Performing Arts

Celebrate your love of the highly anticipated film Wicked with this stunning collectible hardcover journal designed to resemble the Grimmerie, the ancient book of spells used by Elphaba Thropp. Record your notes and thoughts or keep track of your magical ideas with this one-of-a-kind...

How did the story of Cinderella, her glass slipper, the pumpkin carriage, and a magical night at the ball with a prince come to be? Find out in this dazzling book that explores the many different versions of Cinderella's story across different authors, movies,...

Embrace your dark side with this officially licensed Nightshade Society journal featuring humorous, macabre quotes from the hit series Wednesday. "I don't do social media. I find it to be a soul-sucking void of meaningless affirmation."--Wednesday Addams Join the most gothic Addams family member...

Passengers disco dancing in The Love Boat's Acapulco Lounge. A young girl walking by a marquee advertising Deep Throat in the made-for-TV movie Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway. A frustrated housewife borrowing Orgasm and You from her local library in Mary Hartman, Mary...

Classic Italian film poster art is renowned as being among the most accomplished, creative and dynamic of its kind. From the post-war period through to the 1980s, Italian artists consistently produced posters with sumptuously stunning designs and imagery.VOLUPTUOUS VICES 4 showcases 50 film posters...

Author: Sarah PagliaroPublisher: Spooky Moose StudioPublished: 11/01/2024Pages: 34Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.62lbsSize: 8.00h x 8.00w x 0.25dISBN: 9798218507190Audience: Baby-PreschoolThis title is not returnable

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Between 1919 and 1961, pioneering Chinese American actress Anna May Wong established an enduring legacy that encompassed cinema, theater, radio,...

illustrated and performed by the singers of Buffalo Girlchoir, "This Little Light of MIne" provides a fresh look at a classic folk song. A QR code on the front of the book takes you to the recording so you can listen as you read...

For a time in the 1970s, New York City seemed to many to be genuinely on the cusp of collapse. Plagued by rampant crime, graft, catastrophic finances, and crumbling infrastructure, it served as a symbol for the plight of American cities after the convulsions...

'All art is propaganda, ' wrote George Orwell, 'but not all propaganda is art.' Moving from World War I to the 'War on Terror' and beyond, The Story of British Propaganda Film shows how the emergence of film as a global media phenomenon reshaped...

The Sound of Silence explores how non-verbal communication in film, shown primarily through the acting of Ryan Gosling, provides an expressive space in which passive audience viewing is made more active by removing the expository signifier of dialogue. The German Expressionist era may have...

A mystery spans decades at the Rehearsal Club in this story of sisterhood, friendship and following your dreams under marquee lights. Twelve-year-old Pal Gallagher is a newly minted New Yorker who loves to make people laugh and is hoping to find kindred spirits in...

Inspired by historical events, a royal scandal ignites a blistering fire between the steely Queen Mother and her children's doting nanny in Melanie Tait's sparkling new comedy-drama. Marion 'Crawfie' Crawford adored her job as governess to Princesses Lilibet and Margaret Rose until she was...

In 2003, Buddy the Elf went on a journey to find his father, and ultimately help Santa save Christmas, and since then the world has gone Elf mad. There are only a few modern Christmas films that everyone agrees are instant classics, but Elf...

First performed the day after Marie-Antoinette's beheading, Le Jugement dernier des rois stages the burlesque trial of the remaining kings and queens of Europe--paraded in chains like animals, made to brawl over a barrel of crackers, and finally obliterated by a spectacular volcanic eruption....

Backstage in the most coveted theaters of Broadway works Jenny Anderson, a legend in her own right. A known Broadway photographer, Anderson has worked with the biggest names of theater and used the power of photography to tell the stories behind the stories: what...

The role of performing art in one of the world's most diverse and complex societiesThis book is the first comprehensive overview of Javanese performing arts from their origins to their dynamic present. Renowned scholar and musician Sumarsam draws from a lifetime of immersion in...

The Halloween Society, founded in the late 1980s, transformed monster masks from disposable products to bonafide works of art. Now its colorful history and dramatic influence is documented in Ron Magid's two-volume memoir, The Halloween Society Unearthed and The Halloween Society Unmasked. The Halloween...

How did the popular drama of Shakespeare's age become literature? Every work that has survived from the theater of past ages has gone through some editorial process to make it available to readers. The book of the play is not the play on the...

Theatres of Value explores the idea that buying and selling are performative acts and offers a paradigm for deeper study of these acts--"the dramaturgy of value." Modeling this multifaceted approach, the book explores six case studies to show how and why Shakespeare had value...