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A team of family experts and professionals provides a clear summary reviews of more than 1,000 videos, listed by viewing age and category, as recommended by child development specialists.

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An unauthorized book that reveals all the mistakes and inconsistencies in each episode of the most successful syndicated TV series of all time--Star Trek: The Next Generation. Includes trivia questions, fun facts, great lines, quizzes, brief plot synopses, and other features.

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"An examination of the actor, and the non-actor, in post-war Italian cinema-a crucial moment for the Italian film industry-when cinema became an important vector of national identity and of individual identification with figures on the big screen"--

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A Lacanian look at how comedy might come to philosophy's rescue, with examples ranging from Hegel and Molire to George W. Bush and Borat.

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"The Off-Modern charts a fresh path beyond the categories of modernism and postmodernism, center and periphery, artistic theory and practice"--

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A full-color gallery of the major art works found in Causey's Remnants of Eden: Evolution, Deep-Time, & the Antediluvian World.

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Taking the form of a protest against the official story of modernism, this text tells the story of the optical unconscious, an unruly, disruptive force that persistently haunted the field of modernism from the 1920s to the 1950s.

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Documents for the expansion of repertoire from the marches and potpourris of the 1890s to the symphonic recordings of the late acoustical period.

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A historical and theoretical analysis of corporate architecture in the United States after the Second World War.

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An ambitious and highly original analysis of the terrain of contemporary and future film theory, production and practice.

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This book discusses the historical and musical development of the diatonic harp in Paraguay, an analysis of the musical contributions by harp composers and performers, a survey of the various traditional genres associated with the instrument, and a discussion of the popular and academic settings where the instrument has been cultivated.

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"When The Paris Diary exploded on the scene in 1966 there had never been a book in English quite like it: Its intimate combination of personal, literary, and social insights was unprecedented. Rorem's"

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Beginning with an introductory overview, this encyclopaedia contains entries for works including operas, diverse lyric compositions and ballets, as well as biographical sketches of composers, librettists, performers and choreographers. A repertory list (1671-1715) is included in the appendix.

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This second volume of The Paris Opera offers descriptions of balletic and lyrical compositions and biographical sketches of famous vocalists, dancers, choreographers, composers, and librettists. Contents of scenarios and librettos are reported scene by scene or act by act.

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In The Patron's Payoff, Jonathan Nelson and Richard Zeckhauser apply the innovative methods of information economics to the study of art. Their findings, written in highly accessible prose, are surprising and important. Building on three economic concepts--signaling, signposting, and stretching--the book develops the first systematic methodology fo

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In this book the author analyzes the autobiographies of Baby Dodds, Sidney Bechet, Pops Foster, and Lee Collins by integrating social, psychological, and literary theories. He argues that the autobiographies of New Orleans jazz musicians construct a sense of self and the collective grounded in ideas about authenticity.

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Find the best reference sources on theatre, dance, and related theatre arts quickly and efficiently with this new resource. Arranged by type of material, the book describes and evaluates the most significant directories, encyclopedias, handbooks, bibliographies, and other works on theatre and dance.