Entertainment Performing Arts category: 25367 books
The Artistic Edge
7 Skills Children Need to Succeed in an Increasingly Right Brain World
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
The Artistic Edge explores why leadership skills taught through the arts are what young people need most to be successful in life. Competition for jobs is fierce and the current state of the world requires an ability to constantly adapt to change. Is the coming generation ready to face the realities...
Canadian Television
Text and Context
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Canadian Television: Text and Context explores the creation and circulation of entertainment television in Canada from the interdisciplinary perspective of television studies. Each chapter connects arguments about particular texts of Canadian television to critical analysis of the wider cultural,...
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Performing Authorship
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Before his mysterious murder in 1975, Pier Paolo Pasolini had become famous—and infamous—not only for his groundbreaking films and literary works but also for his homosexuality and criticism of capitalism, colonialism, and Western materialism. In Pier Paolo Pasolini: Performing Authorship, Gian...
Stage Combat Arts
An Integrated Approach to Acting, Voice and Text Work + Video
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
The art of armed and unarmed stage combat thrills actors and audiences alike the world over. This book details many of the foundational techniques used by actors studying stage combat and actor-movement disciplines. A variety of specific training exercises are described that connect the actor's imagination...
by Lolita Lark
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
The first issue of our magazine came out in 1985, and we switched to an online edition in 1995. Our reviews have been denounced by the famous and the infamous. Ron Butler wrote "What kind of idiots do you have writing book reviews?" Jim Finkenaur said that our review of a book about West Point was...
Performing Site-Specific Theatre
Politics, Place, Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
This book investigates the expanding parameters for site-specific performance to account for the form's increasing popularity in the twenty-first century. Leading practitioners and theorists interrogate issues of performance and site to broaden our understanding of the role that place plays in performance and the ways that performance influences it
Booking Performance Tours
Marketing and Acquiring Live Arts and Entertainment
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2010
Pack up the costumes and the instruments! It's time to take your show on the road. For anyone who manages, produces, represents, or works in a repertory theater, dance company, or next-hot-thing band, Booking Performance Tours presents all the information needed to book live shows. The process is...
Joined Forces
Audience Participation in Theatre. Performing Urgencies #3
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
Band 3 der von Florian Malzacher herausgegebenen englischsprachigen Reihe Performing Urgency. Im Kontext heutiger Politik, Wirtschaft und sich permanent verändernden kulturellen Trends kommt das traditionelle Theater mit seiner Trennung von aktiven Darstellern und passiven Zuschauern immer mehr aus...
Transmedia Frictions
The Digital, the Arts, and the Humanities
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Editors Marsha Kinder and Tara McPherson present an authoritative collection of essays on the continuing debates over medium specificity and the politics of the digital arts. Comparing the term "transmedia" with "transnational," they show that the movement beyond specific media...
The 16th Minute of Fame
An Insider's Guide for Maintaining Success Beyond 15 Minutes of Fame
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes. Andy Warhol coined that prophetic line in 1968. Ironically, in today's modern society, Warhol's statement is arguably more famous than its author. Forty-plus years after he made his seemingly outrageous pronouncement, most people would probably...
by Jonathan Gray
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2008
Television entertainment rules supreme, one of the world’s most important disseminators of information, ideas, and amusement. More than a parade of little figures in a box, it is deeply embedded in everyday life, in how we think, what we think and care about, and who we think and care about it with.
But...
Performance Analysis
An Introductory Coursebook
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2005
This revolutionary introductory performance studies coursebook brings together classic texts in critical theory and shows how these texts can be used in the analysis of performance.
The editors put their texts to work in examining such key topics as:
* decoding the sign
* the politics of performance
*...
Acting from Shakespeare's First Folio
Theory, Text and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Acting from Shakespeare's First Folio examines a series of techniques for reading and performing Shakespeare's plays that are based on the texts of the first ‘complete’ volume of Shakespeare's works: the First Folio of 1623.
Do extra syllables in a line suggest how it might be played? Can...
The Art of Film Acting
A Guide For Actors and Directors
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
This guide for actors and directors develops a valid method for training performers to act from their core--whether they are cold reading, auditioning, or performing for film or television. This book teaches actors how to achieve and respond to believable and honest emotions before the camera, and...