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What does it mean to describe cinematic effects as “movie magic,” to compare filmmakers to magicians, or to say that the cinema is all a “trick”? The heyday of stage illusionism was over a century a……続きを見る

فتاه واجهت مشكلات اسريه ومجتمعيه وكيف اثرت على شخصيتها 続きを見る

DJs used to rule the airwaves with personality plus! Hot Rock & Roll Hits, with mile-a-minute delivery and zany presentation! Here’s a behind-the-scenes look into the broadcast studios, spanning for……続きを見る

Presenting an alternative perspective, this book proposes that performing arts forge an emotional bond between the performer and the audience, making the act of performance a therapeutic and restora……続きを見る

Dance occupies a prestigious place in Indian performing arts, yet it curiously, to a large extent, has remained outside the arena of academic discourse. This book documents and celebrates the emerge……続きを見る

Many film fans consider Humphrey Bogart the ultimate star of Hollywood’s golden era. He rose from supporting roles in the early 1930s to become a superstar by the end of the decade. Bogart appeared ……続きを見る

Mickey Rooney is a cinematic icon whose career lasted from the silent era into the twenty-first century. From the shorts he made as Mickey McGuire to supporting roles in such films as Night at the M……続きを見る

A man of many film firsts, James Stuart Blackton promoted motion pictures as a mass commercial medium by creating the first true movie studio, adopting the star system, pioneering film animation, an……続きを見る

Chelsea finally meets the extraterrestrials that caused the apocalypse. They share with her ancient secrets of the origins of humanity 続きを見る

The authoritative biography of Britain's most subversive twentieth-century clown from celebrated biographer Graham McCann, author of Dad’s Army and Morecambe & Wise. Please note that this edition is……続きを見る

The ultimate biography of this ever-popular star and icon, from a young Cambridge don who has already made his name with a much praised biography of Marilyn Monroe. Please note that this edition is ……続きを見る

This book reflects on the aftermath of shifts encountered in the maturing of digital culture in areas of critical theory and artistic practices, focusing on the awareness that contemporary subjectiv……続きを見る

Deleuze and Beckett is a collection of essays on specific aspects of the Deleuze and Beckett interface. Some of the world's leading Beckett and Deleuze specialists apply different concepts of Deleuz……続きを見る

Incorporating the theoretical conceptualizations of Jon Kabat-Zinn and Ellen Langer, this volume illustrates how performers from a variety of disciplines - including sport, dance and music - can use……続きを見る

Chaque photo est le témoignage immortel d'une rencontre.  Vivez l’expérience unique  de parcourir une exposition avec l'auteur des images...  Surtout si le ph……続きを見る

Responsible for some of the greatest films of the 20th centuryーThe Grapes of Wrath, How Green Was My Valley, and The Quiet Man among othersーJohn Ford was best known for motion pictures that define……続きを見る

Each month brings new scientific findings that demonstrate the ways in which human activities, from resource extraction to carbon emissions, are doing unprecedented, perhaps irreparable damage to ou……続きを見る

In the early days of filmmaking, before many of Hollywood’s elaborate sets and soundstages had been built, it was common for movies to be shot on location. Decades later, Hollywood filmmakers redisc……続きを見る

Nobody knows how to tell a story like Bobby Norfolk, and here he tells his own life story. Norfolk grew up in hardscrabble neighborhoods of Saint Louis, Missouri, during the 1950s and 60s, sometimes……続きを見る

This bookdemonstrates the political potential of mainstream theatre in the US at the end of the twentieth century, tracing ideological change over time in the reception of US mainstream plays taking……続きを見る

Marnix Gijsens eerste toneelstuk: de thema’s vader en zoon ‘Welke zoon begrijpt zijn vader? Mensen die al twintig jaar in leeftijd verschillen zijn vijanden. De enige vaste regel van het leven is da……続きを見る

In her unique collection of the verbal language of dance practitioners and researchers, Valerie Preston-Dunlop presents a comprehensive view of people in dance: what they do, their movement, their s……続きを見る

La apasionante historia de un joven morisco en los convulsos días del ocaso del reino nazarí de Granada. Said, un joven morisco hijo de un cristiano renegado y una musulmana, es el protagonista de e……続きを見る

The Theater is a creative collaboration between poetry verse and screenplay acts that tells the story of Daniel. Born to the street life by parents who don't care how and if he lived, Daniel faced l……続きを見る

Completing a trilogy of works by Jan Cohen-Cruz, Remapping Performance focuses on the work of artists and experts who collaborate across fields to address social issues. The book explores work of a ……続きを見る

Brazilian Bodies, and their Choreographies of Identification retraces the presence of a particular way of swaying the body that, in Brazil, is commonly known as ginga . Cristina Rosa its presence ac……続きを見る

Dramaturgy and Architecture approaches modern and postmodern theatre's contribution to the way we think about the buildings and spaces we inhabit. It discusses in detail ways in which theatre and pe……続きを見る

How did Caribbean rituals helped form new currents in the performing and visual arts of the United States? This book answers this question through an examination of the Caribbean-inspired dance crea……続きを見る

Ten international dramaturg-scholars advance proposals that reset notions of agency in contemporary dance creation. Dramaturgy becomes driven by artistic inquiry, distributed among collaborating art……続きを見る

This book is a thought-provoking study that expands on film scholarship on noir and feminist scholarship on postfeminism, subjectivity, and representation to provide an inclusive, sophisticated, and……続きを見る