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  Not to Be Missed - Fifty-four...

  Kenneth Turan

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  Kenneth Turan discovered film as a child left undisturbed to watch Million Dollar Movie on WOR-TV Channel 9 in New York, a daily showcase for older Hollywood features. It was then that he developed a love of cinema that never left him and honed his eye for the most acute details and the grandest of scenes. Not to Be Missed blends cultural criticism, historical anecdotes, and inside-Hollywood controversy. Turan's selection of favorites ranges across all genres. From All About Eve to Seven Samurai to Sherlock Jr., these are all timeless films, each underscoring the truth of director Ingmar Bergman's observation that "no form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul."

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  Dov Davidoff: Lower Your...

  Dov Davidoff

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  In Dov Davidoff's all new stand-up special, Lower Your Expectations, Dov returns with his one-of-a-kind frenetic style to dissect the hilariously misleading truths in culture and to question the American future.

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  Napoli New York Hollywood - Film...

  Giuliana Muscio

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  This cinema history illuminates the role of southern Italian performance traditions on American movies from the silent era to contemporary film. 
   
  In Napoli/New York/Hollywood, Italian cinema historian Giuliana Muscio investigates the significant influence of Italian immigrant actors, musicians, and directors on Hollywood cinema. Using a provocative interdisciplinary approach, Muscio demonstrates how these artists and workers preserved their cultural and performance traditions, which led to innovations in the mode of production and in the use of media technologies. In doing so, she sheds light on the work of generations of artists, as well as the cultural evolution of “Italian-ness” in America over the past century. 
   
  Muscio examines the careers of Italian performers steeped in an Italian theatrical culture that embraced high and low, tragedy and comedy, music, dance, acrobatics, naturalism, and improvisation. Their previously unexplored story—that of the Italian diaspora’s influence on American cinema—is here meticulously reconstructed through rich primary sources, deep archival research, extensive film analysis, and an enlightening series of interviews with heirs to these traditions, including Francis Coppola and his sister Talia Shire, John Turturro, Nancy Savoca, James Gandolfini, David Chase, Joe Dante, and Annabella Sciorra.

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  Music Theory for Beginners -...

  Aventuras De Viaje

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  Play in Perfect Harmony! 
  Music Theory for Beginners is a thorough yet accessible guide. 
  It’s written without confusing terms or jargon, and you can use the concepts to play any instrument in any style or genre. 
  Rather than telling you what to do, it trains your ears and hands to express yourself. You can even use what you learn to produce your own original music on a laptop! 
  Discover how to express yourself through rhythm and notes, because music theory doesn’t have to be intimidating or tedious. 
  Get it now.In this music theory guide, you’ll discover:How to combine notes and chords in a pleasing wayThe history of music theory from the invention of the octave in ancient GreeceHow to train your ears for sound, pitch, timbre, and toneEverything you need to know about intervals—major and minor, chromatic and diatonicScales, key signatures, and how they make your song sound lighter or more melancholicTempo, bar, and time signatures, and how to use an advanced-level polyrhythmSteps to transpose any composition from one key to anotherDissonance, consonance, and other creative techniques to build intensity and dramaTips to compose your own music &/or improvise on the spot 
  ... and much more! 
  Teach yourself basic music theory today, because art is about creativity, but you need to know the rules in order to break them. 
  Get it now.

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  Profiles

  Kenneth Tynan

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  The only collection of Tynan's star-studded profiles, selected and edited by his widow and biographer, Kathleen Tynan, with a foreword by Simon Callow.
  Kenneth Tynan was the 20th century's most influential writer on theatre and performance. Over the course of his life he wrote a series of brilliant and incisive pen-portraits of many of the most significant performers and writers of his day.
  Amongst the fifty assembled here are profiles of actors such as Garbo, Bogart, Cagney, Olivier and Gielgud; the directors George Cukor, Peter Brook and Joan Littlewood; writers such as Bertolt Brecht, Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams; and comedians as diverse as Mel Brooks, Eric Morecambe, W.C. Fields and Lenny Bruce.
  'We had thought to have seen the last of Tynan. Now, suddenly, a new volume appears: a collection of fifty profiles of the famous... More than a third of the pieces are new - at least in book form - which in itself is cause enough for dancing... One does not have to like theatre to cherish these pieces... It is a book to savour in small doses, the better to postpone the sadness of reaching its end' Hugh Leonard
  'Tynan was unique in that he combined the soul of an artist with the descriptive skill of a journalist... He was an ideal profile writer, as this book eloquently testifies' Michael Billington, Guardian

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  Production Management

  IntroBooks Team

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  The Production Management is the process of producing products through manufacture of raw materials into finished goods. The concept of production management was invented at the time of industrialisation. 
  Production Management is a broad field and its usage is recognised in multiple areas which are concerned with providing services to the consumers. A Production Manager is required in fields like in Theatres as Stage Manager, Human Resources, Management, Accounting and Financial Management etc. 
  A Production Manager’s job working in an industry is to regulate the design of the product according to the wants of the customers. It also keeps a check on provision of raw materials, work force, money, materials and methods which are important for the manufacture of the desired product.  
  Proper Product Planning and Control is employed to avoid faults in the manufacturing process of the product to prevent the company from passing through the loss phase be it in the case of resources or the reputation that the company has developed over the years of work.  
  The Production Management department of the organisation is said to be the most important part of the organisation. Many other areas of work are affected if Production Management is not carried out properly and therefore is also referred to as the nervous system of an organisation.

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