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by Kenneth Henshall
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
The Historical Dictionary of Japan to 1945 spans the entire period from the earliest evidence of human habitation in Japan through to the end of the Pacific War. It includes substantial topics such as cultural and literary history, with entries ranging from aesthetics to various genres of writing....
by Jerry Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2009
From live productions of the 1950s like Requiem for a Heavyweight to big budget mini-series like Band of Brothers, long-form television programs have been helmed by some of the most creative and accomplished names in directing. Encyclopedia of Television Film Directors brings attention to the directors...
by Jennifer D. Milam
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011
The Rococo emerged in France around 1700 as a playful revolt against the grandeur of the Baroque and the solemnity of Classicism. It flourished during the reign of Louis XV and began to go out of fashion in the second half of the 18th century. During this brief period of less than a century, it spread...
by Edward Forman
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
The term "French theater" evokes most immediately the glories of the classical period and the peculiarities of the Theater of the Absurd. It has given us the works of Corneille, Racine, and Moliere. In the Romantic era there was Alexander Dumas and surrealist works of Alfred Jarry, and then the Theater...
Charlie Chaplin
Intimate Close-Ups
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 1999
Many remember Charlie Chaplin's comic masterpiece, The Gold Rush, as the finest blend of comedy and farce ever brought to the screen. Far fewer remember its heroine, Georgia Hale (1900-1985).
Seventy years after the film's appearance, Heather Kiernan brings Georgia Hale back to life in this...
Still the Greatest
The Essential Songs of The Beatles' Solo Careers
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
As recommended by USA Today and excerpted on Rolling Stone.com!
More than forty years after breaking up, The Beatles remain the biggest-selling and most influential group in the history of popular music. Fans endlessly replay their songs, craving more, while thousands of cover versions of their...
by Nichola Dobson
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Animation was once a relatively simple matter, using fairly primitive means to produce rather short films of subjects that were generally comedic and often quite childish. However, things have changed, and they continue changing at a maddening pace. One new technique after another has made it easier,...
by Seán Street
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2009
Founded in 1922, the British Broadcasting Corporation is probably the most well-known national radio corporation in the world, but the BBC is just part of the British radio picture. There are 'pirate' radio stations, community radio, commercial radio, and more recently, experimentation and development...
by David Walker, Daniel Gray
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2009
Marxism, one of the few philosophies that turned into an effective movement, not so long ago was the official ideology in one form or another of much of humanity. It was promulgated initially by the Soviet Union, then imposed on much of Central and Eastern Europe, later emerged in the People's Republic...
The 50 Most Dynamic Duos in Sports History
Baseball, Basketball, Football, and Hockey
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Who comprised the most productive pairs in the history of professional team sports? Joe Montana and Jerry Rice of the San Francisco 49ers? Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen of the Chicago Bulls? What about the prolific hockey tandem of Wayne Gretzky and Mark Messier? And that all-time great New York...
Monty Python's Flying Circus
An Utterly Complete, Thoroughly Unillustrated, Absolutely Unauthorized Guide to Possibly All the References
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2008
In 1969, the BBC aired the first episode of a new comedy series titled Monty Python's Flying Circus, and the rest, as they say, is history. An instant success, the show ran until 1974, producing a total of 45 episodes. Despite the show's very English humor and allusions to many things British, the...
by Jeannie Gayle Pool, H. Stephen Wright
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
Unlike traditional music, film music sources are often difficult to locate and do not follow the patterns that researchers are trained to identify. Although there have been several self-described introductions to the field and articles that summarize the problems and state of research, there is no...
The Films of Woody Allen
Critical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2006
From What's Up, Tiger Lily? to Match Point, Woody Allen's work has generated substantial interest among scholars and professionals who have written extensively about the director. In The Films of Woody Allen: Critical Essays, Charles L.P. Silet brings together two-dozen scholarly articles that address...
Mr. Bernds Goes to Hollywood
My Early Life and Career in Sound Recording at Columbia with Frank Capra and Others
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 1999
Edward Bernds came to Hollywood in 1928 to help United Artists make the transition to sound. He worked with some of the most notable directors in Hollywood including Frank Capra, Leo McCarey, and Howard Hawks. Though Bernds loved sound work, he had higher aspirations, and hoped to become a writer...