Performing Arts

One of the most anticipated books of the year, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner, a glimmering novel set in the world of pop music about sisters, motherhood, young love, and the dreams we chase.Sisters Cassie and Zoe Grossberg were born...

Author: Tammy OberhausenPublisher: Fireside IndustriesPublished: 11/05/2024Pages: 304Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.97lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.20w x 1.00dISBN: 9781950564446Review Citation(s): Booklist 10/01/2024 pg. 19

I call this series "I don't read music" since I am targeting beginners of all ages: children, teens, parents, and grandparents. This songbook includes 65 familiar and easy-to-play songs and melodies. Most songs have been simplified and transposed for one octave. So the songbook...

Drawing on the inquest manuscript and other previously unpublished material, Warren Beath cuts through the welter of conflicting reports and rumors to provide a taut reconstruciton of Dean's final hours.Author: Warren N. BeathPublisher: Grove PressPublished: 02/18/1994Pages: 240Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.72lbsSize: 9.19h x 6.10w x...

The Art of DreamWorks Dog Man goes behind the scenes for the making of DreamWorks Animation's delightful canine-crime-fighting feature film. DreamWorks Animation brings bestselling author and artist Dav Pilkey's hilarious global phenomenon book series Dog Man to the big screen. Exploring the improbable story...

A decade of installation works from the filmmaker famed for An Oversimplification of Her Beauty and Random Acts of FlynessThis is the first publication on the genre-defying practice of American filmmaker Terence Nance (born 1982). Tracing his work in film, video, television, sound and...

Listen as feet do the talking in this title from the Let's Dance! series. Readers will explore the history and cultural relevance of this fascinating artform, and meet some of the dancers who have made a name for themselves on screeen and stage.Author: Joyce...

To become sovereign, one must be seen as sovereign. In other words, a sovereign must appear--philosophically, politically, and aesthetically--on the stage of power, both to themselves and to others, in order to assume authority. In this sense, sovereignty is a theatrical phenomenon from the...

Author: Whitney AmazeenPublisher: Swan Pages PublishingPublished: 11/19/2024Pages: 368Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.03lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.82dISBN: 9781961559868Audience: Young Adult

Like the media coverage of the civil rights era itself, Hollywood dramas have reinforced regional stereotypes of race, class, and gender to cleanse and redeem the wider nation from the implications of systemic racism. As Southern by the Grace of God reveals, however, Hollywood...

Like the media coverage of the civil rights era itself, Hollywood dramas have reinforced regional stereotypes of race, class, and gender to cleanse and redeem the wider nation from the implications of systemic racism. As Southern by the Grace of God reveals, however, Hollywood...

Saturday Night is the intimate, original history of Saturday Night Live, from its beginnings as an outlaw program produced by an unruly band of renegades from the comedy underground to a TV institution that made stars of John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray, Chevy...

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. In the 1990s, India's mediascape saw the efflorescence of edgy soft-porn films in the Malayalam-speaking state of Kerala. In Rated...

"Quinn Martin was the most innovative and most creative of his kind. He was a man in touch with the future, far more than the times. His characters were not stereotypical characters. His production methods were not stereotypical either. He was unique in a...

Projections of Dakar studies the audiovisual creations and practices of twenty-first-century Senegalese filmmakers living, working, and distributing their films in urban Senegal. Although some observers have described contemporary Senegalese cinema as a dying industry, this book shows that it retains great potential. Senegalese cinematic...

Top criminal lawyer Tessa believes in the law, she believes in the system, she believes in playing by the rules. If you play by the rules, justice will be served. She has not only staked her career on these principles, she has placed her...

In an oak-panelled room in a rural Oxford gastropub, ten young undergraduates with cut-glass vowels and deep pockets are meeting, intent on restoring their right to rule - and on getting totally "chatueaued". Members of The Riot Club, an elite student dining society, the...

Half a century after Pasolini's death, his legacy still pervades the diverse creative fields in which he worked; he remains a source of inspiration for filmmakers today. Pier Paolo Pasolini was an intellectual with a painfully lucid view of his time, acutely aware of...

New York and London, 1901. An American painter arrives in London, befriended by a British gentleman who dreams of becoming a respected art dealer. The dealer-friend has a list of wealthy clients but the American painter has an eye for the ladies, including married...

Explores how popular religions and philosophies have influenced and are manifested in the world of Star Wars.You have watched Luke Skywalker destroy the Death Star in A New Hope, seen Yoda merge with the Force in Return of the Jedi, and heard Rey contact...