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PERFORMING ARTS, DRAMA,
AND FILM
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Audio Drama: The L.A. Theatre Works
Collection - PREPUBLICATION ANNOUNCEMENT
Audio Drama: The
L.A. Theatre Works Collection delivers, for the first time
online, more than 300 important dramatic works in streaming
audio from the curated archive of the nation’s premiere radio
theatre company. The plays—which include some of the most
significant dramatic literature of the nineteenth, twentieth,
and twenty-first centuries—are performed by leading actors from
around the world and recorded specifically for online listening.
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Dance
in Video
With Dance in Video, Alexander Street Press captures
dance performances from the stage and brings them directly to
your computer screen through online streaming video—including
250 dance productions and documentaries by the most influential
performers and companies of the 20th century. Dance
as an art form is ephemeral—there are rarely scripts to study,
no commonly used notation to analyze—making a live performance
vital for study and research. Dance in Video provides the
visual element necessary for appreciation and analysis. Students
and researchers can at last discover and revisit great
performances and learn from the dancers, choreographers, and
directors who have perfected the craft.
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Opera in Video
Opera in Video
contains 250 of the most important opera performances, captured
on video through staged productions, interviews, and
documentaries, and then delivered online through streaming
video. Selections represent the world’s best performers,
conductors, and opera houses and are based on a work’s
importance to the operatic canon. The result is a dynamic and
powerful resource for performers, researchers, and students.
The database lets users bookmark
specific scenes, acts, arias—even a single recitative
passage—and then include the links
in papers and course reserves. Instructors and students can
annotate and share these
personally selected segments during classroom lectures or
teaching assignments. With these and other powerful Web tools,
Opera in Video will be an essential new resource for
study in this area.
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North American Indian Drama
North
American Indian Drama brings together the full text of more than 200 plays
representing the stories and creative energies of American
Indian and First Nation playwrights of the 20th
century. Many of the plays are previously unpublished or hard to
find, and they represent a wealth of dramatic material that is
often overlooked or inaccessible.
Together, the plays demonstrate Native theater’s diversity of
tribal traditions and approaches to drama—melding conventional
dramatic form with ancient storytelling and ritual performance
elements, experimenting with traditional ideas of time and
narrative, or challenging Western dramatic structure.
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Theatre in Video
Theatre
in Video
contains more than 250 of the world’s most important plays,
together with more than 100 video documentaries, online in
streaming video—more than 500 hours in all. These definitive
performances, by leading actors and directors, have been
painstakingly licensed from a wide range of copyright holders.
They are now delivered to you over the Internet, in a
revolutionary new format developed specifically for drama.
For the first time, students, instructors, and
researchers can bookmark specific scenes, monologues, and
staging examples and then include those online links in their
papers and course reserves.
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American Film Scripts
American Film Scripts contains hundreds of scripts in
PDF format along with original images of previously unpublished
screenplays. Each script is
indexed and organized to allow searching by scene, by character, by director,
and more. With more than 100,000 scenes of life as portrayed in the
movies, this resource is of interest to researchers in sociology, psychology,
popular culture, writing, film studies, and history.
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North American Theatre
Online
North American Theatre Online will be the largest,
most comprehensive reference work in North American drama. It
will provide detailed bibliographic information on more than
10,000 plays – including references to works that have never
been published. It will contain thousands of facts about
theaters, authors, theatrical companies, and individuals, as
well as some 1,000 playbills, posters, photographs, and related
theatrical ephemera.
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Latino Literature: Poetry, Drama and Fiction
Discover more than 200 novels, many hundreds of short stories,
20,000 pages of poetry, and more than 400 plays. The majority
of the works are in English, with
selected works of particular importance in Spanish. The collection
begins with the works of Chicano writers in the Southwest in
the early 19th century and follows
through to include contemporary works. Scholars in social history,
literature, and Latino studies will find value in Latino
Literature.
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Twentieth Century North American Drama
From Maxwell Anderson to Marsha Norman, the complete works
of major North American playwrights. Alongside the works of
the most successful writers of the century are the
lesser-known but important works of African Americans, Asian
Americans, gay and lesbian writers, and others. Hundreds of
unpublished plays, production information, playbills, and
theatre details round out the collection.
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North American Women's Drama
This major new initiative delivers 1,500 plays by women from
the United States and Canada, including the complete works
of leading playwrights along with those of lesser-known but
important writers. Many of the plays are rare, hard to find,
or out of print. Relevant for the study of literature, women's
studies, and the history of feminism.
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Asian American Drama
With 250 plays, this is a landmark collection in a rapidly
developing genre. It documents the Asian American experience
as dramatized in works by writers from the 18th century to
the present, together with biographies, a performance
database, production details, and associated visual
resources, including photos, playbills, and manuscript
images.
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Black Drama
The project brings together 1,450 plays, almost a quarter
of which are previously unpublished. Nowhere else will researchers
see these works! They have been carefully selected by well-known
experts such as James V. Hatch, a board of scholars, and the
writers themselves. The collection includes the complete works
of more than 250 playwrights from North America, Africa, the
Caribbean, Europe, Australia, and other locations. Starting
with Victorian plays and working up to the present, this indispensable
collection presents the writings together with biographies,
playbills, images, production notes, performance information,
and much more.
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