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• Author(s): Günter Berghaus • Publisher: Berghahn Books • Publisher Imprint: Berghahn Books • BISAC: Theater - History & Criticism Since the 1920s, an endless flow of studies has analyzed the political systems of fascism, theseizure of power...

• Author(s): Dena Davida | Marc Pronovost | Véronique Hudon • Publisher: Berghahn Books • Publisher Imprint: Berghahn Books • BISAC: General Situated at the crossroads of performance practice, museology, and cultural studies, live arts curation h...

• Author(s): Dena Davida | Marc Pronovost | Véronique Hudon • Publisher: Berghahn Books • Publisher Imprint: Berghahn Books • BISAC: General Situated at the crossroads of performance practice, museology, and cultural studies, live arts curation h...

• Author(s): Michael Balfour • Publisher: Berghahn Books • Publisher Imprint: Berghahn Books • BISAC: Theater - History & Criticism On an April evening in 1934, on the River Arno in Florence, an air squadron, an infantry, a cavalry brigade, f...

• Author(s): Michael Balfour • Publisher: Berghahn Books • Publisher Imprint: Berghahn Books • BISAC: Theater - History & Criticism On an April evening in 1934, on the River Arno in Florence, an air squadron, an infantry, a cavalry brigade, f...

• Author(s): Ana Salzberg • Publisher: Berghahn Books • Publisher Imprint: Berghahn Books • BISAC: Acting & Auditioning As living subjects rather than static icons, studio-era Hollywood actresses actively negotiated a balance between their pu...

• Author(s): Günter Berghaus • Publisher: Berghahn Books • Publisher Imprint: Berghahn Books • BISAC: Theater - History & Criticism Since the 1920s, an endless flow of studies has analyzed the political systems of fascism, theseizure of power...

• Author(s): Sarah Thomas • Publisher: Berghahn Books • Publisher Imprint: Berghahn Books • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Peter Lorre described himself as merely a 'face maker'. His own negative attitude also characterizes traditional per...

• Author(s): Sarah Thomas • Publisher: Berghahn Books • Publisher Imprint: Berghahn Books • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Peter Lorre described himself as merely a 'face maker'. His own negative attitude also characterizes traditional per...

• Author(s): Mark Nicholls • Publisher: Berghahn Books • Publisher Imprint: Berghahn Books • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism This first book-length critical study of Jeremy Irons concentrates on his key performances and acting style. Throug...

• Author(s): Michael Cherlin | Halina Filipowicz | Richard L. Rudolph • Publisher: Berghahn Books • Publisher Imprint: Berghahn Books • BISAC: Theater - History & Criticism Both dramatic and musical theater are part of the tradition that has ...

• Author(s): Sergio González Varela • Publisher: Berghahn Books • Publisher Imprint: Berghahn Books • BISAC: Dance - Regional & Ethnic Considering the concept of power in capoeira, an Afro-Brazilian ritual art form, Varela describes ethnograp...

• Author(s): Stephen Most • Publisher: Berghahn Books • Publisher Imprint: Berghahn Books • BISAC: Film - Genres - DocumentarySince the beginning of human history, stories have helped people make sense of their lives and their world. Today, an un...

• Author(s): Abigail Loxham • Publisher: Berghahn Books • Publisher Imprint: Berghahn Books • BISAC: Film - Direction & Production The works of popular Spanish film directors Julio Medem, Juan Jos� Bigas Luna, and Jos� Luis Guer�n are newly a...

• Author(s): Stephen Gundle • Publisher: Berghahn Books • Publisher Imprint: Berghahn Books • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Italian cinema gave rise to a number of the best-known films of the postwar years, from Rome Open City to Bicycle ...

• Author(s): Ursula Hardt • Publisher: Berghahn Books • Publisher Imprint: Berghahn Books • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Known as one of the great producers and promoters of the film industry, Eric Pommer had a life-long commitment to Ge...

• Author(s): Nigel Eltringham • Publisher: Berghahn Books • Publisher Imprint: Berghahn Books • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism The first decade of the 21st century has seen a proliferation of North American and European films that focus on...

• Author(s): Catherine Wheatley • Publisher: Berghahn Books • Publisher Imprint: Berghahn Books • BISAC: Film - Direction & Production Existing critical traditions fail to fully account for the impact of Austrian director, and 2009 Cannes Pal...

• Author(s): Michael Mirabile • Publisher: Berghahn Books • Publisher Imprint: Berghahn Books • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Edges of Noir challenges the notion that noir film nearly vanished after 1958 until its subsequent "neo-noir" re...

• Author(s): Matthew Campora • Publisher: Berghahn Books • Publisher Imprint: Berghahn Books • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Subjective Realist Cinema looks at the fragmented narratives and multiple realities of a wide range of films that...

• Author(s): Michael Scriven | Emily Roberts • Publisher: Berghahn Books • Publisher Imprint: Berghahn Books • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism Advances in audiovisual technology, most notably the advent of the popular usage of digital...

• Author(s): Jean-Pierre Boulé | Ursula Tidd • Publisher: Berghahn Books • Publisher Imprint: Berghahn Books • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Simone de Beauvoir's work has not often been associated with film studies, which appears paradoxi...

• Author(s): Mariana Ivanova • Publisher: Berghahn Books • Publisher Imprint: Berghahn Books • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism From their very inception, European cinemas undertook collaborative ventures in an attempt to cultivate a transna...

• Author(s): Jean-Pierre Boulé | Enda McCaffrey • Publisher: Berghahn Books • Publisher Imprint: Berghahn Books • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism At the heart of this volume is the assertion that Sartrean existentialism, most prominent in t...

• Author(s): Tim Bergfelder | Christian Cargnelli • Publisher: Berghahn Books • Publisher Imprint: Berghahn Books • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism The legacy of emigrés in the British film industry, from the silent film era until after the...

• Author(s): Mariana Ivanova • Publisher: Berghahn Books • Publisher Imprint: Berghahn Books • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismDuring the Cold War, scientific discoveries were adapted and critiqued in many different forms of media across a d...

• Author(s): Stephan Ehrig | Benjamin Schaper | Elizabeth Ward • Publisher: Berghahn Books • Publisher Imprint: Berghahn Books • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism Audiences for contemporary German film and television are becoming increa...

• Author(s): Anne-Marie Scholz • Publisher: Berghahn Books • Publisher Imprint: Berghahn Books • BISAC: Film - General Scholarly approaches to the relationship between literature and film, ranging from the traditional focus upon fidelity to more ...

• Author(s): Hester Baer • Publisher: Berghahn Books • Publisher Imprint: Berghahn Books • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism The history of postwar German cinema has most often been told as a story of failure, a failure paradoxically epitomiz...

• Author(s): Larson Powell | Robert Shandley • Publisher: Berghahn Books • Publisher Imprint: Berghahn Books • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism Long overlooked by scholars and critics, the history and aesthetics of German television ha...

• Author(s): John Davidson | Sabine Hake • Publisher: Berghahn Books • Publisher Imprint: Berghahn Books • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism The demise of the New German Cinema and the return of popular cinema since the 1990s have led to a re...

• Author(s): Christine Sprengler • Publisher: Berghahn Books • Publisher Imprint: Berghahn Books • BISAC: Film - Direction & Production "In this fascinating in-depth study of the impact of nostalgia on contemporary American cinema, Christine ...

• Author(s): Hester Baer • Publisher: Berghahn Books • Publisher Imprint: Berghahn Books • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism The history of postwar German cinema has most often been told as a story of failure, a failure paradoxically epitomiz...

• Author(s): Anat Pick • Publisher: Berghahn Books • Publisher Imprint: Berghahn Books • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Environmentalism and ecology are areas of rapid growth in academia and society at large. Screening Nature is the first ...

• Author(s): Stephen Most • Publisher: Berghahn Books • Publisher Imprint: Berghahn Books • BISAC: Film - Genres - Documentary Since the beginning of human history, stories have helped people make sense of their lives and their world. Today, an u...

• Author(s): Jean-Pierre Boulé | Ursula Tidd • Publisher: Berghahn Books • Publisher Imprint: Berghahn Books • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Simone de Beauvoir's work has not often been associated with film studies, which appears paradoxi...