Entertainment Performing Arts category: 25367 books
Your Career in Animation
How to Survive and Thrive
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
Great ideas for animators who are starting out or looking for their next job Packed with information and insights Perfect for film students and art students. Animation is a multibillion-dollar industry. Here’s an insider’s guide to getting into that industry, staying there, and getting ahead....
Invitation to the Party
Building Bridges to the Arts, Culture and Community
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005
Presented workshops or space at following venues: Arts and Business Council; Professional Women’s Exchange of NY; League of American Theatres and Producers; National Guild of Community Schools for the Arts; National Endowment for the Arts; Walker Arts Center; Boys and Girls Club of America; Yale...
The New Business of Acting
How to Build a Career in a Changing Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
In an expanded and updated follow up to his popular first book, The Business of Acting: Learn the Skills You Need to Build the Career You Want, talent manager Brad Lemack offers both young, new-to-the-business and “working†actors a vital perspective on the changing landscape in which they seek...
Acting the Song
Performance Skills for the Musical Theatre
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
Acting the Song offers a contemporary, integrated approach to singing in musicals that results in better-trained, smarter performers everyone wants to work with. In this new, thoroughly updated edition of the paperback, directors and teachers of musical theater will find guidance in developing and...
by David B. Levy
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
Both experienced and aspiring animation professionals will find Directing Animation a comprehensive and entertaining guide to understanding the director’s creative role in managing the entire animation process. An animation director doesn’t simply direct animation. He or she directs people who...
by Laura Barnett
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014
Essential tips and advice from stars of stage and screen.
Actors know the best source of advice on the profession is other actors. Nothing compares with the wisdom and practical know-how acquired through years of working in the business.
Advice from the Players features a host of tips...
Making Radio
Early Radio Production and the Rise of Modern Sound Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
The opening decades of the twentieth century witnessed a profound transformation in the history of modern sound media, with workers in U.S. film, radio, and record industries developing pioneering production methods and performance styles tailored to emerging technologies of electric sound reproduction...
The Oberon Glossary of Theatrical Terms
Theatre Jargon Explained
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
Anyone who has ever had to call a plumber, let alone try to fathom a computer handbook, will be fatally familiar with the bewilderment of the outsider exposed to the shop-talk of professions other than his or her own. Do you know your Mirror Scrims from your Mirror Balls? Or your Get Outs from your...
How to Improvise a Full-Length Play
The Art of Spontaneous Theater
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2010
Forget the script and get on the stage! In How to Improvise a Full-Length Play, actors, playwrights, directors, theater-group leaders, and teachers will find everything they need to know to create comedy, tragedy, melodrama, and farce, with no scripts, no scenarios, and no preconceived characters....
Performing Queer Latinidad
Dance, Sexuality, Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
Performing Queer Latinidad highlights the critical role that performance played in the development of Latina/o queer public culture in the United States during the 1990s and early 2000s, a period when the size and influence of the Latina/o population was increasing alongside a growing scrutiny of...
Profitable Photography in Digital Age
Strategies for Success
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2005
This groundbreaking resource demonstrates how to use digital imaging and the Internet as the cornerstone of a successful photography business. Topics covered include setting business goals, marketing, setting prices, selling prints, running a Web-based photography business, working with stock agencies,...
Collaboration in Performance Practice
Premises, Workings and Failures
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Collaboration between artists has been practised for centuries, yet over recent decades the act of collaborating has taken different meanings. This publication examines cultural, philosophical and political issues tied to specific instances of collaborative practice in the performing arts. Leading...
The Politics of Interweaving Performance Cultures
Beyond Postcolonialism
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
This book provides a timely intervention in the fields of performance studies and theatre history, and to larger issues of global cultural exchange. The authors offer a provocative argument for rethinking the scholarly assessment of how diverse performative cultures interact, how they are interwoven,...
by Jim Piper
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
Accompanying DVD of thirty short films offers an instructive mini film festival Shows beginners how to make meaningful films without fancy equipment Great for film students and independent filmmakers Want to make an art film, a documentary, a video biography? Here’s how to create real movies...