This book deals with Shakespeare's role in contemporary culture. It looks in detail at the way that Shakespeare's plays inform modern ideas of cultural value and the work required to make Shakespeare part of modern culture. It is unique in using social...
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  • Decentring France
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    Decentring France

    In a world defined by the flow of people, goods and cultures, many contemporary French films explore the multicultural nature of today's France through language. From rival lingua francas such as English to socio-politically marginalised languages such...
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  • La Parisienne in cinema
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    La Parisienne in cinema

    Chic, sophisticated, seductive and enigmatic, the Parisienne possesses a je ne sais quoi that makes her difficult to define. But who or what is the Parisienne, and how is she depicted in cinema? The first book-length study on the subject combines...
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  • Algerian national cinema
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    Algerian national cinema

    This topical and innovative study is the first book on Algerian cinema to be published in English since the 1970s. At a time when North African and Islamic cultures are of increasing political significance, Algerian National Cinema presents a dynamic,...
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    Chinese Cinema
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    Chinese Cinema

    A tour de force chronicling the development of realism in Chinese cinemaThe history of Chinese cinema is as long and complicated as the tumultuous history of China itself. Be it the silent, the Communist, or the contemporary, each Chinese cinematic era...
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  • Endless Intervals
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    Endless Intervals

    Revealing cinema's place in the coevolution of media technology and the humanCinema did not die with the digital, it gave rise to it. According to Jeffrey West Kirkwood, the notion that digital technologies replaced analog obscures how the earliest...
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  • Italian Political Cinema
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    Italian Political Cinema

    An exploration of how film has made legible the Italian long '68 as a moment of crisis and transitionTraditionally, the definition of political cinema assumes a relationship between cinema and politics. In contrast to this view, author Mauro Resmini sees...
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    Dark Scenes from Damaged Earth

    An urgent volume of essays engages the Gothic to advance important perspectives on our geological eraWhat can the Gothic teach us about our current geological era? More than just spooky, moonlit castles and morbid graveyards, the Gothic represents a...
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    Molecular Capture

    How computer animation technologies became vital visualization tools in the life sciencesWho would have thought that computer animation technologies developed in the second half of the twentieth century would become essential visualization tools in...
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    Cinema Illuminating Reality

    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...
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    The Monster Theory Reader
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    The Monster Theory Reader

    A collection of scholarship on monsters and their meaning-across genres, disciplines, methodologies, and time-from foundational texts to the most recent contributions.From the mythical monstrous races of the ancient world to the murderous cyborgs of our...
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  • Utopian Television
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    Utopian Television

    In UtopianTelevision, Michael Cramer examines works of the great filmmakers RobertoRossellini, Peter Watkins, and Jean-Luc Godard, all of whom looked totelevision as a promising new medium even while remaining critical of itsexisting practices. Cramer...
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    If You Give a Lab a Lab
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    If You Give a Lab a Lab

    The Fifth Installment of the Addicted Animal series-aparody of the hit show Breaking Bad.The crossover you didn't know you needed.If You Give A Lab A Lab: Barking Badis a gritty, yet adorablestory about a Labrador Retriever who rises from lovable...
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    Mind-Blowing Magic Tricks for Everyone
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    Mind-Blowing Magic Tricks for Everyone

    Learn to perform 50 unbelievable magictricksthat will impress and astonishany audience!No special equipment required!This delightfulbook reveals some of magic's best-kept secrets, showing you step-by-step exactly how the tricks are done from...
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    The Very Thirsty Vampire
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    The Very Thirsty Vampire

    Age range 9+For fans of The Vampire Diaries, Dracula, or any original bloodsucker comes a parody of the children's classic The Very Hungry Caterpillar In this hilarious parody of a children's classic, The Very Thirsty Vampire presents a charming...
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    Just Peachy
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    Just Peachy

    "In this autobiographical collection of thoughtful and poignant comic vignettes, Chisholm explores her experiences with depression, anxiety, and love ." -BooklistJust Peachy is a comic series that explores what the day-to-day is like with depression...
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    Eat Like a Gilmore
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    Eat Like a Gilmore

    The infamous appetites of the Gilmore Girls are given their due in this fun, unofficial cookbook inspired by the show. Fans will eat up the delicious recipes honoring the chefs who fuel the science-defying metabolisms of Lorelai and...
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    #WeRateDogs
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    #WeRateDogs

    Based on the social media sensation, #WeRateDogs  features the most heroic, over-the-top adorable, wildly successful, all-around entertaining dogs the world has ever seen. It combines extraordinary photos with ridiculous captions to expand the...
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    The Murder of Marilyn Monroe
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    The Murder of Marilyn Monroe

    Since Marilyn Monroe died among suspicious circumstances on the night of August 4, 1962, there have been queries and theories, allegations and investigations, but no definitive evidence about precisely what happened and who was involved . . . until now...
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    Onscreen/Offscreen
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    Onscreen/Offscreen

    Onscreen/Offscreen is an ethnographic study of the ontological politics of cinema in South India.Based on over a decade of ethnographic fieldwork in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu, Onscreen/Offscreen is an exploration of the politics and being of...
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    American Gothic
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    American Gothic

    In the long-awaited American Gothic Jonathan Rigby tells the story of the Hollywood horror film from its 19th-century beginnings through to the arrival of Vincent Price as a genre star in films like House of Wax and The Fly. This 60-year period...
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    Man with the Golden Eye
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    Man with the Golden Eye

    Oscar-winning production designer Peter Lamont worked behind the scenes on 18 James Bond films, beginning with the 1960s classics starring Sean Connery and George Lazenby. Along the way, he worked with director James Cameron and...
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    Glorious Technicolor

    This is a full account of the dazzling Technicolor years that turned the screen from silver to every color of the rainbow. Here in one volume are the films, the stars, the showmen and all the elements behind the phenomenon that changed movies forever...
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    Into the Woods (TCG Edition)

    "That joyous rarity, a work of sophisticated artistic ambition and deep political purpose that affords nonstop pleasure."--William A. Henry III, Time
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  • The Sound of Music
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    The Sound of Music

    When The Sound of Music was released in 1965, it took the world by storm, capturing five Oscars (including Best Picture) and holding the number-one spot box-office record for five years. For millions of viewers, the film is a rare combination of a...
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    EX MACHINA

    In 1993 when Robert Lepage suggested to his colleagues that a specific identity and image be found for his next working group, he imposed one condition. The word "theatre" was not to be part of the name of the new company. This gorgeous full-colour book...
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  • The Way of the Screenwriter
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    The Way of the Screenwriter

    A story is a living thing. And you don't work on a living thing, you work with it. This is the way of the screenwriter, and it is something that writer and director Amnon Buchbinder believes all masterful screenwriters understand intuitively: learning...
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  • Andrei Tarkovsky
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    Andrei Tarkovsky

    Andrei Tarkovsky is the most celebrated Russian filmmaker since Eisenstein, and one of the most important directors to have emerged during the 1960s and 70s.Although he made only seven features, each one was a major landmark in cinema, the most...
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  • Southern Cross Crime
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    Southern Cross Crime

    Australian and New Zealand crime and thriller writing is booming globally, with antipodean authors regularly featuring on awards and bestseller lists across Europe and North America, and overseas readers and publishers looking more and more to tales from...
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  • Studio Ghibli
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    Studio Ghibli

    The animations of Japan's Studio Ghibli are amongst the most respected in the movie industry. Their delightful films rank alongside the most popular non-English language films ever made, with each new eagerly anticipated release a guaranteed box...
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  • 10,000 Ways To Die
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    10,000 Ways To Die

    Forty years ago as a graduate student I wrote a book about Spaghetti Westerns, called 10,000 Ways to Die. It's an embarrassing tome: full of half-assed semiotics and other attenuated academic nonsense.Thirty years later I wrote an entirely new...
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  • How to Crowdfund Your Film
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    How to Crowdfund Your Film

    Crowdfunding is a major source of funding for independent films and over $250 million has been raised for films just on Kickstarter alone. This book will guide you through every stage of planning, creating, and running your film crowdfunding campaign...
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    "Night and Fog"

    An engrossing account of Alain Resnais'sincomparable film, this book documents how a film that began as a cinematicspin-off of an educational exhibition became a significant step in the buildingof a collective consciousness of the tragedy of World War II...
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  • The Handmaid's Tale and Philosophy
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    The Handmaid's Tale and Philosophy

    Philosophers look beyond the sea of red dresses to reveal insights about gender inequality, religious oppression, power, and violence.In The Handmaid's Tale and Philosophy, philosophers give their insights into the blockbuster best-selling novel and...
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