Entertainment Performing Arts category: 25367 books
Consuming Reality
The Commercialization of Factual Entertainment
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
Consuming Reality examines TV's response to the increasing pressure to brand content in a post-advertising era. June Deery's comprehensive analysis of the commercial practices found in popular reality programming reveals links to larger trends such as the sentimental dissemination of capitalist and...
Funny Pictures
Animation and Comedy in Studio-Era Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2011
This collection of essays explores the link between comedy and animation in studio-era cartoons, from filmdom’s earliest days through the twentieth century. Written by a who’s who of animation authorities, Funny Pictures offers a stimulating range of views on why animation became associated with...
Watching with The Simpsons
Television, Parody, and Intertextuality
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Using our favourite Springfield family as a case study, Watching with The Simpsons examines the textual and social role of parody in offering critical commentary on other television programs and genres.
Jonathan Gray brings together textual theory, discussions of television and the public sphere,...
by Alisha Gaddis
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Never before has a monologue book been written completely by people who are actually funny for a living!
This incredibly hysterical, cutting-edge collection of monologues will give an actor the extra bang he needs to land the perfect comedic role. Men's Comedic Monologues That Are Actually...
by Alisha Gaddis
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
You wanna be funny for your audition? This book of monologues, written by people who are actually funny for a living, has your back.
This incredibly hysterical, cutting-edge monologue book will give the teen actor the extra bang he needs to land the perfect comedic role! Teen Boys' Comedic...
Comedy Writing Self-Taught
The Professional Skill-Building Course in Writing Stand-Up, Sketch, and Situation Comedy
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
In “Comedy Writing Self-Taught,” Perret (a legendary comedy writing teacher as well as a famous TV comedy writer and producer) teaches aspiring comedy writers how they can teach themselves the essential principles of comedy writing through comedy analysis and writing exercises. Covering the essential...
by Anthony Friedmann
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
This updated edition of Writing for Visual Media will enable you to understand the nature of visual writing that lies behind the content of all visual media. This unique kind of writing must communicate to audiences through content producers, since audiences don’t read the script. Most media content...
by David Wood
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
If there is anyone who should be the children's playwright laureate it is David Wood' (Evening Standard)
The Owl and the Pussycat Went to See - '... the funniest, prettiest and most melodious children's show I have ever seen' (Guardian); The BFG - 'Any child not delighted by the BFG must have...
Spoken Word
Postwar American Phonograph Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
From the 1940s to the 1970s, the phonograph industry experienced phenomenal growth, both in sales and in cultural influence. Along with hugely popular music recordings, spoken word LPs served a multitude of functions and assumed an important place in the American home. In this book, Jacob Smith surveys...
by Beverle Myers
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Venice, 1731. Opera is the popular entertainment of the day. Tito Amato, mutilated as a boy to preserve his enchanting soprano voice, returns to the city of his birth with his friend Felice, a singer whose voice has failed.
Disaster strikes Tito's opera premier when the singer loses one beloved...
Seven Pillars Acting
A Comprehensive Technique for the Modern Actor
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Cutting-edge, comprehensive, and effective, Seven Pillars Acting empowers the actor to transform into character with ease and authenticity. Inspired by the great acting teachers of the last century, Seven Pillars Acting is a modern method that provides a structured set of tools and a dependable process...
The Methuen Drama Anthology of Testimonial Plays
Bystander 9/11; Big Head; The Fence; Come Out Eli; The Travels; On the Record; Seven; Pajarito Nuevo la Lleva: The Sounds of the Coup
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
This diverse anthology features eight contemporary plays founded in testimonies from across the world. Showcasing challenging and provocative works of theatre, the collection also provides a clear insight into the workings of the genre through author interviews, introductions from the companies and...
My Only Great Passion
The Life and Films of Carl Th. Dreyer
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2000
In an industry that celebrates extravagance and showmanship, Danish film director Carl Th. Dreyer was a rarity, a man who guarded his privacy fiercely and believed that film provided a way to understand human nature by focusing on the individual person. Best known for his 1928 film The Passion of...
The Man with Two Heads and His Friends from the Fair
Monologues inspired by the French 18th century fairs
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
This playful collection of 14 original monologues gives voice to characters and observers from the 18th century French fairs. Before the Revolution, these were a prime source of entertainment for people of all classes. Among those who speak in these monologues are a man with two heads, a rope...