Performing Arts category: 25753 books
Pola Negri
Hollywood's First Femme Fatale
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
Pola Negri (1897--1987) rose from an impoverished childhood in Warsaw, Poland, to become one of early Hollywood's greatest stars. After tuberculosis ended her career as a ballerina in 1912, she turned to acting and worked under legendary directors Max Reinhardt and Ernst Lubitsch in Germany. Negri...
by Beatrice Hensons
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2012
James Franco is definitely someone whom we have seen grow in Hollywood. From the lanky and loner guy in Freaks and Geeks to his critically acclaimed performance in James Dean, Franco blossomed into an extraordinary actor in his roles in Spider-Man, City By the Sea, Tristan and Isolde, Flyboys, Milk and...
Sitting Pretty
The Life and Times of Clifton Webb
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2011
More than any other male movie star, the refined Clifton Webb (1889-1966) caused the movie-going public to change its image of a leading man. In a day when leading men were supposed to be strong, virile, and brave, Clifton Webb projected an image of flip, acerbic arrogance. He was able to play everything...
by Doug Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
The history, heritage, and architectural significance of Toronto's most notable theatres and movie houses. Movie houses first started popping up around Toronto in the 1910s and '20s, in an era without television and before radio had permeated every household. Dozens of these grand structures were...
by Ahna Powell
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2012
From the teenager of the American sitcom That '70s Show, Mila Kunis is now known as the hot and versatile actress who impressed us in her roles in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Max Payne, The Book of Eli and Black Swan. Though showbiz had been unkind to her in her first few years as a screen actress, Kunis...
Being Hal Ashby
Life of a Hollywood Rebel
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
Hal Ashby (1929--1988) was always an outsider, and as a director he brought an outsider's perspective to Hollywood cinema. After moving to California from a Mormon household in Utah, he created eccentric films that reflected the uncertain social climate of the 1970s. Whether it is his enduring cult...
by Laura Barnett
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014
Essential tips and advice from stars of stage and screen.
Actors know the best source of advice on the profession is other actors. Nothing compares with the wisdom and practical know-how acquired through years of working in the business.
Advice from the Players features a host of tips...
Sepinwall On Mad Men and Breaking Bad
An eShort from the Updated Revolution Was Televised
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
From the updated edition of The Revolution Was Televised, Alan Sepinwall’s analysis of Breaking Bad and Mad Men, featuring new commentary and insights on the complete series and controversial finales.
by Helen Martineau
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
SHEILA FLORANCE ON THE INSIDE an Intimate Portrait
Sheila Florance said with her characteristic irony, I set out aged nineteen with every intention of becoming the worlds greatest Shakespearean actress and ended up as Lizzie Birdsworth, the shearers poisoner! This much-loved character in the...
Always for Judy
Witness to the Joy and Genius of Judy Garland
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Joan Beck Coulson was lucky enough to meet Judy Garland at the party after the last show at the Dominion in November 1957. She greeted Judy at the Press Reception in 1960 and invited to attend recording sessions (London Sessions) with her. Later in the summer, she witnessed the two one-woman shows...
Follies of God
Tennessee Williams and the Women of the Fog
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
An extraordinary book; one that almost magically makes clear how Tennessee Williams wrote; how he came to his visions of Amanda Wingfield, his Blanche DuBois, Stella Kowalski, Alma Winemiller, Lady Torrance, and the other characters of his plays that transformed the American theater of the mid-twentieth...
by J. C. Cannell
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
This text details a number of Houdini's famous tricks and techniques, offering comprehensive explanations of how the master escape artist achieved some of his most baffling and impressive tricks. Complete with detailed descriptions of the feats and information on the man behind them, this is a text...
Finding Balance
Fitness, Training, and Health for a Lifetime in Dance
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Finding Balance: Fitness, Health, and Training for a Lifetime in Dance gives an overview of issues faced by all performing dancers: injury and treatment; technique and training; fitness; nutrition and diet; and career management. The text includes both easy-to-read overviews of each topic and "profiles"...
Fists upon a Star
A Memoir of Love, Theatre, and Escape from McCarthyism
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
Fists upon a Star is the hard-hitting memoir of Florence James, a pioneering American theatre director, whose devastating experience with McCarthyism led her to flee to Canada. The memoir is as epic as America itself. Born in 1892 in the frontier society of Idaho, she became a suffragette in New York...