Performing Arts category: 25753 books
Nothing Is Impossible
The Real-Life Adventures of a Street Magician
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
'I immersed myself in magic. I read every book I could get my hands on and practised and practised, day after day and night after night. Magic became my world...some might say an obsession.'
When you're a kid life can seem tough; tougher for some than others. But the darkest of times can also...
Whatever It Takes
Life Lessons from Degrassi and Elsewhere in the World of Music and Television
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2018
This book will change the way you think about success.
Producer of television’s iconic Degrassi franchise Stephen Stohn tells stories from behind the scenes and of making it in the music and television world in this star-studded, rock ’n’ roll trip through a Canadian show business explosion....
VO
Tales and Techniques of a Voice-Over Actor
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
One of the country’s top voice-over talents shares his secrets of success in an insider’s guide to the industry. Actors, broadcasters, and anyone who has longed to earn a living by speaking into a microphone will cherish this insightful and often hilarious glimpse at the business. Coverage includes:
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by Neil Daniels
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Matthew McConaughey is a Hollywood star with an Oscar to his name and the world at his feet.Growing up in Texas, the youngest of three boys, he was known for his good looks and charm. His acting career began quietly with TV commercials, B movies and lowbudget independent films, which included the...
by Jonathan Ross
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2008
Why is catalogue shopping responsible for Jonathan Ross's inimitable sense of style?
Why might wearing cape and mask be a fast track to heaven?
Why does Jonathan wince every time he sees a Hoover?
And why did he fall in love with a deep-sea diver?
Why? Because this is Jonathan...
Alberto Spadolini
Danzatore, pittore, agente segreto
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 30, 2015
"Un uomo sorretto dai segreti", così Anton Giulio Bragaglia definì il marchigiano Alberto Spadolini, icona della bellezza maschile e danzatore tra i più amati della sua epoca. Ma Spadò - come lo ribattezzarono i francesi - è stato anche pittore e agente segreto, scenografo e documentarista,...
Sinatra: Hollywood His Way
Hollywood His Way
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
In the scores of posthumous tributes paid to Frank Sinatra after his death in 1998, most focused on his extraordinary reign as The Voice” of twentieth-century pop music.
But Sinatra was much more than a music icon. He was also one of the most popular movie stars of the 1940s, '50s, and...
Close-up on Sunset Boulevard
Billy Wilder, Norma Desmond, and the Dark Hollywood Dream
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2003
Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard, a classic film noir and also a damning dissection of the Hollywood dream factory, evokes the glamour and ruin of the stars who subsist on that dream. It's also one long in-joke about the movie industry and those who made it great-and who were, in turn, destroyed by...
by Edward Sorel
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
In a hilarious send-up of sex, scandal, and the Golden Age of Hollywood, legendary cartoonist Edward Sorel brings us a story (literally) ripped from the headlines of a bygone era.
In 1965, a young, up-and-coming illustrator by the name of Edward Sorel was living in a $97-a-month railroad flat...
Conversations at the American Film Institute with the Great Moviemakers
The Next Generation
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
A companion volume to George Stevens, Jr.’s, much admired book of American Film Institute seminars with the great pioneering moviemakers (“Invaluable”—Martin Scorsese).
Those represented here—directors, producers, writers, actors, cameramen, composers, editors—are men and women working...
Documentary Superstars
How Today's Filmmakers Are Reinventing the Form
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2010
The first book to trace the rise of documentaries as mainstream entertainment. When did documentaries get glamorous? Documentary Superstars looks at the history of documentaries and traces their transition from hands-off to in your face. Exclusive interviews with Michael Moore, Morgan Spurlock, Errol...
David Susskind
A Televised Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
A rich biography of one of the most important cultural figures of the ‘50s, ‘60s and ‘70s—maverick television producer and talk show host David Susskind
A flamboyant impresario who began his career as an agent, David Susskind helped define a fledgling television industry. He was a provocateur...
Fort Lee
Birthplace of the Motion Picture Industry
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2006
A favorite locale of such film pioneers as D. W. Griffith and Mary Pickford, the historic borough of Fort Lee was the first center of the American motion picture industry. Studios lined both sides of Main Street, and enormous film laboratories fed the nickelodeon market with thousands of reels of comedies...
You Never Ate Lunch in This Town to Begin With…
An Outsider's Inside Look at the Outside of Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2002
Hollywood isn't all about the A-listinternationally famous actors and directors, highly paid writers, powerful producers. No, it's also about the failures, the inhabitants of the periphery, the bottom layers of the entertainment pyramid. That's the role Nicholas Kolya reluctantly played for the last...