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Amsterdam University Press The Last Great American Picture Show: New Hollywood Cinema in the 1970s
Book SynopsisThe Last Great American Picture Show brings together essays by scholars and writers who chart the changing evaluations of the American cinema of the 1970s, sometimes referred to as the decade of the lost generation, but now more and more recognized as the first New Hollywood, without which the cinema of Francis Coppola, Steven Spielberg, Robert Zemeckis, Tim Burton or Quentin Tarantino could not have come into existence.Identified with directors such as Sam Peckinpah, Arthur Penn, Peter Bogdanovich, Monte Hellman, Bob Rafelson, Hal Ashby, Robert Altman and James Toback, American cinema of the 1970s is long overdue for this re-evaluation. Many of the films have not only come back from oblivion, as the benchmark for new directorial talents. They have also become cult films in the video shops and the classics of film courses all over the world.Table of ContentsTable of Contents - 6 Part One Introductions - 8 The Impure Cinema: New Hollywood 1967-1976 - 10 ”The Last Good Time We Ever Had”: Remembering the New Hollywood Cinema - 20 American Auteur Cinema: The Last – or First – Great Picture Show - 38 Part Two Histories - 72 The Decade When Movies Mattered - 74 A Walking Contradiction (Partly Truth and Partly Fiction) - 84 The Exploitation Generation. or: How Marginal Movies Came in from the Cold - 108 New Hollywood and the Sixties Melting Pot - 132 Part Three People and Places - 154 Dinosaurs in the Age of the Cinemobile - 156 ”The Cylinders Were Whispering My Name”: The Films of Monte Hellman - 166 Nashville contra Jaws, or “The Imagination of Disaster” Revisited - 196 For Wanda - 224 Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere: The Uneasy Ride of Hollywood and Rock - 250 Auteurism and War-teurism: Terrence Malick’s War Movie - 268 Part Four Critical Debates - 278 The Pathos of Failure: American Films in the 1970s: Notes on the Unmotivated Hero [1975] - 280 Trapped in the Affection Image: Hollywood’s Post-traumatic Cycle (1970-1976) - 294 Grim Fascination: Fingers, James Toback and 1970s American Cinema - 310 Allegories of Post-Fordism in 1970s New Hollywood: Countercultural Combat Films, Conspiracy Thrillers as Genre Recycling - 334 Bibliography - 360 List of Contributors - 372 Pictures (with credits) - 376 Index of Film Titles - 378
£50.21
Taylor & Francis Ltd What's So Funny?: Sketches from My Life
Book SynopsisIllustrated by Lotte Goslar herself, this extraordinary book provides, through her vivid sketch-like texts, a moving and humorous account of her life during a traumatic period in world history. Her acute observations of daily human foibles and vanities are interspersed with her interactions with major figures (Palucca, Voskovec and Werich, Brecht, Charles Laughton and Elsa Lanchester, Hans Sahl, and Marilyn Monroe), revealing to the reader the world of a great artist in movement and mime.What's So Funny? includes texts by Horst Koegler, Voskovec and Werich, Joel Schechter, and Bertolt Brecht.Trade Review"Her name is Goslar, but she was born in Dresden. She wanted to become a dancer and studied with Palucca, but she became a mime and a clown and created for herself her own form that she called 'Pantomime Circus'. Clive Barnes, until recently the all-powerful critic of The New York Times, took the easy way out and called her simply 'divine'." -- Horst KoeglerTable of ContentsChapter 1 How Sweet It Is; Chapter 2 First Memories; Chapter 3 Palucca; Chapter 4 So Much Luck (I); Chapter 5 The Disgruntled; Chapter 6 Up and Out; Chapter 7 The Peppermill Theater; Chapter 8 The Liberated Theater; Chapter 9 The Dancing Clown, Voskovec, Werich; Chapter 10 The Fortune Teller; Chapter 11 Off to America; Chapter 12 A Propos Aging; Chapter 13 So Much Luck (II); Chapter 14 On Tour: Road Signs; Chapter 15 To The Rescue; Chapter 16 A New World; Chapter 17 The Turnabout Theater; Chapter 18 My Film Career; Chapter 19 Cats I’ve Met; Chapter 20 The Dancing Hausfrau; Chapter 21 Lotte Goslar’s Circus Scene, Joel Schechter; Chapter 22 TV; Chapter 23 Magic; Chapter 24 Not So Magic; Chapter 25 A New Experience; Chapter 26 Marilyn; Chapter 27 A Large Landscape; Chapter 28 What’s So Funny?;
£123.50
Taylor & Francis Ltd Moving Notation
Book SynopsisDesigned specifically for university-level study, Moving Notation will benefit students and teachers of both dance and music, offering a complete introduction to the theory and practice of musical rhythm and elementary Labanotation. Performing Arts Studies aims to provide stimulating resource books of both a practical and philosophical nature for teachers and students of the performing arts: music, dance, theatre, film, radio, video, oral poetry, performance art, and multi-media forms.Table of ContentsIntroduction, 1 GETTING STARTED 2 GETTING ORGANIZED 3 FIRST EXPANSIONS 4 APPROACHING PERFECTION 5 2s and 3s 6 UPSETTING THE BALANCE 7 CHANGING TIMES 8 CONCLUSIONS
£123.50
Amsterdam University Press Building Musical Culture in Nineteenth-Century
Book SynopsisWhen people attend classical music concerts today, they sit and listen in silence, offering no audible reactions to what they're hearing. We think of that as normal-but, as Darryl Cressman shows in this book, it's the product of a long history of interrelationships between music, social norms, and technology. Using the example of Amsterdam's Concertgebouw in the nineteenth century, Cressman shows how its design was in part intended to help discipline and educate concert audiences to listen attentively - and analysis of its creation and use offers rich insights into sound studies, media history, science and technology studies, classical music, and much more.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Chapter One: The Concert Hall as a Medium of Musical Culture Chapter Two: Listening, Attentive Listening, and Musical Meaning Chapter Three: Patronage, Class, and Buildings for Music: Aristocratic Opera Houses and Bourgeois Concert Halls Chapter Four: Acoustic Architecture Before Science: Designing the Sound of the Concertgebouw Chapter Five: Frisia Non Cantat: The Unmusicality of the Dutch Chapter Six: Listening to Media History References Index
£91.20
Tulika Books Tilt Pause Shift – Dance Ecologies in India
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£46.40
Niyogi Books Rodin And The Dance Of Shiva
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£17.99
Niyogi Books Kathak: The Dance of Storytellers
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£33.74
Manohar Publishers and Distributors Odissi and the Geeta Govinda
Book SynopsisThe book attempts to trace an overview of the different components that define the cultural landscape of the state of Odisha in relation to its history, religious cults, art, and literature and to link the development of the various aspects to the role played over the centuries by the Geeta Govinda poem in its different manifestations. From being an important component of the rituals performed in the Jagannath Temple to becoming an essential part of the people's daily lives and artistic expressions, this immortal poem has exercised its influence on the cultural landscape of the state from its early inception in the twelfth century until present times. Religious beliefs, visual representations, performative expressions, and literary compositions have been influenced by the strong emotional appeal contained in its verses.
£53.19
Leuven University Press Dance as Intermedial Translation
Book SynopsisInnovative perspective to the meaningful import of body and materiality in the translation process, a focal point of recent literature in Translation StudiesThis book is situated in the breach opened up by recent debates on inherited notions of text, language, and translation that followed the emergence of new technologies. It examines two works of contemporary dance, Marie Chouinard's Jérôme Bosch: Le Jardin des Délices (2016) and Mathieu Geffré's Froth on the Daydream (2018), as examples of intermedial translation. Conceptualising translation through the lens of theatrical dance allows us to see the translation process as a creative, corporeal, and political practice of negotiating human and non-human agencies, deeply intertwined with issues of memory and struggles over representation. Drawing on a wide range of theoretical debates from translation theory, dance studies, cultural theory, gender studies, postcolonialism, art history, cognitive linguistics, multimodality, film studies, and memory studies, as well as on concrete examples of performative works, the book charts a course for the development of dance translation as a legitimate, if still under-researched, subfield of translation studies.With free digital appendicesThis publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).This book will be made open access within three years of publication thanks to Path to Open, a program developed in partnership between JSTOR, the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), University of Michigan Press, and The University of North Carolina Press to bring about equitable access and impact for the entire scholarly community, including authors, researchers, libraries, and university presses around the world. Learn more at https://about.jstor.org/path-to-open/
£48.60
Cannibal/Hannibal Publishers Dance in Close-Up: Hans van Manen seen by Erwin
Book Synopsis“Ballet inspires me. Human beings have the capacity to express themselves through many art forms, but when it comes to dance – and especially classical modern ballet – I am always amazed by that unbelievably elevated form of expression. It’s so precise and so incredibly skilled; I admire that enormously.” — Photographer and filmmaker Erwin Olaf “The fact that the photographer is looking through the camera lens means they have a different perspective from looking directly at the figure. That is voyeuristic. The camera can do something that the audience member can’t: zooming in for a close-up.” — Choreographer Hans van Manen The grand master of Dutch dance, Hans van Manen, celebrates his 90th birthday this year. That has given rise to international celebrations by leading ballet companies with the Hans van Manen festival from 8 to 29 June 2022, the exclusive publication Dance in Close-Up and the exhibition of the same name in Galerie Ron Mandos in Amsterdam from 19 June to 17 July 2022. From the 1970s to the 1990s, Hans van Manen was not only one of the world’s leading choreographers, but also an internationally acclaimed photographer. It was during this period that the then very young photographer Erwin Olaf met the famed artist, who immediately took him under his wing and introduced him to the world of the visual arts and studio photography. This book celebrates their 40 years of friendship, with a photo series in which Van Manen directs moments from his choreographic career, recorded with the utmost precision by Erwin Olaf. With text contributions from the authors Nina Siegal and Michael James Gardner.
£41.25
ALFRED PUBLISHING CO.(UK)LTD THEORY DRILLS FOR YOUNG CHILDREN
Book SynopsisAccompaniment to the theory for young children series. Theory drills for young children is a notespeller with a difference, complete with stickers and explanations.
£7.95
Ian Randle Publishers,Jamaica A Reader in African-Jamaican Music, Dance and Religion
Book SynopsisJamaica’s rich culture is known the world over; and every aspect of this culture has been influenced by Jamaica’s African heritage. From speech to dress, and spirituality to dance, from food to folklore and from music to art and religion, African retentions from the time of slavery have become more than preserved aspects of Jamaica’s past; African traditions have become part and parcel of Jamaican culture.In this Reader, Coester and Bender have compiled some of the most important ethnographic work by noted researchers which, although previously published, have been exceptionally difficult to access by the growing community of scholars of African-Caribbean and Jamaican studies. Several seminal articles on aspects of African-Jamaican culture are included in this rich and valuable collection that describes and analyses the elements that make up a distinctive African-Jamaican ethos.
£47.45
University of the West Indies Press Beryl McBurnie
Book SynopsisDetermined, imperious, flighty, charming, Beryl McBurnie was born in Trinidad and went to New York in the early 1940s to study dance and drama. She also made a name for herself as a dancer and singer, Belle Rosette. But she turned her back on the bright lights to return to Trinidad. There she continued the work she had begun before World War II, researching and performing the dances of the Caribbean, especially those that drew on African traditions. She was part of an anticolonial movement that recognized the unique culture of the country and the region and eventually led Trinidad and Tobago to independence.Artistically, McBurnie’s work influenced dancers throughout the region and beyond. She also devoted years to building the Little Carib Theatre. Intended as a home for folk dance, it also housed Derek Walcott’s Theatre Workshop and became a crucible for the performing arts.This book portrays the woman, explores the influences that shaped McBurnie and those whom she influenced in turn, and tells of her struggle to realize a vision she nurtured for decades.
£20.21
University of the West Indies Press Beryl McBurnie
Book SynopsisDetermined, imperious, flighty, charming, Beryl McBurnie was born in Trinidad and went to New York in the early 1940s to study dance and drama. She also made a name for herself as a dancer and singer, Belle Rosette. But she turned her back on the bright lights to return to Trinidad. There she continued the work she had begun before World War II, researching and performing the dances of the Caribbean, especially those that drew on African traditions. She was part of an anticolonial movement that recognized the unique culture of the country and the region and eventually led Trinidad and Tobago to independence.Artistically, McBurnie's work influenced dancers throughout the region and beyond. She also devoted years to building the Little Carib Theatre. Intended as a home for folk dance, it also housed Derek Walcott's Theatre Workshop and became a crucible for the performing arts.This book portrays the woman, explores the influences that shaped McBurnie and those whom she influenced in turn, and tells of her struggle to realize a vision she nurtured for decades.Judy Raymond is a writer and editor based in Trinidad. She works as a journalist and is the editor in chief of the Trinidad and Tobago Newsday. She is the author of Barbara Jardine: Goldsmith; Meiling: Fashion Designer and The Colour of Shadows: Images of Caribbean Slavery.
£26.27
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Lion And Dragon Dance In Singapore
Book SynopsisLion dance has been in Singapore since the 1930s and is closely connected with the Chinese clans that organised the first troupes, with some of these clans hailing as far back as the 1800s. Chronicling the history of lion dance, therefore, is akin to chronicling the pioneering years of our nation. However, few books document the history of this art form in Singapore.This book is the first of its kind to introduce the history, culture, sport and performance art that is lion and dragon dance in English. It will cover the types of dances and costumes, symbolisms and values embedded in the lion and dragon dance communities. It will tell the stories of Singaporean lion and dragon dance pioneers which have never before appeared in any English publications. It will also feature interviews with current leaders in the community and share our hopes for the future of the art form in Singapore.
£66.50
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Lion And Dragon Dance In Singapore
Book SynopsisLion dance has been in Singapore since the 1930s and is closely connected with the Chinese clans that organised the first troupes, with some of these clans hailing as far back as the 1800s. Chronicling the history of lion dance, therefore, is akin to chronicling the pioneering years of our nation. However, few books document the history of this art form in Singapore.This book is the first of its kind to introduce the history, culture, sport and performance art that is lion and dragon dance in English. It will cover the types of dances and costumes, symbolisms and values embedded in the lion and dragon dance communities. It will tell the stories of Singaporean lion and dragon dance pioneers which have never before appeared in any English publications. It will also feature interviews with current leaders in the community and share our hopes for the future of the art form in Singapore.
£33.25
Springer Verlag, Singapore Cultural Dance in Australia: Essays on
Book SynopsisThis book draws on theories of aesthetics, post-colonialism, multiculturalism and transnationalism to explore salient aspects of perpetuating traditional dance customs in diaspora. It is the first book to present a broad-ranging analysis of cultural dance in Australia. Topics include adaptation of dance customs within a post-migration context, multicultural festivals, prominent performers, historiographies and archives, and the relative positionings of cultural and Western theatrical dance genres. The book offers a decolonized appraisal of dance in Australia, critiquing past and present praxes and offering suggestions for the future. Overall, it underscores the highly variegated nature of the Australian dance landscape and advocates for greater recognition of amateur community dance practices. Cultural Dance in Australia makes a substantial contribution to the catalogue of work about immigrants and cultural dance styles that continue to be preserved in Australia. This book will be of interest to scholars of dance, performance studies, migration studies and transnationalism.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Preface.- Chapter 2. Dance in Diaspora.- Chapter 3. The West/Rest Pirouette: Division in the Dance Canon.- Chapter 4. Motifs of Migration: Reproducing Dance in a New Environment.- Chapter 5. In the Spotlight: Public Performances of Cultural Dance in Australia.- Chapter 6. The Shell Folkloric Festival: The Most Prominent Multicultural Event.- Chapter 7. Riverdance and the dissolution of cultural boundaries in Australian Irish Dancing .- Chapter 8. The Ivory Tower and its Fixed Pointe of Reference.- Chapter 9. Borders, Boundaries and Difference.- Chapter 10. The White Pages: Australian Dance Writings.- Chapter 11. The Need for an Archive of Cultural Dance.- Chapter 12. Steps Towards the Future.
£98.99
Ekta Books Distributors Pvt. Ltd. Carya :: Dancing away to Nirvana
Book SynopsisArun Shrestha, born in 1947, is a prolific writer on Vajrayana Buddhism, with academic qualifications in economics and English Literature. He has presented papers on Carya and Caryanrtya and regularly contributes to 'Sirjana' journal on carya, viewing it as aesthetic spiritualism.
£75.99
FABER MUSIC Sing Along Sing Together
Book SynopsisOpen Singing is all about creating moments of magic and pure pleasure through singing with others. At Open Singing sessions, everyone is invited to sing: the event is neither choral rehearsalor choral concert. It is - pure and simple - all about turning up and making music. Open Singing transcends age, style and culture. Along with a methodical approach and good communication skills, a clever choice of repertoire is one of the most important preconditions for a successful session. This album presents a varied selection of time-honoured classics and new pieces suitable for all kinds of Open Singing. Additionally, Sing Along - Sing Together! offers valuable tips and performance suggestions for successful planning and realization of Open Singing sessions.
£27.86
FABER MUSIC VOCES8 A CAPPELLA SONGBOOK Eight songs for
Book SynopsisEight songs for eightpart vocal groups.
£12.47
FABER MUSIC Half Moon Rising
Book SynopsisChoral Music from Mainland China Hong Kong Singapore and Taiwan Compiled and Edited by John Winzenb.
£18.00
FABER MUSIC ON CHRISTMAS NIGHT
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£17.05
FABER MUSIC RIGHTSIGHT GRADE EIGHT PIANO
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£8.95
FABER MUSIC The Art of Song Grade 6 High Voice Revised
Book SynopsisThe revised and expanded edition of The Art of Song Grade 6, for High Voice and Piano. A graded selection of 28 songs through the ages, for the advanced level singer. With downloadable accompaniment tracks and practice tracks available online.The Art of Song series provides an extensive selection of songs and arias from the ABRSM singing syllabus. These editions of wide-ranging repertoire cover composers from Purcell and Byrd through Brahms and Schubert to Verdi and Sullivan, arranged in different keys to suit diverse voice-types.Die revidierte und erweiterte Ausgabe von The Art of Song Grade 6, für hohe Stimme und Klavier. Sie enthält eine Auswahl von 41 Liedern aller Epochen für Sänger der Mittelstufe. Mit Begleittracks im Download und online verfügbaren Übungsstücken.Die Reihe Art of Song bietet eine umfangreiche Auswahl an Liedern und Arien aus dem Lehrplan des ABRSM (Associated Board of the Royal Sc
£11.35
FABER MUSIC Art of Song Grade 7
Book SynopsisA selection of songs from the ABRSM Syllabus Revised and Expanded Edition Medium Voice.
£11.35
FABER MUSIC EDITION PETERS ART OF SONG REVISED EXPANDED
Book SynopsisA selection of songs from the ABRSM Syllabus Revised and Expanded Edition Low Voice.
£11.35
FABER MUSIC The Art of Song Grade 7 High Voice Revised
Book SynopsisA selection of songs from the ABRSM Syllabus Revised and Expanded Edition High Voice.
£11.35
FABER MUSIC THE ART OF SONG GRADE 8 MEDIUM VOICE
Book SynopsisA selection of songs from the ABRSM Syllabus Revised and Expanded Edition Medium Voice.
£15.15
FABER MUSIC EDITION PETERS ART OF SONG REVISED EXPANDED
Book SynopsisA selection of songs from the ABRSM Syllabus Revised and Expanded Edition Low Voice.
£15.15
FABER MUSIC METHODE DE BATTERIE VOLUME 0 DRUMS
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£23.28
Nova Science Publishers Inc Contemporary Topics in Movement Arts - Theories
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£113.59
