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Decentring France: Multilingualism and Power in Contemporary French Cinema
Gemma King
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• Author(s): Gemma King • Publisher: Manchester University Press • Publisher Imprint: Manchester University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismIn a world defined by the flow of people, goods and cultures, many contemporary French films ...
View full detailsAfter '89: Polish Theatre and the Political
Bryce Lease
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• Author(s): Bryce Lease • Publisher: Manchester University Press • Publisher Imprint: Manchester University Press • BISAC: Theater - History & CriticismAfter '89 takes as its subject the dynamic new range of performance practices that have b...
View full detailsSeeing the Beat Generation: Entering the Literature through Film
Raj Chandarlapaty
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• Author(s): Raj Chandarlapaty • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Beat generation writers dismantled mainstream America. They wrote under the influence of psychedelic drugs; t...
View full detailsThe Golden Age of Disaster Cinema: A Guide to the Films, 1950-1979
Nik Havert
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• Author(s): Nik Havert • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Genres - Action & Adventure From the 1950s through the 1970s, disaster movies were a wildly popular genre. Audiences thr...
View full detailsThe Contemporary Western: An American Genre Post-9/11
John White
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• Author(s): John White • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismThe September 11th attacks in 2001 and the subsequent 'War on Terror' have had a profound effec...
View full detailsFigures of Time: Affect and the Television of Preemption
Toni Pape
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• Author(s): Toni Pape • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Television - History & CriticismMany contemporary television series from Modern Family to How to Get Away with Murder open an episod...
View full details01-Water Works
Sharon Brinkerhoff, Dianna Cleveland
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• Author(s): Sharon Brinkerhoff | Dianna Cleveland • Publisher: Roleplay Reader, Inc. • Publisher Imprint: Roleplay Reader, Inc. • BISAC: Theater - GeneralMulti-colored and Multi-leveled Reader's Theater Story/ScriptStory Synopsis: We see water ...
View full detailsTaking A Detour: Adapting Theatre to Celebrate the Ability of All
Sam, Kathy Hotchner
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• Author(s): Sam | Kathy Hotchner • Publisher: Outskirts Press • Publisher Imprint: Outskirts Press • BISAC: Theater - Direction & Production"Taking a Detour: Adapting Theatre to Celebrate the Ability of All" documents through story, example ...
View full detailsWith Pavlova Round the World
Theodore Stier
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• Author(s): Theodore Stier • Publisher: David Leonard • Publisher Imprint: David Leonard • BISAC: Dance - Classical & BalletTheodore Stier's With Pavlova Round the World is one of the few first-hand accounts of what is was like to work with ...
View full detailsCoen Brothers' America
M. Keith Booker
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• Author(s): M. Keith Booker • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Individual DirectorFrom Blood Simple and Raising Arizona to Inside Llewyn Davis and Hail, Caesar!, the...
View full detailsVan Der Valk: The Series
Scott V. Palmer
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• Author(s): Scott V. Palmer • Publisher: Cypress Hills Press • Publisher Imprint: Cypress Hills Press • BISAC: Film - ReferenceThis book entitled Van Der Valk: The Series, is the first and only book to deal with all 32 episodes of the series whi...
View full detailsAnatomy of the Slasher Film: A Theoretical Analysis
Sotiris Petridis
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• Author(s): Sotiris Petridis • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Genres - Horror The term "slasher film" was common parlance by the mid-1980s but the horror subgenre it describes was ...
View full detailsThe Importance of Being Earnest
Oscar Wilde
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• Author(s): Oscar Wilde • Publisher: Digireads.com • Publisher Imprint: Digireads.com • BISAC: Theater - GeneralA classic satire of Victorian society, Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest" is one of the author's most frequently perform...
View full detailsInhabiting the In-Between: Childhood and Cinema in Spain's Long Transition
Sarah Thomas
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• Author(s): Sarah Thomas • Publisher: University of Toronto Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Toronto Press • BISAC: Film - GeneralAlthough children have proliferated in Spain's cinema since its inception, nowhere are they privileged and ...
View full detailsAn Archive of the Catastrophe: The Unused Footage of Claude Lanzmann's Shoah
Jennifer Cazenave
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• Author(s): Jennifer Cazenave • Publisher: State University of New York Press • Publisher Imprint: State University of New York Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismComprehensive analysis of 220 hours of outtakes that impels us to reexam...
View full detailsAstor Pictures: A Filmography and History of the Reissue King, 1933-1965
Michael R. Pitts
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• Author(s): Michael R. Pitts • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Reference Founded by Robert M. Savini in 1933, Astor Pictures Corporation distributed hundreds of films in its 32 year...
View full detailsEdwin Forrest: A Biography and Performance History
Arthur W. Bloom
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• Author(s): Arthur W. Bloom • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - History & Criticism Edwin Forrest was the foremost American actor of the nineteenth century. His advocacy of Ame...
View full detailsRain of Love River of Tears
Jean Phenson Fleury, Sidon Joseph
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• Author(s): Jean Phenson Fleury | Sidon Joseph • Publisher: Authorhouse • Publisher Imprint: Authorhouse • BISAC: Theater - GeneralThis is a story of two brilliant students, Michael and Romeo, who met in high school and were mocked by their fell...
View full detailsRain of Love River of Tears
Jean Phenson Fleury, Sidon Joseph
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• Author(s): Jean Phenson Fleury | Sidon Joseph • Publisher: Authorhouse • Publisher Imprint: Authorhouse • BISAC: Theater - GeneralThis is a story of two brilliant students, Michael and Romeo, who met in high school and were mocked by their fell...
View full detailsAnimal Worlds: Film, Philosophy and Time
Laura McMahon
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• Author(s): Laura McMahon • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismFocusing on a recent wave of international art cinema, Animal Worlds offers the first sustai...
View full detailsRefocus: The Films of Francis Veber
Keith Corson
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• Author(s): Keith Corson • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: Individual DirectorFew directors have played such a prominent role as Francis Veber in shaping the cinematic identity of Fr...
View full detailsConfessions of a Dancer: How to overcome the darkness so you can step into your spotlight and shine
Emily Sophie
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• Author(s): Emily Sophie • Publisher: That Guy's House • Publisher Imprint: That Guy's House • BISAC: Dance - GeneralEmily Sophie takes us on a journey through her experiences in the dance industry and life, revealing her most vulnerable self an...
View full detailsStudying Horror Cinema
Bryan Turnock
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• Author(s): Bryan Turnock • Publisher: Liverpool University Press • Publisher Imprint: Liverpool University Press • BISAC: Film - Genres - HorrorAimed at teachers and students new to the subject, Studying Horror Cinema is a comprehensive survey ...
View full detailsStudying Horror Cinema
Bryan Turnock
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• Author(s): Bryan Turnock • Publisher: Liverpool University Press • Publisher Imprint: Liverpool University Press • BISAC: Film - Genres - HorrorAimed at teachers and students new to the subject, Studying Horror Cinema is a comprehensive survey ...
View full detailsHorror: A Companion
Simon Bacon
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• Author(s): Simon Bacon • Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis • Publisher Imprint: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis • BISAC: Theater - PlaywritingWhat is Horror? This terrifying genre gives shape to our anxietie...
View full detailsSteven Spielberg: Interviews, Revised and Updated
Brent Notbohm
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• Author(s): Brent Notbohm • Publisher: University Press of Mississippi • Publisher Imprint: University Press of Mississippi • BISAC: Individual DirectorMore than four decades after the premiere of his first film, Steven Spielberg (b. 1946) conti...
View full detailsSteven Spielberg: Interviews, Revised and Updated
Brent Notbohm
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• Author(s): Brent Notbohm • Publisher: University Press of Mississippi • Publisher Imprint: University Press of Mississippi • BISAC: Individual DirectorMore than four decades after the premiere of his first film, Steven Spielberg (b. 1946) conti...
View full detailsThe Films of Robin Williams: Critical Essays
Johnson Cheu
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• Author(s): Johnson Cheu • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General From his first appearance as Mork from Ork on the 1970s sitcom Happy Days, Robin Williams was heralded as a singul...
View full detailsIntermedial Dialogues: The French New Wave and the Other Arts
Marion Schmid
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• Author(s): Marion Schmid • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismCasting fresh light on one of the most important movements in film history, Intermedial Dial...
View full detailsWhen the Movies Mattered: The New Hollywood Revisited
Jonathan Kirshner, Jon Lewis
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• Author(s): Jonathan Kirshner | Jon Lewis • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismIn When the Movies Mattered Jonathan Kirshner and Jon Lewis gather a remarkable ...
View full detailsWhen the Movies Mattered: The New Hollywood Revisited
Jonathan Kirshner, Jon Lewis
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• Author(s): Jonathan Kirshner | Jon Lewis • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismIn When the Movies Mattered Jonathan Kirshner and Jon Lewis gather a remarkable ...
View full detailsSurviving in the Theatre: A Biography of Michael Wheatley-Ward
Michael J. Flagg, James Bellamy, Peter Such
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• Author(s): Michael J. Flagg | James Bellamy | Peter Such • Publisher: New Generation Publishing • Publisher Imprint: New Generation Publishing • BISAC: Theater - GeneralFrom the Largest Theatre Group in the World to The Oldest Stage in England ...
View full detailsSurviving in the Theatre: A Biography of Michael Wheatley-Ward
Michael J. Flagg, James Bellamy, Peter Such
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• Author(s): Michael J. Flagg | James Bellamy | Peter Such • Publisher: New Generation Publishing • Publisher Imprint: New Generation Publishing • BISAC: Theater - GeneralFrom the Largest Theatre Group in the World to The Oldest Stage in England ...
View full details"Aren't You Gonna Die Someday?" Elaine May's Mikey and Nicky: An Examination, Reflection, and Making Of (hardback)
Patrick Cooper
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• Author(s): Patrick Cooper • Publisher: BearManor Media • Publisher Imprint: BearManor Media • BISAC: Film - Genres - ComedyAren't You Gonna Die Someday? explores the deceptions and veiled truths lurking within a film that has haunted author Pat...
View full detailsSimpsons: A Cultural History
Moritz Fink
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• Author(s): Moritz Fink • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Television - Genres - ComedyThe Simpsons: A Cultural History provides a fascinating look at this acclaimed...
View full detailsThe Rise of K-Dramas: Essays on Korean Television and Its Global Consumption
Jaeyoon Park, Ann-Gee Lee
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• Author(s): Jaeyoon Park | Ann-Gee Lee • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism Korean dramas gained popularity across Asia in the late 1990s, and their globa...
View full detailsI'll See You Again: The Bittersweet Love Story and Wartime Letters of Jeanette MacDonald and Gene Raymond: Volume 1: The War-and Before
Maggie McCormick
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• Author(s): Maggie McCormick • Publisher: BearManor Media • Publisher Imprint: BearManor Media • BISAC: Film - GeneralDuring the Golden Age of Hollywood, actress/singer Jeanette MacDonald and actor Gene Raymond were touted as one of the happiest...
View full detailsI'll See You Again: The Bittersweet Love Story and Wartime Letters of Jeanette MacDonald and Gene Raymond: Volume 3: After the War (hardback)
Maggie McCormick
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• Author(s): Maggie McCormick • Publisher: BearManor Media • Publisher Imprint: BearManor Media • BISAC: Film - GeneralDuring the Golden Age of Hollywood, actress/singer Jeanette MacDonald and actor Gene Raymond were touted as one of the happiest...
View full detailsI'll See You Again: The Bittersweet Love Story and Wartime Letters of Jeanette MacDonald and Gene Raymond: Volume 2: The Letters (hardback)
Maggie McCormick
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• Author(s): Maggie McCormick • Publisher: BearManor Media • Publisher Imprint: BearManor Media • BISAC: Film - GeneralDuring the Golden Age of Hollywood, actress/singer Jeanette MacDonald and actor Gene Raymond were touted as one of the happiest...
View full detailsI'll See You Again: The Bittersweet Love Story and Wartime Letters of Jeanette MacDonald and Gene Raymond: Volume 3: After the War
Maggie McCormick
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• Author(s): Maggie McCormick • Publisher: BearManor Media • Publisher Imprint: BearManor Media • BISAC: Film - GeneralDuring the Golden Age of Hollywood, actress/singer Jeanette MacDonald and actor Gene Raymond were touted as one of the happiest...
View full detailsThe Westminster Chorus Performance Handbook: An Acting Method for Singers
Micah Sloat
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• Author(s): Micah Sloat • Publisher: Alcove Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Alcove Publishing • BISAC: Acting & AuditioningThe Westminster Chorus Performance Handbook contains a performance method designed to cultivate authentic, truthful pe...
View full detailsThe Devils
Darren Arnold
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• Author(s): Darren Arnold • Publisher: Liverpool University Press • Publisher Imprint: Liverpool University Press • BISAC: Film - Genres - HistoricalUndoubtedly the most notorious title in director Ken Russell's controversial filmography, The De...
View full detailsTales From The Prog Vaults
Jon Kirkman
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• Author(s): Jon Kirkman • Publisher: Classic Rock Books • Publisher Imprint: Classic Rock Books • BISAC: GeneralInterviews with some of the biggest artists in the Prog Rock genre by broadcaster and journalist Jon Kirkman.
The Supernatural Sublime: The Wondrous Ineffability of the Everyday in Films from Mexico and Spain
Raúl Rodríguez-Hernández, Claudia Schaefer
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• Author(s): Raúl Rodríguez-Hernández | Claudia Schaefer • Publisher: University of Nebraska Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Nebraska Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismThe Supernatural Sublime explores the long-neglected eleme...
View full detailsCheers: A Cultural History
Joseph J. Darowski, Kate Darowski
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• Author(s): Joseph J. Darowski | Kate Darowski • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Television - Genres - ComedyA fascinating look into one of the most beloved sitcoms...
View full detailsWelcome to Fear City: Crime Film, Crisis, and the Urban Imagination
Nathan Holmes
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• Author(s): Nathan Holmes • Publisher: State University of New York Press • Publisher Imprint: State University of New York Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismAnalyzes how location-shot crime films of the 1970s reflected and influenced...
View full detailsAffectual Erasure: Representations of Indigenous Peoples in Argentine Cinema
Cynthia Margarita Tompkins
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• Author(s): Cynthia Margarita Tompkins • Publisher: State University of New York Press • Publisher Imprint: State University of New York Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismComprehensive examination of how Indigenous peoples have been r...
View full detailsRule, Britannia!: The Biopic and British National Identity
Homer B. Pettey, R. Barton Palmer
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• Author(s): Homer B. Pettey | R. Barton Palmer • Publisher: State University of New York Press • Publisher Imprint: State University of New York Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismAssesses how cinematic biographies of key figures refle...
View full detailsBlood Circuits: Contemporary Argentine Horror Cinema
Jonathan Risner
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• Author(s): Jonathan Risner • Publisher: State University of New York Press • Publisher Imprint: State University of New York Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismExamines how recent Argentine horror films engage with the legacies of dic...
View full detailsThe Projected Nation: Argentine Cinema and the Social Margins
Matt Losada
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• Author(s): Matt Losada • Publisher: State University of New York Press • Publisher Imprint: State University of New York Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismInvestigates how Argentine cinema has represented rural spaces and urban margi...
View full detailsThe Cinema of Marguerite Duras: Multisensoriality and Female Subjectivity
Michelle Royer
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• Author(s): Michelle Royer • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: Film - Direction & ProductionThe writer Marguerite Duras was a key figure in post-war French cinema, pioneering innov...
View full details"One More Thing, Sir . . ." - The Musings of a Television Writer-Producer
Michael Sloan
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• Author(s): Michael Sloan • Publisher: BearManor Media • Publisher Imprint: BearManor Media • BISAC: Television - Genres - DramaIn "One More Thing, Sir", Michael Sloan brings his extensive knowledge of the television business to this charming, p...
View full details"One More Thing, Sir . . ." - The Musings of a Television Writer-Producer (hardback)
Michael Sloan
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• Author(s): Michael Sloan • Publisher: BearManor Media • Publisher Imprint: BearManor Media • BISAC: Television - Genres - DramaIn "One More Thing, Sir", Michael Sloan brings his extensive knowledge of the television business to this charming, p...
View full detailsHorror Comes Home: Essays on Hauntings, Possessions and Other Domestic Terrors in Cinema
Cynthia J. Miller, A. Bowdoin Van Riper
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• Author(s): Cynthia J. Miller | A. Bowdoin Van Riper • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Genres - Horror Home, we are taught from childhood, is safe. Home is a refuge that keeps the m...
View full detailsRefocus: The Films of Elaine May
Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, Dean Brandum
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• Author(s): Alexandra Heller-Nicholas | Dean Brandum • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: Individual DirectorSpanning from obscurity to notoriety, the films of director, screenwriter, a...
View full detailsMafia Movies: A Reader, Second Edition
Dana Renga
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• Author(s): Dana Renga • Publisher: University of Toronto Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Toronto Press • BISAC: Film - Guides & ReviewsThe mafia has always fascinated filmmakers and television producers. Al Capone, Salvatore Giulia...
View full detailsCreepshow
Simon Brown
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• Author(s): Simon Brown • Publisher: Liverpool University Press • Publisher Imprint: Liverpool University Press • BISAC: Film - Genres - HorrorReleased in cinemas in 1982, Creepshow is typically regarded as a minor entry in both the film output ...
View full detailsRadio Secrets: An Insider's Guide to Presenting and Producing Powerful Content for Broadcast and Podcast
David Lloyd
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• Author(s): David Lloyd • Publisher: Rethink Press • Publisher Imprint: Rethink Press • BISAC: Radio - GeneralWhat makes a successful presenter?How do you attract and engage your audience?How can you distinguish yourself to enjoy lasting success...
View full detailsMonologues of Women of the Bible
Iva I. Williams-Harris
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• Author(s): Iva I. Williams-Harris • Publisher: Xulon Press • Publisher Imprint: Xulon Press • BISAC: Acting & AuditioningMonologues of Women of the Bible is designed to provide Christian monologues in the market place, particularly for fema...
View full detailsThe Museum as a Cinematic Space: The Display of Moving Images in Exhibitions
Elisa Mandelli
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• Author(s): Elisa Mandelli • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismMoving images have become an increasingly common feature in a wide range of museums, which ...
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