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From the author of SOPHIE'S WORLD, 'A masterful mixture of fantasy and reality...a simply wonderful read' SHE.Panina Manina, a trapeze artist, falls and breaks her neck. As the ringmaster bends over her, he notices an amulet of amber around her neck, the same trinket he...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2010-07-15
ePub
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Michael Palin's bestselling diaries before, during and after Monty Python.Michael Palin's diaries begin when he was newly married and struggling to make a name for himself in the world of television comedy. But Monty Python was just around the corner . . .Enjoying an...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2010-07-08
ePub
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The Multi-Protagonist Film is an insightful and provocative introduction to this important new genre. Explores the origins and history of one of the most exciting new developments in contemporary film worldwide Guides readers through the genre’s central...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2010-05-21
Collection :
New Approaches to Film Genre
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98,95€
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Write a Play - and Get It Performed is designed for would-be writers of every level and for all types of motivation by two prize-winning professionals. Whether writing for the specific needs of an amateur drama group, community event, political campaign or simply for...
Editeur :
Teach Yourself
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2010-04-30
ePub
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This book is the first monographic study on subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing from a multidisciplinary perspective, from engineering to philology. The book departs from studies, analyses, tests, validations, resulting data, and their application from the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2010-04-28
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There are thousands of pantomimes staged throughout the world every year, most of them in Britain. Most groups, whether they be amateur drama societies, schools, Women's Institutes or Village Hall committees are constantly on the lookout for something fresh and...
Editeur :
Headline Accent
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2010-04-15
Collection :
Secrets to Success
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What drives a musician to write extraordinary songs? How do writers create their worlds? How does an actor achieve greatness?For over thirty years of The South Bank Show, Melvyn Bragg has interviewed many of the greatest cultural icons of our age. These interviews offer...
Editeur :
Sceptre
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2010-04-01
ePub
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This unique tie-in to the major motion picture Oceans -- coming this April from Disney & National Geographic -- explores the health of our oceans, and what we can do to improve it. More than 75 percent of the globe is covered by the oceans. It is sometimes difficult to...
Editeur :
PublicAffairs
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2010-03-23
ePub
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What Cinema Is! offers an engaging answer to Andre Bazin's famous question, exploring his 'idea of cinema' with a sweeping look back at the near century of Cinema's phenomenal ascendancy. Written by one of the foremost film scholars of our time Establishes cinema's...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2010-02-12
Collection :
Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos
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92,95€
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“Beautifully told. Maria Finn relays her adventures in the world of tango with excitement, wit, and insight.” —Robert Farris Thompson, author of Tango: The Art History of Love Maria Finn's husband was cheating. First she threw him out. Then...
Editeur :
Algonquin Books
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2010-02-09
ePub
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Combining an exciting methodology alongside high-interest case studies, Television in Transition offers students of television a guide to a medium that has weathered the challenges of first-run syndication, a multi-channel universe, netlets, major media conglomerates,...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2010-02-05
PDF
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95,95€
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A Companion to Michael Haneke With a new preface addressing the Academy award-winning film, Amour, this new-in-paper edition has established itself as the definitive collection on Michael Haneke—from his early work in television and theater, through his prodigious...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2010-02-04
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to Film Directors
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172,95€
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Chromatic Cinema Color permeates film and its history, but study of its contribution to film has so far been fragmentary.Chromatic Cinema provides the first wide-ranging historical overview of screen color, exploring the changing uses and meanings of color in moving...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2010-02-02
PDF
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120,95€
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The Fantasy Film provides a clear and compelling overview of this revitalized and explosively popular film genre. Includes analyses of a wide range of films, from early classics such asThe Wizard of Oz and Harvey to Spiderman and Shrek, and blockbuster series such as...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2010-01-26
Collection :
New Approaches to Film Genre
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90,95€
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Cinema Wars explores the intersection of film, politics, and US culture and society through a bold critical analysis of the films, TV shows, and documentaries produced in the early 2000s Offers a thought-provoking depiction of Hollywood film as a contested terrain...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-12-15
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94,95€
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Miami Vice captures the glitter and glamour embodied by Crockett and Tubbs and offers students an anatomy of a ground-breaking work in the police procedural genre. ExploresMiami Vice's combination of disparate influences (MTV, film noir, soap opera, 'high concept'...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-12-15
Collection :
Wiley-Blackwell Series in Film and Television
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75,95€
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It was made like a television movie, and completed in less than three months.It killed off its star in forty minutes. There was no happy ending. And it offered the most violent scene to date in American film, punctuated by shrieking strings that seared the national...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2009-11-24
ePub
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Brimming with advice and techniques, this essential reference for book- and songwriters clearly explains the fundamentals of the three crafts of a musical—book, music, and lyrics. Using copious examples from classic shows, Frankel has created the quintessential...
Editeur :
Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2009-09-09
ePub
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A movie that swept the 1934 Academy Awards and captivated Depression-era America, It Happened One Night challenged the ways Americans imagined marriage, romance, gender, and class difference. This book examines key scenes and formal features of It Happened One Night,...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-09-08
Collection :
Wiley-Blackwell Series in Film and Television
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75,95€
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In the mid-1970s, Jay Leno, David Letterman, Andy Kaufman, Richard Lewis, Robin Williams, Elayne Boosler, Tom Dreesen, and several hundred other shameless showoffs and incorrigible cutups from all across the country migrated en masse to Los Angeles, the new home of...
Editeur :
PublicAffairs
Parution :
2009-08-25
ePub
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