Entertainment Performing Arts category: 25367 books
Galvanizing Performance
The Alexander Technique as a Catalyst for Excellence
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2017
The Alexander Technique is a specific form of mind/body practice that focusses on improving efficiency through learning and understanding movement and behavior. Galvanizing Performances applies the teachings of this practice to the performing arts. Through theatre, music, and dance, the contributors,...
Act Like It's Your Business
Branding and Marketing Strategies for Actors
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Many actors treat their profession as a purely artistic endeavor, rarely conceding that there is more to making a living than simply showing up on stage or in front of a camera. By refusing to seriously acknowledge that self-promotion is vital to their livelihoods, many performers can get quickly...
Performing Bodies
Female Illness in Italian Literature and Cinema (1860–1920)
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2017
Performing Bodies: Female Illness in Italian Literature and Cinema (1860-1920) explores the variations in the portrayal of female illness in Italian fin de siècle literature and early cinema. Catherine Ramsey-Portolano begins her study with an overview of nineteenth-century theories on female inferiority...
Digital Echoes
Spaces for Intangible and Performance-based Cultural Heritage
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2018
This book explores the interplay between performing arts, intangible cultural heritage and digital environments through a compendium of essays on emerging practices and case studies, as well as critical, historical and theoretical perspectives. It features essays that engage with varied forms of intangible...
by Vincent Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
The shift from traditional documentary to “factual entertainment” television has been the subject of much debate and criticism, particularly with regard to the representation of science. New types of factual programming that combine documentary techniques with those of entertainment formats (such...
Performing Whitely in the Postcolony
Afrikaners in South African Theatrical and Public Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
What does it mean to perform whiteness in the postcolonial era? To answer this question—crucial for understanding the changing meanings of race in the twenty-first century—Megan Lewis examines the ways that members of South Africa’s Afrikaner minority have performed themselves into, around,...
by James Grady, John J. Donohue, Christopher Bates
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2016
Most learn about martial arts through movies and print publications, primarily fictional. “Fiction is drama, the blood of drama is conflict, and martial arts are rooted in conflict,” writes James Grady in chapter one. Good fiction uses martial arts well, while...
Performing Exile, Performing Self
Drama, Theatre, Film
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
This book examines the life and art of those contemporary artists who by force or by choice find themselves on other shores. It argues that the exilic challenge enables the émigré artist to (re)establish new artistic devices, new laws and a new language of communication in both his everyday life and his artistic work.
The Definitive Guide to Magic
How to do Magic Tricks: Optical Illusions, Coin Magic, Sleight of Hand, Conjuration, Fire Eating and More
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016
This superb guide to magic tricks uncovers and teaches the secrets behind many of the most popular magic routines and stage illusions ever invented.
Perfect for beginners and fans of casual performance and stage magic, The Definitive Guide to Magic is an illustrated guidebook which examines...
Chinese Television in the Twenty-First Century
Entertaining the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
The past two decades witnessed the rise of television entertainment in China. Although television networks are still state-owned and Party-controlled in China, the ideological landscape of television programs has become increasingly diverse and even paradoxical, simultaneously subservient and defiant,...
Performing Authorship
Self-Inscription and Corporeality in the Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
The figure of the auteur continues to haunt the study of film, resisting both the poststructuralist charges that pointed to its absence and the histories of production that have described its pitfalls. In an era defined by the instability of identities and the recycling of works, Performing Authorship...
by Dan Madigan
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2008
He's the last thing you'll ever see...
Seven-feet-tall. Four hundred pounds. A blood-crusted, rusty steel plate screwed into his skull. But perhaps the most terrifying thing about reclusive psychopath Jacob Goodnight are the razor-sharp nails on his forefingers, the ones that circle around...
by Ayanna Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Performing Race and Torture on the Early Modern Stage provides the first sustained reading of Restoration plays through a performance theory lens. This approach shows that an analysis of the conjoined performances of torture and race not only reveals the early modern interest in the nature of racial...
Performing Femininity
Rewriting Gender Identity
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2004
A personal, revealing, and sometimes humorous exploration of female experience, Performing Femininity challenges traditional and feminist perspectives on gender roles. Using ethnographic method, Lesa Lockford transforms herself into an image-obsessed weight watcher, an exotic dancer, and a theatrical...