Entertainment category: 96258 books
by Alissa Wolf
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2015
Imagine witnessing Nico begging for drug money; being told off by Johnny "Rotten" Lydon; watching a punk club owner spell your name in cocaine; spending three weeks in a cramped one-room apartment with the infamous Dead Boys.Alissa Wolf experienced these outrageous moments during punk rock’s reign,...
by Ben Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
The definitive history of a golden age in British show-business, Sunshine On Putty is based on hundreds of interviews with the leading comedians of the era, as well as managers, agents, producers, directors, executives and TV personalities. In the 1990s, British comedy underwent a renaissance –...
The Making of the West End Stage
Marriage, Management and the Mapping of Gender in London, 1830–1870
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
All roads lead to London - and to the West End theatre. This book presents a new history of the beginnings of the modern world of London entertainment. Putting female-centred, gender-challenging managements and styles at the centre, it redraws the map of performance history in the Victorian capital...
"Gangnam Style"
"Kraft fuer Weltfrieden"'
Language: German
Release Date: May 18, 2013
"Als ich merkte, dass einige Top-Stars wie sich vorgestellt haben oder tweeted über mich, dachte ich, 'Das ist ein Scherz. Das wird nicht passieren ..." Ich habe nie erwartet, Dinge wie diese nicht, weil sie Top-Stars sind, sondern weil dies der größte Markt in der Welt für Popmusik,...
Whitney Houston
„The Voice“ „Die Stimme“
Language: German
Release Date: May 19, 2013
Whitney Houston Bodyguard (Film) I Will Always Love You Cissy Houston Elvis Presley Contemporary R&B Popmusik Jimi Hendrix Dee Dee Warwick Dionne Warwick Aretha Franklin Bobby Brown Abhängigkeitssyndrom Entziehungskur Rolling Stone Mariah Carey Christina Aguilera Jennifer Hudson Mary J....
Restyling Factual TV
Audiences and News, Documentary and Reality Genres
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2007
Addressing the wide range of programmes and formats from news, to documentary, to popular factual genres, Annette Hill’s new book examines the ways viewers navigate their way through a busy, noisy and constantly changing factual television environment.
Restyling Factual TV addresses the wide...
by Neil Simpson
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
Dermot O'Leary is the man with the dreamy good looks, the relaxed, natural charm and the real-life X-Factor. He's in every top ten of the sexiest men on TV, he's long been called 'head boy in the cool school of British broadcasting' and he's now jostling for the position of star of live, prime time...
Behind the Burly Q
The Story of Burlesque in America
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
“A well-researched, intimate portrait of burlesque and the women who teased and seduced their ways into the hearts of the American public” (Nancy Powell, Shelf Awareness).
Burlesque was one of America’s most popular forms of live entertainment in the first half of the twentieth century....
by Brian Sibley
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
Authorised and fully illustrated insight into the life and career of the award-winning director, from his childhood film projects up to King Kong, together with Jackson's revealing personal account of his six-year quest to film The Lord of the Rings. Once, Peter Jackson was a name unknown to all but...
by Dave Hill
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
With his signature matter-of-fact humor, comedian and musician Dave Hill explores his increasingly close relationship with his recently widowed father in a series of painfully funny essays you will want to read again and again by the fire, at the beach, in a truck stop men’s room, or just about...
The Great White Way
Race and the Broadway Musical
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
Broadway musicals are one of America’s most beloved art forms and play to millions of people each year. But what do these shows, which are often thought to be just frothy entertainment, really have to say about our country and who we are as a nation?
The Great White Way is the first book...
Nothing Like a Dame
My Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
'How did I end up here?' A question Elaine C. Smith asked herself when sitting in the dressing-room of a top theatre in London's West End, about to go on stage with one of the UK's most successful plays.
In Nothing Like a Dame, Elaine reflects on a 50-year journey that took her to the peak...
How It Feels to Be Free
Black Women Entertainers and the Civil Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Winner of the Benjamin L. Hooks National Book Award Winnter of the Michael Nelson Prize of the International Association for Media and History In 1964, Nina Simone sat at a piano in New York's Carnegie Hall to play what she called a "show tune." Then she began to sing: "Alabama's got...
The Encyclopedia Shatnerica
An A to Z Guide to the Man and His Universe
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
THE DEFINITIVE BIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM SHATNER IS BACK—IN A SUPER-EXPANDED MILLENNIUM EDITION!
This updated edition of The Encyclopedia Shatnerica is your complete guide to the life and work of William Shatner—actor, singer, writer, director, horseman, game show host, and legendary Hollywood lothario....