Entertainment Performing Arts category: 25367 books
by Wynn Wheldon
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Today the very nature of the BBC is being called into question, its future uncertain. But for legendary BBC broadcaster Huw Wheldon—a remarkable man who devoted his life to his country, his family and the public—its unwavering purpose was clear: to make the good popular and the popular good.
With...
Your Child's Career in Music and Entertainment
The Prudent Parent's Guide from Start to Stardom
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
In today’s competitive society, parents face great pressure to encourage their children to follow their dreams and strive for excellence. Organized in a practical question-and-answer format, Your Child’s Career in Music and Entertainment: The Prudent Parent’s Guide raises and addresses many...
Engaging Stages
Best Practice in Creative Audience Development for the Performing Arts
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
Engaging Stages is a hands-on guide for theatre makers and creative leaders to inform and inspire about strategic approaches to public engagement. Published by the Theatron Engaging Stages Network Europe, it contains 30 contributions and case studies from 17 leading performing arts organisations...
Arts and Entertainment's Trickiest Questions
402 Questions That Will Stump, Amuse, And Surprise
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
Can you detect the technical blunder that occurred in the motion picture Gone With the Wind? What great mysterious writer lived up to his craft and died in the most mysterious way? The follow-up to Paul Kuttner's successful History's Trickiest Questions, this new volume of 402 delightful and intriguing...
African Youth Languages
New Media, Performing Arts and Sociolinguistic Development
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
This book showcases current research on language in new media, the performing arts and music in Africa, emphasising the role that youth play in language change and development. The authors demonstrate how the efforts of young people to throw off old colonial languages and create new local ones has...
My Life as a Furry Red Monster
What Being Elmo Has Taught Me About Life, Love and Laughing Out Loud
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2006
Hello, Everybody!
The furry red monster known as Elmo has charmed his way into hearts and homes throughout the world with his unmistakable laugh, over-the-top enthusiasm, and boundless love. Elmo’s appeal is nothing short of magical. Kids adore him, and parents find him irresistible. What...
Theatre and AutoBiography
Writing and Performing Lives in Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
In general terms, auto/biographical performances have become hugely popular forms in Europe and North America because we live in a culture of me or I at a time when access to cultural production is easy. This collection brings theatre practitioners together with academics from three continents in a groundbreaking exploration of the interdisciplinary realm of Theatre and AutoBiography.
You Never Ate Lunch in This Town to Begin With…
An Outsider's Inside Look at the Outside of Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2002
Hollywood isn't all about the A-listinternationally famous actors and directors, highly paid writers, powerful producers. No, it's also about the failures, the inhabitants of the periphery, the bottom layers of the entertainment pyramid. That's the role Nicholas Kolya reluctantly played for the last...
by John Coast
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
"If you know where to look, you can still discover and recognize what it was that intoxicating John Coast fifty years ago." -Sir David Attenborough
This book is one of the great classics about Bali, now with dozens of illustrations and photographs.
Dancing out of Bali is a...
Stuntwomen
The Untold Hollywood Story
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2015
They've traded punches in knockdown brawls, crashed biplanes through barns, and raced to the rescue in fast cars. They add suspense and drama to the story, portraying the swimmer stalked by the menacing shark, the heroine dangling twenty feet below a soaring hot air balloon, or the woman leaping nine...
Starmaker
Life As a Hollywood Publicist with Farrah, The Rat Pack and 600 More Stars Who Fired Me
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
This memoir by the legendary publicist offers “an intimate glimpse into the best and the worst of the golden age of Hollywood” (Stacy Keach, Golden Globe Award–nominated actor).
Jay Bernstein, an entertainment industry fixture who helped launch the careers of celebrities including Farrah...
Bruce
The Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Bruce Forsyth is known across four generations as the face of family entertainment classics such as The Generation Game, Play Your Cards Right and The Price is Right. His is an amazing story that spans more than two thirds of the twentieth century.
In the late 1950s, over half of Britain would...
by Mario Lopez, Steve Santagati
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
With a star that rose from unforgettable child acting roles, such as A. C. Slater in Saved by the Bell, to the forefront of today’s entertainment media, Mario Lopez is nothing short of a pop culture sensation.
Now, as he turns forty, Mario looks back on his life with a newfound perspective...
by Peter Andre
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
With his easy charm, down-to-earth personality and natural good looks, it's no wonder that Peter Andre has legions of fans across the globe. Whilst once best known for producing chart-topping pop songs, selling millions of records worldwide and performing sell-out venues all over the world, in recent...