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Come “sono fatte” e come “funzionano” le storie dei film e delle serie americane? Quali strutture narrative le sorreggono e come si sono evolute negli anni? Quali sono i temi, i valori e i profili d……続きを見る

As a parent, it is important that you be aware of the online games that benefit your children. This book lists the online games that children aged 5 and up, regardless of geographic location, play. ……続きを見る

As festas dão um monte de trabalho e podem ser caras. Encontrar um lugar para realizar seu evento, levar as pessoas a participar, fazendo-a funcionar sem problemas, organizar e terminar pode exigir ……続きを見る

Drawing on a range of cities and conflicts from Europe, Africa and the Middle East, the collection explores the post-conflict condition as it is lived and expressed in modern cities such as Berlin, ……続きを見る

Winner, Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2017 Americans are living longer and reinventing both work and retirement, but Hollywood movies barely hint at this reality of contemporary society. In man……続きを見る

As part of its effort to forge a new secular Jewish nation, the nascent Israeli state tried to limit Jewish religiosity. However, with the steady growth of the ultraorthodox community and the expans……続きを見る

Recent critically and commercially acclaimed Latin American films such as XXY, Contracorriente, and Plan B create an affective and bodily connection with viewers that elicits in them an emotive and ……続きを見る

“On Story is film school in a box, a lifetime’s worth of filmmaking knowledge squeezed into half-hour packages.” ーKenneth Turan, film critic for the Los Angeles Times Austin Film Festival (AFF) is ……続きを見る

Une fiche de référence sur Le vent se lève, un chef-d'oeuvre de Miyazaki Hayao. « Le vent se lève ! il faut tenter de vivre ! » Ce vers du Cimetière marin de Paul Valéry est cité à plusieurs reprise……続きを見る

In The Problem Body, editors Sally Chivers and Nicole Markotic bring together the work of eleven of the best disability scholars from the U.S., the U.K., Canada, and South Korea to explore a new app……続きを見る

What does it mean to study Shakespeare within a multicultural society? And who has the power to transform Shakespeare? The Diverse Bard explores how Shakespeare has been adapted by artists born on t……続きを見る

Morton Feldman is widely regarded as one of America's greatest composers. His music is famously idiosyncratic, but, in many cases, the way he presented it is also unusual because, in the 1950s and 1……続きを見る

A series of interviews with some of the foremost dancers in twentieth-century ballet, Never Far from Dancing reflects on the paths that their careers have taken since they retired from the stage. Ba……続きを見る

How does thinking affect doing? There is a widely held view--both in academia and in the popular press--that thinking about what you are doing, as you are doing it, hinders performance. Once you hav……続きを見る

Performance and Professional Wrestling is the first edited volume to consider professional wrestling explicitly from the vantage point of theatre and performance studies. Moving beyond simply noting……続きを見る

Jana Sanskriti is internationally recognised as the most iconic post-Boalian Theatre of the Oppressed operation in the world today. This fully illustrated book by the Bengali company's founder and a……続きを見る

Nigeria’s Nollywood has rapidly grown into one of the world’s largest film industries, radically altering media environments across Africa and in the diaspora; it has also become one of African cult……続きを見る

For ten years Jack Nicholson toiled in low-budget films and guest spots in such television shows as Dr. Kildare and The Andy Griffith Show before his breakout performance in Easy Rider. Despite “ret……続きを見る

At one time every station in Chicagoーa maximum of five, until 1964–produced or aired some programming for children. From the late 1940’s through the early 1970’s, local television stations created ……続きを見る

Although the motion picture industry initially disparaged and feared television, by the late 1950s, studios saw the medium as a convenient dumping ground for thousands of films that had long been ga……続きを見る

The Actor Takes A Meeting is the first book to address the actor’s self-presentation at an interview or meeting. It shows the actor how to be the host of a meeting and the initiator of an excit……続きを見る

The ability to improvise a skilled performance while speaking scripted and memorized lines is of paramount importance to actors working in today’s film and television productions, which often allow ……続きを見る

A useful guide for pastors, group leaders, coaches, & storytellers, Ruth Stotter’s little guide will boost your confidence if you are new to public speaking, and it will remind experienced speakers ……続きを見る

This book explores the representation of Hinduism through myth and discourse in urban Hindi theatre in the period 1880-1960. It discusses representative works of seven influential playwrights and lo……続きを見る

The five Cs of Arizonaーcopper, cattle, cotton, citrus, and climateーformed the basis of the state’s livelihood and a readymade roster of subjects for films. With an eye on the developing national a……続きを見る

There are hundreds of biographies of filmstars and dozens of scholarly works on acting in general. But what about the ephemeral yet indelible moments when, for a brief scene or even just a single sh……続きを見る

More than 120 full color postcard illustrations from the leading online animation network. Over the past 10 years, Channel Frederator's become the world's biggest animation network, built, film by f……続きを見る

This volume builds on previous notions of transmedia practices to develop the concept of transtexts, in order to account for both the industrial and user-generated contributions to the cross-media e……続きを見る

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Drawing on a wide range of examples from literature, comics, fil……続きを見る

Dance intersects with ethnicity in a powerful variety of ways and at a broad set of venues. Dance practices and attitudes about ethnicity have sometimes been the source of outright discord, as when ……続きを見る