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Addressing the wide range of programmes and formats from news, to documentary, to popular factual genres, Annette Hill’s new book examines the ways viewers navigate their way through a busy, noisy and constantly changing factual television environment. Restyling Factual TV addresses the wide...

My Third Latino Monologue Book is the third title in a groundbreaking new collection designed to support K-3 students in beginning acting classes whose first language, or language most frequently spoken at home, is Spanish. Divided into four sections about life in general, school, brothers...

The Avant-Garde and the Popular in Modern China explores how an important group of Chinese performing artists invested in politics and the pursuit of the avant-garde came to terms with different ways of being “popular” in modern times. In particular, playwright and activist Tian Han (1898-1968)...

A Jersey Boys book. A Jersey Boys story. A Broadway memoir. A how-to guide to making it on Broadway. Everyone's heard of JERSEY BOYS. Thirteen million people have seen the show, totaling more than $1 billion in worldwide ticket sales. The cast members have performed on Oprah , the Today show, Dancing...

Telling a Story, Part Five in the Five Approaches to Acting Series offers practical techniques for analyzing texts and performing stories within the context of a play, whether written by Sam Shepard, Tennessee Williams, the ancient Greeks, or Shakespeare. Telling a Story suggests strategies for actors to switch between performance and story-telling in their approach to any role.

In Los Angeles, night after night, the city's salsa clubs become social arenas where hierarchies of gender, race, and class, and of nationality, citizenship, and belonging are enacted on and off the dance floor. In an ethnography filled with dramatic narratives, Cindy García describes how local salseras/os...

The curtain rises on Theatre and Youth, volume 23 of Theatre Symposium with keynote reflections by Suzan Zeder, the distinguished playwright of theatre for youth, and presents eleven original essays about theatre’s reflections of youth and the role of young people in making and performing theatre.   The...

Restoration London's leading actor and theatre manager Thomas Betterton has not been the subject of a biography since 1891. He worked with all the best-known playwrights of his age and with the first generation of English actresses; he was intimately involved in the theatre's responses to politics,...

THE GOOD AUDITION GUIDES: Helping you select and perform the audition piece that is best suited to your performing skills In this volume of the Good Audition Guides, you'll find fifty fantastic speeches for women, all written since the year 2000, by some of our most exciting dramatic voices. Playwrights...

The General Electric Company, with one of its main plants in Schenectady, began experimental broadcasts in conjunction with Union College in the early 1900s. When WGY officially began broadcasting in February 1922, General Electric started a long and storied history of pioneering radio technology and...

In 1982, rising actor Antony Sher played the Fool to Michael Gambon’s King in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of King Lear. Shortly after, he came back to Stratford to play Richard III – a breakthrough performance that would transform his career, winning him the Olivier and Evening...

與《作家之路》作者C. Vogler、《故事的解剖》作者R. McKee 並列當代好萊塢編劇教學三大導師！ ** ** 全美最佳劇本寫作課程講義大公開   你私人的故事教練， 了解你所有弱點與挫折， 讓你終於可以完成一個有情感厚度的好故事， 從立體的人物，到觀眾猜不到的劇情轉折、不爛尾的結局， 全都寫好寫滿！   主題是故事的腦袋，人物是心臟和循環系統， 劇情開展是神經系統，故事結構是骨骼，場景是皮膚—— 你的好故事將是一個活生生的個體 有自己的名字與一席之地！   ◆ 好萊塢知名故事寫作顧問集結３０年經驗 傳授創作好故事的終極技藝 ** ** 一套最精準、實用、有機的寫作技法， 22個步驟帶領你穿越創作的迷霧森林， 讓你腦海裡那個「非寫不可」的哏， 進化為別人寫不出來、世上獨一無二的好故事， 在「鬧故事饑荒的時代」被所有人看見！   ◆ 資深影評人暨電視電影編劇李達義｜導演易知言｜臺北藝術節藝術總監耿一偉｜ 導演陳宏一｜作家、編劇劉梓潔｜**《九降風》編劇蔡宗翰｜中華編劇學會理事長蔡國榮** ／推薦（依姓氏筆畫序） ** ** ■****特魯比的劇本寫作課程是一套全新的系統， 讓創作者具備足夠競爭力，能在好萊塢脫穎而出。──美國電影協會 ** ** **■John...

Susan Glaspell in Context not only discusses the dramatic work of this key American author -- perhaps best known for her short story "A Jury of Her Peers" and its dramatic counterpart, Trifles -- but also places it within the theatrical, cultural, political, social, historical, and biographical...

Beloved by young girls around the world, Hasbro’s My Little Pony franchise has been mired in controversy since its debut in the early 1980s. Critics dismissed the cartoons as toy advertisements, and derided their embrace of femininity. The 2010 debut of the openly feminist My Little Pony: Friendship...