Entertainment Performing Arts category: 25367 books
by Faubion Bowers
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Japanese Theatre presents a full historical account for Westerners of the theater arts that have flourished for centuries in Japan.
Kabuki, arising in the late seventeenth century, is the theater of the commoner. The successive syllables of Kabuki mean "song dance skill." The...
Bigger, Brighter, Louder
150 Years of Chicago Theater as Seen by "Chicago Tribune" Critics
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013
The first known *Chicago Tribune *theater review appeared on March 25, 1853. An anonymous notice, it shared the page with two other announcements—one about a pair of thousand-pound hogs set to be slaughtered and another trumpeting the largest load of lumber ever to leave Chicago. “And thus...
The Art of Character
Creating Memorable Characters for Fiction, Film, and TV
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
Former private investigator and New York Times notable author David Corbett offers a unique and indispensable toolkit for creating characters that come vividly to life on the page and linger in memory. Corbett provides an inventive, inspiring, and vastly entertaining blueprint to all the elements...
Performance Studies
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Richard Schechner is a pioneer of Performance Studies. A scholar, theatre director, editor, and playwright he is University Professor of Performance Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and Editor of TDR: The Journal of Performance Studies. He is the author of Public Domain...
by Martin Duberman
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2009
A rich and revelatory biography of one of the crucial cultural figures of the twentieth century.
Lincoln Kirstein’s contributions to the nation’s life, as both an intellectual force and advocate of the arts, were unparalleled. While still an undergraduate, he started the innovative literary...
Beneath the Big Top
A Social History of the Circus in Britain
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2014
“A valuable and illuminating read, shedding a lot of light on the political, economic and technological factors that have driven circus evolution” (The Circus Diaries).
Beneath the Big Top is a social history of the circus, from its ancient roots to the rise of the “modern” tented travelling...
Dragon Ball Culture: Volume 4
Westward
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2015
Goku goes west! His grand adventure begins anew as his martial arts master tells him to travel the world to increase his power. But what will happen when this naïve boy enters the real world and meets people who want to harm him? Will he be able to find his grandpa’s 4-Star dragon ball, or will...
The Joffrey Ballet
Robert Joffrey and the Making of an American Dance Company
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
When Robert Joffrey, the son of a Muslim Afghani, founded the Joffrey Ballet in 1956 with Gerald Arpino, he exploded the boundaries of classical ballet.
The company made ballets about beatniks, erotic multimedia goddesses, sea nymphs, clowns, slackers, radicals and jocks, thrilling audiences...
Images for a Generation Doomed
The Films and Career of Gregg Araki
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2009
Over the past two decades, independent director Gregg Araki has emerged as one of the most intriguing auteurs of contemporary U.S. cinema. A leading figure of the New Queer Cinema movement of the early 1990s, Araki is known for his innovative, eye-opening, and at-times-controversial films aimed primarily...
by Anne Billson
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
Anne Billson wrote her first professional film review in 1980. In the three decades since then, her writing has been published in dozens of publications, including the Sunday Correspondent, Tatler, New Statesman & Society, the Sunday Telegraph, the Guardian, GQ, the Times, Vogue and Elle. She...
by Richard Maxwell
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015
- Also published by TCG: Plays, 1996-2000, a volume of Maxwell’s work
- Attended Illinois State University
- Artistic Director of New York City Players
- Recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship, Obie Award (for House) and Foundation for Contemporary Arts
- Co-founder of the Cook County Theater Department...
Edith Head
The Fifty-Year Career of Hollywood's Greatest Costume Designer
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
All About Eve. Funny Face. Sunset Blvd. Rear Window. Sabrina. A Place in the Sun. The Ten Commandments. Scores of iconic films of the last century had one thing in common: costume designer Edith Head (1897-1981). She racked up an unprecedented 35 Oscar nods and 400 film credits over the course of...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
Successful acting must reflect a society’s current beliefs. The men and women who developed each new technique were convinced that previous methods were not equal to the full challenges of their time and place, and the techniques in this book have been adapted to current needs in order to continue...
Murder by Accident
Medieval Theater, Modern Media, Critical Intentions
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Over fifty years ago, it became unfashionable—even forbidden—for students of literature to talk about an author’s intentions for a given work. In Murder by Accident, Jody Enders boldly resurrects the long-disgraced concept of intentionality, especially as it relates to the theater.
Drawing...