Film, television and performing arts
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"This collection of scholarly essays on contemporary Québécois cinema centres on an image of shared suffering that unites the nation through a search for home. Since the defeat of the pro-sovereigntists in the 1995 Quebec referendum, the loss of a nationalistic vision in the province has led many Québécois to use their ancestral origins to inject meaning into their everyday lives.
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press
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Sports journalist Bill Hanstock pulls back the curtain to give a smart fan's account of WWE and Vince McMahon's journey to the top. Untangling the truth behind the official WWE storyline, Hanstock does a deep dive into key moments of the company's history, from the behind-the-scenes drama at the Montreal Screwjob, to the company's handling of the Jimmy Snuka scandal, to the real story of the Monday Night Wars.
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This colleciton includes fourteen radio broadcasts spanning 1943 to 1952 that feature Hollywood screen legend Humphrey Bogart.
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A collection of 16 episodes from The Weird Circle radio show, which featured classic thrillers from the pens of the world's best-known and respected supernatural fiction authors of the nineteenth century.
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Drawing on more than 100 interviews, Mark Griffin shows how beneath Rock Hudson's suave movie star persona, was a deeply insecure man continually threatened with public exposure of his closeted homosexuality and contraction of AIDS by both scandal sheets and his own partners.
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Michael Landon was an actor, writer, director, and producer. For over three decades, Michael Landon's creative gifts touched millions of viewers around the world on Bonanza, Little House on the Prairie, Highway to Heaven, and in several other productions. This is the first detailed examination of his work both in front of and behind the camera, including information about every Landon script.
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From Macbeth to Breaking Bad, McKee deconstructs key scenes to illustrate the strategies and techniques of dialogue. This book applies a framework of incisive thinking to instruct the prospective writer on how to craft artful, impactful speech.
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Here are eleven radio episodes featuring Lucille Ball in different series from the golden age of radio.
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It took Bonnie McFarlane a lot of time, effort, and tequila to get to where she is today. In this memoir, Bonnie tells it like it is and lays bare all of her smart (and her not-so-smart) decisions along her way to finding her comedic voice.
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Sherlock Holmes came to NBC radio in 1930. In the mid-1940s, actor Tom Conway took over the role of Holmes, with Nigel Bruce as Watson. This collection contains twelve Holmes adventures starring Conway and Bruce.