Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts – serie
Visar alla böcker i serien Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts. Handla med fri frakt och snabb leverans.
168 produkter
Historical Dictionary of French Theater
Inbunden, 2010
1748 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The term "French theater" evokes most immediately the glories of the classical period and the peculiarities of the Theater of the Absurd. It has given us the works of Corneille, Racine, and Moliere. In the Romantic era there was Alexander Dumas and surrealist works of Alfred Jarry, and then the …
Historical Dictionary of Latin American Literature and Theater
Av Richard Young, Odile Cisneros
Inbunden, 2010
2113 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The Historical Dictionary of Latin American Literature and Theater provides users with an accessible single-volume reference tool covering Portuguese-speaking Brazil and the 16 Spanish-speaking countries of continental Latin America (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El …
Historical Dictionary of Russian Music
Av Daniel Jaffé
Inbunden, 2012
2038 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Russian music today has a firm hold around the world in the repertoire of opera houses, ballet companies, and orchestras. The music of Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov, Sergey Rachmaninov, Sergey Prokofiev, and Dmitri Shostakovich is very much today’s lingua franca both in the concert …
Historical Dictionary of French Cinema
Av Dayna Oscherwitz, MaryEllen Higgins
Inbunden, 2007
2100 kr
Lägg i varukorg
It can be argued that cinema was created in France by Louis Lumière in 1895 with the invention of the cinématographe, the first true motion-picture camera and projector. While there were other cameras and devices invented earlier that were capable of projecting intermittent motion of images, the …
Historical Dictionary of Modern Chinese Literature
Av Li-hua Ying
Inbunden, 2009
2275 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Modern Chinese literature has been flourishing for over a century, with varying degrees of intensity and energy at different junctures of history and points of locale. An integral part of world literature from the moment it was born, it has been in constant dialogue with its counterparts from the …
Historical Dictionary of Scandinavian Cinema
Av John Sundholm, Isak Thorsen m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
2399 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Although relatively small, the northern countries of Scandinavia have made a disproportionately large contribution to world cinema. Indeed, some of their films are among the best known of all times, including The Seventh Seal, Dancer in the Dark, and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. And …
Historical Dictionary of African American Theater
Av Anthony D. Hill, Douglas Q. Barnett
Inbunden, 2008
2328 kr
Lägg i varukorg
African American Theater is a vibrant and unique entity enriched by ancient Egyptian rituals, West African folklore, and European theatrical practices. A continuum of African folk traditions, it combines storytelling, mythology, rituals, music, song, and dance with ancestor worship from ancient …
Historical Dictionary of Scandinavian Literature and Theater
Av Jan Sjåvik
Inbunden, 2006
1952 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The literature of Scandinavia is amazingly rich and varied, consisting of the works produced by the countries of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Iceland, and stretching from the ancient Norse Sagas to the present day. While much of it is unknown outside of the region, some has gained worldwide …
Historical Dictionary of Asian American Literature and Theater
Av Wenying Xu
Inbunden, 2012
1951 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Asian American literature is one of the most recent forms of ethnic literature and is already becoming one of the most prominent, given the large number of writers, the growing ethnic population from the region, the general receptivity of this body of work, and the quality of the authors. In recent …
Historical Dictionary of English Music
ca. 1400-1958
Av Charles Edward McGuire, Steven E. Plank
Inbunden, 2011
1748 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This reference seeks to identify and briefly annotate a wide range of subjects relating to English musical culture, largely from the early 15th century through 1958, dates that reflect the coalescence of an identifiable English style in the early Renaissance and the death of the iconic Ralph …
Historical Dictionary of Japanese Cinema
Av Jasper Sharp
Inbunden, 2011
1951 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The cinema of Japan predates that of Russia, China, and India, and it has been able to sustain itself without outside assistance for over a century. Japanese cinema's long history of production and considerable output has seen films made in a variety of genres, including melodramas, romances, …
Historical Dictionary of Modern Japanese Literature and Theater
Inbunden, 2009
1952 kr
Lägg i varukorg
With the Meiji Restoration in 1868, Japan opened its doors to the West and underwent remarkable changes as it sought to become a modern nation. Accompanying the political changes that Western trade ushered in were widespread social and cultural changes. Newspapers, novels, poems, and plays from the …
Historical Dictionary of Spanish Cinema
Av Alberto Mira
Inbunden, 2010
2399 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Spanish cinema is emerging as one of the most exciting, fascinating, and special cinemas in the world. Not only are others viewing Spanish films, but they are adopting Spanish producers and Spanish actors as their own. While Spanish cinema has been maturing for a long time and has been producing …
Historical Dictionary of Film Noir
Inbunden, 2010
2698 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Film noir—literally "black cinema"—is the label customarily given to a group of black and white American films, mostly crime thrillers, made between 1940 and 1959. Today there is considerable dispute about what are the shared features that classify a noir film, and therefore which films should be …
Historical Dictionary of Postwar German Literature
Inbunden, 2009
1952 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Some authors strongly criticized attempts to rebuild a German literary culture in the aftermath of World War II, while others actively committed themselves to "dealing with the German past." There are writers in Austria and Switzerland that find other contradictions of contemporary life troubling, …
Historical Dictionary of Children's Literature
Inbunden, 2010
1790 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Children's literature comes from a number of different sources-folklore (folk- and fairy tales), books originally for adults and subsequently adapted for children, and material authored specifically for them-and its audience ranges from infants through middle graders to young adults (readers from …
Historical Dictionary of South American Cinema
Inbunden, 2014
2835 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The Historical Dictionary of South American Cinema covers the long history of cinema in Portuguese-speaking Brazil and the nine Spanish-speaking countries. These films include Los tres berretines, Prisioneros de la tierra, La balandra Isabel llegó esta tarde, La hora de los hornos, El chacal de …
Historical Dictionary of Westerns in Literature
Av Paul Varner
Inbunden, 2010
2113 kr
Lägg i varukorg
When in 1902 Owen Wister, a member of the Eastern blueblood aristocracy and friend of novelist Henry James, became a best-selling novelist with the publication of The Virginian, few readers would have guessed that a new kind of American literature was being born. While Owen Wister was enjoying his …
Historical Dictionary of Rococo Art
Inbunden, 2011
1603 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The Rococo emerged in France around 1700 as a playful revolt against the grandeur of the Baroque and the solemnity of Classicism. It flourished during the reign of Louis XV and began to go out of fashion in the second half of the 18th century. During this brief period of less than a century, it …
Historical Dictionary of Neoclassical Art and Architecture
Inbunden, 2011
1603 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Neoclassicism refers to the revival of classical art and architecture beginning in Europe in the 1750s and lasting until around 1830, with late Neoclassicism lingering through the 1870s. Neoclassicism is a highly complex movement that brought together seemingly disparate issues into a new and …
Historical Dictionary of African American Theater
Av Anthony D. Hill, Douglas Q. Barnett
E-bok, 2008
2512 kr
Lägg i varukorg
African American Theater is a vibrant and unique entity enriched by ancient Egyptian rituals, West African folklore, and European theatrical practices. A continuum of African folk traditions, it combines storytelling, mythology, rituals, music, song, and dance with ancestor worship from ancient …
Historical Dictionary of Postwar German Literature
E-bok, 2009
2151 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Some authors strongly criticized attempts to rebuild a German literary culture in the aftermath of World War II, while others actively committed themselves to "dealing with the German past." There are writers in Austria and Switzerland that find other contradictions of contemporary life troubling, …
Historical Dictionary of Modern Japanese Literature and Theater
E-bok, 2009
2151 kr
Lägg i varukorg
With the Meiji Restoration in 1868, Japan opened its doors to the West and underwent remarkable changes as it sought to become a modern nation. Accompanying the political changes that Western trade ushered in were widespread social and cultural changes. Newspapers, novels, poems, and plays from the …
Historical Dictionary of Old Time Radio
Av Robert C. Reinehr, Jon D. Swartz
E-bok, 2007
1678 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The term Old Time Radio refers to the relatively brief period from 1926, when the National Broadcasting Company first began network broadcasting, until approximately 1960, when television became the dominant communication medium in the United States. During this time, radio was as popular and …
Historical Dictionary of Irish Cinema
Av Roderick Flynn, Patrick Brereton
E-bok, 2007
1856 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In 1898, documentary footage of a yacht race was shot by Robert A. Mitchell, making him the first Irishman to shoot a film within Ireland. Despite early exposure to the filmmaking process, Ireland did not develop a regular film industry until the late 1910s when James Mark Sullivan established the …
Historical Dictionary of Hong Kong Cinema
E-bok, 2007
2125 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Despite the industry being shutdown by two world wars, having its martial arts films dismissively labeled as "chopsocky," and operating on shoestring budgets, the films of Hong Kong have been praised and imitated all over the world. From its beginning in 1909 with the silent short Stealing the …
Historical Dictionary of African American Cinema
Av S. Torriano Berry, Venise T. Berry
E-bok, 2007
758 kr
Lägg i varukorg
On 4 July, 1910, in 100-degree heat at an outdoor boxing ring near Reno, Nevada, film cameras recorded-and thousands of fans witnessed-former heavyweight champion Jim Jeffries'' reluctant return from retirement to fight Jack Johnson, a black man. After 14 grueling rounds, Johnson knocked out …
Historical Dictionary of Scandinavian Literature and Theater
Av Jan Sjåvik
E-bok, 2006
2151 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The literature of Scandinavia is amazingly rich and varied, consisting of the works produced by the countries of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Iceland, and stretching from the ancient Norse Sagas to the present day. While much of it is unknown outside of the region, some has gained worldwide …
Historical Dictionary of American Radio Soap Operas
Av Jim Cox
E-bok, 2005
1503 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The period from 1925 to 1960 was the heyday of the American Radio Soap Opera. In addition to being part of popular culture, the soap opera had important commercial aspects as well that were not only related to their production, but also to the desperate need to sell products or perish. Both sides …
Historical Dictionary of British Theatre
Early Period
Inbunden, 2013
2599 kr
Lägg i varukorg
British theatre has a greater tradition than any other, having started all the way back in 1311 and still going strong today. But that is too much for one book to cover, so this volume deals with early theatre and has a cut-off date in 1899. Still, this is almost six centuries, centuries during …
