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Do it yourself
Do It Yourself is a practical guide for artists, activists, and organisers to create impactful theatre rooted in working-class communities. Drawing on fifteen years of experience, UK theatre company Common/Wealth share their experimental approach, offering a vision of theatre as a powerful tool f...
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Folk horror on film
This is the first scholarly collection to focus on the special importance of British cinema to folk horror. The chapters consider the artistic styles, historical contexts, cultural tensions and cinematic fears that distinguish folk horror from other forms of horror and from traditional ways of vi...
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Reanimating grief
This book explores how literature, theatre and music revive the dead to explore the dynamics of grief and mourning. Combining expressive and analytical writing, it offers a critical poetics of loss to show how ghosts, scenes of mourning, memories of reading or viewing, and acoustic fragments, all...
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Stage rights!
Drawing upon previously unseen archival material, this book brings to life the story of the Actresses' Franchise League from 1908-1958, building a picture of this diverse, exciting and innovative organisation that opens up and extends previous scholarship of the suffrage movement, and of politica...
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Modern european cinema and love
Modern European cinema and love examines nine European directors working from the 1950s onwards whose films contain stories about and reflections on romantic love and marriage.
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Crank it up
Jason Statham is Britain’s most important post-millennial male film star. This book examines his work throughout a career encompassing film, television, music videos, multi-media platforms and video gaming.
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Global london on screen
Global London on screen presents a mélange of films by directors from the Global South and North, portraying everyday life to the more fantastical, odious or extraordinary circumstances that are captured cinematically in this superdiverse city.
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World film locations: los angeles
World Film Locations: Los Angeles Volume 2 is an engaging and highly visual city-wide tour of both well known and slightly lesser known films shot on location in one of the birthplaces of cinema and the ‘screen spectacle’. It pairs 50 synopses of carefully chosen film scenes with evocative full-c...
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World film locations: rome
This volume explores the city of Rome, which has served as the setting for countless memorable films, spanning all genres and emotions. Readers are taken on a journey through the city with stops at key locations. A carefully selected compilation of films is complemented by essays that further exa...
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Matrescence and performance
Asks what performance can do to expand representations of becoming a mother. Using mimesis, liveness, and digital mediums to render their own matrescent bodies, contemporary mother/artists explore historical pejorative theoretical concepts and aesthetics in new, feminist ways. A valuable and rigo...
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Flesh and text
A critical analysis of UK performance company Bodies in Flight’s work and collaborative methodology, including archival images, text extracts, reflections by collaborators, arts professionals, performance scholars, providing a context for small-scale performance making and insights into devising ...
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Still moving
Adds to growing literature of overcoming ageism in dance. Highlights the achievements of remarkable senior professional dancers and through conversations with them provides an inspiring account of human potential and resilience. Has the potential to reach an anti-ageing reader as well as a dance ...
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Dancing place
Dancing Place stories the author's experiences of moving together, making, being in the world. From an Africanist & Indigenous relational philosophy the book discusses artistic process of somatic-based movement inquiry through sharing the authors' work with scores over a 6-year research proje...
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Wartime cinema, englishness and propaganda
The book provides a study of the wartime films of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger and their team the Archers between 1938 and 1947, situated within wartime cinema and focussing on national identity explored with the ‘Pressburger Touch’.
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Film modernism
An original and provocative study. Theoretically lucid and engaging, it will be an essential text for any student of film.
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Toronto new wave cinema and the anarchist-apocalypse
This book explores the Toronto New Wave, a group of avant-garde filmmakers working in Canada from the 1980s and into the new millennium whose innovative film works share significant affinities with anarchist themes and aesthetics
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Using film as a source
A hands-on study skills guide that explores how film and moving image can be used as sources.
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Beginning film studies
The perfect one-stop-shop for anyone starting film studies.
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Death in modern theatre
This book analyses representations of death and dying in modern Western theatre from the late nineteenth century onward, examining how and why historically informed conceptions of mortality are dramatized and staged.
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Serious play
Slapstick comedy is the primary mode of performance for clowns, and in Serious Play, drama scholar Louise Peacock explores the evolution over the past fifty years of this unique brand of physical comedy. Though an analysis of clowning in a range of settings—theaters, circuses, hospitals, refugee...
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Algerian national cinema
This topical and innovative study is the first book on Algerian cinema to be published in English since the 1970s.
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Horror and the horror film
‘Horror and the Horror Film’ is a vivid, compelling, insightful and well-written study of the horror film and its subgenres from 1896 to the present, concentrating on the nature of horror in reality and on film.
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Post-catastrophe film
What can post-catastrophe films tell us about our current real-world circumstances? This book proposes that a new sub-genre of film called ‘post-catastrophe’ is emerging that displays narratives directly analogous to our current predicament of runaway climate disruption. Post-catastrophe film si...
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Schechner plays
A collection of performance texts ranging from orthodox plays to group-devised texts. The book traces from most recent to earliest Schechner's work as a "writer" and a "wrighter" -- the author of plays and the conceptualizer and leader of teams of artists. 20 b&w illus.
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The troublesome reign of john, king of england
A much needed, fully annotated and modernized text of a long neglected play used by Shakespeare as the principal basis of King John. Published anonymously in 1591, it can now be attributed definitively to Peele and ranks as the most important Elizabethan history play after Shakespeare and Marlowe...
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Applied theatre, third edition
Applied Theatre is recognized as the key text in the field of applied theatre and has been adopted by teaching programs around the world. Recipient of the Distinguished Book Award from the American Alliance for Theatre Education in 2010. Third edition includes refreshed case studies, providing ex...
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Following the score
This book is a critical frame for a body of devised work that toured extensively nationally and internationally, The Ravel Trilogy. The three performances, Bolero (2014), Concerto (2016) and Solo (2018), set out to explore the dramaturgy of music and the musicality of drama. The playtexts are fra...
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Time lords and star cops
This book explores science fiction television in the 1970s and 80s, analysing the changes under neoliberalism and the rise of Thatcherism.
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Terry nation
The first academic study of the science fiction television of Terry Nation, inventor of the Daleks, and author of 'Survivors' and 'Blake's 7' - places his work in the context of its production, and contains sustained analysis of key programmes, as well as new interview material.
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Socially engaged creative practice
This collection is the second in the Performance and Communities series. Contributions from academics and artists engage with both these notions of performance – that of identities in and through time and space - and of more formal instances of specific time-limited performances (textual/ embodie...
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On the figure in general and the body in particular:
A collection of wide-ranging essays written throughout the 1990s, On the Body in General and the Figure in Particular: Figurative Invention in Cinema covers an array of genres and styles to propose an original method of cinematic analysis and interpretation foregrounding film’s formal and plastic...
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John ford's america
This volume explores John Ford's preoccupations throughout his long career, showing how he attempted to come to terms with American history, with how America kept changing its relationship with history and how many of the myths of the ‘West’ were just that – myths.
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The art of the observer
A personal perspective on documentary filmmaking, based on the author’s own experiences and reflections on the genre, with a particular emphasis on observational cinema. It includes both practical insights into filmmaking methods and discussions of the intellectual, ethical and emotional challeng...
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The films of bigas luna
The first comprehensive English-language study of Bigas Luna's complete filmography, this book explores genre, gender representation, Iberian and Mediterranean identities, and meta-cinematic narratives. It can be read as a cohesive study of his oeuvre or as a reference for specific films.
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Dances with sheep
Felt thinking is a body-based way of working with movement in somatic experience of the ecologically inclusive sense of self. Dances with Sheep presents the multitude of personal journeys which bring the lived connections between Nature and the self to the fore and offers new insights into how to...
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Performance generating systems in dance
Analyzes the self-organizing dramaturgies of dance works that generate performance systematically. Provides effective resources for those who wish to study or realize the potential of performance generating systems in dance within the fields of choreography and dance dramaturgy, dance education, ...
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Phenomenology for actors
This book explores how phenomenology – the study of how the world shows itself to conscious experience – can provide new insights into acting and theatre-making. It explores Being-in-the-world in everyday life with practical exercises for rehearsal and performance. 7 b/w illus.
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Every man out of his humour
Despite its popularity when it first appeared in print in 1600, Every Man out of His Humour has never appeared as a single modern critical edition until now. The volume's introduction and annotations convey early modern obsessions with wealth and self-display by providing historical contexts and ...
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The cinema of pedro almodóvar
A comprehensive, historically informed study of the art and politics of Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar, showing how Almodóvar's films draw on various national cinemas and film genres, including Spanish cinema of the dictatorship, European art cinema, Hollywood melodrama and film noir.
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London calling italy
London calling Italy is a book about the BBC Italian Service during the Second World War. It examines the role of the Italian broadcasters, the programmes and their reception.
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Theatre, education and the making of meanings
The book is a study of theatre's educational role in the 20th and the first years of the 21st centuries. It examines the variety of ways the theatre's educational potential has been harnessed and theorised by the claims made for its value and the tension between theatre as education and theatre a...
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Surrealism and film after 1945
Surrealism and Film after 1945 is the first collection devoted to the vibrant culture of transnational surrealist cinema since the Second World War. Eleven chapters by leading and emerging scholars of surrealism and film studies establish the parameters of this history and situate surrealism as a...
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The james bond phenomenon
Sean Connery’s tuxedo, Ursula Andress’ bikini, Oddjob’s bowler hat, and Q’s gadgets are just a few defining features of the 007 world examined in The James Bond phenomenon. Drawn from the fields of literary, film, music, and cultural studies, the essays in this collection range from revitalised r...
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Sydney box
A lucid and informative account, drawing on unpublished material, of the career of one of the most successful and significant producers in British cinema. It provides discussion of all his films, including The Seventh Veil (1945), and affords an exceptional insight into the workings of the wartim...
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Performing care
Performing care explores the relation between socially-engaged performance and care and care ethics. It questions how performance might be understood as caring or uncaring and how care might be viewed as an embodied or aesthetic practice --arguing for more careful art and artful care.
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Diane kurys
This is the first book written on Diane Kurys. It is essential for study of women filmmakers in France/Europe. An original and concise reading of Kurys' work.
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Witness onstage
Witness Onstage is a detailed study of the remarkable growth of documentary theatre forms in Russian since the early 2000s. It draws on the author’s work as a performer, producer, and researcher of documentary theatre both in Russia and internationally to provide new perspective on the mechanics ...
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Sally wainwright
This book-length study of Sally Wainwright’s television, including analysis of globally recognised television series such as Happy Valley, Last Tango in Halifax, and Gentleman Jack, considers Wainwright’s work in terms of genre, melodrama and through the concept of emotion.
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The cinema of oliver stone
An insightful study of the master filmmaker's work, enriched by unprecedented access to the director himself.
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Gothic television
This book is the first in-depth study of the Gothic on television. It defines and explores key instances of the genre across the history of television drama in the UK and US. The book builds a strong argument for the fact that the Gothic, in its various guises, is well-suited to television as a d...
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Queen henrietta's men and the cockpit repertory
This book offers the first extended study of Queen Henrietta’s Men, one of Caroline London’s most important professional theatre companies. It explores the material and cultural conditions under which the company operated, and the dynamics that held between new drama written for the company and t...
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Roy ward baker
This book traces the career of one of the great survivors of the British film and television industry over more than sixty years, who directed landmark British films, worked at Twentieth Century Fox and Rank in Hollywood, moved to television series such as 'The Avengers' and re-emerged as a major...
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Hollywood behind the wall
A representative history of East German film culture from 1946 to the present, offering close readings both of DEFA's celebrated classics and of the most acclaimed post-unification films.
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Theatre under the nazis
This is the first book to appear in English about theatre from the entire Nazi period (1933–45)
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Chantal akerman
This book on internationally acclaimed film director Chantal Akerman provides an illuminating overview of her filmmaking and an in-depth analysis of her multi-faceted film style.
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Epicene, or the silent woman
Epicene is now one of the most widely-studied of Johnson’s plays. Brilliantly exploiting the Jacobean convention whereby boys played female roles, it satirises the newly fashionable and sexually ambiguous world of the West End of London, where courtly wit rubs shoulders with commercial values.Thi...
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Charles crichton
Charles Crichton, director of A Fish Called Wanda and several much-loved Ealing comedies, had one of the most remarkable careers in British film history. Featuring interviews with colleagues such as Dame Judi Dench, Petula Clark, John Cleese and Sir Michael Palin, this book provides the first com...
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Performance art in eastern europe since 1960
This is the first comprehensive academic study of the history of performance art in Eastern Europe. It is a comparative study that covers twenty-one countries across the region, highlighting the unique contribution of these artists to the genre of performance art.
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The stukeley plays
The first modern-spelling, annotated edition of the two plays in which Thomas Stukeley, the notorious courtier, pirate, adventurer and soldier is a major character
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Eric rohmer
This comprehensive study of Eric Rohmer generously surveys the director’s five-decade career, exploring questions of production, cinematic realism, style and technique, serial filmmaking, and historical adaptation.
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A game at chess
For many years Middleton's "A Game at Chess" was more notorious than read, considered rather a phenomenon of theatrical history than a pre-eminent piece of dramatic writing. "A Game at Chess" was a nine days' wonder, an exceptional play of King James' reign on account of its unprecedented represe...
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Dancing with parkinson's
This book explores the experience and value of dancing for people living with the neurodegenerative disorder Parkinson’s disease. Sara Houston argues that the benefits of participatory dance are best understood through the experiences, lives, needs and challenges of people living with Parkinson’s...
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World film locations: malta
Malta has served as a beautiful backdrop for films for nearly as long as there has been a film industry. This entry in the World Film Locations series traces the history of Malta on screen, from big-budget blockbusters to modest indie pictures. The locations Malta offers range widely, from grand ...
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Screening sherlock
A cultural history of Sherlock Holmes adaptations in film and television from early cinema to the present.
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Beyond the bbfc
This work explores the censorship of film at local level and charts the chronological development of local film censorship systems, mechanisms and apparatus. Using archival material from a range of different locations across the UK, a more nuanced and complex picture of local film censorship acti...
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Beautiful doom
The first multi-authored volume on the work of contemporary British writer Dennis Kelly, Beautiful Doom examines the full range of his work for stage and screen, from new writing to adaptations of classic playtexts, musical theatre, and original works for television.
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A new genre for television?
The book presents the dramatised history documentaries aired by British public service broadcasters in the 2000s constitute a televisual genre in their own right, offering insights from key BBC and Channel 4 personnel.
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Jed mercurio
This book provides the first critical study of Jed Mercurio’s television work, tracing how his authorial style developed across medical drama, thriller and genre television, and reassessing authorship, populism and power in contemporary British broadcasting.
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Film festival programming as precarious labour
An essential book about the lived experience of film festival programming workers, the precarious employment relationships to which they are often subject, and the festival crunch culture that is driving both workers and the film festival circuit to breaking point.
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Ida lupino
This book delivers a critical study of British-born Ida Lupino as both a constructed star image and an underappreciated filmmaker who worked across independent and mainstream cinema during Hollywood’s classical era.
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Screen borders
A visual cultural history of contemporary borders and border outlooks through a film and television tour of Europe. Screen borders explores what screen representations of European borders, with France as a starting point, reveals about popular and institutional outlooks on European borders.
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市井香港
1937年抗日戰爭爆發，大批南來文人和電影製片人在上海淪陷後遷居香港，拍攝了不少粵語抗日宣傳電影，又稱「國防電影」。在《市井香港：戰前香港的粵語電影、宣傳電影和文化空間》中，趙傑鋒以這段發生在香港的歷史為開端，闡釋了抗日宣傳電影如何與香港的通俗文化交匯，藉此重組由晚清到戰前香港的通俗文化空間。在這個「眾聲喧嘩」的文化空間中，粵劇和電影、影像和聲音、傳統與現代之間的辯證，意外地開闢了一條渠道予各種文化想像和新可能。這種種因素不但影響了戰前香港粵語電影的發展，更為戰後香港的電影業奠下堅實的基礎。本書亦為1937年至1941年的香港電影史，補上一塊或缺已久的拼圖。
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Vernacular theatre
A practical description of six intergenerational projects developed during a ten-year period. Over the course of the book the author develops his argument for a form of civic drama that is accessible to all but rigorous in process. Based on work made with citizens of London and Hiroshima. 13 col....
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Reorienting performance
Part artist’s book, exhibition catalog, documentation, scholarly inquiry, and mid-career retrospective, Reorienting Performance reframes how South Asian performance practices can be situated on Western concert stages, interrogating the ongoing Orientalization often imposed on artists living withi...
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The diva mother
Explores how motherhood shapes female stardom in Italian cinema and media. Through films, archives, and publicity, it traces shifting maternal star images—from Magnani to Loren, Cardinale, Sandrelli, and Bergman—where national identity, glamour, respectability, desire, and legitimacy collide.
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Dark film, blood money
A thought-provoking interpretation of neo-noir filmmaking, from the 1970s to the 2020s, through the lens of the economic, encompassing issues of trust, professionalism, race, artistic influence, and the relation between business and family. 14 b&w illus.
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Broadway and west end casting
When theatre audiences see Black actors or women portraying characters typically imagined or written as white or men should they ignore it or celebrate these nods to diversity? Should this casting be construed as a political statement or changing the plays’ meaning? A broad, informal overview of ...
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Romard, volume 60
ROMARD is an academic journal devoted to the study and promotion of Medieval and Renaissance drama in Europe. Previously published under the title of Research Opportunities in Renaissance Drama (RORD), the journal has been in publication since 1956. ROMARD is published annually at the University ...
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Directory of world cinema: africa
Eschewing the postcolonial hubris that suggests Africa could only define itself in relation to its colonizers, a problem plaguing many studies published in the West on African cinema, this entry in the Directory of World Cinema series instead looks at African film as representing Africa for its o...
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Directory of world cinema: american hollywood 2
Directory of World Cinema: American Hollywood 2 builds on its predecessor by exploring how the industry has evolved and expanded throughout its history. Touches on classic films such as North by Northwest and Dirty Harry, comedies such as When Harry Met Sally and Jerry Maguire and CGI blockbuster...
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Sliding worlds
Famous for its ‘Modern Dance on Baby Oil’, the Taipei Dance Circle (1984–2019) changed how we think about movements. This book captures a rare behind-the-scenes look in dance ethnography at the group's final experimental years (2014-2017) after losing their founder, Shaw-Lu Liu.
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Screen education
Film and media studies now attract large numbers of students in schools, colleges and universities. However the setting up of these courses came after many decades of pioneering work at the educational margins in the post-war period. Bolas’ account focuses particularly on the voluntary efforts of...
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Alternative worlds in hollywood cinema
The use of alternate realities in cinema has been brought to new heights by such recent films as Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Donnie Darko. Alternative Worlds in Hollywood Cinema is the first book to analyze these imaginary realms, tracing their construction and development across pe...
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Composed theatre
A unique contribution to an emerging field, this book explores musical strategies of organization as viable alternative means of organizing theatrical work. It includes insightful essays by a group of international contributors and interviews with important practitioners, shedding light on histor...
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Parallel tracks
This highly original work reveals the profound impact that the railroad and the cinema have had on Western society and modern urban industrial culture.
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Theatre workshop
Theatre Workshop: Joan Littlewood and the Making of Modern British Theatre is the first in-depth study of perhaps Britain’s most influential twentieth-century theatre company. The book sets the company’s aims and achievements in their social, political and theatrical contexts, and explores the el...
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'film europe' and 'film america'
A volume of specially-commissioned essays dealing with the attempts to create a pan-European film production movement in the 1920s and 1930s, and the reactions of the American film industry to these plans to rival its hegemony.
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Green screen
This book combines film studies with environmental history and politics, aiming to establish a cultural criticism informed by 'green' thought. David Ingram argues that Hollywood cinema has largely perpetuated romantic attitudes to nature and has played an important ideological role in the 'green...
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The beginnings of the cinema in england,1894-1901: volume 3
Describing in detail one of the most inventive periods in the history of English cinema, the volumes in this celebrated series are already established as classics in their field. Each volume details the highlights of a single cinematic year, including details of production, manufacturers of equip...
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Nonhuman cinema
This book proposes a radical new nonhuman cinema: it examines how cinema challenges human superiority and the anthropocentric gaze while opening up new sensory, ethical, and material encounters between human and nonhuman, including the cinematic apparatus itself. It raises key ethical questions a...
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The screen censorship companion
This companion gives an exhaustive overview of how screen censorship touches our lives, from historical studies to today’s intrusions into how screen content is controlled, made available, or taken away. The cases studies range from the forbidden over politically ‘subversive’ materials, to plain ...
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Picturing cornwall
This book explores the history of Cornwall‘s portrayal on screen, from the earliest days of the moving image to the recent BBC adaptation of Winston Graham’s Poldark books. Innovative new research looking at amateur film and newsreels, avant-garde and documentary works alongside mainstream popula...
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Film, cinema, genre
This Reader brings together for the first time key works by Steve Neale, one of the founding figures of UK film studies. It includes selections of his influential writing on genre, together with other critical work encompassing film analysis, representation, cinema history, technology, and the fi...
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Reading the cinematograph
The birth of cinema coincided with the heyday of the short story. This book studies the relationship between popular magazine short stories and the very early British films.
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