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This highly readable introduction to dance with older people combines key debates and issues in the field with practical guidance, as well as a resources section including numerous 'toolkit materials'. Diane Amans, leading practitioner in Community Dance, provides the ideal beginners' guide for students, practitioners and dance artists alike.

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For more than 30 years, Ken Loach's films have examined the social, political, economic, and psychological costs of living in Great Britain.

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television programs, The Twilight Zone, The Wild, Wild West, and Bewitched; radio shows The March of Time, The Shadow, and Sorry, Wrong Number;

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Agnes Varda, one of the major French film-makers of the last 40 years, is here celebrated by Alison Smith, by examining both the early films and the later successes, such as "Sans toit ni loi" (1985), "Jane B. par Agnes V." (1987) and "Jacquot de Nantes" (1991).

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From the early days of his stage career in the decades before World War I through his unparalleled comeback after World War II, Al Jolson was billed as The World's Greatest Entertainer. Appendices list stage shows based on Jolson's life, along with newsreels, cartoons, awards, and endorsements related to his career.

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One of America's most fascinating superstars, Al Pacino is also one of its most complex, enigmatic personalities, whose private life has been cloaked in mystery - until now.

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"The first book-length English-language academic study of iconic French actor Alain Delon, whose mass appeal, impact and stardom reached across cultures and continents"--

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Alain Resnais, director of "Hiroshima mon amour" (1959) and "L'Annee derniere a Marienbad" (1961), has transformed the representation of memory, fantasy and desire in modern cinema. This title presents an introduction to his work that traces the evolving patterns of his filmmaking, its reflections on mortality, guilt, chance and human doubt.

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This lucid, comprehensive and fascinating study shows Robbe-Grillet's contribution to the evolution of the cinematic art both in France and internationally to have been considerably more important than previously acknowledged. -- .

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The first full-length critical study of Alan Clarke, one of Britain's greatest auteur directors which examines the full range of Clarke's work, and goes beyond the violent image garnered from work like 'Scum' and 'The Firm'. -- .

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The official script for the box-office smash movie, featuring every ruddy word (and stage direction) of Alans seamless transformation from natural-born broadcaster into fully fledged and occasionally fully dressed hostage negotiator. Contains deleted scenes and an exclusive Foreword by Steve Coogan.

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This first introduction to Medvedkin's film-making career traces his process of developing a unique brand of cinematic satire throughout the period of the Soviet revolutionary experiment.

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"An investigation into how Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960) significantly contributes to the Body Horrors of mainstream narrative cinema through the literal and metaphoric use of the cultural practice of Victorian and modern taxidermy"--

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This topical and innovative study is the first book on Algerian cinema to be published in English since the 1970s.

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This is the most definitive survey yet of Alice Faye's unique career in film, recording, broadcasting, and on stage.

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Alice Guy Blache (1873-1968) directed 400 films between 1896 and 1920, produced hundreds more and ran her own studio. This work tells her life story and provides a close analysis of 100 films of hers that survive. It includes 75 photographs, including ones from her films and of herself.

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This unique work covers the many stage productions of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. The book goes on to give a brief background of Victorian Theater in general and then a discussion of Carroll's own passion as a theatergoer and friend of theatrical personalities.

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Explores the literary, cinematic, and philosophical connections between science fiction and globalization, focusing on the figure of the alien and (im)migrant.

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Alien Woman examines the construction of sex and gender in the four science-fiction films comprising the Alien saga (starring Sigourney Weaver). The Alien saga stands alone in presenting an enduring, self- reliant female protagonist, Ripley, who in the first film ends up as the sole survivor of the beleaguered starship Nostromo.

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Across three decades and four films, Lt. Ellen Ripley's struggle wtih the fierce and terrible Alien and the powers that desire it traces the arc of women's struggles in America.