Performing arts

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This book introduces readers to the widespread phenomenon of how social media platforms such as YouTube, Twitter, and TikTok become an extension of long-standing aspects of musical theatre engagement.

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger were true visionaries of British cinema, creating glorious Technicolor masterpieces including A Matter of Life and Death (1946), Black Narcissus (1947) and The Red Shoes (1948).

Qu'est-ce que le théâtre persan au XIXe siècle ?

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She is Cuba: A Genealogy of the Mulata Body traces the history of the Cuban mulata and her association with hips, sensuality and popular dance.

This work is a detailed portrait of one of the most important, bustling and absurd industries that cinema has ever known: colorful essays and nine career-spanning interviews with Italian genre directors of the 1970s, such as Luigi Cozzi, Francesco Barilli, Lamberto Bava and more.

From British soldier Flora Sandes to the famed World War II Night Witches of the Soviet Air Force, women across the globe have stepped up to defend their countries during every major and minor conflict of the twentieth century, and filmmakers have long attempted to capture their stories.

Although a major star in the 1910s, Theda Bara--known as "e;The Vamp"e;--was largely neglected until the 1990s, when her fame began to resurface.

This book deals with film depictions of Imperial Japan from the time it was a totalitarian power to the productions of recent years.

Cinema has become a battleground upon which history is made-a major mass medium of the twentieth century dealing with history.

This book is a collection of personal essays that address critical elements involved in the production of nonfiction films.

She received two Emmy Awards as the irrepressible Phyllis on The Mary Tyler Moor Show.

It was love at first taste for fifteen-year-old Tadhg Hickey when he drank a can of Scrumpy Jack on the night of his exam results.

Bringing together the expertise of world-leading screenwriters and scholars, this book offers a comprehensive overview of how screen narratives work.

Cinema has become a battleground upon which history is made-a major mass medium of the twentieth century dealing with history.

From ';weird, scary, ingenious' (The New York Times) stand-up comedian Maria Bamford, an instant New York Times bestselling, brutally honest, and ';laugh-out-loud funny' (Jennette McCurdy, #1 New York Times bestselling author) memoir about show business, mental health, and the comfort of rigid belief systemsfrom Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People, to Richard Simmons, to 12-step programs.

This book is a collection of personal essays that address critical elements involved in the production of nonfiction films.

The present book aims to explore how the perpetrator of crimes against humanity is represented in recent documentary films in different sociocultural contexts around the world.

Originally published in 1982, this book explores concepts such as 'traditional performance' and African theatre'.

This book examines how the vampire has always been connected to ideas of infection, pollution and disease-even more so in the 21st century where it expresses the horrors of unseen and unstoppable disease and the foreboding and anxiety that accompany viral outbreaks and wider epidemics.

Originally published in 1982, this book explores concepts such as 'traditional performance' and African theatre'.

This book takes choreographer William Forsythe's choreographic and scenographic processes as a holistic lens through which to view dance as a fundamentally visuo-sonic art form and choreography as a form of perceptual experimentation.

Bringing together the expertise of world-leading screenwriters and scholars, this book offers a comprehensive overview of how screen narratives work.

This book is the first collection of essays to offer detailed examinations of the role that close attention to individual films plays in the philosopher Gilles Deleuze's work on cinema.

We love to see superheroes fight, whether to protect innocent people from supervillains or to save the world.

This book explores the connections between drag stardom and contemporary sexual and cultural politics in the RuPaul's Drag Race franchise.

This book explores the connections between drag stardom and contemporary sexual and cultural politics in the RuPaul's Drag Race franchise.

This book explores dance and choreography as sites for the articulation of new theoretical and historical paradigms in inter-Asia cultural studies.

This book explores dance and choreography as sites for the articulation of new theoretical and historical paradigms in inter-Asia cultural studies.

This volume presents cutting-edge research and practice on Creative Arts Therapies or Arts Therapies for individuals on the autism spectrum of all ages, outlining the development of effective and accessible approaches to support the diverse needs of this client group.

From Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins's 1879 musical Peculiar Sam to Lynn Nottage's 2021 musical MJ, the 'Black musical' does not get the credit it deserves for sustaining the genre we know and love.

From Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins's 1879 musical Peculiar Sam to Lynn Nottage's 2021 musical MJ, the 'Black musical' does not get the credit it deserves for sustaining the genre we know and love.

This volume presents cutting-edge research and practice on Creative Arts Therapies or Arts Therapies for individuals on the autism spectrum of all ages, outlining the development of effective and accessible approaches to support the diverse needs of this client group.

This book introduces readers to the widespread phenomenon of how social media platforms such as YouTube, Twitter, and TikTok become an extension of long-standing aspects of musical theatre engagement.

Ya que el cine de ficción nos posibilita rastrear discursos y construcciones simbólicas, nos permite reconocer narrativas e imágenes asociadas a la figuración de unos rasgos comunes, constantes o diversos de un posible "nosotros".

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Say yes to joy with this irresistibly upbeat guide designed to boost your mental health and well-beingCelebrated TV presenter, storied radio broadcaster and beloved podcast creator - over the years, we have come to know and adore Gaby Roslin for her unbridled enthusiasm and infectious energy.

"Con el objetivo de abarcar la actividad creativa plural y disgregante de RaúlRuiz, este libro reúne múltiples perspectivas y metodologías de análisis,ensanchando así las vías de acceso a su catálogo y propiciando laindagación crítica de sus zonas más recónditas.

This structural account of independent performing arts in Europe is complimented by an analysis of the challenging social situation within the field.

This structural account of independent performing arts in Europe is complimented by an analysis of the challenging social situation within the field.

¿Y no fue así, en realidad, como empezó todo: con una dicotomía rígida, esquemática, taxativa, que asignaba a quien la profería el garantido lugar del bien y reservaba para sus oponentes el inexorable lugar del mal?

Given the complexity and expense of making and distributing a film, the process of filmmaking is by its very nature a political process.

Covering significant historical and cultural moments, public figures and celebrities, art and entertainment, and technology that influenced life during the decade, this book documents the 1950s through the lens of popular culture.

A groundbreaking examination of Michel Foucault's history of truth.

With its groundbreaking score, unabashed romanticism, and scrappy sensibility, Rent was like a firecracker thrown into a hushed theater, turning heads and upending conventions.