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Celebrating one of the last great glory eras of pop music, Playing Back the 80s features original interviews with over sixty artists, producers, session players, writers and others who were directly involved with the most memorable songs of the decade.

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A notable feature is an article by the director himself, in which he reflects on the development and future of Italian political cinema.

This book offers a series of essays by leading Italian academics, each exploring a key Rosi film, together with an interview and comprehensive bibliographic and filmographic material.

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(Paperback)

"List of contemporary plays produced by Piscator between 1919 and 1930": p. 368-369.

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(Hardback)

Investigates how reformers, conservatives, and radicals used portraiture to connect with supporters and build identity in Victorian politics.

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Pop Art is the most important 20th-century art movement. It brought Modernism to the masses, making art sexy and fun with coke cans and comics. Describing the great works by Warhol, Lichtenstein and other key figures, the author also re-examines the movement for the 21st century and asks if it is still art

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Pop music stars in many of the most exciting and successful British films. This book tells the story and records the facts of the pop-film relationship decade by decade. It is a systematic guide to where and how pop appears in British cinema. It includes illustrations and descriptions of the changing ways of using pop in British film.

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This book is a full-length study which makes sense of the complexity behind the history of French popular music and its relation to 'authentic' cultural identity.

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This book is a full-length study which makes sense of the complexity behind the history of French popular music and its relation to 'authentic' cultural identity.

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A guide to the biographical literature available on popular twentieth-century singers.

(Paperback, 2nd edition)

Previous edition: published as Popular singing. 2006.

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This theme of connection also runs deeper than the films made: the directors share actors (Mark Wahlberg, Bill Murray, Ben Stiller, Jason Schwartzman), collaborators (the musician Jon Brion) and sometimes even personal connections (Spike Jonze starred in Russell's Three Kings, and was married to Coppola).

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(Hardback)

Discussions of the phenomenon of postmodernism have established certain characteristics that are typical of postmodernist culture. This book presents a brief summary of the characteristics that have typically been associated with postmodernism, especially as they pertain to film.

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This book examines the benefits and limits of cultural nationalism, and describes the preliminary steps taken by contemporary filmmakers in order to establish a new popular African cinema. -- .

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America's most memorable popular films, those works that were not only very successful when they were released, but have continued to be watched and remembered for years after, demonstrate the power of motion pictures and the stories they tell. This book examines the patterns and principles that make films popular and memorable.

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This book is about the ways in which western spectators are bombarded with 'emergencies' by our press and political institutions. It examines the effect that this has on us and how theatre and performance can try to counteract that effect. -- .

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The making of the 25 greatest extreme metal albums of all time, as told via exclusive band-member interviews, drawn and expanded from Decibel's "Hall of Fame"

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(Paperback, New Edition - New ed)

The first volume of Coward's autobiography. Displaying an early dedication to the theatre, it hints at the success that would come to Coward as actor, playwright, novelist and performer, and is punctuated with his trademark effervescent wit.