Typecasting : on the arts & sciences of human inequality : a history of dominant ideas / Ewen & Ewen. by Ewen, Elizabeth

Reel inequality Hollywood actors and racism / Nancy Wang Yuen. by Yuen, Nancy Wang, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Hollywood's whitest -- Hollywood's colorblind racism -- Hollywood's typecasting -- Hollywood's double bind -- Surviving Hollywood -- Challenging Hollywood -- Diversifying Hollywood.…”
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Reel inequality : Hollywood actors and racism / Nancy Wang Yuen. by Yuen, Nancy Wang, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Hollywood's whitest -- Hollywood's colorblind racism -- Hollywood's typecasting -- Hollywood's double bind -- Surviving Hollywood -- Challenging Hollywood -- Diversifying Hollywood -- Appendix A. …”

Secrets of screen acting / Patrick Tucker ; illustrations by John Stamp. by Tucker, Patrick

Table of Contents: “…Screen versus stage -- Film versus television -- The frame -- The camera -- Reactions and business -- Sound and vocal levels -- Typecasting -- Acting -- Auditions -- Rehearsals and technicals -- Directing actors for the screen -- Announcers (and the art of being interviewed) -- The shoot -- The editor and editing.…”

Body double : the author incarnate in the cinema / Lucy Fischer. by Fischer, Lucy

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the screen author- wanted: dead or alive -- Typecasting the author -- Beyond adaptation: the writer as filmmaker -- The author at the dream factory: the screenwriter and the movies -- The authoress: textuality as sexuality -- Writing pain: the infirm author -- Cinécriture: Word and image -- Corpus and oeuvre: authorship and the body -- Stealing beauty: the reader, the critic, and the appropriation of the authorial voice -- Afterword: Signs and meaning in the cinema.…”

Body double : the author incarnate in the cinema / Lucy Fischer. by Fischer, Lucy

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the screen author wanted: dead or alive -- Typecasting the author -- Beyond adaptation: the writer as filmmaker -- The author at the dream factory: the screenwriter and the movies -- The authoress: textuality as sexuality -- Writing pain: the infirm author -- Word and image -- Corpus and oeuvre: authorship and the body -- Stealing beauty: the reader, the critic, and the appropriation of the authorial voice -- Afterword: Signs and meaning in the cinema.…”
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Java Fundamentals : a Fast-Paced and Pragmatic Introduction to One of the World's Most Popular Programming Languages / Gazihan Alankus, Rogério Theodoro de Brito, Basheer Ahamed Fazal, Vinicius Isola, and Miles Obare. by Alankus, Gazihan

Table of Contents: “…Implementing Inheritance in JavaActivity 14: Creating a Calculator Using Inheritance; Overloading; Constructor Overloading; Polymorphism and Overriding; The Difference between Overriding and Overloading; Annotations; Creating Your Own Annotation Types; References; Activity 15: Understanding Inheritance and Polymorphism in Java; Summary; OOP in Depth; Introduction; Interfaces; Use Case: Listeners; Exercise 13: Implementing Interfaces; Activity 16: Creating and Implementing Interfaces in Java; Typecasting; Activity 17: Using instanceof and Typecasting; The Object Class; Autoboxing and Unboxing…”
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Making believe : screen performance and special effects in popular cinema / Lisa Bode. by Bode, Lisa, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Acting through machines : fidelity and expression from cameras to Mo-Cap -- Behind rubber and pixels : mimesis, seamlessness, and acting achievement -- In another's skin : typecasting, identity, and the limits of proteanism -- Double trouble : authenticity, fakery, and concealed performance labor -- Performing with themselves : versatility, timing, and nuance in multiple roles -- There is no there there : making believe in composite screen space -- Conclusion.…”

Making believe : screen performance and special effects in popular cinema / Lisa Bode. by Bode, Lisa, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Acting through machines : fidelity and expression from cameras to Mo-Cap -- Behind rubber and pixels : mimesis, seamlessness, and acting achievement -- In another's skin : typecasting, identity, and the limits of proteanism -- Double trouble : authenticity, fakery, and concealed performance labor -- Performing with themselves : versatility, timing, and nuance in multiple roles -- There is no there there : making believe in composite screen space -- Conclusion.…”
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Popularizing anthropology / edited by Jeremy MacClancy and Chris McDonaugh.

Table of Contents: “…Book Cover; Title; Contents; Notes on contributors; Preface; Popularizing anthropology; Tricky tropes: styles of the popular and the pompous; Typecasting: anthropology's dramatis personae; The chrysanthemum continues to flower: Ruth Benedict and some perils of popular anthropology; Communicating culture: Margaret Mead and the practice of popular anthropology; Enlarging the context of anthropology: the case of Anthropology Today; Claude Levi-Strauss and Louis Dumont: media portraits; Proximity and distance: representations of Aboriginal society in the writings of Bill Harney and Bruce Chatwin.…”
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The liveliest art : a panoramic history of the movies / Arthur Knight. by Knight, Arthur, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Ince -- Sennett, the Keystone of American comedy -- Chaplin and the rise of the start system -- Movies become big business -- The growth of an art -- Germany's golden era -- The shadow of Caligari -- The street films : Murnau and the moving camera -- Pabst and the Freudian influence -- New beginnings in Russia -- The editing principle : Vertov and Kuleshov -- Pudovkin and the personal epic -- Eisenstein and the mass epic -- Poetic symbolism : Dovzhenko -- Postwar decline in England and Italy -- Eclipse of the Scandinavian film -- French Renaissance : Delluc, Clair, Feyder -- The summing up : Carl Dreyer -- The European avant-garde -- Hollywood in the twenties -- Sin, scandal and the Hays office -- De Mille and the new morality -- Hollywood imports art -- The cowboys and the clowns -- Sophistication and style : Chaplin and Lubitsch -- Typecasting the director -- The rebel : Von Stroheim -- The poet : Robert Flaherty -- The compromise : Von Sternberg -- The end of the silent era -- The movies learn to talk -- Breaking the sound barrier -- The tyranny of sound -- Liberating the camera : Ernst Lubitsch -- Mastering the sound track : Rene Clair -- Exploring the new medium : Rouben Mamoulian -- New forms, new techniques -- Inspired mayhem : the Marx brothers and W.C. …”

The quotable actor : 1001 pearls of wisdom from actors talking about acting / [compiled] by Damon DiMarco.

Table of Contents: “…On what acting is -- On what actors are -- On how actors impact society -- On why we act -- On conquering stage fright, nurturing your talent, and developing confidence in your abilities -- On the actor's life -- On auditioning, struggling, and building a career -- On the importance of technique and training -- On the importance of maintaining a healthy, instinctual, expressive & impulsive instrument -- On the importance of imagination, inspiration, fantasy & storytelling -- On building a character -- On rehearsals, process, and living in the moment -- On collaborating with directors, writers, producers, designers, and other industry professionals -- On stage, screen, and the differences thereof -- On doing television: soaps, sitcoms, episodics, and live broadcasts -- On dealing with the ups and downs of fame and fortune -- On hollywood, Broadway, and show business -- On gender differences and aging in the biz -- On awards and awards ceremonies -- On getting typecast -- On the importance of keeping it real and having a life -- On just about everything else -- Shakespeare on acting.…”
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Zachary Scott : Hollywood's Sophisticated Cad. by Davis, Ronald L.

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Life lens : seeing your children in color. by Horner, Michele Monahan

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Bodies complexioned : human variation and racism in early modern English culture, c . 1600-1750 / Mark S. Dawson. by Dawson, Mark S. (Mark Stanley), 1972-

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American classic screen interviews / edited by John C. Tibbetts, James M. Welsh ; foreword by Kevin Brownlow.

Table of Contents: “…Catsos -- The MacMurrays at home : a double portrait / Dan Navarro -- Twenty-five years with the Golden Boy (Paul Newman) / Chuck Sack -- Robert Preston talks about typecasting, Cecil B. DeMille, and Victor/Victoria / John C. …”

The letters of Alciphron : a unified literary work? / edited by Michele Biraud, Arnaud Zucker.

Table of Contents: “…Different Forms of Generic Tension between Epistolary Precepts and Progymnasmatic Rhetoric in the Letters of Alciphron (Gallé Cejudo); ‎Chapter 10. Typecast? Speaking Names in Alciphron (Hodkinson)…”
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American classic screen interviews / edited by John C. Tibbetts, James M. Welsh ; foreword by Kevin Brownlow.

Table of Contents: “…Catsos ; The MacMurrays at home : a double portrait / Dan Navarro ; Mike Mazurki : Hollywood's favorite tough guy / Bill Kelly ; Twenty-five years with the golden boy (Paul Newman) / Chuck Sack ; Robert Preston talks about typecasting, Cecil B. DeMille, and Victor/Victoria / John C. …”
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Surviving the academy : feminist perspectives / edited by Danusia Malina and Sian Maslin-Prothero.

Table of Contents: “…Waterhouse -- chapter 2 From Earthquake Zone to Firm Ground: Challenging the Ideology of Heterosexism in Health and Social Work -- LesleyAnne Ezelle and Lindsay Hill -- chapter 3 Surviving the Institution: Working as a Visually Disabled Lecturer in Higher Education -- Sally French -- chapter 4 Women, Social Work and Academia -- Lena Dominelli -- part Section 2 Maternalism in the Academy -- chapter 5 Mixing Motherhood and Academia -A Lethal Cocktail -- Carol Munn-Giddings -- chapter 6 'All in a Day's Work': Gendered Care Work in Higher Education -- Tina Barnes-Powell and Gayle Letherby -- chapter 7 Refusing to Be Typecast: The Changing Secretarial Role in Higher Education Administration -- Sandra Wilkins -- chapter Incorporation or Alienation? …”
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The Actor's Survival Handbook. by Tucker, Patrick

Table of Contents: “…Starting OffStep-by-Step; Style; Teaching Acting; Technical and Dress Rehearsals; Technique; Ten-Second Rule; Text; The Team; Thinking; Training; Truth; Typecasting; University Courses; Versatility; Voice; Whatever Works; You (Your Other Life); Biographies.…”
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