Search Results - Comedy drama

Roman republican theatre by Manuwald, Gesine

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Wisdom and folly in Euripides /

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Mothers and meaning on the early modern English stage by Dunworth, Felicity

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Cinema of outsiders the rise of American independent film / by Levy, Emanuel, 1947-

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China and the West : Music, Representation, and Reception /

Table of Contents: “…Calafati, Sou-Chong, Lang Lang, and Li Wei : two hundred years of "the Chinese" in Austrian music, drama, and film /…”
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Acts of Gaiety : LGBT Performance and the Politics of Pleasure / by Warner, Sara

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Lady Dicks and Lesbian Brothers : Staging the Unimaginable at the WOW Cafe Theater / by Davy, Kate

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From happy homemaker to desperate housewives motherhood and popular television / by Feasey, Rebecca

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: theorising motherhood on the small screen -- Soap opera: challenging the "good" mother stereotype -- Situation comedy: the (un)funny mummy wars -- Teen drama: absent, inept and intoxicated mothers -- Dramedy: struggling, sexual and sisterly single mothers -- Reality parenting programming: fragile, failing and ineffectual mothers -- Celebrity reality television: maintaining the "yummy mummy" -- Profile -- Factual television: pregnancy, delivery and the new mother -- Conclusion.…”
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Representing black Britain a history of black and Asian images on British television / by Malik, Sarita

Table of Contents: “…: the Black Situation in Television -- Comedy -- 6 Light Entertainment on Television - and the Black-British -- Cultures it is Missing -- 7 Reflections on Black Masculinities and British Sporting -- Culture on Television -- B Casting the Black Subject in Television Drama -- 9 Pounds, Policy and Pressure: Black-British Filmmaking - -- 'As Seen on TV' -- 10 The Struggle for Meanings of 'Blackness': -- Summary and Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Imoinda's Shade : Marriage and the African Woman in Eighteenth-Century British Literature, 1759-1808 / by Dominique, Lyndon Janson, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Creoles, closure, and Cubba's comedy of pain : abolition and the politics of homecoming in eighteenth-century British farce ; "'What!' …”
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Sylvia Plath : New Views on the Poetry /

Table of Contents: “…McClatchy -- Sincerity kills / Hugh Kenner -- Sylvia Plath: drama and melodrama / David Shapiro -- 2. Process and influence: The shape of the psyche: vision and technique in the late poems of Sylvia Plath / Richard Allen Blessing -- Plath's comedy / J.D. …”
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Soldiers' Stories : Military Women in Cinema and Television since World War II / by Tasker, Yvonne, 1964-

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Cultural disability studies in education : interdisciplinary navigations of the normative divide / by Bolt, David, 1966-

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Victorian literature : an anthology /

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Korean screen cultures : interrogating cinema, tv, music and online games /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- It's a Roughneck World: Male Solidarity across Generations, Classes and Races in the TV Drama Get Up / Jacob Ki Nielsen -- Blood is thicker than water, or is it? …”
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Discourse cohesion in ancient Greek

Table of Contents: “…Revuelta Puigdollers -- [Kai mēn], [kai dē] and [ēdē] in tragedy and comedy / A. Maria van Erp Taalman Kip -- Discourse cohesion in dialogue : turn-initial [alla] in Greek drama / Annemieke Drummen -- Greek particles : just a literary phenomenon? …”
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The ethics of obscene speech in early Christianity and its environment by Hultin, Jeremy F.

Table of Contents: “…-- Plato and Aristotle on foul language -- Plato and the dangers of mimesis -- Aristotle and the bounds of humor -- Abuse -- Laws against slander -- Religious rites -- Excursus : the language of some love charms -- Comedy -- New forms of comic drama -- Literary obscenities -- Epigram -- Tales of sexual adventures and sex manuals -- Ovid's culpa -- Speech, character, and self-definition -- Speech as it relates to character -- Speech as it defined specific groups -- Cynics and shameless speech -- Stoics -- The linguistic roots of the stoic ethics of foul language -- Excursus : Bryson the Megarian -- Changes in stoic (and cynic) views of obscene speech -- Jewish scripture and earliest Christianity -- Prophetic scatology -- Wisdom literature and Ben Sirach -- Jesus -- James -- Didache 3:3 and the two ways -- Paul -- Galatians 5:12 -- Philippians 3:8: [Greek text] -- Colossians and Ephesians -- Colossians 3:8 -- Colossians 4:6 : "season your speech with salt" -- Ephesians -- Exegesis of Ephesians 5:3-14 -- "Let them not even be named among you" (Eph 5:3) -- "Shameful even to mention" (Eph 5:12) -- Speech rules in 1QS -- Profaning a sanctum -- Not fitting for holy ones -- Speech and Christian identities -- Clement of Alexandria on foul language -- The divine paedagogue and Christian manners -- On foul language -- Excursus : Clement and the Didache -- A "deeper logos" about foul language -- Comparing Clement.…”
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Women in the Silent Cinema : Histories of Fame and Fate / by Förster, Annette

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The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Sisters : Gender, Transgression, Adolescence / by Higginbotham, Jennifer

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On Style: An Atelier /

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