Creator: Joseph Smith
Publication date: 2003-12-12
Dewey code: 786
Price: $12.95
Review Tangos, Milongas and Other Latin-American Dances for Solo Piano / Dover Publications:This collection features 40 dance pieces from the Caribbean and South America. Chosen from a vast musical literature that remains largely unavailable in North America, all date from the late-19th and early-20th centuries and appear in their original versions for solo piano. Includes pieces by Ignacio Cervantes, Carlos Gomes, Juan Morel Campos, Ernesto Nazareth, Manuel Ponce, more.
Publication date: 1979
Review Snow seen: The films and photographs of Michael Snow / PMA Books:
Publication date: 1992-04
Dewey code: 812.54
Price: $10.95
Review Escape from Happiness / Coach House Press:
Publication date: 1994-05
Price: $14.95
Review The Complete Handbook for Performing Artists in Classical Music and Ballet / Mosaic Press (NY):
Publication date: 1994-01
Dewey code: 791.4301
Price: $49.95
Review Cinema and Modernity / Polity Pr:This text discusses the complex relation between modernity and cinema, drawing particularly upon the European and American cinema during the second half of the 20th century. In this period, the author argues, the terms "modernist" and "postmodern" are both inappropriate to the cinema's critical vision of modernity. Instead there emerges a neo-modern movement which subverts American melodrama and supplants Italian neo-realism, yet also echoes the earlier modernisms of Dreyer, Eisenstein, Bunuel and Fritz Lang. In the American cinema attention is paid to the work of Welles, Hitchcock and the changing patterns of film noir. In the European cinema, the author re-assesses the French New Wave, the Italian cinema after neo-realism and the complex retro-vision by European film-makers of the politics of fascism. The work of Bergman, Antonioni, Godard, Bertolucci, Rohmer and Wenders is discussed in relation to the changing role of cinematic space and modern vision of the automobile and the city, together with the new forms of tragicomedy and apocalypse in the cinema of the nuclear age. This book regards critique as the dominant mode of film study, thus breaking down the artificial boundaries which currently exist between theory, history and textual reading. Its intellectual heritage lies firmly in the writings of Nietzsche, Freud and Sartre, and opposes the current dependence upon semiology and post-structuralism. It is thus an attempt to rethink the relation of film-making to the contemporary world. The book challenges many of the critical complacencies of postmodernism and offers a fresh perspective upon the development of the modern cinema.
Publication date: 1986
Dewey code: 791.5'3
Price: $593.80
Review Theatres d'ombres: Tradition et modernite / L'Harmattan:
Publication date: 1969-07
Review Theatre: The Rediscovery of Style / Heinemann Educ.:
Publication date: 1991
Price: $179.14
Review Die buhnentechnischen Projekte von Adolf Linnebach (European university studies. Series XXX, Theatre, film and television) / P. Lang:
Publication date: 1991-10-23
Dewey code: 822.9109
Price: $48.00
Review Modern Drama and the Rhetoric of Theater / University of California Press:The history of drama is typically viewed as a series of inert "styles. " Tracing British and American stage drama from the 1880s onward, W. B. Worthen instead sees drama as the interplay of text, stage production, and audience. How are audiences manipulated? What makes drama meaningful? Worthen identifies three rhetorical strategies that distinguish an O'Neill play from a Yeats, or these two from a Brecht. Where realistic theater relies on the "natural" qualities of the stage scene, poetic theater uses the poet's word, the text, to control performance. Modern political theater, by contrast, openly places the audience at the center of its rhetorical designs, and the drama of the postwar period is shown to develop a range of post-Brechtian practices that make the audience the subject of the play. Worthen's book deserves the attention of any literary critic or serious theatergoer interested in the relationship between modern drama and the spectator.
Publication date: 1980
Review Fritz Lang: Su vida y su cine / Daimon [etc]:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2002-10-01
Dewey code: 793.31981
List Price: $180.00
Price: $179.91
Review Capoeira: The History of Afro-Brazilian Martial Art (Sport in the Global Society, 45) / Routledge:Capoeira is an Afro-Brazilian martial art now spreading over the rest of the world, and is the only sport from Brazil that seeks Olympic recognition. Originally the preserve of the underclasses in Brazilian society, capoeira is now practised amongst the middle-classes, and even taught as a sport in schools. The author explores the history of capoeira and explores the conflict between traditionalists, who view capoeira as their heritage descended from the maroons, a weapon to be used against injustice and repression; reformers, who wish to see the spread of the sport internationally; and academics, who are attempting to discover the true history of capoeira as opposed to the myth.
Publication date: 1985-01-01
Review Jolts: The TV Wasteland and the Canadian Oasis / Lorimer:First published in 1985, Jolts is a lively examination of the differences between Canadian and U. S. television. In this provocative, funny book, Morris Wolfe argues that there are profound differences between Canada and the U. S. , which are reflected every day on the "box populi". The author sees Canadian television as an oasis of compassion and realism, reflected in public affairs, drama and comedy programming. Jolts offers a fascinating look at the great tradition of Canadian television programming, a subject that remains timely today.
Publication date: 1996
Review Invito al cinema di Roberto Rossellini (Invito al cinema) / Mursia:
Publication date: 1977-06
Dewey code: 792.80947
Price: $60.00
Review Reminiscences of the Russian Ballet (Da Capo Series in Dance) / Da Capo Press:
Publication date: 1998-09
Dewey code: 791.430233092
List Price: $58.50
Price: $199.95
Review Robert Siodmak: A Biography, With Critical Analyses of His Films Noirs and a Filmography of All His Works / McFarland & Company:This study opens with a detailed biography of the director, focusing on the development and evolution of his thematic and visual style. Critical analyses of each of his noir films are next presented, with plot synopses and comments on the movie's place in the Siodmak canon. An exhaustive filmography follows, with cast and credits, running time, release date, alternate titles, and studio.
Publication date: 2007-05-28
Dewey code: 792
Review Teatro Malandro Omar Porras / Villegas Editores:
Publication date: 1993-12
Review Dance in Schools / Arts Council of England:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1994-12-09
Dewey code: 791.430947
List Price: $150.00
Price: $179.65
Review Early Russian Cinema and Its Cultural Reception (Soviet Cinema) / Routledge:In Early Cinema in Russia and its Cultural Reception Yuri Tsivian examines the development of cinematic form and culture in Russia, from its late nineteenth-century beginnings as a fairground attraction to the early post-Revolutionary years. Tsivian traces the changing perceptions of cinema and its social transition from a modernist invention to a national art form. He explores reactions to the earliest films, from actors, novelists, poets, writers, and journalists. His richly detailed study of the physical elements of cinematic performance includes the architecture and illumination of the cinema foyer, the speed of projection and film acoustics. In contrast to standard film histories, this book focuses on reflected images: rather than discussing films and film-makers, it features the historical film-goer and early writings on film. Early Cinema in Russia and its Cultural Reception presents a vivid and changing picture of cinema culture in Russia in the twilight of the tsarist era and the first decades of the twentieth century. Tsivian's study expands the whole context of reception studies and opens up questions about reception relevant to other national cinemas.
Publication date: 1978-02
Dewey code: 792.0280922
Price: $35.00
Review Famous Actors of the Day in America / Longwood Pr Ltd:Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Publication date: 1992
Review Fernsehen als Handlung: Fernsehfilmrezeption aus motivationspsychologischer Perspektive (Empirische Literatur- und Medienwissenschaft) / Edition Sigma:
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