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Cover of Stephen King on the Small Screen
by Mark Browning
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014

In this follow up to Stephen King on the Big Screen (2009) Mark Browning turns his critical eye upon the much-neglected subject of the best-selling author’s work in television, examining what it is about King’s fiction that makes it particularly suitable for the small screen.By focusing on this body...
Cover of Inside the Dream Palace

Inside the Dream Palace

The Life and Times of New York's Legendary Chelsea Hotel

by Sherill Tippins
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013

Winner of the National Award for Arts Writing: “If there were a course in Chelsea Hotel-iana, this would be the textbook” (The New York Times).   It’s where Dylan Thomas lived his last days, Bob Dylan wrote Blonde on Blonde, and Arthur C. Clarke wrote 2001: A Space Odyssey. It is memorialized...
Cover of The Lean Forward Moment

The Lean Forward Moment

Create Compelling Stories for Film, TV, and the Web

by Norman Hollyn
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2008

In this groundbreaking book Norman Hollyn outlines his 'Lean Forward Moment Method' of storytelling that applies to all aspects of the film-making process and media production. Whether you are an editor, producer, director, cinematographer or visual effects pro, this book will provide the essential techniques...
Cover of Writing Television Sitcoms (revised)
by Evan S. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009

This new edition of Writing Television Sitcoms features the essential information every would-be teleplay writer needs to know to break into the business, including: - Updated examples from contemporary shows such as 30 Rock, The Office and South Park - Shifts in how modern stories are structured...
Cover of A Clockwork Orange
by Peter Kramer
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011

Drawing on new research in the Stanley Kubrick Archive at the University of the Arts London, Krämer's study explores the production, marketing and reception as well as the themes and style of A Clockwork Orange against the backdrop of Kubrick's previous work and of wider developments in cinema, culture and society from the 1950s to the early 1970s.
Cover of Conversations with Anne
by Anne Bogart
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012

From one remarkable mind to another, Conversations with Anne documents the series of intimate interviews that theater director Anne Bogart has conducted-before live audiences-with major artists and cultural thinkers at her West Side studio over half a decade. In these extraordinary conversations,...
Cover of How to Write About Theatre

How to Write About Theatre

A Manual for Critics, Students and Bloggers

by Mark Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015

What do you do if you find yourself weeping in the stalls? How should you react to Jude Law's trousers or David Tennant's hair? Are you prepared to receive toilet paper in the post? What if the show you just damned turns out to be a classic? If you gave it a five-star rave will anyone believe you? Drawing...
Cover of How to Write Everything
by David Quantick
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014

How To Write Everything is the ultimate writer’s handbook. It tells you about every aspect of writing, from having an idea to getting the idea out into the world (and getting paid for it too). It covers everything from journalism to screen-writing, from speeches to sketches, from sitcoms to novels....
Cover of Broadway

Broadway

An Encyclopedia

by Ken Bloom
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013

This volume is another example in the Routledge tradition of producing high-quality reference works on theater, music, and the arts. An A to Z encyclopedia of Broadway, this volume includes tons of information, including producers, writer, composers, lyricists, set designers, theaters, performers, and landmarks in its sweep.
Cover of The Great American Light War
by Sam Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2011

Sam Edwards disappeared from New York after editing and publishing Second Coming magazine—the first of the slick-paper cultural and political magazines that published the works of I.B. Singer, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Frank, Robert Rauschenburg, Susan Sontag and many others—edited Arts magazine...
Cover of The Queer Encyclopedia of Film and Television
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Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012

From Hollywood films to TV soap operas, from Vegas extravaganzas to Broadway theater to haute couture, this comprehensive encyclopedia contains over 200 entries and 200 photos that document the irrepressible impact of queer creative artists on popular culture. How did Liberace’s costumes...
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Computers in Broadcast and Cable Newsrooms

Using Technology in Television News Production

by Phillip O. Keirstead
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2004

Computers in Broadcast and Cable Newsrooms: Using Technology in Television News Production takes readers through the use of computers and software in the broadcast/cable newsroom environment. Author Phillip O. Keirstead began writing about television news technology decades ago in an effort to help...
Cover of Still Got It, Never Lost It!: The Hilarious Autobiography from the Star of TV’s Pineapple Dance Studios and Dancing on Ice
by Louie Spence
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011

Still Got It, Never Lost It! tells the story of Louie Spence, star of Pineapple Dance Studios and ruthless judge on Dancing on Ice. ‘I did everything my sisters did, that’s how my dancing days started – they went dancing, I went dancing and I just kept on dancing.’ - Louie Spence From a very...
Cover of Postcolonial Cinema Studies
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Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012

This collection of essays foregrounds the work of filmmakers in theorizing and comparing postcolonial conditions, recasting debates in both cinema and postcolonial studies. Postcolonial cinema is presented, not as a rigid category, but as an optic through which to address questions of postcolonial...
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