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Stage-bound feature film adaptations of Canadian and Québécois drama / by Loiselle, André

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Fight choreography the art of non-verbal dialogue / by Kreng, John

Subjects: “…Stage fighting.…”
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Brazil in twenty-first century popular media : culture, politics, and nationalism on the world stage /

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A companion to early cinema

Table of Contents: “…The Culture Broth and the Froth of Cultures of So-called Early Cinema / André Gaudreault -- Toward A History Of Peep Practice / Erkki Huhtamo -- "We are Here and Not Here": Late Nineteenth Century Stage Magic and the Roots of Cinema in the Appearance (and Disappearance) of the Virtual Image / Tom Gunning -- The Féerie between Stage and Screen / Frank Kessler -- The Théâtrophone, an Anachronistic Hybrid Experiment or One of the First Immobile Traveler Devices? …”
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Polish film and the Holocaust politics and memory / by Haltof, Marek

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Postwar Poland: geopolitics and cinema -- Wanda Jakubowska's return to Auschwitz: the last stage -- Commemorating the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in Border Street -- Images of the Holocaust during the Polish School period (1955-1965) -- Years of organized forgetting (1965-1980) -- Return of the repressed: "The poor Poles look at the ghetto" (1981- ) -- Andrzej Wajda responds: Korczak (1990) and holy week -- Documentary archaeology of the Holocaust and Polish-Jewish past -- Afterword.…”
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Illusive utopia theater, film, and everyday performance in North Korea / by Kim, Suk-Young, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Hybridization of performance genres -- Time and space in North Korean performance -- Revival of the state patriarchs -- Model citizens of the family-nation -- Acting like women in North Korea -- Performing paradoxes : staging utopia, upstaging dystopia -- Conclusion : looking back, moving forward.…”
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The Roman Salute : Cinema, History, Ideology / by Winkler, Martin M.

Table 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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Practical moviemaking a handbook for the real world / by Wallenstein, Joseph B.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Producers -- Anticipation and communication -- The people with whom you work -- Identifying a potential project -- Critical assumptions -- Breaking down the script -- Creating the production board -- Scheduling -- Locations -- Budgeting -- Casting -- Dealing with actors -- Acquiring a crew -- Set protocol -- Elements of production -- Good money vs. bad money -- Practical locations vs. stage work -- Production insurance -- The myth of cinematic immunity -- Post-production -- Marketing -- Epilogue.…”
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Crowd Scenes : Movies and Mass Politics / by Tratner, Michael

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Siegfried Kracauer's American writings essays on film and popular culture / by Kracauer, Siegfried, 1889-1966

Table of Contents: “…In Eisenstein's workshop (1943) -- The Russian director (1949) -- The movie colony (1942) -- A lady of valor (1947) -- The Teutonic mind (1948) -- Consciousness, free and spontaneous (1948) -- Indologian holiday (1948) -- Portrait in film (1948) -- Total teaching -- Pictorial deluge (1950) -- Movie mirror (1950) -- Reflexion faite (1952) -- Toward a theory of film. Stage vs. screen acting (1950) -- The photographic approach (1951) -- Silent film comedy (1951) -- The found story and the episode (1956) -- Letter to film 56 (1956) -- Afterword: Kracauer, the magical nominalist / Martin Jay.…”
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The Rey Chow reader by Chow, Rey

Table of Contents: “…Film and cultural identity -- Seeing modern China : toward a theory of ethnic spectatorship -- The dream of a butterfly -- Film as ethnography, or, Translation between cultures in the postcolonial world -- A filmic staging of postwar geotemporal politics: on Akira Kurosawa's No regrets for our youth, sixty years later -- From Sentimental fabulations, contemporary Chinese films: attachment in the age of global visibility -- The political economy of vision in Happy times and Not one less, or, a different type of migration.…”
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Gaze Regimes : Film and feminisms in Africa /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: By way of context and content -- 1 African Women in Cinema: An overview -- 2 'I am a feminist only in secret' -- 3 Staged Authenticity: Femininity in photography and film -- 4 'Power is in your own hands': Why Jihan El-Tahri does not like movements -- 5 Aftermath: A focus on collective trauma -- 6 Shooting Violence and Trauma: Traversing visual and social topographies in Zanele Muholi's work -- 7 Puk Nini: A Filmic Instruction in Seduction: Exploring class and sexuality in gender relations -- 8 I am Saartjie Baartman -- 9 Filmmaking at the Margins of a Community: On co-producing Elelwani -- 10 On Collective Practice and Collected Reflections -- 11 'Cinema of resistance' -- 12 Dark and Personal -- 13 'Change? …”
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Recovering 1940s horror cinema : traces of a lost decade /

Table of Contents: “…Gross, and the Grand-Guignol: re-staging the corpse in The body snatcher / Mario Degiglio-Bellemare -- Hybridity. …”
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