Entertainment Performing Arts category: 25367 books
The Actor's Other Career Book
Using Your Chops to Survive and Thrive
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2010
Actors don't have to become Broadway stars to make a living with their acting talents. The Actor’s Other Career Book pulls back the curtain to reveal more than 50 permanent and temporary positions available in cruise ships, trade shows, retail stores, advertising agencies, corporate settings, education,...
Tube of Plenty
The Evolution of American Television
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 1990
Based on the classic History of Broadcasting in the United States, Tube of Plenty represents the fruit of several decades' labor. When Erik Barnouw--premier chronicler of American broadcasting and a participant in the industry for fifty years--first undertook the project of recording its history,...
Snake Oil, Hustlers and Hambones
The American Medicine Show
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Long before television and radio commercials beckoned to potential buyers, the medicine show provided free entertainment and promised cures for everything from corns to cancer. Combining elements of the circus, theater, vaudeville, and good old-fashioned entrepreneurship, the showmen of the American...
Precocious Charms
Stars Performing Girlhood in Classical Hollywood Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
In Precocious Charms, Gaylyn Studlar examines how Hollywood presented female stars as young girls or girls on the verge of becoming women. Child stars are part of this study but so too are adult actresses who created motion picture masquerades of youthfulness. Studlar details how Mary Pickford, Shirley...
by Charles Long
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2012
For over two decades Charles Long thrilled opera audiences, performing at some of America's and the world's most famous venues, and singing alongside some of its greatest stars. In his insightful, frank and humorous new memoir, Long recounts many of those experiences. In the process he sheds light...
by Jess Sherwin
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2015
Many people have the dream of breaking into Show Business one day in their life. While many have the inborn talent to make it big some may have to work hard to polish it. But irrespective of whatever everybody has to plan and take a right approach to get a break in Showbiz. But remember success doesn't...
The Mind of the Modern Moviemaker
Twenty Conversations with the New Generation of Filmmakers
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2006
A revealing look at the influences and aspirations of today’s hottest filmmakers
A new era has dawned in Hollywood, with a wave of innovative filmmakers redefining the art of big-screen entertainment for modern audiences. Entertainment journalist Josh Horowitz provides an in-depth look...
Sky Train
Stories from CBC's Fresh Air
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2001
What do Northtrop Frye, French dairy cows, and Historic Fort York have in common? They’re all part of Ward McBurney’s lyric and personal stories from CBC Radio’s Fresh Air, which are now available for the first time in print.
Broadcasting live on Saturday mornings, with Jeff Goodes as...
by Henryk Jurkowski, Penny Francis
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Henryk Jurkowski's seminal 1988 text, Aspects of Puppet Theatre, was groundbreaking in its analysis of puppetry as a performing art. This new edition of a classic brings the original text back to life, including four additional essays and a new introduction, edited and translated by leading puppetry scholar Penny Francis.
by Jane Golden
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Show business can be tough. Sometimes the biggest stars are just ‘discovered’ and others are actually ‘made’. If you’re interested, this ebook is for you. Everything from how to get started to bios of some of the biggest stars in Hollywood, including actors and singers. GRAB A COPY TODAY!
Twentieth Century Fox
A Century of Entertainment
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Here it is: the first-time look at the remarkable American multinational mass media empire and its century of entertainment—the story of Twentieth Century Fox (1915–2015). Or, to borrow the title of a classic 1959 Fox film, The Best of Everything. This is the complete revelatory story—bookended...
by Creative Music Guild
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2013
Inspired by a riveting panel discussion with musicians & dance-makers on intersections between improvisation and composition at the 2013 Improvisation Summit of Portland, this book expands the conversation to fourteen musicians & choreographers. The Creative Music Guilddesigned a series of questions...
The Making of the West End Stage
Marriage, Management and the Mapping of Gender in London, 1830–1870
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
All roads lead to London - and to the West End theatre. This book presents a new history of the beginnings of the modern world of London entertainment. Putting female-centred, gender-challenging managements and styles at the centre, it redraws the map of performance history in the Victorian capital...
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The Problem of the Color[blind]
Racial Transgression and the Politics of Black Performance
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
"Catanese's beautifully written and cogently argued book addresses one of the most persistent sociopolitical questions in contemporary culture. She suggests that it is performance and the difference it makes that complicates the terms by which we can even understand 'multicultural' and 'colorblind'...