Performing Arts – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 8

Nicholas Grene
Irish Theatre in the Twenty-First Century

An in-depth study of Irish theatre in the contemporary period, including major companies and playwrights, that draws on first-hand experience and interviews with theatre makers.

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Alexandra Wilson
Someone Else's Music

Someone Else's Music reveals a hidden history of popular opera-going in Britain, which defies the opera-elitism stereotype. At the same time, the book traces how, when, and why that stereotype arose.

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Benjamin Lewis Robinson
Need/Emergency

Modern politics is preoccupied with states of emergency. Yet emergency politics obscures underlying socio-economic, infrastructural, and ecological conditions of need. Prompted by Hannah Arendt's claim th…

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Kim Chandler Vaccaro
Mura Dehn

This book tells the relatively unknown story of Mura Dehn (1902- 1987) a white, Jewish dancer from Russia, once deemed among the most beautiful classical dancers in Europe, who emigrated to the United Sta…

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Kim Chandler Vaccaro
Mura Dehn

This book tells the relatively unknown story of Mura Dehn (1902- 1987) a white, Jewish dancer from Russia, once deemed among the most beautiful classical dancers in Europe, who emigrated to the United Sta…

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Devendra Sharma,
Nautanki

Drawing on more than 4 decades of experience working in Nautanki as a writer, director, singer, and actor, Sharma's book is the first major study to analyse Nautanki not only through its literary bases, b…

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Carmen M K Gitre
Acting Egyptian

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, during the "protectorate" period of British occupation in Egypt - theaters and other performance sites were vital for imagining, mirroring, …

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Martha P Nochimson
Quantum Screens

An exploration of how nonlinear storytelling opens a post Newtonian reality and changes both the hero's journey and how we understand history in film and television

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Craig S Simpson
Television Is Where You Find It

Television is Where You Find It is a revelatory journey into the overlooked world of feature filmmakers who brought their cinematic vision to the small screen between 1955 and 1990---long before directing…

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Stephen Shearer
Gloria Swanson

Gloria Swanson is most remembered today for her role as "Norma Desmond" in Billy Wilder's noir sound classic Sunset Boulevard (1950), but Swanson during her heyday was heralded as filmdom's lead…

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Something Wicked

An examination of Witchcraft and the figure of the Witch in film, television, and culture to understand how, why, and when the anti-Witch/craft attitude evolved.

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Alan Burton, Steve Chibnall
Historical Dictionary of British Cinema

British filmmakers were among the pioneers of motion pictures, and British cinema has participated in all the great historical transitions of the medium, from black and white to colour, from talkies to so…

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Will Sloan
Ed Wood

For generations, Ed Wood has been known as "the worst director of all time." This sympathetic critical study repositions the director of Plan 9 from Outer Space as a maverick independent whose w…

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Tat Wood, Dorothy Ail,
About Time 9: The Unauthorized Guide to Doctor Who (Series 4, the 2009 Specials)

In About Time , the whole of Doctor Who is examined through the lens of the real-world social and political changes as well as ongoing developments in television production that influenced the series in w…

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Thomas Hischak
Bringing Song and Dance to the Screen

An introduction to movie musicals in the golden age of Hollywood and the directors that brought them to the big screen.The role directors have played in American cinema cannot be overstated, particularly …

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Kimberly Potts
It's (Almost) Always Sunny in Philadelphia

In the bestselling traditions of Seinfeldia and Top of the Rock comes a fascinating and unauthorized deep dive into the longest-running live-action sitcom in television history, from its humble beginnings…

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Edwin Kong
Cross and Dragon - Matteo Ricci and China

In an epic historical story that talks directly to our times, Cross and Dragondramatizes the life of one of the most famous Western figures in China: Italian Jesuit Matteo Ricci. Sent by the Pope in the l…

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Byron Bowers
The Hardest Part of Schizophrenia Is Spelling Schizophrenia

Comedian and actor Byron Bowers' wild, funny, and fearless memoir proves that healing can be a psychedelic experience---and that sometimes the only way to tell the truth is to laugh about itByron Bowers i…

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Benjamin Lewis Robinson
Need/Emergency

Modern politics is preoccupied with states of emergency. Yet emergency politics obscures underlying socio-economic, infrastructural, and ecological conditions of need. Prompted by Hannah Arendt's claim th…

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Studio Ghibli
Studio Ghibli: The Complete Works

A beautiful, full-color dive into the history and future of Studio Ghibli, Japan's preeminent animation house. In-depth looks at every one of their 26 feature films - including the latest, The Boy and the…

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