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Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts
Evil women, who are they really? What are their motives, and how
are they remembered and constructed within our culture? Evil Women:
Representations within Literature, Culture and Film seeks to
interrogate the nature and construction of evil women in the above
fields. Through literature, poetry, history, ballads, film and
real-life culture, scholars explore how the evil woman has been
constructed and, in some cases, erased; the punishment and
treatment of evil women; and the way evil women have been portrayed
on and off screen through character, narrative and behind the
camera development.
Mercy and Justice and Other Christian Skits by Samuel Williams is
book number three in a four-book series of plays and skits. This
book contains several of Williams' most powerful and relevant
Christian-based skits. Readers are sure to be enlightened,
entertained and glued to their seats as the writer magically takes
them through a litany of experinces that are sure to permanently
and positively change the fundamental way that they see today's
world. Parents and students alike everywhere should take the time
to read each of these skits as each teaches a vital and powerful
lesson in its own way. This book is an extemely powerful tool to
have in your private, professional and spiritual lives. Clearly it
is a well of wisdom and insight among today's dry and wantom
offerings. Though short, it is equally as powerful as any of the
other books of plays. This quick-read will keep you spellbound from
start to finish, so don't pick it up until you're sure you have
nothing pressing to attend to.
Granville Barker on Theatre brings together some of the most
important critical theatrical writings of Harley Granville Barker,
a major figure of 20th-century British theatre. Known as a pioneer
of the National Theatre and Repertory Movement, and remembered
mainly for his Prefaces to Shakespeare, from the 1900s to his death
in the 1940s Granville Barker commented enthusiastically in
newspaper items, introductions to plays, articles, essays,
articles, and published lectures on a range of topics: the nature
of theatre as an art form and as a social medium, the need for
ensemble playing in a repertory system, the relationship between
the three chief constituents of theatre - the actor, the playwright
and the audience. Granville Barker on Theatre makes available again
these writings in which Barker dissects the state of theatre as he
saw it, with coruscating critiques of the commercial system, the
long run and censorship, the vitality of theatre outside Britain,
and what he saw as the welcome renaissance of theatre in
non-professional groups liberated from the profit motive. These
writings show a master practitioner concerned with, above all,
promoting a new type of drama; vital not only for its own sake but
for the sake of the health of society at large.
Follow the wisdom of Buffy, Willow, Xander, Spike, and others with
this beautifully illustrated tarot deck inspired by the beloved
series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. In every generation, there is a
chosen one--explore your destiny like Buffy the Vampire Slayer with
this magical and bold take on the traditional 78-card tarot deck.
This set features the heroes you love, casting Buffy, Willow,
Angel, Spike, Xander, Giles, and more in gorgeous original
illustrations based on classic tarot iconography. Featuring both
major and minor arcana, the set also includes a helpful guidebook
explaining each card's meaning and simple instructions for easy
readings. Packaged in a sturdy, decorative gift box, this alluring
tarot deck is the perfect gift for the Buffy the Vampire Slayer fan
or tarot enthusiast.
In this pioneering work, sixteen historians analyse individual
films for deeper insight into US institutions, values and
lifestyles. Linking all of the essays is the belief that film holds
much of value for the historian seeking to understand and interpret
American history and culture. This title will be equally valuable
for students and scholars in history using film for analysis as
well as film students and scholars exploring the way social and
historical circumstances are reflected and represented in film.
This pioneering book is the first to argue that cinema and
television in Spain only make sense when considered together as
twin vehicles for screen fiction. The Spanish audiovisual sector is
now one of the most successful in the world, with feature films
achieving wider distribution in foreign markets than nations with
better known cinematic traditions and newly innovative TV formats,
already dominant at home, now widely exported. Beyond the
industrial context, which has seen close convergence of the two
media, this book also examines the textual evidence for crossover
between cinema and television at the level of narrative and form.
The book, which is of interest to both Hispanic and media studies,
gives new readings of some well-known texts and discovers new or
forgotten ones. For example it compares Almodovar's classic feature
Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios ('Women on the Verge of a
Nervous Breakdown') with his production company El Deseo's first
venture into TV production, the 2006 series also known as Mujeres
('Women'). It also reclaims the lost history of female flat share
comedy on Spanish TV from the 1960s to the present day. It examines
a wide range of prize winning workplace drama on TV, from police
shows, to hospital and legal series. Amenabar's Mar adentro ('The
Sea Inside') an Oscar-winning film on the theme of euthanasia, is
contrasted with its antecedent, an episode of national network
Tele5's top-rated drama Periodistas. The book also traces the
attempt to establish a Latin American genre, the telenovela, in the
very different context of Spanish scheduling. Finally it proposes
two new terms: 'Auteur TV' charts the careers of creators who have
established distinctive profiles in television over decades;
'sitcom cinema' charts, conversely, the incursion of television
aesthetics and economics into the film comedies that have proved
amongst the most popular features at the Spanish box office in the
last decade.
Erotic Colors of Life: Relaxing Moments is the first in the series
of books by Colors of Life and Love. This series of adult erotic
coloring books will give the book's owner the chance to explore
different scenes with models expressing sensual poses. This is not
your average coloring book. Visit colorsoflifeandlove.com for more
information. Real People Real Photos Real Pages ...Your Colors.
Built for mental well-being.
Applied Practice: Evidence and Impact in Theatre, Music and Art
engages with a diversity of contexts, locations and arts forms -
including theatre, music and fine art - and brings together
theoretical, political and practice-based perspectives on the
question of 'evidence' in relation to participatory arts practice
in social contexts. This collection is a unique contribution to the
field, focusing on one of the vital concerns for a growing and
developing set of arts and research practices. It asks us to
consider evidence not only in terms of methodology but also in the
light of the ideological, political and pragmatic implications of
that methodology. In Part One, Matthew Reason and Nick Rowe reflect
on evidence and impact in the participatory arts in relation to
recurring conceptual and methodological motifs. These include
issues of purpose and obliquity; the relationship between evidence
and knowledge; intrinsic and instrumental impacts, and the value of
participatory research. Part Two explores the diversity of
perspectives, contexts and methodologies in examining what it is
possible to know, say and evidence about the often complex and
intimate impact of participatory arts. Part Three brings together
case studies in which practitioners and practice-based researchers
consider the frustrations, opportunities and successes they face in
addressing the challenge to produce evidence for the impact of
their practice.
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