Performing Arts category: 25753 books

Cover of Edmond O'Brien

Edmond O'Brien

Everyman of Film Noir

by Derek Sculthorpe
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018

One of the most versatile actors of his generation, Edmond O’Brien made a series of iconic noir films. From a man reporting his own murder in D.O.A. (1949) to the conflicted title character in The Bigamist (1953), he portrayed the confusion of the postwar Everyman. His memorable roles spanned genres...
Cover of Fifty Shades of Jamie Dornan - A Biography
by Louise Ford
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015

He was known as The Golden Torso, the underwear model who famously dated Keira Knightley. But Jamie Dornan has always dreamed of being an actor - and as star of the hotly-anticipated Fifty Shades of Grey movie he has finally sealed his position in Hollywood. From his role as S&M hero Christian...
Cover of Richard E. Norman and Race Filmmaking
by Barbara Tepa Lupack
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013

In the early 1900s, so-called race filmmakers set out to produce black-oriented pictures to counteract the racist caricatures that had dominated cinema from its inception. Richard E. Norman, a southern-born white filmmaker, was one such pioneer. From humble beginnings as a roving "home talent" filmmaker,...
Cover of Rebel Voices: Monologues for Women by Women

Rebel Voices: Monologues for Women by Women

Celebrating 40 Years of Clean Break Theatre Company

by Alice Birch, Linda Brogan, Ms Deborah Bruce
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2019

Clean Break is a British theatre company set up in 1979 by two women in prison. It exists to tell the stories of women with experience of the criminal justice system and to transform women's lives through theatre. Over 40 years, Clean Break has commissioned some of the most progressive and...
Cover of Eric Morecambe: Life's Not Hollywood It's Cricklewood
by Gary Morecambe
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013

In this fascinating autobiography Erics son, Gary Morecambe, describes what it’s like to grow up in the presence of one of the best-loved and most fondly remembered of all British comedy greats. Eric and Ernie brought sunshine and laughter to the people of Britain for an amazing 22 years. Includes...
Cover of Henry Brandon: King of the Bogeymen
by Bill Cassara, Richard S. Greene
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018

You've seen him stand shoulder to shoulder with John Wayne as Indian Chief Scar in "The Searchers", as the insidious Fu Manchu with world domination desires and as Barnaby, the wicked nemesis to Laurel & Hardy in "Babes In Toyland."  What you might not know is the versatile...
Cover of Danny Boyle

Danny Boyle

Interviews

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Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010

A humble man from humble beginnings, Danny Boyle (b. 1956) became a popular cinema darling when Slumdog Millionaire won big at the 2009 Academy Awards. Prior to this achievement, this former theater and television director helped the British film industry pull itself out of a decades-long slump. With...
Cover of Music and the Exotic from the Renaissance to Mozart
by Ralph P. Locke
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015

During the years 1500–1800, European performing arts reveled in a kaleidoscope of Otherness: Middle-Eastern harem women, fortune-telling Spanish 'Gypsies', Incan priests, Barbary pirates, moresca dancers, and more. In this prequel to his 2009 book Musical Exoticism, Ralph P. Locke explores how exotic...
Cover of Edith Craig and the Theatres of Art
by Prof Katharine Cockin
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017

This new biography explores the extraordinary life of Edith Craig (1869-1947), her prolific work in the theatre and her political endeavours for women's suffrage and socialism. At London's Lyceum Theatre in its heyday she worked alongside her mother, Ellen Terry, Henry Irving and Bram Stoker, and...
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Vocal Power

How to Develop Your Voice (Revised Edition)

by Christina Kaya
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016

As an author, professional speaker and certified hypnotist, Christina Kaya is in high demand across the United States and Canada, with experience in virtually every business sector. Drawing from her background in business, psychology, the performing arts and neuro-linguistics, she has unique insights...
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Jan Rubes

A Man of Many Talents

by Ezra Schabas
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2007

Jan Rubes has been a leading performer and director on stage, film, and TV, and in concert, opera, musical comedy, and drama. With an operatic career already established, the Czechoslovakia native immigrated to Canada in 1949 and was soon the leading bass in the Canadian Opera Company. He has performed...
Cover of Choreography

Choreography

A Basic Approach Using Improvisation

by Sandra Cerny Minton
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017

Choreography: A Basic Approach Using Improvisation has long been a recognized standard in the field of dance education, and its fourth edition is replete with new and updated material and tools that will help students develop their skills in each step of the choreographic experience, from finding...
Cover of The Search for Sam Goldwyn
by Carol Easton
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014

Sam Goldwyn's career spanned almost the entire history of Hollywood. He made his first film, The Squaw Man, in 1913, and he died in 1974 at the age of ninety-one. In the many years between, he produced an enormous number of films--including such classics as Wuthering Heights, Street Scene, Arrowsmith,...
Cover of Harry Langdon

Harry Langdon

King of Silent Comedy

by Gabriella Oldham, Mabel Langdon
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017

Among silent film comedians, three names stand out -- Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, and Harold Lloyd -- but Harry Langdon indisputably deserves to sit among them as the fourth "king." In films such as The Strong Man (1926) and Long Pants (1927) , Langdon parlayed his pantomime talents,...
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