Entertainment Performing Arts category: 25367 books
La critique d'art à l'écran
Les arts plastiques
Language: French
Release Date: May 25, 2018
Le film est-il à même de renouveler notre rapport aux arts plastiques ? Est-il capable, surtout, de tenir un discours critique spécifique sur les œuvres, l’histoire de l’art ou l’esthétique ? À l’intérieur du champ du « film sur l’art » auquel l’époque accorde une pleine visibilité,...
The Futurist
The Life and Films of James Cameron
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
With the release of Avatar in December 2009, James Cameron cements his reputation as king of sci-fi and blockbuster filmmaking. It’s a distinction he’s long been building, through a directing career that includes such cinematic landmarks as The Terminator, Aliens, The Abyss, and the highest grossing...
Season Finale
The Unexpected Rise and Fall of the WB and UPN
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
In the mid-1990s, two major Hollywood studios, Warner Bros. and Paramount Pictures, each launched their own broadcast television network with the hope of becoming the fifth major player in an industry long dominated by ABC, CBS, NBC, and, more recently, Fox. Despite the odds against them, the WB and...
Acting in Commercials
A Guide to Auditioning and Performing on Camera
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Every actor knows that working in commercials is lucrative. But many actors, trained primarily for working on the stage, have mistaken ideas about this field and lack essential on-camera experience. Now in an updated and expanded edition, Acting in Commercials is the only resource that fills all the...
The Thriving Artist
Saving and Investing for Performers, Artists, and the Stage & Film Industries
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
The old cliché about the "starving" artist may have a basis in reality, but it isn’t set in stone! The Thriving Artist provides valuable advice for the performing artist, whether you’re an actor, dancer, lighting guru, costumer, or stagehand, on investing, saving, and building a diversified...
Acting for the Camera
Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Culled from Tony Barr's 40 years' experience as a performer, director and acting teacher in Hollywood, this highly praised handbook provides readers with the practical knowledge they need when performing in front of the camera. This updated edition includes plenty of new exercises for honing on-camera...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Full of fresh speeches from Shakespeare's plays, this is the ideal guide for actors of all ages and experience.
As an actor at any level you are likely to be called upon to perform a speech from Shakespeare. A great deal will depend on your coming up with something fresh that is suited both...
Amusing Ourselves to Death
Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2005
What happens when media and politics become forms of entertainment? As our world begins to look more and more like Orwell's 1984, Neil's Postman's essential guide to the modern media is more relevant than ever.
"It's unlikely that Trump has ever read Amusing Ourselves to Death, but his...
Acting as a Business
Strategies for Success
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2010
An essential handbook for actors–a modern classic–in a newly updated edition.
Since its original publication, Acting as a Business has earned a reputation as an indispensable tool for working and aspiring actors. Avoiding the usual advice about persistence and luck, Brian O’Neil provides...
Daughters of Destiny
Dramatic Monologues of Four Amazing American Women
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
Throughout the centuries there have been Amazing American Women; women who rose on their strength of character, who overcame incredible obstacles to become outstanding in their own right. Women have created works of art and literature, founded businesses, fought in wars, led political and social movements,...
British Theatre Companies: 1980-1994
Joint Stock, Gay Sweatshop, Complicite, Forced Entertainment, Women's Theatre Group, Talawa
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
This series of three volumes provides a groundbreaking study of the work of many of the most innovative and important British theatre companies from 1965 to the present. Each volume provides a survey of the political and cultural context, an extensive survey of the variety of theatre companies from...
Hire Me, Hollywood!
Your Behind-the-Scenes Guide to the Most Exciting - and Unexpected - Jobs in Show Business
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2011
The secret to Stan Lee's writing process
The story behind Elmo's giggle
What's for lunch on the set of The Walking Dead
Squirrel training with Johnny Depp
Think you know what it takes to get your favorite TV show on the air every week? (You'd be surprised.) Or what all those people whose names...
Mickey Rooney Was Right
How I Spent My Lifetime Following a Dream When Logic and Those Around Me Said to Stop
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2010
Mickey Rooney Was Right is D.W. Paones autobiography with the emphasis on his quest to achieve success as both a writer and assistant cameraman in the entertainment industry.However, no matter how hard he tried, and he tried very hard, long-term success in both these aspects of the industry continued...
No Applause--Just Throw Money
The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2006
A seriously funny look at the roots of American Entertainment
When Groucho Marx and Charlie Chaplin were born, variety entertainment had been going on for decades in America, and like Harry Houdini, Milton Berle, Mae West, and countless others, these performers got their start on the vaudeville...