Entertainment Performing Arts category: 25367 books
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Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2013
This fascinating and thought-provoking read challenges readers to consider entertainers and entertainment in new ways, and highlights figures from outside the worlds of film, television, and music as influential "pop stars."
by Tabatha Yeatts
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Comedic actor, writer, and superstar Mae West broke all the rules in her eighty-year career. In everything she did, from vaudeville to television, Mae had censors looking over her shoulder. She was arrested, more than once, for "obscenity," and even spent time in jail. Despite the typical...
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The Official Dick Van Dyke Show Book [Deluxe Expanded Archive Edition]
The Definitive History of Television's Most Enduring Comedy
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2014
The most acclaimed comedy series of TV's golden age, The Dick Van Dyke Show comes to life in this deluxe, enhanced eBook that features hundreds of black and white and color photos, documents, and other rare images available only in this expanded eBook edition.
This fun-filled and impeccably...
Terry Funk
More Than Just Hardcore
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
He’s been a fixture in professional wrestling for five decades. He helped introduce a hardcore wrestling style that you see in the WWE and Japan today. He’s made his mark in Hollywood. He’s Terry Funk, and this is his story. In this captivating look at the life of a living legend, Funk opens...
Desert Island Discs: Flotsam & Jetsam
Fascinating facts, figures and miscellany from one of BBC Radio 4’s best-loved programmes
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
Flotsam & Jetsam is the ultimate trivia book for fans of the popular BBC Radio 4 programme Desert Island Discs, and a fascinating introduction for all those who have yet to discover its delights.
Taking the reader through seven decades of wonderful entertainment, here is an absorbing range...
Bodies in Dissent
Spectacular Performances of Race and Freedom, 1850–1910
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2006
In Bodies in Dissent Daphne A. Brooks argues that from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth, black transatlantic activists, actors, singers, and other entertainers frequently transformed the alienating conditions of social and political marginalization into modes of self-actualization...
The Today Show
Transforming Morning Television
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
In the early 1950s, when television networks did not broadcast regular programming before 11 a.m., radio and newspapers were the most popular and reliable ways for Americans to get their morning news. Then, Sylvester (Pat) Weaver, vice president of programming at NBC, pitched a bold new concept to...
by Chris Cowlin
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2011
Who can forget the cheeky humour, outrageous characters and slapstick comedy that have characterised the ‘Carry On’ films over the last fifty years? Well, don’t lose your head if you discover that the 1,000 questions in this quiz book highlight a few holes in your memory and you end up in hospital...
Transatlantic Broadway
The Infrastructural Politics of Global Performance
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Transatlantic Broadway traces the infrastructural networks and technological advances that supported the globalization of popular entertainment in the pre-World War I period, with a specific focus on the production and performance of Broadway as physical space, dream factory, and glorious machine.
Post-TV
Piracy, Cord-Cutting, and the Future of Television
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
In the late 2000s, television no longer referred to an object to be watched; it had transformed into content to be streamed, downloaded, and shared. Tens of millions of viewers have “cut the cord,” abandoned cable television, tuned into online services like Netflix, Hulu, and YouTube, and also...
The League of Exotic Dancers
Legends from American Burlesque
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Every year in downtown Las Vegas, often called "Old Vegas," The Burlesque Hall of Fame reunion brings together members of the League of Exotic Dancers, one of the earliest unions for women in exotic entertainment, to perform their half-century-old routines. In this annual tradition, performers...
Crab Monsters, Teenage Cavemen, and Candy Stripe Nurses
Roger Corman: King of the B Movie
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Crab Monsters, Teenage Cavemen, and Candy Stripe Nurses is an outrageously rollicking account of the life and career of Roger Cormanone of the most prolific and successful independent producers, directors, and writers of all time, and self-proclaimed king of the B movie. As told by Corman...
From Radio to the Big Screen
Hollywood Films Featuring Broadcast Personalities and Programs
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
There was a time when “American popular entertainment” referred only to radio and motion pictures. With the coming of talking pictures, Hollywood cashed in on the success of big-time network radio by bringing several of the public’s favorite broadcast personalities and programs to the screen....
Staging the Screen
The Use of Film and Video in Theatre
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2007
The use of film and video is widespread in contemporary theatre. Staging the Screen explores a variety of productions, ranging from Piscator to Forced Entertainment, charting the impact of developing technologies on practices in dramaturgy and performance. Giesekam addresses critical issues raised by multi-media work and inter-media work