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  • Directions for Directing Directions for Directing
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    Directions for Directing

    Directions for Directing: Theatre and Method lays out contemporary concepts of directing practice and examines specific techniques of approaching scripts, actors, and the stage. Addressed to both young and experienced directors but also to the broader...
    $373.00

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  • Talk to Her Talk to Her
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    Talk to Her

    Pedro Almodóvar is one of the most renowned film directors of recent years. Talk to Her is one of the most discussed and controversial of all his films. Dealing principally with the issue of rape, it also offers profound insights into the nature of love...
    $79.00

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  • Playwriting Across the Curriculum Playwriting Across the Curriculum
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    Playwriting Across the Curriculum

    This book is a guide to introducing the craft of playwriting into the secondary English curriculum at key stage 3, using the TEEP (Teacher Effectiveness Enhancement Programme) framework. The authors also provide a particular focus on applying this...
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  • How to do Shakespeare How to do Shakespeare
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    How to do Shakespeare

    'Adrian Noble vigorously highlights the extraordinary rhythmic, linguistic patterns Shakespeare gives the speaker. Any actor will find this book invaluable. For any student of Shakespeare it should be essential.' (From the Foreword by Ralph Fiennes)'How...
    $373.00

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  • About Raymond Williams About Raymond Williams
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    About Raymond Williams

    About Raymond Williams represents the overdue critical acclaim of Williams' lasting influence and unbroken repercussions in critical thought. His writings have effectively shaped the ways in which people understand the complexity of the notion of...
    $113.00

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  • Global Convergence Cultures Global Convergence Cultures
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    Global Convergence Cultures

    Today's convergent media industries readily produce stories that span multiple media, telling the tales of superheroes across comics, film and television, inviting audiences to participate in the popular universes across cinema, novels, the Web, and more...
    $111.00

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  • Indian Cinema Beyond Bollywood Indian Cinema Beyond Bollywood
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    Indian Cinema Beyond Bollywood

    This is the first edited volume on new independent Indian cinema. It aims to be a comprehensive compendium of diverse theoretical, philosophical, epistemological and practice-based perspectives, featuring contributions from multidisciplinary scholars and...
    $111.00

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  • Kristin Linklater Kristin Linklater
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    Kristin Linklater

    Kristin Linklater is one of the most internationally recognised names in the field of voice training, and this volume explores her work and life while also putting her work into practice. Charting the development of Linklater's process, including her...
    $102.00

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  • Reading Texts for Performance and Performances as Texts Reading Texts for Performance and Performances as Texts
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    Reading Texts for Performance and Performances as Texts

    This volume brings together nineteen important articles by Pamela M. King, one of the foremost British scholars working on Early English Drama. Unique to this collection are five articles on the 'living' traditions of performances in Spain,...
    $105.00

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  • Dance Lexicon in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries Dance Lexicon in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
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    Dance Lexicon in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries

    This book provides a thorough analysis of terpsichorean lexis in Renaissance drama. Besides considering not only the Shakespearean canon but also the Bard's contemporaries (e.g., dramatists as John Marston and Ben Jonson among the most refined Renaissance...
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  • kjk kearney kjk kearney
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    kjk kearney

    This book is Volume 2 Part 2 of the work life of Audio Artist, Sound Designer and Analogue Location Sound Recordist Kevin Kearney who has over 100 Sound Department credits in feature films, telemovies, series, short films, documentaries, and music videos...
    $256.00

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  • What the Flick? Volume 7 What the Flick? Volume 7
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    What the Flick? Volume 7

    A quiz book on movie clips that makes a great party game. Can be played alone, one-on-one, or in large groups. Has clips from movies as far back as 1930, all the way up to current day.
    $31.00

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  • 1000 Facts about Writers 1000 Facts about Writers
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    1000 Facts about Writers

    Ernest Hemingway shot himself in the legs with a machine gun while wrestling a shark.George RR Martin can only type with one finger at a time.Arthur Conan Doyle passionately believed in fairies.Bram Stoker couldn't walk until he was seven.CS Lewis...
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  • The Biggest Movie Plotholes The Biggest Movie Plotholes
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    The Biggest Movie Plotholes

    Why doesn't Cinderella's glass slippers vanish at the stroke of midnight like the rest of her clothes?In Home Alone, why doesn't Kevin just ring the police?In Aladdin, why doesn't Jafar use his hypnotic staff to make Jasmine fall in love with him?How did...
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  • 1000 Facts about Horror Movies Vol. 3 1000 Facts about Horror Movies Vol. 3
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    1000 Facts about Horror Movies Vol. 3

    In Prometheus, Jesus Christ is an alien.The first horror film to win an Oscar was Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.One of the main actors in Alien3 is a murderer.The Sunken Place in Get Out is meant to represent how minorities' rights are ignored by society. None...
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  • Amazing Grace - A tribute to Aretha Franklin Amazing Grace - A tribute to Aretha Franklin
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    Amazing Grace - A tribute to Aretha Franklin

    This publication contains transcriptions of how the world reacted to Aretha Franklin death and is a tribute to one of the true greats. Included, the complete studio album discography and song list plus a selected collection of magazines front cover.
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  • 1000 Facts about Horror Movies Vol. 2 1000 Facts about Horror Movies Vol. 2
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    1000 Facts about Horror Movies Vol. 2

    Steve Buscemi nearly played Freddy Krueger.The ship in Alien was meant to be called The Snark.Eddie Murphy was meant to play the lead in Get Out.Evil Dead was turned into a Broadway musical in 2006.The Fly was turned into an opera in 2008.Friday the 13th...
    $16.00

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  • El Mega Libro de las Ideas Equivocadas El Mega Libro de las Ideas Equivocadas
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    El Mega Libro de las Ideas Equivocadas

    El deporte más peligroso no es el fútbol americano. Es volar una cometa.El mapa del mundo es impreciso.Los silenciadores no existen.Todos pronuncian "Monte Everest" incorrectamente.El Viejo Oeste no era nada como lo imaginamos.Los Illuminati existieron...
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  • 1000 Facts about Historic Figures Vol. 2 1000 Facts about Historic Figures Vol. 2
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    1000 Facts about Historic Figures Vol. 2

    King Henry VIII had a pet polar bear.Herodotus wrote the first history book. It stated that Europe was full of cyclops.Steve Jobs never wrote a single line of programming code in his life.Joseph Stalin wasn't Russian.Michael Jackson used to be a...
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  • Artiest van de Week Artiest van de Week
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    Artiest van de Week

    Korte biografieën van 52 popartiesten en achtergrondinformatie bij 6 muzieknummers van die artiesten. Het betreft popartiesten uit de periode van 1960 tot 2010. Van elke popartiest is een foto bijgevoegd.
    $43.00

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  • Kino Kino Kino Kino
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    Kino Kino

    Gebrauchsanweisung zur Verwendung dieses Buches:Man lese das erste Kapitel eines der vorliegenden Filmromane, anschließend die „Filmnotizen" und schließlich den Schluss besagter Geschichte, und die Erinnerung ist perfekt - vorausgesetzt, dass man einst...
    $38.00

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  • 1000 Facts about Animated Films Vol. 3 1000 Facts about Animated Films Vol. 3
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    1000 Facts about Animated Films Vol. 3

    The Lion King takes place before humanity existed.Before he was famous, Bryan Cranston did voiceovers for several animes including Ghost in the Shell and Street Fighter II.Beauty and the Beast is based on a 1,800 year old story.The Minions are based on...
    $21.00

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  • 3000 Facts about Animated Films 3000 Facts about Animated Films
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    3000 Facts about Animated Films

    Despite Toy Story's legacy, it didn't win a single Oscar.Somebody counted every single spot in 101 Dalmatians. There's a lot.Animators stopped working on The Lion King because they were certain it would fail. It made over $900 million.The original...
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  • New Argentine Film New Argentine Film
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    New Argentine Film

    New Argentine Film is the most complete text to be published on the new Argentine cinema. While anchored in critical discourse and written by an academic, it also has the virtue of using clear and accessible language. In addition, the book is more than a...
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  • An Idolatrous Revolution An Idolatrous Revolution
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    An Idolatrous Revolution

    Far from the least deployed weapons in America's fighting the Cold War were Hollywood movies, Elvis Presley and rock & roll. The paradox of socially sanctioned rebellion was especially evident in the Hollywood propaganda for the new music and its...
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  • Canadian Cinema in the New Millennium Canadian Cinema in the New Millennium
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    Canadian Cinema in the New Millennium

    At the turn of the millennium Canadian cinema appeared to have reached an apex of aesthetic and commercial transformation. Domestic filmmaking has since declined in visibility: the sense of celebrity once associated with independent directors has...
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  • À tout prendre et Il était une fois dans l'Est À tout prendre et Il était une fois dans l'Est
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    À tout prendre et Il était une fois dans l'Est

    Si la devise du Québec sombre parfois dans l'oubli, ce livre s'impose tel un véritable devoir de mémoire envers les pionniers du cinéma de fiction LGBTQ+ québécois : Je me souviens de ce premier et courageux aveu queer de Claude Jutra dans À tout...
    $63.00

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  • Chinese Shadow Theatre Chinese Shadow Theatre
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    Chinese Shadow Theatre

    In her study of Chinese shadow theatre Fan Pen Li Chen documents and corrects misconceptions about this once-popular art form. Drawing on extensive research and fieldwork, she argues that these plays served a mainly religious function during the Qing...
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  • L'Homme blessé L'Homme blessé
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    L'Homme blessé

    Drawn into the circuit of men cruising for sex in and around a train station, restless adolescent Henri begins a frenzied pursuit of a dangerously charismatic older man, with sometimes violent and ultimately tragic consequences. Premiering at Cannes in...
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  • Hysteria in Performance Hysteria in Performance
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    Hysteria in Performance

    The nineteenth-century study of hysteria at the Salpêtrière hospital was a medical project, but also a theatrical one. The hysteric's public appearance was a continual ethical provocation, pointing not only to the vulnerability of her person but to the...
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  • My Vancouver Dance History My Vancouver Dance History
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    My Vancouver Dance History

    In the past decade, Vancouver dance has received tremendous acclaim nationally and internationally, as witnessed by the success of choreographer Crystal Pite and a rejuvenated Ballet BC. But this is only part of a vibrant and diverse story of...
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  • And Then Came Dance And Then Came Dance
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    And Then Came Dance

    And Then Came Dance provides new insight into the evolution of Russian literary scholar, art historian, and ballet critic Akim Volynsky's life-altering fascination with female ballet dancers, and the dance writings that resulted from his fascination.
    $64.00

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  • A Shakespeare Festival A Shakespeare Festival
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    A Shakespeare Festival

    A Shakespeare Festival: Being A Fantasy Of Mockery And Mirth Composed Of Scenes From Various Plays (1916) is a book written by Sarah Emma Simons. The book is a collection of scenes from various plays by William Shakespeare, presented in a fantasy of...
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  • A Selection From The Comedies Of Marivaux (1911) A Selection From The Comedies Of Marivaux (1911)
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    A Selection From The Comedies Of Marivaux (1911)

    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...
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  • A Rose Of Plymouth-Town A Rose Of Plymouth-Town
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    A Rose Of Plymouth-Town

    A Rose of Plymouth-Town is a romantic comedy play written by Beulah Marie Dix and published in 1903. The story is set in the 17th century in Plymouth, Massachusetts, and revolves around the love story of Priscilla Mullins and John Alden. The play is...
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  • Classic Secrets of Magic Classic Secrets of Magic
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    Classic Secrets of Magic

    Originally published in 1953 by Harper and Brothers, 'Classic Secrets of Magic' exposes the mystery behind some of the most well-known magical tricks, such as the 'Ambitious Card', the 'Chink-a-Chink' and the 'Four Ace Trick'. Contents include: The...
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  • Al Baker's Books of Magic Tricks - Book One & Two Al Baker's Books of Magic Tricks - Book One & Two
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    Al Baker's Books of Magic Tricks - Book One & Two

    Originally published in 1933, this collection contains both of the works on magic put together by the author. It features detailed explanations of his many tricks, accompanied by clear diagrams, and offers much in way of practical advice and information...
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  • The Black Dancing Body The Black Dancing Body
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    The Black Dancing Body

    What is the essence of "black" dance in America, and what is the black dancing body? To answer these question, Brenda Dixon Gottschild charts an unorthodox history by mapping the geography of the black dancing body and showing its central place in our...
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  • A Murder Has Been Renounced A Murder Has Been Renounced
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    A Murder Has Been Renounced

    A couple's car breaks down on a dark and stormy night. A nearby estate offers shelter and an oddball group of guests all behaving very strangely. The phone lines are down and  a necklace is stolen, shots are fired, a guest is strangled. You know,...
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  • Johannes, Tragodie In Funf Akten Und Einem Vorspiel (1898) Johannes, Tragodie In Funf Akten Und Einem Vorspiel (1898)
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    Johannes, Tragodie In Funf Akten Und Einem Vorspiel (1898)

    Johannes, Trag������die in f�����nf Akten und einem Vorspiel, ist ein Theaterst�����ck des deutschen Schriftstellers Hermann Sudermann. Es wurde erstmals im Jahr 1898 ver������ffentlicht und handelt von einem jungen Mann namens Johannes, der von seiner...
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  • Italienische Tondichter Von Palestrina Bis Auf Die Gegenwart Italienische Tondichter Von Palestrina Bis Auf Die Gegenwart
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    Italienische Tondichter Von Palestrina Bis Auf Die Gegenwart

    Das Buch ""Italienische Tondichter von Palestrina bis auf die Gegenwart: Eine Reihe von Vortr�����gen, gehalten in den Jahren 1874 u. 1875"" von Emil Naumann ist eine Sammlung von Vortr�����gen �����ber italienische Komponisten. Der Autor gibt einen...
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