Performing Arts category: 25753 books
Lights, Camera, Lions
Memoirs of a Real-Life Dr. Doolittle
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
A unique and entertaining memoir of training and working with animal actors.
Lights, Camera, Lions tells the remarkable story of Hungarian Hubert Geza Wells, who defects to America during the communist era and goes on to make a name for himself as one of the most sought-after animal trainers in...
by Deric Longden
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Ever since Dame Thora Hird breathed life into the role of Deric Longden’s mother in @Wide Eyed and Legless’. She had been on at him to write a play based on the sequel, ‘Lost For Words’. ‘And don’t hang about, I’m eighty – three, you know.’ But life doesn’t run in straight lines...
My Life with Cleopatra
The Making of a Hollywood Classic
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
Cleopatra faced countless problems during its filming and production: passionate casting disputes, broken contracts, a costly re-location from London to Rome, an emergency tracheotomy for its star, Elizabeth Taylor, scandal-ridden gossip surrounding relationships on set, and a budget of $2 million...
Unrepentant Patriot
The Life and Work of Carl Zuckmayer
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2016
Carl Zuckmayers illustrious career as one of Central Europes most prolific and popular playwrights during the years of the Weimar Republic after 1918 was cut short by the Nazi seizure of power in Germany in 1933. His plays were banned during the following twelve years, and he was forced to flee into...
by Bernard Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
The Hollywood blacklist, which began in the late 1940s and ran well into the 1960s, ended or curtailed the careers of hundreds of people accused of having ties to the Communist Party. Bernard Gordon was one of them. In this highly readable memoir, he tells a engrossing insider's story of what it was...
by Ian Nathan
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
The definitive history of Peter Jackson’s Middle-earth saga, Anything You Can Imagine takes us on a cinematic journey across all six films, featuring brand-new interviews with Peter, his cast & crew. From the early days of daring to dream it could be done, through the highs and lows of making the...
Lucille Ball FAQ
Everything Left to Know About America's Favorite Redhead
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
B&W photos throughout
Design for Living
Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
From the much-admired biographer of Charlotte Brontë, Mrs. Patrick Campbell, and the Barrymores (“Margot Peters is surely now . . . our foremost historian of stage make-believe”—Leon Edel), a new biography of the most famous English-speaking acting team of the twentieth century.
Individually,...
Bringing the Body to the Stage and Screen
Expressive Movement for Performers
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2011
As stage and screen artists explore new means to enhance their craft, a new wave of interest in expressive movement and physical improvisation has developed. And in order to bring authenticity and believability to a character, it has become increasingly vital for actors to be aware of movement and...
Improvising Out Loud
My Life Teaching Hollywood How to Act
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
Jeff Corey (1914--2002) made a name for himself in the 1940s as a character actor in films like Superman and the Mole Men (1951), Joan of Arc (1948), and The Killers (1946). Everything changed in 1951, when he was summoned before the House Un-American Activities Committee. Corey refused to name names...
Leni Riefenstahl
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2008
Dancer, actress, mountaineer, and director Leni Riefenstahl's uncompromising will and audacious talent for self-promotion appeared unmatched—until 1932, when she introduced herself to her future protector and patron: Adolf Hitler. Known internationally for two of the films she made for him, Triumph...
The Marxist and the Movies
A Biography of Paul Jarrico
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2007
As part of its effort to expose Communist infiltration in the United States and eliminate Communist influence on movies, from 1947--1953 the House Committee on Un-American Activities subpoenaed hundreds of movie industry employees suspected of membership in the Communist Party. Most of them, including...
The Death of Character
Perspectives on Theater after Modernism
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 1996
Extremely well written, and exceedingly well informed, this is a work that opens a variety of important questions in sophisticated and theoretically nuanced ways. It is hard to imagine a better tour guide than Fuchs for a trip through the last thirty years of, as she puts it, what we used to call...
by Paolo Jedlowski, Roberto De Gaetano, Jacques Rancière
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
24 conversazioni apparse su Fata Morgana con grandi figure della contemporaneità, studiosi e artisti che parlano del cinema facendone un luogo del pensiero e una forma di vita. Un viaggio in cui il cinema e l’immagine, più di ogni altra forma d’arte, si riscoprono indissolubilmente legati alla...