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Musical Theatre, Realism and Entertainment By:Dr Millie Taylor Published on 2013-01-28 by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. Click The Button Below To Download The Book What is it about musical theatre that audiences find entertaining? What are the features that lead to its ability to stimulate emotional attachment, to move and to give pleasure? Beginning from the passion musical theatre performances arouse and their ubiquity in London's West End and on Broadway this book explores the ways in which musical theatre reaches out to and involves its audiences. It investigates how pleasure is stimulated by vocal, musical and spectacular performances. Early discussions centre on the construction of the composed text, but then attention is given to performance and audience response. Musical theatre contains disruptions and dissonances in its multiple texts, it allows gaps for audiences to read playfully. This combines with the voluptuous sensations of embodied emotion, contagiously and viscerally s...

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That Was Entertainment By:Bernard F. Dick Published on 2018-06-04 by Univ. Press of Mississippi Click The Button Below To Download The Book That Was Entertainment: The Golden Age of the MGM Musical traces the development of the MGM musical from The Broadway Melody (1929) through its heyday in the 1940s and 1950s and its decline in the 1960s, culminating in the notorious 1970 MGM auction when Judy Garland's ruby slippers from The Wizard of Oz, Charlton Heston's chariot from Ben-Hur, and Fred Astaire's trousers and dress shirt from Royal Wedding vanished to the highest bidders. That Was Entertainment uniquely reconstructs the life of Arthur Freed, whose unit at MGM became the gold standard against which the musicals of other studios were measured. Without Freed, Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Ann Miller, Betty Garrett, Cyd Charisse, Arlene Dahl, Vera-Ellen, Lucille Bremer, Gloria DeHaven, Howard Keel, and June Allyson would never have had the signature films that est...

Homeless Entertainment By:Henriette Louwerse Published on 2007 by Peter Lang Click The Button Below To Download The Book Hafid Bouazza is a highly influential and celebrated author in the Netherlands today. In the context of contemporary Dutch literature, Bouazza's Moroccan background still marks a divergence from the born-and-bred Dutch norm. Authors with a bi- or multicultural background are still often cast in the role of 'exotic outsider'. Bouazza both challenges and uses this position to the full. His writing demonstrates that the perceived us-them or self-other positions are questionable ideological constructs. He undermines the concept of a unified culture and the wholeness of the self. He explores and exploits stereotypical beliefs held on both sides of the East-West divide. The result is a magical realist setting that both puzzles and enchants. This book offers a reading of Bouazza's literary prose that responds to the interpretative opportunities offered by an au...

Only Entertainment By:Richard Dyer Published on 2005-07-08 by Routledge Click The Button Below To Download The Book Only Entertainment explores entertainment as entertainment, asking how and whether an emphasis on the primacy of pleasure sets it apart from other forms of art. Dyer focuses on the genres most associated with entertainment, from musicals to action movies, disco to porn. He examines the nature of entertainment in movies such as The Sound of Music and Speed, and argues that entertainment is part of a 'common sense' which is always historically and culturally constructed. This new edition of Only Entertainment features a revised introduction and five new chapters on topics from serial killer movies to Elizabeth Taylor. In the final chapter Dyer asks whether entertainment as we know it is on the wane. Book was written in en eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is true and in ePub is true Book Preview Click The Button Below To Download The Book

Understanding the Business of Entertainment By:Gregory Bernstein Published on 2015-05-15 by CRC Press Click The Button Below To Download The Book Understanding the Business of Entertainment: The Legal and Business Essentials All Filmmakers Should Know is an indispensable guide to the business aspects of the entertainment industry, providing the legal expertise you need to break in and to succeed. Written in a clear and engaging tone, this book covers the essential topics in a thorough but reader-friendly manner and includes plenty of real-world examples that bring business and legal concepts to life. Whether you want to direct, produce, write, edit, photograph or act in movies, this book covers how to find work in your chosen field and examines the key provisions in employment agreements for creative personnel. If you want to make films independently, you’ll find advice on where to look for financing, what kinds of deals might be made in the course of production, and important informat...

Entertainment By:Catherine Burch Published on 2009-09-01 by Franklin Watts Click The Button Below To Download The Book Each book in this series, complete with list of contents, glossary, index and web links, focuses on life on the Home Front in World War II, from a child's point of view. Large, atmospheric photographs accompany the quotations and real-life memories. Book was written in en eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is falseand in ePub is false Book Preview Click The Button Below To Download The Book

The Picture of Dorian Gray By:John Osborne,Oscar Wilde Published on 1973 by Samuel French, Inc. Click The Button Below To Download The Book Drama Adapted by John Osborne from the novel by Oscar Wilde. Characters: 11 male, 4 female, extras. Interior Set The author of Look Back in Anger, Inadmissible Evidence and The Entertainer has created a brilliant dramatization of this classic about a man who retains his youth while the decay of advancing years and moral corruption appears on a portrait painted by one of his lovers. |Osborne has done much more than a scissors and paste job on Wilde's famous story. He has ... created a sense of evil through implication.| Guardian. |John Osborne ... has found in Oscar Wilde's macabre morality a velveted barouche for his own favorite themes [and he] conveys the fabulous story['s] ... fascination.| Daily Telegraph. Book was written in en eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is falseand in ePub is true Book Preview Click The Button Belo...

Globalized Arts By:J. P. Singh Published on 2014-02-01 by Columbia University Press Click The Button Below To Download The Book The spread of Islam around the globe has blurred the connection between a religion, a specific society, and a territory. One-third of the world’s Muslims now live as members of a minority. At the heart of this development is, on the one hand, the voluntary settlement of Muslims in Western societies and, on the other, the pervasiveness and influence of Western cultural models and social norms. The revival of Islam among Muslim populations in the last twenty years is often wrongly perceived as a backlash against westernization rather than as one of its consequences. Neofundamentalism has been gaining ground among a rootless Muslim youth—particularly among the second- and third-generation migrants in the West—and this phenomenon is feeding new forms of radicalism, ranging from support for Al Qaeda to the outright rejection of integration into Western society. In ...

The Edison Cylinder Phonographs By:George L. Frow,Albert F. Sefl Published on 1978 by Sevenoaks : G. L. Frow Click The Button Below To Download The Book Book was written in en eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is falseand in ePub is false Book Preview Click The Button Below To Download The Book

Streaming, Sharing, Stealing By:Michael D. Smith,Rahul Telang Published on 2016-08-05 by MIT Press Click The Button Below To Download The Book How big data is transforming the creative industries, and how those industries can use lessons from Netflix, Amazon, and Apple to fight back. Book was written in en eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is falseand in ePub is false Book Preview Click The Button Below To Download The Book

Conflict at Canterbury By:Robert Gittings Published on 1970 by Heinemann Educational Publishers Click The Button Below To Download The Book Book was written in en eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is falseand in ePub is false Book Preview Click The Button Below To Download The Book

Hollywood Speaks By:John S. Schuchman Published on 1999 by University of Illinois Press Click The Button Below To Download The Book Absorbing, scholarly study of the portrayal in nearly 200 movies and TV episodes of the least visible disabled group in American society. Includes the first filmography (annotated) of films designed for general audiences that deal with deafness or include a deaf character in a mator or pivotal role. For all film study collections. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR Book was written in en eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is falseand in ePub is false Book Preview Click The Button Below To Download The Book

Entertainment & Politics By:David James Jackson Published on 2009 by Peter Lang Pub Incorporated Click The Button Below To Download The Book Now in its second edition, Entertainment & Politics is an essential text for understanding how young people acquire and hold political beliefs over time. In this updated and expanded edition, the author reaches beyond the U.S., including research on Canada, Great Britain, and Ireland to investigate a broader international picture of the effect the entertainment media has on the socio-political beliefs of young people. The book examines the many ways that the entertainment media influence young people, and the extent to which young people’s beliefs differ from those of their parents, teachers, and peers. Findings indicate that media’s influence does not fit into neat «conservative» and «left/liberal» patterns, but interacts with parental and peer influence in heretofore unexamined ways. This up-to-date text is designed for undergraduates, g...

Entertainment-Education By:Arvind Singhal,Everett Rogers Published on 2012-12-06 by Routledge Click The Button Below To Download The Book Arvind Singhal and Everett M. Rogers have developed this unique volume focused on the history and development of entertainment-education. This approach to communication is the process of designing and implementing a media message to both entertain and educate to increase audience members' knowledge about an educational issue, create favorable attitudes, and change overt behavior. It uses the universal appeal of entertainment to show individuals how they can live safer, healthier, and happier lives. Entertainment formats such as soap operas, rock music, feature films, talk shows, cartoons, comics, and theater are utilized in various countries to promote messages about educational issues. This book presents a balanced picture of the entertainment-education strategy, identifying ethical and other problems that accompany efforts to bring about social...

Global Entertainment Media By:Tanner Mirrlees Published on 2013-03-14 by Routledge Click The Button Below To Download The Book A critical cultural materialist introduction to the study of global entertainment media. In Global Entertainment Media, Tanner Mirrlees undertakes an analysis of the ownership, production, distribution, marketing, exhibition and consumption of global films and television shows, with an eye to political economy and cultural studies. Among other topics, Mirrlees examines: Paradigms of global entertainment media such as cultural imperialism and cultural globalization. The business of entertainment media: the structure of capitalist culture/creative industries (financers, producers, distributors and exhibitors) and trends in the global political economy of entertainment media. The |governance| of global entertainment media: state and inter-state media and cultural policies and regulations that govern the production, distribution and exhibition of entertainment medi...

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