Entertainment Performing Arts category: 25367 books
How To Get More Voice Acting Jobs
Marketing 101 for Actors & Voiceovers
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013
It’s a common misconception, among actors and voice talent alike, that your talent agent is solely responsible for promoting you to land voice overs, acting jobs, commercials, films, television jobs and various productions requiring your performance. The fact is that approach takes all the control...
Sleepless in Hollywood
Tales from the New Abnormal in the Movie Business
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
The veteran producer and author of the bestseller Hello, He Lied takes a witty and critical look at the new Hollywood.
Over the past decade, producer Lynda Obst gradually realized she was working in a Hollywood that was undergoing a drastic transformation. The industry where everything had...
Hollywood Dealmaking
Negotiating Talent Agreements for Film, TV, and Digital Media (Third Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
"I wish I could have had this book when I was starting out in the business. An invaluable reference work." —Alan Poul, producer, Westworld
The legal resources of studios and networks are legendary, often intimidating independent producers, writers, actors, directors, agents, and others as...
Lincoln
The Screenplay
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
All forward thrust and hot-damn urgency
A brilliant, brawling epic. Screenwriter Tony Kushner blows the dust off history by investing it with flesh, blood, and churning purpose. . . . A great American movie.” Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Lincoln is a rough and noble democratic masterpiece....
Hello, Everybody!
The Dawn of American Radio
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
“A lively overview” of this pre-internet mass-communication tool and “the entrepreneurs and evangelists, hucksters and opportunists” who flocked to it (Publishers Weekly).
Long before the Internet, another young technology was transforming the way we connect with the world. At the dawn...
by Erin Balser and Suzanne Gardner
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
The kids in McKinley High Schools glee club, New Directions, might not be the most popular, but Glee is unquestionably a runaway hit. Since its premiere in May 2009, Glee has exploded as one of the most popular hours on TV, earning an astounding 19 Emmy nominations in its first season. In addition...
by Mike Adams
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Two professors and a preacher invented Columbus radio. It began with science experiments in classrooms and a minister's desire to expand beyond his churchgoing audience. By 1922, government licenses had been issued for WEAO at Ohio State University and WJD at Denison University. At this same time,...
by James Moody
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Written by a leading design consultant and carefully updated with the latest information on the industry, this is the essential guide to earning a living, marketing skills, furthering a design career, and operating a business. With more than thirty years of backstage and behind-the-scenes experience...
The Ultimate Book of Sports Movies
Featuring the 100 Greatest Sports Films of All Time
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2009
Guys love movies. Especially sports movies, where every underdog has his day, every team achieves glory, and every hero gets his moment of redemption. Next to watching Monday Night Football, there’s nothing more enjoyable than plopping down on the couch with the remote and a bottle of beer and firing...
Stealing the Show
How Women Are Revolutionizing Television
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
From a leading cultural journalist, the definitive cultural history of female showrunners—including exclusive interviews with such influential figures as Shonda Rhimes, Amy Sherman-Palladino, Mindy Kaling, Amy Schumer, and many more. “An urgent and entertaining history of the transformative powers...
by Cooper D Ville
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
This book is designed to educate the average patron on what represents respectable behaviour in clubs, bars and restaurants in western countries. For some reason, only a small few seem able to crack this code, which makes our jobs (meaning bartenders/hostesses/hosts/security/djs/coat check/kitchen...
by Elle Tracy
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2005
You can learn from Notes Compared With Charles why you'll want to pursue sitting in an opera house for four evenings to experience the Wagner Ring of four operas.
If you already know the value of experiencing the Ring operas, you can buy Notes Compared With Charles for someone who will be a...
TV Outside the Box
Trailblazing in the Digital Television Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
TV Outside the Box: Trailblazing in the Digital Television Revolution explores the new and exploding universe of on-demand, OTT (Over the Top) networks: Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, Crackle, CW Seed, Vimeo, AwesomenessTV, and many more. Featuring in-depth conversations with game-changing content creators,...
by Bob Bevan
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
Firmly established in the world of entertainment, The Cat's route to fame has been through corporate and sporting dinners. He grew up loving sport and perservered despite having only one eye and an almost total absence of natural ability. His reputation as a figure of fun and his readiness to laugh...