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Rapacious dykes, self-loathing closet cases, hustlers, ambiguous sophisticates, and sadomasochistic rich kids: most of what America thought it knew about gay people it learned at the movies. A fresh and revelatory look

Katherine Liepe-Levinson has spent three years researching heterosexual female and male striptease in North America. The result of this research is Strip Show: Performances of Gender and Desire: the first full length

This text is based on recordings made in the 1980s and on information provided by the islanders, represents du Feu's determination to record the language before it dies out. All linguistic aspects

An original collection of essays by leading international Soviet cinema scholars, covering seventy years of cinema history, providing a clear understanding of the aesthetic developments and sociopolitical function of Soviet cinema.

The Cahiers du Cinma has played a major role in establishing film theory and criticism as an essential part of the late twentieth century culture. This is the only source where Cahiers

This is the indispensable reference tool for everyone in museums and galleries who has to deal with copyright. It is a user-friendly resource which comprehensively addresses all aspects of copyright law and

From no-budget to the Hammer studio, British Horror Cinema investigates a wealth of horror films including classics such as Peeping Tom and The Wicker Man. Contributors consider the Britishness of British horror

P. A. Skantze argues that 17th century writers for performance portray a crucial aesthetic tension between motion and fixity, the study argues that this tension is fundamental to our scholarly understanding of

This is an innovative, scholarly and original study of the ethics of modern Japanese aesthetics from the 1930s, through the Second World War and into the post-war period. Nina Cornyetz embarks on

Shows the catastrophic impact of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans. This work covers the response to the disaster and the roles that race and class played, its impact on housing and redevelopment,

It used to be only movies were on film; now the whole world is. The most intimate and most banal moments of our lives are constantly recorded for public consumption. In The

Understand Inter Art Markets (Paperback),9780415339575

Illustrated by Lotte Goslar herself, this extraordinary book provides, through her vivid sketch-like texts, a moving and humorous account of her life during a traumatic period in world history. Her acute observations

Lawrence Thelen's book is part theatre history, part interview volume, part celebration. Richly anecdotal, it communicates the passion and joy that motivate our wizards of the musical stage.

A colorful, historically accurate biography of William B. Gill, a famous musical-comedy playwright and comedy performer of the late-19th-century who is now mostly forgotten, but who changed the course of American musical