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Hearst Over Hollywood: Power, Passion, and Propaganda in the Movies
Louis Pizzitola
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• Author(s): Louis Pizzitola • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismHearst Over Hollywood draws on hundreds of previously unpublished letters and memos, FBI Fre...
View full detailsThe Wallflower Critical Guide to Contemporary British and Irish Directors
Yoram Allon
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• Author(s): Yoram Allon • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - Direction & ProductionEncompassing the careers of over 350 directors who have worked within the British and Irish film industries ove...
View full detailsNew Chinese Cinema: Challenging Representations
Sheila Cornelius
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• Author(s): Sheila Cornelius • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismNew Chinese Cinema: Challenging Representations examines the "search for roots" films that emerged from China...
View full detailsWondrous Difference: Cinema, Anthropology, and Turn-Of-The-Century Visual Culture
Alison Griffiths
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• Author(s): Alison Griffiths • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - GeneralThis innovative book focuses on the contested origins of ethnographic film from the late nineteenth century...
View full detailsCostume and Cinema: Dress Codes in Popular Film
Sarah Street
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• Author(s): Sarah Street • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismCostume and Cinema: Dress Codes in Popular Film presents an overview of the literature on film costume, together ...
View full detailsThe Shop: Where Culture Shapes Up
Ernest Wilkins
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• Author(s): Ernest Wilkins • Publisher: Insight Editions • Publisher Imprint: Insight Editions • BISAC: Television - Genres - Reality, Game Shows & Talk ShowsExperience The Shop as never before through behind-the-scenes anecdotes, insights f...
View full detailsReading Hollywood: Spaces and Meanings in American Film
Deborah Thomas
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• Author(s): Deborah Thomas • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismThis book examines the treatment of space and narrative in a selection of classic films including My Darling Cl...
View full detailsFrance on Film: Reflections on Popular French Cinema
Lucy Mazdon
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• Author(s): Lucy Mazdon • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismThrough an analysis of films as diverse as Jean de Florette, Ma Vie en rose, andNikita, this collection of new ess...
View full detailsLight Readings: Film Criticism and Screen Arts
Chris Darke
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• Author(s): Chris Darke • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismDid the 1990s see cinema, as a medium and collective experience, become subsumed into a converging universe of mul...
View full detailsScience Fiction Cinema: From Outerspace to Cyberspace
Geoff King
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• Author(s): Geoff King • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismThis book charts the dimensions of one of the most popular genres in the cinema. From lurid comic-book blockbusters...
View full detailsThe Star System: Hollywood's Production of Popular Identities
Paul Mcdonald
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• Author(s): Paul Mcdonald • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismLooks at the development and changing organization of the star system in the American film industry. Tracing the...
View full detailsSound Technology and the American Cinema: Perception, Representation, Modernity
James Lastra
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• Author(s): James Lastra • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismRepresentational technologies including photography, phonography, and the cinema have helped de...
View full detailsProjections of War: Hollywood, American Culture, and World War II
Thomas Doherty
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• Author(s): Thomas Doherty • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismIn this lively cultural history, Doherty demonstrates that wartime Hollywood was not a rigidl...
View full detailsDisaster and Memory: Celebrity Culture and the Crisis of Hollywood Cinema
Wheeler Winston Dixon
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• Author(s): Wheeler Winston Dixon • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismUsing the media's coverage of the death of Princess Diana as a departing point, Wheele...
View full detailsOrson Welles, Shakespeare, and Popular Culture
Michael Anderegg
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• Author(s): Michael Anderegg • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismAnderegg considers Welles's influence as an interpreter of Shakespeare for twentieth-centur...
View full detailsThe Sounds of Commerce: Marketing Popular Film Music
Jeff Smith
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• Author(s): Jeff Smith • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - ReferenceA detailed historical analysis of popular music in American film, from the era of sheet music sales, to that of...
View full detailsFrom Peepshow to Palace: The Birth of American Film
David Robinson
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• Author(s): David Robinson • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismRobinson chronicles the early use of film as vaudeville sideshow; as sheer spectacle of movin...
View full detailsLaughing Hysterically: American Screen Comedy of the 1950s
Ed Sikov
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• Author(s): Ed Sikov • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismFrom the Back Cover'Sikov's work is an engaging quirky exploration of the comedy of the 1950s throu...
View full detailsTo Desire Differently: Feminism and the French Cinema
Sandy Flitterman-Lewis
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• Author(s): Sandy Flitterman-Lewis • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismFrom the Back CoverUsing biographical, historical, and textual analyses to elaborate ...
View full detailsPicturing Japaneseness: Monumental Style, National Identity, Japanese Film
Darrell William Davis
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• Author(s): Darrell William Davis • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - General-- Film Quarterly
Primitive Passions: Visuality, Sexuality, Ethnography, and Contemporary Chinese Cinema
Rey Chow
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• Author(s): Rey Chow • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - GeneralChow situates contemporary Chinese film within the broad context of Chinese history and culture, giving readers a g...
View full detailsPicturing Japaneseness: Monumental Style, National Identity, Japanese Film
Darrell William Davis
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• Author(s): Darrell William Davis • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismProviding an historical and cultural exploration, this text demonstrates the role Japa...
View full detailsBrazilian Cinema
Randal Johnson
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• Author(s): Randal Johnson • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismFrom the documentary to the cinema novo and cannibalism, from Nelson Pereira dos Santos's Vid...
View full detailsBlack Women as Cultural Readers
Jacqueline Bobo
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• Author(s): Jacqueline Bobo • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismBobo demonstrates that African-American women, as a separate interpretive community, view cu...
View full detailsLaughing Screaming: Modern Hollywood Horror and Comedy
William Paul
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• Author(s): William Paul • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismAn engrossing examination of a popular box office genre-the gross-out movie-Laughing Screaming ...
View full detailsScreen Memories: Hollywood Cinema on the Psychoanalytic Couch
Harvey Roy Greenberg
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• Author(s): Harvey Roy Greenberg • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismFrom the Back CoverScreen Memories delves into the psychological features of mainstream...
View full detailsWriting News for Broadcast
James Hoyt
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• Author(s): James Hoyt • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Radio - GeneralThe authoritative guide to writing for the broadcast medium.
The Science of Rick and Morty: The Unofficial Guide to Earth's Stupidest Show
Matt Brady
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• Author(s): Matt Brady • Publisher: Atria Books • Publisher Imprint: Atria Books • BISAC: Television - Guides & ReviewsExplore the real science behind the Cartoon Network phenomenon Rick and Morty--one of television's most irreverent, whip-s...
View full detailsLaughing Screaming: Modern Hollywood Horror and Comedy
William Paul
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• Author(s): William Paul • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismFrom the Back CoverWilliam Paul's exploration of an extremely popular box office genre - the gr...
View full detailsCh'en Tzu-Ang: Innovator in t'Ang Poetry
Richard Ho
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• Author(s): Richard Ho • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: Television - GeneralText: English, Chinese
What Made Pistachio Nuts?: Early Sound Comedy and the Vaudeville Aesthetic
Henry Jenkins
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• Author(s): Henry Jenkins • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismThis study celebrates the "anarchistic" film comedies made in the USA in the 1930s, which mock...
View full detailsReflexivity in Film and Culture: From Don Quixote to Jean-Luc Godard
Robert Stam
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• Author(s): Robert Stam • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - GeneralReflexivity refers to those moments in fiction when the work suddenly calls attention to itself as a fictional c...
View full detailsAmerica in the Movies: Or, Santa Maria, It Had Slipped My Mind
Michael Wood
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• Author(s): Michael Wood • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - GeneralFrom the Back Cover'America in the Movies is a brilliant romp through the fertile field of Hollywood's vision o...
View full detailsAustralian Cinema
Brian Macfarlane
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• Author(s): Brian Macfarlane • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - General
The Rising Star: A Journey of Triumph and Empowerment
Melissa S. Clemons
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• Author(s): Melissa S. Clemons • Publisher: Blurb • Publisher Imprint: Blurb • BISAC: GeneralIn the vibrant city of Radiant Grove, a young black queen named Amara discovers she possesses the power to bridge the seen and the unseen, unlocking a j...
View full detailsThe Rise and Fall of the Royal Shakespeare Company: An Illustrated History
Simon Trowbridge
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• Author(s): Simon Trowbridge • Publisher: Englance Press • Publisher Imprint: Englance Press • BISAC: Theater - History & CriticismIn this fully illustrated book, Simon Trowbridge tells the story of the Royal Shakespeare Company. He begins b...
View full detailsThe Builders Association: Performance and Media in Contemporary Theater
Shannon Jackson
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• Author(s): Shannon Jackson • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Theater - History & CriticismA lavishly illustrated history and critical appraisal of The Builders Association, an award-winning intermedia pe...
View full detailsCruising the Movies: A Sexual Guide to Oldies on TV
Boyd Mcdonald
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• Author(s): Boyd Mcdonald • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: Semiotext(e) • BISAC: Film - Guides & ReviewsA writer casts an acerbic, queer eye on the greats and the not-so-greats of Hollywood's Golden Age. Ronnie Reagan's bizarr...
View full detailsStory/Time: The Life of an Idea
Bill T. Jones
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• Author(s): Bill T. Jones • Publisher: Princeton University Press • Publisher Imprint: Princeton University Press • BISAC: Dance - GeneralFrom the Back Cover"Bill T. Jones has always been on the forefront of powerful hybrid art forms, whether it...
View full detailsHystericizing Germany: Fassbinder, Alexanderplatz
Manfred Hermes
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• Author(s): Manfred Hermes • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: Sternberg Press • BISAC: Television - History & CriticismRainer Werner Fassbinder's fourteen-part Berlin Alexanderplatz, broadcast on German television in 1980, is a ...
View full detailsThe Red Shift
Andrew Wetmore
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• Author(s): Andrew Wetmore • Publisher: Moose House Publications • Publisher Imprint: Moose House Publications • BISAC: GeneralFive short plays for five actors, connected by a turn of phrase, that together make up an evening of theatre: Premori...
View full detailsThe End: An Electric Sheep Anthology
Virginie Selavy
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• Author(s): Virginie Selavy • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: Strange Attractor Press • BISAC: Film - GeneralA bold anthology of writing from acclaimed film magazine Electric Sheep.Acclaimed film magazine Electric Sheep presents a ...
View full detailsFischli and Weiss: The Way Things Go
Jeremy Millar
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• Author(s): Jeremy Millar • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: Afterall Books • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismAn illustrated discussion of Fischli and Weiss's famous film The Way Things Go, marking the twentieth anniversary of ...
View full detailsSubtitles: On the Foreignness of Film
Atom Egoyan
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• Author(s): Atom Egoyan • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Film - GeneralTranslating the experience of film: filmmakers, writers, and artists explore the elements of film that make us feel "outside and inside ...
View full detailsThe Problem in the Middle: Liminal Space and the Court Masque
Gregory A. Wilson
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• Author(s): Gregory A. Wilson • Publisher: Clemson University Press • Publisher Imprint: Clemson University Press • BISAC: Theater - History & CriticismBen Jonson and Inigo Jones enjoyed one of the most successful theatrical collaborations o...
View full detailsThe Problem in the Middle: Liminal Space and the Court Masque
Gregory A. Wilson
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• Author(s): Gregory A. Wilson • Publisher: Clemson University Press • Publisher Imprint: Clemson University Press • BISAC: Theater - History & CriticismBen Jonson and Inigo Jones enjoyed one of the most successful theatrical collaborations o...
View full detailsBeyond Scenography
Rachel Hann
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• Author(s): Rachel Hann • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Theater - Stagecraft & ScenographyFocused on the contemporary Anglophone adoption from the 1960s onwards, Beyond Scenography explores the porou...
View full detailsThe Business Strategies of the Major Hollywood Film Studios (1929-2024)
Guy Di Piazza
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• Author(s): Guy Di Piazza • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Film - GeneralSurveying the strategies employed by film studios to market and produce their most successful films between 1929 and present day, t...
View full detailsConsent in Shakespeare's Classical Mediterranean: Women Speak Truth to Power
Artemis Preeshl
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• Author(s): Artemis Preeshl • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Theater - History & CriticismConsent in Shakespeare's Classical Mediterranean fills a gap in knowledge about how female-identified, gender-...
View full detailsContemporary Performance and Political Economy: Oikonomia as a New Ethico-Political Paradigm
Katerina Paramana
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• Author(s): Katerina Paramana • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Acting & AuditioningContemporary Performance and Political Economy examines haunting concepts, relations, and artworks that demand our at...
View full detailsRadical Sensing and Performer Training: Elsa Gindler's Embodied Translations
Rebecca Loukes
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• Author(s): Rebecca Loukes • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Theater - GeneralThis exciting new book explores the pioneering radical sensing work of Elsa Gindler (1885-1961) and the practices of five women...
View full detailsThe Dancer's Handbook: A Practical Guide to Reimagining Dance, Body, and Society by Ofen Co-Arts
Gala Moody
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• Author(s): Gala Moody • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Dance - History & CriticismThe Dancer's Handbook offers a holistic exploration of the dance industry's challenges, authored by dancers intimatel...
View full detailsRadical Sensing and Performer Training: Elsa Gindler's Embodied Translations
Rebecca Loukes
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• Author(s): Rebecca Loukes • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Theater - GeneralThis exciting new book explores the pioneering radical sensing work of Elsa Gindler (1885-1961) and the practices of five women...
View full detailsThe Dancer's Handbook: A Practical Guide to Reimagining Dance, Body, and Society by Ofen Co-Arts
Gala Moody
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• Author(s): Gala Moody • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Dance - History & CriticismThe Dancer's Handbook offers a holistic exploration of the dance industry's challenges, authored by dancers intimatel...
View full detailsThe Routledge Companion to American Film History
Pamela Robertson Wojcik
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• Author(s): Pamela Robertson Wojcik • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismPresenting new and diverse scholarship, this collection brings together original essays that explore Amer...
View full detailsImmersive Storytelling and Spectatorship in Theatre, Museums, and Video Games
Kelly I. Aliano
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• Author(s): Kelly I. Aliano • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Theater - GeneralImmersive Storytelling and Spectatorship in Theatre, Museums, and Video Games is the first volume to explore immersion as it i...
View full detailsPerforming Climates
Eddie Paterson
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• Author(s): Eddie Paterson • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Theater - History & CriticismPerforming Climates features 13 interconnected essays exploring theatre and performance's relationship with mor...
View full detailsThe Performance Studies Reader
Henry Bial
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• Author(s): Henry Bial • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: General Books • BISAC: Theater - History & CriticismSince its first publication in 2004, The Performance Studies Reader has become the leading...
View full detailsA History of Latinx Performing Arts in the U.S.: Volume I
Beatriz J. Rizk
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• Author(s): Beatriz J. Rizk • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Theater - GeneralA History of Latinx Performing Arts in the U.S. provides a comprehensive overview of the development of the Latinx performing ...
View full detailsCinematic Portrayals of African Women and Girls in Political Conflict
Norita Mdege
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• Author(s): Norita Mdege • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismThis book provides an interdisciplinary exploration of the cinematic representations of the experiences of African w...
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