Entertainment Performing Arts category: 25367 books
by Sarah L. Kaufman
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
"Sarah Kaufman offers an old-fashioned cure for a modern-day ailment. The remedy for our culture of coarseness is grace…This is an elegant, compelling, and, yes, graceful book." —Daniel H. Pink, author of Drive
In this joyful exploration of grace’s many forms, Pulitzer Prize–winning...
by Petra Kuppers
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012
Edited by community artist, scholar, and dancer Petra Kuppers (author of Disability Culture and Community Performance), the book opens with Arnieville, a Californian protest camp of disability, homelessness, and poverty activists. From there, a series of enactments welcome trespass and incursion in the...
Stage a Poetry Slam
Creating Performance Poetry Events-Insider Tips, Backstage Advice, and Lots of Examples
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
How can I run my own slam?
For groups large and small, from single events to recurring programs, Stage a Poetry Slam explains the easy way to make your slams a success.
Stage a Poetry Slam is a comprehensive guide for both budding and seasoned Slammasters - people in charge of organizing...
The Only Writing Series You'll Ever Need Screenwriting
Insider Tips and Techniques to Write for the Silver Screen!
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2007
The insider info you need!
Writing scripts for the big screen takes more than a big idea--it requires passion, perseverance, and insider know-how. The Only Writing Series You'll Ever Need: Screenwriting is your go-to resource for mastering the complete screenwriting process. Taking you step...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
“A fascinating and provocatively stimulating distillation of three decades of intense conversations between one of the twentieth century’s few true theater innovators and America’s leading writer on the theatrical avant-garde. A splendid book.”—Clive Barnes
“Peter Brook continues...
by Joan Le Mesurier
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
A magical memoir of Dad's Army star John Le Mesurier: one of the greatest actors - and gentleman - of his generationSome years after John Le Mesurier's death, his widow Joan re-read her carefully stored cache of John's letters - to her, and to him from his closest friends. Dear John is her letter...
Sitcom
A History in 24 Episodes from I Love Lucy to Community
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
A carefully curated tour through TV comedy series, this mixtape of fondly remembered shows surveys the genealogy of the form, the larger trends in its history, the best of what the genre has accomplished, and the most standard of its works. From I Love Lucy, The Phil Silvers Show, and M*A*S*H to Taxi,...
by Richard Schechner
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
In performances by Euro-Americans, Afro-Americans, Native Americans, and Asians, Richard Schechner has examined carefully the details of performative behavior and has developed models of the performance process useful not only to persons in the arts but to anthropologists, play theorists, and others...
At a Theater or Drive-in Near You
The History, Culture, and Politics of the American Exploitation Film
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Millions of Americans have been thrilled, scared, titillated, and shocked by exploitation movies, low budget films with many scenes of sex, violence, and other potentially lurid elements. The term derives from the fact that promoters of such films exploit the contents in advertising that plays up...
by Mary Ellen Snodgrass
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
Throughout the centuries, ballet has had a rich and ever-evolving role in the humanities. Renowned choreographers, composers, and performers have contributed to this unique art form, staging enduring works of beauty. Significant productions by major companies embrace innovations and adaptations, enabling...
America's Choral Ambassador
John Finley Williamson
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2014
At the 2007 American Choral Directors Association Southwestern Convention, I presented an Interest Session lecture titled John Finley Williamsons influence on Americas choral singing. The session was well attended and the question-and-answer period was spirited. The participants were most interested...
by Anne Billson
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012
Anne Billson wrote her first professional film review in 1980. In the three decades since then, her writing has been published in dozens of publications, including the Sunday Correspondent, Tatler, New Statesman & Society, the Sunday Telegraph, the Guardian, GQ, the Times, Vogue and Elle. She...
Golden Girls Forever
An Unauthorized Look Behind the Lanai
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
Includes 30 pages of bonus material!
The complete, first-ever Golden Girls retrospective, packed with hundreds of exclusive interviews, behind-the-scenes and never-before-revealed stories, more than two hundred color and black-and-white photos, commentary, and more.
They were four women...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2016
Classical Traditions in Modern Fantasy is the first collection of essays in English focusing on how fantasy draws deeply on ancient Greek and Roman mythology, philosophy, literature, history, art, and cult practice. Presenting fifteen all-new essays intended for both scholars and other readers of...