Performing arts

Connect with the newest and most vibrant online community Though it was originally a virtual meeting place primarily for gamers, Discord s userbase has quintupled in size in just two years and branched to include discussions on a multitude of topics.

This book explores the transformative power of comedy to help connect a wider audience to films that explore environmental concerns and issues.

In Performing Emotions, Peta Tait's central argument is that performing emotions in realism is also performing gender identity.

For nearly a century, the training of ballet and modern dancers has followed two divergent paths.

A guidebook for child and teen actors and their parents on the UK and US TV and Film industries from top Hollywood talent manager Frederick Levy.

Between 1935 and 1939, the United States government paid out-of-work artists to write, act, and stage theatre as part of the Federal Theatre Project (FTP), a New Deal job relief program.

This unique study opens up a new dimension of Terrence Malick's cinema - its expressions of unseeing and hearing.

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This is a comprehensive collection of original essays that explore the aesthetics, economics, and mechanics of movie adaptation, from the days of silent cinema to contemporary franchise phenomena.

The main aim of the work is to present emblematics in Hungary in its European context, and to show the reciprocal influence between that phenomenon and mainstream literature.

Lucid, lively and extremely knowledgeable.

Why did ancient autocrats patronise theatre?

This essay collection explores the phenomenon of "e;teen TV"e; in the United States, analyzing the meanings and manifestations of this category of programming from a variety of perspectives.

How Do You Get From One Place To The Next?

This volume features a set of thought-provoking and long overdue approaches to situating Stanley Kubrick's films in contemporary debates around gender, race, and age-with a focus on women's representations.

The definitive computer vision book is back, featuring the latest neural network architectures and an exploration of foundation and diffusion modelsPurchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free eBook in PDF formatKey FeaturesUnderstand the inner workings of various neural network architectures and their implementation, including image classification, object detection, segmentation, generative adversarial networks, transformers, and diffusion modelsBuild solutions for real-world computer vision problems using PyTorchAll the code files are available on GitHub and can be run on Google ColabBook DescriptionWhether you are a beginner or are looking to progress in your computer vision career, this book guides you through the fundamentals of neural networks (NNs) and PyTorch and how to implement state-of-the-art architectures for real-world tasks.

Perturbatory narration is a heuristic concept, applicable both quantitatively and qualitatively to a specific type of complex narratives for which narratology has not yet found an appropriate classification.

This book aims at renewing the attention on a niche field, Cultural Festivals, so important for valorizing cultural traditions and local heritage visibility as well as social well-being.

Casting a Movement brings together US-based actors, directors, educators, playwrights, and scholars to explore the cultural politics of casting.

Based on more than a half dozen interviews with the director himself, this unauthorized biography recounts Spielberg's childhood, education, career, philanthropic and charitable endeavors, and his extremely private personal life.

Beijing Opera Costumes: The Visual Communication of Character and Culture illuminates the links between theatrical attire and social customs and aesthetics of China, covering both the theory and practice of stage dress.

To many, the technological aspects of projection often go unnoticed, only brought to attention during moments of crisis or malfunction.

"e; From his unique perspective of friendship with many of the actors and actresses about whom he writes, silent film historian Anthony Slide creates vivid portraits of the careers and often eccentric lives of 100 players from the American silent film industry.

Singin' in the Rain, The Sound of Music, Camelot--love them or love to hate them, movie musicals have been a major part of all our lives.

The Argentine tango is one of the world's best-known partner dances.

This book brings together, for the first time, twenty-two chapters on arts marketing and audience development.

Genre in Asian Film and Television takes a dynamic approach to the study of Asian screen media previously under-represented in academic writing.

This is the 3rd volume in Mr.

On December 8, 1967 Time magazine put Bonnie and Clyde on its cover and announced, "e;The New Cinema: Violence .

From a decidedly inauspicious start as a low-rated television series in the 1960s that was cancelled after three seasons, Star Trek has grown to a multi-billion dollar industry of spin-off series, feature films and merchandise.

Watching the screen version of a classic mystery novel can be disappointing.

This book combines content analysis of film and television cases, the examination of policy documents, and first-hand interview material with Danish industry professionals, tracing the pivotal moments in media and welfare state history to unite these two overlapping spheres: welfare state social policy and media imagery.

Few scary stories begin with a disclaimer that they are fictional.

The first decade of the 21st century has seen a proliferation of North American and European films that focus on African politics and society.

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Radio presents exciting new research on radio and audio, including broadcasting and podcasting.

A practical, step-by-step guide to Maya 2012 This book is the ideal primer to getting started with Maya, the premier 3D animation and effects software used in movies, visual effects, games, cartoons, short films, and commercials.

In the first half of the 20th century the possibility of flight opened up entirely new avenues of thought and exploration.

Dance, Music and Cultures of Decolonisation in the Indian Diaspora provides fascinating examples of dance and music projects across the Indian Diaspora to highlight that decolonisation is a creative process, as well as a historical and political one.

This book, from Europe's leading Mask director and co-founder of the Trestle Theatre Company, provides a fascinating demystification of the process of using masks.

Managing in the Media has been devised for a broad audience.

Das Thema Tanz und Bildende Kunst im Feld seiner wechselseitigen Beziehungen erfreut sich - nicht zuletzt befördert durch postmodern-interdisziplinäres Denken - eines steigenden Interesses in der Fachwelt.

In the ghetto, transit and concentration camp Theresienstadt, film recordings were made with the forced participation of the deportees and became known under the title "e;Theresienstadt - A Documentary from the Jewish Settlement Area"e;.

This study analyses the Finnish National Theatre's activities throughout the decades during which the post-war generation with its new societal and theatrical views was rising to power, and during which Europe, divided by the Iron Curtain, was maturing to break the boundaries dividing it.