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The first integrated overview in English of Latin American crime fiction, a flourishing genre with unique perspectives and characteristics. Latin American crime fiction has a long and rich history, ……続きを見る

The Golden Girls: Tales from the Lanai is an accessible collection that explores the cultural, industrial, and historical impact of that beloved American sitcom. Edited by Taylor Cole Miller and Alf……続きを見る

Exploring Film through Bad Cinema offers an overview of the practice of film analysis through a specific focus on the concept of “bad” cinema within a series of broad cultural and historical context……続きを見る

David McComb, the driving force behind The Triffids, shaped one of Australia's most revered albums, Born Sandy Devotional ( 1986). But after the band's breakup, illness curtailed his solo career. He……続きを見る

The Toronto New Wave (TNW) comprises a group of avant-garde filmmakers working in Canada from the 1980s and into the new millennium whose innovative film works share significant affinities with anar……続きを見る

« Où sont les femmes ? Toujours pas là ! » affirme régulièrement la Société des auteurs et compositeurs dramatiques (sacd). Cette inégalité entre les hommes et les femmes dans le spectacle vivant es……続きを見る

For fans of The Sopranos**ーDelicious homestyle Italian recipes and memories from the hit HBO classic series.** “A wonderful cookbook . . . simple, well done, and easy to make . . . this book deserv……続きを見る

A nostalgic look back at fifty years of children’s television from the beloved ー Polka Dot Door, Mr. Dressup, Today’s Special ー to the bizarre ー Kiddo the Clown, Coming Up Rosie, Maniac Mansion. ……続きを見る

Rāgs Around the Clock is a rich and vibrant compendium for the discovery and study of North Indian classical music. The theory and practice of rāg are explored through two interlinked resources: a h……続きを見る

Examines the film careers and work of British playwrights who worked as screenwriters between 1930-1956. During the period between the 1927 Cinematograph Films Act and the 'new drama' of the 1950s, ……続きを見る

The majority of these collected essays date from 1992 onwards, three of them having been specially expanded for this volume. Drawing on recent archival research and new musicological theory, they in……続きを見る

In America Noir David Cochran details how ten writers and filmmakers challenged the social pieties prevalent during the Cold War, such as the superiority of the American democracy, the benevolence o……続きを見る

In Beyond the Red Carpet: Intimate Portraits of Iconic Celebrities, Leonard Crimson offers a captivating exploration of the intersection between celebrity and personal identity through the lens of i……続きを見る

This witty and fascinating study reminds us that there was animation before Disney: about thirty years of creativity and experimentation flourishing in such extraordinary work as Girdie the Dinosaur……続きを見る

On January 10, 1999, a mobster walked into a psychiatrist’s office and changed TV history. Celebrating one of the greatest television series of all time, the New York Times bestseller The Sopranos S……続きを見る

This account of Led Zeppelin’s decadent life on the road by their longtime tour manager “dishes up the real dirt as only an insider’s report can” (Kirkus Reviews). No one knew Led Zeppelin like Rich……続きを見る

El posible futuro del cine según Francis Ford Coppola, uno de los cineastas más grandes del siglo XX. Un ensayo trufado de experiencias personales que seducirá a los cinéfilos «Una lúcida reflexión.……続きを見る

The Improv Dictionary: An A to Z of Improvisational Terms, Techniques, and Tools explores improvisational approaches and concepts drawn from a multitude of movements and schools of thought to enhanc……続きを見る

A man, a microphone, and a dream When he opened his tiny recording studio in New York in 1940, Moses Asch had a larger-than-life dream: To document and record all the sounds of his time. He created ……続きを見る

On November 20, 1983, a three-hour made-for-TV movie The Day After premiered on ABC. Set in the heartland of Lawrence, Kansas, the film depicted the events before, during, and after a Soviet nuclear……続きを見る

David Carradine is Billーthe complex, charismatic master assassin from the critically acclaimed, monstrously successful Kill Bill films. Throughout the filming of Quentin Tarantino's brilliant, viol……続きを見る

Fans of offbeat cinema, discriminating renters and collectors, and movie buffs will drool over this checklist of the best overlooked and underappreciated films of the last hundred years. In Son of t……続きを見る

Discover the living legacy of Chicago Blues in this guide to the iconic clubs and musicians who madeーand keep makingーmusic history. During the Great Migration, African Americans left Mississippi f……続きを見る

Following on from the his first well-received book 'The Kaisers First POWs' Philip Chinnery now turns his attention to the attempts by allied prisoners of war to escape the Kaiser's clutches and ret……続きを見る

Rochelle Hudson's career as an actress was planned from the start (born in 1916) by her ambitious stage mother. Given rigorous dance and musical training as a child, Hudson won her first film contra……続きを見る

For more than three decades Richard Charteris has researched European music, sources and collections, focusing particularly on late Renaissance England, Germany and Italy. This group of essays, many……続きを見る

Documenting the evolution of teens and media from the 1950s through 2010, this book examines the films, books, television shows, and musical artists that impacted American culture and shaped the "co……続きを見る

Discover the stories behind the songs THE LIFE OF A SONG contains the stories of 100 songs exploring each song's biography and how they took on a new life following their release. Packed with intrig……続きを見る

¸ The words to Little Richard's "Tutti Frutti" were initially so risqué they had to be completely rewritten - in the hallway of the studio, as time was running out - before the song could be recorde……続きを見る

The ramifications of 9/11 are still being felt today. And those ramifications will continue to be felt for generations to come. Everyone's world changed irrevocably on that morning. Eleven years lat……続きを見る