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The story of the Winnipeg Folk Festival, from the folks who were there Every July since 1974, Manitoba’s Birds Hill Provincial Park has been home to one of Canada’s most vibrant and storied celebrat……続きを見る

In 1935, the Norwegian soprano Kirsten Flagstad made her United States debut in a live radio broadcast that went across the country and made her an overnight success. Flagstad went on to enjoy an as……続きを見る

Television History, the Peabody Archive, and Cultural Memory is the first edited volume devoted to the Peabody Awards Collection, a unique repository of radio and TV programs submitted yearly since ……続きを見る

Revue Ciné-Bazar n°2. Interviews et entretiens. Sommaire : Dossier Budd Boetticher 5 Interview Arnold Kunert à propos de Budd Boetticher 7 Critique Bullfighter and the Lady 14 Dossier Bogdanovich 25……続きを見る

Nel mondo estremamente competitivo del rock ci sono due tipologie di persone: le superstar e gli schiavi, le leggende viventi e quelli che si consumano lentamente. In The Dark Stuff Nick Kent, il pi……続きを見る

Mark Katz surveys the age-old interrelationship between music and technology, from prehistoric musical instruments to today's digital playback devices. This Very Short Introduction takes an expansiv……続きを見る

Film noir is one of the most exciting and most debated products of studio-era Hollywood, but did you know that American radio broadcast many programs in the noir vein through the 1940s and 1950s? Th……続きを見る

Das Buch ermöglicht einen lebendigen, spannenden Zugang zur Geschichte Hamburgs durch 240 Biografien. Es werden sowohl prominente als auch weniger bekannte Hamburgerinnen und Hamburger berücksichtig……続きを見る

'Brims with enthusiasm and joyful insight' – Richard Ayoade How can a film score make you cheer, shiver, cry or punch the air? How do directors communicate their musical vision to composers? And whe……続きを見る

Inspired by an alleged real case of demonic possession in 1949, The Exorcist became an international phenomenon on its release in 1973. A blockbusting adaptation of a best-selling novel, it was prai……続きを見る

"A lively and anecdotal history" of the tiny family-run studio where jazz greats from Jelly Roll Morton to Louis Armstrong made their first recordings ( Jazz Times). From 1917 to 1932, in a primitiv……続きを見る

How can the dichotomy between body and language be overcome by means of the performing arts? What does the art of performing contribute to philosophical, ethical, and political thinking today? This ……続きを見る

More than any other set of films from the classical era, the Hollywood film noir is known for its lighting: the cast shadows, the blinking street signs, the eyes sparkling in the darkness. Each effe……続きを見る

How did a low-key prison drama which was considered a box-office flop on its original release become one of the most popular movies of all time? Mark Kermode traces the history of this unexpected au……続きを見る

In "Neue Musik" entwirft Paul Bekker eine umfassende Analyse der musikalischen Strömungen des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts, wobei er sich intensiv mit dem Wandel der ästhetischen Paradigmen und den gesel……続きを見る

This book examines the television serials created by influential showrunner David Simon. The book argues that Simon’s main theme is the state of the contemporary American city and that all of his se……続きを見る

The camera’s movement in a film may seem straightforward or merely technical. Yet skillfully deployed pans, tilts, dollies, cranes, and zooms can express the emotions of a character, convey attitude……続きを見る

This engaging study of Alfonso Cuarón's 2004 film demonstrates why it is an essential work of twenty-first-century cinema. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is an elegant exemplar of contemp……続きを見る

Matka musiikin ja mielen avaruuteen ”Ainoastaan orkesteria johtamalla osaan kuvata päässäni soivaa musiikkia.” – Hannu Lintu Linnunradalla piirtää lähikuvan kapellimestari Hannu Linnusta, hänen taus……続きを見る

A behind-the-scenes account of a cultural institution that made a distinctive mark on Canadian film Establishing Shots captures a diverse group of filmmakers in an immersive oral history of one of t……続きを見る

Il nome di Paul Bekker (Berlino, 11 settembre 1882 – New York, 13 marzo 1937) è noto oggi soprattutto agli studiosi dell’opera di Beethoven e di Mahler per via di due imponenti contributi critici la……続きを見る

The music of Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frederic Handel and Domenico Scarlatti received more performances, publications and appreciation in Britain between 1750–1850 than in any other country dur……続きを見る

Music has long played a prominent role in cultural diplomacy, but until now no resource has comparatively examined policies that shape how non-western countries use music for international relations……続きを見る

An important new approach to the study of laboratories, presenting a practical method for understanding labs in all walks of life From the “Big Science” of Bell Laboratories to the esoteric world of……続きを見る

In It's Only a Movie, the incomparable Mark Kermode takes us into the weird world of a life lived in widescreen. Join him as he gets lost in Russia on the trail of a low-budget horror flick, gasp as……続きを見る

PRÓLOGO DE JAVIER AZNAR Klosterman, el mejor cronista cultural de la generación X, nos sumerge en una década que, bajo su aire de intrascendencia, explica y define mejor que ninguna otra las obsesio……続きを見る

This study analyses the Finnish National Theatre’s activities throughout the decades during which the post-war generation with its new societal and theatrical views was rising to power, and during w……続きを見る

The camera’s movement in a film may seem straightforward or merely technical. Yet skillfully deployed pans, tilts, dollies, cranes, and zooms can express the emotions of a character, convey attitude……続きを見る

Lighting performs essential functions in Hollywood films, enhancing the glamour, clarifying the action, and intensifying the mood. Examining every facet of this understated art form, from the glowin……続きを見る

Theorizing Colonial Cinema is a millennial retrospective on the entangled intimacy between film and colonialism from film's global inception to contemporary legacies in and of Asia. The volume engag……続きを見る