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Looks in detail at the various programmes guiding the Volksbuhne's work and at the reception of the plays by the largely working-class audience, to offer a detailed study of the interactions between cultural and political history in Imperial Germany.

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This book looks at the creative output of one of the world's greatest filmmakers, Ingmar Bergman, through the prism of his personal life, in particular his interpersonal and internal conflicts. The author-a practicing psychiatrist as well as a professor emeritus of psychiatry-...

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The first major study of Britain's pioneering graphic satirist, Sir Francis Carruthers Gould (18441925), the first staff political cartoonist on a daily newspaper in Britain, and the first of his kind to be knighted.

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Lessons from and for the creative professions of art, science, design, and engineering: how to live in and with the Plenitude, that dense, knotted ecology of human-made stuff that creates the need for more of itself.

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An exploration of Cronenberg's films, placing them in context by examining his relationship to his audience and the wider film industry within which he works.

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The Politics of Punk probes the conscience of punk music by going beyond the lyrics and slogans of the pithy culture war. Creating a peoples history of punk's social, aesthetic, and political features, the book features original interviews with members of Dead Kennedys, Dead Boys, MDC, and many more.

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This book engages with the historical paradigm of contemporary art by examining a programme initiated in Eastern Europe by the Hungarian-American billionaire George Soros in the 1990s. The Soros Centers for Contemporary Art played a leading role in popularising the norms and conventions of contemporary art throughout the region.

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A critical annotated guide to the existing literature on Elvis Presley.

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Focuses on the lives and works of the producers, this book is about people whose job is to dominate every facet of the film-making process, from conception, to script, and after. Through the interviews of Michael Douglas, it explains the history of some of the successful films and looks at the skill and experience to survive in this business.

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Forty working actors comment auditions, day jobs, agent, rejection, and what drives them to keep going when there is no work.

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Forty working actors comment auditions, day jobs, agent, rejection, and what drives them to keep going when there is no work.

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Raphael's "St George and the Dragon" is the work of a genius - an exquisitely rendered vision of heroism and innocence by one of the greatest painters of all time. Painted in Italy, it was sent to England as a gift for Henry VII. This work shows how the greatest beauty in art can provoke the basest instincts in man.

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Gustav Mahler may have become a popular composer, but he remains widely misunderstood both as a man and musician. This biography re-examines his life and work and the circumstances leading to his death in 1911.

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In formulating a notion of filmic reality, The Reality of Film offers a novel way of understanding our relationship to cinema. It argues that cinema need not be understood in terms of its capacities to refer to, reproduce or represent reality, but should be understood in terms of the kinds of realities it has the ability to create. -- .

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