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Everything I Know about Filmmaking I Learned Watching Seven SamuraiIn celebration of the sixtieth anniversary of Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai ⎯ one of cinema's most superb and influential achievements ⎯ Richard D. Pepperman presents this elegant book as a master class, and illustrates, with beautiful strokes of insight, how and why this film...
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The Film Director's Intuition: Script Analysis and Rehearsal TechniquesAcclaimed director Judith Weston offers a deeply creative exploration on how to access and stimulate the filmmaker's most precious assets: instincts, imagination, and intuition.Author: Judith WestonPublisher: Michael Wiese ProductionsPublished: 04/01/2014Pages: 389Binding Type: Library BindingWeight: 1.53lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88dISBN: 9781615932085About the AuthorWeston, Judith:...
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Nijinsky: A Life of Genius and MadnessThe intoxicating story of one of the greatest dancers in the history of ballet and the paradox of his profound genius and descent into madness.Vaslav Nijinsky stands alone as a dancer, interpretive artist, and choreographic pioneer. His breathtaking performances with the Ballet Russe took...
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The Everything Movie Word Search Book: 150 Blockbuster Puzzles for Fans of the Big ScreenEnjoy hours of fun with 150 word searches perfect for any movie buff! Famous lines, glamorous stars, and unforgettable characters! Movie buffs will love the latest Everything word search book. Great film moments, characters, and locations are incorporated into 150 fun movie-based puzzles. Each...
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Writing Movies: The Practical Guide to Creating Stellar ScreenplaysTo break into the screenwriting game, you need a screenplay that is not just good, but great. Superlative. Stellar. In Writing Movies you'll find everything you need to know to reach this level. And, like the very best teachers, Writing Movies is always practical,...
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Like VanessaMiddle graders will laugh and cry with thirteen-year-old Vanessa Martin as she tries to be like Vanessa Williams, the first black Miss America. In this semi-autobiographical debut novel set in 1983, Vanessa Martin's real-life reality of living with family in public housing in Newark,...
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Stagecraft 1--Student Workbook: A Complete Guide to Backstage WorkThis companion piece, three-hole punched for carrying in a binder, includes 67 pages, including illustrations, for structured note-taking. In addition, a 24 page insert in the center of the book includes 23 crossword puzzles to correspond with the vocabulary introduced in each chapter.Author: William...
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Truth in Comedy: The Manual of ImprovisationWant to learn the improv techniques that helped Mike Myers, Chris Farley, John Belushi, and many others along the road to TV and film stardom? Then let two esteemed founders of long-form improvisational theatre, Del Close and Charna Halpern, teach you the "Harold." This...
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Prop Master: A Guidebook for Successful Theatrical Prop ManagementWhether you are a professional, volunteer or student prop master for a play production, this book reviews what a demanding theatre tech position this is. There's a lot more to propping a show than many theatre people realize. While the information provided in this...
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Training of the American ActorSuccessful acting must reflect a society's current beliefs. The men and women who developed each new technique were convinced that previous methods were not equal to the full challenges of their time and place, and the techniques in this book have been adapted to...
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Qed: A Play Inspired by the Writings of Richard Feynman and Tuva or Bust!by Ralph LeightonQED is a seductive mix of science, human affections, moral courage and comic eccentricity... not to be missed."- John Simon, New York Magazine The play itself is a kind of proof, dramatically illustrating how a man who happens to be a genius elegantly and...
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Five, Six, Seven, Nate"The Nate series by Tim Federle is a wonderful evocation of what it's like to be a theater kid. Highly recommended." --Lin-Manuel Miranda, star and creator of the musical, Hamilton Winner of the Lambda Literary Award Encore Nate Foster's Broadway dreams are finally coming...
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Lin-Manuel Miranda: Ready-To-Read Level 3Get to know Lin-Manuel Miranda, the award-winning creator of Hamilton: An American Musical, in this fascinating nonfiction Level 3 Ready-to-Read, part of a series of biographies about people "you should meet " Meet Lin-Manuel Miranda Lin-Manuel is a writer, singer, actor, songwriter, and rapper...
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Miguel's Guitar / La Guitarra de Miguel (English-Spanish) (Disney/Pixar Coco) (Level Up! Readers)Join Miguel from the Disney and Pixar movie Coco in this bilingual English-Spanish level 4 reader from the brand-new leveled reader series, Level Up Readers. Acompa a a Miguel en la pel cula de Disney y Pixar Coco en este libro de lectura Nivel...
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Cockatoo, TooWho can can-can? Find out in Cockatoo, Too, a hilarious book that features cockatoos, two more cockatoos, and tutued toucans too, now available as a board book! Cockatoo.Cockatoo two?Cockatoo, too?Two cockatoos!Two cockatoos, too?Cockatoo tutus! Two cockatoos meet two more cockatoos in tutus and two...
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Quentin Tarantino: Poetics and Politics of Cinematic MetafictionQuentin Tarantino's films beg to be considered metafiction: metacommentaries that engage with the history of cultural representations and exalt the aesthetic, ethical, and political potential of creation as re-re-creation and resignification. Covering all eight of Quentin Tarantino's films according to certain themes, David Roche...
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Ballet Cat Dance! Dance! Underpants!Everyone's favorite feline dance diva is paired with a reluctant partner in his hilarious second book in the popular Ballet Cat series for early readers! Ballet Cat is getting her friend Butter Bear ready for her big ballet debut. "Leap, Butter Bear, leap!" Ballet...
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The Bravest Man in the WorldFrom master storyteller Patricia Polacco comes the tragic and beautiful story inspired by Wallace Hartley--the musician who played with his band to calm the passengers of the Titanic as the ship sank. One afternoon, Jonathan Harker Weeks didn't feel like practicing the piano. So...
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A Night Out with MamaFrom Academy Award-nominated actress Quvenzhané Wallis comes a story about glitz, glamour, and the most important thing of all--family. A very talented little girl has a very special night ahead of her. A night where she'll get to wear a new dress in the...
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On Acting ... and Life: A New Look at an Old CraftDozens of books on acting exist, but none of them are quite like this. On Acting and Life provides both insightful acting advice and the memoir of an acclaimed actor of both stage and screen. Modelled after Stephen King's bestseller, On Writing, the book...
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