Performing Arts

You've seen the rivalries. You've witnessed the blood, sweat, and tears. You've celebrated the champions. But what does it really take to win MTV's The Challenge? And what happens after the cameras stop rolling? Since 1998, MTV's The Challenge has tested competitors' physical, mental,...

Howard Hawks is the first major biography of one of Hollywood's greatest directors, a filmmaker of incomparable versatility whose body of work includes the landmark gangster film Scarface, screwball comedies like Bringing Up Baby and His Girl Friday, the Bogart-Bacall classics To Have and...

Spooky artwork and frightening prose awaits in Horror Coloring. Features over 60 haunting images of ready-to-color line art, including zombies, vampires, ghosts, monsters, and more. Each coloring page is accompanied by a horror-themed poem, book excerpt, or film quote to set the chilling mood...

Covering everything from Basilisks to Zouwus, Harry Potter: Creatures of the Wizarding World is a visual guide to the magical creatures from all eight Harry Potter and three Fantastic Beasts films. In this comprehensive, updated and expanded edition of Harry Potter: The Creature Vault,...

Around about August 1948, Mr and Mrs Cyril Wakeman had an early night and some time later, at Perivale in Middlesex, Mrs Wakeman produced a bonny baby son. They named him Richard, but he quickly became known as Rick. Rick was a likeable little...

This book provides a systematic overview of hostile rhetoric on state-controlled Russian TV and shows how it laid the foundation for the Russian public's widespread acceptance of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022. It reveals the strategies behind the Kremlin-directed television...

Fifty Contemporary Film Directors examines the work of some of today's most popular and influential cinematic figures. It provides an accessible overview of each director's contribution to cinema, incorporating a discussion of their career, major works and impact. Revised throughout and with twelve new...

Empathy and Performance advances a study of empathy and enactments of power by examining works from author-actors whose performances explore the boundaries between two kinship positions. Author Laura V. Sández studies the dramatized dilemma of cultural understanding in "Our America," a notion that refers...

Empathy and Performance advances a study of empathy and enactments of power by examining works from author-actors whose performances explore the boundaries between two kinship positions. Author Laura V. Sández studies the dramatized dilemma of cultural understanding in "Our America," a notion that refers...

In this groundbreaking book, Matsuoka Shinpei--a leading scholar of noh theater--provides a detailed account of the birth of one of Japan's most celebrated art forms. Although noh has often been associated with the elite, Embodied Performance explores its links to a wider popular culture,...

Get ready to sail on a Cruise Ship Confidential! Ever wonder what goes on below decks of a real-life Love Boat? Bruce J. Starin knows. He was hired as a Social Director, and soon promoted to Assistant Cruise Director (First Officer of Entertainment) on...

From LA Times bestselling author Mallory O'Meara, the story of America's first professional stuntwoman, Helen Gibson, who rose to fame during a time when women ruled Hollywood.Helen Gibson was a woman willing to do anything to give audiences a thrill. Advertised as "The Most...

"Dancing makes you feel heaps better" - DianaIn 1981, after the wedding of the century, Anne Allan, a dancer, and ballet mistress with the London City Ballet, was offered an unusual assignment. Her Royal Highness Diana, the Princess of Wales, wanted dance lessons. Would...

Crying holds a privileged place in conversations around emotions as an expression of authentic feeling. And yet, tears are ambiguous: they might signal the most positive and negative of affects; they might present a sincere revelation of self or be simulated to manipulate others....

Put your Christmas-movie expertise to the test with nearly 500 trivia questions, accompanied by entertaining illustrations capturing your favorite holiday-film moments. Quiz yourself or compete with your friends! With challenging questions from over 180 of the greatest Christmas movies in film history, Christmas Movie...

This is the first comprehensive, fully-researched account of the historical and contemporary development of the traditional martial arts genre in the Chinese cinema known as wuxia (literal translation: martial chivalry) - a genre which audiences around the world became familiar with through the phenomenal...

Author: Bozar-Centre For Fine ArtsPublisher: Lannoo PublishersPublished: 04/30/2024Pages: 208Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.25lbsSize: 9.45h x 6.77w x 0.71dISBN: 9789401410922About the AuthorEdited by Bozar-Centre for Fine Arts & Jeu de Paume. With contributions from Claire Atherton, Jacqueline Aubenas, Luc Benhamou, Anouk De Clercq, Jan Decorte, Verónica...

The 2019 Chinese drama Ch?n Q?ng L?ng (CQL; translated The Untamed) quickly became a massive phenomenon, drawing millions of viewers in China and beyond. Its resonant story, rich cast of characters, and striking production captured audience attention globally; its paratexts and fandoms helped keep...

Every episode of the hit BBC Radio 4 airline sitcom is collected together in this special box set, including the Christmas special final episode and several bonus features. Cabin Pressure is set in the wing and a prayer world of a tiny, one-plane charter...

Author: Twentieth Century Studios IncPublisher: Rizzoli UniversePublished: 09/03/2024Pages: 320Binding Type: DailyWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 5.18h x 11.39w x 1.35dISBN: 9780789344519About the AuthorTwentieth Century Studios, Inc. (formerly known as Twentieth Century Fox, Inc.) is an American film studio that is a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Studios,...