Performing Arts

America's 1st female rock jock on AM radio in Chicago--1st female in America to broadcast live on HD radio in 2005--Written into the U.S.Congressional Record. Connie tells how she lost that ABC-TV gig to Oprah; surprised Elvis, and had a date with Neil Diamond....

Kara Keeling contends that cinema and cinematic processes had a profound significance for twentieth-century anticapitalist Black Liberation movements based in the United States. Drawing on Gilles Deleuze's notion of "the cinematic"-not just as a phenomenon confined to moving-image media such as film and television...

This story is about the life experiences of two trees residing in a forest. The first tale is about an older oak tree who has lived through many seasons. Because of his advanced age and size, he has formed many friendships with the local...

There is magic in the short form -- a style that has evolved to create an entirely new universe of stories for us to uncover.Short form captivates the world through narratives, documentary shorts, web series, music videos, social media, and more. In The Short,...

The Revolution Will Be Improvised: The Intimacy of Cultural Activism traces intimate encounters between activists and local people of the civil rights movement through an archive of Black and Brown avant-gardism. In the 1960s, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) activists engaged with people of...

From Shakespeare's gender-bending play Twelfth Night to the the critically-acclaimed Broadway hit Angels in America, from 17th century kabuki theater of Japan--performed by cross-dressing prostitutes--to the NEA-denounced performance art of Holly Hughes, theater has long been--as co-editor Alisa Solomon terms it--the queerest art. The...

In The Queer Coming of Age Film Genre, Brad Windhauser argues for the existence of this genre and, using a genre and queer theory lens, investigates how the initial, classic cluster of this genre's films represent the unique issues experienced by queer people -...

Another day, another grand scheme! The thieving Fitzglen family are back in this second instalment of the spellbinding Theatre of Thieves gothic mystery series set in Victorian England. London, 1908. The Fitzglens, one of London's leading theatre families and part-time thieves, are plotting their...

Are you a scriptwriter struggling to finish your story? Are you a film industry professional looking for more writing skills? Or are you simply wondering how to write a screenplay? Then, this book is the perfect fit."The Movie Script" is an inspirational short guide...

The Last Romantic in His Own Words combines carefully curated personal and professional letters with reminiscences, pedagogical essays, and statements on public affairs that Hungarian musician Ernst von Dohn?nyi (1877-1960) wrote throughout his lengthy career. Also included are a selection of interviews he gave...

Author: Stephen OrgelPublisher: Oxford University PressPublished: 11/04/2024Pages: 144Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.62lbsSize: 8.09h x 5.65w x 0.57dISBN: 9780198920557This title is not returnable

Official art book revealing the process of making the Winter 2024 stop-motion animated film Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, featuring concept art, sketches, behind-the-scenes photography and interviews with Aardman's key creatives. In Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, Gromit's concern that Wallace is...

A comprehensive, large-format hardcover offering unparalleled insight into the making of The War of the Rohirrim, and the complete creative journey from concept to finished film told by the artists and filmmakers themselves.Written and compiled by Daniel Falconer, conceptual artist at the Academy Award-winning...

What kind of woman dances naked for money? Bernadette Barton takes us inside countless strip bars and clubs, from upscale to back road as well as those that specialize in lapdancing, table dancing, topless only, or peep shows, to reveal the startling lives of...

Explore the worlds of a galaxy far, far away with incredible cross-sections.With more than 60 intricate full-color artworks and 3D maps, explore iconic locations that bring the Star Wars saga to life. This updated edition has been comprehensively updated and includes incredible cross-sections from...

Author: Ben MacPhersonPublisher: Oxford University PressPublished: 11/25/2024Pages: 288Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.88lbsSize: 9.27h x 6.17w x 0.68dISBN: 9780197557648

Author: Erin Rose Wage, Brian Houlihan, Susan Rich BrookePublisher: Pi KidsPublished: 07/22/2019Binding Type: OtherWeight: 2.85lbsSize: 10.30h x 8.10w x 3.30dISBN: 9781503749948Audience: Ages 4-8Not available to be shipped via Media Mail

Someone's taken their love of Scream one step too far... and written a book about it Having earned the respect and accolades of critics and audiences, generated more than half a billion dollars in revenue, and inspired a gaggle of imitators, it's safe to...

Resistance and Support: Contact Improvisation @ 50 is a ground-breaking anthology that collects twenty original writings that elucidate critically important somatic and political perspectives on Contact Improvisation (CI). This form of partner dancing that was started in the United States in 1972, has spread...

Returns us to Gertrude Stein's theater by way of the modernist medium of radio What happens when we listen to Gertrude Stein's plays as radio and music theater? This book explores the sound of Stein's theater and proposes that radio, when approached both historically...