Improvising Cinema / by Mouëllic, Gilles

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Writing and improvisation -- Creation in action -- The influence of Jean Rouch -- Acting cinema -- The temptation of theatre -- The rules of the game -- Filming jazz -- Conclusion.…”
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Improvising Cinema / by Mouëllic, Gilles

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Writing and improvisation -- Creation in action -- The influence of Jean Rouch -- Acting cinema -- The temptation of theatre -- The rules of the game -- Filming jazz -- Conclusion.…”
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Sharing the dance : contact improvisation and American culture / by Novack, Cynthia Jean

Subjects: “…Improvisation in dance History.…”
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Sharing the dance : contact improvisation and American culture / by Novack, Cynthia Jean

Subjects: “…Improvisation in dance History.…”
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The accidental city improvising New Orleans / by Powell, Lawrence N.

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The accidental city improvising New Orleans / by Powell, Lawrence N.

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The hidden 1970s histories of radicalism /

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The hidden 1970s histories of radicalism /

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Camp Chase and the evolution of Union prison policy by Pickenpaugh, Roger

Table of Contents: “…Training camp -- Improvised prison camp -- Parole camp -- Exchange and escape -- The search for stability -- The lives of the prisoners -- The health of the prisoners -- "i think i feel a change" -- Afterword : keeping alive the memory.…”
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Camp Chase and the evolution of Union prison policy by Pickenpaugh, Roger

Table of Contents: “…Training camp -- Improvised prison camp -- Parole camp -- Exchange and escape -- The search for stability -- The lives of the prisoners -- The health of the prisoners -- "i think i feel a change" -- Afterword : keeping alive the memory.…”
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Keys to Play : Music as a Ludic Medium from Apollo to Nintendo / by Moseley, Roger, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…Fields and interfaces of musical play -- Key 1 Ludomusicality -- Key 2 Digital analogies -- Pt II. Play by play : improvisation, performance, recreation -- Key 3 The emergence of musical play -- Key 4 High scores: WAM vs. …”
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Keys to Play : Music as a Ludic Medium from Apollo to Nintendo / by Moseley, Roger, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…Fields and interfaces of musical play -- Key 1 Ludomusicality -- Key 2 Digital analogies -- Pt II. Play by play : improvisation, performance, recreation -- Key 3 The emergence of musical play -- Key 4 High scores: WAM vs. …”
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From deficit to deluge the origins of the French Revolution /

Table of Contents: “…Kaiser -- Enlightenment idioms, Old Regime discourses, and revolutionary improvisation / Keith Michael Baker -- Gender in pre-revolutionary political culture / Jeffrey Merrick -- Saint-Domingue, slavery and the origins of the French Revolution / Jeremy D. …”
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From deficit to deluge the origins of the French Revolution /

Table of Contents: “…Kaiser -- Enlightenment idioms, Old Regime discourses, and revolutionary improvisation / Keith Michael Baker -- Gender in pre-revolutionary political culture / Jeffrey Merrick -- Saint-Domingue, slavery and the origins of the French Revolution / Jeremy D. …”
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The Spanish frontier in North America by Weber, David J.

Table of Contents: “…List of maps -- Spanish names and words -- Introduction -- 1: Worlds apart -- 2: First encounters -- 3: Foundations of empire: Florida and New Mexico -- 4: Conquistadors of the spirit -- 5: Exploitation, contention, and rebellion -- 6: Imperial rivalry and strategic expansion: to Texas, the Gulf Coast, and the high plains -- 7: Commercial rivalry, stagnation, and the fortunes of war -- 8: Indian raiders and the reorganization of frontier defenses -- 9: Forging a transcontinental empire: new California to the Floridas -- 10: Improvisations and retreats: the empire lost -- 11: Frontiers and frontier peoples transformed -- 12: Spanish legacy and the historical imagination -- For further reading -- Index.…”
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The Spanish frontier in North America by Weber, David J.

Table of Contents: “…List of maps -- Spanish names and words -- Introduction -- 1: Worlds apart -- 2: First encounters -- 3: Foundations of empire: Florida and New Mexico -- 4: Conquistadors of the spirit -- 5: Exploitation, contention, and rebellion -- 6: Imperial rivalry and strategic expansion: to Texas, the Gulf Coast, and the high plains -- 7: Commercial rivalry, stagnation, and the fortunes of war -- 8: Indian raiders and the reorganization of frontier defenses -- 9: Forging a transcontinental empire: new California to the Floridas -- 10: Improvisations and retreats: the empire lost -- 11: Frontiers and frontier peoples transformed -- 12: Spanish legacy and the historical imagination -- For further reading -- Index.…”
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Early modern encounters with the Islamic East performing cultures /

Table of Contents: “…William Harborne's embassies: scripting, performing and editing Anglo-Ottoman diplomacy / Sabine Lucia Müller -- Performing at the Ottoman Porte in 1599: the case of Henry Lello / Gerald MacLean -- Command performances: early English traders in Arabia Felix / Richmond Barbour -- Strategic improvisation: Henry Blount in the Ottoman Empire / Sabine Schülting -- Props and Costumes. …”
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Early modern encounters with the Islamic East performing cultures /

Table of Contents: “…William Harborne's embassies: scripting, performing and editing Anglo-Ottoman diplomacy / Sabine Lucia Müller -- Performing at the Ottoman Porte in 1599: the case of Henry Lello / Gerald MacLean -- Command performances: early English traders in Arabia Felix / Richmond Barbour -- Strategic improvisation: Henry Blount in the Ottoman Empire / Sabine Schülting -- Props and Costumes. …”
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The school of hard knocks combat leadership in the American Expeditionary Forces / by Faulkner, Richard Shawn

Table of Contents: “…Combat leadership in the AEF: a tale of Alvin and Charles -- "To be instructed in the dark art and mystery of managing men" -- Small-unit leadership in the Old Army -- "We find ourselves in need of a vast army of officers" -- The stateside selection and training of officers -- "By improvised and uncoordinated means" -- Officer selection and training in 1918 -- "Ninety-day wonders" and "jumped-up sergeants" -- Stateside mobilization and the challenges of small-unit leadership -- "My God! …”
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The school of hard knocks combat leadership in the American Expeditionary Forces / by Faulkner, Richard Shawn

Table of Contents: “…Combat leadership in the AEF: a tale of Alvin and Charles -- "To be instructed in the dark art and mystery of managing men" -- Small-unit leadership in the Old Army -- "We find ourselves in need of a vast army of officers" -- The stateside selection and training of officers -- "By improvised and uncoordinated means" -- Officer selection and training in 1918 -- "Ninety-day wonders" and "jumped-up sergeants" -- Stateside mobilization and the challenges of small-unit leadership -- "My God! …”
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