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  • de Basil's Ballets Russes de Basil's Ballets Russes
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    de Basil's Ballets Russes

    Drawn partly from the scattered remnants of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes and partly from extraordinary new talent, Colonel W. de Basil's company of dancers kept alive the heritage of the Russian ballet for a period spanning virtually twenty years. De...
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  • THE ART OF KATSUHIRO OTOMO THE ART OF KATSUHIRO OTOMO
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    THE ART OF KATSUHIRO OTOMO

    THE ART OF KATSUHIRO OTOMO3rd Editionby Jeremy Mark Robinson<P> This is a book about the genius Japanese artist Katsuhiro Otomo (b. 1954). Best-known for the Akira manga of 1982-90 and the Akira movie of 1988, Otomo is also an all-round artist who...
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  • The Diaghilev Ballet 1909 - 1929 The Diaghilev Ballet 1909 - 1929
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    The Diaghilev Ballet 1909 - 1929

    The Diaghilev Ballet existed from 1909 to 1929; and from its beginningto its end Serge Grigoriev acted as régisseur-that is to say he was responsible for every aspect of the venture save its finance. In theearly 1950s he began reading back among the...
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  • Migration, Dislocation and Movement on Screen Migration, Dislocation and Movement on Screen
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    Migration, Dislocation and Movement on Screen

    Contemporary screen industries such as film and television have become primary sites for visualizing borders, migration, maps, and travel as processes of separation and dislocation, but also connection. Migration, Dislocation and Movement on Screen pulls...
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  • Edges of Noir Edges of Noir
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    Edges of Noir

    Edges of Noir challenges the notion that noir film nearly vanished after 1958 until its subsequent "neo-noir" revival between 1973 and 1981. The 1960s, regardless of critical neglect, include some of the most provocative films of the post-World War II...
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  • QUARTET four-part harmony from a recollected life QUARTET four-part harmony from a recollected life
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    QUARTET four-part harmony from a recollected life

     QUARTET - four-part harmony from a recollected life - a memoir by JUDITH REN-LAY260-page softcover paperbackAn artist's life over seven decades in four books, each separate from the others, to weave a harmony of voices considering...
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  • Life is Grand, baby! Life is Grand, baby!
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    Life is Grand, baby!

    Life is Grand, Baby! (Notes on Performing) by Paul Toshner. Memoirs and insights on the intimate performance of song from a real-life Piano Man. "For the first time I'm sharing secrets I've built up over the years as a concert act, a lounge act,...
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  • Red Rum! Red Rum! Red Rum! Red Rum!
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    Red Rum! Red Rum!

    Inspired by the legendary horror film THE SHINING, Red Rum! will remind you to play with its blood-spattered, repetitive cover. Don't let Jack be a dull boy - encourage him to take a break now and then!The 2021 Weekly Planner features plenty of...
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  • Haddonfield Memorial Hospital Haddonfield Memorial Hospital
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    Haddonfield Memorial Hospital

    Inspired by the classic horror film HALLOWEEN, the Haddonfield Memorial Hospital planner will help you keep your priorities straight for all of 2021!The 2021 Weekly Planner features plenty of room for your dreams and schemes with each week on one 6"x9"...
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  • Camp Crystal Lake Counselor's Handbook Camp Crystal Lake Counselor's Handbook
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    Camp Crystal Lake Counselor's Handbook

    Perfect for slasher fans, the Camp Crystal Lake Counselor's Handbook is a planner inspired by the horror movie classic FRIDAY THE 13TH. A purposefully distressed photo of trees reflected in a lake serves as a backdrop for a badge featuring two arrows and...
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  • Writing Japanese Monsters Writing Japanese Monsters
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    Writing Japanese Monsters

    You’ve seen books dedicated to the special effects of Japanese monster movies, but this is perhaps the first tome to take an in-depth look at both the writers and the writing process behind these films. This book charts the wild developmental...
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  • I Gotta Rock I Gotta Rock
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    I Gotta Rock

    <h4>Twenty Years of Tales 1965-1985</h4> <p>Aerosmith's Joe Perry put it this way, "The new singer, Cowboy Mach Bell, was a rock'n'roll guy who grew up in the next town over from me (Holliston, Massachusetts)...
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  • The Digital Filmmaking Handbook The Digital Filmmaking Handbook
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    The Digital Filmmaking Handbook

    Who hasn't dreamed about making a movie?Not just for the thrill of it, but as a way to get your story out into the world, the story that only you can tell.For this edition, we've focused on soft skills: developing a project, writing a compelling story,...
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  • Circus Training Journal Circus Training Journal
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    Circus Training Journal

    What's measured is managed! The Circus Training Journal is the result of a year of collaboration between Thom Wall and Rebecca Starr, head aerial coach at Circadium: School of Contemporary Circus. This undated journal, spans three months of...
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  • Gumbo Lagniappe (You'Ve Got to Be Kidding) Gumbo Lagniappe (You'Ve Got to Be Kidding)
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    Gumbo Lagniappe (You'Ve Got to Be Kidding)

    GUMBO LAGNIAPPE (You've Got to Be Kidding) contains original plays, many with public health themes, but others dealing with our fascinating current political and social climate. Several plays were written for this year's Spectral Sisters Productions...
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  • Η ΕΜΦΑΝΙΣΗ ΤΟΥ ΓΚΟΝΤΟ Η ΕΜΦΑΝΙΣΗ ΤΟΥ ΓΚΟΝΤΟ
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    Η ΕΜΦΑΝΙΣΗ ΤΟΥ ΓΚΟΝΤΟ

    Ο Βλαδίμηρος και ο Εστραγκόν, οι γνωστοί πρωταγωνιστές του Περιμένωντας τον Γκοντό ξυπνούν μετά από χρόνια μάλλον αλλαγμένοι. Περιμένοντας τον Γκοντό επί ματαίω άλλαξαν, έγιναν περισσότερο ερειστικοί και πιο δραστήριοι. Όμως το όνειρο τους παραμένει...
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  • The Discover Cats Explore Outer Space & and Solar System The Discover Cats Explore Outer Space & and Solar System
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    The Discover Cats Explore Outer Space & and Solar System

    The Discover Cats love to explore everywhere they can get their paws on. Learning is the best! This time, the Discover Cats head to outer space to learn about earth, the solar system, the sun, and the moon. Packed with plenty of scientific facts, this...
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  • Confessions of an Investigative Reporter Confessions of an Investigative Reporter
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    Confessions of an Investigative Reporter

    "A fascinating look behind the media mirror that reflects celebrity and power ... incredible." —Bob Dotson, New York Times bestselling author, former national correspondent, the Today showAward-winning investigative reporter Matthew...
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  • The Great War and the Golden Age of Hollywood Horror The Great War and the Golden Age of Hollywood Horror
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    The Great War and the Golden Age of Hollywood Horror

    Every fan of the Universal Horror films of the 1930s knows that James Whale directed four of the best of those films: Frankenstein (1931), The Old Dark House (1932), The Invisible Man (1933), and Bride of Frankenstein (1935). But do they know he served...
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  • Sketch-O-Frenia Sketch-O-Frenia
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    Sketch-O-Frenia

    A rare collection of comedy sketches suitable for stage, television or film. Think: ants, fish and other unlikely creatures satirizing everything we consider normal and acceptable. Other spoofs in the collection parody many of the sacred icons of our...
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  • Fighting the Battles of the Ballet World Fighting the Battles of the Ballet World
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    Fighting the Battles of the Ballet World

    Karen Morell's professional career began when she auditioned with the New York City Ballet for the San Francisco production of "The Nutcracker" when just a child. By 16 she was living in New York and had several local performances to her...
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  • History of Theater on Cape Cod History of Theater on Cape Cod
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    History of Theater on Cape Cod

    Theater on the Cape began in 1916 when a group of artists and writers in Provincetown mounted a production of a one-act play, Bound East for Cardiff, by a little-known playwright, Eugene O'Neill. They staged the play in a rickety old theater on a wharf...
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  • Boston's Theater District Boston's Theater District
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    Boston's Theater District

    Downtown Boston once thrived as a dazzling bohemia of burlesque halls, movie palaces, dime museums, and regal stages. By 1915, more than 20 theaters crowded along a quarter-mile stretch of lower Washington Street. The theater district gave birth to...
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  • Albert Brooks Albert Brooks
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    Albert Brooks

    Albert Brooks: Interviews brings together fourteen profiles of and conversations with Brooks (b. 1947), in which he contemplates, expounds upon, and hilariously jokes about the connections between his show business upbringing, an ambivalence about the...
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  • John Cassavetes John Cassavetes
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    John Cassavetes

    American filmmaker John Cassavetes (1929-1989) made only nine independent films during a quarter century, but those films affected the cinema culture of the 1960s to the 1980s in unprecedented ways. With a close nucleus of actors and crew members on his...
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  • Movie Magic Movie Magic
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    Movie Magic

    When you work on Hollywood blockbusters as a senior marketing executive at DCA, Continental Distributors, MGM, Cinema Center Films, Paramount, and Columbia Pictures, you meet some people. For Bill O’Hare, that meant working with movie stars...
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  • Unrepentant Patriot Unrepentant Patriot
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    Unrepentant Patriot

    Carl Zuckmayer's illustrious career as one of Central Europe's most prolific and popular playwrights during the years of the Weimar Republic after 1918 was cut short by the Nazi seizure of power in Germany in 1933. His plays were banned during the...
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  • The Tao of Audience Development for the Arts The Tao of Audience Development for the Arts
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    The Tao of Audience Development for the Arts

    Philosophies about audience development, five years in the making. This book is a compilation of blog posts since 2009 from the Audience Development Specialists blog. Filled with information and thoughts on audience development, arts management, and arts...
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  • Right Angles Right Angles
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    Right Angles

    Set in a snowy New England mill town, Right Angles is a comedy that centers around the matriarch of a Polish American family, Kasia Angielski. Kasia is deeply concerned about doing the right thing for the right reason within the moral and cultural...
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  • Apocalypse TV Apocalypse TV
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    Apocalypse TV

    The end of the world may be upon us, but it certainly is taking its sweet time playing out. The walkers on The Walking Dead have been "walking" for nearly a decade. There are now dozens of apocalyptic television shows and we use the "end times" to...
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  • A Wanderer by Trade A Wanderer by Trade
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    A Wanderer by Trade

    Many of Bob Dylan's most well-known works date from the 1960s, and can be seen as critical indicators of the changes in American society then and since. This book explores the unthreading of ideas about masculinity, femininity, sexuality, and identity...
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  • Liliom - A Legend In Seven Scenes And A Prologue Liliom - A Legend In Seven Scenes And A Prologue
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    Liliom - A Legend In Seven Scenes And A Prologue

    “Liliom” is play by Hungarian dramatist Ferenc Molnár, first performed in 1909. The play is set in Budapest, Hungary, and in a fictional waiting area just outside of Heaven. Liliom is a cocky carousel worker who falls in love with Julie, a maid. However,...
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  • Masks Or Faces? - A Study In The Psychology Of Acting Masks Or Faces? - A Study In The Psychology Of Acting
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    Masks Or Faces? - A Study In The Psychology Of Acting

    First published in 1888, “Masks Or Faces?” is a detailed study in the psychology of acting. William Archer (1856 – 1924) was a Scottish critic and writer. Other notable works by this author include: “English Dramatists of To-day” (1882), “Henry Irving, a...
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  • Famous People Eat Too! Famous People Eat Too!
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    Famous People Eat Too!

    When not writing, journalist Josiah Howard (Donna Summer: Her Life & Music, Blaxploitation Cinema: the Essential Reference Guide) was also a waiter at one of New York City's most popular restaurant/bars. For sixteen years Mr. Howard worked at Restaurant...
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  • Wagner's Music Dramas Analyzed Wagner's Music Dramas Analyzed
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    Wagner's Music Dramas Analyzed

    Wagner�������s Music Dramas Analyzed: With The Leading Motives is a book written by Gustav Kobbe and originally published in 1904. The book provides a comprehensive analysis of the music dramas of Richard Wagner, one of the most influential composers of...
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  • Volund Smed Volund Smed
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    Volund Smed

    Volund Smed: Melodrama is a literary work written by Holger Drachmann and published in 1894. The book is a dramatic tale that tells the story of Volund Smed, a legendary blacksmith from Norse mythology. The melodrama explores the themes of love,...
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  • Karen Borneman, Lynggaard And Company Karen Borneman, Lynggaard And Company
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    Karen Borneman, Lynggaard And Company

    Karen Borneman, Lynggaard and Company: Two Plays by Hjalmar Bergstrom (1913) is a collection of two plays written by Hjalmar Bergstrom, a Swedish playwright. The first play, Karen Borneman, is a drama set in a small town in Sweden, where a young woman...
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  • Tooneel-Studies V4 Tooneel-Studies V4
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    Tooneel-Studies V4

    Tooneel-Studies V4: Allerzielen is a play written by Herman Heijermans Jr. and first published in 1905. The play is set in a Dutch Jewish community and follows the lives of its members during the holiday of All Souls' Day. The story revolves around the...
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  • Time's A Tell-Tale Time's A Tell-Tale
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    Time's A Tell-Tale

    ""Time's A Tell-Tale: A Comedy, In Five Acts"" is a play written by Henry Siddons and first published in 1807. The play is a comedy that explores the themes of love, marriage, and family relationships. The story is set in the English countryside and...
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  • Thomas Doggett, Deceased Thomas Doggett, Deceased
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    Thomas Doggett, Deceased

    Thomas Doggett, Deceased: A Famous Comedian (1908) is a book written by Theodore Andrea Cook. The book is a biography of Thomas Doggett, a well-known comedian of the late 17th and early 18th centuries. The author provides a detailed account of Doggett's...
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  • Theatre Of Education V4 (1781) Theatre Of Education V4 (1781)
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    Theatre Of Education V4 (1781)

    Theatre of Education V4 is a book written by Stephanie Felicite De Genlis in 1781. It is part of a series of educational works that were written for children during the Enlightenment period in France. The book is divided into several sections, each of...
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