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As the popularity of the genre increases and special effects are pushed to greater extremes of terror and cruelty, more and more people have begun to wonder, what is the attraction of horror films

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"In the history of twentieth-century ballet, no company has had so profound and far-reaching an influence as the Ballets Russes. Under the direction of impresario extraordinaire Serge Diaghilev (1872--1"

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Early in the century, a handful of American composers began creating a new musical culture in the United States. This movement, known as experimentalism, peaked during the 1950s and 1960s, when the music of composers like John Cage, Henry Cowell, and Charles Ives reached a new wide audience.

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"Marcel Duchamp, one of this century's pioneer artists, moved his work through the retinal boundaries which had been established with impressionism into t field with impressionism into t field where l"

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This edited volume is a collection of scholarly research on filmmaker Gurinder Chadhas work representing Indian culture in foreign lands. Contributors discuss the implications of such admixtures on acculturation processes, diasporic formations, and specific cultural experiences.

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Aims to provide comprehensive information on the technology of music. The encyclopaedia's entries cover an immense musical field. Included are entries on traditional and electronic instruments, and on such topics as computer music composition, microphone placement and psychoacoustics.

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Documentation for approximately three hundred shows, from A Trip to Coontown (1898) to 1981's Dreamgirls, is provided in part I. The Dictionary concludes with a chronology of all shows included in the text, a discography of black shows, and a selected bibliography of studies related to black theatre history and criticism.

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This ground-breaking work brings dance into current discussions of the African presence in American culture. Hip hop culture and rap are related to contemporary performance, showing how a disenfranchised culture affects the culture in power.

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This ground-breaking work brings dance into current discussions of the African presence in American culture. Hip hop culture and rap are related to contemporary performance, showing how a disenfranchised culture affects the culture in power.

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How digital visual effects in film can be used to support storytelling: a guide for scriptwriters and students.

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The film director is the guide, the inspiration, the focus that can shepherd hundreds of artists into the creation of a single work of art. The challenge is to collaborate effectively to realize a vision. This title helps you learn how to read a script, find its core, and determine your "vision". It aims to take the reader into the process.

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It also includes important film directors from Southern African states--Angola, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and others--as well as from other African republics.

Each entry gives details of the film-maker's career and a complete list of films made.

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Each entry includes biographical and career details, a complete list of films made--with dates, original language titles, and recognized English language titles--and an indication of the director's other involvement in the film (as scriptwriter or actor, for example).

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A major contribution to the history of American theatre, this book records in one volume all available data about theatres built in this country before 1915.

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Original Indian language titles from the regional cinemas are transliterated - whether in Assamese, Bengali, Bhojpuri, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malyayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Rajasthani, Sanskrit, Sinhalese, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu or other languages.

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Chris Sheridan presents a major discographical study of an American jazz giant, Cannonball Adderley, whose career had a significant impact on jazz's development.

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This discography documents all recordings made by this pioneering and influential record label which was active in many areas - popular, jazz, blues, country, and ethnic music during a formative and dynamic period in America's cultural history just before and during the 1920s on into the early 1930s.

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The result of years of research by its authors, this discography strives to identify and trace the recorded development of the musical style now known as western swing from its early years through World War II.

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"This critical anthology, featuring a joint authored critical introductory essay and 15 specially commissioned original essays, is the first edited collection to address the relationship between media (films, television documentaries and non-theatrical cinema) in relation to the concept and practice of care and caregiving"--