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by Martin Folly, Niall Palmer
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
The period from the outset of World War I to the end of World War II was among the most significant in the history of the United States. Twice it was drawn into 'foreign entanglements'_wars it initially thought were no concern of its own and of which it tried to steer clear_only to realize that it...
by Allison Lee Palmer
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2011
Neoclassicism refers to the revival of classical art and architecture beginning in Europe in the 1750s and lasting until around 1830, with late Neoclassicism lingering through the 1870s. Neoclassicism is a highly complex movement that brought together seemingly disparate issues into a new and culturally...
by Peter L. Hays
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
A master of short story, novel, and nonfiction prose, Ernest Hemingway has been the subject of countless books, articles, and biographies. The Nobel–prize winning author and his work continue to interest academics, whose studies of his personal life are frequently intertwined with examinations of...
Rudolf Laban
The Dancer of the Crystal
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2007
Rudolf Laban, the famed dancer-choreographer and 'founding father' of modern dance, also had experience as a painter, sculptor, and architect, and allowed those skills to influence his innovative choreographic techniques. His important works and his creation of one of the most significant forms of...
Myth Performance in the African Diasporas
Ritual, Theatre, and Dance
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
Diaspora studies continue to expand in range and scope and remain fertile terrain for investigating multiple techniques of myth creation in dance performance, history as performance, dramatic narrative, and staged rituals in the field. Similarly, research in postcoloniality, gender/sexuality, intercultural,...
The New Broadway Song Companion
An Annotated Guide to Musical Theatre Literature by Voice Type and Song Style
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2009
This is a completely revised and expanded second edition of The Broadway Song Companion, the first complete guide and access point to the vast literature of the Broadway musical for the solo performer. Designed with the working actor in mind, the volume lists every song from over 300 Broadway shows,...
Music from the House of Hammer
Music in the Hammer Horror Films, 1950-1980
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 1996
In the 1950s, Hammer Film Productions, a small British filmmaking company, introduced the world to a new genre of motion picture. Referred to by some as "horror," by others as "fantasy," Hammer films had a unique look and feel that many other studios would later attempt—and fail—to...
Romantic vs. Screwball Comedy
Charting the Difference
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2002
Famous co-stars such as Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant to Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, have made screwball and romantic comedies a big seller at the box office. These seemingly timeless genres are as popular today as ever!
This book takes a closer look at the precise meanings of the terms screwball...
by John Baily, Michelle Bigenho, Caroline Bithell
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2008
Over the past twenty years, a range of radical developments has revolutionized musicology, leading certain practitioners to describe their discipline as 'New.' What has happened to ethnomusicology during this period? Have its theories, methodologies, and values remain rooted in the 1970s and 1980s...
Order in the Universe
The Films of John Carpenter
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2002
An obscure independent filmmaker until Halloween (1978), John Carpenter has been applauded for his classic sense of compositions, yet reviled for his "B-film" sensibility. This second edition of the first book-length analysis finds in Carpenter's films a vision of a profound but unexpected...
The Commedia dell'Arte of Flaminio Scala
A Translation and Analysis of 30 Scenarios
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2008
The Commedia dell'Arte of Flaminio Scala presents a translation and commentary of selected scenarios composed or collected by the actor-manager Flaminio Scala that were first published in 1611. Thirty of Scala's 50 scenarios are included, complete with a detailed scene-by-scene analysis that demonstrates...
La Dolce Morte
Vernacular Cinema and the Italian Giallo Film
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2006
With the exception of die-hard aficionados of European or Italian horror cinema, most people may not have heard of giallo cinema or have seen many films in this subgenre of horror. Most academic film studies tend to ignore horror cinema in general and the giallo specifically. Critics often deride...
The Divine Comic
The Cinema of Roberto Benigni
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2001
Roberto Benigni, the Italian comedian, actor, director, and writer, gained international fame when his film La vita è bella/ Life Is Beautiful (1997) won three Oscars in 1999, including Best Foreign Film and Best Actor. Benigni has been a steady presence in Italian popular culture since the mid-1970s....
by Laurence Raw
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2009
From his first feature film, The Duellists, to his international successes Alien, Blade Runner, Thelma and Louise, Black Hawk Down, Gladiator, and American Gangster, Ridley Scott has directed some of the most compelling films of the last 30 years. Apart from his work as a film director, Scott has...