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The artists in this first anthology from theUntranslatable Words Series,seek to mine and give new meaning to the dynamic and nuancical complexity of the word saudade by way of poems, fine art photography, song lyrics, short stories, paintings, and essays.

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"A collection of shocking clashes and controversies from Hollywood's Golden Age, featuring notorious personalities including Judy Garland, Cary Grant, Jean Harlow, and more"--

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An extensive survey of available music, sample IPA transcriptions and translations, as well as a website link devoted to demonstrating phonemes unfamiliar to native English speakers, make this book an invaluable resource for students and professors in North American college, university, and conservatory voice programs.

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"Through a series of case studies, Scary Monsters examines masculinity in popular music culture from the perspective of research into monstrosity"--

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"The first comprehensive guide to mastering the art and craft of writing scenes, providing screenwriters with a new foundational approach to creating beautifully articulated scripts"--

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The profiles (approximately 200 words each) are followed by a chronological list of Broadway credits--in scenic design, followed by lighting design and costume design credits.

The introduction outlines the profession in the twentieth century on Broadway and the development of American design from the New Stagecraft.

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Marilyn McCoy opens the volume with a chronology of Schoenberg's life and works. Essays by Joseph Auner, Leon Botstein, Reinhold Brinkmann, J. Peter Burkholder, Severine Neff, and Rudolf Stephan examine aspects of his creative output, theoretical writings, relation to earlier music, and the socio-cultural contexts in which he worked.

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Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern, modern composers living in Vienna near the turn of the 20th century, are examined in a broad artistic context illustrating how their works grew from earlier Viennese musical developments.

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Fight songs, alma maters, and other school songs are as numerous and varied as the colleges and universities in the United States to which they belong.

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A chronological and detailed survey of American science fiction series from the 1950s to the present day, this reference traces the development of the genre as a distinct cultural phenomenon within the context of broader developments in American culture as a whole.

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Peter Brunette and David Wills extend the work of Jacques Derrida into a new realm--with rewarding consequences. Although Derrida has never addressed film theory directly in his writings, Brunette and Wills argue that the ideas he has developed in his critique of the logocentric foundations of Western thought, especially his notion of "Writing," ca

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This book analyzes how twenty-first century film adaptations of Shakespeare's comedies interpret gender-related concepts of their source texts. Examining the negotiations between early modern and contemporary gender politics, Cielak identifies the main strategies of accommodating early modern gender constructs for todays audiences.

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Screening Minors in Latin American Cinema is the first book to examine how Latin American filmmakers represent the subjectivity of children and adolescents in an adult medium. The chapters analyze childrens developing agency in diverse social contexts across Latin America.

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Screening Minors in Latin American Cinema is the first book to examine how Latin American filmmakers represent the subjectivity of children and adolescents in an adult medium. The chapters analyze childrens developing agency in diverse social contexts across Latin America.

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"Through a focus on recent film, this study examines the representation of neoliberal subjects from contemporary European, Russian and American cinema"--

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"The noted blues scholar Paul Oliver here examines the many different skeins of the blues form, relating them to other black traditions - musical and religious - and tracing the origin of the blues thr"