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Hollywood Under Siege Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 408
ISBN: 9780813125176
Pub Date: 08 Aug 2008
Illustrations: 14
Description:
In the late 1980s, the major conservative Christian groups suffered a series of public setbacks. In Hollywood Under Siege: Martin Scorsese, the Religious Right, and the Culture Wars, Thomas R. Lindlof asserts that the Christian right realigned itself and tried to solidify its self-appointed role as moral regulator of the entertainment industry in response to Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ.
Challenges Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9780819568854
Pub Date: 01 Aug 2008
Illustrations: 35 illus.
Description:
Founder and long-time director of the Opera Company of Boston and the first woman to conduct the Metropolitan Opera, Sarah Caldwell was one of America's best known and most adventurous conductors and opera directors. Her career spanned her wildly successful and innovative productions of classical operas such as Offenbach's Voyage to the Moon, Don Quixote, and Madama Butterfly to projects like "Making Music Together," which in 1988 brought together musicians and composers from the Soviet Union and the United States. Caldwell's work earned her many honorary degrees and she received the National Medal for the Arts from President Clinton in 1997.
Why We Fought Cover Why We Fought Cover
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Pages: 624
ISBN: 9780813124933
Pub Date: 25 Jul 2008
Series: Film and History
Illustrations: 143
Pages: 624
ISBN: 9780813191911
Pub Date: 25 Jul 2008
Series: Film and History
Illustrations: 143
Description:
This book makes a powerful case that film can be as valuable a tool as primary documents for improving our understanding of the causes and consequences of war. Why We Fought: America's Wars in Film and History is a comprehensive look at war films, from depictions of the American Revolution to portrayals of September 11 and its aftermath. The volume contrasts recognized history and historical fiction with the versions appearing on the big screen.
Washed with Sun Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 424
ISBN: 9780822959588
Pub Date: 10 Jul 2008
Description:
South Africa is recognized as a site of both political turmoil and natural beauty, and yet little work has been done in connecting these defining national characteristics. Washed with Sun achieves this conjunction in its multidisciplinary study of South Africa as a space at once natural and constructed. Weaving together practical, aesthetic, and ideological analyses, Jeremy Foster examines the role of landscape in forming the cultural iconographies and spatialities that shaped the imaginary geography of emerging nationhood.
Coming to You Wherever You Are Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 168
ISBN: 9780819568700
Pub Date: 30 Jun 2008
Illustrations: 2 illus.
Description:
MTV Networks is the undisputed international music video gatekeeper, with stations from Australia to India, Russia to Brazil. Canada is one of the few countries to resist its global reach. Although the network has launched "MTV Canada" with an affiliate, that station limits its offerings primarily to talk shows and lifestyle programming.
The Dancer Within Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 264
ISBN: 9780819568809
Pub Date: 30 Jun 2008
Illustrations: 40 illus.
Description:
The Dancer Within is a collection of photographic portraits and short essays based on confessional interviews with forty dancers and entertainers, many of them world-famous. Well-known on the concert stage, on Broadway, in Hollywood musicals, and on television, the personalities featured in this book speak with extraordinary candor about all stages of the dancer's life-from their first dance class to their signature performances and their days of reflection on the artist's life. The Dancer Within reveals how these artists triumphed, but also how they overcame adversity, including self-doubt, injuries, and aging.
All-Stars and Movie Stars Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 328
ISBN: 9780813124483
Pub Date: 20 Jun 2008
Series: Film and History
Illustrations: 59
Description:
In addition to the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat, sports offer a versatile arena for discussion of class, race, gender, sexuality, and other social facets. All-Stars and Movie Stars: Sports in Film and History examines the interplay between sports films and the defining characteristics of the cultures from which they emerge. This important and unique collection will serve scholars of film, popular culture, and American history.
Boucher And Chardin Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 128
ISBN: 9781903470756
Pub Date: 15 Jun 2008
Imprint: Wallace
Victory Over the Sun Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 364
ISBN: 9780946311194
Pub Date: 31 May 2008
Description:
This Futurist opera was presented in snowy Petrograd in December 1913 to a riotous audience. The atonal music composed by Mikhail Matiushin accompanied the alogical libretto by Aleksei Kruchenykh, the action taking place in the 10th Land where "the windows of houses all face inside" and "all the paths go up to the earth", while the hands of a clock "both go backwards immediately before dinner". The cardboard costumes by Kazimir Malevich were surfaces lit by his roving coloured spotlights, the characters bigger than life.
RRP: £32.00
The Essential Science Fiction Television Reader Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 368
ISBN: 9780813124926
Pub Date: 02 May 2008
Series: Essential Readers in Contemporary Media and Culture
Illustrations: 43
Description:
Exploring early hits such as The Twilight Zone and Star Trek, as well as more recent successes such as Battlestar Galactica and Lost, The Essential Science Fiction Television Reader illuminates the history, narrative approaches, and themes of the genre. The book discusses science fiction television from its early years when shows attempted to recreate the allure of science fiction cinema, to its current status as a sophisticated genre with a popularity all its own. J.
Hollywood Ambitions Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 272
ISBN: 9780819568656
Pub Date: 31 Mar 2008
Illustrations: 25 illus.
Description:
Working with a varied and untraditional cast of characters-Wyatt Earp, Jack London, Clara Bow, Gertrude Stein, and Ida Lupino-author Marsha Orgeron examines the Hollywood ambitions of a fading western legend, a successful popular author, a poor Brooklyn girl turned flapper icon, a self-proclaimed avant-garde genius, and a frustrated actress on her way to becoming a director. Investigating their separate involvements with the expanding film industry, Orgeron illustrates the implications of film celebrity during the era in which cinema's impact was first felt. The aspirations of these individuals demonstrate the unifying role that the American motion picture capital played in shaping cultural notions of reputation, success, glamour, and visibility.
The Films of Samuel Fuller Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 264
ISBN: 9780819568663
Pub Date: 31 Mar 2008
Illustrations: 43 illus.
Description:
A cigar-chomping storyteller who signaled "Action!" by shooting a gun, Samuel Fuller has been lionized as one of the most distinctive writer/directors ever to emerge from Hollywood. In such films as The Steel Helmet, Pickup on South Street, Shock Corridor, and The Big Red One, Fuller gleefully challenged classical and generic norms-and often standards of good taste-in an effort to shock and arouse audiences.
Masters And Pupils Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 400
ISBN: 9780955406324
Pub Date: 15 Mar 2008
Imprint: Hogarth Arts
Description:
This book is about a family tree: the line of descent that can be traced from Perugino in Italy in the fifteenth century to Edouard Manet in France in the nineteenth. It is not the usual kind of genealogy, of those connected by blood, more an 'apostolic succession', following the way in which art in Europe was taught, from one generation to the next, from 1480 to 1880. The book reveals how the nature and methods of artistic instruction changed over the centuries, from the guild system and the individual workshop to the academy and the establishment of state institutions dedicated to the purpose, as exemplified in France.
RRP: £50.00
Renoir at the Theatre Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 128
ISBN: 9781903470732
Pub Date: 01 Feb 2008
Illustrations: 80 illustrations
Description:
Pierre-Auguste Renoir's La Loge (The Theater Box), 1874, is one of the masterpieces of impressionism and a major highlight of The Courtauld Gallery's collection. Its depiction of an elegant couple on display in a loge epitomizes the Impressionists' interest in the spectacle of modern life. At the heart of the painting is the complex play of gazes enacted by these two figures.
Theatres Of Life Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 200
ISBN: 9781903470725
Pub Date: 15 Jan 2008
Imprint: Waddesdon
Description:
This catalogue accompanies the first ever loan exhibition of drawings from Waddesdon Manor, the house that was built and furnished by Ferdinand de Rothschild (1839-1989) to show off his works of art and to entertain the fashionable world.Most of the drawings gathered together for this exhibition have never been exhibited in pulbic and most have not been published. There are works by major French draughtsmen of the eighteenth century, including Francois Boucher, Jean-Honore Fragonard, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Nicolas Lancret, Gabriel de Saint-Aubin and Jean-Baptiste Le Prince.
RRP: £25.00
Carriacou String Band Serenade Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 312
ISBN: 9780819568588
Pub Date: 11 Jan 2008
Illustrations: 37 illus.
Description:
Every year, on a weekend before Christmas, the small Caribbean island of Carriacou, Grenada, holds its annual Parang Festival, featuring concerts, performances of local quadrille dance, Hosannah band (a cappella singing) competitions, and the climactic string band competition. Born in the years leading up to Grenada's 1979 Socialist Revolution, the Parang Festival today offers a vehicle for Carriacouans to articulate and assert a progressive understanding of local cultural identity as well as a regional, pan-Caribbean belonging. Rebecca S.