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This book provides a practical guide for the professional musician who works with ballet companies. It addresses the daily routine of the modern ballet company, outlines the various roles, and examines the complete process of putting a dance performance on stage. Includes a listing of classic ballets in standard repertoire.

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A translation of Raimund Hoghe's original rehearsal diary that documented the Tanztheater Wuppertal's work on Bandoneon (1981), illustrated with photos of the production by Ulli Weiss, and personal images and notes from the dancers.

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This is the first full-length critical study of the work of Barry Hines, best know as the author of A Kestrel for a Knave -- .

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Baudrillard, Youth, and American Film examines the troubling effects of American cinema's portrayal of youth with Jean Baudrillard's radical social theory and philosophical system.

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The first multi-authored volume on the work of contemporary British writer Dennis Kelly, Beautiful Doom examines the full range of his work for stage and screen, from new writing to adaptations of classic playtexts, musical theatre, and original works for television.

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Thamesmead is a tough estate for Jamie and Ste to grow up on, with Jamie's mother's latest unlikely boyfriend and Ste's violent, alcoholic father. This screenplay explores the flowering of love between the two boys on their South London estate as they discover their homosexuality.

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"Focusing on an often-ignored and misunderstood star of the classical Hollywood period, the book offers a comprehensive study of Carole Lombard's star persona and films from 1921 to present day"--

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"Focusing on an often-ignored and misunderstood star of the classical Hollywood period, the book offers a comprehensive study of Carole Lombard's star persona and films from 1921 to present day"--

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Though movies have remained our foremost cultural pastime for over 100 years, many of us still know very little about the tools used to create them.

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Complete with appendices providing distributors from the 1920s-1940s and current names and addresses of non-theatrical film sources, this book-length study of the history of this film genre is both important and much needed.

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The perfect one-stop-shop for anyone starting film studies. -- .

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"Provides an insightful look at the drafting of one of Hollywood history's greatest scripts, Being There, including three drafts of the screenplay, as well as explanatory commentary on the different versions, facsimile pages of script notations, and previously unpublished material from the Hal Ashby archives relating to the script and the final film"--

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"Provides an insightful look at the drafting of one of Hollywood history's greatest scripts, Being There, including three drafts of the screenplay, as well as explanatory commentary on the different versions, facsimile pages of script notations, and previously unpublished material from the Hal Ashby archives relating to the script and the final film"--

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How Yvonne Rainer's art shaped new ways of watching as well as performing; how it connected 1960s avant-garde art to politics and activism.

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This book highlights the important creative work of Belarusian theatre and filmmakers seeking to raise awareness of the Pro-democracy movement and human rights abuses in Belarus and to build communities of care and mourning following the fraudulent 2020 presidential elections in Belarus.

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A revelatory story of the origins and the life force of Arab dancing

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Herrmann, a classically trained musician, wrote the scores for Citizen Kane , The devil and Daniel Webster , The magnificent Ambersons , Anna and the king of Siam , and Psycho as well as an opera of Wuthering Heights and other concert works. This study focuses, scene by scene, on the composer's musi

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Sarah Bernhardt, possibly the greatest actress of the late nineteenth century, was a symbol of French Romantic theatre at its height and of the melodramatic excesses that led to its demise.

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