Performing Arts

Internationally renowned writer, broadcaster and author Alan Jones has tirelessly reported on every aspect of Argento's career for more than three decades. Every single feature, interview, review and in-depth look at Argento's multi-faceted universe was meticulously collated into one stunning, Sold Out volume, originally...

With careers spanning eight decades, William Hanna and Joseph Barbera were two of the most prolific animation producers in American history. In 1940, the two met at MGM and created Tom and Jerry, who would earn 14 Academy Award nominations and seven wins. The...

Introduction.- 1 The Problem with Alexander's Technique.- 2 Marjorie Barstow's constellation.- 3 Making ideas clear.- 4 Reconstruction.- 5 Wishes, Desire, Interest and Art.- 6 Democracy and the social context.- 7 The Art and Integration of teaching and training.- Conclusion.Author: Amanda ColePublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublished: 08/23/2022Pages:...

THE SACRED CINEMA OF ANDREI TARKOVSKYBy Jeremy RobinsonA major new study of Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky (1932-1986), director of seven feature films, including Mirror, Andrei Rublev, Solaris and The Sacrifice. This book explores every aspect of Andrei Tarkovsky's output in the most detailed fashion...

The Women of Jenji Kohan, creator of such landmark shows as Weeds, Orange Is the New Black, and GLOW, is the latest in Fayetteville Mafia Press's pioneering series examining the female characters of legendary creators of television and film. Here, writers from all walks...

Andrei Tarkovsky is the most celebrated Russian filmmaker since Eisenstein, and one of the most important directors to have emerged during the 1960s and 70s. Although he made only seven features, each one was a major landmark in cinema, the most well-known of them...

'He is a Chekhov of our time: holding his characters with as much humanity, compassion, humor and love - but without holding back his scathing indictment of deeply entrenched, systemic injustices and inequities.' - David Schwimmer The Inequalities combines three plays from British author...

Sugar Skull Colouring Books for AdultsDay of The Dead Colouring Book With Fun Skull Design & Easy Patterns for RelaxationDay of The Dead Colouring Book (El Día de los Muertos) has been celebrated in Mexico and other Latin countries since pre-Columbian times. This is...

'I could fly to New York and back every day for seven years and still not leave a carbon footprint as big as if I have a child. Ten thousand tonnes of CO2. That's the weight of the Eiffel Tower. I'd be giving birth...

Solve chess problems and improve your chess tactical skills. This book of chess problems will certainly be of great benefit to players of higher level. By practicing day after day, they will progress, in a certain way, using the best tactical schemes. In chess,...

Solve chess problems and improve your chess tactical skills. This booklet of chess problems will certainly be of great benefit to confirmed players. By practicing day after day, they will progress, in a certain way, using the best tactical schemes. In chess, tactical play...

It's easy to blame the difficulties theatre now faces on the longest shutdown of stages since the mid-seventeenth century. But these problems began some time before a global pandemic. Decades of free market ideas, ten years of austerity, and the slow encroachment of private...

From The Passion of the Christ to Life of Brian, and from The Ten Commandments to Last Temptation of Christ, filmmakers have been adapting the stories of the Bible for over 120 years, from the first time the Höritz Passion Play was filmed in...

With a text that flows like the lyrics to a great song, and lush, atmospheric illustrations that bring the characters to life, the second of Alligator Slim's adventures helps even the youngest of fans see themselves in this story of acceptance and overcoming prejudice....

In Vulgar Beauty Mila Zuo offers a new theorization of cinematic feminine beauty by showing how mediated encounters with Chinese film and popular culture stars produce feelings of Chineseness. To illustrate this, Zuo uses the vulgar as an analytic to trace how racial, gendered,...

A classic BBC compilation of 50 favorite nursery rhymes, with light-hearted commentary from two BBC presenters.This popular collection includes these favourites: Humpty Dumpty, Sing a Song of Sixpence, Hickory Dickory Dock, Hey Diddle Diddle, Little Jack Horner, Polly Put the Kettle On, Mary Mary...

Over a decade's worth of M Kitchell's writing on film. The collection includes the novella Paul Garrior in Jacques Riverrun's "The Abyss is the Foundation of the Possible", a formalist collage story about the vampiric pull of the filmed image, the creative process, and...

Author: Christopher Riley, Kathy RileyPublisher: Michael Wiese ProductionsPublished: 03/15/2022Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 8.80h x 5.90w x 0.70dISBN: 9781615933372

Becoming a director is not just about making a film, webseries, commercial, or music video. The opportunity to direct for television is not a given because you've successfully completed a project in another medium. Turning your passion into your profession requires the ability to...

I only wish I had Doug and Ken's wisdom earlier in my career."-Eric Heisserer (Writer of Arrival, Lights Out, Bird box, Shadow and Bone) "It's on my top shelf of books I can't be without."-John Badham (Director of Saturday Night Fever, WarGames, Stakeout). "With...