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This digital document is an article from African Arts, published by Thomson Gale on December 22, 2006. The length of the article is 2133 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Current events.
Author: Gale Reference Team
Publication: African Arts (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 22, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 39Issue: 4Page: 88(4)

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Learn to interview people of all ages and write their life stories, experiences, highlights, and turning points as events and rites of passages in plays, skits, and monologues.Write radio and Internet-broadcast plays and make videobiographies. Interview people, and write dramatizations for the high-school or older adult audience with performers of all ages. Write for radio, interactive education, multimedia, netcasting, and the stage, video or film using excerpts from the life stories of real people, current events, social issues, and history.Learn to adapt and write multi-cultural, ethnic, and specific niche audience plays, skits, and monologues for the stage. Perform or write life stories from diaries and journals.Choose an audience-older adult, all ages, children, junior and senior high schools/teens, or college students. Then interview people and select excerpts from life stories or news to turn into plays, skits, monologues or videobiographies.Make time capsules or broadcast drama on the Web. Your playwriting skills now can use personal and oral history to develop powerful drama, motivate, and inspire memories.Perform the original three-act play, Coney Island, in this book or the monologue that follows. Write, adapt, or perform plays with multi-ethnic themes for a variety of audiences of all ages. ... Read more

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How to sell yourself in a monologue or play...
this is not a very useful book.less about how to do these things, and more (too much so) about how to make something out of a lifestory and sell it. ... Read more

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George Sidney directed many popular Hollywood films, including Anchors Aweigh, Show Boat, Kiss Me Kate, and Viva Las Vegas. Despite their commercial success, Sidney's films seldom received critical acclaim, and his many other contributions to the industry remain unknown and unheralded. In this first serious, full-length study of Sidney's life and work, Monder reassesses Sidney's critical reputation, arguing that he was a cinematic iconoclast who created mainstream films with a strikingly modern sensibility. The critical introduction to the volume explains why Sidney's work has been underrated and how it cleverly deconstructs traditional formula material. The biography highlights Sidney's career during the Golden Age of Hollywood studio filmmaking, including his 14-year tenure as President of the Directors Guild of America. The detailed filmography documents the production histories of Sidney's many features, short subjects, screen tests, documentaries, and uncredited sequences in other directors' films. Drawing on archival materials and interviews with Sidney's former coworkers, Monder reveals little-known facts about Sidney's films, and his career as a Hollywood insider. Rare stills and photographs illustrate his unique visual style. In short, Monder reevaluates the contributions of a significant but neglected artist. ... Read more

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First published in 1981.

The overthrow of the 'gang of four' in October 1976 had profound effects in all areas of Chinese society, and probably nowhere can this be more clearly seen than in the performing arts. Jiang Qing, Mao Zedong's widow, was strongly interested in the performing arts and exercised great influence over them. This book describes her influence and the effects its removal had on the arts. Although the period covered is mainly that since the death of Mao, there is also considerable reference to the years following the Cultural Revolution. ... Read more

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At a special event in London on Thursday night, Sony Ericsson announced a good chunk of its Q4 lineup, including the production version of the Idou, the Satio, along with a movie subscription service and two multimedia featurephones. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from African Arts, published by The Regents of the University of California on December 22, 2004. The length of the article is 1253 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Current events.(Calendar)
Publication: African Arts (Refereed)
Date: December 22, 2004
Publisher: The Regents of the University of California
Volume: 37Issue: 4Page: 86(2)

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This digital document is an article from African Arts, published by Thomson Gale on March 22, 2005. The length of the article is 2452 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Current events.
Publication: African Arts (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 22, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 38Issue: 1Page: 85(5)

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This digital document is an article from African Arts, published by Thomson Gale on June 22, 2005. The length of the article is 3494 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Current events.
Publication: African Arts (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 22, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 38Issue: 2Page: 84(4)

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This digital document is an article from African Arts, published by Thomson Gale on September 22, 2005. The length of the article is 2272 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Current events.
Publication: African Arts (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 22, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 38Issue: 3Page: 81(4)

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This digital document is an article from African Arts, published by Thomson Gale on December 22, 2005. The length of the article is 4009 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Current events.(Calendar)
Publication: African Arts (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 22, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 38Issue: 4Page: 85(5)

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While there exists a wide range of material covering violence against women, very little scholarly attention has been paid to international media treatments of gendered violence. This volume addresses the gap by providing a broad overview of contemporary representations of gendered violence, enabling comparison and contrast in forms of violence and constructions of gender across a wide range of political and geographic contexts. From nonfictional accounts of the mass rapes during the Rwandan genocide to the sexual objectification of women in Serbian media and depictions of prostitute murders in the Chinese media, this book provides an overview of media representations of gendered violence around the globe. In addition to documenting specific challenges and shortcomings of mainstream representations, chapters present insight into the various forms of resistance and hope that exist in each particular area, and analytical essays open up new lines of inquiry by offering an assessment of the uneven changes that feminist activism has enabled around the world. Suitable for students and scholars in womens studies, gender studies, media, sociology, and education, Local Violence, Global Media can be used as a supplementary text in courses on media violence, sociology of media, gendered violence in media, and international perspectives on womens studies. ... Read more

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Operation of Political Journalists
The Canberra Press Gallery consists of those journalists (print, radio, television) assigned by their media organisations to cover the political scene of the Australian Federal Parliament.

This book, by an experienced journalist and author, looks at the workings of the press gallery, how the gallery decides which stories to pursue, which to ignore, and the working relationships which develop between the journalists themselves and the people (politicians and their staff) on whom the journalists report.

Gallery operations, deadlines and beliefs shape the news that is published for public consumption.

Although specific to Australia, I imagine that similar situations exist in other countries, particularly the U.S. and the UK. ... Read more

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Here’s a guide book on how to write 45-minute one-act plays, skits, and monologues for all ages. Step-by-step strategies and sample play, monologue, and animation script offer easy-to-understand solutions for drama workshop leaders, high-school and university drama directors, teachers, students, parents, coaches, playwrights, scriptwriters, novelists, storytellers, camp counselors, actors, lifelong learning instructors, biographers, facilitators, personal historians, and senior center activity directors.

Guide young people in an intergenerational experience of interviewing and writing skits, plays, and monologues based on the significant events and experiences from lives of people. Learn to write skits, plays and monologues based on historical events and personalities.

What you’ll get out of this book and the exercises of writing one-act plays for teenage actors and audiences of all-ages audience, are improved skills in adapting all types of social issues, current events, or life experience to 45-minute one-act plays, skits, or monologues for teenage or older adult drama workshops.

How do you write plays and skits from life stories, current events, social issues, or history? Are you looking for the appropriate 45-minute, one-act play for high-school students or other teenagers, for community center drama workshops, or even for home school projects or for events and celebrations?

Are you seeking one-act plays for older adults drama workshops? Use personal or biographical experiences as examples when you write your skit or play.

If you want a really original play, write, revise, and adapt your own plays, skits, and monologues. Here’s how to do it.

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Enough Padding To Stuff A Bed
I'm teaching a playwriting workshop where I will be exclusively using the one-act form for the first time. I saw this title and thought it should be helpful, so I ordered a copy from the print on demand publisher. This book is a terrible workshop resource. Out of 288 pages, two-thirds of the book are strictly play scripts and there's a 31 page Appendix that even includes "1,004 Action Verbs for Communicators" that begins with the word Abated and ends with Zoned. Also Appendix D which is six pages of other books published by Anne Hart. Totally ridiculous. Out of the sixty pages she did write, many are concerned with marketing your script, including animation. Most of her writing has no relevance at all for a playwriting workshop. It doesn't help me as a teacher of one-act playwriting to know that many colleges now offer animation courses.

This book about writing short plays has Chapter Two offering atwo paragraph page giving platitudes about writing short plays and then proceeds to give the reader a 100 page full length play.Why? So the reader can simply turn it into a 45 minute play by keeping "...the characters a few as possible, usually about 5 characters." In that two paragraph explanation for filling up a 288 page book with 100 pages of script, she also says one can turn this full length play into a monologue.

I can go on but I'm too upset at the misrepresentation of what this book is supposed to contain. I can understand why it's published on iUniverse where you can't get a refund on a product you're unable to peruse before purchasing. Save your $20 and buy a good anthology of one-acts instead.Anne Hart, you should be ashamed of yourself. ... Read more

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Better than the movie
i just got back from Bosnia, including the city of Mostar, and decided to learn more about the war there. So I found an old copy of the film; "Welcome to Sarajuevo", and this book too.
This is the best book I've ever read about the life of a war correspondant. It also gave more info than the film. I'd found the film confusing the first time I'd seen it. After reading the book I see why they made a film out of it. I'm very curious to see what ever happened with this young adoptee, Natasha. I think of her a lot because the story made her come alive. As I regard my own non-adopted 8-yr-old daughter, I see the same sorts of behavior of Natasha, after Natasha's adoption, when she became a bit spoiled in England. I'm encouraged that this child was so resilient that she turned from a floor-sweeping, hard worker to a normal difficult-to-motivate-for-chores child. Does that mean my own child might also have a chance to be a hard-worker?
This is a very moving, worthwhile story for adoptees, adoptors and people interested in the recent history of Yugoslavia.
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Events and festivals have an increasingly vital role in our leisure lifestyles. We recognize them as part of our lives. For some, they are a very significant part of our lives.

The network of festivals and events that either adorn the world now, or are planned for the future, can both serve to motivate new visits as well as enhance the lives of the people who live in – or near – the host area. They are also dynamos of cultural development, of sport knowledge and excellence and sophisticated consumption. Such dynamic outputs require dynamic inputs. This book looks at different event and festival cases and forwards separate and current managerial implications and responses to these, with reference to the UK, America and Australia.

Both up-to-date and forward thinking, the managerial themes addressed are: Creative Management, Festival and Event audience development, Culture and Community, Event and Festival evaluation. Festival and event types include sport events, art festivals, community events, live music and culinary extravaganza.

This book was previously published as a special issue of Managing Leisure: An International Journal.

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This digital document is an article from Queen's Quarterly, published by Queen's Quarterly on December 22, 2001. The length of the article is 3035 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Freedom and the press.
Author: Adrienne Clarkson
Publication: Queen's Quarterly (Refereed)
Date: December 22, 2001
Publisher: Queen's Quarterly
Volume: 108Issue: 4Page: 628(7)

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From one of Canada’s most respected and recognizable journalists comes a collection of the best interviews with the leading thinkers and cultural icons of our time, from the country’s most trusted interview show.

An extraordinary selection from Newsworld’s Mansbridge One on One, including politicians, journalists, arts and sports figures and newsmakers behind the biggest issues of the past decade.

Canadians have long relied on award-winning anchor and journalist Peter Mansbridge to inform and enlighten us, whether at the helm of The National or on Mansbridge One on One, his weekly interview show.

In this, his first book, he collects the most illuminating and timely interviews from the past ten years, book-ending each with his behind-the-scenes recollections and anecdotes. Mansbridge acts as our guide as we get the inside story from prominent figures from all walks of life, including world leaders, music legends and sports heroes.

Among the more than 40 interviewees included in the book are:
Bill Clinton
Sidney Crosby
Bill Gates
Diana Krall
Benjamin Netanyahu
Barack Obama
Shimon Peres
Desmond Tutu
Brian Wilson


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