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The only comprehensive and up-to-date book on the subject of Italian cinema available anywhere, in any language.

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This book is a multidisciplinary study on how men use photography to illustrate the tension between social expectations and self-expression.

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This book provides the first history of the television news parody genre, analyzing how these shows have functioned as critiques of television news, politics, culture, and American society, while entertaining and informing audiences. Each chapter features a case study and discussion of the genre during a particular decade.

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A Journey Through Ladakh chronicles a honeymoon vacation made by Jan and her then husband, John Blaustein, to the territory of Ladakh.

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The complete, collected lyrics of one of country music's most prolific and original stars.

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Here is a comprehensive development plan written as if vital communities, indigenous peoples, women, and the environment really mattered.

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Here is a comprehensive development plan written as if vital communities, indigenous peoples, women, and the environment really mattered.

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Tawa considers the musical and social ramifications influencing the American composer between 1950 and 1985. Insightful commentaries and a highly readable text combine to focus on all contemporary musical styles from the most traditional to the most experimental in relation to modern American life.

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The essays in A Moving Picture Feast discuss every Hollywood film made from a Hemingway work and represent the most diverse response yet to the Hemingway-Hollywood relationship.

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A "historical overview of documentary history, the role of women in documentary history, and consideration of newest trends and global filmmaking"--

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Based on research in two African communities, this volume presents a new methodology for examining visual media--one that suggests a phenomenology of filmmaking and an ethnography of mediated communication. Comprehensively developed and discusses, this methodology can be used for analysis of any informant-made visual communication.

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Using concrete examples from his many years of teaching, Robert Kaddouch argues the teaching of creation is not only about helping students become more innovative; its also about enabling them to "conduct" to communicate, in a musical language, the ideas to which they are particularly attached.

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Picasso's extraordinary capacity to work in a variety of mediums and styles amazed his critics since the first years of the century. This collection of critical and personal reactions to Picasso provides an account of the many innovations and changes of direction that baffled his contemporaries. It also reveals his working methods and attitudes.

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Drawing on historical and social science literatures and interviews with current piano teachers, the book explores the contemporary U.S. piano teacher through a social science lens.

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Six actors and actresses explain their philosophy concerning the theater, discuss physical action, scene analysis, costume, makeup, and mannerisms, and identify the common problems working actors must overcome.

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From the first run of Guys and Dolls in 1950 to the recent hit Rent, Broadway producer Stuart Ostrow takes us on a behind-the-scenes historical tour of the Broadway musical.

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The six string quartets comprising Joseph Haydn's Opus 20 (composed in 1772) are the first works in the genre to have received consistent critical attention from writers on music.