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Detroit on Stage : The Players Club, 1910-2005 /
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Screening Auschwitz : Wanda Jakubowska's The Last Stage and the Politics of Commemoration /
Published 2018Table of Contents: “…The Auschwitz-Birkenau number 43513 -- "Stalin was moved to tears" : the script -- Return to Auschwitz : the making of the Holocaust classic -- The film and its reception -- Fighting Auschwitz : the heroic account of the camp -- Representation of the Holocaust in the last stage -- The legacy of Wanda Jakubowska.…”
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Shakespeare and the Legacy of Loss /
Published 2018Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the actor -- Against loss -- The chronology of Garrick -- Theatrical time -- Celebrating performance -- Black Garrick versus Richard III -- Aphra Behn and the memory of Othello -- Becoming Richard, becoming Othello -- Garrick, ascendant -- Hamlet, David Garrick, and Laurence Sterne -- Garrick and the immortality of the stage -- Theatrical Tristram -- Garrick's autopsy, "Yorick's" skull -- Retelling The winter's tale -- The return of Leontes -- "Perdita" Robinson and the burden of the past -- Reanimating Lady Macbeth -- Siddons and the memory of Garrick -- The merchant of Venice and memorial debts -- "Shakespeare's" Shylock -- Clive's Portia -- Trial by theater and tradition -- Macklin's exit, Garrick's stage -- Shakespeare, retired -- Garrick's farewell -- Siddons, offstage -- Mourning performance.…”
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Manhood Impossible : Men's Struggles to Control and Transform Their Bodies and Work /
Published 2018Subjects: “…FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS Life Stages General. bisacsh…”
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China and the West : Music, Representation, and Reception /
Published 2017Table of Contents: “…Eastern fantasies on Western stages : Chinese-themed operettas and musical comedies in turn-of-the-last-century London and New York /…”
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A Key to Dutch History : The Cultural Canon of the Netherlands /
Published 2007Table of Contents: “…UPPER FORMS AND SECOND STAGE --…”
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Women in the Silent Cinema : Histories of Fame and Fate /
Published 2017Table of Contents: “…Intro; Table of Contents; Introduction; PART I -- ADRIÃ#x8B;NNE SOLSER; Adriñnne Solser on the Dutch Popular Stage; Adriñnne Solser and the Dutch Silent Cinema; PART II -- MUSIDORA; Musidora on the French Popular Stage; Musidora and the French Silent Cinema; PART III -- NELL SHIPMAN; Nell Shipman on the American Popular Stage; Nell Shipman and the American Silent Cinema; In Conclusion; Abbreviations; Notes; Career Overviews; Acknowledgements; Illustration Credits; Index.…”
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Clinical Trials in Ovarian Cancer /
Published 2017Table of Contents: “…Early stage epithelial ovarian cancer -- Advanced stage epithelial ovarian cancer : adjuvant chemotherapy -- Advanced stage epithelial ovarian cancer : timing of surgery and interval cytoreduction -- Epithelial ovarian cancer : maintenance therapy -- Recurrent epithelial ovarian cancer.…”
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Reading Death in Ancient Rome /
Published 2008Table of Contents: “…Playing dead -- Staging death -- Disposing the dead -- Disposing the dead? …”
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The Unfinished Art of Theater : Avant-Garde Intellectuals in Mexico and Brazil /
Published 2018Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The uneven stage of the avant-gardes -- Mexico -- Rehearsals of the tragi-co(s)mic race -- Primitivist accumulation and Teatro sintetico -- Radio/puppets, or the institutionalization of a (media) revolution -- Brazil -- Parsifal on the periphery of capitalism -- Phonography, operatic ethnography, and other bad arts -- Total theater and missing pieces -- Postscript: Loose ends.…”
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Shock and Awe : American Exceptionalism and the Imperatives of the Spectacle in Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court /
Published 2013Table of Contents: “…American Exceptionalism : A Genealogy -- A Connecticut Yankee as American Jeremiad : The Historical Context -- Americanist Criticism of A Connecticut Yankee : A Critical History -- Staging the Spectacle : A Contrapuntal Reading of A Connecticut Yankee -- A Connecticut Yankee and America’s "War on Terror" : Thinking the Spectacle.…”
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The Sound of Innovation : Stanford and the Computer Music Revolution /
Published 2015Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 Setting the Stage; 3 The First Movement; 4 Tension and Release; 5 Duet for Stanford and Yamaha; 6 From Exposition to Development; 7 Plucking the Golden Gate Bridge; 8 Recapitulation and Variations; 9 Coda; Appendix: Interviews Conducted by Author; Notes; References; Index.…”
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The Roman Salute : Cinema, History, Ideology /
Published 2009Table of Contents: “…Saluting gestures in Roman art and literature -- Jacques-Louis David's Oath of the Horatii -- Raised-arm salutes in the United States before fascism : from the pledge of allegiance to Ben-Hur on stage -- Early cinema : American and European epics -- Cabiria : the intersection of cinema and politics -- Gabriele d'Annunzio and Cabiria -- Fiume : the Roman salute becomes a political symbol -- From D'Annunzio to Mussolini -- Nazi cinema and its impact on Hollywood's Roman epics : from Leni Riefenstahl to Quo vadis -- Visual legacies : antiquity on the screen from Quo vadis to Rome -- Cinema : from Salome to Alexander -- Television : from Star trek to Rome -- Conclusion.…”
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Spain, China, and Japan in Manila, 1571-1644 : Local Comparisons and Global Connections /
Published 2015Table of Contents: “…The foundations of a global stage -- 3. The trilogy of triangular trade -- III. …”
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Deciphering Race : White Anxiety, Racial Conflict, and the Turn to Fiction in Mid-Victorian English Prose /
Published 2006Table of Contents: “…Aestheticizing Mid-Victorian Racial Tropism -- Toussaint and the Staging of Political Aesthetics in Normal: Harriet Martineaus The Hour and the Man (1841) -- Life Clothed in Forms: Radical Racism as Formalist Aesthetic in Robert Knoxs The Races of Men (1850) -- The Dialectic of Scapegoat and Fetish: Failed Catharsis in Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collinss The Perils of Certain English Prisoners (1857) -- So Help Me God, the Truth and Not the Truth: Hyper-Realism and the Taxonomy of Truth Seeking in the Royal Commissions Inquiry into the 1865 Jamaica Rebellion -- Race, Ruins, and Rebellion: Spatializing Racial @Normal: Otherness in James Grants First Love and Last Love (1868) -- De-Aestheticizing Sara(h) Ba(a)rtman(n).…”
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The Imaginary and Its Worlds : American Studies after the Transnational Turn /
Published 2013Table of Contents: “…William James versus Charles Taylor: Philosophy of Religion and the Confines of the Social and Cultural Imaginaries / Herwig Friedl -- The Shaping of We-Group Identities in the African American Community: A Perspective of Figurational Sociology on the Cultural Imaginary / Christa Buschendorf -- Russia's Californio Romance: The Other Shores of Whitman's Pacific / Lene Johannessen -- Form Games: Staging Life in the Systems Epoch / Mark Seltzer -- Political Imaginaries. …”
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Heritage and Romantic Consumption in China /
Published 2018Table of Contents: “…-- A Note on the Method -- Theatre of the Book -- 2.Stage -- Reconstructing a World Heritage Site -- The Development of Mass Tourism -- Becoming a Town of Romance -- Transforming into a Capital of Love Affairs (Yanyu) -- Creating a Cultural Theme Park -- Conclusion -- 3.Scripts -- Dongba as Religious Practitioners -- Transformations in Dongba Practices since 1949 -- Traditional Naxi Wedding -- Current Marriage Customs in Lijiang -- The `Dongba Wedding' in the Courtyard -- Conclusion -- 4.Local Actors -- The Manager, Mr. …”
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Naval Leadership in the Atlantic World : The Age of Reform and Revolution, 1700 -1850 /
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Observing Protest from a Place : The World Social Forum in Dakar (2011) /
Published 2015Table of Contents: “…Making waste (in)visible at the Dakar World Social Forum -- 6.1 Waste management as stage-setting for a transnational alter-global event -- 6.2 Audiences -- 6.3 Backstage tactics and the boundaries of an institutionalized activist space -- 7. …”
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