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Webster: The White Devil
Shakespeare Handbooks

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This introductory guide to one of Webster's most widely-studied plays offers a scene-by-scene commentary of the play in performance, a brief history of the...
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Middleton and Rowley: The Changeling
Shakespeare Handbooks

Palgrave Macmillan
This introductory guide to one of Middleton and Rowley's most widely-studied plays offers a scene-by-scene theatrically aware commentary, a brief history of...
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Liveness and Recording in the Media
Key Concerns in Media Studies

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Explaining the key theories of technology and media, this book cuts through the jargon and tech-speak to provide a guide to the dynamics of digital...
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Media, Place and Mobility
Key Concerns in Media Studies

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Media, Place and Mobility offers a new understanding of media uses as place-making practices in everyday living. Drawing primarily on phenomenological...
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New Technologies and the Media
Key Concerns in Media Studies

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Explaining the key theories of technology and media, this book cuts through the jargon and tech-speak to provide a guide to the dynamics of digital...
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Consuming Reality
The Commercialization of Factual Entertainment

Palgrave Macmillan
Consuming Reality examines TV's response to the increasing pressure to brand content in a post-advertising era. June Deery's comprehensive analysis of the...
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Secret Manoeuvres in the Dark
Corporate Spying on Activists

Pluto Press
The exposure of undercover policeman Mark Kennedy in the "eco-activist" movement revealed how the state monitors and undermines political activism. This book...
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The Catholic Church and Hollywood
Censorship and Morality in 1930s Cinema
International Library of Cultural Studies

I.B. Tauris
During the 1930s, the Catholic Church in the US was engaged in a metaphorical "war" against the increasingly modern and secular values of the American public....
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Theatre for Change
Education, Social Action and Therapy

Palgrave Macmillan
Providing an international overview of the latest work and thinking in Drama and Education, and featuring interviews with a worldwide variety of leading...
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Authorship and the Films of David Lynch
Aesthetic Receptions in Contemporary Hollywood

I.B. Tauris
This important new contribution to studies on authorship and film explores the ways in which shared and disputed opinions on aesthetic quality, originality,...

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Understanding Digital Humanities

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The application of new computational techniques and visualisation technologies in the Arts and Humanities are resulting in fresh approaches and methodologies...
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Psychology of the Media
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Palgrave Macmillan
From body image to social networking, the media has a huge influence on how we view ourselves and others and this engaging text is ideal for students studying...
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The Actor Speaks
Voice and the Performer

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In The Actor Speaks, Patsy Rodenburg takes actors and actresses, both professional and beginners, through a complete voice workshop. She touches on every...
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Speaking Shakespeare

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Patsy Rodenburg presents the Actor's Bible of Shakespeare for the stage.
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2001: A Space Odyssey
BFI Film Classics

British Film Institute
Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey is widely regarded as one of the best films ever made. Based on new research in the recently opened Stanley Kubrick...
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Joan Myers Brown & the Audacious Hope of the Black Ballerina
A Biohistory of American Performance

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Founder of the Philadelphia Dance Company (PHILADANCO) and the Philadelphia School of Dance Arts, Joan Myers Brown's personal and professional histories...
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Visual and Other Pleasures
Language, Discourse, Society

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This new edition of Laura Mulvey's first collection of essays contains a new introduction in which she re-assesses her essay "Visual Pleasure and Narrative...
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Acting Professionally
Raw Facts About Careers in Acting

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'Everybody wants to get into the act' said the old-time comic Jimmy Durante, but the fact is that becoming a professional actor requires a lot more than just...
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Star Wars
BFI Film Classics

British Film Institute
Will Brooker's illuminating study takes issue with many commonly held ideas about Star Wars. He provides a close cinematic analysis, carefully examining its...
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Eyes Wide Shut

British Film Institute
Michel Chion's study of this film makes the case that it is one of Kubrick's masterpieces and a fitting testament. To appreciate this, though it is necessary...
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The Godfather
BFI Film Classics

British Film Institute
Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather (1972) marked a transition in American filmmaking, and its success - as a work of art, as a creative property exploited by...
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Metropolis

British Film Institute
This volume explores the cultural phenomenon of Metropolis, its different versions, its changing meanings, and its role as a database of the twentieth century. ...
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Godzilla on My Mind
Fifty Years of the King of Monsters

Palgrave Macmillan
This year, to mark the fiftieth anniversary of his first appearance on the screen, the original, uncut version of Godzilla was released in American theaters to...
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Creative Screenwriting
Understanding Emotional Structure

Palgrave Macmillan
Kallas proposes an original approach to writing for the screen. Both theory and method aims at exciting the imagination to inspire and dramatize stories with...