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HowExpert Guide to Street Performing. The Ultimate Handbook for Mastering the Art Business and Lifestyle of Busking and Street Performers is your all-in-one resource for entering the world of street performing. Whether you re starting out or looking to refine your cr... Lees meer.

Performing Brains on Screen deals with film enactments and representations of the belief that human beings are essentially their brains a belief that embodies one of the most influential modern ways of understanding the human. Films have performed brains in two chief w... Lees meer.

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This volume explores how the Cultural Cold War played out in Africa and Asia in the context of decolonization. Both the USA and the Soviet Union as well as East European states undertook significant efforts to influence cultural life in the newly independent postcoloni... Lees meer.

Living Cargo Offering a wide-ranging study of contemporary literature film visual art and performance by writers and artists who live and work in the United Kingdom but also maintain strong ties to postcolonial Africa and the Caribbean Living Cargo explores how... Lees meer.

This exacting study examines the theatre film and activism engaged with the representation or participation of asylum seekers and refugees in the twenty-first century. Cox shows how this work has been informed by and indeed contributed to the consolidation of irregul... Lees meer.

Carmen Miranda got knocked down and kept going. Filming an appearance on The Jimmy Durante Show on August 4 1955 the ambassadress of samba suddenly took a knee during a dance number clearly in distress. Durante covered without missing a beat and Miranda was back... Lees meer.

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Over the last century many 16th- and 17th-century events and personalities have been brought before home cinema exhibition festival and theatrical audiences. This collection examines these representations looking at recent television series documentaries pageantr... Lees meer.

The immense popularity of movies has its roots in the silent films of the early 1900s this being especially true of the crime genre. The immense popularity of movies has its roots in the silent films of the early 1900s this being especially true of the crime genre.... Lees meer.

Performing Bodies. Female Illness in Italian Literature and Cinema 1860-1920 explores the variations in the portrayal of female illness in Italian fin de si cle literature and early cinema. Catherine Ramsey-Portolano begins her study with an overview of nineteenth-ce... Lees meer.

Oriental dancers ballerinas actresses and opera singers the figure of the female performer is ubiquitous in the cinema of pre-Revolutionary Russia. From the first feature film Romashkov s Stenka Razin 1908 through the sophisticated melodramas of the 1910s to Visk... Lees meer.

This book is the first to take comedy seriously as an important aspect of the popular mockumentary form of film and television fiction. It examines the ways in which mockumentary films and television programmes make visible through comedy the performances that underpin... Lees meer.

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