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  • Mapping Landscapes for Performance as Researchby Shannon Rose Riley; Lynette Hunter

    Palgrave Macmillan 2009; US$ 95.00

    Although the sciences have long understood the value of practice-based research, the arts and humanities have tended to structure a gap between practice and analysis. This book examines differences and similarities between Performance as Research practices in various community and national contexts, mapping out the landscape of this new field. more...

  • Broadway and Corporate Capitalismby Michael Schwartz

    Palgrave Macmillan 2009; US$ 100.00

    Broadway and Corporate Capitalism examines two overlapping and, in many ways, symbiotic phenomena of early 20th century America - the emergence of the Professional-Managerial Class within American corporate capitalism and the evolution of Broadway. Michael Schwartz shows how the class movements moved - literally and figuratively - to the rhythm... more...

  • Cinema Infernoby Robert G. Weiner; John Cline

    Scarecrow Press 2010; US$ 59.99

    This is a provocative collection of essays that provide cutting edge, original research in film studies, discussing a number of 'transgressive' films that have never before had such in-depth analysis and treatment. From '70s Italian horror films and extreme European cinema to Nazi propaganda films and fundamentalist Christian 'scare' movies, these... more...

  • Saturday Night Live, Hollywood Comedy, and American Cultureby Jim Whalley

    Palgrave Macmillan 2010; US$ 90.00

    This book addresses how Saturday Night Live's confrontational, boundary-pushing approach spilled over into film production, contributing to some of the biggest hits in Hollywood history. more...

  • The Dude Abidesby Cathleen Falsani

    Zondervan 2009; US$ 11.99

    Join award-winning author and columnist Cathleen Falsani as she explores the serious existential questions raised in the movies of the wildly popular and always irreverent Coen brothers. Coen fans and film lovers will appreciate Falsani's unique blend of contemporary insight and spiritual discernment that is both entertaining and illuminating. more...

  • Ingrid Bergmanby David Thomson

    Faber & Faber 2010; US$ 13.99

    ?Ingrid Bergman was far more than just a sweet, virtuous, ?natural? Swedish girl?she was a dark sensualist over whom many men might go mad. Her very gaze delivered a climate of adult romantic expectation.?   Adored by millions for her luminous beauty and elegance, at the height of her career Bergman commanded a love that has hardly ever been... more...

  • Becoming a Readerby J. A. Appleyard

    Cambridge University Press 1991; US$ 28.00

    Becoming a Reader in allowing us to predict our reading experience, allows us, as adults, to choose what to do with the power which reading gives us. more...

  • The Profession of the Playwrightby John Russell Stephens

    Cambridge University Press 1992; US$ 46.00

    This book examines the working world of the playwright in nineteenth-century Britain. more...

  • Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunchby Stephen Prince

    Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 32.00

    A collection of essays of Sam Peckinpah's film The Wild Bunch. more...

  • Performance in the Borderlandsby Ramón H. Rivera-Servera; Harvey Young

    Palgrave Macmillan 2010; US$ 95.00

    A border is a force of containment that inspires dreams of being overcome and crossed; motivates bodies to climb over; and threatens physical harm. This book critically examines a range of cultural performances produced in relation to the tensions and movements of/about the borders dividing North America, including the Caribbean. more...