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- Theater 479
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- American drama 42
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- Histoire et critique 30
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- PERFORMING ARTS 30
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- In literature 18
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Bringing the body to the stage and screen expressive movement for performers /
Published 2012Table 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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Chicago's new Negroes modernity, the great migration, & Black urban life /
Published 2007Table of Contents: “…: consumer culture and intellectual life reconsidered -- Mapping the Black metropolis: a cultural geography of the stroll -- Making do: beauty, enterprise, and the "makeover" of race womanhood -- Theaters of war: spectacles, amusements, and the emergence of urban film culture -- The birth of two nations: White fears, Black jeers, and the rise of a "race film" consciousness -- Sacred tastes: the migrant aesthetics and authority of gospel music -- The sporting life: recreation, self-reliance, and competing visions of race manhood -- Epilogue. …”
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Authorizing Shakespeare on film and television gender, class, and ethnicity in adaptation /
Published 2011Table 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 progressive poetics of confusion in the French Enlightenment /
Published 2011Table of Contents: “…The subversive use of confusion in Marivaux's theater -- Cultivating the reader's critical mind in Crebillon's Les egarements du coeur et de l'esprit -- Telling, reading (or listening), and knowing : interpolated narrative in Voltaire and Diderot -- Diderot and the Enlightenment's poetics of confusion in the Lettre sur les aveugles -- Blurring the boundaries between mind and body : Rousseau and the philosophes on the soul -- Society's confusion in the Lettre a d'Alembert sur les spectacles and the question of Rousseau's modernity -- Gender confusion -- Understanding and interpreting confusion : Philippe Pinel and the invention of psychiatry -- Sade's Justine : a response to the Enlightenment's poetics of confusion.…”
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The flesh made text made flesh cultural and theoretical returns to the body /
Published 2007Table 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 /
Published 2011Table 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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Building background knowledge for academic achievement research on what works in schools /
Published 2004Table of Contents: “…The importance of background knowledge -- Six principles for building an indirect approach -- Tapping the power of wide reading and language experience -- Building academic background knowledge through direct vocabulary instruction -- Six steps to effective vocabulary instruction -- Defining an academic vocabulary -- Setting up a schoolwide or districtwide program -- Technical notes -- Vocabulary -- Mathematics terms -- Science terms -- English language arts terms -- History -- General history terms -- U.s. history terms -- World history terms -- Geography terms -- Civics terms -- Economics terms -- Health terms -- Physical education terms -- The arts -- Arts general terms -- Dance terms -- Music terms -- Theater terms -- Visual arts terms -- Technology terms.…”
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909
Jewish writing and the deep places of the imagination
Published 2005Table 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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Structure and improvisation in creative teaching
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Contemporary Dickens /
Published 2009Table of Contents: “…Holway -- Enumeration and exhaustion : taking inventory in The old curiosity shop / James Buzard -- Paterfamilias / Eileen Gillooly -- Reading with buzfuz : Dickens, sexuality, interrogation / James Eli Adams -- Little Dorrit's theater of rage / Deirdre David -- The making of Dickens criticism / Deborah Epstein Nord.…”
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Be in charge a leadership manual : how to stay on top /
Published 2002Table of Contents: “…-- THE VARIOUS TYPES OF CHIEFS -- GENDER DIFFERENCES: Equal, but -- STARTING: The Different Approaches and the Entrance Speech -- THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN ACADEMIC -- AND BUSINESS CHIEFS -- HOW TO DRESS WHEN YOU START -- HOW TO DRESS ONCE YOU ARE ESTABLISHED -- HOW TO USE YOUR OFFICE AS A THEATER OF OPERATIONS -- HOW TO BUDGET YOUR TIME -- GAINING RESPECT -- GAINING LOYALTY -- HOW TO TREAT CLOSE ASSOCIATES -- HOW TO TREAT EQUALS -- HOW TO TREAT SUBORDINATES -- TREATING ADVERSITY -- HOW TO RECRUIT AND PROMOTE TALENT -- HOW TO LET YOUR ASSOCIATES GO -- ENTERTAINING -- HAVING A NEW CHIEF -- RECRUITING -- PROMOTION TO THE NEXT STEP OF CHIEF -- SURVIVING AWAY FROM THE JOB -- SAYING GOODBYE -- EPILOGUE: Surviving and enjoying -- retirement.…”
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Contemporary Dickens /
Published 2009Table of Contents: “…Holway -- Enumeration and exhaustion : taking inventory in The old curiosity shop / James Buzard -- Paterfamilias / Eileen Gillooly -- Reading with buzfuz : Dickens, sexuality, interrogation / James Eli Adams -- Little Dorrit's theater of rage / Deirdre David -- The making of Dickens criticism / Deborah Epstein Nord.…”
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Acting for singers creating believable singing characters /
Published 2005Table of Contents: “…Neither right nor wrong : making believable character choices -- Your character's universe : analyzing the dramatic structure of music-theater pieces -- Your character's world : fashioning a theme statement -- Your character's heart's desire : fashioning super-objectives -- Motivating your character's actions : fashioning objectives and acting beats -- Your character's inner voice : fashioning subtext and an internal dialogue -- Preparing for performances. …”
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Kierkegaard, Literature, and the Arts /
Published 2018Table of Contents: “…Robinson -- Kierkegaard's Christian Bildungsroman / Joakim Garff -- Performing arts -- Beyond the mask : Kierkegaard's postscript as antitheatrical, anti-Hegelian drama / Howard Pickett -- A theater of ideas : performance and performativity in Kierkegaard's Repetition / Martijn Boven -- Kierkegaard's notions of drama and opera : Moliere's Don Juan, Mozart's Don Giovanni, and the question of music and sensuousness / Nils Holger Petersen -- "Let no one invite me, for I do not dance" : Kierkegaard's attitudes toward dance / Anne Margrete Fiskvik -- Visual arts and film -- Painting with words : Kierkegaard and the aesthetics of the icon / Christopher B. …”
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Kierkegaard, Literature, and the Arts /
Published 2018Table of Contents: “…Robinson -- Kierkegaard's Christian Bildungsroman / Joakim Garff -- Performing arts -- Beyond the mask : Kierkegaard's postscript as antitheatrical, anti-Hegelian drama / Howard Pickett -- A theater of ideas : performance and performativity in Kierkegaard's Repetition / Martijn Boven -- Kierkegaard's notions of drama and opera : Moliere's Don Juan, Mozart's Don Giovanni, and the question of music and sensuousness / Nils Holger Petersen -- "Let no one invite me, for I do not dance" : Kierkegaard's attitudes toward dance / Anne Margrete Fiskvik -- Visual arts and film -- Painting with words : Kierkegaard and the aesthetics of the icon / Christopher B. …”
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José Limón and La Malinche the dancer and the dance /
Published 2008Table of Contents: “…The Music: Interview with David LaMarche, Musical Director, Limón Company and American Ballet Theater / Patty Harrington Delaney and David LaMarche -- Chapter 4. …”
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