Performing Arts category: 25753 books
by Michael Aloisi, Kane Hodder
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
A hilarious behind the scenes journal about the making of Kane Hodder’s biography, Unmasked. Read about the crazy mishaps that Kane got Mike into while on movie sets, at conventions and on ghost hunts.
The journals started out as a way to give fans a updates on the book’s...
The Fall of Buster Keaton
His Films for MGM, Educational Pictures, and Columbia
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2010
Born into a family of vaudevillians, Buster Keaton made his first film appearance in 1917 at the age of 21. By the early 1920s, he had established himself as one of the geniuses of silent cinema with such films as Sherlock, Jr. and The Navigator and his 1925 work, The General, placed at number 18...
Victoria Wood
The Biography
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
'One of the great British comedians and all-round entertainers of her generation' Guardian
'Bittersweet but scalpel sharp' Radio Times
'One of Britain’s finest ever performers ... a sublime and unparalleled crafter of words' Independent
Victoria Wood's wit and humour endeared...
by Simon Callow
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
When Simon Callow met the Yugoslav film director Dusan Makavejev to discuss his new film Manifesto, they both greatly looked forward to working together. Only months later the two were barely speaking.
A companion volume to Being An Actor, Shooting the Actor is a funny and disastrous account...
by Ron Moody
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Actor Ron Moody has enthralled generations with his masterly performance as Fagin in both the stage and film versions of Oliver! - one of the great classics of British theatre and cinema. Now, in this highly original, idiosyncratic and often very funny memoir, he looks back on those early days, describing...
My Double Life
Sexty Yeers of Farquharson Around with Don Harn
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2012
After 15 books about somebody else (mostly alter ego Charlie Farquharson) plus one book by his drag-queen character, Charlie's rich city cousin Valerie Rosedale, Don Harron now presents the story of his 77-year stint in the entertainment business.
The actor's colourful career includes such...
Why? Because We Still Like You
An Oral History of the Mickey Mouse Club(R)
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2010
From the bestselling author of Sienfeldia, a behind-the-scenes history of the Mickey Mouse Club that is a treat for anyone who grew up with Walt Disney's television classic.
Full of nostalgia, this book gives you the never before told story of how The Mickey Mouse Club paved the way for all...
Wayne and Ford
The Films, the Friendship, and the Forging of an American Hero
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
John Ford and John Wayne, two titans of classic film, made some of the most enduring movies of all time. The genre they defined—the Western—and the heroic archetype they built still matter today.
For more than twenty years John Ford and John Wayne were a blockbuster Hollywood team, turning...
by Mark A. Altman, Edward Gross
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
From the bestselling authors of the critically acclaimed two-volume series The Fifty-Year Mission, comes Slayers & Vampires: The Complete, Uncensored, Unauthorized Oral History of Buffy The Vampire Slayer & Angel.
Two decades after its groundbreaking debut, millions of fans worldwide...
François Truffaut
The Lost Secret
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
“Truffaut fans will love this English translation of Gillain’s work drawing on the psychology and cinematography of the acclaimed filmmaker.” —Booklist
For François Truffaut, the lost secret of cinematic art is in the ability to generate emotion and reveal repressed fantasies through...
Agnes Varda
Interviews
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
Over nearly sixty years, Agnès Varda (b. 1928) has given interviews that are revealing not only of her work, but of her remarkably ambiguous status. She has been called the "Mother of the New Wave" but suffered for many years for never having been completely accepted by the cinematic establishment...
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...
Cassavetes Directs
John Cassavetes and the Making of Love Streams
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
In 1983 visionary director John Cassavetes asked journalist Michael Ventura to write a unique film study—an on-set diary of the making of his film Love Streams. Cassavetes laid out his expectations. He wanted "a daring book, a tough book". In Ventura’s words, "All I had to do for...
Aim High in Creation!
A One-of-a-Kind Journey inside North Korea's Propaganda Machine
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
An Authentic Glimpse of a North Korea We’ve Never Seen Before, by a Prize-Winning Filmmaker
Anna Broinowski is the only Westerner ever granted full access to North Korea’s propaganda machine, its film industry. Aim High in Creation! is her funny, surreal, insightful account of her twenty-one-day...