Performing Arts category: 25753 books
by eBios
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Lady Gaga is an American singer-songwriter, LGBT activist, record producer, businesswoman, fashion designer, philanthropist, and actress. She was born, raised, and lives in New York City. Gaga studied at the Convent of the Sacred Heart before briefly attending Collaborative Arts Project 21 (CAP21)....
James Dean: a Rebel with a Cause
A Fans Tribute
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2007
I am a fan of the actor James Dean, and this book is my tribute to him.
Performing Animality
Animals in Performance Practices
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
Performing Animality provides theoretical and creative interventions into the presence of the animal and ideas of animality in performance. Animals have always played a part in human performance practices. Maintaining a crucial role in many communities' cultural traditions, animal-human encounters...
by Justin M Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
Andy Serkis is best known for his remarkable interpretation of the vengeful and obsessive Gollum in the groundbreaking Lord of the Rings screen trilogy (2001-03). Landing the role presented him with a formidable challenge: helping to bring to life a computer-generated character that was not just technically...
Goldwyn
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1998
Samuel Goldwyn was the premier dream-maker of his era, and in this lavishly-praised biography, the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author of Lindbergh and Max Perkins: Editor of Genius offers a life story as rich with drama as anything found on the silver screen...
Print the Legend
The Life and Times of John Ford
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
"When the legend becomes fact, print the legend." This line comes from director John Ford's film, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, but it also serves as an epigram for the life of the legendary filmmaker.
Through a career that spanned decades and included work on dozens of films -- among them...
Stardust and Shadows
Canadians in Early Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2000
"You’ll like Louis Mayer," Mary Pickford told Charles Foster in 1943. "He is from Canada, too." As Foster was soon to discover, Mayer was not alone: a great many of those who helped shape Hollywood into the movie capital of the world were Canadian.
Stardust and Shadows...
First King of Hollywood
The Life of Douglas Fairbanks
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
The complete, definitive biography of Hollywood's first superstar Douglas Fairbanks was the greatest leading man of his generation—the first and the best of the swashbucklers. He made some of the greatest films of the silent era, including The Thief of Bagdad, Robin Hood, and The Mark of Zorro....
by Robert S. Birchard
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
" ""Far and away the best film book published so far this year.""--National Board of Review Cecil B. DeMille was the most successful filmmaker in early Hollywood history. Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood is a detailed and definitive chronicle of the screen work that changed the...
D. W. Griffith
Interviews
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2012
D. W. Griffith (1875-1948) is one of the most influential figures in the history of the motion picture. As director of The Birth of a Nation, he is also one of the most controversial. He raised the cinema to a new level of art, entertainment, and innovation, and at the same time he illustrated, for...
A Hundred or More Hidden Things
The Life and Films of Vincente Minnelli
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2010
He was the acclaimed director of such cinematic classics as Meet Me in St. Louis, An American in Paris, and Gigi, and equally well known for his tumultuous marriage to the legendary Judy Garland. But to say that Vincente Minnelli's conflicted personal life informed his films would be an understatement....
Robert My Father
A Personal Biography of Robert Morley
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2017
‘If Robert had a mission, it was to emphasise that life was meant to be fun; he was one of the few men I knew who strode through life instead of circumnavigating it. He died without ever growing old.’ Michael Parkinson‘Comic genius’ was the uncontested verdict of the International...
Peggy to her Playwrights
The Letters of Margaret Ramsay, Play Agent
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
Peggy Ramsay (1908-1991) was the foremost play agent of her time. Her list of clients shows her to have been at the centre of British playwriting for several generations from the late 1950s on.
To her remarkable array of clients, her letter writing was notorious, marked by searing candour,...
When Blanche Met Brando
The Scandalous Story of "A Streetcar Named Desire"
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2006
Exhaustively researched and almost flirtatiously opinionated, When Blanche Met Brando is everything a fan needs to know about the ground-breaking New York and London stage productions of Williams' "Streetcar" as well as the classic Brando/Leigh film. Sam Staggs' interviews with all the living...