Performing arts

When Ridley Scott envisioned Blade Runner's set as "e;Hong Kong on a bad day,"e; he nodded to the city's overcrowding as well as its widespread use of surveillance.

Canned Heats Story of Music, Drugs, Death, Sex and Survival

A revealing look at contemporary Japanese culture.

With advice and instruction from an experienced actor and theater director, this pragmatic, authoritative guide imparts backstage know-how for wouldbe playhouse practitioners on everything from fundraising and finding a space to selecting plays and navigating legal issues.

At the age of ten, Charley Chase was singing and dancing on the street corners of Baltimore.

As the Vietnam War divided the nation, a network of antiwar coffeehouses appeared in the towns and cities outside American military bases.

This entertaining collection of essays shows that Sherlock Holmes sees things others dont.

This is the third adventure in our series on cool inventions created in Asia.

Fighting For Afghanistan is the third book in the Rogue Historian trilogy, taking Maloney's story into the conflict in 2006, when the Taliban-led insurgency threatened to overwhelm the U.

The Passion of the Christ, Mel Gibson's spectacular film about the death of Jesus, has quickly become one of the most widely-viewed movies of all timeand one of the most fiercely vilified.

Mention Shaft and most people think of Gordon Parks' seminal 1971 film starring Richard Roundtree in a leather coat, walking the streets of Manhattan to Isaac Hayes' iconic theme music.

Carmen Miranda got knocked down and kept going.

Dalek is the never-before-told history of the Doctor's most dangerous enemies, the famous Outer Space Robot People of the planet Skaro - from their genesis in the thousand-year conflict between Thals and Kaleds, to their survival of the Time War and (as foreseen by the Time Lords) their conquest of the universe.

America Reflected offers eclectic film criticism and considerations of distinctive American voices from the ante-bellum era to the present.

Musical instruments come in all shapes and sizes!

From Kabul to Baghdad and Back provides insight into the key strategic decisions of the Afghan and Iraq campaigns as the United States attempted to wage both simultaneously against al-Qaeda and its supporting affiliates.

This is the true story of the legendary Vietnam War hero John Ripley, who braved intense enemy fire to destroy a strategic bridge and stall a major North Vietnamese invasion into the South in April 1972.

This unconventional and lighthearted introduction to the ideas of the major Western philosophers examines The Simpsons TVs favorite animated family.

Native Americans have been a constant fixture on television, from the dawn of broadcasting, when the iconic Indian head test pattern was frequently used during station sign-ons and sign-offs, to the present.

In this entertaining and informative book, Victor L.

';A fascinating and provocatively stimulating distillation of three decades of intense conversations between one of the twentieth century's few true theater innovators and America's leading writer on the theatrical avant-garde.

The interaction between philosophy and theater or performance has recently become an important and innovative area of inquiry.

When NATO took charge of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) for Afghanistan in 2003, ISAF conceptualized its mission largely as a stabilization and reconstruction deployment.

This book investigates what Bataille, in "e;The Pineal Eye,"e; calls mythological representation: the mythological anthropology with which this unusual thinker wished to outflank and undo scientific (and philosophical) anthropology.

The 400th anniversaries of Don Quixote in 2005 and 2015 sparked worldwide celebrations that brought to the fore its ongoing cultural and ideological relevance.

The past 40 years of technological innovation have significantly altered the materials of production and revolutionized the possibilities for experiment and exhibition.

Black smoke drifted about the scene.

Seventeen essays examining the impact of new media on the history of cinema.

A captivating lifetime of personal and professional experiences by an American historian, film specialist and documentary filmmaker in the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia.

The Marines campaign to secure Anbar Province in Iraq will rank as one of the Corps historic battle achievements.

A unique way to turn bedtime stories into an opportunity to strengthen our bond with our children.

Possessed by Music is the fascinating story of the Russian composer Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov (1865-1936).

The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1610-11, and thought by many critics to be the last play that Shakespeare wrote alone.

From the Renaissance on, a new concept of the frame becomes crucial to a range of artistic media, which in turn are organized around and fascinated by this frame.

Twenty-three essays by young professional philosophers examine crucial ethical and metaphysical aspects of the Buffyverse (the world of Buffy).

Is there too much violence in hip-hop music?

Meet Blackwater USA, the private army that the US government has quietly hired to operate in international war zones and on American soil.

Chaikin, who directed the celebrated Open Theater in the '60s, kindled an emphasis on communal playmaking whose impact is still evident today.

This book offers an industrial, economic and aesthetic history of the early years of the British film industry from 1899 1911, through a case study of one of the most celebrated pioneer film makers, Cecil Hepworth.

Reading the Past, Understanding the Present is a collection of essays written by students from nine European universities, who took part in the Strategic Partnership, "e;Facing Europe in Crisis: Shakespeare's World and Present Challenges,"e; aiming to promote historical understanding of the crises plaguing the contemporary Europe and the world.

The 21st century has seen a resurgence of popular interest in the Middle Ages.

Whether you are a current US citizen or not, this book will teach you things you didnaet know about being a legal member of the country.

Over sixty years at KTLA News and twenty-two thousand stories, Stan Chambers, the godfather of Los Angeles newsies, has the unique distinction of being the first to break many nation-rocking stories.

For decades roughly 80 percent of commercial Broadway productions have failed to recoup their original investments.

A Marine officer's inner struggle with truth after coming home from Iraq.

As the only French woman among some 11,000 defenders at Dien Bien Phu, Genevive de Galard had a unique perspective of the siege and fall of the French fortress.

From Storm to Freedom analyzes and assesses the strategic interaction between Iraq and the United States from 1990 to 2009, from the perspective of a single, if discontinuous conflict.

Cartoons-both from the classic Hollywood era and from more contemporary feature films and television series-offer a rich field for detailed investigation and analysis.