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Making Puppets Come AliveUnlike other performing arts, puppetry is perhaps the only art form in which directing, acting, writing, designing, sculpture, and choreography are combined. In effect, the performer is creating an artistic entertainment that will appeal to audiences of all ages -- in homes, in theaters,...
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Owning Performance Performing Ownership: Literary Property and the Eighteenth-Century British StageIn 1710, England's first copyright law gave authors the ability to own their works, but it was not until 1833 that literary property law was extended to protect dramatic performance. Between these dates, generations of playwrights grappled for control over their intellectual property in...
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Twelfth NightThe Signet Classics edition of William Shakespeare's comedy of lovers misled. Romantic folly and false identites abound as an unusual love triangle takes the stage in this play about Orsino, the infatuated Duke of Illyria; Olivia, the countess he pursues; and Viola, the woman...
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After Tupac & D FosterA Newbery Honor BookJacqueline Woodson is the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People's Literature The day D Foster enters Neeka and her best friend's lives, the world opens up for them. D comes from a world vastly different from their safe Queens neighborhood, and...
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Acting as a Business: Strategies for SuccessThe essential handbook for actors--a modern classic--in a newly updated edition. Since its original publication, Acting as a Business has earned a reputation as an indispensable tool for working and aspiring actors. Avoiding the usual advice about persistence and luck, Brian O'Neil provides clear-cut...
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This Is What Happy Looks LikeFrom the author of The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight comes a humorous and heartwarming novel about small towns, big love and mistaken email identity. When teenage movie star Graham Larkin accidentally sends small town girl Ellie O'Neill an email about his...
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Kind Is the New Classy: The Power of Living GraciouslyIn today's culture of outrage, how can you stand your ground with grace? Join bestselling author and actress Candace Cameron Bure as she reveals the countercultural thought patterns and practices that have enabled her to stay centered in who she is while practicing radical...
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How Did Lubitsch Do It?Orson Welles called Ernst Lubitsch (1892-1947) "a giant" whose "talent and originality are stupefying." Jean Renoir said, "He invented the modern Hollywood." Celebrated for his distinct style and credited with inventing the classic genre of the Hollywood romantic comedy and helping to create the...
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Theatre & HistoryThis provocative book meets the supposedly 'live' practices of performance and the 'no-longer-live' historical past at their own dangerous crossroads. Focussing on the 'and' of the title, it addresses the tangled relations between the terms, practices, ideas, and aims embedded in these compatriot -...
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Film Music: A Very Short IntroductionFilm music is as old as cinema itself. Years before synchronized sound became the norm, projected moving images were shown to musical accompaniment, whether performed by a lone piano player or a hundred-piece orchestra. Today film music has become its own industry, indispensable to...
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The Official Quotable Doctor Who: Wise Words from Across Space and TimeThe first-ever collection of the most intelligent, strangest, mysterious, and wonderful quotes from all fifty years of the BBC America hit television series Doctor Who.Over the years, Doctor Who has become one of the most popular science fiction series to date, with an ever...
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Tutu-rrificReaders can watch Pinkalicious and Peterrific on the funtastic PBS Kids TV series Pinkalicious & Peterrific A fun Pinkalicious I Can Read story about ballet from New York Times bestselling author Victoria KannPinkalicious can't wait to go to ballet class with her best friend,...
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To Everything That Might Have Been: The Lost Universe Of Space: 1999SO, YOU THOUGHT YOU KNEW EVERYTHING ABOUT SPACE: 1999? HOLD MY COMMLOCK ...The cult classic science fiction series Space: 1999 has legions of fans around the world and has been researched and documented in comprehensive books and documentaries, so fans can be forgiven for...
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My Collected Plays: (Vol. 1)Volume 1 of My Collected Plays by award winning author Lazarre Seymour Simckes, who has taught at Harvard, Yale, Williams, Vassar, Bennington, Tufts, and Brandeis, and conducted nationally televised writing workshops, contains his first four plays: Seven Days of Mourning, Ten Best Martyrs of...
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Endless Intervals: Cinema, Psychology, and Semiotechnics Around 1900Revealing cinema's place in the coevolution of media technology and the humanCinema did not die with the digital, it gave rise to it. According to Jeffrey West Kirkwood, the notion that digital technologies replaced analog obscures how the earliest cinema laid the technological and...
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Gilbert and Sullivan: The Players and the PlaysIn this, the first book to focus on the original cast members of the classic Gilbert and Sullivan comic operas, world-renowned musical theater expert Kurt Gänzl provides a concise history of the writing and production of each opera, vividly colored by the often little-known...
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Train de la PaixSee below for English description.Je suis heureux maintenant, à l'idée des belles choses à venir, et je crois que c'est sûrement quelque chose de bien.En route! Faites un tour à bord du train de la paix dans cet album adapté de la célèbre chanson...
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The Flash: The Official Visual Companion: The Scarlet Speedster from Page to ScreenTake an action-packed journey into the cinematic world of The Flash with this comprehensive collection of stunning images, behind-the-scenes stories, and interviews. Keep pace with the Fastest Man Alive with this compendium of facts and incredible images from the Super Hero's landmark film debut!...
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The Soundies: A History and Catalog of Jukebox Film Shorts of the 1940sThe 1940s saw a brief audacious experiment in mass entertainment: a jukebox with a screen. Patrons could insert a dime, then listen to and watch such popular entertainers as Nat "King" Cole, Gene Krupa, Cab Calloway or Les Paul. A number of companies offered...
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Fame: Ariana GrandeSpecial hard cover edition. From an early age, it was clear that Ariana Grande-Butera would be a star. From the small stage of a local theatre in Boca Raton, Ariana honed her craft. Following in the footsteps of her Broadway-star half-brother, Frankie, she quickly...
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