Entertainment Performing Arts category: 25367 books
by Paul Wells, Samantha Moore
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Packed with examples from classic and contemporary films, The Fundamentals of Animation presents each stage of the animation production process in an engaging visual style, whilst providing an historical and critical context for four core disciplines: drawn/cel; 2D/3D stop-motion; computer generated;...
The Moving Image Workshop
Introducing animation, motion graphics and visual effects in 45 practical projects
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
If you need a fun, hands-on introduction to core animation techniques - then look no further! Heather Freeman guides you through a wide range of practical projects, helping you establish and build skills in narrative animation, motion graphics and visual effects.
Each chapter begins by summarizing...
Inside the Room
Writing Television with the Pros at UCLA Extension Writers' Program
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
What does it take to go from being a fan to professional television writer? For the first time outside of the UCLA Extension Writers' Programme classrooms, TV writers whose many produced credits include The Simpsons, House M.D., and Pretty Little Liars take aspiring writers through the process of...
Directors Tell the Story
Master the Craft of Television and Film Directing
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Move over, movies: the freshest storytelling today is on television, where the multi-episodic format is used for rich character development and innovative story arcs. Directors Tell the Story, Second Edition** **offers rare insight and advice straight from two A-list television directors whose credits...
Reclaiming the Media
Communication Rights and Democratic Media Roles
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
At the beginning of the 21st century, it hardly goes uncontested anymore that media organisations play an important role in democracy. The main questions have now become whether the contemporary media conjuncture offers enough to our democracies, how their democratic investment can be deepened and...
Foreign News on Television
Where in the World Is the Global Village?
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
Spanning several years of research, this book compares and contrasts how public and commercial TV stations present foreign, domestic, and hybrid news from a number of different countries. It examines what viewers of television news think about foreign news, their interest in it, and what sense they...
From Page to Stage
Inspiration, Tools, and Public Speaking Tips for Writers
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
• Bowker reports that over one million (1,052,803) books were published in the U.S. in 2009, which is more than triple the number of books published four years earlier (2005) in the U.S. This number has continued to climb over the past nine years. • An estimated 90 percent of people experience...
by Lowell H. Schwartz, Dalia Dassa Kaye, Jeffrey Martini
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
Regional artists can play a positive role in shaping public debate and supporting democratic transition in the Middle East. This report explores the challenges artists have faced since the Arab uprisings, U.S. government programs to support arts in the region, and the wide array of nongovernmental activities to engage Arab artists, offering recommendations to improve support for these artists.
by Derek Padula
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2015
Goku begins a new adventure, and this time the quest is to conquer thyself.
In Dragon Ball Culture Volume 3: Battle, you’ll discover the origin of Goku’s training mentality. You’ll see how Akira Toriyama combines thousands of years of martial arts history and modern cinema together to...
by Skoot Larson
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2007
The Real Gone, Horn Gone Blues
Skoot Larson
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When alto saxophone legend and San Pedro native Art Pepper was arrested for narcotics possession and sent to San Quentin in 1960, his signature Martin alto saxophone disappeared.Had he pawned it?Was it buried somewhere in...
by Jill Dolan
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
The Feminist Spectator as Criticbroke new ground as one of the pioneering books on feminist spectatorship, encouraging resistant readings to generate feminist meanings in performance. Approaching live spectatorship through a range of interdisciplinary methods, the book has been foundational in theater...
Stage Fright
40 Stars Tell You How They Beat America's #1 Fear
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Never before has the problem of stage fright been so eloquently examined; 40 interviews with some of the most highly-accomplished public figures shed light on this affliction, offering tips from their own experiences for overcoming it. Jason Alexander, Mose Allison, Maya Angelou, David Brenner, Peter...
by Kenneth Tynan, Tom Stoppard
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
The best of Kenneth Tynan's theatre criticism, selected and edited by his biographer Dominic Shellard - with a foreword by Tom Stoppard.
This volume is an edited selection of theatre criticism by one of the most significant and influential writers on British theatre. Spanning the years 1944...
Broadway General Manager
Demystifying the Most Important and Least Understood Role in Show Business
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
“An absolutely indispensable theater lover’s guide to how Broadway works.” —Peter Marks, chief theater critic, Washington Post
“Highly recommended for those considering theater as a career and for those who love theater and want to know more about what goes on before the curtain goes...