Entertainment Performing Arts category: 25367 books
An Actor Rehearses
What to Do When and Why
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006
With a commonsense approach, An Actor Rehearses takes performers through the rehearsal process and explains exactly what to do when. The actor’s process is explained simply, sequentially, and in detail, starting from the period before rehearsals begin and continuing through first read-through, blocking...
A Global Doll's House
Ibsen and Distant Visions
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
This book addresses a deceptively simple question: what accounts for the global success of A Doll’s House, Henrik Ibsen’s most popular play? Using maps, networks, and images to explore the world history of the play’s production, this question is considered from two angles: cultural transmission...
by Desmond Gahan
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Public speaking (also called oratory or oration) is the process or act of performing a speech to a live audience. This type of speech is deliberately structured with three general purposes: to inform, to persuade and to entertain. Public speaking is commonly understood as formal, face-to-face...
by B. Trezise
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Performing Feeling in Cultures of Memory brings memory studies into conversation with a focus on feelings as cultural actors. It charts a series of memory sites that range from canonical museums and memorials, to practices enabled by the virtual terrain of Second Life, popular 'trauma TV' programs and radical theatre practice.
The Professional Actor's Handbook
From Casting Call to Curtain Call
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
Pursuing an acting career is not easy. It takes hard work, dedication, and the ability to shrug off rejection. It also requires an ability to navigate the pitfalls of an often precarious profession. While there are many books that attempt to teach people how to act, there are few books that show individuals...
Performing the Progressive Era
Immigration, Urban Life, and Nationalism on Stage
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2019
The American Progressive Era, which spanned from the 1880s to the 1920s, is generally regarded as a dynamic period of political reform and social activism. In Performing the Progressive Era, editors Max Shulman and Chris Westgate bring together top scholars in nineteenth- and twentieth-century theatre...
The Perfect Stage Crew
The Complete Technical Guide for High School, College, and Community Theater
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
Here is a must-have book for anyone producing a stage show without a Broadway-sized budget. Written by a technical theater veteran, The Perfect Stage Crew explains the pitfalls to avoid and provides solutions to the most common-and the most complex-stage performance problems, even for theaters with...
Reality Television Contracts
How to Negotiate the Best Deal
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Reality television is the growth area of television today. Individuals around the country want to be involved, whether in front of the camera or behind, and those who want to produce reality television seek to attract talent-maybe from the local beauty salon or perhaps the rodeo, extermination company,...
Performing Shakespeare Unrehearsed
A Practical Guide to Acting and Producing Spontaneous Shakespeare
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
Shakespeare’s plays can be performed effectively without rehearsal, if all the actors understand a set of performance guidelines and put them into practice. In Performing Shakespeare Unrehearsed: A Practical Guide to Acting and Producing Spontaneous Shakespeare, each chapter is devoted...
Turn That Thing Off!
Collaboration and Technology in 21st-Century Actor Training
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
As personal technology becomes ever-present in the classroom and rehearsal studio, its use and ubiquity is affecting the collaborative behaviors that should underpin actor training. How is the collaborative impulse being distracted and what kind of solutions can re-establish its connections?
The...
by Iris H. Tuan
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2018
This pivot offers an innovative, trans-local perspective on performance studies in the era of digital technology, considering a range of content from theater to opera, film, dance, and musical theatre. It examines theatre performing arts and film in terms of aesthetics, gender studies, and identity...
Ira Aldridge
Performing Shakespeare in Europe, 1852-1855
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2013
Ira Aldridge: Performing Shakespeare in Europe, 1852-1855, the third volume of Bernth Lindfors's award-winning biography, traces the American-born black classical actor's itinerary on his first Continental tour. Starting in Brussels and following Aldridge up the Rhine to Basel, on to Berlin and Vienna,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
For the past decade or more, few Hollywood stars have experienced a more meteoric rise than Tyler Perry. As much as he is lauded by fans, Perry is panned by cultural critics who reject his work as overtly preachy and rife with racially stereotypical characterizations and controversial themes. This...
by Pauline Forrester, Lelien Webber
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Acting is defined as a dramatic representation on stage. In his Poetics, Aristotle also defines drama as an imitation of an action. These definitions clearly place drama in the category of performing arts. Watching a play is usually a pleasurable experience, and is a form of recreation, it may also...