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Now in paperback: The first comprehensive biography of the American cultural giant who changed popular theater and dance forever with her choreography for Oklahoma!, Carousel, and Brigadoon.

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This short collection of essays looks at the television show and films produced by the Monty Python troupe from a number of perspectives: Gender studies Post-structuralism Psychoanalysis Cultural studies

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This volume provides a detailed record of the life and career of Noel Coward. Detailed entries for Coward's many performances follow, with entries grouped in chapters on drama, film, radio, and television, as well as a discography. The book also lists Coward's awards and honors, and it concludes with a detailed, annotated bibliography.

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This examniation of the cinematic style of film noir originals and their neo-noir remakes compares thirty-five films, beginning with Billy Wilder's classic Double Indemnity and concluding with Jim McBride's Breathless.

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A wide-reaching and provocative examination of the philosophical dimensions and cultural manifestations of noise.

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A wide-reaching and provocative examination of the philosophical dimensions and cultural manifestations of noise.

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This study highlights the social and cultural value nomai has for the residents in villages that perform it by providing the historical context in which it is examined, as well as its current performance practices.

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"A film-philosophical study of low budget, handheld digital filmmaking from around the world"--

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The five countries that make up Northern Europe have, over the course of several centuries, developed a unique and viable art music history. This text covers composers, styles, and works that are part of Northern Europe's rich and largely under-appreciated musical heritage.

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North/South, East/West analyzes the economic, cultural, and political levels of identity production on contemporary Italian television by focusing particularly on regionalism, gender, ethnicity, and immigration as central to Italian identity politics.

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An exploration of Scandinavian literature and art. It guides us through the most startling works created by the writers and artists of Scandinavia over the past two centuries. It helps readers gain fresh perspectives on canonical giants such as Soren Kierkegaard, Henrik Ibsen, August Strindberg, Edvard Munch, Knut Hamsun, and Ingmar Bergman.

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"Notes and Tones is one of the most controversial, honest, and insightful books ever written about jazz. As a black musician himself, Arthur Taylor was able to ask his subjects hard questions about th"

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Chronicles the life of one of the most remarkable musical minds of the American experience, the great nineteenth-century New Orleans-born composer and pianist Louis Moreau Gottschalk. This book recounts Gottschalk's experiences as he traveled and performed throughout the last decade of his life.

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A counterpoint of sorts to Simon Reynolds' acclaimed book Retromania, Nothing Has Been Done Before is a sweeping study of popular music and its innovation, novelty, and originality--not the retro, but the new.

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A counterpoint of sorts to Simon Reynolds' acclaimed book Retromania, Nothing Has Been Done Before is a sweeping study of popular music and its innovation, novelty, and originality--not the retro, but the new.

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"This book investigates women's representation and work in the Swedish film industry, focusing on both historical and contemporary cases and women from a variety of theoretical perspectives and methods emanating from cinema studies, gender studies, ethnography, and law"--