The Cambridge Introduction to English Theatre, 1660-1900
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This 2006 introduction aims to share with readers the author's enjoyment of the turbulent 240-year...
The Cinema of Iciar Bollain
Isabel Santaolalla, Nuria Triana-Toribio and Andy Willis
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Director, actress, scriptwriter and producer, Iciar Bollain is one of the liveliest of contemporary...
The Cinema of Oliver Stone: Art, Authorship and Activism
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This book analyses the work of Oliver Stone - arguably one of the foremost political filmmakers in...
The Maciste Films of Italian Silent Cinema
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Italian film star Bartolomeo Pagano's "Maciste" played a key role in his nation's narratives of...
The Politics and Poetics of Cinematic Realism
Hermann Kappelhoff and Daniel Hendrickson
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Hermann Kappelhoff casts the evolution of cinema as an ongoing struggle to relate audiences to their...
Truffaut on Cinema
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Between 1959 and 1984, French film director Francois Truffaut was interviewed over three hundred...
4 Saints in 3 Acts: A Snapshot of the American Avant-Garde in the 1930s
Patricia Allmer and John Sears
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Four Saints in Three Acts was a major avant-garde phenomenon of the 1930s, an experimental opera...
A Theory of Musical Narrative
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Byron Almen proposes an original synthesis of approaches to musical narrative from literary...
Back to the Fifties: Nostalgia, Hollywood Film, and Popular Music of the Seventies and Eighties
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Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Hollywood studios and record companies churned out films, albums,...
Building New Banjos for an Old-Time World
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Banjo music possesses a unique power to evoke a bucolic, simpler past. The artisans who build banjos...