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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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Enacting history

Table of Contents: “…Poole -- Defining museum theater at Conner Prairie / Aili McGill -- Performing history as memorialization : thinking with -- And Jesus moonwalks the Mississippi and Brown University's Slavery and Justice Committee / Patricia Ybarra -- Is that real? …”
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The plasma universe by Suplee, Curt

Table of Contents: “…Bringing the Sun to Earth: The Story of Controlled Thermonuclear Fusion -- Magnetic Bottles -- Fusion by Light -- Just a Pinch -- Marshall Rosenbluth -- 5. Cosmic Plasma Theater: Galaxies, Stars, and Accretion Discs -- Shaping Up -- Going to Extremes -- Discs and Holes -- Jet Propulsion -- In the Firing Line -- 6. …”
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The whiskey merchant's diary an urban life in the emerging Midwest / by Mersman, Joseph J., 1824-1892

Table of Contents: “…Prologue : Two immigrant families and their start in America -- Jenkins's boarding house : 8 November 1847-31 December 1847 -- Theater and circus : 1 January 1848-11 March 1848 -- Music and dancing : 12 March 1848-29 April 1848 -- The Miami and Erie Canal : 30 April 1848-5 May 1848 -- Cigars and saloons : 6 May 1848-9 August 1848 -- In charge of the store : 10 August 1848-1 October 1848 -- Mosher's boarding house : 2 October 1848-28 November 1848 -- Farewell to Cincinnati : 17 December 1848-17 February 1849 -- Starting in St. …”
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Travels in intermedia[lity] reblurring the boundaries /

Table of Contents: “…Mitchell -- Mother's little nightmare: photographic and monstrous genealogies in David Lynch's The elephant man / Lars Nowak -- Laughs: the misappropriated jewels, or a close shave for the prima donna / Michel Serres -- Words and images in the contemporary American graphic novel / Jan Baetens -- Music for the jilted generation: techno and as intermediality / Bernd Herzogenrath -- Genuine thought is inter(medial) / Julia Meier -- Theater and music: intermedial negotiations / Ivana Brozi -- The novel as hypertext: mapping Thomas Pynchon's Against the day / Brian W. …”
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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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Representing youth methodological issues in critical youth studies /

Table of Contents: “…Pascoe -- Trouble on memory lane : adults and self-retrospection in researching youth / Sari Knopp Biklen -- Power-puff ethnography/guerilla research : children as native anthropologists / Elizabeth Chin -- Performing youth : youth agency and the production of knowledge in community-based theater / Stephani Etheridge Woodson -- Beyond straight interpretations : researching queer youth digital video / Susan Driver.…”
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Improvisation and Social Aesthetics /

Table of Contents: “…Creating art, creating community, creating a better world / Tracey Nicholls -- Improvisation in New Wave cinema : beneath the myth, the social / Marion Froger, translated by William Straw -- Social aesthetics and transcultural improvisation : Wayde Compton and the performance of Black time / Winfried Siemerling -- Devices of existence : contact improvisation, mobile performances, and dancing through Twitter / Susan Kozel -- The dramaturgy of spontaneity : improvising the social in theater / Zoë Svendsen.…”
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Rumba under Fire: The Arts of Survival from West Point to Delhi /

Table of Contents: “…/ Denis Ferhatović -- Poems in prison : the survival strategies of Romanian political prisoners / Irina Dumitrescu -- Writing resistance : Lena Constante's The silent escape and the journal as genre in Romania's (post)communist literary field / Carla Baricz -- War and the food of dreams : an interview with Cara de Silva / Cara de Silva with Irina Dumitrescu -- Atempause and Atemschaukel : the post-war periods of Primo Levi and Herta Müller / Tim Albrecht -- Theater in wartime / Greg Alan Brownderville -- Counting cards : a poetics for deployment / Susannah Hollister -- Ace of hearts / Susannah Hollister -- Civilization and its malcontents : on teaching western humanities in "the new Turkey" / William Coker -- Departure entrance / Denis Ferhatović -- Profanations : the public, the political and the humanities in India / Prashant Keshavmurthy -- Village cosmopolitanisms : or, I see Kabul from Lado Sarai / Anand Vivek Taneja -- Terpsichore / Irina Dumitrescu -- Rumba under fire : music as morale and morality in music at the frontlines of the Congo / Judith Verweijen -- Ulysses / Sharon Portnoff.…”
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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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Jewish literatures and cultures context and intertext /

Table of Contents: “…: the variable contexts of Polish Jewish culture : their implications for Jewish cultural history and Jewish studies / Moshe Rosman -- Idols of the cave and theater : a verbal or visual Judaism? / Kalman P. …”
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Improvisation and Social Aesthetics /

Table of Contents: “…Creating art, creating community, creating a better world / Tracey Nicholls -- Improvisation in New Wave cinema : beneath the myth, the social / Marion Froger, translated by William Straw -- Social aesthetics and transcultural improvisation : Wayde Compton and the performance of Black time / Winfried Siemerling -- Devices of existence : contact improvisation, mobile performances, and dancing through Twitter / Susan Kozel -- The dramaturgy of spontaneity : improvising the social in theater / Zoë Svendsen.…”
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Rumba under Fire: The Arts of Survival from West Point to Delhi /

Table of Contents: “…/ Denis Ferhatović -- Poems in prison : the survival strategies of Romanian political prisoners / Irina Dumitrescu -- Writing resistance : Lena Constante's The silent escape and the journal as genre in Romania's (post)communist literary field / Carla Baricz -- War and the food of dreams : an interview with Cara de Silva / Cara de Silva with Irina Dumitrescu -- Atempause and Atemschaukel : the post-war periods of Primo Levi and Herta Müller / Tim Albrecht -- Theater in wartime / Greg Alan Brownderville -- Counting cards : a poetics for deployment / Susannah Hollister -- Ace of hearts / Susannah Hollister -- Civilization and its malcontents : on teaching western humanities in "the new Turkey" / William Coker -- Departure entrance / Denis Ferhatović -- Profanations : the public, the political and the humanities in India / Prashant Keshavmurthy -- Village cosmopolitanisms : or, I see Kabul from Lado Sarai / Anand Vivek Taneja -- Terpsichore / Irina Dumitrescu -- Rumba under fire : music as morale and morality in music at the frontlines of the Congo / Judith Verweijen -- Ulysses / Sharon Portnoff.…”
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Orca echoes resource guide / by Van Tol, Alex, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…-- Ghost wolf -- I, Bruno -- Jeremy and the enchanted theater -- Jeremy and the fantastic flying machine -- Jeremy and the golden fleece -- Jeremy in the underworld -- Kelly's cabin -- Marsh island -- Maybe later -- Monster lunch -- A noodle up your nose -- Out and about with the big tree gang -- Over the rainbow with Googol and Googolplex -- The papere wagon -- A puppy is for loving -- The raspberry room -- Rhyme stones -- Sam and Nate -- Sea dog -- Sharing Snowy -- Theodora Bear -- Timberwolf challenge -- Timberwolf chase -- Timberwolf hunt -- Timberwolf revenge -- Timberwolf tracks -- Timberwolf trap -- The true story of George -- Under the sea with Googol and Googolplex -- What a hippopota-mess!…”
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Affective architectures : more-than-representational geographies of heritage /

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The Scholar as Human : Research and Teaching for Public Impact /

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Performing the Iranian state : visual culture and representations of Iranian identity /

Table of Contents: “…INTRODUCTION: SETTING THE STAGE / Staci Gem Scheiwiller -- THE PHOTOGRAPHIC SOURCE FOR A QAJAR PAINTING / Donna Stein -- CARTOGRAPHIC DESIRES: SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE SHAHR-E FARANG (PEEPSHOW) AND MODERN IRAN / Staci Gem Scheiwill -- TAKKIYEH DOWLAT: THE QAJAR THEATER STATE / Babak Rahimi -- FOR THE LOVE OF HER PEOPLE: AN INTERVIEW WITH FARAH DIBA ABOUT THE PAHLAVI PROGRAMS FOR THE ARTS IN IRAN / Donna Stein -- SHAPING AND PORTRAYING IDENTITY AT THE TEHRAN MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART (1977-2005) / Alisa Eimen -- SEISMIC SHIFTS ACROSS POLITICAL ZONES IN CONTEMPORARY IRANIAN ART: THE POETICS OF KNOWLEDGE, KNOWING AND IDENTITY / Abbas Daneshvari -- PERFORMATIVITY AND RITUAL SPACE IN POSTREVOLUTIONARY TEHRAN / David Simonowitz -- RECLAIMING CULTURAL SPACE: THE ARTIST'S PERFORMATIVITY VERSUS THE STATE'S EXPECTATIONS IN CONTEMPORARY IRAN / Hamid Keshmirshekan -- FEMALE TROUBLE: MELANCHOLIA AND ALLEGORY IN CONTEMPORARY IRANIAN ART / Andrea D. …”
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