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This volume explores film and television for children and youth.
While children's film and television vary in form and content from
country to country, their youth audience, ranging from infants to
"screenagers", is the defining feature of the genre and is written
into the DNA of the medium itself. This collection offers a
contemporary analysis of film and television designed for this
important audience, with particular attention to new directions
evident in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
With examples drawn from Iran, China, Korea, India, Israel, Eastern
Europe, the Philippines, and France, as well as from the United
States and the United Kingdom, contributors address a variety of
issues ranging from content to production, distribution, marketing,
and the use of film, both as object and medium, in education.
Through a diverse consideration of media for young infants up to
young adults, this volume reveals the newest trends in children's
film and television and its role as both a source of entertainment
and pedagogy.
"Performing America" provides fresh perspectives on the development
of visions of both America and "America"--that is, the actual
community and the constructed concept--on a variety of theatrical
stages. It explores the role of theater in the construction of
American identity, highlighting the tension between the desire to
categorize American identity and the realization that such
categorical uniformity may neither be desirable nor possible.
The topics covered include the links between politics and the stage
during the Federalist period, the appropriation of "Indian"
artifacts, an exploration of early gender roles, and the
metaphorical connections between the theater and western expansion.
Other essays treat vaudeville's artistically colonized cultures;
Chautauqua's attempt to homogenize culture and commercialize
American ideals; W. E. B. Du Bois's pageant, "The Star of
Ethiopia," as a strategy for constructing "African-American" as
"Other" in an attempt to promote a vision of black nationalism; and
how theater was used to help immigrants form a new sense of
community while joining the resident culture.
The collection then turns to questions of how various ethnic
minorities through their recent theatrical work have struggled to
argue their identities, especially in relation to the dominant
white culture. Two final essays offer critiques of contrasting
aspects of the American male.
Throughout, the collection addresses questions of marginality and
community, exclusion and inclusion, colonialism and imperialism,
heterogeneity and homogeneity, conflict and negotiation, repression
and opportunity, failure and success, and, above all, the
relationship of American stages at large.It will appeal to readers
of a wide range of disciplines including history, American culture,
gender studies, and theater studies.
Jeffrey D. Mason is Professor of Theatre, California State
University, Bakersfield. J. Ellen Gainor is Associate Professor of
Theatre Studies and Women's Studies, Cornell University.
The apples gather for a ceremonious party, Rosie is ready to be
picked from the tree and united with her loving parents, Mr and Mrs
Russet. But amongst the guests are Bad Apples who send the party
into disarray, then the dastardly Pieman arrives looking for fresh
apples and the hunt is on.
Juliette is a new mother, but life isn't going the way she'd hoped.
She doesn't live in a cottage with roses around the door. She
doesn't own a rolling pin. And Daisy's out-of-work actor father
still hasn't proposed. While Juliette sobs her way through
sleepless nights and nappy changes, Nick drinks Guinness and plays
computer games. Meanwhile, his helicopter mother is always on hand
to find fault - with Juliette. At least when Nick pops the
question, things will look up...won't they? With a supporting cast
including Juliette's over-honest mother, potty-mouthed grandmother,
militant hippy best friend and handsome-but-scarred hotel magnate
Alex Dalton, the first in Suzy K. Quinn's hilarious, bestselling
Bad Mother series is a sassy, uplifting, addictive treat.
Discover what goes on behind the curtains of your favorite musical
Have you ever dreamed of being in a Broadway musical, or even just
to be in the ensemble in your local community theatre? In Musical
Theater For Dummies, Broadway insider and host of Sirus/XM Radio's
ON BROADWAY channel Seth Rudetsky takes you backstage and shows you
what it takes to create a spectacular production. You'll get the
behind-the-curtain view of how your favorite on- and off-Broadway
shows are made, plus get expert advice on how to launch your own
career under the bright lights. If you're new to musical theater,
this book will initiate you into the world of musicals by sharing
the stories and lingo that defines this fascinating world. This
unique book shares insights into what makes musical theatre tick
and how you can enjoy a show from your seat in the audience or from
the stage itself. Learn the history of musical theater and discover
the shows born on Broadway or the West End that became cultural
phenomena Trace the development of productions, from the idea stage
all the way through opening night and beyond Enjoy theater
productions more, thanks to deep insights into how theater is made
Get insider advice on the skills you need to perform in
professional or amateur musical theater productions Real-life
anecdotes and excellent show recommendations will entertain and
delight you as you become a musical theater know-it-all, with
Dummies.
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This book investigates the relationship between musical Modernism
and German cinema. It paves the way for anunorthodox path of
research, one which has been little explored up until now. The main
figures of musical Modernism, from Alban Berg to Paul Hindemith,
and from Richard Strauss to Kurt Weill, actually had a significant
relationship with cinema. True, it was a complex and contradictory
relationship in which cinema often emerged more as an aesthetic
point of reference than an objective reality; nonetheless, the
reception of the language and aesthetic of cinema had significant
influence on the domain of music. Between 1913 and 1933, Modernist
composers' exploration of cinema reached such a degree of
pervasiveness and consistency as to become a true aesthetic
paradigm, a paradigm that sat at the very heart of the Modernist
project. In this insightful volume, Finocchiaro shows that the
creative confrontation with the avant-garde medium par excellence
can be regarded as a vector of musical Modernism: a new aesthetic
paradigm for the very process - of deliberate misinterpretation,
creative revisionism, and sometimes even intentional subversion of
the Classic-Romantic tradition - which realized the "dream of
Otherness" of the Modernist generation.
Glitch Art in Theory and Practice: Critical Failures and
Post-Digital Aesthetics explores the concept of "glitch" alongside
contemporary digital political economy to develop a general theory
of critical media using glitch as a case study and model, focusing
specifically on examples of digital art and aesthetics. While prior
literature on glitch practice in visual arts has been divided
between historical discussions and social-political analyses, this
work provides a rigorous, contemporary theoretical foundation and
framework.
Georgiana Keable introduces us to a staggering wealth of world
stories all about nature and our role as humans in it. These are
traditional stories that have stood the test of time. They often
speak of something universal or enduring about our experience and
relationship with nature. Culturally diverse and all told with
great energy and panache, the stories will engage young readers and
encourage them to become natural storytellers. The book includes
several storymaps to help the reader think visually about stories
as well as other ways to remember the different stages that make up
each tale. The author also reflects on the heart of each tale, what
it's about, and whether there is a way the reader can turn their
own experience into a story. Each section has a practical activity
that can be undertaken individually or as a group. The author's
message is clear: the resources needed for Natural Storytelling are
abundantly around us - nature and our imagination.
This book explores the dedication of the New American Colleges
& Universities to the purposeful integration of liberal
education, professional studies, and civic engagement through the
performing, literary, and visual arts. Examples of course level and
programmatic integration of the arts are discussed from both an
applied practice-based approach and a philosophical framework that
posits student benefit from exploring, experiencing and envisioning
creativity in their future professions. The authors believe that
the development of professional skills in combination with the
theoretical aspects of liberal arts curriculum, which traditionally
includes music, theatre, art and literature, provides a high
quality undergraduate educational experience that uniquely prepares
students for adaptability in their careers and engaged citizenship
grounded in the ability to think creatively, critically, and
ethically.
Essential Knowledge for the Aspiring Media Professional provides
readers with the skillset needed to produce professional,
high-quality video content in today's competitive media landscape.
The author draws on over two decades of industry experience to
offer strategies for how to develop a sense of design, adopt a
holistic approach to the media production process, and craft a
distinct idea for a project's intent and form. In five in-depth
chapters, the book delves into topics ranging from pre-production
and planning processes to technical considerations and
post-production methods. It concludes with an overview of career
opportunities for aspiring media-makers. This book is an invaluable
resource for students and professionals alike looking to hone
creative production techniques within a broad range of formats and
environments, particularly those requiring effective marketing and
advertising-oriented content.
This collection offers insight into different study approaches to
disability art and culture practices, and asks: what does it mean
to approach disability-focused cultural production and consumption
as generative sites of meaning-making? International scholars and
practitioners use ethnographic and participatory action research
approaches; textual and discourse analysis; as well as other
methods to discover how disability figures into our contemporary
world(s). Chapters within the collection explore, amongst other
topics, deaf theatre productions, representations of disability
on-screen, community engagement projects and disabled bodies in
dance. Disability Arts and Culture provides a comprehensive
overview and a range of case studies benefitting both the
practitioner and scholar.
Originally published in 1988, The Women Who Knew Too Much remains a
classic work in film theory and feminist criticism. The book
consists of a theoretical introduction and analyses of seven
important films by Alfred Hitchcock, each of which provides a basis
for an analysis of the female spectator as well as of the male
spectator. Modleski considers the emotional and psychic investments
of men and women in female characters whose stories often undermine
the mastery of the cinematic "master of suspense." The third
edition features an interview with the author by David Greven, in
which he and Modleski reflect on how feminist and queer approaches
to Hitchcock studies may be brought into dialogue. A teaching guide
and discussion questions by Ned Schantz help instructors and
students to delve into this seminal work of feminist film theory.
This book constitutes the first full volume dedicated to an
academic analysis of British football as depicted on film. From
early single-camera silents to its current multi-screen mediations,
the repeated treatment of football in British cinema points to the
game's importance not only in the everyday rhythms of national life
but also, and especially, its immutable place in the British
imaginary landscape. Through close textual analysis together with
production and reception histories, this book explores the ways in
which professional footballers, amateur players and supporters (the
devoted and the demonized) have been represented on the British
screen. As well as addressing the joys and sorrows the game
necessarily engenders, British football is shown to function as an
accessible structure to explore wider issues such as class, race,
gender and even the whole notion of 'Britishness'.
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