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[A] long overdue retrospective of the major playwrights, theatre companies, and professional organizations which have sustained the children's theatre movement in this country.

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An autobiographical and historical account of the evolution of Rock and Roll and Rhythm n Blues rhythms and its impact on our consciousness from an experienced drummer, teacher, producer, author, and artist.

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Focuses on the way that music has infiltrated Hitchcock's thinking as a director, from his earliest silent films to his last works. This title also focuses on how an expanded definition of music influences Hitchcock's conception of cinema.

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Focuses on the way that music has infiltrated Hitchcock's thinking as a director, from his earliest silent films to his last works. This title also focuses on how an expanded definition of music influences Hitchcock's conception of cinema.

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A popular music scholarship, analyzing the creative processes behind some very familiar hit singles from the 1960s. It examines a selection of songs and recordings through the lens of textual criticism and delineates the creative process as it unfolds from the initial conception of a song to the final mix presented on disc.

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"A social history of the baby boom's relationship to popular American cinema, based on interviews with filmmakers and filmgoers"--

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This volume compares films from the late Cold War era with films of the same genre, or of similar themes, from the post-Cold War era, paying particular attention to shifts in narrative that reflect changes in American culture, attitudes, and ideas. It explains how the absence of the Cold War has changed the way we understand and interpret film.

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2015 marks the 70th anniversary of the WWII's end and the beginning of the general public's awareness of Holocaust atrocities. This book offers an important look at Hollywood's ongoing representations of the Holocaust aimed at a general readership not usually addressed by vol...

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Drawing on new archival research into Hollywood production history and detailed textual analysis of individual films, this book assesses the value of British-themed films for the American film industry while placing them in a broader historical context.

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In this extensive, critical survey of Francis Coppola's films, Chown attempts an auteur theory analysis tempered with an interesting overview of the turbulent economic and corporate controversies that have surrounded Coppola.

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This is the only book of its kind to explore biblical epics from an LGBT perspective, studying films from the silent era, to the postwar major studio era, to the present day.

In spite of restrictive Hollywood censorship regulations, filmmakers throughout history have pushed the boundaries of sex and violence when making religious films.

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Analyzes white fantasies of interracial desire in the history of popular American film. With readings of films like D W Griffith's 1915, "The Birth of a Nation" and of key forgotten films and censorship documents, this book argues that dominant fantasies of miscegenation have had a profound impact on the form and content of American cinema.

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Moviegoers and critics generally consider some Hollywood products - even some blockbusters - to be legitimate works of art. This title tells how social and cultural forces radically changed the public's perceptions of American movies just as those forces were radically changing the movies themselves.

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'The death of the 'public intellectual' has been announced more often than the death of the novel, ' a 2006 article in New York magazine claimed. Hollywood Intellect argues that the assumptions on which such laments rest result from misleading inattention to the intellectual wo...

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