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  • Adaptation in Musical Theatre

    by Adam Rush ...
    Series series Topics in Musical Theatre
    Short introductory books on significant theories, concepts, forms and elements of musical theatre.Adaptation in Musical Theatre positions musical theatre as part of a broader cultural trend of recycling, referencing, remixing and alluding to existing creative works and texts. Despite critics often dismissing stage adaptations as lazy and safe bet options for producers, this book argues that ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Musical Theatre Histories

    Expanding the Narrative

    by Millie Taylor, Adam Rush ...
    Musical theatre is often perceived as either a Broadway based art form, or as having separate histories in London and New York. Musical Theatre Histories: Expanding the Narrative, however, depicts the musical as neither American nor British, but both and more, having grown out of frequent and substantial interactions between both centres (and beyond). Through multiple thematic 'histories', Millie ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

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  • Changed for Good : A Feminist History of the Broadway Musical

    A Feminist History of the Broadway Musical

    by Stacy Wolf ...
    From Adelaide in "Guys and Dolls" to Nina in "In the Heights" and Elphaba in "Wicked" female characters in Broadway musicals have belted and crooned their way into the American psyche. In this lively book Stacy Wolf illuminates the women of American musical theatre - performers creators and characters -- from the start of the cold war to the present day creating a new feminist history of the genre ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • The Disney Musical on Stage and Screen

    Critical Approaches from 'Snow White' to 'Frozen'

    Edited by George Rodosthenous ...
    The Disney Musical: Critical Approaches on Stage and Screen is the first critical treatment of the corporation's hugely successful musicals both on screen and on the stage. Its 13 articles open up a new territory in the critical discussion of the Disney mega-musical, its gender, sexual and racial politics, outreach work and impact of stage, film and television adaptations. Covering early 20th ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Free and Easy?

    A Defining History of the American Film Musical Genre

    by Sean Griffin ...
    A History of the American Musical narrates the evolution of the film musical genre, discussing its influences and how it has come to be defined; the first text on this subject for over two decades, it employs the very latest concepts and research.The most up-to-date text on the subject, with uniquely comprehensive coverage and employing the very latest concepts and researchSurveys centuries of ... Read more

    $37.00 USD

  • Film Fourth Edition

    A Critical Introduction

    by Tom Wallis, Maria Prammaggiore ...
    Updated and expanded for a new edition, this is the perfect starter text for students of film studies. Packed full of visual examples from all periods of film history up to the present, Film:A Critical Introduction illustrates film concepts in context and in depth, addressing techniques and terminology used in film production and criticism, and emphasising thinking and writing critically and ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Outlaw Marriages

    The Hidden Histories of Fifteen Extraordinary Same-Sex Couples

    by Rodger Streitmatter ...
    For more than a century before gay marriage became a hot-button political issue, same-sex unions flourished in America. Pairs of men and pairs of women joined together in committed unions, standing by each other “for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health” for periods of thirty or forty—sometimes as many as fifty—years. In short, they loved and supported each other every bit as much as any ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • In Love with Art

    Francoise Mouly's Adventures in Comics with Art Spiegelman

    by Jeet Heer ...
    Series series Exploded Views
    Françoise Mouly, an editor and publisher of uncommon taste and creativity, and an artist in her own right, has spent nearly four decades transforming comics. With her husband, Art Spiegelman, Mouly founded the landmark magazine RAW, which showcased artists such as Chris Ware, Charles Burns and Sue Coe, and, along with Spiegelman's Maus, brought an avant-garde sensibility to the popular art form. ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The Way Hollywood Tells It

    Story and Style in Modern Movies

    by David Bordwell ...
    Hollywood moviemaking is one of the constants of American life, but how much has it changed since the glory days of the big studios? David Bordwell argues that the principles of visual storytelling created in the studio era are alive and well, even in today’s bloated blockbusters. American filmmakers have created a durable tradition—one that we should not be ashamed to call artistic, and one that ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Comics Versus Art

    by Bart Beaty ...
    On the surface, the relationship between comics and the ‘high’ arts once seemed simple; comic books and strips could be mined for inspiration, but were not themselves considered legitimate art objects. Though this traditional distinction has begun to erode, the worlds of comics and art continue to occupy vastly different social spaces.Comics Versus Art examines the relationship between comics and ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Reading the Cozy Mystery

    Critical Essays on an Underappreciated Subgenre

    Edited by Phyllis M. Betz ...
    With their intimate settings, subdued action and likeable characters, cozy mysteries are rarely seen as anything more than light entertainment. The cozy, a subgenre of crime fiction, has been historically misunderstood and often overlooked as the subject of serious study. This anthology brings together a groundbreaking collection of essays that examine the cozy mystery from a range of critical ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Letters to a Young Actor

    by Robert Brustein ...
    The founder and director of the Yale Repertory Theater, as well as Harvard's American Repertory Theater, and the drama critic for The New Republic for going on thirty years, Robert Brustein is a living legend in theatrical circles. In Letters to a Young Actor, he not only seeks to inspire the multitudes of struggling dramatists out pounding the pavement, but also to reinvigorate the very state of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD