Entertainment Performing Arts category: 25367 books
Champagne Charlie and Pretty Jemima
Variety Theater in the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2010
In this rich, imaginative survey of variety musical theater, Gillian M. Rodger masterfully chronicles the social history and class dynamics of the robust, nineteenth-century American theatrical phenomenon that gave way to twentieth-century entertainment forms such as vaudeville and comedy on radio...
Christoph Schlingensief
Staging Chaos, Performing Politics and Theatrical Phantasmagoria
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
The first book to focus specifically on the late German artist Christoph Schlingensief's theatre work, it subversively merges art, politics and everyday life to imbue his productions both inside and outside the theatre with a re-energized concept of the political in art.
Scheer traces Schlingensief's...
Global Ibsen
Performing Multiple Modernities
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
Ibsen’s plays rank among those most frequently performed world-wide, rivaled only by Brecht, Chekhov, Shakespeare, and the Greek tragedies. By the time Ibsen died in 1906, his plays had already conquered the theaters of the Western world. Inviting rapturous praise as well as fierce controversy,...
by Catherine Silverstone
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012
Shakespeare, Trauma and Contemporary Performance examines how contemporary performances of Shakespeare’s texts on stage and screen engage with violent events and histories. The book attempts to account for – but not to rationalize – the ongoing and pernicious effects of various forms of violence...
Reproducing Athens
Menander's Comedy, Democratic Culture, and the Hellenistic City
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Reproducing Athens examines the role of romantic comedy, particularly the plays of Menander, in defending democratic culture and transnational polis culture against various threats during the initial and most fraught period of the Hellenistic Era.
Menander's romantic comedies--which focus on...
Busking as a Mercenary Art
or How to Hustle a Bar, Restaurant, or Street
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
A "how-to" manual written for the independent travelling magician or any other street performer. Includes the specific details on different approaches for street, bar and restaurant. Some of the topics are: picking the right bar, entering the bar, working the crowd, building the tip, the...
Animal Acts
Performing Species Today
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
We all have an animal story—the pet we loved, the wild animal that captured our childhood imagination, the deer the neighbor hit while driving. While scientific breakthroughs in animal cognition, the effects of global climate change and dwindling animal habitats, and the exploding interdisciplinary...
by Stephen Horst
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Broadway is Show Business. Not show-Craft, show-fun, show-Art, and definitely not show-fair. Business is about money, commercial appeal, marketability, and long term return of investment. Its never personal and often its not even about talent but rather type and the one in the room everyone can agree...
by Ciara Pressler
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2012
Actors, Singers, Musicians, Dancers: is it time for a change in your performing career? Exit Stage Right is your transition secret weapon: packed with principles vital to creating a successful career in any industry, learn how to move forward as a performer or transition gracefully to an entirely...
by Robert Zipser
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
A CLEAR CONCISE "HOW TO" GUIDE FROM A VETERAN ENTERTAINMENT ATTORNEY TO THE DEAL POINTS OF AN OPTION AGREEMENT FOR MOTION PICTURE RIGHTS TO BOOKS INCLUDING TIPS FOR NEGOTIATING STRATEGY. THIS BOOK IS DESIGNED FOR THE INDEPENDENT FILM PRODUCER, AUTHORS, AND OTHERS IN THE ENTERTAINMENT AND LEGAL INDUSTRIES WHO WANT TO LEARN THE MECHANICS OF THESE DEALS
Distribution Revolution
Conversations about the Digital Future of Film and Television
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
Distribution Revolution is a collection of interviews with leading film and TV professionals concerning the many ways that digital delivery systems are transforming the entertainment business. These interviews provide lively insider accounts from studio executives, distribution professionals, and...
Children in Theatre
From the Audition to Working in Professional Theatre: A Guide for Children and Their Parents
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2012
Performing children have a very special existence which sometimes sets them apart from their peers. Parents are often excluded from this world but are expected to support them all the way. There is very little authoritative advice on how to cope and what to expect. This book will help children and...
by Larry Silverberg
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1998
Larry Silverberg, author of the revolutionary four book series The Sanford Meisner Approach: An Actor's Workbook now brings to you Workbook Three: Tackling the Text. In this exciting next step of the Meisner technique, Silverberg guides you through a specific and step-by-step method of bringing a...
Screening Culture, Viewing Politics
An Ethnography of Television, Womanhood, and Nation in Postcolonial India
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 1999
In Screening Culture, Viewing Politics Purnima Mankekar presents a cutting-edge ethnography of television-viewing in India. With a focus on the responses of upwardly-mobile, yet lower-to-middle class urban women to state-sponsored entertainment serials, Mankekar demonstrates how television in India...