Cinema Studies

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Greasepaint Puritan

Boston to 42nd Street in the Queer Backstage Novels of Bradford Ropes

By Maya Cantu
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Gender Studies, Gay and Lesbian Studies, Media Studies, Cinema Studies

Recovers the life and art of Bradford Ropes, author of 42nd Street and chronicler of gay lives in early show business

The Problem of the Color[blind]

Racial Transgression and the Politics of Black Performance

By Brandi Wilkins Catanese
Subjects: American Studies, Media Studies, Cinema Studies, African American Studies, Theater and Performance
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

How the debate on colorblind versus multicultural casting sheds light on on larger sociopolitical questions

Reframing Screen Performance

By Cynthia Baron & Sharon Marie Carnicke
Subjects: Media Studies, Cinema Studies, Theater and Performance

Challenges conventional approaches to film by advancing the simple yet revolutionary idea that acting is one of cinema's essential aspects

Analyzing Performance

Theater, Dance, and Film

By Patrice Pavis
Translated by A. David Williams
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Media Studies, Cinema Studies, Dance

An indispensable guide for the study of performance, by France's leading theater critic, now available in English

David Mamet in Conversation

Edited by Leslie Kane
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Media Studies, Cinema Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, Essay and Interview
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

A master at dramatic dialogue, captured in real-life conversation about his work

Screening China

Critical Interventions, Cinematic Reconfigurations, and the Transnational Imaginary in Contemporary Chinese Cinema

By Yingjin Zhang
Subjects: Media Studies, Cinema Studies, Theater and Performance, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

Pushes back against the Western critical appetite for ethnic and cultural markers in Chinese film, narrating how Chinese filmmakers increasingly escape Western demands and screen China’s many facets

Brian Friel in Conversation

Edited by Paul Delaney
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures, Cultural Studies, Media Studies, Cinema Studies
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

Reflections by the author of Dancing at Lughnasa on Irish writers, the theater, nationalism, Catholicism, and his childhood

Who Put the Rainbow in The Wizard of Oz?

Yip Harburg, Lyricist

By Harold Meyerson & Ernie Harburg
Subjects: Music, Theater and Performance, Media Studies, Cinema Studies

The life story of the man who gave Dorothy and her Oz companions something to sing about

Tom Stoppard in Conversation

Edited by Paul Delaney
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures, Media Studies, Cinema Studies
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

British playwright Tom Stoppard in his own words

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