Entertainment Performing Arts category: 25367 books
by Louis Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2017
Louis Phillips, a widely published poet, playwright, and short story writer, has written some 50 books for children and adults. Among his published works are: five collections of short stories – A DREAM OF COUNTRIES WHERE NO ONE DARE LIVE (SMU Press), THE BUS TO THE MOON (Fort Schuyler Press), and...
Coming to Terms with Acting
An Instructive Glossary. What You Need to Know to Understand It, Discuss It, Deal with It, and Do It
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
Doug Moston was a member director of the Playwrights/Directors Unit of The Actors Studio and served on the Blue Ribbon Panel of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences which selected best actor, director, and show for the Emmy Awards. He taught acting in New York where he was...
by James Clay
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
The e-book of the classic "The Theatrical Image" byJames H. Clay and Daniel Krempel. A unique volume entirely devoted to "interpretative invention" for the dramatic arts. Dealing with the theater and filmed versions of plays, it concentrates on finding the implied intention of each play, and how to design, direct and act that intent. Originally published by McGraw-Hill in 1967.
Experiencing Drama in the English Renaissance
Readers and Audiences
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
This book investigates the complex interactions, through experiencing drama, of readers and audiences in the English Renaissance.
Around 1500 an absolute majority of population was illiterate. Henry VIII’s religious reformation changed this cultural structure of society. ‘The Act for the...
by Victor, L. Sabadus
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Set in present-day Pittsburgh, Jake Daniels, a ruthless martial arts fighter, thought he had it all: cars, girls, money, and fame, but it was short-lived. In an unforeseen twist of events, Jake loses his memory, sparking a deep personal journey to discover who he is.
A beautiful, God-fearing,...
Lost Sound
The Forgotten Art of Radio Storytelling
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
From Archibald MacLeish to David Sedaris, radio storytelling has long borrowed from the world of literature, yet the narrative radio work of well-known writers and others is a story that has not been told before. And when the literary aspects of specific programs such as The War of the Worlds or Sorry,...
Real Life Drama
The Group Theatre and America, 1931-1940
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
Real Life Drama is the classic history of the remarkable group that revitalized American theater in the 1930s by engaging urgent social and moral issues that still resonate today.
Born in the turbulent decade of the Depression, the Group Theatre revolutionized American arts. Wendy Smith's dramatic...
by Dave Montalbano
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
The Adventures of Cinema Dave is a celebration of films from the turn of the recent century. Dave Montalbano, alias Cinema Dave, wrote over 500 film reviews and interviewed Hollywood Legends such as Fay Wray, Louise Fletcher, Dyan Cannon and new talent like Josh Hutcherson, Jane Lynch and Courtney...
Resting Places
The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3d ed.
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
In its third edition, this massive reference work lists the final resting places of more than 14,000 people from a wide range of fields, including politics, the military, the arts, crime, sports and popular culture. Many entries are new to this edition. Each listing provides birth and death dates,...
Alan Moore, Out from the Underground
Cartooning, Performance, and Dissent
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
This book explores Alan Moore’s career as a cartoonist, as shaped by his transdisciplinary practice as a poet, illustrator, musician and playwright as well as his involvement in the Northampton Arts Lab and the hippie counterculture in which it took place. It traces Moore’s trajectory out from...
British Theatre Companies: 1965-1979
CAST, The People Show, Portable Theatre, Pip Simmons Theatre Group, Welfare State International, 7:84 Theatre Companies
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
This series of three volumes provides a groundbreaking study of the work of many of the most innovative and important British theatre companies from 1965 to the present. Each volume provides a survey of the political and cultural context; an extensive survey of the variety of theatre companies from...
Ottoman Empire and European Theatre Vol. II
The Time of Joseph Haydn: From Sultan Mahmud I to Mahmud II (r.1730-1839)
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
The Time of Joseph Haydn: From Sultan Mahmud I to Sultan Mahmud II (r.1730-1839), the second volume of Ottoman Empire and European Theatre, explores the relationship between Western playwrights, composers and visual artists of the eighteenth-century and Turkish-Ottoman culture, as well as the interest...
Multi-media
Video – Installation – Performance
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2007
Multi-media charts the development of multi-media video, installation and performance in a unique dialogue between theoretical analysis and specially commissioned documentations by some of the world’s foremost artists. Nick Kaye explores the interdisciplinary history and character of experimental...
by Rebecca Schneider
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
This provocative book meets the supposedly 'live' practices of performance and the 'no-longer-live' historical past at their own dangerous crossroads. Focussing on the 'and' of the title, it addresses the tangled relations between the terms, practices, ideas, and aims embedded in these compatriot - but often oppositional - arts and acts of time.