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First Published in 1998. This is the second volume of Mask: A Release if Acting Resources, and David Griffiths provides a detailed and sensitive view of the Japanese Noh theatre: historically, philo……続きを見る

No study of modern theater is complete without a thorough understanding of the enormous influence of visionary genius Edward Gordon Craig. Born in England in 1872, Craig went on to become famous wor……続きを見る

Are people with HIV/AIDS treated fairly in films?Here is a compelling book that provides you with a thorough examination of how HIV/AIDS is characterized and portrayed in film and how this portrayal……続きを見る

Gendered Frames, Embodied Cameras: Varda, Akerman, Cabrera, Calle, and Maïwenn is the first book to link these five filmmakers together through an analysis of the relationship between filming one’s ……続きを見る

Between 1948 and the end of the 1950s, Italian and American government agencies and corporations commissioned hundreds of short films for domestic and foreign consumption on topics such as the fight……続きを見る

_______________ 'A series of dazzling case studies exploring the idea of lateness in a range of composers, writers and artists' - London Review of Books 'Gracefully unquiet, probing and wise ... Sai……続きを見る

She spent her life in the movies. Her childhood is still there to see in Miracle on 34th Street. Her adolescence in Rebel Without a Cause. Her coming of age? Still playing in Splendor in the Grass a……続きを見る

"In early '79 I was already engaged in what eventually turned out to be a lengthy photographic study of the New Romantics (though back then they were not known as such). I'd been documenting this na……続きを見る

First published in 1988. Italy, the birthplace of opera in the late sixteenth century, has in recent decades seen remarkable and vital musical growth, with composers as diverse as Luciano Berio and ……続きを見る

This study argues that neorealism’s visual genius is inseparable from its almost invisible relation to the Fascist past: a connection inscribed in cinematic landscapes. While largely a silent narrat……続きを見る

Increasingly, as the production, distribution and audience of films cross national boundaries, film scholars have begun to think in terms of ‘transnational’ rather than national cinema. This book is……続きを見る

Often hailed as one of the greatest television series of all time, The Sopranos is a product of its time, firmly embedded in the problems of post-industrial, post-ethnic America. In The Sopranos: Bo……続きを見る

Gottlieb Muffat (1690-1770) has been heralded as one of the first composers of keyboard music to display 'distinctly Austrian traits'. In light of both the extent and quality of his œuvre, he was un……続きを見る

Joseph Haydns (1732-1809) große Bedeutung als Schöpfer der Wiener Klassik ist heute unbestritten und es ist längst an der Zeit, dass er aus dem Schatten Mozarts und Beethovens heraustritt. Die vorli……続きを見る

Thomas Meinecke erzählt von seinem Dasein als DJ, der Entstehung von Plattensammlungen, ersten Erfahrungen mit dem, was angesagt ist, und natürlich von Musik: über Musiker und Musikerinnen, Platten ……続きを見る

Die Nestroyana veröffentlichen wissenschaftliche Arbeiten über das Altwiener Volkstheater und im Besonderen über das Werk und die Person Johann Nestroys und berichtet über die Tätigkeit der Internat……続きを見る

Das komplette Angebot im Kino, Fernsehen und auf DVD/Blu-ray Für jeden Filminteressierten unverzichtbar: Auch für das Jahr 2012 bietet das Filmjahrbuch für jeden Film, der in Deutschland und der Sch……続きを見る

The Battle of Gettysburg und das historische Gefecht der Völkerschlacht bei Leipzig, die Reenactments von Milo Rau und Janez Janša, Marina Abramović' "Seven Easy Pieces", "Gob Squad's Kitchen" und "……続きを見る

Dieses eBook: "Theater (Roman)" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Arnold Bennett (1867/1931) war ein englischer Schriftst……続きを見る

In der Reihe der »Filmgenre«-Bände darf der Thriller natürlich nicht fehlen. Auch wenn Thriller sich aus nichts anderem definieren als aus einer filmischen Grundqualität überhaupt, dem »thrill«, bil……続きを見る

From cult heroes the Saints and the Go-Betweens to national icons Powderfinger and international stars Savage Garden, Brisbane has produced more than its share of great bands. But behind the music l……続きを見る

Der Fernsehfilm - bzw. das Fernsehspiel, wie es aufgrund seiner theaterhaften Ausrichtung in der Frühzeit hieß - ist die einzige Kunstform, die das Medium Fernsehen hervorgebracht hat. Die Informati……続きを見る

Keine Revolution kommt ohne Musik aus, und dennoch wird dieser Zusammenhang selten thematisiert. Das gilt insbesondere für das "tolle Jahr" 1848. Der Bedarf an Revolutionsmusik war groß: jede Kompag……続きを見る

Die Nestroyana veröffentlichen wissenschaftliche Arbeiten über das Altwiener Volkstheater und im Besonderen über das Werk und die Person Johann Nestroys und berichtet über die Tätigkeit der Internat……続きを見る

Heart of Practice is a unique and invaluable insight into the workings of one of theatre’s true pioneers, presented by his closest collaborator. This book charts the development of Grotowski’s drama……続きを見る

Dalton Trumbo was the highest paid screenwriter in Hollywood when he was investigated as a Communist during America's Red Scare of the 1940s. He was ultimately sent to jail and placed on an industry……続きを見る

Schoenberg and Redemption presents a new way of understanding Schoenberg's step into atonality in 1908. Reconsidering his threshold and early atonal works, as well as his theoretical writings and a ……続きを見る

"Ambulance Blues” is excerpted from Whispering Pines: The Northern Roots of American Music ... From Hank Snow to The Band, available as a print or ebook. Canadian songwriters have always struggled t……続きを見る

How have changes in media affected our everyday experience, behavior, and sense of identity? Such questions have generated endless arguments and speculations, but no thinker has addressed the issue ……続きを見る

In Brink of Reality, Peter Steven examines the convergence of video-art and social-issue documentary, from the 1940s to the present. No other book has explored contemporary Canadian documentary so t……続きを見る