Performing Arts category: 25753 books
Profitable Photography in Digital Age
Strategies for Success
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2005
This groundbreaking resource demonstrates how to use digital imaging and the Internet as the cornerstone of a successful photography business. Topics covered include setting business goals, marketing, setting prices, selling prints, running a Web-based photography business, working with stock agencies,...
David Fincher
Interviews
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
David Fincher (b. 1962) did not go to film school and hates being defined as an auteur. He prefers to see himself as a craftsman, dutifully going about the art and business of making film. Trouble is, it's hard to be self-effacing when you are the director responsible for Se7en, Fight Club, and The...
The Transformative Power of Performance
A New Aesthetics
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2008
In this book, Erika Fischer-Lichte traces the emergence of performance as 'an art event' in its own right. In setting performance art on an equal footing with the traditional art object, she heralds a new aesthetics.
The peculiar mode of experience that a performance provokes – blurring...
by Prof Nicola Shaughnessy, Professor John Lutterbie
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
This is the first volume to provide a detailed introduction to some of the main areas of research and practice in the interdisciplinary field of art and neuroscience. With contributions from neuroscientists, theatre scholars and artists from seven countries, it offers a rich and rigorous array of...
Albert Capellani
Pioneer of the Silent Screen
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
In recent years, technology has given films of the silent era and their creators a second life as new processes have eased their restoration and distribution. Among the films benefitting from these developments are the works of director Albert Capellani (1874--1931), whose oeuvre was instrumental...
The Man In The Rubber Mask
The Inside Smegging Story of Red Dwarf
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
It was 1989 when Robert Llewellyn first had his head encased in the one-piece latex foam-rubber balaclava that is the head of Kryten in Red Dwarf series three, and it gave him a distinctly funny turn.
Gazing at his own reflection and seeing the face of a mechanoid robot staring back was surprisingly...
Daniel Craig
The Biography
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
From provocative choices like The Mother to his triumphant turn as Bond to the lead role in the hotly anticipated remake of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo—the fully updated story of a supremely talented actorHe's gorgeous, tremendously talented, charming, and sexy. His breathtaking performance...
Lew Ayres
Hollywood's Conscientious Objector
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
Lew Ayres (1908-1996) became known to the public when he portrayed the leading character in the epic war film All Quiet on the Western Front. The role made him a household name, introduced him to his closest friends, brought him to the attention of his first two wives, and would overshadow the rest...
So, You Want To Be a Ballet Dancer?
Making It In the Rough & Tumble World of Professional Ballet
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
“A revealing book about the grueling—and glamorous—world of ballet” (Daily News, New York).
Is everything really so beautiful at the ballet? For Miami City Ballet principal dancer Jennifer Carlynn Kronenberg it is; but it wasn’t always so. Learn how she made it through all of her...
by Gayle Kassing
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
History of Dance, Second Edition, offers readers a panoramic view of dance from prehistory to the present. The text covers the dance forms, designs, artists, costumes, performing spaces, and accompaniments throughout the centuries and around the globe. Its investigative approach engages students in...
Collaboration in Performance Practice
Premises, Workings and Failures
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Collaboration between artists has been practised for centuries, yet over recent decades the act of collaborating has taken different meanings. This publication examines cultural, philosophical and political issues tied to specific instances of collaborative practice in the performing arts. Leading...
by Lyn Dillies
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
America's premier female Illusionist, Lyn Dillies, adds another DIMENSION to her sparkling career: YOUR VOTE IS MAGIC!, the book based on the groundbreaking illusion she conjured up to deliver a powerful message to get out the vote. At a rally in New Bedford, Massachusetts before the 2008 Presidential...
The Life and Mysterious Death of Ian MacKintosh
The Inside Story of The Sandbaggers and Television's Top Spy
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
No spy drama has ever matched The Sandbaggers, which featured a tiny, covert intelligence unit based in London during the Cold War. The show that the New York Times called the ôbest spy series in television historyö was the vision of Ian MacKintosh, who was among the first writers to present espionage...
by Veronika Adams
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2012
Best known for films like Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, The Aviator and The Departed, Martin Scorsese has established himself as one of the greatest directors ever lived. He had done a number of collaborations with two of the most sought-after actors in Hollywood - Robert De Niro...