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    Dangerous Dames

    Both film noir and the Weimar street film hold a continuing fascination for film spectators and film theorists alike. The female characters, especially the alluring femmes fatales, remain a focus for critical and popular attention. In the tradition of...
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    Framing Shakespeare on Film

    The aesthetics of frame theory form the basis of Framing Shakespeare on Film. This groundbreaking work expands on the discussion of film constructivists in its claim that the spectacle of Shakespeare on film is a problem-solving activity.Kathy Howlett...
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  • Cyberspaces of Their Own Cyberspaces of Their Own
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    Cyberspaces of Their Own

    Cyberspaces of Their Own interrogates the social and spatial relations of the rapidly expanding virtual terrain of media fandom. For the first time, issues of identity, community and space are brought together in this in-depth ethnographic study of two...
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  • The Emperor's Old Groove The Emperor's Old Groove
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    The Emperor's Old Groove

    Disney's attempt to validate multicultural diversity may appear to be a worthy, even admirable, endeavor. However, the contributors of this book argue that the Disney company's version of multiculturalism is really the same old groove - a surreptitious...
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  • When Death Goes Pop When Death Goes Pop
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    When Death Goes Pop

    Scholars, educators, health professionals, and activists from a variety of fields have struggled with one of the most significant questions of contemporary life: How do we rescue the experience of death and dying from the mire of fear, denial, and...
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  • Starring Tom Cruise Starring Tom Cruise
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    Starring Tom Cruise

    Starring Tom Cruise examines how Tom Cruise's star image moves across genres and forms as a type of commercial product that offers viewers certain pleasures and expectations. Cruise reads as an action hero and romantic lead yet finds himself in...
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  • Earth vs. the Sci-Fi Filmmakers Earth vs. the Sci-Fi Filmmakers
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    Earth vs. the Sci-Fi Filmmakers

    Back in the era of black-and-white horror and sci-fi movies, "we didn't have special effects, or the money for 'em," says Peter Graves, one of the genre's most popular stars. "But in those days, an unlimited amount of money wouldn't have gotten us...
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  • Alan LeMay Alan LeMay
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    Alan LeMay

    Although much has been written about the 1950s cult film The Searchers, Alan LeMay, the author of the novel upon which the movie is based, has received little attention. This welcome biography tells the engaging story of the career freelance writer...
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  • The Funny Parts The Funny Parts
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    The Funny Parts

    Classic comedy routines and individual gags have been around for many hundreds of years, probably thousands; the best of these ribticklers make their merry way through theater, circus, film and television. The challenge to comedians has always been to...
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  • Screening the Marquis de Sade Screening the Marquis de Sade
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    Screening the Marquis de Sade

    Since their publication, the works of the Marquis de Sade have challenged the reading public with a philosophy of relentless physical transgression. This is the first book-length academic study by a single author that applies the philosophy of the...
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  • Movie Roadshows Movie Roadshows
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    Movie Roadshows

    This work examines a film distribution system paralleling the rise of early features and persisting until 1972, when Man of La Mancha was the final roadshow to require reserved seating. Synonymous with Hollywood's star-studded premieres, roadshows...
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  • Allied Artists Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Films Allied Artists Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Films
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    Allied Artists Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Films

    Between 1952 and 1977, Allied Artists Pictures Corporation released over 80 feature films with horror, science fiction and fantasy themes, several of them featuring such genre stars as Vincent Price, Boris Karloff, John Carradine and Lon Chaney, Jr...
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  • Dana Andrews Dana Andrews
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    Dana Andrews

    Dana Andrews, arguably the finest minimalist actor of his generation, as one critic commented, could convey more with one look than many actors could with a soliloquy. In a film career spanning nearly five decades, Andrews appeared in some of...
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  • Evelyn Brent Evelyn Brent
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    Evelyn Brent

    Evelyn Brent's life and career were going quite well in 1928. She was happily living with writer Dorothy Herzog following her divorce from producer Bernard Fineman, and the tiny brunette had wowed fans and critics in the silent films The Underworld...
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  • The Twilight Mystique The Twilight Mystique
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    The Twilight Mystique

    The 13 essays in this volume explore Stephenie Meyer's wildly popular Twilight series in the contexts of literature, religion, fairy tales, film, and the gothic. Several examine Meyer's emphasis on abstinence, considering how, why, and if the author's...
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  • Tales from the Cult Film Trenches Tales from the Cult Film Trenches
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    Tales from the Cult Film Trenches

    From movie villains to scream queens, here are interviews with 36 actors and actresses familiar to fans of sixties and seventies cult cinema. Interviewees include the well-known (David Carradine, Christopher Lee), the relatively obscure (Marrie...
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  • Joe E. Brown Joe E. Brown
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    Joe E. Brown

    As a young boy in the depths of the 1890s depression, Joe E. Brown had a job: making faces at the firemen on passing coal-burning trains so they would throw coal at him. As a child he also worked as a circus acrobat and newsboy. His inventiveness and...
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  • Mr. Sorkin Goes to Washington Mr. Sorkin Goes to Washington
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    Mr. Sorkin Goes to Washington

    Before the unprecedented televised presidential debates of 1960, most Americans were able to relate to their leaders in little more than an historical context. In the era of televised elections, however, the media have allowed Americans to witness the...
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  • Laurette Taylor, American Stage Legend Laurette Taylor, American Stage Legend
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    Laurette Taylor, American Stage Legend

    How did Laurette Taylor (1884-1946) become America's most celebrated actress? What training and experience led to her first stage success, Peg o' My Heart, in 1912? How did her failed 1920s silent film career influence her stage technique? What was so...
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  • The Reel Middle Ages The Reel Middle Ages
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    The Reel Middle Ages

    Those tales of old--King Arthur, Robin Hood, The Crusades, Marco Polo, Joan of Arc--have been told and retold, and the tradition of their telling has been gloriously upheld by filmmaking from its very inception. From the earliest of Georges Melies's...
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  • Expanding the Black Film Canon Expanding the Black Film Canon
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    Expanding the Black Film Canon

    If the sheer diversity of recent hits from Twelve Years a Slave and Moonlight to Get Out, Black Panther, and BlackkKlansman tells us anything, it might be that there's no such thing as "black film" per se. This book is especially timely, then, in...
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  • Russian War Films Russian War Films
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    Russian War Films

    War movies have long been the most influential genre in Russian cinema, so much so that in the Soviet Union's militaristic society, "cinema front" was used to describe the film industry itself. Denise J. Youngblood, an internationally recognized...
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  • Production Management for Television Production Management for Television
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    Production Management for Television

    Completely up to date with relevant information on digital technology and HD TV, this is the only title to focus specifically on television production management, and presents an easily accessible and authoritative guide to the area. Production...
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  • Physical Culture, Power, and the Body Physical Culture, Power, and the Body
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    Physical Culture, Power, and the Body

    This book explores meanings and representations of body in relation to our physical cultures - our traditions of cultural practices such as sport and dance within which the moving physical body is central.
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  • Theatre of Movement and Gesture Theatre of Movement and Gesture
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    Theatre of Movement and Gesture

    Published in France in 1987, this is the book in which Lecoq first set out his philosophy of human movement, and the way it takes expressive form in a wide range of different performance traditions. He traces the history of pantomime, sets out his...
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  • Stars, The Film Reader Stars, The Film Reader
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    Stars, The Film Reader

    From two distinguished academics, this book includes contributions from top scholars such as Richard Dyer, and brings together key writings and new perspectives on stars and stardom in cinema across the world.
    $373.00

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  • 1956 and All That 1956 and All That
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    1956 and All That

    The first serious challenge to the mythology that surrounds the revolution in British theatre sparked off by Osborne's play Look Back in Anger.
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  • Making an Entrance Making an Entrance
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    Making an Entrance

    This second edition of Making an Entrance is a practical and thought-provoking introduction to teaching dance with disabled and non-disabled students, updated with expanded coverage, new and revised exercises, and chapters that cover post-pandemic and...
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  • The GoFaSt Guide To Screenwriting The GoFaSt Guide To Screenwriting
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    The GoFaSt Guide To Screenwriting

    Creator of the GoFaSt Model, author Greg Takoudes introduces a comprehensive study of the structural models of screenwriting and provides readers with an adaptive framework for writing successful scripts.With a new approach which reframes discussions and...
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  • Making Media Making Media
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    Making Media

    Taking essential media production processes, this book deconstructs them into the most basic components. Students will learn the concepts of media production - frame, sound, light, time, motion, and sequencing - and be able to apply them to any medium...
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  • Butoh, as Heard by a Dancer Butoh, as Heard by a Dancer
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    Butoh, as Heard by a Dancer

    This book explores the origins of Butoh in post-war Japan through orality and transmission, in conjunction with an embodied research approach.The book is a gathering of seminal artistic voices - Yoshito Ohno, Natsu Nakajima, Yukio Waguri, Moe Yamamoto,...
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  • Reading the Puppet Stage Reading the Puppet Stage
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    Reading the Puppet Stage

    Drawing on the author's two decades of watching, writing, and teaching about puppetry from a critical perspective, this is a collection of insights into how we watch, understand, and appreciate puppetry.
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  • A Love Letter Life A Love Letter Life
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    A Love Letter Life

    In this New York Times bestselling book, Little People, Big World TV stars Jeremy and Audrey Roloff share what they learned from their own dating journey to equip you to build godly relationships from your first date to saying 'I do' and beyond.
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  • Monkey Business Theatre Monkey Business Theatre
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    Monkey Business Theatre

    In 1983, a group of citizens in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, formed Sna Jtz'ibajom, the Tzotzil-Tzeltal Maya writers' cooperative. In the two decades since, this group has evolved from writing and publishing bilingual booklets to writing and...
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  • The Real Oemplaah The Real Oemplaah
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    The Real Oemplaah

    In dit boek.. mijn 'voorgeschiedenis'van een aantal boeken en 'werken'.. met 'strui'. Voor de ervaren lezers die.. welja True Romans al uit hebben en Oh, we are SO not going there.. te .. welja.. Lees maar dan. Goh.. 740 pagina's
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  • 'Inter' Alias Unofficial & Authorized Guide to Alias 'Inter' Alias Unofficial & Authorized Guide to Alias
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    'Inter' Alias Unofficial & Authorized Guide to Alias

    Alias was an amazing show that burst onto our screens with such a wonderful cast and storylines. Season 1 was my favourite as it had so many plot twists and turns. A little dumbed down in later seasons I thought. Sometimes wonder with recent world events...
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  • True Romans - script True Romans - script
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    True Romans - script

    We have seen such things as.. true grue in basically all of our common histories.. but.. the Roman Empire outdid that twentyfold.. in both all year long visits to 'towns' that needed visiting and, not withstanding 'allies'.. some some degree of true...
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  • Nuts and Bolts Filmmaking Nuts and Bolts Filmmaking
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    Nuts and Bolts Filmmaking

    Nuts and Bolts Filmmaking, an ideal book for the rapidly growing number of low-budget filmmakers, provides how-to information on the day-to-day techniques of actual low-budget production. Containing construction details describing how to replicate...
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  • Pleasant Good Evening - A Memoir Pleasant Good Evening - A Memoir
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    Pleasant Good Evening - A Memoir

    Dan Russell's Sportstalk was appointment-listening for tens of thousands of B.C. sports fans over its three-decade run. What began in 1984 as a simple 50-minute filler would grow into the longest-running and most-listened to show of its kind in Canada...
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  • Staging Existence Staging Existence
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    Staging Existence

    Anton Chekhov is justly famous as an author and a playwright, with his work continuing to appear on stages around the world more than a century after his death. However, he is rarely studied for his intellectual and philosophical theories. His...
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  • Colonial Tactics and Everyday Life Colonial Tactics and Everyday Life
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    Colonial Tactics and Everyday Life

    Following the Japanese invasion of northeast China in 1931, the occupying authorities established the Manchuria Film Association to promote film production efficiency and serve Japan's propaganda needs. Manchuria Film Association had two tasks: to make...
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  • The Life and Afterlife of Swedish Biograph The Life and Afterlife of Swedish Biograph
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    The Life and Afterlife of Swedish Biograph

    Sweden's early film industry was dominated by Swedish Biograph (Svenska Biografteatern), home to star directors like Victor Sjöström and Mauritz Stiller. It is nostalgically remembered as the generative site of a nascent national artform, encapsulating a...
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  • Continental Films Continental Films
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    Continental Films

    From 1940 to 1944, the German-owned Continental Films dominated the French film landscape, producing thirty features throughout the Nazi occupation. Charged with producing entertaining and profitable films rather than propaganda, producer Alfred Greven...
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  • Laughter and Civility Laughter and Civility
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    Laughter and Civility

    Emma Gad (1852-1921) was a prolific Danish playwright at the turn of the twentieth century. With sparkling prose and witty dialogue, Gad's ambitious and sophisticated theatrical productions raised important and still pressing questions about sexuality...
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  • Futures of Dance Studies Futures of Dance Studies
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    Futures of Dance Studies

    A collaboration between well-established and rising scholars, Futures of Dance Studies suggests multiple directions for new research in the field. Essays address dance in a wider range of contexts-onstage, on screen, in the studio, and on the street-and...
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  • Dancing Spirit, Love, and War Dancing Spirit, Love, and War
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    Dancing Spirit, Love, and War

    Meke, a traditional rhythmic dance accompanied by singing, signifies an important piece of identity for Fijians. Despite its complicated history of colonialism, racism, censorship, and religious conflict, meke remained a vital part of artistic expression...
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  • Six Turkish Filmmakers Six Turkish Filmmakers
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    Six Turkish Filmmakers

    Examining the vanguard of New Turkish Cinema, Laurence Raw shows how these films reveal the effects of profound socioeconomic change on ordinary people in contemporary Turkey.In analysis of and personal interviews with Dervis Zaim, Zeki Demirkubuz, Semih...
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