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Schirmer encyclopedia of film

Table of Contents: “…Academy awards-crime films -- v. 2.Criticism-ideology -- v. 3.Independent film-road movies -- v. 4.Romantic comedy-Yugoslavia…”
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Shakespearean criticism criticism of William Shakespeare's plays and poetry, from the first published appraisals to current evaluations

Subjects: “…Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 Comedies…”
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The silver spoon by Galsworthy, John 1867-1933

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The audio theater guide vocal acting, writing, sound effects and directing for a listening audience by Mott, Robert L.

Table of Contents: “…-- The ABCs of directing -- Directing the next step up -- Comparing audio theater with other media -- The warm-up -- The comedy theater -- Scenes, comedy sketches, commercials and more -- The most asked for SFX and how to do them -- Creating the more impossible sounds…”
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Junk art and the politics of trash by Whiteley, Gillian

Table of Contents: “…Rehabilitating rubbish: histories, values, aesthetics -- The cultural life of detritus: from objet trouve to the Art of assemblage -- Dissenters, drifters and poets: 'placing' assemblage in the San Francisco Bay Area -- The 'comedy of waste': a load o…”
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Film genre for the screenwriter by Selbo, Jule

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Film genre vs. genre film -- Creating the mental space -- Overview of film genres -- The uber genres: comedy and drama -- Romance, romantic comedy and buddy -- Speculative genres -- Horror -- Science fiction -- Fantasy -- Western -- Thriller -- Action and adventure -- Disaster and war -- Coming of age and fish out of water -- Balancing of film genres -- Conclusion.…”
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Hollywood Genres FORMULAS, FILMMAKING, AND THE STUDIO SYSTEM by Schatz, Thomas. 1948-

Table of Contents: “…The genius of the system -- Film genres and the genre film -- The western -- The gangster film -- The hardboiled-detective film -- The screwball comedy -- The musical -- The family melodrama.…”
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Vaudeville videos

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Musical theatre a history by Kenrick, John

Table of Contents: “…-- Continental operetta (1840-1900) : "Typical of France" -- American explorations (1624-1880) : "The music of something beginning" -- Gilbert & Sullivan (1880-1900) : "Object all sublime" -- The birth of musical comedy (1880-1899) : "It belong'd to my father before I was born" -- A new century (1900-1913) : "Whisper of how I'm yearning" -- American ascendance (1914-1919) : "In a class beyond compare" -- Al Jolson : "The world's greatest entertainer" -- The jazz age (1920-1929) : "I want to be happy" -- Depression era miracles (1930-1940) : "Trouble's just a bubble" -- A new beginning (1940-1950) : "They couldn't pick a better time" -- Broadway takes stage (1950-1963) : "The street where you live" -- Rock rolls in (1960-1970) : "Soon it's gonna rain" -- New directions (1970-1979) : "Vary my days" -- Spectacles and boardrooms : "As if we never said goodbye" -- Musical comedy returns (the 2000s) : "Where did we go right?"…”
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Toad of Toad Hall a play from Kenneth Grahame's book by Milne, A. A. (Alan Alexanderd1882-1956

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I've got your number by Kinsella, Sophie

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Legitimating television media convergence and cultural status by Newman, Michael Z

Table of Contents: “…-- The showrunner as auteur -- Upgrading the situation comedy -- Not a soap opera -- The television image and the image of the television -- Technologies of agency -- Television scholarship and/as legitimation.…”
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Inferno by Dante Alighieri 1265-1321

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Zen and the art of the monologue by Sankey, Jay

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A student guide to play analysis by Rush, Davi 1940-

Table of Contents: “…-- Plot : the beginning -- Plot : the middle, the ending, and other matters -- Characters -- Language -- Classic tragedy -- Classic comedy -- Melodrama -- Farce -- Alternate genres -- Realism -- Symbolism -- Expressionism -- Theater of the absurd -- Epic theater -- Postmodernism.…”
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Eight famous Elizabethan plays. by Dunn, Esther Cloudman 1891-

Table of Contents: “…--Volpone; or, The fox, a comedy, by B. Jonson.--The maid's tragedy, by F. Beaumont and J. …”
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Will the real Norman Mailer please stand up by Adams, Laura

Table of Contents: “…Norman Mailer's divine comedy. Finholt, R.…”
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A conversation with Marco Pennette by Pennette, Marco

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THE BELL by Murdoch, Iris

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FEGEN AND NORRISS' GORDON BRITTAS SHARING THE DREAM by Rice, Jonathan

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