History & Criticism 2

Before the advent of television, cinema offered serialized films as a source of weekly entertainment. This book traces the history from the days of silent screen heroines to the sound era's daring a……続きを見る

The release of No Time To Die in 2021 heralds the arrival of the twenty-fifth installment in the James Bond film series. Since the release of Dr. No in 1962, the cinematic James Bond has expedited t……続きを見る

Illuminating the shared world of Clara and Robert Schumann, this volume takes a renewed look at the Schumanns and reconsiders them both as individual artists and as a couple who each charted their t……続きを見る

Brimming with fresh insights, this volume offers a comprehensive overview of the personal, cultural, intellectual, professional, political and religious contexts in which immensely gifted brother an……続きを見る

Capturing the fraught moment in popular music history as reflected in and anticipated by Since I Left You (2000), the debut studio album from electronic music group The Avalanches. Since I Left You ……続きを見る

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is a figure that is cemented in the annals of history as one of the greatest composers of all time. A fascinating and enigmatic character, Mozart was hailed in his own lifeti……続きを見る

Romance, wit, and social intrigue ー the novels that defined an era. Jane Austen remains one of the most beloved authors in world literature, celebrated for her keen social observations, sparkling d……続きを見る

In Esoteric Hollywood 3: Sex, Cults & Apocalypse in Films, Jay Dyer pulls back the curtain on the deeper, often unsettling themes embedded in modern cinema. From blockbuster franchises to obscure B-……続きを見る

James Dean is known as the first rebel. He was a '50s-styled, leather-clad biker rebuking authority. With his black turtleneck and a penchant for bongo drums and poetry, he could also easily be a ki……続きを見る

One of the foremost screen sirens of her era, Katharine Hepburn, was universally known for her grace, wit, and charm. She rose to the top of celebrity status in the great Golden Age of Hollywood, an……続きを見る

Tallulah Bankhead was known just as much for her off-stage presence as she was for her on-stage performances. Fearless from birth, Tallulah charted her own course in life. She trudged off to New Yor……続きを見る

Joan Crawford was a legend. Few could compare to the charm and grace that she brought to the silver screen. Little did anyone know, however, of the charmed yet ultimately tragic life she led away fr……続きを見る

Heath Ledger rapidly rose to fame to become one of the most acclaimed actors of our time. Although his career was brief, spanning little over ten years, he shot up like a rising star. People still r……続きを見る

If any of the great composers have a staying power that defies genre and time period, Frédéric Chopin was most certainly one of them. You can find his work being played with cherished delight by any……続きを見る

Charlie Chaplin is most famously known for his "tramp" characterーthe homeless hobo that can be seen hopping from trains and lining up in the soup kitchens of the Great Depression. At a time when th……続きを見る

Dean Martin was a natural entertainer, known not only for his singing ability but also for his great showmanship on the stage. With Martin, it wasn't just about the songーit was about the whole pack……続きを見る

The Japanese dramatic art of Noh has a rich six-hundred-year history and has had a huge influence on Japanese culture and such Western artists as Ezra Pound and The Japanese dramatic art of Noh has ……続きを見る

Bob Hope was the kind of entertainer who only comes along once in a lifetime. Spanning the decades, he worked through just about every era of the twentieth century. Hope grew up doing his best vaude……続きを見る

"Persuasive . . . interesting and unusual." ー Kirkus Reviews A total departure from previous writing about television, this book is the first ever to advocate that the medium is not reformable. Its……続きを見る

An Introduction to Film Analysis is designed to introduce students to filmmaking techniques while also providing an invaluable guide to film interpretation. It takes readers step by step through: -t……続きを見る

Alfred Hitchcock's work is legendary, and although he himself was known as a rather quiet and subdued figure in public, those who knew him privately saw a fiery disposition and unbridled passion lur……続きを見る

Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture addresses what may be the single most important question facing all kinds of performance today. What is the status of live performance in a culture domi……続きを見る

This open access book seeks answers to a series of questions about the little studied subject of prologues or theatrical presentations in American movie theaters from the late 1910s to the mid-1920s……続きを見る

Este livro é resultado de pesquisa e reflexão prodigiosas sobre o teatro em São Paulo nos anos de 1980. A elaboração analítica de um panorama exaustivo da produção comercial produz os critérios nece……続きを見る

This book studies how the complex relationship between music, the avant-garde, and counterculture challenges all sorts of boundaries. By exploring the avant-garde as a thoughtful inquiry into experi……続きを見る

**AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER The definitive history of twenty-first-century indie rockーfrom Iron & Wine and Death Cab for Cutie to Phoebe Bridgers and St. Vincentーand how the genre shifted the……続きを見る

Building on ideas first advanced by Arnold Schoenberg and later developed by Erwin Ratz, this book introduces a new theory of form for instrumental music in the classical style. The theory provides ……続きを見る

**Rolling Stone [UK] ー Best Music Books of the Year A monumental history of the gay influence on popular culture, from the rise of Little Richard to the collapse of disco in 1979: award-winning aut……続きを見る

Downtown NYC of the mid-1970s and early 80s was the perfect landscape for reinvention. If the Lost Generation writers telegraphed the death of the American dream, the No Wave era, led by artists inc……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