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Whether regarded as a perplexing object, a morally captivating force, an ineffable entity beyond language, or an inescapably embodied human practice, music has captured philosophically inclined mind……続きを見る

Damaged: Musicality and Race in Early American Punk is the first book-length portrait of punk as a musical style with an emphasis on how punk developed in relation to changing ideas of race in Ameri……続きを見る

The book 'Letters of Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy from 1833 to 1847' offers readers a unique insight into the personal and professional life of the renowned composer Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy. The ……続きを見る

In 'The Modes of Ancient Greek Music' by D. B. Monro, the reader is taken on a scholarly journey through the intricate world of ancient Greek music. Monro meticulously examines the different modes a……続きを見る

In 'Old Fogy: His Musical Opinions and Grotesques' by James Huneker, readers are taken on a thought-provoking journey through the world of music criticism and satire. Written in a witty and engaging……続きを見る

Raoul Walsh (1887–1980) was known as one of Hollywood's most adventurous, iconoclastic, and creative directors. He carved out an illustrious career and made films that transformed the Hollywood stud……続きを見る

Simultaneously the memoir of a famed composer, conductor, and music educator, and an important historical sourcebook on the American musical scene during the twentieth century and into the twenty-fi……続きを見る

In 'Theatrical and Circus Life or, Secrets of the Stage, Green-Room and Sawdust Arena' by John J. Jennings, readers are taken on a captivating journey behind the scenes of the entertainment industry……続きを見る

We are the rock. We are the rebels. We are Gen X. In the vast chronicle of musical revolutions, where legends are often illuminated by stage lights, platinum records, and iconic riffs, Generation X ……続きを見る

John Harley’s Thomas Tallis is the first full-length book to deal comprehensively with the composer’s life and works. Tallis entered the Chapel Royal in the middle of a long life, and remained there……続きを見る

This bookprovides an in-depth, holistic examination of evaluative aesthetics and criticism as they apply to film. Organised around the explanation of key concepts, it illuminates connections between……続きを見る

Fourteen revealing essays by a prominent Berlioz authority on some of the composer's acclaimed compositions (the Symphonie fantastique, Les Nuits d'été, Les Troyens) and writings (the celebrated Mém……続きを見る

In the first few years of the Great Depression, before the Production Code was rigidly enforced in 1934, Hollywood took advantage of its laxity, producing racy and violent films that titillated film……続きを見る

A bold, restorative vision of Mozart's works, and Western art music generally, as manifestations of an idealism rooted in the sociable nature of humans. For over a generation now, many leading perfo……続きを見る

Saggi - saggio (95 pagine) - Joe Dante, formatosi nella bottega del leggendario Roger Corman, è tra i registi hollywoodiani del fantastico più significativi degli anni Ottanta. Il grande regista Joe……続きを見る

In Life-Destroying Diagrams, Eugenie Brinkema brings the insights of her radical formalism to bear on supremely risky terrain: the ethical extremes of horror and love. Through close readings of work……続きを見る

Slade were one of the biggest British bands of the 1970s. One of the early pioneers of glam rock, they enjoyed an incredible run of six number-one singles, five top-ten albums and a succession of se……続きを見る

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This collection of new work on the philosophical importance of television starts from a model for reading films proposed by Stanley Cavell, whereby film in its entiretyーactors and production includ……続きを見る

This book is a critical, transdisciplinary examination of a broad range of philosophical ideas, theoretical concepts, and artistic projects of community in the 20th and 21st century in the context o……続きを見る

In der musikalischen Aufführungspraxis ist es normalerweise der Mensch, der das Tempo erzeugt. Innerlich ein Tempo zu etablieren und es an das der mitmusizierenden Personen anzugleichen, ist eine gr……続きを見る

Die 1930er-Jahre gelten als das populistische Jahrzehnt Hollywoods. Regisseure wie Frank Capra, Leo McCarey und John Ford entwerfen in ihren Werken Szenarien geglückter oder gescheiterter politische……続きを見る

The formative early ballets of West Side Story creators Leonard Bernstein and Jerome Robbins explored in detail for the very first time. 2022 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Winner. Leonard Bernst……続きを見る

Looking for your next movie night pick, but overwhelmed by the sheer number of options out there? Look no further than "Your Next Favorite Movie", a handy guide to help you find the perfect film to ……続きを見る

An attempt to locate cinema alongside philosophy, painting, geography and travel in terms of a history of modernism. The book focuses on a collection of geographical and ethnographic films and photo……続きを見る

In Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot's 'Moving Pictures: How They Are Made and Worked,' readers are taken on a comprehensive journey through the world of filmmaking. Talbot explores the technical aspe……続きを見る

Mothering Performance is a combination of scholarly essays and creative responses which focus on maternal performance and its applications from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives. This coll……続きを見る

Challenging established views and assumptions about traditions and practices of filmmaking in the African diaspora, this three-volume set offers readers a researched critique on black film. Volume O……続きを見る

Byron Almén proposes an original synthesis of approaches to musical narrative from literary criticism, semiotics, historiography, musicology, and music theory, resulting in a significant critical re……続きを見る

The life and its biographer provide a landmark work on the cinema. Emerging from a childhood of nearly Dickensian darkness, David Lean found his great success as a director of the appropriately titl……続きを見る