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Book SynopsisBarker has been acclaimed as 'England's greatest living dramatist' in The Times and as 'the Shakespeare of our age' by Sarah Kane. His uniquely stylish work brings together startlingly original forms of classical discipline, moral ruthlessness and catastrophic eroticism. This study considers the full range of his theatrical achievements.Trade Review'The range of coverage is a principle strength; the study includes pieces that have been neither produced nor published, thus giving a perspective on the full range of Barker's dramatic writing (the chronology in the appendices is also particularly helpful)... Rabey's book, then, is a welcome addition to the growing body of critical work on one of Britain's most challenging contemporary playwrights.' - Rachel Clements, Royal Holloway, University of London 'Following on from his earlier book...Ecstasy and Death meticulously maps not only Barker's plays and productions of the last twenty years, but also his theoretical and self-conscious performative development as a practitioner...it evolves and offers the reader an insightful distillation of critical approaches via a play-based chronology...Through a careful weaving of chronology and critique, it offers a structured series of provocations that invite the reader to examine the last twenty years of Barker's plays and their production...It's pinpoint focus invites wider moments of reflection and challenges the reader not to fix Barker to one play, one aspect of the work or even one decade, but rather to engagae with Barker over more time and to see his work as an ongoing evolution of language, aesthetics and theory.' - Sarah Goldingay, Studies in Theatre and Performance 'Rabey's criticism in these books offers a meditation, a critical and lyrical vision, not merely of Barker's theatre but of theatre's place in a 21st-century culture' - George Hunka, Superfluities: A JournalTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgements Abbreviations and References PART I: A STYLE AND ITS CONTEXTS Gifts of Loss: An Introduction to Barker's Writing and Theatre 'The Ecstasy of Vanishing Meaning': Arguments for a Theatre; Death, The One and The Art of Theatre PART II: PLAYS AND PRODUCTIONS Intimacy with the Unforgivable: The Last Supper, The Early Hours of a Reviled Man, Golgo, Judith, Rome, Ten Dilemmas Cultural Re-Fashionings and Shakespearean Negotiations: Brutopia, Seven Lears, (Uncle) Vanya, Minna Separation, Sacrifice and Sainthood: A Hard Heart, Terrible Mouth, Hated Nightfall, Ego in Arcadia, The Brilliance of the Servant, The Gaoler's Ache, Twelve Encounters with a Prodigy, Ursula Facing the Wound: Wounds to the Face, Und, He Stumbled, House of Correction Infinite Reversibility: All He Fears, The Swing at Night, Albertina, Knowledge and a Girl, The Twelfth Battle of Isonzo, Animals in Paradise, The Ecstatic Bible, Found in the Ground Wrestling with God: Defilo, All This Joseph, Five Names, N/A (Sad Kissing), Gertrude - The Cry, The Seduction of Almighty God, The Moving and the Still, Two Skulls, Acts (Chapter One) Servitude and Servility: An Eloquence, The Blood of a Wife, A Rich Woman's Poetry, Stalingrad, Thirteen Objects, The Dying of Today, Dead Hands, Christ's Dog The Boundary and Beyond: The Fence, Heroica, Adorations Chapter 1, Dead, Dead and Very Dead, The Road, The House, The Road, Let Me, A Wounded Knife, Lot and his God, The Forty (Few Words), I Saw Myself Inconclusion: Consolations in Extremity: Howard Barker: A Style and its Origins Appendix One: Testimonies by Barker Actors: Julia Tarnoky, Justin Avoth, Edward Petherbridge, Melanie Jessop, Gerrard McArthur Appendix Two: Howard Barker: A Chronology Selected Further Reading Index

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Book SynopsisSince the 1950s Eric Rohmer has been one of the major presences in French cinema as critic and director. This book is a sophisticated engagement with his work in which Keith Tester argues that Rohmer is not the naIve realist he is often claimed to be. Instead, his films are revealed as a sustained exercise in Catholic theology.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction The Period Films: Tragedies and Miracles The Occasional Films: Scenes of the Ordinary Miracle Moral Tales: Grace and Circumstance Comedies and Proverbs: Dislocation and Love Tales of the Four Seasons: Atmosphere and Faith References Index

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Book SynopsisAn essential introductory textbook that provides a comprehensive and student-friendly overview of the key processes involved in developing and managing a theatre in the 21st century. It covers a complete range of topics fundamental to successful commercial and not-for-profit theatre management, from developing a mission statement to communicating with stakeholders, from marketing and promotion to fund development platforms, and from governance structures to community engagement. With over two decades of experience in the industry, Anthony Rhine encourages a critical understanding of theatre management; rather than simply giving students the facts and theories to memorise, he shows readers how to think like theatre managers, giving them the skills needed to be able to carve out their own career paths. Far-reaching and globally applicable, the text serves as an invaluable guide for aspiring theatre managers, as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students on theatre management, artsTable of Contents1. What is Theatre Management? 2. The Strategic Framework of Theatre 3. Theatre Management Today 4. Business Environments 5. Theatre Organization 6. Jobs in Theatre 7. Financial Management 8. Management and the Audience 9. Marketing a Theatre 10. Creating Promotional Materials 11. Fundraising 12. Leadership 13. Boards, Governance, Executive Staff, and Volunteers 14. Theatre Advocacy and Community Engagement 15. Theatre Education.

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Book SynopsisThese essays consider the Godzilla films and how they shaped and influenced postwar Japanese culture, as well as the globalization of Japanese pop culture icons. There are contributions from Film Studies, Anthropology, History, Literature, Theatre and Cultural Studies and from Susan Napier, Anne Allison, Christine Yano and others.Trade Review"At last, a critical analysis of Godzilla movies that breathes enough fire to be worthy of the Big G himself. This is a book for anyone interested in Japanese culture - scholars and fans alike will be delighted with these smart, provocative essays that explore what Japan's most popular monster has meant at home and abroad." - Annalee Newitz, author of Pretend We're Dead: Capitalist Monsters in American Pop Culture"These thirteen essays contextualize Gojira in terms of war memory and scientific modernity, Japanese folklore and worldwide fandom, and 'green' and 'pink' globalization. Well-researched and illuminating, this book challenges students and teachers alike to confront all-too-common stereotypes about cheesy cultural products from Japan. In Godzilla's Footsteps is the most ambitious attempt to date to make sense of postwar Japan's popular culture historically, and to examine Japanese history through pop culture icons." - Franziska Seraphim, Assistant Professor of Japanese History, Boston College, author of War Memory and Social Politics in Japan, 1945-2006 (2006) "In Godzilla's Footsteps is a fascinating look back at the early seeds of today's blossoming Japanese pop culture abroad." - Greenman ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction; W.M.Tsutsui When Godzilla Speaks; S.Napier Mobilizing Gojira: Mourning Modernity as Monstrosity; M.Anderson Gojira as Japan's First Postwar Media Event; B.Kushner Lost in Translation and Morphed in Transit: Godzilla in Cold War America; S.Guthrie-Shimizu Wrestling with Godzilla: Intertextuality, Childish Spectatorship, and the National Body; A.Gerow Mothra's Gigantic Egg: Consuming the South Pacific in 1960s Japan; Yoshikuni Hybridity and Negotiated Identity in Japanese Popular Culture; J.Boss Teaching Godzilla: Classroom Encounters with a Cultural Icon; J.Bernardi "Our First Kiss Had a Radioactive Taste": Ohashi Yasuhiko's Gojira in Japan and Canada; K.J.Wetmore Jr. Godzilla Meets Super-Kyogen, or How a Dinosaur Saved the World; E.Rath Monstering the Japanese Cute: Pink Globalization and Its Critics Abroad; C.Yano Kikaida for Life: Cult Fandom in a Japanese Live-Action TV Show in Hawai'i; H.Katsuno Apocalypsis in Fantasy and Reality: Japanese Pop Culture in Contemporary Russia; Y.Mikhailova Epilogue: He Did the Stomp, He Did the Monster Stomp; T.C.Bestor

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Book SynopsisHow do you turn songwriting talent into a professional career? This essential guide tackles that question, alongside many others, taking songwriters through all the developmental phases and commercial experiences along the way in order to inspire and encourage the reader to find their own voice and write successfully within their chosen genre. Collating the best-available expertise with fresh ideas about the industry, Andrew West equips the reader with what every productive songwriter needs to know: how to write communicative songs that express meaning and convey individuality; how to develop songs into records; how the writer can function as a marketer and seller of original work; how domestic and international markets operate; and how to act and interact meaningfully within the culture of those market. Armed with this knowledge, the songwriter is able to engage creatively and financially to make the most of their potential.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Foreword Introduction Chapter 1. What are Songs? Scope; Typology; Music; Creativity; Communication Chapter 2. What is Songwriting? Solo Collaboration; Audience Chapter 3. The Writing Styles of The Great Songwriters: Tom Waits; Lucinda Williams; Jeff Tweedy; Bob Dylan; Amy Winehouse; Morrissey and Marr; Arcade Fire; Neil Finn; Joni Mitchell; George and Ira Gershwin; Lennon and McCartney; Neil Young; Marvin Gaye; Shane MacGowan; Kraftwerk; Carole King; Cole Porter; Radiohead; Robert Johnson; Adele; Hank Williams; Elvis Costello; Daniel Johnston; Van Morrison; Ulvaeus and Andersson Chapter 4. How to Develop As a Songwriter: Composition; Production; Performance; Arrangement; Culture Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisExposing the strategy of Turkey's ruling elite to obtain cultural hegemony, this book examines the AKP's efforts to rewrite Turkish public memory by promoting its ideas through TV series, movies, propaganda videos, school curricula and material culture in urban public spaces.

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Book SynopsisSensual gaiety is at the heart of this comic masterpiece which continues the merry tale of the little barber of Seville, a clever common man whose wits overcome his superiors who would suppress him. In paring down the number of players, presenting the scenes more economically, and offering a translation that removes archaic phrasing, Mr. Sahlins delivers a script that can be comfortably staged by present-day theatres.Trade ReviewSahlins' 'speakable' version of the play sacrifices little of its spirit or of the pointed class distinctions of the French court of its time. * Booklist *

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Book SynopsisAs bleak and agonizing a portrait of war as ever to appear on stage, The Trojan Women is a masterpiece of pathos as well as a timeless and chilling indictment of war’s brutality. The only justice in war, Euripides seems to say, is punitive and nihilistic. Nicholas Rudall’s compelling new translation continues his acclaimed work in interpreting classical drama for today’s audiences.Trade ReviewA new translation of a literary classic of pathos and war, capturing the classical drama in a new form designed as a play for performing to modern audiences. * Bookwatch *

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Book Synopsis‘A wonderful account of a life filled with far more ups and downs than its subject’s languid demeanour ever suggested.’ Miles Jupp.Even if the name doesn’t ring a bell, you’d recognise David Tomlinson’s face – genial and continually perplexed, he was Mr Banks in Mary Poppins, Professor Browne in Bedknobs and Broomsticks and Peter Thorndyke in The Love Bug. To many, he’s the epitome of post-war British comedy.But at times his life was more tragedy than comedy. A distinguished RAF pilot in the Second World War, his first marriage was to end in horrific tragedy and his next romance ended with his lover marrying the founder of the American Nazi Party. He did find love and security in his second marriage, but drama still played its part in his life – from the uncovering of an earthshattering family secret to the fight for an autism diagnosis for his son, up against the titans of the British medical establishment.Tomlinson may have died over twenty years ago, but his star continues to shine. In Disney’s British Gentleman, Nathan Morley reveals the remarkable story of one of Disney’s most beloved icons for the very first time.

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Book SynopsisThis research-based monograph presents an introduction to the concept of film-induced tourism, building on the work of the seminal first edition. Many new case studies exploring the relationship between film and TV and tourism have been added and existing cases have been updated. The book incorporates studies on film studio theme parks, the impact of film-induced tourism on communities and the effect of film on tourists’ behaviour. It introduces new content including film-induced tourism in non-Western cultures, movie tours and contents tourism. The book is an essential resource for postgraduate students and researchers in the fields of tourism, film and media studies.Trade ReviewSue Beeton has produced a seminal book on film-induced tourism, describing in a clear and stimulating way how this exciting research field has evolved over the years. While different theoretical approaches to film-induced tourism are discussed, most chapters leave from a practical, business-based perspective. This combination makes her book not only interesting but highly relevant as well. -- Stijn Reijnders, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the NetherlandsThis edition of Sue Beeton’s book is truly the only reference you will need to understand film tourism in all its complexities and subtleties. Expanded, updated, more conceptually robust and more case studies makes the book a must read. -- Bob McKercher, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong KongThis new edition of Sue Beeton’s landmark volume is much more than a book on film-induced tourism studies. It is not only the world’s latest handbook to understand the puzzling phenomena of tourism in the very complex media environment of the 21st century, but also potentially one of the most important reference books to study how destination management, community planning and intercultural communication should function in the advanced information society of the future. -- Takayoshi Yamamura, Hokkaido University, JapanSue Beeton’s new edition of Film-Induced Tourism provides a necessary and fresh outlook while being simultaneously complex, well researched and entertaining. -- Ina Reichenberger, University of Wellington, New Zealand * Journal of Tourism Futures, 2018 *...this is an excellent book which succeeds in untangling the many and varied tourism aspects of film and television and effortlessly combines applied theory, academic reflection and personal insight with considerable panache. This accessible book is required reading for anyone wanting to develop research in this area and certainly for academics who are keen to incorporate film tourism within a module or indeed to develop a teaching resource around the topic. -- Simon Curtis, University of Westminster, UK * Tourism Planning & Development, 14:3, 443-445 *Owing to its scientific grounds, the book is a must-have for researchers in the field of creative industries and cultural tourism development, but its simplicity of language complemented with good practice examples makes it highly recommendable also to cultural tourism practitioners and planners. -- Daniela A. Jelincic, IRMO, Croatia * Culturelink, May 2017 *Table of ContentsIntroduction to the Second Edition Part One: Introduction to Film-Induced Tourism 1. Popular Media and Tourism 2. Perspectives on Film-Induced Tourism Part Two: Film-Induced Tourism On Location 3. Film Images and Destination Marketing 4. Film and Place Promotion 5. Effects on Tourism 6. Effects on Community 7. Film-Induced Tourism and Community Planning Part Three: Off-Location Film Studio Tourism 8. From Themed Events to Film Studios 9. Film Studio Theme Park Success and Failings Part Four: Conclusion 10. Emerging Issues and Future Directions

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Book SynopsisThis book asks important questions about making performance through the means of collaboration and co-created practice. It argues that we can align ethics and aesthetics with collaborative performance to realise the importance of being in association with one another, and being engaged through our shared imaginations. Evident in the examples of practice visited in this study is the attention given by a number of practitioners to the development of shared, co-operative modes of creation. Here, we can appreciate ethical work as being relational, forged in association with the others as we cultivate ideas that matter.In looking at a range of work from practitioners including Meg Stuart, Rosemary Lee, Deufert&Philschke and Fevered Sleep, Considering Ethics in Dance, Theatre and Performance explores ways that we rehearse by attending to ethics, aesthetics and co-creation. In learning to listen, to observe, to co-operate and to negotiate, these practitioners reveal the ways that they bring their work into existence through the transmission of shared meaning.Trade Review“Considering Ethics in Dance, Theatre and Performance delivers a multi-directional contribution to performance studies, pedagogical enterprises and philosophy. Her effort in this book is timely and stands alongside current discourses in performance philosophy, Practice-as-Research and DanceHE … . It also offers a groundwork for thinking about performance and philosophy as enactive engagement with society.” (Einav Katan-Schmid, British Journal of Aesthetics, June 12, 2019)Table of ContentsIntroduction. Intertwining Ethics, Aesthetics and Knowing.- 1. Embodying Ethics: Harmonics of Living.- 2. Aesthetics: Ways of Thinking Differently.- 3. Inhabiting Thought: Humanising Pedagogy.- 4. Being in Ethical Relation: Competence and Collaborative Cultures.- 5. Ethics in Practice.- Conclusion: The Only Way is Ethics.

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Book SynopsisThis book uses the long and profitable career of Cecil B. DeMille to track the evolution of Classical Hollywood and its influence on emerging mass commercial culture in the US. DeMille’s success rested on how well his films presumed a broad consensus in the American public—expressed through consumer hedonism, faith, and an “exceptional” national history—which merged seamlessly with the efficient production methods developed by the largest integrated studios. DeMille’s sudden mid-career shift away from spectator perversity to corporate propagandist permanently tarnished the director’s historical standing among scholars, yet should not overshadow the profound links between his success and the rise and fall of mid-century mass culture.Table of Contents1. Locating DeMille 2. The Brand3. The Wanderer4. A New and Filmable Past 5. Greetings from Mr. Hollywood6. Who is Cecil B. DeMille?7. Behold Their Mighty Hands8. Re-Locating DeMille

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Book SynopsisAlthough it has only been in the last decade that the planet’s population balance tipped from a predominantly rural makeup towards an urban one, the field of cinema history has demonstrated a disproportionate skew toward the urban. Within audience studies, however, an increasing number of scholars are turning their attention away from the bright lights of the urban, and towards the less well-lit and infinitely more variegated history of rural cinema-going. Rural Cinema Exhibition and Audiences in A Global Context is the first volume to consider rural cinema-going from a global perspective. It aims to provide a rich and wide-ranging introduction to this growing field, and to further develop some of its key questions. It brings together eighteen international scholars or teams, all representatives of a dynamic, new field. Moving beyond a Western focus is essential for thinking through questions of rural exhibition, distribution and cinema experience, since over the relatively short history of cinema it is the rural that has dominated cinema-goers’ lives in much of the developing world. To this end, the volume also innovates by bringing discussions of North American and European ruralities into dialogue with contributions on Kenya, Brazil, China, Thailand, South Africa and Australia.Trade Review“Rural Cinema Exhibition and Audiences in a Global Context offers an excellent contribution to the field of audience studies and cinema going. It also benefits from helpful colour images in reproduced local maps and photographs, graphs and charts.” (Sian Barber, Film Studies, Vol. 21, 2019)Table of Contents1. Introduction: Rural Cinema Exhibition and Audiences in a Global Context: Not Just a Slower Transition to Modernity (Daniela Treveri Gennari, Danielle Hipkins and Catherine O’Rawe) Part 1. Space, Place and Cinema-going Experiences 2. The Use of Geographical Categories in Cinema Studies: An Ontological Examination (Elisa Ravazzoli) 3. Kanda’s Grounds and the Ritual Experience of Rural Cinema in Narok, Kenya (Solomon Waliaula) 4. The Business of ‘Wholesome Entertainment’: The Mascioli Film Circuit of Northeastern Ontario (Jessica L. Whitehead) Part 2. Early Cinema, Itinerant Showmen and the Lure of Modernity 5. Spaces In-Between: The Railway and Early Cinema in Rural, Western Canada (Paul S. Moore) 6. Rurban Outfitters: Cinema and Rural Cultural Development in New Hampshire’s North Country, 1896-1917 (Jeffrey Klenotic) Part 3. Oral Histories and the Social Experience of Rural Cinema-going 7. Oral Memories of Cinema-going in Rural Italy of the 1950s (Danielle Hipkins, Daniela Treveri Gennari, Catherine O’Rawe, Silvia Dibeltulo and Sarah Culhane) 8. Belgian Film Culture Beyond the Big City: Cinema-going in the Provincial and Rural Periphery of Antwerp (Philippe Meers, Daniel Biltereyst) 9. The Social Experience of Going to the Movies in the 1930s-1960s in a Small Texas Border Town: Movie-going Habits and Memories of Films in Laredo, Texas (José Carlos Lozano, Philippe Meers, Daniel Biltereyst) 10. The Social Geography of ‘Going Out’: Teenagers and Community Cinema in Rural Australia (Karina Aveyard) Part 4. Shaping Cinema Audiences for Educational and Ideological Purposes 11. Projecting Modernity: Sol Plaatje’s Touring Cinema Exhibition in 1920s South Africa (Jacqueline Maingard) 12. Controlling Rural Cinema-going by Appropriating a Film Format: The Catholic Adventure of “Pathé-Rural” in Interwar France (Mélisande Leventopoulos) 13. UNESCO, Mobile Cinema and Rural Audiences: Exhibition Histories and Instrumental Ideologies of the 1940s (Ian Goode) 14. Reconsidering Post-Revolutionary Cultural Change: Rural Film Projection Teams in Shaanxi Province, 1949-1956 (Matthew Johnson) 15. Silence Under the Linden Tree: Rural Cinema-going in Czechoslovakia in the 1950s and 1960s (Lucie Česálková) Part 5. Film Programming Strategies, Exhibition Practices, and Reception 16. Language and Cultural Nearness: Film Programming Strategies and Audience Preferences in Big Cities and Small Towns in the Netherlands 1934-1936 (Clara Pafort-Overduin) 17. Post-war Thai Cinema: Audiences and Film Style in a Divided Nation (Mary J. Ainslie) 18. Youth, Leisure and Modernity in the film One Summer of Happiness (1951): Exploring the Space of Rural Film Exhibition in Swedish Post-war Cinema (Åsa Jernudd) 19. Cine Centímetro: Memory and Cinema-going Practices in an MGM Replica Cinema in the Rio de Janeiro Countryside (Talitha Ferraz)

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Book SynopsisThis book reveals how Spielberg utilises stylistic strategies that are both unique and innovative when considered within the context of the classical Hollywood system. James Mairata identifies two distinct systems at work in Spielberg's application of style. One is the use of deep space compositions and staging, a form that was commonly seen in Hollywood cinema until the rise of the 'New Hollywood' in the early 1970s. The other system is based on the ubiquitous shot, reverse shot arrangement most commonly used for dialogue scenes, and which Spielberg has modified into what the author describes as wide reverses. Through the integration of both systems, Spielberg is able to create a more complete visual sense of scenographic space and a more comprehensive world of the narrative, while still remaining within the conventional boundaries of classical style. The wide reverse system also permits him to present a more highly developed version of Hollywood's conventional practice of rendering style as transparent or unnoticed. This volume shows that this, together with the wide reverse further enables Spielberg to create a narrative that offers the spectator both a more immersive and more affective experience. Table of Contents1. Introduction: Setting the Scene.- Section I: Origin Chapter 2: Fundamentals of Classical Narration.- Chapter 3: Spielberg as Filmmaker.- Chapter III: Continuity Editing as System.- Section II: Function.- Chapter 4: Deep Space Composition and Staging.- Chapter 5: Space and the Wide Reverse Strategy.- Chapter 6: The Wide Reverse and Extended Variation.- Section III: Effect, Affect and Precedent.- Chapter 7: The Wide Reverse, Cognition and Affect.- Chapter 8: Manifestations of the Wide Reverse in Mainstream Narrative Cinema.- Chapter 9: Conclusion: Style by Stealth.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores how Edwardian art writing shaped and narrated embodied, performative forms of aesthetic spectatorship. It argues that we need to expand the range of texts we think of as art writing, and features a diverse array of critical and fictional works, often including texts that are otherwise absent from art-historical study. Multi-disciplinary in scope, this book proposes a methodology for analyzing the aesthetic encounter within and through art writing, adapting and reworking a form of phenomenological-semiotic analysis found conventionally in performance studies. It focuses on moments where theories of spectatorship meet practice, moving between the varied spaces of Edwardian art viewing, from the critical text, to the lecture hall, the West End theatre and gallery, middle-class home, and fictional novel. It contributes to a rethinking of Edwardian culture by exploring the intriguing heterogeneity and self-consciousness of viewing practices in a period more commonly associated with the emergence of formalism.Table of Contents1. Introduction: An Invitation.- 2. Characterising the Viewer.- 3. Spectatorship and Ekphrasis.- 4. Staging Spectatorship.- 5. Staging Art.- 6. Domesticity, Decoration and Role Play.- 7. Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThis book applies Heidegger’s writings to experimental fictions and film genres in order to study a being-there that performs itself beyond liveness and a future that is already here. Theatrical mise-en-scène is analyzed as a way of modeling the Heideggerian ontological-existential, exchanging a deeper presencing for the fictional “now” of liveness. The book is organized around ostensible objects that are in fact things-as-such and performs its theme via time-traveling, interruptions, decompositions, incompleteness, failure, geometric patterning, and above all black pages first cited in Tristram Shandy. This is a nuanced, original work that combines unexpected sources with even more unexpected writing, imagery, and correspondences. It is part of Golub’s ongoing project of lyrically reimagining philosophy and the mise-en-scène of theatrical performance (a presence-room of consciousness) in light of one another. Table of Contents1.Page (Rectangle) 2.Book (Decomposition) 3. Clock (Time’s Pre-Sequels) 4. Horse (Why Is There Something Else Rather Than Something?) 5. Human (Being)

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Book SynopsisThis book explores how to understand the international appeal of Danish television drama and Nordic Noir in the 2010s. Focusing on production and distribution as well as the series and their reception, the chapters analyse how this small nation production culture was suddenly regarded as an example of best practice in the international television industries, and how the distribution and branding of particular series – such as Forbrydelsen/The Killing, Borgen and Bron/The Bridge – led to dedicated audiences around the world. Discussing issues such as cultural proximity, transnationalism and glocalisation, the chapters investigate the complex interplays between the national and international in the television industries and the global lessons learned from the way in which screen ideas, production frameworks and public service content from Denmark suddenly managed to travel widely. The book builds on extensive empirical material and case studies conducted as part of the transnational research project ‘What Makes Danish Television Drama Travel?’ Trade Review“This comprehensive anthology contributes to the fascinating debate around the often unpredictable cultural impact of small television nations. Television that travels well succeeds in securing benefits for the industry, translated into access to audiences, revenues, and cultural capital … . This anthology constitutes a brilliant example of confident television scholarship focusing on non-Anglophone contexts and able not only to interpret a phenomenon but to crystallize concrete lessons for both the industry and academia. A win-win situation.” (Georgia Aitaki, Critical Studies in Television, Vol. 17 (1), 2022)Table of ContentsIntroduction.- 1. Anne Marit Waade, Eva Novrup Redvall and Pia Majbritt Jensen: Lessons Learned from Danish Television Drama: From Screen Ideas to Value Creation in Production, Distribution and Reception.- Part 1: Global/Public Values in Danish Television Drama.- 2. Anne M. Waade: The Value Chain of Danish Television Drama Series; transnational and Cross-sectorial Perspectives.- 3. Gunhild Agger: The Golden Age: Danish Public Service Drama Series 1995–2015.- 4. Janet McCabe: Why the World Fell for Borgen (2010-2013): Debating Democracy and the Role of Public Service Television as a (Trans)National Public Sphere in the Age of Globalisation.- 5. Sue Turnbull and Marion McCutcheon: Valuing the Global Impact of Danish TV drama series: An Australian case study.- Part 2: Small Nation Perspectives: Producing Danish Television Drama.- 6. Jakob Isak Nielsen: Stylish drama series – overt style in Danish drama series?.- 7. Kim Toft Hansen: Glocal Perspectives on Danish Television Drama.- 8. Eva Novrup Redvall: How do you educate the television writers and producers of tomorrow? A case study of one small nation approach to training television drama talent.- 9. Ruth McElroy: Bilingual crime drama as affinitive transnationalism or linguistic deracination? What Wales learned from Danish television drama. Vilde Schanke Sundet: Drama as Flagship Productions: Small Nation Television and Digital Distribution.- Part 3: Global Lessons: Distribution and Reception of Danish Television Drama.- 10. Pia M.Jensen & Ushma C. Jacobsen: Crowding proximities theory: Considering other proximities on the transnational travel of Danish television drama.- 11. Susanne Eichner & Andrea Esser: Distribution and consumption of Danish TV drama series in Germany and the UK.- 12. Matt Hills: Emotional Realism, Fandom and Saga’s End: Bron/Broen’s User-led and Broadcaster-led Transnationalisms.- 13. Lynge S. Gemzøe: Remaking Danish Television Drama in the US.- 14. Pia Majbritt Jensen: Whose success, really? Critical perspectives on whom, what and where stand to benefit from the success of Danish TV drama.

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Book SynopsisThis volume is a study of human entanglements with Nature as seen through the mode of haunting. As an interruption of the present by the past, haunting can express contemporary anxieties concerning our involvement in the transformation of natural environments and their ecosystems, and our complicity in their collapse. It can also express a much-needed sense of continuity and relationality. The complexity of the question—who and what gets to be called human with respect to the nonhuman—is reflected in these collected chapters, which, in their analysis of cinematic and literary representations of sentient Nature within the traditional gothic trope of haunting, bring together history, race, postcolonialism, and feminism with ecocriticism and media studies. Given the growing demand for narratives expressing our troubled relationship with Nature, it is imperative to analyze this contested ground.“Chapter 6” is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.Trade Review“Haunted Nature vitally adds to the ever-evolving theoretical landscape of the eco-gothic. … Blazan’s volume in particular offers fascinating exploration of nonhumans in human ideological constellations. … this collection of essays uniquely invents a revolutionary microscope for us to envision both the visible and invisible horrors to create a new approach. … Comprised of unconventional, popular speculative frictions, Haunted engages the reader with the serious, pressing and yet seemingly familiar environmental changes of the creepy-crawly 21st century.” (Rebecca Jordan, Journal of Ecohumanism, Vol. 2 (1), January, 2023)Table of Contents1.Haunting and Nature: An Introduction.-2. Microgothic: Microbial Aesthetics of Haunted Nature.-3. Black Mold, White Extinction: I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House, The Haunting of Hill House, “Gray Matter,” and H. P. Lovecraft’s “The Shunned House”.-4.Vegetomorphism: Exploring the Material Within the Aesthetics of the EcoGothic in Stranger Things and Annihilation.-5. An Ecology of Abject Women: Frontier Gothicism and Ecofeminism in Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle.-6. Alligators in the Living Room: Terror and Horror in the Capitalocene.-7. Haunted Technonature: Anthropocene Coloniality in Ng Yi-Sheng’s Lion City (2018).-8. Haunted Nature, Haunted Humans: Intelligent Trees, Gaia, and the Apocalypse Meme.-9.The Global Poltergeist: COVID-19 Hauntings

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Book SynopsisThis book analyzes the cinematic superhero as social practice. The study’s critical context brings together psychoanalysis and restorative and reflective nostalgia as a way of understanding the ideological function of superhero fantasy. It explores the origins of cinematic superhero fantasy from antecedents in myth and religion, to twentieth-century comic book, to the cinematic breakthrough with Superman (1978). The authors then focus on Spider-Man as reflective response to Superman’s restorative nostalgia, and read MCU’s overarching narrative from Iron Man to End Game in terms of the concurrent social, political, and environmental conditions as a world in crisis. Zornado and Reilly take up Wonder Woman and Black Panther as self-conscious attempts to reflect on gender and race in restorative superhero fantasy, and explore Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy as a meditation on the need for authoritarian fascism. The book concludes with Logan, Wonder Woman 1984, and Amazon Prime’s The Boys as distinctly reflective fantasy narratives critical of the superhero fantasy phenomenon.Table of Contents1. Chapter One: Introduction: A Plague of Superheroes2. Chapter Two: The Superhero with a Thousand Faces 3. Chapter Three: Fantasy and the Working-Class Superhero 4. Chapter Four: Fantasies of the Anthropocene 5. Chapter Five: The Cinematic Superhero as Other 6. Chapter Six: Superhero Fantasy in Crisis 7. Chapter Seven: Conclusion: Destroy All Monsters!

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Book SynopsisThis monograph presents a specific experience of modernity within the context of Indian dance by looking at the transcultural journey of Indian dancer / choreographer Uday Shankar (1900b – 1977d). His popularity in Europe and America as an Oriental male dancer in the first half of the 20th century, and his worldwide recognition as the Ambassador of Indian culture, are brought into a historiographical perspective within the cultural and social reforms of early twentieth century India. By exploring his artistic journey beyond India in the period between the two world wars, and his experience of dance making, presentational technique and representation of India through various phases of his life, a path is forged to understanding the emergence of modernity in Indian dance.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Uday Shankar and Indian Dance History.- Chapter 2 Modern Dance? Placing Shankar’s Transculturality in Colonial South Asia.- Chapter 3 Dancing ‘Oriental’ Masculinity: Uday Shankar and his Experiments in Modern Dance.- Chapter 4 An attempt at creating a modern institution.- Chapter 5 Beyond the Proscenium with Dance, Magic, and Film.- Chapter 6 The Illusive Legacy.

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Book SynopsisFantasy author Neil Gaiman’s 1996 novel Neverwhere is not just a marvelous self-contained novel, but a terrifically useful text for introducing students to fantasy as a genre and issues of adaptation. Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock’s briskly written A Critical Companion to Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere offers an introduction to the work; situates it in relation to the fantasy genre, with attention in particular to the Hero’s Journey, urban fantasy, word play, social critique, and contemporary fantasy trends; and explores it as a case study in transmedial adaptation. The study ends with an interview with Neil Gaiman that addresses the novel and a bibliography of scholarly works on Gaiman. Table of ContentsIntroduction: It Starts With Doors Chapter One: Bridges to Fantasy: Neverwhere and Genre Chapter Two: “Mind the Gap”: Neverwhere, Language, and IntertextualityChapter Three:“Falling Through the Cracks”: Neverwhere as Social CommentaryChapter Four: Fidelity and Innovation: Adaptation, Transmediality, and the Neverwhere Megatext Chapter Five: The KeyRecommended Reading Interview with Neil Gaiman

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Book SynopsisThis book analyses the uses of Arnold Schwarzenegger as a foreign star in Hollywood through a film philosophical, de-westernizing and sonic critical framework. It offers very close readings of the film texts, of the roles Schwarzenegger performs, and the rhetorical strategies he adopts outside his film performances to show that in spite of attempts to occupy the position of an emblematic member of the U.S. national body Schwarzenegger remains irrevocably outside as an accented migrant body continuously accumulating markers of belonging that by their very necessity attest to their insufficiency. The book’s central project is to trace back, from the uses to which a migrant star such as Schwarzenegger is put on the screen, the construction of a sense or idea of a U.S. national community through the cinema. Given that the appeal to the American myth of an immigrant nation that promises to erase difference is fundamental to the Schwarzenegger star persona, the central aim of this book is to explore the uses of his stardom as an embodiment of the promise of America and its contradictions and exclusions.Table of ContentsChapter 1: The Destroyer.- Chapter 2: Transformer.- Chapter 3: Policing.- Chapter 4: Doubling.- Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThe book explores the liminal aesthetics of U.S. cultural and literary practice. Interrogating the notion of a presumptive unity of the American experience, Moveable Designs argues that inner conflict, divisiveness, and contradiction are integral to the nation’s cultural designs, themes, and motifs. The study suggests that U.S. literary and cultural practice is permeated by ‘moveable designs’—flexible, yet constant features of hegemonial practice that constitute an integral element of American national self-fashioning. The naturally pervasive liminality of U.S. cultural production is the key to understanding the resilience of American culture. Moveable Designs looks at artistic expressions across various media types (literature, paintings, film, television), seeking to illuminate critical phases of U.S. American literature and culture—from the revolutionary years to the movements of romanticism, realism, and modernism, up to the postmodern era. It combines a wide array of approaches, from cultural history and social anthropology to phenomenology. Connecting an analysis of literary and cultural texts with approaches from design theory, the book proposes a new way of understanding American culture as design. It is one of the unique characteristics of American culture that it creates—or, rather, designs—potency out of its inner conflicts and apparent disunities. That which we describe as an identifiable ‘American identity’ is actually the product of highly vulnerable, alternating processes of dissolution and self-affirmation. Table of Contents1 Introduction: Welcome to the Twilight Zone.Moveable Fictions—Cultural (Dis)Unity and Boundary Transgression. The Designs of Literary and Cultural Practice. Design Thinking and the Cultural Field of ‘America’. The Longue Durée of Moveable Designs in American Cultural History. Part I Theoretical Framework. 2 Moveable Designs: Liminal Aesthetics and Cultural Production. Designing Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast. America as Fiction—Literature as Performance. Liminal Aesthetics and Liquid Modernity. Culture as Design—The (Not So) Secret Lives of Aesthetic Objects. Part II Contexts. 3 TransAmerica: Cultural Hybridity and Transgendered Desire from the Colonial Era to Modernity. Introduction: Heterogeneity and Transgendered Desire. The Making of ‘America’: From the Colonial Era to the Nation State. Revolutionary Compacts: Transgendered Imagery and the Invention of ‘Columbia’. Conclusion: From Transnational America to Transnation. 4 The ‘American in Chains’: (Cons)Piracy and the Specter of North Africa in U.S. Barbary Captivity Narratives. Introduction: North Africa in the Early U.S. Cultural Imagination. The Specter of Algiers in Barbary Captivity Narratives. Algiers as a Counter-Image to the Early U.S. Republic in The Algerine Spy in Pennsylvania. Spaces of Imperialism in Slaves in Algiers and The Algerine Captive. Conclusion: U.S. Exceptionalism and the Birth of the Orient as America’s Other. 5 Open Doors, Closed Spaces: The Transatlantic Imaginary in American Urban Writing from the Post-Revolutionary Era to Modernism. Introduction: Toward an Aesthetics of Cross-Atlantic Mapmaking. From Open City to Shrinking City. The Labyrinthine Aesthetics of the Walking City. Open Doors and Walled Streets: Atlantic Cities as Imagined Landscapes. Conclusion: Shades of the Open City in U.S. Transatlantic Writing. Part III Case Studies. 6 White Bo(d)y in Wonderland: Cultural Alterity and Sexual Desire in Tod Browning’s Where East Is East (1929). Introduction: Essentialist Topographies—Where East Is East, and West Is West. The Codes of Colonial Discourse. Economies of Stereotyping. Metonymic Displacement and Ethnic Masquerade. Metaphysical Condensation and Animal Imagery. Fetishization of the Orient. Allegories of (De-)Historicization. Comic Ethnicity and Explosive Body Language. Conclusion: The Uses and Abuses of Orientalist Imagery. 7 Cinematic Literature: Intermedial Aesthetics, Juvenile Rebellion, and Carnal Subjectivity in J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye. Introduction: J.D. Salinger—An Undercover Story. The Catcher in the Rye as a Cinematic Text. Juvenile Rebellion and the Rhetoric of Disgust. Conclusion: Carnal Identification and Cinematic Fiction. 8 Animal Laughter: Carnivalesque Humor and the Aesthetics of Dehierarchization in Mister Ed. Introduction: The Sitcom Genre and Carnivalesque Humor. Rendering the ‘Impossible’ Possible: Postcolonial Theory and the Animal Subaltern. Bestial Ambivalence and the Aesthetics of Shapeshifting. Pushing the Boundaries of Human and Non-human: Mister Ed as a Liminal Animal Denizen. Conclusion: Empowering the Subjugated Other. Part IV State of Affairs and Outlook. 9 Astronautic Subjectivity: Postmodern Culture and the Embodiment of Space in American Science Fiction. Introduction: Fashioning the Astronautic Subject. Postmodern Subjectivity and the Body Without Organs. The Gender of Astronauts. Man as Mother, Or, Gender Trouble in Space. The Astronautic Subject as Cultural Figuration. Transsexual Galaxies: The Mechanics of Engenderneering. Conclusion: Burning Bridges, Engendering New Selves. 10 Coda: Thinking ‘America’ in the Age of the Liminal. Works Cited and Consulted.

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Book SynopsisMedial Afterlives of H.P. Lovecraft brings together essays on the theory and practice of adapting H.P. Lovecraft’s fiction and the Lovecraftian. It draws on recent adaptation theory as well as broader discourses around media affordances to give an overview over the presence of Lovecraft in contemporary media as well as the importance of contemporary media in shaping what we take Lovecraft’s legacy to be. Discussing a wide array of medial forms, from film and TV to comics, podcasts, and video and board games, and bringing together an international group of scholars, the volume analyzes individual instances of adaptation as well as the larger concern of what it is possible to learn about adaptation from the example of H.P. Lovecraft, and how we construct Lovecraft and the Lovecraftian today in adaptation. Medial Afterlives of H.P. Lovecraft is focused on an academic audience, but it will nonetheless hold interest for all readers interested in Lovecraft today.Table of ContentsPart 1. Theory;1.Lovecraft, the Lovecraftian, and Adaptation.- 2.Disseminating Lovecraft.- 3.When Adaptation Precedes the Texts.- Part 2.Comics.- 4.Conveying Cosmicism.- 5.The Problematic of Providence.- 6.Twice Told Tale.-Part 3.Film and TV.- 7.Image, Insoluble.- 8.The Threshold of Horror.- 9. Cthulhoo-Dooby-Doo!.- 10.Dispatches from Carcosa.- 11.Lovecraft country.- 12.The Lovecraftian Festive Hoax.-Part 4.Podcasts.- 13.In my tortured ears there sounds unceasingly a nightmare.- 14.The Lovecraft Investigations as Mythos Metatext.- Part 5.Video Games.- 15.Head Games.- 16.16 The Crisis of Third Modernity.- 17.Authorship Discourse and Lovecraftian Part 6.Video Games.- Analog Games.- 18.Challenging the Expressive Power of Board Games.- 19.Playing the Race Card.

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Book SynopsisThe Beatles and the Beatlesque address a paradox emanating from The Beatles’ music through a cross-disciplinary hybrid of reflections, drawing from both, musical practice itself and academic research. Indeed, despite their extreme stylistic variety, The Beatles’ songs seem to always bear a distinctive identity that emerges even more in similar works by other artists, whether they are merely inspired, derivative or explicitly paying homage. The authors, a musicologist and music producer, emphasize the importance of record production in The Beatles' music in a way that does justice not only to the final artifacts (the released songs) but also to the creative process itself (i.e., the songs "in the making").Through an investigation into the work of George Martin and his team, as well as The Beatles themselves, this text sheds light on the role of the studio in shaping the group's eclectic but unique sound. The chapters address what makes a song “Beatlesque”, to what extent production choices are responsible for developing a style, production being understood not as a mere set of technicalities, but also in a more conceptual way, as well as the aesthetics, semiotics and philosophy that animated studio activity. The outcome is a book that will appeal to both students and researchers, as well as, of course, musicophiles of all kinds.Table of ContentsPreface1. Introduction: a short history of The Beatles in the studio1.1 Recording strategies, tricks and effects1.2 Instrumentation and recurrent techniques1.3 The centrality of the studio2. Style and sound2.1 Sound and musical competence2.2 The roots of The Beatles sound2.3 Later influences3. On (the difficulty of) defining The Beatles style3.1. Vocals3.2. Harmonic solutions3.3. Melodic solutions3.4. Rhythmic solutions3.5. Instruments3.6. Dynamics3.7. Sound3.8. Endings3.9. Lyrics4. Crossdisciplinary reflections: production seen from the perspective of multimodality studies, narratology and film studies.4.1. Visual and literary components in Lennon-McCartney 4.1.1. Lennon or McCartney 4.1.2. Lennon and McCartney4.2. Production as multimodality4.3. Production and diegesis4.3.1. Diegesis, non-diegesis, formality, non-formality4.3.2. Hybrid forms and metadiegesis4.4. Case-study: feedbacks, false starts and blisters4.4.1. Redefining the spatial/temporal dimension of a song4.5. Production as montage4.5.1. Martin vs. Spector (and Lynne)4.5.2. Types of production as types of montage4.6. Case-study: The Fool on the Hill4.6.1. Creation and production4.6.2. What kind of fool was the fool on the hill?4.6.3. The authorial context4.6.4. Themes, structure and imagery4.6.5. Musical strategies4.7. Foreshadowing strategies5. Birth and fortune of the “Beatlesesque”: Transmission of creativity and legacy5.1 A little survey5.2 Stylistic features in a nutshell5.3 Another little survey5.4 Intrinsically-Beatlesesque features5.4.1 Different approaches5.4.2 Most referenced production elements5.5 ConclusionsReferencesIndex of namesIndex of songs/albums

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Book SynopsisThis collection of 51 essays contains rich memories of Singapore’s broadcasting pioneers based in their station atop Caldecott Hill. ON AIR captures the breadth and depth of their experiences over 82 years on the Hill; from the founding in 1936 of the British Malayan Broadcasting Corporation, to Radio and Television Singapore (RTS), to Singapore Broadcasting Corporation (SBC), and finally to what is today, Mediacorp. In this book, the writrers have recorded eight decades worth of work experiences and have shared untold stories from the Japanese Occupation of Caldecott Hill, to the fascinating behind-the-scenes happenings that cast light and well known and well loved shows. Illustrated with rare, archival photographs, many not seen before, this publication is the first of its kind that gives an insight into the development of broadcasting in Singapore.

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Book SynopsisKnown as Hollywood's 'Boy Wonder', Irving Thalberg created classics such as "Ben-Hur", "Tarzan the Ape Man", "Grand Hotel", "Freaks", "Mutiny on the Bounty", and "The Good Earth", but died tragically at thirty-seven. This work uses production files, financial records, and correspondence to confirm the genius of Thalberg's methods.Trade Review"Vieira has accomplished something quite extraordinary... This is the definitive volume about a towering figure in the history of Hollywood." -- Leonard Maltin Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy "Vieira has written the definitive biography of Thalberg." STARRED REVIEW -- Teri Shiel Library Journal "The third biography of Thalberg, and far and away the most thoroughly researched, comprehensive, and penetrating ... as close to definitive as any biography of Irving Thalberg is likely to get." -- Joseph Epstein The Weekly Standard "Vieira writes with great verve and enthusiasm, and he has a flair for narrative movement that suits these exponents of the new storytelling ... well written and extensively researched." -- David Thomson New Republic "If you want to know about Hollywood's Golden Age, then you must know about Thalberg. And if you want to know about Thalberg, then you must read this book." -- Anthony McKenna Screening The Past "Among the many virtues of Mark Vieira's biography is the use he makes of the story conferences preserved in the MGM archives." The Economist "Vieira's work is both exhaustively researched and beautifully presented, rich in detail yet compulsively readable. If you want to know about Hollywood's Golden Age, then you must know about Thalberg. And if you want to know about Thalberg, then you must read this book." -- Anthony McKenna Screening The Past "This is a worthy, well-documented account of [Thalberg's] life." -- R. D. Sears Choice "A well-researched and readable biography." -- David Yezzi Wall Street Journal "This is a sympathetic, diligent, and intelligent account of a wondrous era in Hollywood." Jewish Book World "Vieira has put the enigmatic producer back in the spotlight with his biography ... a thorough and readable book." -- Matthew Rovner Forward "Vieira's excellent biography reveals a master player...[and] sheds much needed light upon significant, influential life." Magill's Literary Annual / Salem Press "The jury has been out for 70 years on the MGM studio chief, even though F Scott Fitzgerald immortalised him as the "last tycoon". Was Thalberg art's gift to Hollywood, with his well-bred epics (Romeo and Juliet, Marie Antoinette)? Or was he a mogul playing to the middlebrow? Read this impressively researched study and decide." -- Nigel Andrews Financial Times "An engaging new biography ... an unusually animated and revealing tour of Hollywood in the 1920s and '30s." -- Noah Isenberg Bookforum "An important book on a pivotal figure in Hollywood history... Vieira's biography is an invaluable resource." -- Camille McCutcheon, University of South Carolina Upstate Jrnl Of American Culture "Vieira takes students of movie history deep into the bowels of MGM." -- Robert Fulford The National Post "A fast-paced and well-researched new biography of Thalberg." -- Kent Jones Film CommentTable of ContentsPreface Part One The Merger 1 The Boy Wonder 2 A Funny Little Man 3 Three Shaky Little Stars Part Two The Perfection of Silence 4 A Studio Style 5 Wicked Stepchildren 6 A Business of Personalities 7 Top of the Heap 8 “More Stars Than There Are in Heaven” Part Three The Talkies 9 The Golden Silents 10 All-Talking, All-Singing, All Profitable 11 The Production Code Part Four “His Brain Is the Camera” 12 Visiting Royalty 13 New Morals for Old 14 The Right to Be Wrong 15 Hollywood Icarus Part Five The Thalberg Unit 16 The New Setup 17 Honor with Credit 18 “To Hell with Art!” Part Six The Crown Prince of Hollywood 19 “Napoleon Thalberg” 20 A Feverish Energy 21 A Labor of Love 22 The Gods Are Jealous Part Seven The Legacy 23 Unfinished Projects 24 Marie Antoinette Epilogue Appendix: The M-G-M Films of Irving Thalberg Notes Select Bibliography Acknowledgments Index Illustrations

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Book SynopsisA New York Times bestselling scholar’s illuminating exploration of the earliest Christian narrated journeys to heaven and hellTrade ReviewNamed by the New Yorker as a Best Book of 2022 “[An] illuminating deep dive. . . . An edifying origin story for contemporary Christian conceptions of the afterlife.”—Publishers Weekly “When the late rapper 2Pac argued in song that we on earth are probably in hell already but don’t know it, and that a crackhead is right now suffering ‘eternal fire,’ he was grappling with weighty biblical and theological issues taken up by Bart D. Ehrman in his brilliant and provocative book Journeys to Heaven and Hell. Ehrman’s work richly informs us about how visions and tours of the afterlife shape our before-death existence—what we should do with our purse, our person, our proselytizing, and how we should view the power and politics of God. This wise and insightful tome by an erstwhile believer, and one of my absolute favorite biblical scholars, stimulates the mind and charges the spirit of a hopeful Black evangelical like me.”—Michael Eric Dyson, author of Entertaining Race: Performing Blackness in America “Bart D. Ehrman explores the Greco-Roman background of Christian afterlife and provides a much-needed reassessment of its Jewish apocalyptic roots. This is an extremely well-documented and well-written book, a real intellectual pleasure to read.”—Pierluigi Piovanelli, University of Ottawa and École pratique des hautes études “In a characteristically scholarly yet engaging style, Bart Ehrman shines new light on ancient accounts of visits by the living to the realms of the dead. This is an important contribution to the reevaluation of the rich literary heritage of early Christianity.”—Judith Lieu, University of Cambridge “In Journeys to Heaven and Hell, Ehrman examines a range of apocryphal texts related to the afterlife, but his examinations of such issues as the ethical problem of wealth, conversion, and universal salvation reveal how much the study of these journeys to other worlds can contribute to the study of a wide range of areas of interest in this world.”—Tony Burke, editor of New Testament Apocrypha: More Noncanonical Scriptures

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Book SynopsisThese authors knowledge of the nuances of movie and television accounting shines through the pages of this book, which is sure to become a standard reference in this field. -- Harold L. Vogel, author, Entertainment Industry Economics. The distribution of a motion pictures profits is, for most filmmakers, a murky, labyrinthine domain ruled by studio/distributor accountants and lawyers. Movie Money -- a must-read for all film producers, directors, writers, and actors -- unravels, demystifies, and explains the film industrys unique, arcane, creative accounting practices. It examines a films various revenue-generating and revenue-consuming components and presents numerous film industry definitions and calculations of gross and net profits. It also provides in-depth coverage of the various aspects of profit participation -- its terminology and accounting and deal practices -- along with chapters on audits, claims, and negotiating tips and tricks. The Third Edition adds a wealth of all-new material on New Media, a chapter on film distribution and production in todays China, written by Tracy Liang (a CPA with Green Hasson Janks), as well as a thorough updating of every section of the book.

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewMichael Chion's books on film sound... have been revelotory syntheses of an expansive knowledge in elegant, accessible prose. -- Dell Tamblyn Film Comment Exceedingly teachable and surely welcomed by instructors... Film, a Sound Art is indubitably an asset to the study of cinema. -- Kyle Stevens Film CriticismTable of ContentsPreface to the English Edition Translator's Note Part I. History 1. When Film Was Deaf (1895-1927) 2. Chaplin-Three Steps into Speech 3. Birth of the Talkies or of Sound Film? (1927-1935) 4. Jean Vigo-The Material and the Ideal 5. The Ascendancy of King Text (1935-1950) 6. Babel 7. The Time It Takes for Time to "Harden" (1950-1975) 8. The Return of the Sensorial (1975-1990) 9. The Silence of the Loudspeakers (1990-2003) 10. On a Sequence from The Birds: Sound Film as Palimpsestic Art Part II. Aesthetics and Poetics 11. Jacques Tati, the Cow, and the Moo 12. The Disappointed Fairies Around the Cradle 13. The Separation 14. The Real and the Rendered 15. The Three Borders 16. Audiovisual Phrasing 17. Alfred Hitchcock: Seeing and Hearing 18. The Twelve Ears 19. Orson Welles: The Voice and the House 20. The Talking Machine 21. Faces and Speech 22. Andrei Tarkovsky: Language and the World 23. The Five Powers 24. God Is a Disc Jockey 25. Max Ophuls: Music, Noise, and Speech 26. Like Tears in Rain Glossary List of Illustrations Index

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Book SynopsisMake a career out of your voice? Easy. Voice acting is like acting, but just using your voice! It's a unique career where the actor's voice can be heard worldwide-in commercials, on audiobooks, in animated movies, documentaries, online videos, telephone systems and much, much more.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Part I: Exploring Voice Acting Basics 7 Chapter 1: An Overview of Voice Acting: Just the Basics 9 Chapter 2: Finding Your Voice: How You Fit into Voice Acting 17 Chapter 3: Training Your Voice 29 Chapter 4: Understanding Your Role 53 Chapter 5: Interpreting a Script and Finding Your Character 69 Part II: Creating Your Audio Résumé 85 Chapter 6: Deciding What Demos Are Essential 87 Chapter 7: Getting Your Script Ready for Your Demo 99 Chapter 8: Recording Your Demo 113 Part III: Auditioning and Finding Work 127 Chapter 9: Marketing Yourself and Promoting Your Work 129 Chapter 10: Uncovering Voice Acting Jobs 159 Chapter 11: Auditioning 101: Just the Basics 171 Chapter 12: Auditioning in the Virtual World 185 Chapter 13: Auditioning in the Real World 199 Part IV: Setting Up Your Voice Acting Business 217 Chapter 14: Working after You’ve Booked a Voice-Over Job 219 Chapter 15: Getting Paid For Your Work 233 Chapter 16: Nurturing Your Business 247 Part V: Establishing Your Home Recording Studio 263 Chapter 17: Creating Your Own In-Home Recording Studio 265 Chapter 18: Understanding the Recording Process a Little Better 279 Chapter 19: Editing and Mixing: Getting More Advanced 293 Chapter 20: Recording the Finished Product 311 Chapter 21: Delivering the Final Product 321 Part VI: The Part of Tens 333 Chapter 22: Ten Reasons You Should Regularly Audition 335 Chapter 23: Ten (or So) Tips to Prepare for Voice Acting Jobs 339 Index 345

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