Performing Arts category: 25753 books
Daniel Day Lewis
The Biography
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
A look at the personal life and artistic accomplishments of the famously elusive actor
Regarded by many as the finest actor of his generation, Daniel Day-Lewis is one of Hollywood's most bankable stars. His diverse performances in roles such as cerebral palsy sufferer Christy Brown in My Left...
This Great Escape
The Case of Michael Paryla
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
SHORTLISTED FOR THE $60,000 HILARY WESTON WRITERS TRUST PRIZE FOR NONFICTION
What the hell kind of great escape is this? No one escapes!”
-L.B. Mayer, on the 1963 film
He had fifty-seven seconds of screen time in the most lavish POW film Hollywood ever produced. He was blond. A Gestapo...
Howard Hawks
The Grey Fox of Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
The first major biography of one of Old Hollywood’s greatest directors.
Sometime partner of the eccentric Howard Hughes, drinking buddy of William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway, an inveterate gambler and a notorious liar, Howard Hawks was the most modern of the great masters and one of the first...
Nicholas Ray
The Glorious Failure of an American Director
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
Award-winningfilm historian Patrick McGilligan follows hisacclaimed biographies of Alfred Hitchcock and Oscar Micheauxwith a revelatory look at the life of Nicholas Ray, the troubled director of Ina Lonely Place, We Can’t GoHome Again, and Rebel Without a Cause. McGilligancharts the cerebral struggles,...
Secret Lives of Great Filmmakers
What Your Teachers Never Told You about the World's Greatest Directors
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Strange-But-True Tales of Cross-Dressers, Drug Addicts, Foot Fetishists, and Other Legendary Filmmakers.
With outrageous and uncensored profiles of everyone from D. W. Griffith to Quentin Tarantino, Secret Lives of Great Filmmakers reveals the little-known secrets of all your favorite directors....
Dalton Trumbo
Blacklisted Hollywood Radical
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
James Dalton Trumbo (1905--1976) is widely recognized for his work as a screenwriter, playwright, and author, but he is also remembered as one of the Hollywood Ten who opposed the House Un-American Activities Committee. Refusing to answer questions about his prior involvement with the Communist Party,...
by E.J. Stephens, Marc Wanamaker
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2010
Since 1928, Warner Bros. has produced thousands of beloved films and television shows at the studio�s magical 110-acre film factory in Burbank. This collection of evocative images concentrates on the Warner Bros. legacy from the 1920s to the 1950s, when timeless classics such as Casablanca, The Maltese...
Spielberg
The Man, the Movies, the Mythology
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2002
Based on more than a half dozen interviews with the director himself, this unauthorized biography recounts Spielberg's childhood, education, career, philanthropic and charitable endeavors, and his extremely private personal life. This updated edition explores Spielberg's latest filmmaking efforts, from Schindler's List to Men in Black 2.
Steven Spielberg
A Life in Films
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
A film-centric portrait of the extraordinarily gifted movie director whose decades-long influence on American popular culture is unprecedented “Everything about me is in my films,” Steven Spielberg has said. Taking this as a key to understanding the hugely successful moviemaker, Molly Haskell explores...
Sidney J. Furie
Life and Films
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Known for his visual style as well as for his experimentation in virtually every genre of narrative cinema, award-winning director Sidney J. Furie also has the distinction of having made Canada's first ever feature-length fictional film in English, A Dangerous Age (1957). With a body of work that...
Adventures in Movies
An Intimate Chronicle of 25 Years Working in the Film Industry from Roger Rabbit to Harry Potter
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
A wry, witty and revealing review of the last 25 years working 'behind the scenes' in the film industry; from 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit' to 'Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince', taking in, 'Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade' and 'Sherlock Holmes' along the way. Loaded with many anecdotes about...
Hail to the Chin
Further Confessions of a B Movie Actor
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
New York Times bestseller
Introduction by New York Times bestselling author and famous minor television personality John Hodgman
One of my dad’s favorite jokes about getting older was: “I went out for coffee when I was twenty-one and when I got back I was fifty-eight!”
I...
LIFE James Dean
A Rebel's Life in Pictures
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
LIFE Magazine memorializes actor James Dean.
LIFE Walt Disney
From Mickey to the Magic Kingdom
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Disney World is often referred to as the "happiest place on earth" and the character Mickey Mouse is long ingrained in our collective memory. The Walt Disney Company is one of the largest and most valuable companies in the world. But behind all of that was one ambitious small-town farm boy...