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  • Lessons In The Art Of Acting Lessons In The Art Of Acting
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    Lessons In The Art Of Acting

    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 is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...
    $46.00

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  • Dutch Reader Dutch Reader
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    Dutch Reader

    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 is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...
    $42.00

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  • Acting in Opera, Its A-B-C Acting in Opera, Its A-B-C
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    Acting in Opera, Its A-B-C

    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 is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...
    $49.00

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  • Perpetual Motion; Comprising a History of the Efforts to Attain Self-motive Mechanism, With a Classified, Illustrated, Collection and Explanation of the Devices Whereby it has Been Sought and why They Failed, and Comprising Also a Revision and Re-ar Perpetual Motion; Comprising a History of the Efforts to Attain Self-motive Mechanism, With a Classified, Illustrated, Collection and Explanation of the Devices Whereby it has Been Sought and why They Failed, and Comprising Also a Revision and Re-ar
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    Perpetual Motion; Comprising a History of the Efforts to Attain Self-motive Mechanism, With a Classified, Illustrated, Collection and Explanation of the Devices Whereby it has Been Sought and why They Failed, and Comprising Also a Revision and Re-ar

    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 is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...
    $62.00

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  • The Cradle Song and Other Plays The Cradle Song and Other Plays
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    The Cradle Song and Other Plays

    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 is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...
    $57.00

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  • On Actors and the art of Acting On Actors and the art of Acting
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    On Actors and the art of Acting

    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 is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...
    $42.00

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  • Secreti Della Magia Bianca Secreti Della Magia Bianca
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    Secreti Della Magia Bianca

    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 is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...
    $37.00

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  • The Book of the Dance The Book of the Dance
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    The Book of the Dance

    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 is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...
    $54.00

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  • Case History Of A Movie Case History Of A Movie
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    Case History Of A Movie

    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 is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...
    $57.00

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  • Thespis Or The Gods Grown Old Thespis Or The Gods Grown Old
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    Thespis Or The Gods Grown Old

    A new performing version of Gilbert and Sullivan's lost first collaboration "Thespis" by Anthony Baker and Timothy Henty. Complete vocal score including dialogue.This is the version which premiered to critical acclaim at the Normansfield Theatre in 2008...
    $32.00

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  • Veiled Desires Veiled Desires
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    Veiled Desires

    Ingrid Bergman's engaging screen performance as Sister Mary Benedict in The Bells of St. Mary's made the film nun a star and her character a shining standard of comparison. She represented the religious life as the happy and rewarding choice of a...
    $57.00

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  • The Insiders' Guide to Factual Filmmaking The Insiders' Guide to Factual Filmmaking
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    The Insiders' Guide to Factual Filmmaking

    The Insiders' Guide to Factual Filmmaking is an accessible and comprehensive 'how to' guide about the craft of making documentaries for TV, online or social media. Filmmaker Tony Stark distils a long career at the BBC and as an independent producer to...
    $102.00

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  • Evolving Synergies Evolving Synergies
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    Evolving Synergies

    This book, Evolving Synergies: Celebrating Dance in Singapore, is a noteworthy contribution to the discourse of the Singapore dance scene. It discusses the evolution of Singapore's dance landscape, and its place in the city-state's social, cultural and...
    $126.00

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  • Funny, You Don't Look Funny Funny, You Don't Look Funny
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    Funny, You Don't Look Funny

    In this comprehensive approach to Jewish humor focused on the relationship between humor and American Jewish practice, Jennifer Caplan calls us to adopt a more expansive view of what it means to "do Jewish," revealing that American Jews have, and...
    $212.00

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  • Chilean Cinema in the Twenty-First-Century World Chilean Cinema in the Twenty-First-Century World
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    Chilean Cinema in the Twenty-First-Century World

    Focusing on films from Chile since 2000 and bringing together scholars from South and North America, Chilean Cinema in the Twenty-First-Century World is the first English-language book since the 1970s to explore this small, yet significant, Latin...
    $134.00

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  • Reality, Magic, and Other Lies Reality, Magic, and Other Lies
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    Reality, Magic, and Other Lies

    Reality, Magic, and Other Lies: Fairy-Tale Film Truths explores connections and discontinuities between lies and truths in fairy-tale films to directly address the current politics of fairy tale and reality. Since the Enlightenment, notions of magic and...
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  • Hidden Light Hidden Light
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    Hidden Light

    Over the past several decades, the prevailing attitude toward Judaism in Israeli society has undergone a meaningful shift; where the national ethos had once deemed Judaic traditions a vestige of an arcane past incompatible with the culture of a modern...
    $213.00

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  • On Stage Alone On Stage Alone
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    On Stage Alone

    Rediscover some of the most courageous dancers of the twentieth century"Providing a broad examination of the solo that spans the twentieth century, the expertly curated essays in this volume bring to light specific soloists' work while also reflecting...
    $62.00

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  • Martial Culture, Silver Screen Martial Culture, Silver Screen
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    Martial Culture, Silver Screen

    Martial Culture, Silver Screen analyzes war movies, one of the most popular genres in American cinema, for what they reveal about the narratives and ideologies that shape U.S. national identity. Edited by Matthew Christopher Hulbert and Matthew E...
    $118.00

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  • Authenticity and How We Fake It Authenticity and How We Fake It
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    Authenticity and How We Fake It

    Consumers today are invested in reality-based media, such as reality television and social media, which in theory draw content from somewhere off-screen in our lived experience. This is seen as more "authentic" than the predominantly fictional media...
    $64.00

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  • Colonial Cinema in Africa Colonial Cinema in Africa
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    Colonial Cinema in Africa

    In recent decades historians and film scholars have intensified their study of colonial cinema in Africa. Yet the vastness of the continent, the number of European powers involved and irregular record keeping has made uncovering the connections...
    $83.00

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  • Celebrity Health Narratives and the Public Health Celebrity Health Narratives and the Public Health
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    Celebrity Health Narratives and the Public Health

    We follow celebrities on Twitter and Facebook, watch them on television, and read about them in supermarket checkout lines. Our relationship with celebrities has never been so immediate. Their personal trials are news headlines and water cooler talk. ...
    $64.00

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  • Woody Allen's Angst Woody Allen's Angst
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    Woody Allen's Angst

    While Woody Allen is generally considered to be a master of the comic genre he created, his serious films are very important in understanding his role as one of this generation's more influential filmmakers. In this work such Allen films as Annie Hall...
    $83.00

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  • Vietnam at 24 Frames a Second Vietnam at 24 Frames a Second
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    Vietnam at 24 Frames a Second

    Beginning in 1948 with Paramount's Saigon and Universal's Rogue's Regiment, Hollywood has produced hundreds of features and made-for-television films about Vietnam and the ensuing conflict. With the exception of The Green Berets (1968), few were...
    $70.00

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  • African American Dance African American Dance
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    African American Dance

    Africans brought as slaves to North America arrived without possessions, but not without culture. The fascinating elements of African life manifested themselves richly in the New World, and among the most lasting and influential of these was the art...
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  • Meyerhold, Eisenstein and Biomechanics Meyerhold, Eisenstein and Biomechanics
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    Meyerhold, Eisenstein and Biomechanics

    Russian theater director Vsevolod Meyerhold designed Biomechanics--a system of actor training--shortly after the Russian Revolution. Although not always understood, it received wide attention as a result of Meyerhold's unique position as the foremost...
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  • From Broadway to the Bowery From Broadway to the Bowery
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    From Broadway to the Bowery

    In 1935 Sidney Kingsley's play about streetwise urban kids, Dead End, opened on Broadway featuring 14 adolescent actors. For two years on Broadway and then on tour, Kingsley's play delivered its social commentary contrasting affluent neighborhoods and...
    $87.00

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  • The Big Screen Comedies of Mel Brooks The Big Screen Comedies of Mel Brooks
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    The Big Screen Comedies of Mel Brooks

    Mel Brooks is often regarded as one of Hollywood's funniest men, thanks to such highly successful films as The Producers, Blazing Saddles, and Young Frankenstein. His films do have a tendency to turn out much like the jokes that comprise...
    $76.00

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  • Stanley Kubrick and the Art of Adaptation Stanley Kubrick and the Art of Adaptation
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    Stanley Kubrick and the Art of Adaptation

    Paring a novel into a two-hour film is an arduous task for even the best screenwriters and directors. Often the resulting movies are far removed from the novel, sometimes to the point of being unrecognizable. Stanley Kubrick's adaptations have...
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  • Plato and Popcorn Plato and Popcorn
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    Plato and Popcorn

    Many believe there is nothing like seeing a good movie, one that is enjoyable both in itself and for the thought processes it stimulates. From The Usual Suspects and When Harry Met Sally to Gandhi and The Color Purple, this handbook functions as a...
    $64.00

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  • The Suspense Thriller The Suspense Thriller
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    The Suspense Thriller

    This book is a comprehensive study of one of the most popular genres in the cinema. From a perspective sympathetic to popular culture, this study analyzes a large number of primarily American and European films by a variety of distinguished directors,...
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  • Nitrate Won't Wait Nitrate Won't Wait
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    Nitrate Won't Wait

    This study looks at the preservation process: newsreel, television, and color preservation; the often controversial issue of colorization; and commercial film archives. It provides detailed histories of the major players in the preservation battle...
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  • Planet of the Apes as American Myth Planet of the Apes as American Myth
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    Planet of the Apes as American Myth

    How do political conflicts shape popular culture? This book explores that question by analyzing how the Planet of the Apes films functioned both as entertaining adventures and as apocalyptic political commentary. Informative and thought provoking, the...
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  • Seeing Politics Seeing Politics
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    Seeing Politics

    Visual politics and the aesthetic turn in international relations have emphasized the power of the image in world politics. Postcolonial and decolonial feminist theory shows the urgent need to rethink research and teaching methods. What happens when...
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  • Hansard Hansard
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    Hansard

    Hansard; noun The official report of all parliamentary debates. Hansard is an intimate domestic drama about a long and troubled marriage. It is also a comedy about politics and identity and the failings of the ruling class. Set around the passing of the...
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  • Celebrities in Hell Celebrities in Hell
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    Celebrities in Hell

    Celebrities is a paperback updating the 1,200-page Who's Who in Hell (2000). The premise is that "Hell" is a theological invention, that is does not physically exist. If it did, theists would put into Hell all who are listed; e.g., Woody Allen; Marlon...
    $65.00

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  • Be A Top DJ In 10 Easy Steps Be A Top DJ In 10 Easy Steps
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    Be A Top DJ In 10 Easy Steps

    Everyone wants to be a DJ. Because of the low barriers of entry, there is no better time to get behind the decks. But how do you cut through the noise floor to become a Top DJ? With over 12 years of experience as a radio DJ at Chicago's B96 [WBBM-FM],...
    $43.00

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  • Expression in Pop-Rock Music Expression in Pop-Rock Music
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    Expression in Pop-Rock Music

    Expression in Pop-Rock Music is a collection of critical and analytical essays written by today's top scholars on pop and rock music. Applying a wide variety of analytical techniques and critical approaches in the study of songs by artists such as Tori...
    $123.00

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  • Never Far from Dancing Never Far from Dancing
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    Never Far from Dancing

    A series of interviews with some of the foremost dancers in twentieth-century ballet, Never Far from Dancing reflects on the paths that their careers have taken since they retired from the stage. Barbara Newman has expertly edited each of her interviews...
    $373.00

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  • Shakespeare, Cinema, Counter-Culture Shakespeare, Cinema, Counter-Culture
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    Shakespeare, Cinema, Counter-Culture

    Addressing for the first time Shakespeare's place in counter-cultural cinema, this book examines and theorizes counter-hegemonic, postmodern, and post-punk Shakespeare in late 20th and early 21st century film. Drawing on a diverse range of case studies,...
    $410.00

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