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In The 21st Century Voice: Contemporary and Traditional Extra-Normal Voice, Michael Edward Edgerton considers contemporary vocal techniques within an advanced acoustic and anatomical framework. Throughout, he proposes new directions for vocal exploration. Much more than a tre...

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The 100 essential films of all time (you might be surprised what they are) and why they matter (you might be surprised about that, too).

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This detailed reference provides a complete record of Academy Award winners and nominees through 1991. Part I lists Academy Award winners and nominees by award categories, with sections devoted to annual awards, other awards, and discontinued categories.

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A tour through popular music.

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A critical review of documentary in the 21st century.

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A critical review of documentary in the 21st century.

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This book aims to help the teacher of Acting and his pupil--the novice who aspires to become proficient in the most elusive of arts. In it no distinction is made between the amateur and professional but only between the good and bad actor.from the author's introduction

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These interviews and a thorough introduction provide a history of the American theatre for almost a century--the Yiddish theatre, the WPA, the start of regional theatre, off- and off-off-Broadway, and the Great White Way--through the voices of those who lived it.

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A master teacher gives actors everywhere the benefit of his vast experience, helping them to build up a solid foundation of skills they can use to create characters with truthful and compelling inner lives.

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Cinema is a sensuous object, but in our presence it becomes also a sensing, sensual, sense-making subject. This title challenges basic assumptions of current film theory that reduce film to an object of vision and the spectator to a victim of a deterministic cinematic apparatus.

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"Roberto Rossellini (1906--1977)--movie-maker, bon vivant, and passionate intellectual--was the key figure of Italian neo-realism, the godfather of the French New Wave, and a television pioneer; the maker"

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Explore how Hollywood teen girl films made in the 21st century are designed to feel fun and offer a practical model for a new methodological approach to film and pleasure with The Aesthetic Pleasures of Girl Teen Film.

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This study argues that most criticism of science fiction film has been inadequate because it is based on literary rather than film-specific standards, and also that SF film will soon become either obsolete or be totally transformed through new computer technology.

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This infamous book has enjoyed a lively underground reputation since its first publication in 1970. Richard Meltzer (a.k.a. R. Meltzer) took his training as a young philosopher and applied it with una

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A comprehensive dictionary of more than 600 entries, this reference features professional, semi-professional and academic stage organizations and theatres that have helped pioneer the African-American theatre movement.

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An analysis of the social context of the musical "Hair" and the hippies, describing the tenor of the Broadway theatre of the 1960s and the experimental trends Off-Broadway that culminated in "Hair"'s innovations on the Great White Way.

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Aladdin and Imperial, two independent recording labels, emerged on the West Coast following World War II. An entire chapter is devoted to single numerical listings and includes seven Aladdin Series labels and eight Imperial Series labels along with foreign series, Liberty/UA Series, 78 rpm albums, and 45 rpm albums.