Category: Performing Arts

The Cinema of Canada PDF By:Jerry WhitePublished on 2006 by Wallflower Press Often overlooked and overshadowed by its North American cousin, Canadian cinema has nevertheless produced some mesmerising films and directors, including Atom Egoyan, Robert Lepage and Denys Arcand. The Cinema of Canada contains 24 essays, each on a different film and divides itself into […]

Apollo’s Angels PDF By:Jennifer HomansPublished on 2010-11-02 by Random House NATIONAL BESTSELLER For more than four hundred years, the art of ballet has stood at the center of Western civilization. Its traditions serve as a record of our past. Lavishly illustrated and beautifully told, Apollo’s Angels—the first cultural history of ballet ever written—is a groundbreaking […]

The Adaptation of History PDF By:Laurence Raw,Defne Ersin TutanPublished on 2012-11-12 by McFarland |This collection of essays looks at the question |What is history?| and how history is shaped in different socioeconomic contexts. The writers take a transdisciplinary approach, in the belief that everyone who deals with history constructs narratives of the past to make […]

Framing Africa PDF By:Nigel EltringhamPublished on 2013-06-30 by Berghahn Books The first decade of the 21st century has seen a proliferation of North American and European films that focus on African politics and society. While once the continent was the setting for narratives of heroic ascendancy over self (The African Queen, 1951; The Snows of […]

The History of Television, 1942 to 2000 PDF By:Albert AbramsonPublished on 2002-12-30 by McFarland A technical history of television covers significany developments from 1942 to 2000, including television during World War II, the change from helical to high band technology, and the rise of electronic journalism. This Book was ranked at 12 by Google Books […]

Hollywood’s Vision of Team Sports PDF By:Deborah V. TudorPublished on 1997 by Taylor & Francis First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. This Book was ranked at 20 by Google Books for keyword Sports. Book ID of Hollywood’s Vision of Team Sports’s Books is tLs12QHsqTUC, Book which […]

Actors and Activists PDF By:David A. SchlossmanPublished on 2002-01 by Psychology Press This scholarly work looks at the issue of politics and performance in America today with particular attention paid to performances produced by activists, the NEA Four, and |Miss Saigon|. This Book was ranked at 6 by Google Books for keyword Social Activists. Book […]

Rings of Desire PDF By:Helen StoddartPublished on 2000 by Manchester University Press The circus has been both one of the most influential forms of international popular entertainment and yet at the same time remains almost entirely absent from academic studies of popular theatrical forms. This book offers readers an introduction to the cultural history of […]

The New Biographical Dictionary Of Film 5Th Ed PDF By:David ThomsonPublished on 2010-11-04 by Hachette UK This book is both more and less than history, a work of imagination in its own right, a piece of movie literature that turns fact into romance.’ Gavin Lambert was reviewing the first edition of David Thomson’s monumental work […]