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(P/B) DANCING ACROSS BORDERS: THE AMERICAN FASCINATION

(P/B) SUPERHEROES AND GODS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY FROM BABYLONIA

(P/B) CHESS PERSONALIA
First published in 1987 to overwhelming international acclaim, Jeremy Gaige’s Chess Personalia has been called "one of the most useful chess books ever published" (Edward Winter in New in Chess). The book is an invaluable resource for researchers and enthusiasts, and original copies are highly sought after by chess collectors. Long out of print, the original work is available here for the first time in a softcover format. This biobibliography contains around 14,000 worldwide entries, each entry offering full name, date and place of birth a...
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CHOREOGRAPHING IDENTITIES: FOLK DANCE ETHNICITY AND FESTIVAL (P/B)

(P/B) THE DANCE
In dance, the choreographer creates, the dancer performs and the viewer observes. This work is a handbook for the viewer. By presenting historical and artistic perspectives of dance, dance events are made more approachable and appreciation for the art form is heightened. The choreographic components of body language, content, structure, music, design and interpretation are included. Also discussed is the development of critical reaction over time. Examples are drawn from Western theatrical dance and worldwide cultural variations. Terms are...
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(P/B) SERIAL KILLER CINEMA

(P/B) THE GREEK FILM MUSICAL
The Greek film musical was the most popular film genre in Greece in the 1960s. The songs became instant hits, the dances were performed at parties, and the fashions were imitated by people of all ages. Challenging assumptions that the Greek film musical was a culturally lacking imitation of Hollywood, this work examines the genre as a cinematic and historical phenomenon that condensed key social and cultural concerns of its time, and contributed to the development of a national popular culture in the light of the rapid Americanization of p...
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(H/B) HORROR FILMS OF THE 1980S

(P/B) HIP HOP DANCE
Tracing the African American dance from the Diaspora to the dance floor, this book covers a social history germane not only to the African American experience, but also to the global experience of laborers who learn lessons from hip hop dance. Examining hip hop dance as text, as commentary, and as a function of identity construction within the confines of consumerism, the book draws on popular cultural images from films, commercials, and dance studios. A bibliography, discography, and filmography are included. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) THE OSS. IN WORLD WAR II ALBANIA

(P/B) HITCHCOCK AND THE METHODS OF SUSPENSE

(P/B) HITCHCOCK AS PHILOSOPHER
The films of Alfred Hitchcock deal heavily with psychological and philosophical themes, and one needn’t look very far into the canon to find them. In Psycho, for example, the personality metamorphosis in Marion Crane that leads her into grand larceny is a pale double of the murderous oedipal divide in Norman Bates. In The Birds, overbearing natural mutations turn what might have been a "creature feature" into a film about fear of the unknowable. This book looks at 12 Hitchcock films and the positions they put forth on three problem areas o...
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(P/B) FILM NOIR - A COMPREHENSIVE ILLUSTRATED REFERENCE

(P/B) HEROES, ANTIHEROES AND DOLTS
This book is a discussion of 75 of the most popular films in America from 1921 through 1999 and the changes that have taken place in how masculinity is portrayed in the movies over that period of time. Traditionally in popular films, men have met challenging tasks, but what they accomplish and how successful they are have been drastically changed since the early 1920s. Prior to World War II, men were most often presented within the context of a family. After the war, men were presented as concerned with issues beyond their immediate famili...
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BERGMAN'S MUSES AESTHETIC VERSATILITY IN FILM (0786416033) P/B

(H/B) MEDIEVAL ARMIES AND WEAPONS IN WESTERN EUROPE

(P/B) THE ACTORS STUDIO - A HISTORY

(P/B) INUIT ART - A HISTORY

(P/B) ORSON WELLES
Orson Welles, a self-conscious storyteller who often invited his audience to question the methods and veracity of what they see and hear. He was that rare magician who both pulled the wool over our eyes, for our delight, and unravelled the wool before our eyes, encouraging us to ponder the nature of the magic itself. Many of the characters in Welles’s movies can also be seen as magicians of a sort, creating impressions intended to manipulate other characters, or even themselves, in one direction or another. But unlike Welles, few of them v...
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(P/B) CARAVAGGIO IN CONTEXT
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) has long been recognized as one of the great innovators in the history of art. Through detailed analysis of paintings from his early Roman period, 1594-1602, this study now situates his art firmly within both its humanistic and its scientific context. Here, both his revolutionary painterly techniques--pronounced naturalism and dramatic chiaroscuro--and his novel subject matter--still-life compositions and genre scenes--are finally put into their proper cultural and contemporary environment. Thi...
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