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Marlene Dietrich life and legend / by Bach, Steven

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: A Note from the Author -- Overture: A visit to the theater : 1929 -- I. Berlin: One. Beginnings : 1901-1918 ; Two. …”
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Bringing the body to the stage and screen expressive movement for performers / by Lust, Annette

Table of Contents: “…Jo Tomalin -- Too much geniality: notes and quotes on a reappraisal: stage versus screen acting / by Ken Bullock -- The body of theater / by Mark Jackson -- How Charlie Chaplin spun stagecraft into cinematic gold / by Dan Kamin -- Epilogue.…”
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Authorizing Shakespeare on film and television gender, class, and ethnicity in adaptation / by Pittman, L. Monique, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…. -- Teen Shakespeare and the trouble with gender: 10 things I hate about you and She's the man -- The Bard and the beeb : televisual authority and Shakespeare retold -- Tracing Hamlet in slings and arrows: Fathers haunt the theater -- It's not tv, it's Shakespeare: literary-historical adaptation in HBO's Rome.…”
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The flesh made text made flesh cultural and theoretical returns to the body /

Table of Contents: “…Body/art and technological transformations / Johannes Birringer -- Digital divas / Sue-Ellen Case -- Millennial artaud / Elizabeth Sakellaridou -- The bacchanalian body in Theodoros Terzopoulos' theater / Pinelopi Hatzidimitriou -- Dissecting bodies and selves in the early modern period / Effie Botonaki -- From rejection to affirmation of their bodies / Jennifer E. …”
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"The useless mouths", and other literary writings / by Beauvoir, Simone de, 1908-1986

Table of Contents: “…Simons -- The useless mouths (a play) / introduction by Liz Stanley and Catherine Naji -- Short articles on literature / introduction by Elizabeth Fallaize -- Existentialist theater / introduction by Dennis A. Gilbert -- A story I used to tell myself / introduction by Ursula Tidd -- Preface to La Bâtarde by Violette Leduc / introduction by Alison S. …”
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Jewish writing and the deep places of the imagination by Krupnick, Mark, 1939-

Table of Contents: “…"A shit-filled life": Philip Roth's Sabbath's theater -- "We are here to be humiliated": Philip Roth's recent fiction -- Geoffrey Hartman, Wordsworth, and Holocaust testimonies -- Cynthia Ozick: embarrassments -- Lionel Trilling and "the deep places of the imagination" -- The Trillings : a marriage of true minds? …”
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Marketing the bard Shakespeare in performance and print, 1660-1740 / by Dugas, Don-John, 1967-

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The left side of the screen Communist and left-wing ideology in Hollywood, 1929-2009 / by Herzberg, Bob, 1956-

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The funny parts a history of film comedy routines and gags / by Balducci, Anthony, 1958-

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Paging New Jersey a literary guide to the Garden State / by Broderick, James F., 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Philip Freneau -- James Fenimore Cooper -- Mary Griffith -- Walt Whitman -- Mary Mapes Dodge -- Thomas Nast -- Mary Wilkins Freeman -- Stephen Crane -- Albert Payson Terhune -- William Carlos Williams -- Joyce Kilmer -- Allen Ginsberg -- Mary Higgins Clark -- Toni Morrison -- Amiri Baraka -- Joyce Carol Oates -- Peter Benchley -- Anna Quindlen -- Cheaper by the dozen -- Goodbye, Columbus -- The Pine Barrens -- Eddie and the Cruisers -- Jersey luck -- Rosamund's vision -- Laying down the law -- One for the money -- Our guys -- Lost legends of New Jersey -- Searching for Captain Kidd's treasure -- Burr, Hamilton, and the duel of history in Weehawken -- The Lindbergh baby kidnapping -- The Hindenburg disaster -- The trials of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter -- Mobbed in New Jersey -- On the (paper) trail of the New Jersey Devil -- Dodge Poetry Festival -- The New Jersey Literary Hall of Fame -- Stages of greatness: a survey of the history of theater in New Jersey -- Reaching critical mass in the Garden State -- Stoned in New Jersey.…”
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Shakespearean educations power, citizenship, and performance /

Table of Contents: “…Nathans -- "A course of learning and ingenious studies": Shakespearean Education and Theater in Antebellum America / Jennifer Mylander -- Eloquent Shakespeare / Heather S. …”
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Re:skin

Table of Contents: “…Timmel Duchamp -- Safety of skin (nonfiction) / Melinda Rackham -- Making room for the body: from fragmentation to mediation (nonfiction) / Bernadette Wegenstein -- On morphological imagination (nonfiction) / Vivian Sobchack -- Fur Manifesto (fiction/nonfiction) / Model T. and Sara D(iamond) -- Ganger (Ball Lightning) (fiction) / Nalo Hopkinson -- Perfect twins (nonfiction) / Rebecca Cannon -- Lynx and strand (fiction) / Jewelle Gomez -- Readers of the lost art (fiction) / Elisabeth Vonarburg -- The Black.Net.Art actions: Blackness for sale (2001), The interaction of coloreds (2002), and The pink of stealth (2003) (fiction/nonfiction) / Keith + Mendi Obadike -- Eye contact: fine moving hands and the flesh and blood of image fabrication in the operating theaters of interventional radiology (nonfiction) / Christina Lammer -- Seminal space: getting under the digital skin (nonfiction) / Alicia Imperiale -- Skin (fiction/nonfiction) / Shelley Jackson -- Reskinning the everyday (nonfiction) / Mary Flanagan -- Performing blackness: virtual sports and becoming the other in an era of white supremacy (nonfiction) / David J. …”
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From Shtetl to Stardom Jews and Hollywood /

Table of Contents: “…The faemmle business : Laemmle Theaters, Los Angeles, and the moviegoing experience--an interview with Bob and Greg Laemmle / Ross Melnick -- 9. …”
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From Shtetl to Stardom : Jews and Hollywood /

Table of Contents: “…The faemmle business : Laemmle Theaters, Los Angeles, and the moviegoing experience--an interview with Bob and Greg Laemmle / Ross Melnick -- 9. …”
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From Shtetl to Stardom : Jews and Hollywood /

Table of Contents: “…The faemmle business : Laemmle Theaters, Los Angeles, and the moviegoing experience--an interview with Bob and Greg Laemmle / Ross Melnick -- 9. …”
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Essays in memory of Richard Helgerson laureations /

Table of Contents: “…Dolan -- About suffering, and on Dying: Shakespeare's re-invention of a theater of eschatological identity in King Lear/ James Nohrnberg -- Pt. 3. …”
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Novels of the contemporary extreme

Table of Contents: “…Sadomasochism, castration and rape: Richard Morgiève's nightmare theater of primal scenes / Ralph Schoolcraft -- Dantec's Inferno / Lawrence R. …”
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The Apple family : scenes from life in the country / by Nelson, Richard, 1950-

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A companion to early cinema

Table of Contents: “…The European Fairground Cinema: (Re-)defining and (Re-)contextualizing the "Cinema of -- Attractions" / Joseph Garncarz -- Early Film Programs: an Overture, Five Acts, and an Interlude / Richard Abel -- "Half Real-Half Reel": Alternation Format Stage-and-Screen Hybrids / Gwendolyn Waltz -- Advance Newspaper Publicity for the Vitascope and the Mass Address of Cinema's Reading Public / Paul S. Moore -- Storefront Theater Advertising and the Evolution of the American Film Poster / Kathryn H. …”
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Stories : Screen Narrative in the Digital Era /

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