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Catherine Russell demystifies the canon of great Japanese cinema, treating it with fewer auteurist and Orientalist assumptions than many other scholars and critics.

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Offers advice on appreciating the forty most important and popular works of classical music from Bach's "Brandenburg Concerto No. 2" to Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons".

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An indispensable supplement to even the most recent published reference works in the field of the vocal arts, Classical Singers of the Opera and Recital Stages should remain a standard work for years to come.

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Now a two-time Academy Award winner for best director, twice winner of the Directors Guild of America Award for best director, and recipient of countless other critics prizes and nominations in multiple capacities, Clint Eastwood stands alongside Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg as one of the finest directors working in modern cinema.

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"In 1933 Irving Berlin wrote to composer-lyricist Cole Porter, "I am mad about Night and Day." Millions of others throughout the world have been "mad about" that Porter gem, as well as dozens of others"

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Describes the questions and challenges that museums face in acquiring and preserving contemporary art. This book comprises of essays by twelve curators representing a range of museums. It considers general issues including the acquisition process, and collecting by universal survey museums and museums that focus on modern and contemporary art.

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Actress Colleen Dewhurst is best remembered for her characterizations in the plays of Eugene O'Neill, which highlighted a career on stage, screen and television that spanned 40 years. This study documents her diverse performance and directing careers, including details of her personal life.

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"Always elusive, constantly moving, incessantly changing, John Coltrane stood astride the jazz world of the late '50s and '60s. He was a giant of the saxophone and a major composer. His music influence"

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Providing a general overview of comic music, this reference outlines the history of important comic musical genres, considers interconnections among seemingly disparate humorous repertory, and includes an extensive bibliography and discography.

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Audiences attended performances of comedies in numbers far surpassing those of any other form of theatre.

Theatre was one of many German institutions experiencing profound change in the aftermath of World War I. Industrial comedy describes the most important and most predominant form of comedy on German stages from 1919 to 1933.

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Journeying through the comic art worlds of Africa, Asia, Australia, and Latin America, one cannot help being deeply impressed with the longevity, magnitude, and versatility of their cartooning traditions.

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Encompassing 29 countries of Europe, this detailed bibliography covers the field of comic art. Art Historian David Kunzle, who has written the definitive histories of comic art precursors, wrote a personalized foreword.

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Part of a ten-volume bibliography series on comic art, this volume provides information on US and Canadian comic art, animation, caricature, and gag, political, illustrative, and magazine cartoons. It spans various conceivable aspects of comic art. It includes periodical directories for both Canada and the United States.

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The foreword by Mort Walker deals with comics over the years and the topic of political correctness, and the introduction by Jerry Robinson gives a history of comic art.

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This book examines the role of music and musicians in commemorating the Gallipoli Campaign (1915-6). It shows how music-making can be used to uncover the multiple identities and complex positionalities of former combatants who wish to memorialize a military catastrophe that coincided with the foundation of nation states.

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This book identifies Nigerian theatre as a highly creative and useful tool for cultural and economic development. It moves beyond the usual discussion of theatre as entertainment to a dialogue that situates theatre as an essential tool for initiating public discourse for the advancement of society in general.

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An account of the only community theatre network in Africa that is run by grassroots artists on a national and international scale.

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At last, a collection in one volume informing the citizenry about a phenomenon that has existed for nearly a quarter century: community television represents our single source for media access in the United States.