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This interdisciplinary collection brings together world leaders in Gothic Studies, offering dynamic new readings on popular Gothic cultural productions from the last decade. Topics covered include, but are not limited to: contemporary High Street Goth/ic fashion, Gothic performance and art festivals, Gothic popular fiction...

This insightful account analyzes and provides context for the films and careers of directors who have made Latin American film an important force in Hollywood and in world cinema. In this insightful account, R. Hernandez-Rodriguez analyzes some of the most important, fascinating, and popular...

This monograph, translated from the original Danish, concentrates on the plan and execution of 'Messiah', its singers and performances, manuscripts and editions, and aesthetics. . . . For all scholarly collections. Library JournalAuthor: Jens Peter LarsenISBN-10: 031324426XISBN-13: 9780313244261Publisher: PraegerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/26/1990Pages: 336Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.25lbsSize:...

This is a book about my fifty years as a survivor, even a thriver in the music business. Fifty years as a keyboardist, bandmember, background singer, lead singer, songwriter, solo artist, music director, producer, orchestral arranger, A&R executive, worship leader, sideman, main man, playing...

This highly accessible introduction to translation theory, written by a leading author in the field, uses the genre of film to bring the main themes in translation to life. Through analyzing films as diverse as the Marx Brothers' A Night at the Opera, The...

This edited collection brings together 16 contributors working across varied artistic, academic and geographic contexts, united by a shared concern: how archives might be reimagined to more accurately reflect diverse populations, cultures and priorities. The volume presents international case studies where archives are used...

Venice Carnival: A Journey Through Masks, Mystery, and Timeless CelebrationStep into the enchanting world of Venice Carnival, where centuries of history, artistry, and human desire converge in a city of canals, masks, and music. This immersive book offers a richly detailed exploration of one...

This book tells the inspiring story of a medical doctor on the brink of retirement who, against all odds, produced a film and took on a leading role, encouraging others to embrace change and pursue their passions.It serves as a guiding light, offering an...

The Sicilian Defense: Alapin Variation is a comprehensive guide to one of the most solid and strategic responses to the Sicilian Defense (1.e4 c5 2.c3). This book is ideal for players who want to avoid the highly theoretical and sharp main lines of the...

The movie explores how Nike's basketball shoe division was struggling in 1984 due to low sales, and how the company's Marketing VP Rob Strasser and CEO Phil Knight tasked basketball talent scout Sonny Vaccaro to find a new spokesperson for their shoes. Although they...

A guide for intermediate students With over 40 years' experience in magic and as one of only a handful of professional magic teachers worldwide, Justin Higham is in a unique position to write about the challenges magicians face in learning and performing magic. This...

The "Te Deum" is an early Christian hymn of praise, it's name originating from the opening Latin words: 'Te Deum Laudamus'; or 'Thee, O God, we praise'. This volume contains the complete sheet music for Charles Villiers Stanford's musical rendition of the hymn, being...

"First KISS" is a memoir written by Michael Buffalo Smith, the South Carolina author best known for his books on Southern Rock music. With this volume, Smith tells the story of his love affair with the theatrical rock band KISS, which began the first...

Examining the extraordinary influence of Darwin's theory of evolution on French thought from 1875 to 1910, Rae Beth Gordon argues for a reconsideration of modernism both in time and in place that situates its beginnings in the French café-concert aesthetic. Gordon weaves the history...

More than an academic critique, Performing Psychology offers a new methodology for understanding human life. Arguing that both psychological activity and its study are essentially performance, Neuman and his colleagues expose the myths of mainstream psychology and the limitations of its postmodern challengers.Author: Lois...

Cultural Work examines the conditions of the production of culture. It maps the changed character of work within the cultural and creative industries, examines the increasing diversity of cultural work and offers new methods for analysing and thinking about cultural workplaces. Studying television, popular...

This important and influential book considers how the Internet, like the printing press in its time, has changed the politics of communication and explores how the changes will affect the future of literacy.Author: Gunther KressISBN-10: 0415253551ISBN-13: 9780415253550Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/23/2003Pages: 204Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.02lbsSize: 9.58h...

Focusing on Disney's production of Shanghai Disneyland, this book examines how the Chinese state and the local market influence Disney's ownership and production of the identities and the representations of Shanghai Disneyland. Qualitative methods are here applied to combine both primary and secondary data,...

This volume represents a first in its analysis of historical trends in the humor of eight Western countries: Australia, Belgium, France, Great Britain, Israel, Italy, the United States, and Yugoslavia. In each country, the authors surveyed and assessed the national humor in a way...

Product information not available.Author: Anthony SlideISBN-10: 031323759XISBN-13: 9780313237591Publisher: GreenwoodLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/24/1985Pages: 428Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.75lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.00d

Inside: Most Interesting, Gucci Gift, Louis Vuitton Pre-Spring 2023, Shannon Martinez × Alibi Bar, Stormzy, LV × Art Basel, Puma × Nickelodeon, Chao Bebe, Steven Klein, Andy Warhol Exhibit, Gigi Hadid × GIR, Esther Perbandt, A Greener Germany, Usher × Park MGM, Range Rover...

Contents: A Rosebud Down My Early Walk Ae Fond Kiss All for Me Grog Arkansas Traveler Arran Boat Song Auld Lang Syne Be Thou My Vision Beer, Beer, Beer Black Mountain Rag Black Velvet Band Blind Mary Bonaparte Crossing the Rhine Bury Me Beneath...

A comprehensive introduction to the anthropology of the arts, this is the first textbook to go beyond visual art to cover the arts more broadly. Drawing together media such as painting, sound, performance, video, and film, it presents a clear overview of the cross-cultural...

Dee Quemby's book is not just a wonderfully warm read but a very actual account of the most demanding and difficult life in show business, that of the COMEDIAN! I told Dee many moons ago that she should enter the idiom that is the...

I walked the ancient pilgrimage to Santiago as part of my college education. One of our assignments was to keep a weblog while we were walking "The Way." This book is a collection of all the blog posts that I wrote while I was...

The Plays of Sophocles is a collection of timeless dramas by the ancient Greek playwright. With powerful themes and complex characters, Sophocles explores the human experience in all its complexity, offering insight into the nature of power, love, betrayal, and loss. This book is...

Given the rapid development of new technologies such as smart devices, robots, and artificial intelligence and their impact on the lives of people and on society, it is important and urgent to construct conceptual frameworks that help us to understand and evaluate them. Benefiting...

Best known as the author of such plays as A Doll's House and Hedda Gabler, Henrik Ibsen is one of the most influential figures of modern drama. This book takes Ibsen as a case study for an exploration of early modernist theatre in theory...

This is a true to life story of one man's struggle to meet the everyday demands of a tempting and ravaged environment. On his way to becoming a professional drummer, a debilitating hand injury all but diminished his odds of ever building a career...

Author: Don BreithauptISBN-10: 1069830607ISBN-13: 9781069830609Publisher: Don BreithauptLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/22/2025Pages: 180Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.38d

Author: Kaya Barry,Jondi KeaneISBN-10: 9811396477ISBN-13: 9789811396472Publisher: Palgrave MacMillanLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/18/2019Pages: 215Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.94lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.56d

This book discusses an exciting laboratory that has been developing the practice of theatre music composition and sound design since 1961: the Royal Shakespeare Company. Musical practices have evolved as composers and musical directors inherited from the past and innovated with new technology; different...

This book explores the interplay between performing arts, intangible cultural heritage and digital environments through a compendium of essays on emerging practices and case studies, as well as critical, historical and theoretical perspectives. It features essays that engage with varied forms of intangible cultural...

Brings together sixteen essays exploring how citizenship is represented in performance across national and regional boundariesOffers a broad scope of discussion, from the performance of motherhood to the use of performance to support survivors of human traffickingExamines questions of gendered citizenship in relation to...

This book relates the unique experiences of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer/Questioning (LGBTQ+) people in Australian Pentecostal-Charismatic Christian churches. Grounded in the theoretical contributions of Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, Lewis Coser, and others, the book exposes the discursive 'battleground' over the 'truth' of...

This study provides an overview of philosophical questions relating to sight and vision. It discusses the intertwinement of seeing and ways of seeing against the background of an entirely different theoretical framework.Seeing is both a proven means of acquiring information and a personality-specific way...

This collection promises to be a cornerstone in the field of performance studies and human rights activism. By mixing scholarly chapters with artists' manifestos or "interruptions" it promotes the idea of the collective work between academia and social movements. Not only is it very...

This book and its accompanying website present the selected proceedings of the inaugural, 'The Performer's Voice: An International Forum for Music Performance and Scholarship', directed by Dr Anne Marshman (editor) and hosted by the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, National University of Singapore....

Upon the 25th anniversary of his passing, this collection addresses the wide application of Victor Turner's thought to cultural performance in the early 21st century. From anthropology, sociology, and religious studies to performance, cultural, and media studies, Turner's ideas have had a prodigious interdisciplinary...

Both an exploration of the ways in which we fashion our public identity and a manual of modern sociability, this lively and readable book explores the techniques we use to present ourselves to the world: body language, tone of voice, manners, demeanour, 'personality' and...

This collection provides a critical overview of research on the assessment of visual skills in students from six to eighteen years old. In a series of studies, contributors reconsider evaluation practices used in art education and examine current ideas about children's development of visual...

Amid the splendours and pretensions of the royal court, the Earl of Rochester impresses Charles II with his irreverence and plain speech. So much so, that the monarch gives him the task of creating a 'ministry of pleasure', thus liberating him to tour the...

What does it mean to approach disability-focused cultural production and consumption as generative sites of meaning-making? Disability Arts and Culture: Methods and Approaches seeks the answer to this question and more in an exploration of disability studies within the arts and beyond.Author: Petra KuppersISBN-10:...

The Alexander Technique is a specific form of mind/body practice that focusses on improving efficiency through learning and understanding movement and behavior. Galvanizing Performances applies the teachings of this practice to the performing arts. Through theatre, music, and dance, the contributors, all artists themselves,...

Situated at the crossroads of performance practice, museology, and cultural studies, live arts curation has grown in recent years to become a vibrant interdisciplinary project and a genuine global phenomenon. Curating Live Arts brings together bold and innovative essays from an international group of...

Based on over a decade of fieldwork conducted with urban Roma, Staging Citizenship offers a powerful new perspective on one of the European Union's most marginal and disenfranchised communities. Focusing on "performance" broadly conceived, it follows members of a squatter's settlement in Transylvania as...

In the first book-length study of Tarot cards on the silver screen, Emily E. Auger contextualizes cartomancy - the practice of fortune telling via playing cards - and dives deep into its invention and promulgation in film. After providing an introduction to divination and...

The Two Gentlemen of Verona is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1589 and 1593. It is considered by some to be Shakespeare's first play, and is often seen as showing his first tentative steps in laying out some...

TOUCH AND GO A Play in Three Acts By D. H. Lawrence The movement of the play is a working up to a confrontation, with the threat of violence, between Gerald Barlow, the mine owner and his striking men. Each side thinks it wants...

100 limerick's in English please note that limerick's will not work in another language translate from englishAuthor: Robert Anthony HalpinISBN-10: 1502797925ISBN-13: 9781502797926Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/12/2014Pages: 24Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.10lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.05d