Category - Performing Arts
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Cold War, Cool Medium: Television, McCarthyism, and American Culture / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /Conventional wisdom holds that television was a co-conspirator in the repressions of Cold War America, that it was a facilitator to the blacklist...
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Making The Best Years of Our Lives: The Hollywood Classic That Inspired a Nation
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /2023 Wall Award Finalist, Theatre Library Association How a Hollywood gem transformed the national discourse on post-traumatic stress disorder. R...
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The 12 O'Clock High Logbook: The Unofficial History of the Novel, Motion Picture, and TV Series
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Since its original release The "12 O'Clock High" Logbook: The Unofficial History of the Novel, Motion Picture, and TV Series has been a consisten...
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Naming Names: With a New Afterword by the Author
PaperbackOriginal price $36.00Original price $36.00 - Original price $36.00Original price $36.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Winner of the National Book Award"An astonishing work concerning personal honor and dishonor, shame and shamelessness. A book of stunning insight...
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CIty of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940's
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /A dazzling social and cultural history of Hollywood’s golden age in the decade from World War II to the Korean War In 1939, fifty million Americ...
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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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Perplexing Plots: Popular Storytelling and the Poetics of Murder
HardcoverOriginal price $130.00 - Original price $130.00Original price $130.00$158.99$158.99 - $158.99Current price $158.99| /Narrative innovation is typically seen as the domain of the avant-garde. However, techniques such as nonlinear timelines, multiple points of view, ...
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Melody in the Dark: British Musical Films, 1946-1972
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /A comprehensive reassessment of British musical films 1946-1972 including King's Rhapsody, Beat Girl, The Tommy Steele Story, Rock You Sinners, The...
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In the Shadow of the Big Top: The Life of Ringling's Unlikely Circus Savior
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /The first-ever biography of Art Concello, one of the world's greatest trapeze artists and circus businessmen, this book goes beyond the showmanship...
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Hollywood and the Movies of the Fifties: The Collapse of the Studio System, the Thrill of Cinerama, and the Invasion of the Ultimate Body Snatcher--Te
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00Original price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /A fascinating look at Hollywood's most turbulent decade and the demise of the studio system--set against the boom of the post-World War II years, t...
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Hitchcock's Blondes: The Unforgettable Women Behind the Legendary Director's Dark Obsession
HardcoverOriginal price $29.00Original price $29.00 - Original price $29.00Original price $29.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Bestselling author of Capote's Women Laurence Leamer shares an engrossing account of the enigmatic director Alfred Hitchcock that finally puts the ...
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Microhistories of Memory: Remediating the Holocaust by Bullets in Postwar West Germany
HardcoverOriginal price $145.00 - Original price $145.00Original price $145.00$167.99$167.99 - $167.99Current price $167.99| /The West German novel, radio play, and television series Through the Night (Am grünen Strand der Spree, 1955-1960), which depicts the mass shooti...
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Theatre Stories
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Unveil the Curtains of Regional Theatres early days with Edward Payson Call's Journey - a Tale of Passion Journey into America's regional theatre m...
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Theatre Stories
HardcoverOriginal price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Unveil the Curtains of Regional Theatres early days with Edward Payson Call's Journey - a Tale of Passion Journey into America's regional theatre m...
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Maverick Movies: New Line Cinema and the Transformation of American Film
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminos...
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Intersecting Aesthetics: Literary Adaptations and Cinematic Representations of Blackness
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Contributions by Cynthia Baron, Elizabeth Binggeli, Kimberly Nichele Brown, Priscilla Layne, Eric Pierson, Charlene Regester, Ellen C. Scott, Tanya...
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Intersecting Aesthetics: Literary Adaptations and Cinematic Representations of Blackness
HardcoverOriginal price $110.00 - Original price $110.00Original price $110.00$135.99$135.99 - $135.99Current price $135.99| /Contributions by Cynthia Baron, Elizabeth Binggeli, Kimberly Nichele Brown, Priscilla Layne, Eric Pierson, Charlene Regester, Ellen C. Scott, Tanya...
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East German Film and the Holocaust
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /East Germany’s ruling party never officially acknowledged responsibility for the crimes committed in Germany’s name during the Third Reich. Inste...
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All Play and No Work: American Work Ideals and the Comic Plays of the Federal Theatre Project
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Many of the Federal Theatre Project (FTP) plays Paul Gagliardi analyzes in All Play and No Work feature complex portrayals of labor and work relief...
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All Play and No Work: American Work Ideals and the Comic Plays of the Federal Theatre Project
HardcoverOriginal price $110.50 - Original price $110.50Original price $110.50$110.99$110.99 - $110.99Current price $110.99| /Many of the Federal Theatre Project (FTP) plays Paul Gagliardi analyzes in All Play and No Work feature complex portrayals of labor and work relief...
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Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /The author of the New York Times bestseller Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep returns with a lively history of the Academy Awards, focusing on the...
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Live from the Underground: A History of College Radio
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Bands like R.E.M., U2, Public Enemy, and Nirvana found success as darlings of college radio, but the extraordinary influence of these stations and ...
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Live from the Underground: A History of College Radio
HardcoverOriginal price $99.00 - Original price $99.00Original price $99.00$122.99$122.99 - $122.99Current price $122.99| /Bands like R.E.M., U2, Public Enemy, and Nirvana found success as darlings of college radio, but the extraordinary influence of these stations and ...
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Colonial Tactics and Everyday Life: Workers of the Manchuria Film Association
HardcoverOriginal price $79.95 - Original price $79.95Original price $79.95$101.99$101.99 - $101.99Current price $101.99| /Following the Japanese invasion of northeast China in 1931, the occupying authorities established the Manchuria Film Association to promote film pr...
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