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Book SynopsisFilm Censorship is a concise overview of Hollywood censorship and efforts to regulate American films. Sheri Chinen Biesen unveils the behind-the-scenes history of cinema censorship and explore how Hollywood responded to censorial constraints on screen content in a changing cultural and industrial landscape.Trade ReviewAlthough most introductory textbooks touch upon the broader subject, with a short gloss of the Production Code Administration (PCA), there’s never been a handy guide or a more thorough treatment until now, with Sheri Chinen Biesen’s expertly researched, amply illustrated, and wonderfully concise primer Film Censorship: Regulating America’s Screen. . . . Film Censorship fills an important gap and is sure to provide a vital resource for students and readers eager to immerse themselves in this fascinating and equally fraught subject. -- Noah Isenberg * Film Quarterly *[A] thoroughly researched introduction to American film censorship. -- Katherine Waters * Times Literary Supplement *Through original and rich case studies, this volume explores the authorship, power and organization of censorship in compelling ways. Enormously valuable. -- Ellen Scott, University of California, Los AngelesThis impressive, concise, readable book should become a standard in university classrooms that teach American film culture. . . . Essential. * Choice *Students of film censorship should learn about this crucial legal component of the regulation of American screens. * Journal of American History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Pre-Code Era2. Enforcing the Motion Picture Production Code3. Post-war Developments4. Pushing the Envelope: The Demise of Code CensorshipEpilogue: The Post-PCA Legacy of CensorshipNotesAppendixBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisAlastair Sim was an enigmatic character both on and off the screen. His idiosyncratic style of acting in films such as The Belles of St Trinian''s endeared him to a cinema-going audience desperate to escape the day-to-day dreariness of an invasive, bureaucratic post-war Britain. In private, he was a curiously contradictory character, prejudiced and yet tolerant, thoughtful but sometimes inconsiderate. To examine the life of this extraordinary man, this biography contains original contributions from around thirty actors and actresses, including Sir Ian McKellen and Ronnie Corbett.It is supported by extensive research, including interviews with the playwright Christopher Fry, the television producer John Howard Davies and actors who appeared on stage with Alastair as far back as the 1940s. This book also explores Alastair''s life outside of films, including his marriage to Naomi Sim (whom he first met when she was twelve), his career as an elocution teacher, his extensive work on stage (including his theatrical endeavours with James Bridie), his championship of youth and his stalwart refusal to sign autographs.Alastair Sim offers a rare and fascinating insight into the life of one of Britain''s most respected and best-loved actors.

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Book SynopsisRichard Wagner (1813-1883) was better known in the nineteenth century for his provocative musical eroticism. This title studies the composer and his works, showing how Wagner's obsession with sexuality prefigured the composition of operas such as "Tannhauser", "Die Walkure", "Tristan und Isolde", and "Parsifal".Trade ReviewBy shifting our attention from Wagner's politics to his erotics, Dreyfus enriches our understanding of all the major Wagner operas, as well as of the composer himself. This book will transform Wagner studies and the study of music and sexuality. -- Karol Berger, Stanford UniversityDreyfus's searching study of Wagner's sexuality – one with distinctively feminized and fetishistic qualities – penetrates to the core of both the man and the artist. His achievement is that he not only tells us more about the nature of Wagner's eroticism per se, but also makes clear how this substantively affected the music he wrote. An important contribution that brilliantly illuminates some crepuscular zones of the Wagner phenomenon. -- Barry Millington, Editor of the Wagner JournalLaurence Dreyfus has written an immensely important book about the importance of the erotic in Wagner's life and work. The exploration of the fascinating and contradictory subject is both profound and witty. This is a must-read for anyone interested in Wagner's music. -- Vladimir Jurowski, Principal Conductor of the London Philharmonic OrchestraA fascinating study of a distinct dimension of Wagner's life and art. -- Larry Lipkis * Library Journal *The Nazis have cast a long, retrospective shadow over Wagner, but as Laurence Dreyfus argues in Wagner and the Erotic Impulse, what scandalized (and delighted) 19th-century listeners to Wagner's music was not its politics but its unbridled sensuality. Dreyfus explores the aesthetic and biographical issues (including the composer's fondness for wearing women's silk lingerie) with admirable clarity, laying bare an aspect of the composer that is both central and often strangely ignored. -- Adam Lively * Sunday Times *Even in this supposedly liberal era Wagner's detractors still wag fingers at his love-life...As this ground-breaking new study suggests, it's the erotic yearnings so central to his great works that remain arresting. -- Michael Scott Rohan * BBC Music *Revelatory. -- Alex Ross * New Yorker *[Dreyfus] has produced a scholarly yet eminently readable volume that will bewitch any opera-lover. Like a benign magician--like Wagner himself, perhaps--Dreyfus conjures up a vivid array of characters and allows them to reveal their innermost thoughts through their own words and deeds. Nietzche and Schopenhauer are there, as are Baudelaire, Bulow, Heine, D'Annunzio, Thomas Mann, Krafft-Ebing and Henry James. -- Daniel Snowman * Opera *At this point, the only good reason to add to the mountains of Wagner scholarship is to add another peak, which is precisely what Laurence Dreyfus has done in Wagner and the Erotic Impulse...The payoff for following him through his 250-page argument is that Wagner's music sounds deeper, richer and better than ever...Dreyfus' greatest achievement, a great deal of it pioneering, is in his investigation of Wagner's eroticism in the music itself. It's the hardest kind of work a writer about music can do, and Dreyfus does it with rare insight and imagination, and in language as accessible to the interested lay reader as it would be to fellow scholars...Wagner and the Erotic Impulse tears the roof off Wagner scholarship. The artistic cosmos it finds inside is a vastly more vital and compelling place. -- Tim Pfaff * Bay Area Reporter *[Dreyfus's] persuasive contention is that this music is not only erotic to our ears and understanding, but that it was interpreted as such from the very start. Furthermore, he shows that the explicit connections of eroticism with music long predate the nineteenth century, going back at least as far as the terpsichorean tradition of the sixteenth century. Dreyfus impressively manages to argue that music can be interpreted as expressly erotic without getting himself entangled in the complexities of whether music can in general be assigned particular interpretation. -- Bernard O'Donoghue * Times Literary Supplement *Dreyfus' book is an excellent account of what is by any measure a crucial aspect of Wagner's extraordinary art. -- Bradley Winterton * Taipei Times *This is an altogether unusual portrait of the composer, one resting on a platform of brazen sexuality. Dreyfus posits Eros both as a prism through which to access Wagner's biography and oeuvre anew, and as the impulse driving the latter into existence...The hazards attendant on a study of Eros are offset by the strength of Dreyfus's argument. He elevates the erotic to a central paradigm for Wagner: its force is thematised in Tannhäuser, Tristan and Parsifal, documented throughout Wagner's writings, and substantiated by contemporary discourse, both passionate espousal and disgust. But as the author later explains, erotic impulse is also fundamental to the experience of music...Telling details are often the gems in any history, and this book is richly studded...Dreyfus's command of sources is impressive; all are newly translated, their contextual breadth forming a latter-day answer to Greenblatt's so-called new historicism...A rich study, saturated with insight, fresh perspective and delivered with panache. The virtuosity of Dreyfus's readings is often dazzling, if challenging to a more mainstream approach to Wagner...Yet Dreyfus's strategy of bringing historical voices to the fore allows him to open up broader hermeneutic horizons with ease...So thought-provoking is this study in its claims that it will surely give impetus to further scholarly work on erotics, as an historical nodal point both for Wagner reception, and perhaps for music more broadly. -- David Trippett * Cambridge Opera Journal *Nietzsche's posthumous fragment [on the ardours of music for Tristan und Isolde] is one of many examples which Laurence Dreyfus cites in his book to prove that it wasn't Richard Wagner's broadsides against "Judaism" but rather his connection to eroticism and sexuality which enraged contemporaries. Dreyfus notes rightly that the relationships between what Nietzsche termed Wagner's "morbid sexuality," the treatment of Eros in his music dramas, and its reception at the time has thus far been treated only hesitantly in Wagner scholarship. Wagner and the Erotic Impulse tries to fill this gap, and Dreyfus, to come directly to the point, doesn't shy away from naming "the actual word for the ardours of the music in Tristan." That this musicologist (and virtuoso on the viola da gamba) who teaches at Magdalen College Oxford also exhibits a downright off-the-cuff and refreshingly irreverent handling of Wagner and the subject of eroticism is certainly surprising...That music should be able to simulate (or even stimulate) desire because it lacks an erotic object, and that by "purely musical" means should be able to represent tension, impulses, arousal and deliverance ought to enlighten every Wagner-listener. And how the tender love motive in the first scene of Die Walküre has risen to a wild mania at the end of the first act is conveyed to the listener, if not consciously, then certainly unconsciously. One can confidently subscribe to Dreyfus's conclusion that Wagner's erotics had decidedly more significant artistic consequences than did his anti-Semitism...[Dreyfus] must be credited with having treated a noteworthy theme without striking wrong notes. -- Wolfgang Fuhrmann * Wagner Spectrum *

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Book SynopsisImprovisation plays a key role in the toolbox of the music therapist. Tony Wigram's practical and comprehensive guide and online content will prove indispensable to students, teachers, therapists and musicians as a book of musical techniques and therapeutic methods. Beginning with an overview of developing, teaching and analysing the skills of improvisation, Wigram describes techniques ranging from warming up to mirroring, rhythmic grounding, containing and holding. With specific sections on piano improvisation, chordal and 2-, 3- and 4- note improvisation are covered, in addition to advanced skills such as frameworking and transitions. Wigram also includes techniques for thematic improvisation, group improvisation and outlines methods for analysing and reporting improvisational processes. Notated examples allow readers to try out techniques and progress as they read, with audio examples on the accompanying online content adding another dimension to the structure and guidance provided for all levels of music student and therapist.Trade ReviewIn conclusion, this is an impressive book, essential for its exceptional thoroughness and readability as well as for being the only book of its kind. It will be invaluable as a training manual for professional courses, and may also raise other health professionals' awareness of the complex and scientifically grounded skills deployed by a profession so often obliged to defend its research base against accusations of a lack of scientific rigour from those with too narrow a vision of evidence based medicine. -- British Journal of Music Therapy, John Strange, former Chair of the APMTThe book's prose is clear and always user friendly. Wigram's approach is also profoundly practical, requiring the reader to work on the methods outlined, moving "backwards as well as forwards" so as to revise, integrate and develop them in ways specific to the needs of particular working contexts. The book is both accessible and profoundly practical. Moreover, whilst written for a music therapy audience, it warrants a much wider readership, including musicians that play in hospitals or in hospices who may not necessarily be formally qualified as music therapists'. -- British Journal of Music EducationTony Wigram is an experienced improviser, who has written a book to help others to attain the necessary musical and clinical skills to learn to improvise and to effectively use improvisation in their music therapy sessions. As I begun reading, I felt that Wigram was speaking to my experience. He spoke to and normalized my fears of failure and my inner voice of self-criticism. His intention with this book is to dispel the myth that improvisation is "a gift granted to the chosen few" (p.19) and he asserts that "the potential to 'join in' with a musical experience through improvising is inborn and present in everyone" (p.19). It is really designed for music therapy students and clinicians. It is geared towards both beginning and experienced pianists and includes the use of other instruments. It begins at a very basic level and progresses to very complex skills. The chapters that I found most valuable as an educator of undergraduate music therapy students were the chapters on musical techniques (Chapter 3), basic therapeutic methods and skills (Chapter 4), advanced therapeutic methods (Chapter 5), transitions (Chapter 6), and group improvisation (Chapter 8). All of these techniques are well explained, masterfully illustrated in the audio and notated example provided, and are further reinforced with readily accessible yet challenging exercises. Throughout, Wigram provides helpful guidelines in terms of strategies with which to experiment. Improvisation: Methods and Techniques for Music Therapy Clinicians, Educators, and Students is a must for all undergraduate music therapy students.This book provides a systematic approach for novice improvisers and as such is a wonderful teaching aid for those who have been reluctant to teach it in their program. This book also covers more complex skills and therefore I also highly recommended it for graduate students, clinicians, and people with improvisation experience. -- Music Therapy PerspectivesA comprehensive representation of the current international knowledge and practical experiences of music therapeutic interventions, which describes a systematic procedure on different instruments for teachers, students and clinical practitioners, and offers a lot of practical material to aid the development of a personal repertoire of music therapeutic interventions... [Wigram] is the authority to write a book on this topic. -- Musiktherapeutische UmschauThis bountiful text by experienced musician and researcher Tony Wigram is destined to become a standard on the shelves of music therapists globally. Packed full of ideas and examples, it breaks down the "doing" of improvisation into simple and straightforward sections...A bible for music therapists who use and teach improvisation - I highly recommend it. -- Australian Journal of Music TherapyA unique and excellent book of didactics for music therapy academic education, involving the systematisation (and "quantification") of music therapy procedures with a focus of improvisation, and of a Meta methodology of improvisation - especially in music therapy dyad work. While it could be considered first of all as a tutor for students and educators, it is also designed for clinicians to help develop more improvisation skills. As such, it is a handbook of improvisation for clinical practice, to develop more sensitivity to musical material, and to learn a very useful assessment and indication perspective into improvisation as an intervention. -- Nordic Journal of Music TherapyTable of ContentsForeword, Professor Kenneth Bruscia. 1. Introduction. 2. Basic concepts in improvisation. 3. Musical techniques. 4. Basic therapeutic methods and skills. 5. Advanced musical and therapeutic techniques: Extemporising and frameworking. 6. Transitions: In improvisation and therapy. 7. Thematic Improvisation. 8. Group improvisation. 9. Two different methods for analysing improvised music. 10. Summary and Conclusion. Appendices. Glossary. Index.

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Book SynopsisA new Star Wars Insider collection, featuring content previously printed in the Star Wars Insider magazine.Trade Review"Jam-packed with interviews, behind the scenes insights, and more. ... There are plenty of dynamite articles here; discussions with the tech crews from Episode III come to mind, as well as a rundown of which Episode I Easter Eggs are just rumors and which ones the fans missed" - San Francisco Book Review

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Book Synopsis* The frank, shocking and inspiring autobiography of Anthony Kiedis, lead singer of the Red Hot Chili Peppers - 'the world's biggest band' (MOJO)* 'Book of the Year' N.M.E.Trade ReviewKiedis recounts his pharmacological odyssey with wide-eyed relish and a refreshing lack of rehab remorse * SUNDAY TIMES *Everyone who reads this genuinely outrageous book will have their own favourite scene * INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY *An entertaining account of being the most priapic, junkie member of California's most priapic, junkie rock band * GUARDIAN *The year's most astonishing rock autobiography * OBSERVER *

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Book SynopsisFrom Warner Bros. Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Tomb Raider follows the treacherous journey of a young Lara Croft as she takes her first steps toward becoming a global hero. Academy Award™ winner Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina, The Danish Girl) stars in the lead role, under the direction of Roar Uthaug (The Wave). Showcasing lavish concept art, behind the scenes photos, insight into the stunts, and fascinating contributions from cast and crew, Tomb Raider, The Art and Making of the Film, is the perfect companion to this highly-anticipated release.Trade Review“Lara Croft’s death-defying exploits...are jaw-dropping on the page too” - EW.com“This is an excellent and well researched book, showing all the moving pieces that make up a movie adaptation. Great for any fan.” - Adventures in Poor Taste“a fantastic companion piece for anyone who loved the movie, and enjoys playing the games” - Geekisphere “Titan Books has produced many high quality film books in the past, and this one is no exception” - Atomic Moo “demonstrates the physicality and passion that the great Alicia Vikander brought to the role” The Film Stage

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Book SynopsisOnce in a generation a woman comes along who changes everything. Tina Fey is not that woman, but she met that woman once and acted weird around her.Before 30 Rock, Mean Girls and ''Sarah Palin'', Tina Fey was just a young girl with a dream: a recurring stress dream that she was being chased through a local airport by her middle-school gym teacher.She also had a dream that one day she would be a comedian on TV. She has seen both these dreams come true.At last, Tina Fey''s story can be told. From her youthful days as a vicious nerd to her tour of duty on Saturday Night Live; from her passionately half-hearted pursuit of physical beauty to her life as a mother eating things off the floor; from her one-sided college romance to her nearly fatal honeymoon - from the beginning of this paragraph to this final sentence.Tina Fey reveals all in this hilarious memoir, and proves what we''ve all suspected: you''re no one until someone callsTrade ReviewA masterpiece in comedy writing...I was hooked from the first word * Sunday Telegraph *Mightily enjoyable ... Bossypants shows that 30 Rock's voice is very much Fey's voice: pithy, smart and as ironic as being run over by an ambulance ... if she has a point to make, if she feels something deeply, she can make it funny. That's why she is a great comedian * The Times *My love for the divine Tina Fey is river deep, mountain high ... Bossypants is as hilarious, candid and self-deprecating as fangirls like me would expect -- Lauren Laverne * Grazia *Wry, clever, biting and brilliant * Daily Telegraph *

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Book SynopsisThe Number One Sunday Times bestseller and international phenomenon by Stephenie Meyer is now a major motion picture!

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Book SynopsisThe music reviews of Robert Schumann and Richard Wagner are central documents of 19th-century German musical culture. This book takes a closer look at the way these texts were written and explores the significant contributions Schumann and Wagner made to the discourse of musical appraisal. To that effect, the author raises fundamental questions that have thus far remained unaddressed: What textual features characterize the critical writings? How do Schumann and Wagner understand their roles as critics of music? And in what way do they reach out to the reader? Rather than understanding these critical writings exclusively as a gateway to the compositions and musical aesthetics of Schumann and Wagner, this book analyzes the texts through the lens of pragmatics, narratology and discourse analysis. Using this interdisciplinary perspective, the author proposes to understand Schumann and Wagner within the broader medial and discursive context of German ‘Kritik’. He challenges the dominant narrative that brands Schumann and Wagner as elitist Romantic critics, demonstrating instead that they actively encourage their readers to form their own judgements. This volume is an indispensable resource for scholars of German literature, periodicals and music alike.

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Book SynopsisPublished to coincide with the 20th anniversary of one of the most seminal British films ever made

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Book SynopsisThe classic biography which explores the shocking drama of Kurt Cobain's troubled life

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Book SynopsisTHE CAPTIVATING EIGHT NOVEL IN THE MULTI-MILLION BESTSELLING OUTLANDER SERIES - NOW ON AMAZON PRIME!''A series that will keep you turning the pages long into the night'' Rebecca Yarros***** ''Jamie & Claire fans should not be disappointed''''Epic, magical, and deeply romantic. A true gift to all readers'' Ali Hazelwood***** ''Of course I loved it! Did you have any doubt? I mean, it''s Diana mad skillz Gabaldon and it''s an OUTLANDER book! Could it be anything less than magical?''''Adventure. Drama. History. Time travel. Romance. An epic story that grabs you by the throat and doesn''t let go'' Kristin Hannah***** ''Diana Gabaldon poured her heart along with some of her own blood into this book!!''''Outlander remains a treasure to be enjoyed and shared'' Ian Rankin____________It is June 1778, and the world seems to be turning upside-down.The British Army is withdrawing from Philadelphia, with George Washington in pursuit, and for the first time, it looks as if the rebels might actually win. But for Claire Fraser and her family, there are even more tumultuous revolutions that have to be accommodated.Her former husband, Jamie, has returned from the dead, demanding to know why in his absence she married his best friend, Lord John Grey. Lord John''s son, the ninth Earl of Ellesmere, is no less shocked to discover that his real father is actually the newly resurrected Jamie Fraser, and Jamie''s nephew Ian Murray discovers that his new-found cousin has an eye for the woman who has just agreed to marry him.And while Claire is terrified that one of her husbands may be about to murder the other, in the 20th century her descendants face even more desperate turns of events. Her daughter Brianna is trying to protect her son from a vicious criminal with murder on his mind, while her husband Roger has disappeared into the past . . .____________''An utter delight to experience. Open the pages and prepare to be swept away.'' Rebecca Ross''A stone-cold classic'' Katherine Arden''An unforgettable, unparalleled love story that will leave you craving more.'' Olivie Blake''An enchanting escape for new readers and destined for countless rereads.'' Jennifer L. ArmentroutTrade ReviewHistory comes deliciously alive on the page - NEW YORK DAILY NEWSA grand adventure written on a canvas that probes the heart, weighs the soul and measures the human spirit across ten generations - CNNA blockbuster hit - WALL STREET JOURNALRiveting. Gabaldon has a true storyteller's voice - GLOBE AND MAILGabaldon is a born storyteller - LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS

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Book SynopsisThis is James McBride's tribute to his remarkable, eccentric, determined mother, and an eloquent exploration of what family and the colour of your skin really meansTrade ReviewA triumph * New York Times Book Review *A startling, tender-hearted tribute to a woman for whom the expression tough love might have been invented * The Times *As lively as a novel, a well-written, thoughtful contribution to the literature on race * Washington Post *Inspiring * Glamour *Vibrant * Boston Globe *What is stunning here is the grace and compassion with which a young writer captures how shadows, once thrown, are cast across many generations, while celebrating at the same time a real melting-pot of cultures * Financial Times *A wonderfully evocative, moving book ... beautifully flowing prose, interlaced with compassion and humour * Literary Review *

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Book SynopsisThis collection of fourteen essays explores how the dominant media of our time film and television have engaged with the golden age as formulated in the Western classical tradition.

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Book SynopsisA SUNDAY TIMES AND TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK PRIZETHE BOOKSELLER''S Most Picked Book in General Non-Fiction Round Ups of 2017Peggy Seeger is one of folk music's most influential artists and songwriters. Born in New York City in 1935, she enjoyed a childhood steeped in music and left-wing politics they remain her lifeblood. After college, she travelled to Russia and China against US advice before arriving in London, where she met the man with whom she would raise three children and share the next thirty-three years: Ewan MacColl. Together, they helped lay the foundations of the British folk revival, through the influential Critics Group and the landmark BBC Radio Ballads series. And as Ewan's muse, she inspired one of the twentieth century's most popular love songs, The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face'. With a clear eye and generous spirit, Peggy writes of a rollercoast

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Book SynopsisThis new edition of the groundbreaking popular book from Susan J Napier, Anime from Akira to Howl''s Moving Castle, is a must-have for both seasoned and new fans of anime. Japanese animation is more popular than ever following the 2002 Academy Award given to Hayao Miyazaki''s Spirited Away. It confirmed that anime is more than just children''s cartoons, often portraying important social and cultural themes. With new chapters on Spirited Away and other recent releases, including Howl''s Moving Castle-- which broke records in Japan--this edition will be the authoritative source on anime for an exploding market of viewers who want to know more.

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Book SynopsisNew expanded edition of this exhaustive work on Surrealist cinema, including a brand new illustrated chapter on Dali and film.

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Book SynopsisA tell-all biography of the epic in-fighting of the Grateful Dead in the years following band leader Jerry Garcia''s death in 1995The Grateful Dead rose to greatness under the inspired leadership of guitarist Jerry Garcia, but the band very nearly died along with him. When Garcia passed away suddenly in August of 1995, the remaining band members experienced full crises of confidence and identity. So long defined by Garcia''s vision for the group, the surviving Core Four, as they came to be called, were reduced to conflicting agendas, strained relationships, and catastrophic business decisions that would leave the iconic band in shambles. Wrestling with how best to define their living legacy, the band made many attempts at restructuring, but it would take twenty years before relationships were mended enough for the Grateful Dead as fans remembered them to once again take the stage.Acclaimed music journalist and New York Timesbestselling author Joel Selvi

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Book SynopsisJoin Alan Partridge on his incredible journey of discovery in Every Ruddy Word: All The Scripts.Alan Partridge is our most remarkable broadcaster. From the giddy heights of his short-lived TV chat show to the crashing lows of six months in a travel tavern, he''s done it all. Whether shooting dead one of his guests on air; being crushed under a dead cow; having incomplete sex with a woman he was supposed to be sacking or encountering ''mentalist'' fans, Alan remains a formidable presence on Radio Norwich. And despite suffering a breakdown, Toblerone addiction and skewering his foot on a spike he always bounces back.From Alan Partridge''s first radio chat show to the pulping of his autobiography, Every Ruddy Word is the complete story of one of Britain''s most-enduring comic heroes.''Charts every line of Mr Blazer''s plummeting career from radio to TV to corporate video presenter. A treat''

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Book SynopsisStephen Fry invites readers to take a glimpse at his life story in the unputdownable More Fool Me.''Oh dear I am an arse. I expect there''ll be what I believe is called an intervention soon. I keep picturing it. All my friends bearing down on me and me denying everything until my pockets are emptied. Oh the shame''In his early thirties, Stephen Fry - writer, comedian, star of stage and screen - had, as they say, ''made it''. Much loved in A Bit of Fry and Laurie, Blackadder and Jeeves and Wooster, author of a critically acclaimed and bestselling first novel, The Liar, with a glamorous and glittering cast of friends, he had more work than was perhaps good for him. What could possibly go wrong?Then, as the 80s drew to a close, he discovered a most enjoyable way to burn the candle at both ends, and took to excess like a duck to breadcrumbs. Writing and recording by day, and haunting a never ending series of celeb

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Book SynopsisThree BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations starring John Shrapnel as Morse and Robert Glenister as Lewis, plus a bonus reading by Colin Dexter of one of his short stories.In Last Seen Wearing, Inspector Morse is reluctant to take over an old missing person case from a dead colleague. But two years, three months and two days after teenager Valerie Taylor’s disappearance, somebody decides to supply some surprising new evidence. . .In The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn Inspector Morse tackles the murder of an exam invigilator. The newly appointed member of the Oxford foreign exam syndicate was deaf, and he wasn’t from the insular world of the Oxford colleges. Now he is dead.After he’s rushed into hospital, Inspector Morse becomes intrigued by an old crime in The Wench is Dead. Could the wrong men have been hanged for the murder of Joanna Franks?Plus Colin Dexter reads his own short story, The Double Crossing, in which it is a good first day for a certain detective named Lewis.Gripping, suspenseful and entertaining, these BBC dramatisations were adapted by Guy Meredith from the original Inspector Morse novels by Colin Dexter.Duration: 4 hours 45 mins approx.

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Book SynopsisThe first photographic celebration of the most famous recording studio in the world with a foreword by Sir George Martin.Trade ReviewLucid and lavishly illustrated—a fine gift for pop and music history buffs. Appropriately ambitious biography of the recording studio that gave the world the Beatles’ eponymous swan song—but also, lest it be forgotten, the works of Helen Shapiro and Vanessa-Mae. Helen and Vanessa who? It helps to be a music geek, if not of a certain age, to appreciate the depths of BBC music critic Lawrence’s history of Abbey Road studios, which has been online for nearly nine decades now. For those who are not such geeks, then the basic bits of essential knowledge, all to be found in his pages, are these: The studio was built in the heart of St. John’s Wood, “London’s first garden suburb,” in a refitted Georgian mansion, and in those august surroundings was inaugurated under the baton of none other than Edward Elgar, he of “Pomp and Circumstance” fame. It was also a sonic laboratory, a place to test not only gear to help King George VI work through his stutter (the stuff of the hit movie The King’s Speech) but also the stereophonic, aurally deceptive goodies that would be put to use in the psychedelic era under the tutelage of good Sir George Martin. Before all that, though, Abbey Road had to make the transition from stuffy classical facility to pop wonderland. If you knew that the first pop hit to emerge from Abbey Road was “Cowpuncher’s Cantata” in 1952, then you will not need or profit from Lawrence’s considerable labors, but if you did not—or did not know that Pink Floyd, Radiohead and even Mel Gibson recorded here—then this book is certainly worthy of time and exploration. One might quibble with some of his assessments (Was Jeff Beck’s Truth really a forerunner of metal? Were the Hollies really just another cover band?), but Lawrence makes up for it with plenty of fine factual writing, especially on the technological side. Lucid and lavishly illustrated—a fine gift for pop and music history buffs. * Kirkus *The book is as captivating as the story it tells [...] The book is pure quality from start to finish – from the production, to the design, to the layout and content [...] For fans of music, for musicians, and for cultural historians, this book is definitely a must-have! -- Donna Jackson * British Beatles Fan Club *Abbey Road: The Best Studio in the World is an incredible documentation of cultural history for anyone who values music and how it's made. -- Anita Awbi * PRS for Music *This is the kind of book you dip into for a few minutes and emerge from two hours later – the text always informative, the photographs fresh as yesterday... -- Steven Carroll * The Sydney Morning Herald *Abbey Road is a big book worth lifting. * Rick Librarian *

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Book Synopsis''So honest and pure as to count as a true rapture'' JOAN DIDION''A poetic masterpiece'' JOHNNY DEPP''Our St John of the Cross, a mystic full of compassion'' EDMUND WHITE''A roadmap to my life'', from the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids: an unforgettable odyssey of a legendary artist, told through the prism of cafés and haunts she has worked in around the worldREVISED EDITION WITH FIVE THOUSAND WORDS OF BONUS MATERIAL AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS M Train begins in the tiny Greenwich Village café where Smith goes every morning for black coffee, ruminates on the world as it is and the world as it was, and writes in her notebook. Through prose that shifts fluidly between dreams and reality, past and present, and across a landscape of creative aspirations and inspirations, we travel to Frida Kahlo's Casa Azul in Mexico; to a meeting of an Arctic explorer's society in Berlin; to a ramshackle seaside bungalow in New York's Far Rockaway Trade ReviewThis book is so honest and pure as to count as a true rapture * Joan Didion *Patti Smith has graced us with a poetic masterpiece, a rare and privileged invitation to unlatch a treasure chest never before breached * Johnny Depp *A tender, harrowing, often hilarious portrait of young lovers forging their paths in an eccentric milieu of Beat poets, Warhol socialites, and transvestites, rock stars and artists * Vogue *The most beautiful, incredible autobiography – it will make you ache for a time and a place that you probably never knew, New York in the 1970s * Nick Hornby *She was once our savage Rimbaud, but suffering has turned her into our St John of the Cross, a mystic full of compassion * Edmund White *

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Book SynopsisDaniel Defoe was born in London in 1660. He worked briefly as a hosiery merchant, then as an intelligence agent and political writer. His writings resulted in his imprisonment on several occasions, and earned him powerful friends and enemies. During his lifetime Defoe wrote over two hundred and fifty books, pamphlets and journals and travelled widely in both Europe and the British Isles. Among his most famous works are Robinson Crusoe (1719), Moll Flanders (1722) and A Journal of the Plague Year (1722). Though Defoe was nearly sixty before he began writing fiction, his work is so fundamental to the development of the novel that he is often cited as the first true English novelist. He is also regarded as a founding father of modern journalism and one of the earliest travel writers. Daniel Defoe died in April 1731.Trade ReviewNever since childhood have I been so thoroughly immersed in a book—Jim Crace, Financial TimesAn 18th-century reader, raised on a high-minded diet of elegy and pastoral, must have felt stunned on first encountering the jagged prose of a Daniel Defoe, with its street-wise populism and delight in the commonplace—Terry EagletonRobinson Crusoe has a universal appeal, a story that goes right to the core of existence—Simon Armitage, GuardianDefoe should surely be credited with inventing the English novel—Mail on SundayDefoe was an imaginative genius—John Carey, Sunday Times

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Book SynopsisThe Beatles have been at the top for fifty years, their music remains exciting, their influence is still huge, their acclaim and achievements cannot be surpassed. But who really were the Beatles, and how did they and everything else in the 1960s fuse so explosively?Mark Lewisohn''s three-part biography is the first true and accurate account of the Beatles, a contextual history built upon impeccable research and written with energy, style, objectivity and insight. This first volume covers the crucial and less-known early period - the Liverpool and Hamburg years of a hungry rock and roll band, when all the sharp characters and situations take shape.This is the Beatles like you''ve never read them before. It isn''t just ''another book'', it''s the book, from the world-acknowledged authority. Forget what you know and discover The Complete Story.Trade ReviewThis is the story told in Proustian detail ... The first edited-down volume, is largely a delight, and the story is told so definitively that, after this, that really should be it. Secondary sources are comprehensively mined; letters, public records and business documents have been found in places no one else ever thought to look ... Lewisohn is a Beatles oracle -- John Harris Guardian Never previously have the Beatles' formative years been recounted in such detail. It is unlikely to be surpassed -- Michael Watts Daily Telegraph Lewisohn has done an astonishing job. I can't wait for volume two Independent A major event in music publishing this month as Tune In by Mark Lewisohn lands..the definitive account of The Beatles GQ

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Book SynopsisMajor Label Mastering: Professional Mastering Process distills 25 years of mastering experience at Capitol Records into practical understandings and reliable systems. Containing unparalleled insights, this book reveals the mastering tricks and techniques used by Evren Göknar at one of the world's most notable record labels.Beginning with the requisite competencies every Mastering Engineer must develop, Major Label Mastering delves into the particulars of the mastering studio, as well as fundamental mastering tools. Included among these tools is The Five Step Mastering Process, a rigorously tested system that equips the practitioner to successfully and confidently master a project to exacting standards of audio fidelity. Covering all bases, the book discusses both macro and micro considerations: from mindset approach and connecting with clients down to detailed guidelines for processing audio, advanced methods, and audio restoration. Each chapter ends with exerciTrade Review"Absolutely essential for anyone seriously considering any aspect of mastering as their passion or career choice […] this is an under-the-hood approach which anyone involved in mastering can use to understand the entire process." - Greg Calbi, Sterling Sound"One of the first songs that Evren mastered for me was a very open, old-school sounding, Ray Charles-esque type of song. He suggested using one of the classic Capitol Records echo chambers on the mix. My first thought was, 'thats insane!', but my second thought was, 'thats cool!, let’s do it!' I realized very quickly that I was working with a very creative, open-minded Mastering Guru, who was going to take my mixes to a new level of creativity. Since then, Evren has mastered well over 800 songs for me. In addition to the great sounding final master, what I value about Evren is that he understands the importance of building the relationship between the Mixer and Mastering Engineer. Over the years my mixes have evolved and improved based on what I've learned from Evren and his creative approach, techniques and ideas that he has added to my mixes. It's as if we're on the same football team and I pass him the ball around the 30 yard line so to speak, and Evren runs it in the rest of the way for the goal! Now he has put his techniques and creative approach to Mastering in writing. This book is a must-have for any aspiring student or professional alike seeking a better understanding of the fine art of Mastering!"Bill Appleberry, Producer, Mixer (The Voice, The Wallflowers, Operator, Puddle Of Mudd, Stone Temple Pilots)"This is great. Evren is one of the best mastering engineers in the world and he's written a book about his craft." - David Holley, Group Managing Director Wise Music Group (Former Managing Director Abbey Road Studios, Former SVP EMI Music)''Mastering is often considered a mysterious black art, but while there is certainly a lot of artistry involved Evren Göknar’s book, published in April 2020 (Routledge/Focal Press), dispels the mystery in a very readable and understandable way. For anyone with an interest in mastering, either for DIY projects or as a potential career path, Evren has crammed a lot of really helpful information and very practical advice into this book, along with very sensible and constructive guides to developing and honing the core skills, techniques and approaches that make a good mastering engineer. I particularly appreciated the emphasis on developing and honing listening skills. It’s well worth adding to the book shelf.'' SOUND ON SOUND (SOS), Hugh Robjohns"Whether a budding engineer or a seasoned pro, readers will come away from Major Label Mastering with far greater understanding and appreciation for the newly demystified process of mastering."Clive Young, ProSoundNewsTable of ContentsINTRODUCTIONPART I: The Key Competencies and Understandings of a Mastering EngineerChapter I. The Mastering Engineer Chapter II. Listening Experience: The Mastering Engineer’s Primary Concern PART II: The Mastering Studio and Fundamental Mastering ToolsChapter III. The Mastering StudioChapter IV. Fundamental Mastering Tools and The Primary Colors of Mastering PART III: Professional Mastering Process: The Five Step Mastering ProcessChapter V. Step I: Objective Assessment Chapter VI. Step II: Subjective Assessment Chapter VII. Step III: The Mastering Game Plan Chapter VIII. Step IV: Assembly – Links in a Chain Chapter IX. Step V: Delivery – Generate The Master PART IV – Professional Mastering Process – Macro ConsiderationsChapter X. Before Beginning a Mastering Project Chapter XI. The Inner Game: Mindset Approaches For Mastering Chapter XII. Session-Saving Mastering Secrets PART V: Professional Mastering Process – Micro ConsiderationsChapter XIII. General Guidelines for Processing Audio Chapter XIV. Advanced Mastering Chain Tools and Techniques Chapter XV. Mid-Side (M/S): An Elixir of Mastering Hope Chapter XVI. In-The-Box Considerations Chapter XVII. De-noising / Audio Restoration (Out, Damned Spot!) Chapter XVIII. Conclusion and Summary

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Book SynopsisBun B.'s Rap Coloring and Activity Book is a 48-page fully interactive book of colouring pages, unbelievably clever activities and smart plays on rap culture bring Hip-Hop right into your living room.

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Book SynopsisThis fascinating collection of photographs and stories traces the ways in which The Beatles' home town has changed over the past 50 years.

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Book SynopsisThis is the first collection of original critical essays devoted to exploring the misunderstood, neglected and frequently caricatured role played by the film producer. The editors'' introduction provides a conceptual and methodological overview, arguing that the producer''s complex and multifaceted role is crucial to a film''s success or failure. The collection is divided into three sections where detailed individual essays explore a broad range of contrasting producers working in different historical, geographical, generic and industrial contexts. Rather than suggest there is a single type of producer, the collection analyses the rich variety of roles producers play, providing fascinating and informative insights into how the film industry actually works. This groundbreaking collection challenges several of the conventional orthodoxies of film studies, providing a new approach that will become required reading for scholars and students.Trade ReviewThis will prove an invaluable book, both to students and to those wishing to learn more about the film and media industries. Its spread is broad, making comparisons between different countries, practices and genres, and yet its intellectual focus is precise and well-conceived. The work of the producer has received scant attention in the past, and this important book rectifies that, and in a thorough, sophisticated and approachable way. Not to be missed. * Sue Harper, Emeritus Professor of Film History, University of Portsmouth, UK *A pioneering and timely volume emphasizing historical and transnational perspectives, Beyond the Bottom Line brings the myths and realities of the producer’s many roles into clear focus. Offering well developed case studies and conceptual clarification, the contributors deepen and extend the ongoing conversation about practitioner’s agency in thoughtful and productive ways. * Mette Hjort, Chair Professor of Visual Studies, Lingnan University, Hong Kong *This long-overdue scholarly collection represents an important step forward in the study of the role of the movie producer. Beyond the Bottom Line is a welcome addition to the burgeoning literature of production and industry studies. Its broad range of critical case studies will be a valuable resource to researchers and students alike. * Julian Hoxter, Screenwriting Coordinator, San Francisco State University, USA, and editor of Screenwriting *Table of ContentsTable of Contents List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements 1. Introduction – Andrew Spicer, A.T. McKenna and Christopher Meir Part I – Theoretical and Historical Contexts 2. Joe Kember, University of Exeter, UK, “A Judge of Anything and Everything”: Charles Urban and the Role of the “Producer-Collaborator” in Early British Film 3. Audun Engelstad and Jo Sondre Moseng, Lillehammer University College, Norway, Mapping a Typology of the Film Producer – Or, Six Producers in Search of an Author 4. Andrew Spicer, University of the West of England, UK, The Independent Producer and the State: Simon Relph, Government Policy and the British Film Industry, 1980-2005 5. Paul Long, Birmingham City University, UK and Simon Spink, UK, Producing the Self: The Film Producer’s Labor and Professional Identity in the UK Creative Economy 6. Pauline Small, Queen Mary, University of London, UK, Producer and Director? Or, “Authorship” in 1950s Italian Cinema 7. Mark David Ryan, Ben Goldsmith, and Stuart Cunningham, Queensland University of Technology, Australia, and Deb Verhoeven, Deakin University, Australia, The Australian Screen Producer in Transition Part II – Media and Genre Contexts 8. Donna Kornhaber, University of Texas at Austin, USA, The Producer in Animation: Creativity and Commerce from Bray Studios to Pixar 9. Brett Mills and Sarah Ralph, University of East Anglia, UK, “Trying to Ride a Naughty Horse”: British Television Comedy Producers 10. Sonia Friel, Norwich University of the Arts, UK, Keith Griffiths’ Poetics of Production 11. James Lyons, University of Exeter, UK, The American Independent Producer and the Film Value Chain Part III – National and Transnational Contexts 12. Constanza Burucúa, Western University, Canada, Lita Stantic: Auteur Producer/Producer of Auteurs 13. A.T. McKenna, University of Nottingham, China, Beyond National Humiliation: Han Sanping and China’s Post-Olympics Historical Event Blockbusters 14. Gertjan Willems, Ghent University, Belgium, The Producer in Belgian Cinema(s): The Case of Jean (and Jan) Van Raemdonck 15. Christopher Meir, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago, Post-Imperial Co-Producers: Emile Sherman, Iain Canning and Contemporary Anglo-Australian Cinema

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Book SynopsisTales of horror have always been with us, from Biblical times to the Gothic novel to successful modern day authors and screenwriters. Though the genre is often maligned, it is huge in popularity and its resilience is undeniable. Marc Blake and Sara Bailey offer a detailed analysis of the horror genre, including its subgenres, tropes and the specific requirements of the horror screenplay. Tracing the development of the horror film from its beginnings in German Expressionism, the authors engage in a readable style that will appeal to anyone with a genuine interest in the form and the mechanics of the genre. This book examines the success of Universal Studio's franchises of the 30s to the Serial Killer, the Slasher film, Asian Horror, the Supernatural, Horror Vérité and current developments in the field, including 3D and remakes. It also includes step-by-step writing exercises and interviews with seasoned writers/directors/ producers discussing budget restrictions, screenplay form and Trade ReviewThe truth is that the screenplay is a bastard form of literature. It is not a play nor book nor movie, and not just simply a blueprint for a film. All movies, regardless of genre, depend on the screenplay. However it is the director who makes the movie by realizing the printed words of the script on film. I have seen mediocre screenplays made into very good films. And I have seen excellent screenplays made into bad movies by incompetent directors. Again, it's important for people to understand that the screenplays essential role in film making is the same regardless of the genre of the film. --John Landis, 2012Writing the Horror Movie is written in particular for anyone interested in writing a screenplay for a horror film, and in seeing that screenplay turned into reality. But it's also full of fascinating nuggets of analysis and useful information more generally for scholars, students and fans of the genre - whether this is musing on the aesthetics of disgust, offering nifty psychological profiles of major horror monsters, or advice on how to exploit your film and turn it into a lucrative franchise. Two dismembered thumbs up for Marc Blake and Sara Bailey! -- Darryl Jones, Professor, School of English, Trinity College Dublin, IrelandA lucid, well-structured and thought-provoking introduction that ranges widely across the genre. Intelligent and perceptive throughout. Recommended for aspiring writers and critics. -- George Green, Senior Lecturer, Department of English and Creative Writing, Lancaster University, UKCo-authors Marc Blake and Sara Bailey have penned a magnum opus entitled Writing The Horror Movie, which aims to do exactly what it says on the tin. Every little piece of useful advice can be found in this book, from analysing the history of on-screen horror to defining the types of sub-genres to what tropes can usually be found in any scary movie....They seem to have put their utmost into making this book for the casual film lover and have come out shining with a witty, knowledgeable book to call their own. Quite simply, Writing The Horror Movie as written by Marc Blake and Sara Bailey is a must-read for any hardcore horror fans, and definitely worth checking out for many film fans in general. -- Jack Martin * Film Feeder *There are hundreds of books about screenwriting, but precious few aimed at the would-be horror film author; this volume is a noteworthy addition to the literature. Both Blake and Bailey have written horror films and teach the process at Southampton Solent University, UK. This volume covers horror films from the world over and is packed with examples. The breadth of the films noted makes this book almost a course in horror history. Through each chapter on structuring the screenplay, the reader is led through the succession of tropes: unease, dread, terror, horror, and finally disgust. The style is engaging, but the authors make no bones about the effort involved in all aspects of filmmaking – a fact reiterated in the appendix of interviews with writers, directors, and a producer. There are chapters on the international market; the ins and outs of the prequel, sequel, and franchise; and the trick of blending or crossing genre lines. The writing exercises are comprehensive, but beginners might profit from sharing their attmepts with a trusted reader. The volume includes a 425-item filmography and a tightly focused bibliography. A solid resource for film buffs and budding screenwriters. Summing Up: recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates; two-year program students; general readers. -- D. A. Schmitt, St. Louis Community College at Meramec * CHOICE *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Welcome to the Nightmare 1. Why do we like to be scared? On the Abject and the Unknown 2. Horror history and literary/film background 3. Subgenres. The Undead. Monsters. Demons and possession. Serial Killers, Slashers, Werewolves, Bad science and Body Horror 4. Staging horror. Five tropes. Unease, dread, terror, horror & disgust 5. On creating the Nemesis: Norman, Hannibal, Freddie and Jigsaw 6. Forming the idea. Writing exercises. Fears and phobias. Notes on the screenplay. Short, visual and credible 7. The First Act: Unease and dread. Character and milieu 8. The Second Act: Modulating fear, terror and horror 9. Third Act. Resolutions. Tragic and redemptive endings 10. Writing the horror sequel/franchise 11. Adaptations. From page to screen. Short stories and novels 12. On Cross-genre. Where can you bleed into other genres? Zom-Com, Thriller/Horror, Vampire romance, Horror and comedy 13. World markets. Horror in the US, the UK and European Horror. Asian, Thai and Hong Kong horror 14. Lo-budget Horror. How Blair Witch, Colin and Paranormal Activity became box office gold 15. Case studies. Selling the scare. Interviews with Writer/directors Chris Smith (Creep, Severance), James Watkins (Eden Lake). Neil Marshall (Dog Soldiers, Descent, Doom), Adam Gierasch (Autopsy, Night of the Demons) Mark Ezra and more.... 16. Producer Interviews. What producers are looking for? 17. Marketing. Frightest and Sitges. Interviews with directors of the world's leading Horror festivals and conventions 18. Fifty Essential Horror movies. Synopses and analysis of each subgenre.

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Book SynopsisNow a major motion picture, The Disaster Artist, starring James Franco, Alison Brie, Zoey Deutch, Lizzy Caplan, Zac Efron, Bryan Cranston, Dave Franco, Kristen Bell, Seth Rogen, Sharon Stone, and Judd Apatow.In 2003, an independent film called The Room - starring and written, produced, and directed by a mysteriously wealthy social misfit named Tommy Wiseau - made its disastrous debut in Los Angeles. Described by one reviewer as ''like getting stabbed in the head'', the $6 million film earned a grand total of $1,800 at the box office and closed after two weeks. Over a decade later, The Room is an international cult phenomenon, whose legions of fans attend screenings featuring costumes, audience rituals, merchandising and thousands of plastic spoons. In The Disaster Artist, Greg Sestero, Tommy''s costar, recounts the film''s bizarre journey to infamy, explaining how the movie''s many nonsensical scenes and bits of dialogue came to be Trade ReviewFinally, a hilarious, delusional, and weirdly inspirational explanation for the most deliciously awful movie ever madeA great portrayal of hopefuls coming to Los Angeles to pursue their ambitions, and an even greater examination of what it means to be a creative person with a dream and trying to make it come true....In so many ways. Tommy c'est moiThe Disaster Artist is not only the terrifically engaging tale of a bad Hollywood movie, it's one of the most honest books about friendship I've read in years - Los Angeles TimesA book about a cinematic comedy of errors . . . sharply detailed . . . funny - New York TimesPossibly the most important piece of literature ever printed - The Huffington PostI laughed so hard reading The Disaster Artist that I cried - Rolling Stone

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Book SynopsisAfter their initial inception as a schoolboy band named The Scorpions in 1962, and following a number of band name and personnel changes, Status Quo eventually hit the charts in 1968 with the massive hit single `Pictures of Matchstick Men’. However, it wasn’t until they ditched their psychedelic duds and took on the denim, accompanied by a radical gear-shift from teenage-friendly pop to out-and-out electric boogie that they came into their own, defining the rock music genre for many throughout the 1970s. A raft of hugely successful albums followed that are still held in awe by an army of loyal fans; the release of `Piledriver’ in 1972 heralded a purple patch in which twelve consecutive long-players charted in the UK top 10. The classic `Frantic Four’ lineup of Rossi, Parfitt, Lancaster and Coghlan started to disintegrate in 1981 and eventually imploded after Live Aid in 1985. Although Quo have gone on to post over sixty UK chart hits in no less than six separate decades, this publication focuses on those days of glory, song by song from their earliest recordings until the demise of the classic line-up.

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Book SynopsisA Companion to Early Cinema is an authoritative reference on the subfield of early cinema. An international group of expert scholars interrogate major concerns in early cinema studies, such as exhibition, promotion, industry, pre-cinema, and film criticism, and take an ambitious look at ideas and themes that take the subject into the future.Trade Review"This book is an authoritative reference on the field of early cinema.It includes work by established and up-and-coming scholars that offers the cutting-edge research and original perspectives. Its 30 chapters are a must-have reference for those working in field." (Wonderpedia, 19 September 2013) "It goes without saying that it deserves to be on the library shelves of institutions where the subject forms part of the academic curriculum." (Reference Reviews, 1 June 2013) "One of the strengths of this substantial 'companion' is that it raises the issue of definition in a variety of provocative ways." (Sight & Sound, 1 February 2013) "The essays are well researched and display a refreshing diversity of approaches. Even as the discipline of cinema and media studies turns to newer media, early cinema continues to posses a certain allure." (Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film, Summer 2013)Table of ContentsList of Contributors viii Acknowledgments xiv Introduction 1 Nicolas Dulac, André Gaudreault, and Santiago Hidalgo Part I Early Cinema Cultures 13 1 The Culture Broth and the Froth of Cultures of So-called Early Cinema 15 André Gaudreault 2 Toward a History of Peep Practice 32 Erkki Huhtamo 3 “We are Here and Not Here”: Late Nineteenth-Century Stage Magic and the Roots of Cinema in the Appearance (and Disappearance) of the Virtual Image 52 Tom Gunning 4 The Féerie between Stage and Screen 64 Frank Kessler 5 The Théâtrophone, an Anachronistic Hybrid Experiment or One of the First Immobile Traveler Devices? 80 Giusy Pisano 6 The “Silent” Arts: Modern Pantomime and the Making of an Art Cinema in Belle Époque Paris: The Case of Georges Wague and Germaine Dulac 99 Tami Williams Part II Early Cinema Discourses 119 7 First Discourses on Film and the Construction of a “Cinematic Episteme” 121 François Albera 8 The Discourses of Art in Early Film, or, Why Not Rancière? 141 Rob King 9 Sensationalism and Early Cinema 163 Annemone Ligensa 10 From Craft to Industry: Series and Serial Production Discourses and Practices in France 183 Laurent Le Forestier 11 Early American Film Publications: Film Consciousness, Self Consciousness 202 Santiago Hidalgo 12 Early Cinema and Film Theory 224 Roger Odin Part III Early Cinema Forms 243 13 A Bunch of Violets 245 Ben Brewster 14 Modernity Stops at Nothing: The American Chase Film and the Specter of Lynching 257 Jan Olsson 15 “The Knowledge Which Comes in Pictures”: Educational Films and Early Cinema Audiences 277 Jennifer Peterson 16 Motion Picture Color and Pathé-Frères: The Aesthetic Consequences of Industrialization 298 Charles O ’ Brien Part IV Early Cinema Presentations 315 17 The European Fairground Cinema: (Re)defining and (Re)contextualizing the “Cinema of Attractions” 317 Joseph Garncarz 18 Early Film Programs: An Overture, Five Acts, and an Interlude 334 Richard Abel 19 “Half Real-Half Reel”: Alternation Format Stage-and-Screen Hybrids 360 Gwendolyn Waltz 20 Advance Newspaper Publicity for the Vitascope and the Mass Address of Cinema ’s Reading Public 381 Paul S. Moore 21 Storefront Theater Advertising and the Evolution of the American Film Poster 398 Kathryn H. Fuller-Seeley 22 Bound by Cinematic Chains: Film and Prisons during the Early Era 420 Alison Griffiths Part V Early Cinema Identities 441 23 Anonymity: Uncredited and Unknown in Early Cinema 443 Jane M. Gaines 24 The Invention of Cinematic Celebrity in the United Kingdom 460 Andrew Shail 25 The Film Lecturer 487 Germain Lacasse 26 Richard Hoffman: A Collector’s Archive 498 Richard Koszarski Part VI Early Cinema Recollections 525 27 Early Films in the Age of Content; or, “Cinema of Attractions” Pursued by Digital Means 527 Paolo Cherchi Usai 28 Multiple Originals: The (Digital) Restoration and Exhibition of Early Films 550 Giovanna Fossati 29 Pointing Forward, Looking Back: Reflexivity and Deixis in Early Cinema and Contemporary Installations 568 Nanna Verhoeff 30 Is Nothing New? Turn-of-the-Century Epistemes in Film History 587 Thomas Elsaesser Index 610

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Essential in filling out a more humane and complete portrait of the composer and his art.”—Jeremy Eichler, The Boston Globe“These newly translated documents provide deeper insight both into Tchaikovsky himself, and the family circle and larger society in which he was active.”—Rebecca Mitchell, Canadian-American Slavic Studies“This English-language version of the ground-breaking original Russian text has been prepared with great skill and care. The notes are particularly admirable, and the translations of the letters and other documents impeccable”– Arnold McMillin, The Slavonic and East European ReviewWinner of the Outstanding Academic Title for 2018 award sponsored by Choice"We are now at home with much that was once taboo about Tchaikovsky—his tsarist loyalties, his homosexuality, how he died. But the Sentimentalism of his letters, its emotional register, still startles the modern reader. This revealing collection helps us see that how one writes letters is only a small part of who one is."—Caryl Emerson, Princeton University“This collection of finely translated letters, documents, and musical mementos moves Tchaikovsky considerably beyond the vapid biographical clichés of yesteryear. Turns out, the genius was also a human being —funny, coarse, germaphobic, borderline alcoholic, with great friends and supportive siblings. Gay? Fine by them.”—Simon Morrison, Princeton University"This indispensable volume, containing copious unpublished private correspondence, allows us to gain an unparalleled insight into Tchaikovsky as a human being, and thus move beyond the clichés surrounding the composer’s biography." —Rosamund Bartlett, author of Tolstoy: A Russian Life

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Book SynopsisThe final word on the world's greatest rock band, Led Zeppelin, from esteemed rock journalist and author Mick Wall, bestselling author of the seminal WHEN GIANTS WALKED THE EARTH

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