Category - Performing Arts
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Framed: Women in Law and Film / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Some women attack and harm men who abuse them. Social norms, law, and films all participate in framing these occurrences, guiding us in understan...
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I Love Lucy
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /An analysis of I Love Lucy, one of the best loved sitcoms in the history of American television. I Love Lucy aired for six seasons between 1951 a...
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Her Stories: Daytime Soap Opera and US Television History
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Since the debut of These Are My Children in 1949, the daytime television soap opera has been foundational to the history of the medium as an econ...
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Complicated Women: Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood
PaperbackOriginal price $22.99Original price $22.99 - Original price $22.99Original price $22.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /In the pre-Code Hollywood era, between 1929 and 1934, women in American cinema took lovers, had babies out of wedlock, got rid of cheating husban...
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Dance Nation
PaperbackOriginal price $13.95 - Original price $13.95Original price $13.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Somewhere in America, an army of pre-teen competitive dancers plots to take over the world. And if their new routine is good enough, they'll claw...
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Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /“So smart and entertaining it should come with its own popcorn”—People Coinciding with the sixtieth anniversary of the film version of Truman Cap...
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Modern Bodies: Dance and American Modernism from Martha Graham to Alvin Ailey / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $37.50 - Original price $37.50Original price $37.50$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /In 1930, dancer and choreographer Martha Graham proclaimed the arrival of "dance as an art of and from America." Dancers such as Doris Humphrey, ...
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Hollywood's Hard-Luck Ladies: 23 Actresses Who Suffered Early Deaths, Accidents, Missteps, Illnesses and Tragedies
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /In the era of Hollywood now considered its Golden Age, there was no shortage of hard-luck stories-movie stars succumbed to mental illness, addic...
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When Women Wrote Hollywood: Essays on Female Screenwriters in the Early Film Industry
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /This collection of 23 new essays focuses on the lives of female screenwriters of Golden Age Hollywood, whose work helped create those unforgettab...
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Eleanor Roosevelt on Screen: The First Lady's Appearances in Film and Television, 1932-1962
PaperbackOriginal price $75.00 - Original price $75.00Original price $75.00$95.99$95.99 - $95.99Current price $95.99| /Eleanor Roosevelt recognized the power of film and television, especially as educational tools to reach young people. She hosted three political t...
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Being a Girl with the Doctor: Essays on the Feminine in Doctor Who
PaperbackOriginal price $49.95 - Original price $49.95Original price $49.95$66.99$66.99 - $66.99Current price $66.99| /Throughout the long running BBC series Doctor Who, the Doctor has rarely been alone, traveling with both female and male "companions." The compani...
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There She Goes Again: Gender, Power, and Knowledge in Contemporary Film and Television Franchises
PaperbackOriginal price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /There She Goes Again interrogates the representation of ostensibly powerful women in transmedia franchises, examining how presumed feminine traits-...
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In These Girls, Hope Is A Muscle
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Originally published in 1995 to huge critical acclaim and a finalist for the NBCC Award for Nonfiction, Madeleine Blais’s In These Girls, Hope Is...
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Women and New Hollywood: Gender, Creative Labor, and 1970s American Cinema
PaperbackOriginal price $32.95Original price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /The 1970s has often been hailed as a great moment for American film, as a generation of “New Hollywood” directors like Scorsese, Coppola, and Alt...
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Dynamic Dames: 50 Leading Ladies Who Made History
HardcoverOriginal price $23.00Original price $23.00 - Original price $23.00Original price $23.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Celebrate 50 of the most empowering and unforgettable female characters ever to grace the screen, as well as the artists who brought them to vibr...
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The Cinema of Barbara Stanwyck: Twenty-Six Short Essays on a Working Star
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /From The Lady Eve, to The Big Valley, Barbara Stanwyck played parts that showcased her multidimensional talents but also illustrated the limits i...
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From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies, Third Edition
PaperbackOriginal price $29.00 - Original price $29.00Original price $29.00$42.99$42.99 - $42.99Current price $42.99| /A revolutionary classic of feminist cinema criticism, Molly Haskell’s From Reverence to Rape remains as insightful, searing, and relevant as it w...
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Backwards and in Heels: The Past, Present and Future of Women Working in Film
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Women in Filmmaking and Their Struggle Against Bias"After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and ...
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