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"Drawing equally from Viennese operetta, Parisian cabaret, vaudeville, and Tin Pan Alley, the American musical theatre has thrived in an unprecedented variety of forms and styles as our truest hybrid a"

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An exhaustive work covering the full range of topics relating to vampires, including literature, film and television, and folklore.

Encyclopedia of the Vampire: The Living Dead in Myth, Legend, and Popular Culture is a comprehensive encyclopedia relating to all phases of vampirismin literature, film, and television;

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This eclectic encyclopaedia chronicles the careers of over 110 musical artists from all over the world. Author Stan Jeffries chronicles the careers of the leading bands and solo acts from 37 different nations. Entries include biographical information and trace the entrants' musical development.

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How outlaw "spatial products"resorts, information technology campuses, retail chains, golf courses, and portsact as cunning pawns in global politics.

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Tracing the connectionsboth visual and philosophicalbetween new media art and classical Islamic art.

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Engagement in the City: How Arts and Culture Impact Development in Urban Areas explores how the arts contribute to cultural and economic development, physical and mental health, education, and social capital. The book can be helpful for scholars and community leaders interested in facilitating arts-based initiatives to improve their communities.

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He had composed a remarkable body of work and was also at the height of his career as a concert pianist at his untimely death while a passenger on a torpedoed British ship.

The biographical study, the first in English, draws on primary sources in English, Spanish, French, Catalan, and other languages.

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Representing the first attempt to compile a complete catalog of the entertainers who appeared on film in Great Britain from the invention of the cinema in the mid-1890s to the present, this innovative book covers more than 2,000 entertainers.

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Vieira focuses on the relationship between environmental pollution and socioeconomic underdevelopment and emphasizes the role information can play in the protection of the Third World environment.

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"Eric Clapton's position as the world's greatest rock guitarist is unlikely to change in our lifetime. His career over the past four decades has been closely followed by millions of fans, as a member o"

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"In his tragically short life (1928--1964), Eric Dolphy was a titanic force in the development of the sixties avant-garde (or "new thing") from the hard bop of the late fifties. The searing intensity an"

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This book looks closely at Ernst Lubitschs The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg, a film undervalued by film scholars and critics. It advocates for the elevation of the film within the canon of Lubitschs films, as well as an appreciation of the classical style it represents, characterized by aesthetics, meticulous structure, and understatement.

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As a result of both his political reputation--destroyed by false charges of Nazism after World War II--and his rejection of avant-garde techniques, the recordings and compositions of Ernst von Dohnnyi went largely ignored for most of the 20th century.

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Peter Valenti presents an objective evaluation of Flynn's impact on both American popular culture and the development of motion pictures.

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Indie rock raconteur Campion--one of the few patients ever to escape from Bellevue's locked ward--recalls his band's tumultuous ride, his plummet into addiction, and the strange road back to sobriety.

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Esther Williamson Ballou was greatly admired by all who encountered her remarkable versatility as a musician and teacher. Although her music has continued to be performed over the years since her death in 1973, this volume is the first book-length study of her life and contributions to the musical world.

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This new book contains the most comprehensive bibliography of Ethel Merman's work and materials written on this great American entertainer.

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This study of Erich von Stroheim, Ernst Lubitsch, and Billy Wilder focuses on what the common ethical themes in their Hollywood films unveil about the cultural and intellectual heritage of these German and Austrian migrs and their influence on American culture.