In July 1923, less than three years after Westinghouse station KDKA signed on, company engineer Frank Conrad began regular simulcasting of its programs on a frequency in the newly-discovered shortwave range.
With members of four generations deeply involved in music and dancing, the Christensen Brothers are indisputably the United States' closest equivalent to the European tradition of dance dynasties.
In recent years the contribution of drama to second language learning has grown internationally as a field of interest to both teachers and researchers.
From his cult classic television series Twin Peaks to his most recent film Inland Empire (2006), David Lynch is best known for his unorthodox narrative style.
Using nine recent theatrical and cinematic productions as case studies, it considers the productive contradictions and tensions that occur when contemporary actors perform the gender norms of previous cultures.
Community Performance: A Reader is the first book to provide comprehensive teaching materials for this significant part of the theatre studies curriculum.
The media star has become a powerful, almost unparalleled, cultural sign, even as the star system has undergone radical transformation since the era of the Hollywood studio system.
This biographical dictionary is devoted to the actors who provided voices for all the Disney animated theatrical shorts and features from the 1928 Mickey Mouse cartoon Steamboat Willie to the 2010 feature film Tangled.
Bertolt Brechts Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny und Ariadne auf Naxos von Hugo von Hofmannsthal: zwei Opern, deren Kultur- und Kapitalismuskritik oft nur vordergründig wahrgenommen wird.
Providing a detailed historical overview of animated film and television in the United States over more than a century, this book examines animation within the U.
Great Shakespeareans offers a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and internationally.
In this book, Simmons argues that class, as much as race and gender, played a significant role in the development of Gothic and Horror fiction in a national context.
An examination of political and cultural acts of commemoration, this study addresses the way personal and collective loss is registered in prose, poetry and drama in early modern England.
Winner of the 2023 SCMS Media Industries Scholarly Interest Group Outstanding Book Award sponsored by the Center for Entertainment & Media IndustriesOn March 15, 2011, Donald Trump changed television forever.
Dieser Reader ist die Selbstanalyse einer Institution und ihres Programms, und er ist gleichzeitig der Versuch, ästhetische und politische Ereignisse, wie Botho Strauß es nannte, zusammenzudenken.
This innovative and timely collection offers a wide-reaching critical evaluation of performance in television, mapping out key conventions, practices and concerns while introducing performance theory and criticism to the established field of television studies.
Nominated for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work"e;An absolute must-read"e; Shondaland[Rabbit] tells how it went down with brutal honesty and outrageous humor New York Times They called her Rabbit.
This innovative work introduces the interdisciplinary field of research of kinesemiotics, offering a new adaptable model and means of analysis for understanding forms of movement-based communication, such as dance, that use a codified language shared by a community of users.
By the time the Berlin Wall collapsed, the cinema of the German Democratic Republic to the extent it was considered at all was widely regarded as a footnote to European film history, with little of enduring value.
Cross-gender performance was an integral part of Shakespearean theatre: from boys portraying his female characters, to those characters disguising themselves as men within the story.
30 Jahre nach dem Mauerfall gilt es kulturwissenschaftlich aufzuarbeiten, in welcher Form Filme aus der und über die DDR unsere Vorstellung von diesem inzwischen verschwundenen Staat prägen.
