LIBROS DEL AUTOR: paul fryer

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  • Blockbusters of Victorian Theater, 1850-1910
    Paul Fryer
    This edited collection of essays details a wide-ranging selection of some of the most sensationally successful theatre productions of the long Victorian era, the real 'blockbusters' of the age. Ranging from the world of operetta and music hall to spectacular drama and sensational melodrama, the productions included provide the reader with definitive proof that the phenomenon...
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    109,71 €

  • The Composer on Screen
    Paul Fryer
    This collection of new essays explores the many ways in which composers have been depicted in film and what audiences have taken away from such depictions. Beginning with some of the earliest silent film examples--including some of the first feature-length 'bio-pics' ever produced--these essays range from the 12th century abbess Hildegard of Bingen to the great classical and...
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    79,41 €

  • Opera in the Media Age
    Paul Fryer
    This collection of essays explores the relationship between opera and the development of media technology from the late 19th to the early 21st century. Taking an international perspective, the contributing authors, each with extensive experience as scholars or practitioners of the art, cover a variety of topics including audio, video and film recording, contemporary critical...
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    57,31 €

  • Women in the Arts in the Belle Epoque
    Paul Fryer
    This collection of new essays explores the role played by women practitioners in the arts during the period often referred to as the Belle Epoque, a turn of the century period in which the modern media (audio and film recording, broadcasting, etc.) began to become a reality. Exploring the careers and creative lives of both the famous (Sarah Bernhardt) and the less so (Paulin...
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    58,59 €

  • The Opera Singer and the Silent Film
    Paul Fryer
    Film technology developments in the early 20th century opened up a new world of possibilities for the motion picture industry, and opera, relying as it did on the melodramatic storyline and grand pantomime acting, was an ideal subject for early silent film. Even deprived of their principal glory--their voices--opera singers were among the first prominent screen stars. This...
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    110,03 €

  • Lina Cavalieri
    Olga Usova / Paul Fryer
    A prominent star in both pre-Revolutionary Russia and New York, Lina Cavalieri, described as 'the most beautiful woman in the world,' was one of the most frequently photographed personalities of her time. The cabaret performer, courtesan, and international star is documented in this, her first English-language biography. Researched from Russian archive sources, the book deta...
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    73,10 €