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This reference highlights American women writers who continue to build upon the formerly male-dominated canon.

Included are alphabetically arranged entries for more than 60 American women writers of diverse ethnicity who wrote or published their most significant fiction after World War II.

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"This anthology of essays, interviews, and autobiographical pieces provides an invaluable overview of the evolution of contemporary music--from chromaticism, serialism, and indeterminacy to jazz, vernac"

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An attempt to show how the film industry has homogenised the Latin, the Chicano, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Mexican, South American and Caribbean into an ethnic enemy, whose negative traits and character have been conditioned by their national origins; and then has profited from this.

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Explores Latin America cinema, considering the reasons for the commercial and critical successes of movies such as "City of God", "The Motorcycle Diaries", "Y Tu Mam TambiZn," and "Nine Queens", as well as other films that failed to break out on the international circuit. This book is intended for the students and scholars of Latin American film.

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Examines Moscow Conceptualism through the prism of shimmering, an artistic tactic structuring how artists belonging to this underground group in the USSR of the 1970s-1980s modeled space, subject and their own authority.

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This volume is the first to survey the work of the most important and representative contemporary Polish dramatists and directors and to analyze their contributions to both Polish and Slavic theatrical traditions.

A chronology of important premieres and other productions provides a guide to the unfolding of Polish drama since 1956.

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Examines cinematic versions of post-Civil War narratives that had their debut during three key decades of recent Spanish Cinema (1965-1995).

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A reference to a range of American musical styles, from Barbershop to Bluegrass and from Ragtime to Rockabilly. It also includes discussions on cultural, historical and geographic origins; technical musical characteristics; instrumentation and use of voice; lyrics and language; and, typical features of performance and presentation.

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A compiled set of studies in the contrapuntal style of harmony.

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Includes interviews between legendary "Rolling Stone" journalist Paul Nelson and Clint Eastwood who has forged a remarkable career as a movie star, director, producer and composer.

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Gus Van Sant is an award-winning film director who has also overseen some significant commercial features, such as Good Will Hunting, as well as the critically acclaimed independents, such as Drugstore Cowboy and My Own Private Idaho. This book contains a critical overview of ...

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By 1982 Francis Ford Coppola had won five Academy Awards; at the same time he was over $20 million in debt following the disastrous failure of One from the Heart. This astute biography critically exam

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"Explores Coraline's technological and aesthetic approaches, its narrative and visual roots, and its impact on contemporary stop-motion filmmaking and children's media"--

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The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series, now repackaged in award-winning modern covers to inspire Shakespearians of all ages.

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This book provides an interdisciplinary introduction to the Neapolitan Baroque, through original and in-depth interpretations of pivotal masterpieces of Neapolitan art, literature, philosophy, and theater. The book also presents the city of Naples as a cultural space in which the body functions as a visual, literary, and urban metaphor.