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Marina

Marina

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Thus begins Oscar's friendship with Marina and her father Herman Blau, a portrait painter. Marina takes Óscar to the gardens of the nearby cemetery to watch a macabre ritual that occurs on the fourth Sunday of each month.
The Brothers Warner: The Intimate Story of a Hollywood ...

The Brothers Warner: The Intimate Story of a Hollywood ...

Cass Warner Sperling

The definitive family biography and intimate portrait of the four legendary Warner brothers as told through the eyes of Harry Warner's granddaughter, Cass Warner Sperling, and in the voices of others who knew them.
Marina Abramović: Objects, Performance, Video, Sound

Marina Abramović: Objects, Performance, Video, Sound

Marina Abramovic

"Marina Abramovic (born 1946) is one of the foremost contemporary performance artists.
Marina Carr: Plays 1: Low in the Dark, The Mai, Portia ...

Marina Carr: Plays 1: Low in the Dark, The Mai, Portia ...

Marina Carr

Marina Carr: Plays 1 introduces the work of a major new voice in playwrighting.
Producing

Producing

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34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 Cass Warner Sperling and Cork Millner, with Jack Warner Jr., Hollywood Be Thy Name: The Warner Brothers Story (Rocklin, CA: Prima ...
Becoming a Romanov. Grand Duchess Elena of Russia and Her ...

Becoming a Romanov. Grand Duchess Elena of Russia and Her ...

Marina Soroka

Marina Soroka, Charles A. Ruud. Published 2016 by Routledge 2 Park Square, ... printed edition as follows: Soroka, Marina. Becoming a Romanov: Grand Duchess Elena of Russia and her world (1807-1873)/by Marina Soroka and Charles ...
Monuments & Maidens: The Allegory of the Female Form

Monuments & Maidens: The Allegory of the Female Form

Marina Warner

A brilliant examination of the allegorical uses of the female form to be found in the sculpture ornamenting public buildings as well as throughout the history of western art.
The Ties that Bind: Essays in Medieval British History in ...

The Ties that Bind: Essays in Medieval British History in ...

Katherine L. French

Worshippers contemplated the extent of her sadness, sympathizing with her as a tender mother whose heart broke constantly throughout eternity.35 This image of Mary, as both Rachel Fulton and Marina Warner have explained, replaced an ...
Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism

Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism

Marina Warner

The night Joan spent with Catherine de La Rochelle in the winter of 1429, trying to discover if there were any truth in her, is one of the most interesting and extraordinary incidents in the whole of Joan's career. When Catherine said that her ...
Identity and Form in Contemporary Literature

Identity and Form in Contemporary Literature

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141–59. Print. Warner, Marina.Introduction. “Ballerina: TheBelledGirlSends a Tape to anImpresario.” AngelaCarter and theFairy Tale.Ed. Danielle M. Roemerand Cristina Bacchilega. Detroit, MI: WayneState University Press,2001. 250–3.Print.
Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism

Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism

Marina Warner

Examines the life of Joan of Arc and explores the meaning of Joan both to her contemporaries and succeeding generations--Joan as hero, prophet, heretic, androgyne, harlot, and saint
Letters Of Sylvia Townsend Warner

Letters Of Sylvia Townsend Warner

S Warner

Very early in her career Sylvia Townsend Warner won recognition of a discerning group of writers and readers on both sides of rare imagination and originality increased with each new publication.
Marina

Marina

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I have seen that boy wandering through the mist of the railway station, and the name of Marina has flared up again like a fresh wound. We all have a secret buried under lock and key in the attic of our soul. This is mine.
Marina Abramović: cleaning the house

Marina Abramović: cleaning the house

Marina Abramović

There are very few books that consider the artist's motivations and emotions. Many different impulses and inspirations can produce an artwork. This book shows the processes you never see.
Hollywood be Thy Name: The Warner Brothers Story

Hollywood be Thy Name: The Warner Brothers Story

Cass Warner Sperling

This text charts the real story of the Warner brothers and contains all the drama of a big screen production. The book tells of tension and strife among four brothers, love and marriage, death and divorce, and plotting and betrayal.
Mai

Mai

Marina Abramovic

On the proposed Marina Abramović Institute in Hudson, NY.
Don Quijote de Manhattan

Don Quijote de Manhattan

Marina Perezagua

In this modern novel by Marina Perezagua, Don Quixote is disguised as C3P0 and Sancho Panza has chosen an Ewok suit to cross over to New York.
Marina Carr Plays 1

Marina Carr Plays 1

Marina Carr

And that bitch, I went to see her you know and the way she – Robert Iheard allabout it! The Mai And you sayyoudon't talk about me! Of course you do! You fuckin' liar, on topofeverything else! Robert (turns on Grandma Fraochlán andBeck) ...
Marina Abramović

Marina Abramović

Kristine Stiles

Since the early 1970s, Marina Abramovic (b. 1946) has pioneered the use of performance as a visual art form, exploring her physical and emotional limits in some of the most iconic works in contemporary art.
Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present

Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present

Marina Abramovic

The book will also discuss a unique element of the Museums retrospective, live performance: a new work created for the occasion, and performed by the artist herself; and recreations of Abramovics works by other performers the first such to ...
Writer's guide to Hollywood producers, directors, and ...

Writer's guide to Hollywood producers, directors, and ...

Skip Press

Cass Warner Sperling is the granddaughter of Harry Warner, the founder of Warner Brothers Studios. Her father was writer/producer Milton Sperling. Eric Sherman also grew up with a famous lineage, his father being director Vincent Sherman; ...
Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism

Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism

Marina Warner

clothing, see knight, Joan of Arc as: clothing; transvestism cult of [after her death] attempted suppression of, 4 centered on Domremy, 237 early promoters of, 181 growth of, 19th cent, 181 see also Joan of Arc: veneration of death of, see death:  ...
Bloody Living: The Loss of Selfhood in the Plays of Marina Carr

Bloody Living: The Loss of Selfhood in the Plays of Marina Carr

Rhona Trench

This book deals with the process of negotiation with the past in the present through the plays of Marina Carr. The title frames the work, connoting the path towards destruction and the sense of lethargy acquired along the way.
Marina Carr: Plays 2: On Raftery’s Hill; Ariel; Woman and ...

Marina Carr: Plays 2: On Raftery’s Hill; Ariel; Woman and ...

Marina Carr

On Raftery's Hill 'This is a play that howls to be seen; its courage is matched only by its dramatic power.
The Cordelia Dream

The Cordelia Dream

Marina Carr

Five years later, she returns for a final and devastating encounter. Marina Carr's The Cordelia Dream premiered in December 2008 at Wilton's Music Hall, London, in a production by the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Criaturas abisales

Criaturas abisales

Marina Perezagua

Vivan la historia de amor de una mujer capaz de meter a su amado en la cárcel para alejarle del mundo. Éstas son algunas de las Criaturas abisales que presenta el deslumbrante debut literario de Marina Perezagua.

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