Entertainment Performing Arts category: 25367 books
Jean Negulesco
The Life and Films
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
Originally a successful painter from Romania, Jean Negulesco worked in Hollywood first as an art director, then as a second unit director. He was later hired as a director by various studios—mostly for ballet and musical shorts—before being assigned to a number of commercially successful films....
Selling the Sixties
The Pirates and Pop Music Radio
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Was it a non-stop psychedelic party or was there more to pirate radio in the sixties than hedonism and hip radicalism? From Kenny Everett's sacking to John Peel's legendary `Perfumed Garden' show, to the influence of the multi-national ad agencies, and the eventual assimilationof aspects of unofficial...
Olde Hut Ulft 1
Fotografien – Photographs – Photographies
Language: German
Release Date: June 26, 2015
Deutsch Die Kunsterzieherin Karin Karrenberg geht in diesem Buch auf Entdeckungsreise in der alten Gießereihalle “Olde Hut“ in Ulft in den Niederlanden. Sie findet und fotografiert Details aus einer Zeit, in der Technik noch etwas Sichtbares war. Die vollformatig und technisch unverändert gezeigten...
The Off-Screen
An Investigation of the Cinematic Frame
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
From the Renaissance on, a new concept of the frame becomes crucial to a range of artistic media, which in turn are organized around and fascinated by this frame. The frame decontextualizes, cutting everything that is within it from the continuity of the world and creating a realm we understand as...
by Gaston Cavalleri
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2016
Deleuze and Aristotle applied to the imagination through screenwriting, a thesis for students of arts, will enthuse and inform aspirations in screenwriting and philosophy. Aimed at creative writers who wish to write a thesis or simply understand and appreciate the stepping stones of a screenwriter’s...
Live Art in LA
Performance in Southern California, 1970 - 1983
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Live Art in LA: Performance Art in Southern California , 1970-1983 documents and critically examines one of the most fecund periods in the history of live art. The book forms part of the Getty Institute’s Pacific Standard Time initiative – a series of exhibitions, performance re-enactments and...
Sakountala (chorégraphie Marie-Claude Pietragalla - 2000)
Les Fiches Spectacle d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: December 6, 2016
Une fiche de référence sur Sakountala, un spectacle chorégraphié par Marie-Claude Pietragalla.
Sakountala, spectacle créé en 2000 par Marie-Claude Pietragalla pour le Ballet national de Marseille, évoque, dans une grande fresque spectaculaire, la vie et l'œuvre de Camille Claudel (1864-1943)....
by William Morris
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Il romanzo che riafferma il valore dell'uomo sulle cose In questo romanzo dai sapori decisamente utopistici (il titolo scelto per questa edizione cerca di rendere omaggio al pensiero positivo che Morris trasferisce piuttosto che identificare “nessun luogo” con un carico negativo che la traduzione...
The Cultural Politics of Twentieth-Century Spanish Theater
Representing the Auto Sacramental
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
The Cultural Politics of Twentieth-Century Spanish Theater argues that twentieth-century artists used the Golden Age Eucharist plays called autos sacramentales to reassess the way politics and the arts interact in the Spanish nation’s past and present, and to posit new ideas for future relations...
An Illustrated History of British Theatre and Performance
Volume One - From the Romans to the Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018
An Illustrated History of British Theatre and Performance chronicles the history and development of theatre from the Roman era to the present day. As the most public of arts, theatre constantly interacts with changing social, political and intellectual movements and ideas, and Robert Leach’s masterful...
by Kristoffer Noheden
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
This book examines post-war surrealist cinema in relation to surrealism’s change in direction towards myth and magic following World War II. Intermedial and interdisciplinary, the book unites cinema studies with art history and the study of Western esotericism, closely engaging with a wide range...
Norman Corwin and Radio
The Golden Years
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
Norman Corwin is regarded as the most acclaimed creative artist of radio’s Golden Age (mid 1930s to late 1940s). Corwin worked as a producer for CBS at a time when radio was the centerpiece of American family life. His programs brought high moments to the medium during a period when exceptional...
The Gaybo Revolution
How Gay Byrne Challenged Irish Society
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
It is no exaggeration to call Gay Byrne a colossus of the Irish broadcasting scene. Throughout the latter half of the twentieth century, as host of both the Late Late Show and the Gay Byrne Show, he played a seminal role in the shift in Irish society and culture from the Church-dominated fearful state...
by Alan de Veritch
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
One of the major frustrations of my professional musical life has been the continual reminder of how few talented young string players, even those with exceptional instrumental skill, seem to truly understand the importance of reflecting their very own personal emotional experiences within the fabric...