"This study surveys music and dance from a global perspective, viewing them as a composite whole found in every culture. The author examines the connection between sound and movement as an element of the human experience. Music and dance from Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, …
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"Monsters in novels were connected with the protagonist, representative of a character's personal failings and failings of society. Film adaptations depict the creatures as engaging in senseless violence, suggesting a fear of the uncontrollable. This dichotomy is analyzed throug…
"From his 1887 literary debut, Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes has lost none of his appeal. A variety of Holmeses and Watsons in recent years have depicted their relationship as nuanced and complementary. Focusing on the Guy Ritchie films, the BBC's Sherlock and CBS's Eleme…
"Found Footage Horror Films explores the subgenre's stylistic, historical and thematic development. It pays attention to the safety films of the 1960s, the snuff-fictions of the 1970s, and to television reality horror hoaxes and mockumentaries during the 1980s and 1990s. This bo…
"This is the first book-length study of African American Renaissance man Paul Robeson (1898-1976). Singer, actor, author, lawyer, athlete, pacifist and civil rights activist, Robeson was also the first African American to receive top billing in motion pictures. Two appendices co…
Obituaries in the performing arts, 2012
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"William Langland's 14th-century poem Piers Plowman, a disturbing and often humorous commentary on corruption and greed, remains meaningful today. The allegorical work revolves around the narrator's quest to live a good life, and takes the form of a series of dreams in which Pie…
