Performing Arts category: 25753 books

Gene Wilder è uno dei più noti attori americani. Ha legato indissolubilmente la propria fama cinematografica a quella di Mel Brooks e dal loro sodalizio Wilder ha guadagnato ben due nomination all'Oscar. Memorabili anche le sue collaborazioni artistiche con Woody Allen e Richard Pryor. È stato...

Claudine Cabay Chatel retrace ici la vie de son père, Marcel Cabay, de la radio à la télévision, sans oublier le théâtre, et à travers les grands succès des Berger et du Clan Beaulieu, que des millions de téléspectateurs ont regardés religieusement tous les lundis soir dans les années...

David Lynch (1946) è uno dei massimi cineasti statunitensi degli ultimi decenni, vincitore di due Palme d’Oro a Cannes, due César e un Leone d’Oro alla carriera. Con film come Eraserhead e Inland Empire, passando per The Elephant Man, Velluto blu, Twin Peaks e Mulholland Drive, Lynch ha affermato...

“The first noteworthy treatment of its subject—and a definitive one at that...Fascinating narrative threads proliferate” (The New York Times Book Review). The most authoritative biography—featuring dozens of rarely seen photographs—of film legend Bruce Lee, who made martial arts a...

Theatre as Human Action: An Introduction to Theatre Arts, Third Edition is designed for the college student who may be unacquainted with many plays and has seen a limited number of theatre productions. Focusing primarily on four plays, this textbook aims to inform the student about theatre arts, stimulate...

Artistic and cultural organisations – especially those working as non-profit organisations - are experiencing increasing pressure to become more business-minded and to achieve economic sustainability. While ‘business models’ and related terms, largely used in the corporate sector, are more and...

An illustrated guide to anatomy and biomechanics for aerialists who want to optimize their performance and train safely Specifically designed for aerialists—including those who do trapeze, silks, and other aerial arts— Applied Anatomy of Aerial Arts is an invaluable resource for those who...

Community Performance: An Introduction is a comprehensive and accessible practice-based primer for students and practitioners of community arts, dance and theatre. It is both a classroom-friendly textbook and a handbook for the practitioner, perfectly answering the needs of a field where teaching...

In the new book Bruce Lee: The Evolution of a Martial Artist, author Tommy Gong traces Lee's path as he developed his martial art of jeet kune do and his philosophy of self-actualization. That path led Lee from Hong Kong to Seattle and then to Oakland and Los Angeles and back to Hong Kong as he evolved...

This book offers readers an understanding of the theoretical framework for the concept of Arts Talk, provides historical background and a review of current thinking about the interpretive process, and, most importantly, provides ideas and insights into building audience-centered and audience-powered conversations about the arts.

In The Arts of Cinema, Martin Seel explores film’s connections to the other arts and the qualities that distinguish it from them. In nine concise and elegantly written chapters, he explores the cinema’s singular aesthetic potential and uses specific examples from a diverse range of films—from...

Situated at the crossroads of performance practice, museology, and cultural studies, live arts curation has grown in recent years to become a vibrant interdisciplinary project and a genuine global phenomenon. Curating Live Arts brings together bold and innovative essays from an international group...

In the last 30 years, a distinctive intersection between disability studies – including disability rights advocacy, disability rights activism, and disability law – and disability arts, culture, and media studies has developed. The two fields have worked in tandem to offer critique of representations...

Lighting and shadows are used within a range of art forms to create aesthetic effects. Piotr Sadowski's study of light and shadow in Weimar cinema and contemporaneous visual arts is underpinned by the evolutionary semiotic theories of indexicality and iconicity. These theories explain the unique communicative...