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  • The Works of Arthur Laurents The Works of Arthur Laurents
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    The Works of Arthur Laurents

    Arthur Laurents's career as a playwright, screenwriter, book writer for musicals and director spanned over half a century. His first Broadway play, Home of the Brave, was produced in 1945; his last play, Come Back, Come Back, Wherever You Are, was...
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  • Drawing a Circle in the Square Drawing a Circle in the Square
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    Drawing a Circle in the Square

    Drawing a Circle in the Square: Street Performing in New York's Washington Square Park by Sally Harrison-PepperThis gratifying study of a phenomenon that has imprinted itself upon the folklore of big-city life is a joyful book focusing upon the street...
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  • William Wyler William Wyler
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    William Wyler

    William Wyler (1902-1981) was one of the most honored and successful directors from Hollywood's Golden Age. One of the film industry's most influential artists, he received three Academy Awards, twelve nominations for his direction, and five nominations...
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  • Horror Film Horror Film
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    Horror Film

    Horror Film: Creating and Marketing Fearedited by Steffen Hantkewith essays by Stacey Abbott, Michael Arnzen, Blair Davis, David Scott Diffrient, Richard J. Hand, James Kendrick, Claire Sisco King, K. A. Laity, Jay McRoy, Lorena Russell, Philip L...
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  • Real to Reel Real to Reel
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    Real to Reel

    Real trials and courtroom movies are made for each other. Lawyers are storytellers, courtrooms are theaters, and the trial process provides drama, surprise, suspense or comedy. This book will serve as a video guide to help you identify the courtroom...
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    The Scruffy Scoundrels

    Annibal Caro wrote The Scruffy Scoundrels (Gli Straccioni) in Rome in early 1543 for his patron Pierluigi Farnese, the eldest son of Pope Paul III. The actual performance of the play was delayed, then ultimately canceled after the death of its patron...
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  • Let Me Tell You How I Really Feel...Again Let Me Tell You How I Really Feel...Again
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    Let Me Tell You How I Really Feel...Again

    Listen to the accolades Laura has received:"I wouldn't buy a book by Laura Wagner if it was the last book on earth or if it was given to me free. This woman is a looney psycho who needs to get a grip on life or come down out of the clouds and start...
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  • Cinemassacres Cinemassacres
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    Cinemassacres

    Introduction by Ingrid Pitt / 6Kind Comments for Uncle ForryInterviews Afterword by Iron Dave / 166Interviews: Modern Mythmakers author Michael McCarty / 10Artist Frank Dietz / 15Multi-Media artist and Forry's ''best pal'' Joe Moe / 18Michael Mallory -...
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  • Just Joan Just Joan
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    Just Joan

    Illustrated with over 300 photos, many of them rare and never before in print, JUST JOAN is a compilation of over four years of comprehensive research, culled from rare Lincoln Center archives, original magazines and those who knew her. Crawford is...
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  • Gangway, Lord, (The) Here Come the Brides Book Gangway, Lord, (The) Here Come the Brides Book
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    Gangway, Lord, (The) Here Come the Brides Book

    Its series title mentioned women, but its top three stars were men!It pioneered a new kind of story-telling with its pilot episode; its last episode was years ahead of its time.Many thought it doomed to failure - it became one of the 1968-69 season's...
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  • Lon Chaney's Shadow - John Jeske and the Chaney Mystique Lon Chaney's Shadow - John Jeske and the Chaney Mystique
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    Lon Chaney's Shadow - John Jeske and the Chaney Mystique

    Lon Chaney's Shadow: John Jeske and the Chaney Mystique reveals an unexplored and controversial side of the great silent film actor Lon Chaney's life by taking a close look at his relationship with friend, chauffeur, and make-up assistant, John Jeske. ...
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  • The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations
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    The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations

    In honor of this book’s 100-year anniversary in the English language, The Book Tree presents this special 2016 edition. It has become essential reading for serious writers and those involved in the dramatic arts by providing a more complete...
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  • Robert Aldrich Robert Aldrich
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    Robert Aldrich

    Film -- BiographyIn this collection of interviews, Robert Aldrich (1918-1983) tells fascinating stories of making motion pictures with such film legends as Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Jack Palance, Robert Mitchum, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, James...
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  • Multicultural Theatre Multicultural Theatre
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    Multicultural Theatre

    In our media-saturated society, multicultural writers have discovered the stage as their medium of choice.  These 37 scenes and monologs by new writers of the multicultural experience are certain to inspire actors and directors.  The scene...
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  • Moving Meditation Moving Meditation
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    Moving Meditation

    Moving Meditation: The Alexander Technique for Performing Arts Students…and the Rest of Us! explores the intersection of creativity and the mind-body relationship through the Alexander Technique, an educational method by which individuals can...
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  • The Art of Anti-Exclusion The Art of Anti-Exclusion
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    The Art of Anti-Exclusion

    The Art of Anti-Exclusion: A collection of writings by Asian artists working with communities, brings together the writings of 8 artists and one researcher who document various arts forms carried out with communities in Asia. Written in collaboration...
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  • Clothes Make the Character Clothes Make the Character
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    Clothes Make the Character

    "Clothes make the man" (or woman). This is especially true in early Hollywood silent films where a character's appearance could show an immense number of different things about them. For example, Theda Bara's role in A Fool There Was (1915) was known...
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  • The Aliens Are Here The Aliens Are Here
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    The Aliens Are Here

    Aliens: They have taken the form of immigrants, invaders, lovers, heroes, cute creatures that want our candy or monsters that want our flesh. For more than a century, movies and television shows have speculated about the form and motives of alien life...
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  • Spoofing the Vampire Spoofing the Vampire
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    Spoofing the Vampire

    Famous for being deathly serious, the vampire genre has a consistent yet often critically overlooked subgenre--the comedic spoof and satire. This is the first book dedicated entirely to documenting and analyzing the vampire comedy on film and...
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  • Vampire Films Around the World Vampire Films Around the World
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    Vampire Films Around the World

    Vampires are arguably the most popular and most paradoxical of gothic monsters: life draining yet passionate, feared yet fascinating, dead yet immortal. Vampire content produces exquisitely suspenseful stories that, combined with motion picture...
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  • Anita Page Anita Page
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    Anita Page

    Anita Page (1910-2008) first captured attention near the end of the silent film era in such classics as While the City Sleeps (1928) with Lon Chaney, The Flying Fleet (1929) with Ramon Novarro, and her own favorite, Our Dancing Daughters (1928) with...
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  • Love and the Fighting Female Love and the Fighting Female
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    Love and the Fighting Female

    The fighting female archetype--a self-reliant woman of great physical prowess--has become increasingly common in action films and on television. However, the progressive female identities of these narratives cannot always resist the persistent and...
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  • From Radio to Television From Radio to Television
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    From Radio to Television

    The early years of television relied in part on successful narratives of another medium, as studios adapted radio programs like Boston Blackie and Defense Attorney to the small screen. Many shows were adapted more than once, like the radio program...
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  • Brazilian Collaborative Theater Brazilian Collaborative Theater
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    Brazilian Collaborative Theater

    Brazil has one of the most vibrant theater cultures in the world, home to a wide variety of theatrical expression. This collection of 15 interviews includes some of the country's most prolific creative minds--Ze Celso (Teatro Oficina), Antunes Filho,...
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  • The 1990s Teen Horror Cycle The 1990s Teen Horror Cycle
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    The 1990s Teen Horror Cycle

    Many critics and fans refer to the 1990s as the decade that horror forgot, with few notable entries in the genre. Yet horror went mainstream in the '90s by speaking to the anxieties of American youth during one of the country's most prosperous eras. ...
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  • Count Dracula Goes to the Movies Count Dracula Goes to the Movies
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    Count Dracula Goes to the Movies

    First published in 1897, Bram Stoker's Dracula has never been out of print. Yet most people are familiar with the title character from the movies. Count Dracula is one of the most-filmed literary characters in history--but has he (or Stoker's novel)...
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  • The Silent Appalachian The Silent Appalachian
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    The Silent Appalachian

    Appalachian literature is filled with silent or non-discursive characters. The reasons for their wordlessness vary. Some are mute or pretend to be, some choose not to speak or are silenced by grief, trauma or fear. Others mutter monosyllables,...
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  • Agnes Moorehead on Radio, Stage and Television Agnes Moorehead on Radio, Stage and Television
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    Agnes Moorehead on Radio, Stage and Television

    In a career spanning six decades, Agnes Moorehead (1900-1974) was perhaps unique among 20th-century American actresses in making her name in four entertainment media--radio, theater, film and television--after age 40. Focusing on 25 of her most...
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  • Repertory Movie Theaters of New York City Repertory Movie Theaters of New York City
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    Repertory Movie Theaters of New York City

    New York's repertory movie houses specialized in presenting films ignored by mainstream and art house audiences. Curating vintage and undistributed movies from various countries, they educated the public about the art of film at a time when the cinema...
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  • Hero or Villain? Hero or Villain?
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    Hero or Villain?

    One dimensional television characters are a thing of the past--today's popular shows feature intricate storylines and well developed characters. From the brooding Damon Salvatore in The Vampire Diaries to the tough-minded Rick Grimes in The Walking...
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  • For the Gay Stage For the Gay Stage
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    For the Gay Stage

    Previous surveys of the gay theatrical repertoire have concentrated on plays produced on Broadway or in London's West End. This comprehensive guide goes well beyond these earlier studies by introducing productions from Off Broadway, from regional...
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  • Stars of 21st Century Dance Pop and EDM Stars of 21st Century Dance Pop and EDM
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    Stars of 21st Century Dance Pop and EDM

    Dance music has seen an unprecedented explosion in the 21st century as a stampede of subgenres, such as dance pop and EDM (electronic dance music), have come to define the pop music scene worldwide. In this collection of original interviews, 33...
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  • Divine Horror Divine Horror
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    Divine Horror

    From Rosemary's Baby (1968) to The Witch (2015), horror films use religious entities to both inspire and combat fear and to call into question or affirm the moral order. Churches provide sanctuary, clergy cast out evil, religious icons become weapons,...
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  • Oscar's Favorite Actors Oscar's Favorite Actors
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    Oscar's Favorite Actors

    Just as the Academy Awards have an impact upon stars and their careers, their filmic achievements influence the Academy and contribute to the rich history of the Oscars. Upset wins, jarring losses and glaring oversights have helped define the careers...
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  • Film Censorship in America Film Censorship in America
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    Film Censorship in America

    Since the first films played in nickelodeons, controversial movies have been cut or banned across the United States. Far from Hollywood, regional productions such as Oscar Micheaux's provocative race films and Nell Shipman's wildlife adventures were...
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  • The American Television Critic The American Television Critic
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    The American Television Critic

    Aren't we all TV critics? It's a question that overlooks the importance of professional critics whose print and online columns reach large audiences. Their work helps viewers engage with programming and helps shape the conversations that arise. This...
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  • The Elusive Auteur The Elusive Auteur
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    The Elusive Auteur

    The director's authorial role in filmmaking--the extent to which a film reflects his or her individual style and creative vision--has been much debated among film critics and scholars for decades. Drawing on generations of criticism, this study...
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  • The Rules of Screenwriting and Why You Should Break Them The Rules of Screenwriting and Why You Should Break Them
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    The Rules of Screenwriting and Why You Should Break Them

    A couple of generations ago, the movie industry ran on gut instinct--film schools, audience research departments and seminars on screenwriting were not yet de rigueur. Today the standard is the analytical approach, intended to demystify filmmaking and...
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  • Egyptomania Goes to the Movies Egyptomania Goes to the Movies
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    Egyptomania Goes to the Movies

    "Egyptomania," the West's obsession with the strange and magnificent world of Ancient Egypt, has for centuries been reflected in architecture, literature and the performing arts. But the discovery of Tutankhamen's tomb in 1922, by a sensation-hungry...
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  • Conversations with Bunuel Conversations with Bunuel
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    Conversations with Bunuel

    This book features extended conversations with Spanish filmmaker Luis Bunuel (1900-1983) and interviews with his family members, friends and colleagues--including Salvador Dali, Louis Aragon and Fernando Rey--conducted by Max Aub in the late 1960s and...
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  • Cool Hand Lou Cool Hand Lou
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    Cool Hand Lou

    In this candid memoir, actor and director Lou Antonio recounts his five decades in television, film and theater, from live television to Broadway to Emmy-nominated Movies of the Week. Antonio describes with humor and insight the changes in audience...
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  • Joss Whedon Versus the Corporation Joss Whedon Versus the Corporation
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    Joss Whedon Versus the Corporation

    Screenwriter, director, producer and comic book author Joss Whedon is best known for his television series and films featuring villainous vampires, angry gods and even bloggers who wish to rule the world. Within these works is a prevalent yet commonly...
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  • Stars of '90s Dance Pop Stars of '90s Dance Pop
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    Stars of '90s Dance Pop

    The 1990s produced some of the greatest artists and hits in dance music history. And the decade was among the genre's most successful in terms of energy, sales and global popularity. In this retrospective, 29 singers, songwriters, producers, DJs and...
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