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Variations on the theme of the ornament in Kracauer's urban writings, suggesting ways in which the subjective can reappropraite urban life.

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The text of the fully annotated playscipts of Orson Welles' celebrated adaptations of three Shakespearean plays. Texts for the "Voodoo" "Macbeth" and the modern dress "Julius Caesar" are stage managers' working copies. The version of "Five Kings" is the oldest surviving text and the most inclusive.

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A detailed and annotated study of Welles' career in the arts from early radio days to his final film work, with special attention to the widely various critical and public receptions he received: young genius, spoiled brat, showman, mammoth failure and master of his art.

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During World War I, he captured the public imagination and provided audiences with escapist musicals set in fictional orients.

Oscar Asche excelled in many theatre genres, including musical comedy, pantomime, music hall, melodrama, and Shakespeare.

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A study of how the Hollywood film industry has treated the 'Other' throughout its history. It argues that the Hollywood system has been the only national cinema with the resources and inclination to explore images of others through stories set in exotic and faraway places.

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A study of how the Hollywood film industry has treated the 'Other' throughout its history. It argues that the Hollywood system has been the only national cinema with the resources and inclination to explore images of others through stories set in exotic and faraway places. It examines a range of genres from the perspective of otherness.

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The essays offer an examination of issues of the musical experience, research in perception and brain functions, the design of computer-based neural networks that emulate human musical activities, investigations into the psychological make-up of artists, and a perspective on how computers are used in many different areas of music.

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With its extensive treatment of his life and career, this book will help to bring Luening's important compositions and his contributions to American music to the attention of a much wider audience.

Ralph Hartsock divides Luening's work into four main sections, each covering a specific aspect of Luening's career.

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In the early 1980s, serious American independent films including Stranger Than Paradise, Blood Simple, and She's Gotta Have It attracted ever-widening audiences, culminating with Steven Soderbergh's award-winning sex, lies, and videotape.

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The story of how record companies gained ownership of sound recording rights and examines the consequences of this ownership for musical creation and reception.

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Here-in a rich interweaving of considerations of connoisseurship, style, iconography, cultural and social background, and historical events-is the first extended study of the history of Florentine and Sienese painting in the later fourteenth century, in the period following the plague of the Black Death 1348.

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This is the third book in the series named Perceptions. It is a compilation of some of the author's paintings that were inspired by Nature. She takes you on a visual journey as she engages with mother nature at different times from dawn to the night and under various weather conditions using a mix of impressionistic, post-impressionistic and fluid art styles.

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Reference materials on European painting of the seventeenth century are generally restricted to a roster of a few dozen great masters such as Rembrandt, Rubens, Caravaggio, and Velazquez, but this Golden Age produced hundreds of prodigiously talented painters.

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The following is a description of the Zalud House in Porterville, CA.