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The future of ritual
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Richard Schechner |
Richard Schechner explores the nature of ritualised behaviour and its relationship to performance and politics. A brilliant examination of cultural expression and communal action, The Future of Ritua… |
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VIRTUAL THEATRES: AN INTRODUCTION
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GABRIELLA GIANNACHI |
The first full-length book of its kind to offer an investigation of the interface between theatre, performance and digital arts, Virtual Theatres presents the theatre of the twenty-first century in w… |
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Triumph of a Time Lord
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Matt Hills |
Before Saturday March 26th 2005, Doctor Who had been off the air as a regular, new TV series for more than fifteen years; until a production team led by Russell T. Davies re-imagined the program so s… |
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Saving the World
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Lynette Porter |
This insightful collection of essays weighs in on the incredible appeal of the new hit show Heroes and why it has attracted such a diverse and devoted following. Featuring archetypal characters with … |
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The MiXtake Files
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Michael French |
‘The truth is out there, Mulder, but so are the lies.’For the first time, despite alien abductions and FBI attempts at infiltration, the TRUTH about each programme in the three series of The X-Files … |
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Anime and the art of adaptation
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Dani Cavallaro |
"This book evaluates three core facets of anime adaptation--how anime adaptations contribute to their original sources in stylistic, aesthetic, and psychological terms; how specific features of anime… |
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The anime machine
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Thomas LaMarre |
Working at the intersection of the philosophy of technology and the history of thought, Lamarre explores how anime and its related media entail material orientations and demonstrates concretely how t… |
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It came from the 1950s!
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Jones, Darryl |
"It came from the 1950s is an eclectic, witty, and insightful collection of essays predicated on the hypothesis that popular cultural documents provide unique insights into the concerns, anxieties, a… |
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Cinema and inter-American relations
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Adrián Pérez Melgosa |
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The politics of age and disability in contemporary Spanish film
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Matthew J. Marr |
"The Politics of Age and Disability in Contemporary Spanish Film examines the onscreen construction of adolescent, elderly, and disabled subjects in Spanish cinema from 1992 to the present. Applying … |
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Hindi cinema
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Nandini Bhattacharya |
"Hindi Cinema is full of instances of repetition of themes, narratives, plots and characters. By looking at 60 years of Hindi cinema, this book focuses on the phenomenon as a crucial thematic and for… |
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Media authorship
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Cynthia Chris,David A. Gerstner |
"Contemporary media authorship is frequently collaborative, participatory, non-site specific, or quite simply goes unrecognized. In this volume, media and film scholars explore the theoretical debate… |
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How to make your own video or short film
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Harvey, Bob |
New technologies now offer accessibility to the medium of video and film for virtually anyone who feels they have something to say. You might be: someone who wants to create a video to share online; … |
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In Real Life
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Cory Doctorow,Jen Wang |
Anda loves Coarsegold Online, the massively-multiplayer role playing game that she spends most of her free time on. It's a place where she can be a leader, a fighter, a hero. It's a place where she c… |
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Born a Crime
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Trevor Noah |
Born a Crime is the story of a mischievous young boy who grows into a restless young man as he struggles to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist. It is also the story of that … |
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Story/Time
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Bill T. Jones |
In this ceaselessly questioning book, acclaimed African American dancer, choreographer, and director Bill T. Jones reflects on his art and life as he describes the genesis of Story/Time, a recent dan… |
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Why acting matters
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David Thomson |
Does acting matter? David Thomson, one of our most respected and insightful writers on movies and theater, answers this question with intelligence and wit. In this fresh and thought-provoking essay, … |
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Dark places
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Barry Curtis |
In this wide-ranging and compelling study, Barry Curtis demonstrates how the claustrophobic interiors of haunted spaces in films connect to the 'dark places' of the human psyche. |
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Silver screen fiend
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Patton Oswalt |
"Between 1995 and 1999, Patton Oswalt lived with an unshakable addiction. It wasn't drugs, alcohol or sex: it was film. After moving to L.A., Oswalt became a huge film buff (or as he calls it, a spro… |
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The Tao of Bill Murray
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Gavin Edwards |
Bill Murray is one of the world's most beloved celebritiesbut his off-screen antics rival his filmography for sheer entertainment value. Gavin Edwards traveled the country to the places where Murray … |
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