Performing arts

This book reinterprets British dramas of the early-nineteenth century through the lens of the star actors for whom they were written.

This book is a comprehensive anthology comprising essays on women film directors, producers and screenwriters from Bollywood, or the popular Hindi film industry.

Widely recognized in his character of the Tramp, Charlie Chaplin transcended the role of actor to become screenwriter, director, composer, producer, and finally studio head.

Split into four parts, this book seeks to inform the reader, teachers, directors and students about American Musical Theatre.

When you sit down at a play, movie, or concert-or even just watch TV or scroll on your phone-you are taking part in one of the oldest and most meaningful forms of behavior.

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Aesthetic Violence and Women in Film is a highly readable and timely analysis of the intersection of two recent cinematic trends in martial arts films: aesthetic violence and warrior women.

This volume explains how Star Trek allows viewers to comprehend significant aspects of Georg Hegel's concept the absolute, the driving force behind history.

From Here to Eternity (1953) is one of the most controversial films of its time.

Producing and Distributing Special Interest Videos is a step-by-step, do-it-yourself guide for successfully producing, selling and marketing videos without a huge financial investment for anyone who has an idea or expertise that they want to showcase in video.

Rufinus' vivid account of the battle between the Eastern Emperor Theodosius and the Western usurper Eugenius by the River Frigidus in 394 represents it as the final confrontation between paganism and Christianity.

America in the 1950s was a cauldron of contradictions.

The Holocaust holds a unique place in American public culture, and, as Jeffrey Shandler argues in While America Watches, it is television, more than any other medium, that has brought the Holocaust into our homes, our hearts, and our minds.

'Winner of the 2023 Selma Jeanne Cohen Prize in Dance Aesthetics, The American Society for Aesthetics.

¿Cómo aprender de un saber o práctica transdisciplinar que está en constante experimentación y construcción, donde sus bordes se difuminan constantemente?

Animated Performance shows how a character can seemingly 'come to life' when their movements reflect the emotional or narrative context of their situation: when they start to 'perform'.

Professor Leech considers the significance of the term 'Tragedy' as it has been used from classical times to the present day.

In the twenty years preceding the First World War, cinema rapidly developed from a fairground curiosity into a major industry and social institution, a source of information and entertainment for millions of people.

Focusing on the work of four contemporary filmmakers-Ang Lee, Edward Yang, Hou Hsiao-hsien, and Tsai Ming-liang-the authors explore how these filmmakers broke from tradition, creating a cinema that is both personal and insistent on examining Taiwan's complex history.

Hey, I'm Jamie, a 29-year-old trans guy from the UK.

By the time she was 14, Chrissie Hynde knew she had to get out of Akron, Ohio.

Writing from deep, been-there experience, college football standout-turned NFL dropout Trent Shelton takes you on a journey to become the best hope-filled version of yourself.

This collection presents a number of films and television programmes set in the North of England in an investigation of how northern identity imbricates with class, race, gender, rural and urban identities.

At present, we are witnessing a significant transformation of established forms of spectatorship in theatre, performance art and beyond.

In The Photoshop Toolbox, photographer and bestselling author Glyn Dewis breaks down Photoshop into just three main features: layer masks, brushes, and blend modes.

This book helps readers understand Moonlight's profound political and social importance, the innovative technical choices adopted by director Barry Jenkins and the film's adoption and disruption of traditional coming-of-age themes through the specific prism of Chiron's childhood and youth.

Since its release in 1982, Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, based on Philip K.

Raoul Walsh (1887-1980) was known as one of Hollywood's most adventurous, iconoclastic, and creative directors.

Foundations of Stage Makeup, Second Edition is a comprehensive exploration into the creative world of stage makeup.

Ukrainian dancer and choreographer Serge Lifar (1905-86) is recognized both as the modernizer of French ballet in the twentieth century and as the keeper of the flame of the classical tradition upon which the glory of French ballet was founded.

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Between Beats: The Jazz Tradition and Black Vernacular Dance offers a new look at the complex intersections between jazz music and popular dance over the last hundred-plus years.

This updated edition includes step-by-step instruction on modern OpenGL 4.

One of the most influential choreographers of the twentieth century, Merce Cunningham is known for introducing chance to dance.

The first history ofSpanish-language television in the United StatesIn the most comprehensive history of Spanish-language television in the United States to date, Craig Allen traces the development of two prominent yet little-studied powerhouses, Univision and Telemundo.

Das Sinnbild "Diabolisches Spiel mit den Zeitmaschinen" spiegelt eine Sicht auf den Musikeffekt "Delay" und seine wechselseitige Beziehung zwischen Technik, Musikproduktion und Rezeption wider.

I cook here, create here,make here be as much of life as I canbecause outside of thisI'm not safe,I don't know the way.

Toby Temple is a superstar, the world's funniest man.

This volume of Who's Who in Research series offers a useful guide for current researchers in Intellect's subject area of Media Studies.

Routledge Performance Practitioners is a series of introductory guides to the key theatre-makers of the last century.

The turn of the twenty-first century has witnessed the striking advance of pornography into the Western cultural mainstream.

This book is an accessible guide, directed towards filmmakers with restricted resources and shortened schedules, who want to ensure their creation of riveting, fresh, and exciting projects.

'Winner of the 2023 Selma Jeanne Cohen Prize in Dance Aesthetics, The American Society for Aesthetics.

[Alanna] Nash belongs in the pantheon of great music writers, and [Baby, Lets Play House] is a fascinating study.

This is a succint and well-written book introducing a truly interdisciplinary approach to the study of copyright and related issues in contemporary popular culture in relation to the current development of Asian cinema, and questions how copyright is appropriated to regulate culture.