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Leni Riefenstahl achieved fame as a dancer, actress, photographer and director, but her entire career is coloured by her association with the Nazis. Using original documentation, this book looks at Riefenstahl's life, work and politics.

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Covering the whole of his unique works, this bio-bibliography is an unparalleled resource on the life and music of Leroy Andersoncomposer of over 40 popular orchestral miniatures.

In his compositions, Leroy Anderson defied the nature of typical orchestral music.

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"Les Diaboliques" was a top grossing film in 1955. The author sets "Les Diaboliques" against the political culture of its time, and demonstrates the importance of Clouzot as a master of the thriller genre. She gives an in-depth textual analysis of the film, and presents a comparison with its US remake.

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"[A] potent collection [that] ably communicates the hunger for social, cultural and racial justice that made Strummer's work so engaging." "Salon

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A revised, expanded edition of Carl Wilson's classic and beloved book - now including essays and responses from a host of writers and cultural critics.

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The founder and director of the Yale Repertory theatre, as well as Harvard's American Repertory theatre, and a drama critic for more than thirty years, Robert Brustein is a living legend in theatrical circles. Letters to a Young Actor not only inspires the multitudes of struggling dramatists out pounding the pavement, but also reinvigorates the very state of the art of acting itself.

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Born in Wisconsin in 1919, Wladziu Valentino Liberace began his career as a performer at roadhouses, bars, stag parties, afternoon teas, and dances in the Milwaukee area.

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Shares a wealth of scandalous and intriguing tales about all, from the stars of Hollywood's Golden Era like Jean Harlow and Grace Kelly to idols of the sixties and seventies like Jim Morrison and John Belushi (who tragically died there in 1982).

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In a life-story that received extensive press and ecstatic reviews as 'a classic - honest, funny and gripping', Ronan Keating tells the full story of his incredible journey.

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Lifestyle revolution charts how class culture, which many thought would be dissolved by mass consumption, was remade in the postwar period from flat-pack furniture, Mediterranean cuisine and lifestyle magazines as a world of symbolic goods became an intimate environment alive with new feelings and attitudes.

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This collection explores what Roland Barthes termed the autobiographical turn in art, literature and critical theory since the mid-1960s. Through a variety of perspectives, it examines the relationship between work and life, notions of the self and what autobiography might mean today.

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The latest collection of essays by peerless music and culture writer Francis Davis, who "has long combined Gary Giddins's musical acuity with Whitney Balliett's literary flair"-Boston Phoenix

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In this thorough study of Lillian Russell, chapters provide detailed entries of her performances and extensive bibliographic information.

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An analysis of liminal performance. It surveys traditional and contemporary aesthetics, followed by a series of case studies and, in the final chapter, a summary description of liminal performances as an emerging genre. Liminal works discussed include Pina Bausch's "Tanztheater".

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"Here is Nat Hentoff's deeply felt exploration of jazz, blues, country, and gospel--and the musicians who bring the music to life. Hentoff has not only loved music all his life, he has lived it by being"

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Meirion Hughes combines a new translation of the first edition with an introduction that places the work in its cultural and political context -- .

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A. C. Scott, a student of Chinese culture, traces the development of the novel, short story, and poetry; the theatre and dance; painting, the graphic arts, and sculpture; architecture; and music through the 20th century. He also discusses the artistic achievements of the Chinese outside of China.