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This book provides an up-to-date account of how reality TV has developed, why it has become the most popular genre on television today, and how the explosion in reality TV signals new developments in American media culture.

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In the sequel to "Roosevelt's Blues", Guido van Rijn presents an account of the gospel and blues music of the immediate post-war period, concentrating on songs that comment on contemporary political events and issues during a crucial time in the shaping of black consciousness in America.

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The essential one-stop guide to making your studio production shine!

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Here is the first hands-on how-to book for aspiring television writers, with in-depth exercises and substantive advice from an Emmy-nominated TV writer.

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This essay collection analyzes the Western film genre as it has been reimagined during the first two decades of the twenty-first century. The chapters consider old conventions from a postmodern perspective while also addressing contemporary social, cultural, and thematic aspects.

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Covering four decades of music history, this engaging book explores a genre of pop music that has been overlooked, under-reported, and ineffectively characterized-but which nevertheless remains immensely popular.

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An illustrated guide to the best gangster movies. It ranks and reviews the Top 100 gangster movies, including informative facts and trivia, special features, and original contributions from actors and gangsters. Featuring two colour design and black and white photos throughout, it is suitable for gangster movies fans.

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First published in Argentina 2015 as Lo incapturable by Reservoir Books.

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First published in Argentina 2015 as Lo incapturable by Reservoir Books.

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This handbook offers a rare glimpse into the private art collection of the Union League Club Chicago, inaccessible to the public, yet replete with premiere works of art by artists as diverse as Claude Monet and Hebru Brantley. The collection celebrates excellence and invention by artists creating in the nineteenth century to modern times.

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A historical overview of the development of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame including career biographies of all the inductees.

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This book explores the aspects of American history and the process of interpreting historical evidence. Professor Lubove discusses phases of urbanization in the progressive era, the attitude toward cities, the role of government, and public and private responsibility in shaping the urban physical environment.

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Traces the historical development of attitudes toward the arts over the past 150 years, suggesting that the present is a period of cultural liquidation, nothing less than the ending of the modern age that began with the Renaissance.

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This is the first book to examine the various uses of the Arthurian legend in Hollywood film, covering films from the 1920s to the present. This fascinating study shows us how the legend has been adapted and how through the popular medium of Hollywood films, the Arthurian legend has survived and flourished.

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Join Sir Dorian in the third and final Quest in Musical Acres. He meets Rubato, another Knight who interacts differently with the world but, in the end, saves the day when Sir Dorian has an unexpected problem. Be a part of the music they all make to celebrate at the end! You won't want to miss out on this final Quest.

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"An academic collection that explores and examines The Velvet Underground in the 1960s and the solo activities of band members up to the present"--

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Planned with the same passion as a landscape garden, filled with monuments that represented the start of the art of craftsmanship in stone, and equipped with expensively constructed and fashionably designed gatehouses and chapels of rest, the Victorian cemetery was a matter of real civic pride. This illustrated study tells its fascinating story.

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This book shows how over the hundred years between the Vienna Congress and the dissolution of the Empire, the waltz altered from signifier of upper-class artificecovering with glitz and glamour the poverty and war central to the timeto the link between the three classes, between man and nature, and between Viennese and Other.

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"A critical analysis of the depiction of vigilantism in 1970s American cinema"--

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