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In this important and wide-ranging text, Richard Collins combines original research with provocative analysis and argument. He focuses on the impact of new television technologies, national policies……続きを見る

British Women’s Cinema examines the place of female-centred films throughout British film history, from silent melodrama and 1940s costume dramas right up to the contemporary British ‘chick flick’. 続きを見る

Blues: The Basics offers a concise introduction to a century of the blues. Organized chronologically, it focuses on the major eras in the growth and development of this popular musical style. Materi……続きを見る

Ozualdo Candeias problematizou temas cruciais para o país de forma inovadora, criando efeitos estéticos que desconstruíam as linguagens cinematográficas com as quais o espectador brasileiro estava h……続きを見る

This fourth edition of our bestselling text has been comprehensively updated and revised to include contemporary film analysis and recent films.With a focus on contemporary popular cinema and exampl……続きを見る

Until the first edition of Steven Spielberg: A Biography was published in 1997, much about Spielberg's personality and the forces that shaped it had remained enigmatic, in large part because of his ……続きを見る

Fritz Bennewitz (1926-1995) was the director-in-chief of East Germany's Weimar National Theatre. Extraordinary in his capacity for cultural and linguistic adjustment, he directed productions in twel……続きを見る

Worship and music have been intimately connected since biblical times. Yet music in worship has become a point of contention-a great chasm separating the young and the not-so-young, the conservative……続きを見る

From reviews of the first edition: “Ethnographic Film can rightly be considered a film primer for anthropologists.” ーChoice “This is an interesting and useful book about what it means to be ethnogr……続きを見る

The American independent sector has attracted much attention in recent years, an upsurge of academic work on the subject being accompanied by wider public debate. But many questions remain about how……続きを見る

Are you looking for a journey that will take you through Worst Tv Shows Ever Made: Top 100, along with funny comments and a word puzzle? Then this book is for you. Whether you are looking at this bo……続きを見る

This book is the first critical analysis of the key principles and practices informing the movement training of actors in the modern era. Focusing on the cultural history of modern movement training……続きを見る

The world's first encyclopedic book (genre: music) on the history of Trance House & Progressive House dance music. The book discusses the current trends of the massive rave (dance festival) scene in……続きを見る

With the recent release of spectacular blockbuster films from Gladiator to The Lord of the Rings trilogy, the epic has once again become a major form in contemporary cinema. This new volume in the A……続きを見る

During its five-year run from 1997 to 2002, the popular TV show Ally McBeal engaged viewers in debates over what it means to be a woman or a man in the modern workplace; how romance factors into the……続きを見る

By reconsidering assumptions about mainstream popular culture and its revolutionary possibilities, author Dana Heller reveals that John Waters' popular 1988 film Hairspray is the director's most sub……続きを見る

Prime time: those precious few hours every night when the three major television networks garner millions of dollars while tens of millions of Americans tune in. Inside Prime Time is a classic study……続きを見る

Mildred Dunnock is excerpted from Tennessee Williams and Company: His Essential Screen Actors by John DiLeo. The essay focuses on Mildred Dunnocks roles in the films Baby Doll (1956) and Sweet Bird ……続きを見る

Historical film has been an important genre since the earliest silent films. The French Revolution, the American Civil War, the conquest of the New World, World War II--all have been repeatedly repr……続きを見る

**From Fleet Street to the television, North Face of Soho is the fascinating and hilarious fourth volume of memoir from much-loved author, poet and broadcaster Clive James. '[James] delivers his gag……続きを見る

Exploring the much neglected area of Latin American exploitation cinema, this anthology challenges established continental and national histories and canons which often exclude exploitation cinema d……続きを見る

A beautifully illustrated, totally engrossing celebration of the piano, and the composers and performers who have made it their own. With honed sensitivity and unquestioned expertise, Stuart Isacoff……続きを見る

At its most intimate level, music heals our emotional wounds and inspires us. At its most public, it unites people across cultural boundaries. But can it rebuild a city? That's the central question ……続きを見る

An exhaustive look into the design of Universal's iconic Frankenstein makeup. Recently some debate has arisen as to just who was responsible for the DESIGN of the makeup implemented by Jack Pierce. ……続きを見る

Eleven of his 40 plays survive virtually complete. These plays, provide the only real examples of a genre of comic drama known as Old Comedy, and they are in fact used to define the genre. Also know……続きを見る

The Brazilian berimbau, a musical bow, is most commonly associated with the energetic martial art/dance/game of capoeira. This study explores the berimbau's stature from the 1950s to the present in ……続きを見る

This book is the first to examine the brilliant gathering of composers, conductors, and other musicians who fled Nazi Germany and arrived in the Los Angeles area. Musicologist Dorothy Lamb Crawford ……続きを見る

Spike Lee has directed, written, produced, and acted in dozens of films that present an expansive, nuanced, proudly opinionated, and richly multifaceted portrait of American society. As the only Afr……続きを見る

In a wide ranging series of introductory essays written by some of the leading figures in the field, this essential guide explores the world of Gothic in all its myriad forms throughout the mid-eigh……続きを見る

Modernism is both a contested aesthetic category and a powerful political statement. Modernist music was condemned as degenerate by the Nazis and forcibly replaced by socialist realism under the Sov……続きを見る