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"An informative and scholarly survey by Donald Mullin, Victorian Actors and Actresses in Review, compiles extensive critical assessments by contemporary reviewers of some 250 British and American players who performed between 1837 and 1901." Backstage

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Marrying two exceptionally popular topicsneedlework and women's historythis book provides an authoritative yet entertaining discussion of the diversity and importance of needlework in Victorian women's lives.

Victorian Needlework explores these ubiquitous pastimestheir practice and their meaning in women's lives.

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This work provides a ready reference to significant productions of plays on the London stage during the period 1837 through 1901 and includes extensive information concerning both plays and players.

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"Critically engages fifty years of theoretical and artistic reflection on video-its technical and social implications, from the magnetic tape to mobile online streaming, from pioneering experimentation to today's ubiquitous presence of the medium"--

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"Critically engages fifty years of theoretical and artistic reflection on video-its technical and social implications, from the magnetic tape to mobile online streaming, from pioneering experimentation to today's ubiquitous presence of the medium"--

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Following a plot summary, a critical analysis provides the similarities and differences of the play and film, including character and plot changes, setting, missing or added scenes, special film techniques, and behind-the-scenes information such as who turned down or lost particular parts when the play was adapted to film.

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An argument that video is not merely an intermediate stage between analog and digital but a medium in its own right; traces the theoretical genealogy of video and examines the different concepts of video seen in works by Vito Acconci, Ulrike Rosenbach, Steina and Woody Vasulka, and others.

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"This book scans six decades of videographic cinema from the point of view of its shifting conditions of existence"--

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Ricardo Averbach places Heitor Villa-Lobos as the top exponent of Cultural Cannibalism in music, an aesthetic movement that has been neglected due to traditional Eurocentric views of Modernism. Villa-Lobos and Modernism shows how much our present aesthetics owes to the Modernist ideas introduced by the Brazilian composer.

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Investigates 'time' as a defining factor which influences how events real and imagined are represented in films, employing the metaphor of cinema as time machine.

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Contributors analyze the theme of violence in the film adaptations of Stephen Kings work, ranging from his earliest movies to the most recent, through a variety of lenses.

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Violet Balestreri Archer is a leading force in contemporary music of North America. Her own music has been performed throughout the world and at international festivals and music congresses.

This bio-bibliography is the first book-length study of Archer.

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This bibliography enhances the repertoire of the violinist by providing convenient access to a new solo recital, concerto, and chamber music literature: the music of women composers.

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In Violin Secrets: 101 Performance Strategies for the Advanced Violinist, author and violinist Jo Nardolillo surveys the cutting edges of current violin technique, combining in one volume tradition with innovation

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An exploration of Cope's experimentation in artificial musical creativity; includes a CD containing performances of music discussed in the text.

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Drawing upon the past two decades of burgeoning literature in philosophy of music, this study offers a comprehensive, critical analysis of what is entailed in performance interpretation. The ethical discourse applies to instrumental performance studies, the history and theory of music, general music pedagogy, and philosophy of music courses.

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"Explores virtuosic performance in film, ranging from classical works through to contemporary productions"--

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Visions of Empire explores film's function as a medium of political communication, recognizing not just the propaganda film, but the various ways that conventional narrative films embody, question, or critique established social values underlying American attitudes toward historical, social, and political events.

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Visions of Empire explores film's function as a medium of political communication, recognizing not just the propaganda film, but the various ways that conventional narrative films embody, question, or critique established social values underlying American attitudes toward historical, social, and political events.

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In this imaginative and generously illustrated book, Tadahiko Higuchi applies a methodology to landscape that is similar to that developed by Kevin Lynch for investigating the extent to which urban settings are legible and "imageable" to their inhabitants.