Entertainment Performing Arts category: 25367 books
Billion-Dollar Kiss
The Kiss That Saved Dawson's Creek, and Other Adventures inTV Writing
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2007
When Jeffrey Stepakoff was graduating with an MFA in playwriting, he imagined a life in the New York theater, wearing a beret and smoking clove cigarettes. Writing for the "boob tube" didn’t even cross his mind. But he ended up in L.A. in the late 80’s, when television writers were experiencing...
Musical Theatre
A History
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
Musical Theatre: A History is a new revised edition of a proven core text for college and secondary school students – and an insightful and accessible celebration of twenty-five centuries of great theatrical entertainment.
As an educator with extensive experience in professional theatre production,...
The Way Hollywood Tells It
Story and Style in Modern Movies
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2006
Hollywood moviemaking is one of the constants of American life, but how much has it changed since the glory days of the big studios? David Bordwell argues that the principles of visual storytelling created in the studio era are alive and well, even in today’s bloated blockbusters. American filmmakers...
The Technique of Film and Video Editing
History, Theory, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
The Technique of Film & Video Editing provides a detailed, precise look at the artistic and aesthetic principles and practices of editing for both picture and sound. Analyses of photographs from dozens of classic and contemporary films and videos provide a sound basis for the professional filmmaker...
The A to Z of American Theater
Modernism
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2009
The 50-year period from 1880 to 1929 is the richest era for theater in American history, certainly in the great number of plays produced and artists who contributed significantly, but also in the centrality of theater in the lives of Americans. As the impact of European modernism began to gradually...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Richard Rodgers — the names of composers of great American musicals are household words. But many of the stars who introduced these songwriters' classic triumphs and whose names were on everybody's lips a few decades ago have been all but forgotten. Now, with this book,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
World Film Locations: Vienna provides a panorama of international motion pictures shot on location in Austria's once imperial capitol. Informative reviews of 46 film scenes and evocative essays examine for the first time Vienna's relationship to cinema outside the waltz fantasies shot in the studios...
by Rick Friedberg
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2013
How to Make It in Hollywood: The Inside Story is an often funny, always enlightening insider's view on how to break into the world of show business and navigate its shark-infested waters.
Filled with anecdotal "war stories" of working with Academy-award winning talent, each short...
by Phill Jupitus
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2010
What possesses a right-minded comedian to quit the day job for life as a breakfast radio DJ? The opening DJ on the Beeb’s new alternative radio channel, 6Music, Phill Jupitus was a maverick on the flat landscape of inane commercial breakfast radio. Disregarding the prescriptive chart-led schedule...
Down and Dirty Pictures
Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Fil
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
In this “dishy…superbly reported” (Entertainment Weekly) New York Times bestseller, Peter Biskind chronicles the rise of independent filmmakers who reinvented Hollywood—most notably Sundance founder Robert Redford and Harvey Weinstein, who with his brother, Bob, made Miramax Films an indie...
Hearst Over Hollywood
Power, Passion, and Propaganda in the Movies
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2002
Hollywood—crossroads of filmmaking, mythmaking, and politics—was dominated by one man more than any other for most of its history. It was William Randolph Hearst who understood how to use cinema to exploit the public's desire for entertainment and to create film propaganda to further his own desire...
Hermes Pan
The Man Who Danced with Fred Astaire
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2012
Armed with an eighth-grade education, an inexhaustible imagination, and an innate talent for dancing, Hermes Pan (1909-1990) was a boy from Tennessee who became the most prolific, popular, and memorable choreographer of the glory days of the Hollywood musical. While he may be most well-known for the...
The Simpsons
An Uncensored, Unauthorized History
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
The Simpsons is one of the most successful shows to ever run on television. From its first moment on air, the series's rich characters, subversive themes, and layered humor resounded deeply with audiences both young and old who wanted more from their entertainment than what was being meted out at...
by Mark Glaser
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013
Does the soaring price of cable and satellite TV have you down? This easy-to-use guide helps you cut the cord to those expensive services, while providing a tour of the best software, hardware and services so you can watch the TV shows and movies you want. "Your Guide to Cutting the Cord"...