Performing arts

A Queer History of Flamenco offers a groundbreaking exploration of flamenco through the lenses of queer theory and cultural studies.

In Sam Shepard's play Action a character asks, "e;What's a community?

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As tourists increasingly moved across the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a surprising number of communities looked to capitalize on the histories of Native American people to create tourist attractions.

Aloha is at once the most significant and the most misunderstood word in the Indigenous Hawaiian lexicon.

The nineteenth-century history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Max Perry Mueller argues, illuminates the role that religion played in forming the notion of three original American racesred, black, and whitefor Mormons and others in the early American Republic.

This new revised and expanded edition of Reality Radio celebrates todays best audio documentary work by bringing together some of the most influential and innovative practitioners from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia.

Who are we, and where do we come from?

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WITH AN INTERVIEW WITH MARGARET KEANE

The full screenplay by award-winning Ed Wood writers Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski for acclaimed director Tim Burton''s film Big Eyes, starring Amy Adams and Christoph Waltz.

The 1990s were a time of dramatic transformation for Cuba.

One of the curious characteristics of much postmodern theory is the attention it has paid to theater, an art form seemingly more in danger of extinction today than perhaps ever in its history.

In Shakespeare the Illusionist, Neil Forsyth reviews the history of Shakespeare's plays on film, using the basic distinction in film tradition between what is owed to Melies and what to the Lumiere brothers.

Reel Pleasures brings the world of African moviehouses and the publics they engendered to life, revealing how local fans creatively reworked global media-from Indian melodrama to Italian westerns, kung fu, and blaxploitation films-to speak to local dreams and desires.

As narrow, nationalist views of patriotic allegiance have become widespread and are routinely invoked to justify everything from flag-waving triumphalism to xenophobic bigotry, the concept of a nonnationalist patriotism has vanished from public conversation.

Hollywood's Africa after 1994 investigates Hollywood's colonial film legacy in the postapartheid era, and contemplates what has changed in the West's representations of Africa.

The late-Victorian discovery of the music hall by English intellectuals marks a crucial moment in the history of popular culture.

Revolutionary feminisms and queer and trans activist movements are traversing Latin America and the Caribbean.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2025 im Fachbereich Medien / Kommunikation - Film und Fernsehen, Note: 10, Philipps-Universität Marburg (Germanistik und Kunstwissenschaften), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Seit nun mehr als 22 Jahren sind die britischen Moderatoren Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond und James May in der internationalen Programmlandschaft vertreten.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2024 im Fachbereich Filmwissenschaft, Note: 1,0, Universität Bielefeld (Linguistik und Literaturwissenschaft), Veranstaltung: Medienpädagogik, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In der vorliegenden Filmanalyse wird die Machtposition der Figur Dolores Umbridge im fünften Teil der Harry-Potter-Reihe, "Harry Potter und der Orden des Phönix", untersucht.

The 1990s were a time of dramatic transformation for Cuba.

"e;If you know where to look, you can still discover and recognize what it was that intoxicating John Coast fifty years ago.

All That Hollywood Allows explores the representation of gender in popular Hollywood melodramas of the 1950s, the last decade in which film enjoyed a pivotal cultural position.

Until now, Eugene O'Neills psychological dramas have been analyzed mainly by critics who relied on obvious parallels between O'Neills life, his family, and his plays.

The first comprehensive study of its kind, this book explores the contradictory connections between women and dramatic comedy.

The performance art of burlesque, once a faded form, has made a comeback in the twenty-first century, and it has shimmied back to life with a vengeance in Cleveland.

Resistance on the National Stage analyzes the ways in which, between 1985 and 1998, modern theater pracxadtitioners in Indonesia contributed to a rising movement of social protest against the long-governing New Order regime of President Suharto.

African Video Movies and Global Desires is the first full-length scholarly study of Ghana's commercial video industry, an industry that has produced thousands of movies over the last twenty years and has grown into an influential source of cultural production.

All That Hollywood Allows explores the representation of gender in popular Hollywood melodramas of the 1950s, the last decade in which film enjoyed a pivotal cultural position.

This book explores how virtual reality (VR) can be used to examine perceptual differences in neurodivergent individuals, particularly those with autism and ADHD, by introducing a new methodological framework.

With his shag haircut and white Stratocaster guitar Jeff Beck was an icon.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2020 im Fachbereich Kunst / Kunstwissenschaft / Kunstgeschichte, Note: 2,3, Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig (Kunstwissenschaft), Veranstaltung: Bilder des Anderen in der Kunst der Frühen Neuzeit, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der Harem, ein Ort, der für einige Männer Wunder wahr werden lässt: sexuelle Wunscherfüllung, ohne Widerstand der Frauen, die zu Sklavinnen gemacht der Literatur, als auch in der Kunst wiederfinden.

The attire of the feudal lords and ladies of old Japan, warriors, priest, courtesans, Edo-period dandies geisha, footmen, farmers in fact, the whole array of Kabuki's colorful characters-is discussed in fascinating detail in this Japanese Kabuki book.

"e;If you know where to look, you can still discover and recognize what it was that intoxicating John Coast fifty years ago.

Ningyo: The Art of the Japanese Doll features over 250 unique photographs as well as extensive commentary and background history.

The hilarious debut novel from the Oscar(R)-winning screenwriter of Being John Malkovich, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and Synecdoche, New York.

'My future mother-in-law burst into tears when she heard her son was to marry an actress.

Gone with the Wind an inspiration for the American avant-garde?

Unique, transgressive and as funny as its subject, A Life Discarded has all the suspense of a murder mystery.

Packed with exclusive behind-the-scenes photographs, this official illustrated guide tells the detailed story of the making of the second film in the award-winning Hobbit trilogy, directed by Peter Jackson.

A dramatic reworking of the vampire myth in a way that only Brian Aldiss can.

The full shooting scripts for the global phenomenon, Downton Abbey's second series.

This was the age of the star.

Cinema and opera have become intertwined in a variety of powerful and unusual ways.

The most universal civilian privation in World War II Britain, the blackout possessed many symbolic meanings.

Hilary Mantel and Ben Miles' exhilerating stage adaptation of The Mirror and the Light, one of 2021's must-see theatrical events, and the long awaited conclusion to the Oliver Award-winning Wolf Hall Trilogy.

Meet 100 of the most remarkable people from The Sunday Times Magazine's acclaimed column, A Life in the Day.

Greek film director Theo Angelopoulos is one of the most influential and widely respected filmmakers in the world today, yet his films are still largely unknown to the American public.

The eagerly-awaited sequel to Shadowmagic.