Performing arts

Why is horror in film and literature so popular?

Have you ever had a dream that excites and scares you?

In a career spanning six decades, Agnes Moorehead (1900-1974) was perhaps unique among 20th-century American actresses in making her name in four entertainment media--radio, theater, film and television--after age 40.

The zombie--popular culture's undead darling--shows no signs of stopping.

"e;Classical works have for us become covered with the glassy armor of familiarity,"e; wrote Victor Shklovsky in 1914.

Film and television Westerns are most often associated with physical bravery.

The day-by-day inside story of the making of Tombstone (1993) as told to the author by those who were there--actors, extras, crew members, Buckaroos, historians and everyone in between.

For President Lyndon Johnson, 1968 was a year of calamity, including the hijacking of the USS Pueblo in international waters off North Korea.

The 2018 Netflix series Altered Carbon is a vital contribution to the cyberpunk renaissance, among such titles as Snowpiercer or Blade Runner 2049.

Mythology for centuries has served as humanity's window into understanding its distant past.

Before radio and sound movies, early 20th century performers and lecturers traveled the nation providing entertainment and education to Americans thirsty for culture.

American silent film comedies were dominated by sight gags, stunts and comic violence.

Strippers, zombies, fugitives and jewel thieves.

Late 19th century science fiction stories and utopian treatises related to morals and attitudes often focused on economic, sociological and, at times Marxist ideas.

The beginning of the 21st century was a time of unprecedented events in American society: Y2K, 9/11 and the wars that followed, partisan changes in government and the rapid advancements of the Internet and mass consumerism.

The witch as a cultural archetype has existed in some form since the beginning of recorded history.

Sir Christopher Lee (1922-2015) was one of the most beloved actors of the past sixty years.

John McTiernan is one of the most influential action filmmakers of his generation.

At the height of her celebrity, Madeleine Carroll (1906-1987) was the world's highest-paid actress.

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One of the top-grossing independent films of all time, The Evil Dead (1981) sparked a worldwide cult following, resulting in sequels, remakes, musicals, comic books, conventions, video games and a television series.

Quest narratives are as old as Western culture.

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Since the Punisher's first appearance in the pages of Spider-Man #129, the character has become one of the most popular and controversial figures in Marvel's vast universe.

Ann Miller (1923-2004) was an American actress, dancer, singer and author.

In Watching TV with a Linguist, Fagersten challenges the conventional view of television as lowbrow entertainment devoid of intellectual activity.

Katharine Hepburn was the world's greatest screen diva--the most famous actress in American history.

This is the first English-language book on controversial female director Catherine Breillat, whose films include Romance, A ma soeur!

This is a highly anticipated examination of the popular film and fiction consumed by Britons in the 1920s and 1930s.

If cinema can be approached as poetry and philosophy, it is because of Jean Epstein.

The volume contributes to a new articulation of theatre and performance studies via Foucault's critical thought.

This publication titled international Encyclopaedia of Dance and Music gives a detailed introduction to dance and music.

This book brings together for the first time five French directors who have established themselves as among the most exciting and significant working today: Bruno Dumont, Robert Guediguian, Laurent Cantet, Abdellatif Kechiche, and Claire Denis.

Barry Hines's novel A Kestrel for a Knave, adapted for the screen as Kes, is one of the best-known and well-loved novels of the post-war period, while his screenplay for the television drama Threads is central to a Cold War-era vision of nuclear attack.

This book is the first sustained critical analysis of Cult British TV comedy from 1990 to the present day.

This is the first book to deal exclusively with ludic interactions with classical antiquity an understudied research area within classical reception studies that can shed light on current processes of construction and appropriation of the Greco-Roman world.

First aired in 1989, The Simpsons has become America's most beloved animated show.

Beat generation writers dismantled mainstream America.

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This book explores how South Africa is negotiating its past in and through various modes of performance in contemporary theatre, public events and memorial spaces.

In this, the first full-length treatment of the child in Spanish cinema, Sarah Wright explores the ways that the cinematic child comes to represent 'prosthetic memory'.

Wonder Woman, Harley Quinn, Shuri, and Black Widow.

Holocaust movies have become an important segment of world cinema and the de-facto Holocaust education for many.

During the Second World War, the popularity and importance of the cinema in Britain was at its peak.

Born in Central Europe during the twilight of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, three ';vonderful vimmen'Zsa Zsa, Eva, and Magda Gabortransferred their glittery dreams and gold-digging ambitions to Hollywood.

Volume 10 in the Trends in Functional Programming (TFP) series presents some of the latest research results in the implementation of functional programming languages and the practice of functional programming.

The Gothic and death offers the first ever published study devoted to the subject of the Gothic and death across the centuries.

This volume takes the pulse of French post-coloniality by studying representations of trans-Mediterranean immigration to France in recent literature, television and film.

Critics and audiences often judge films, books and other media as "e;great"e; --but what does that really mean?