Performing Arts

This book is a fascinating look at the history of the Oscars that dates back to 1927. Every Best Picture winner is profiled in the book. Although there have been many books listing the Oscar winners, there has never been one like this that...

Record the secrets of Hextech, design your own hammer, and track your creative genius with this gorgeous, officially licensed journal inspired by Arcane! In Piltover, progress waits for no one. Whether your field is science, writing, art, poetry, or something in between, this beautifully...

Leftist filmmakers of the 1960s revolutionized the art of documentary. Often inspired by the radical art of the Soviet 1920s, filmmakers in countries like France and Japan dared to make film form a powerful weapon in the fight against fascism, weaving fiction into nonfiction...

Anime is exploding on the worldwide stage! Anime has been a staple in Japan for decades, strongly connected to manga. So why has anime become a worldwide sensation? A cursory explanation is the explosion of online streaming services specializing in anime, like Funimation and...

Alfred Hitchcock was a major figure in the development and flourishing of film noir. His noir films became an inspirational foundation of the neo-noir movement beginning in the 1970s, from Brian de Palma's mash-up homages to Hitchcock originals such as Obsession (1976) and Body...

Age of Anxiety: Meaning, Identity, and Politics in 21st Century Film and Literature analyzes literature and films that speak to our age of anxiety resulting from the decline of narratives that provided individuals with a meaningful human life. The authors argue that the twentieth-century...

Have you ever considered a career in meteorology? The perception of meteorology is often based on the person delivering weather on TV, seemingly with a glamorous, well-paying career that takes little effort. Many people have given the profession thought, but few follow through because...

1000 fascinating facts all about the classic AMC television show. So, grab yourself a Schraderbr?u and pimento cheese sandwich and prepare for 1000 facts all about Breaking Bad!Author: Scott AmbrosePublisher: Scott AmbrosePublished: 04/26/2024Pages: 154Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.52lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.36dISBN: 9798224716715This title...

Celebrate your love of Wicked with this deluxe stationery gift set that contains everything a Shiz University student might need to show their school pride for the prestigious school of magic. This deluxe stationery set features a collectible, Shiz University- inspired luggage carrying case;...

Anyone can start a band. Anyone can be famous. Not everyone can wait a lifetime.From hammering it with the 'gods of rock' to heroin diaries, white line fevers and the inevitable ghost written My Story, it would seem that every gnarled old pop star...

One of the plays that first announced Sam Shepard as an original voice in American theater, Tooth of Crime is his thrillingly innovative rock drama, published here in a revised edition that is as fresh and provocative as the original was more than thirty...

NYT and USAT bestselling author and screenwriter, Cindy Dees, brings her formidable skills as a master storyteller and master writing teacher to this encyclopedic series analyzing the major tropes used in modern commercial fiction. In this volume, Cindy explores 32 iconic hook romance tropes,...

NYT and USAT bestselling author and screenwriter, Cindy Dees, brings her formidable skills as a master storyteller and master writing teacher to this encyclopedic series analyzing the major tropes used in modern commercial fiction. In this volume, Cindy explores 33 iconic internal romance tropes,...

This volume contains the famous manifestos of the 'Theatre of Cruelty' and definitons of this theatre, underlying impulses of performance, suggestions on a physical training method for actors and actresses and an appreciation of values of Eastern dance drama.Author: Antonin ArtaudPublisher: Alma BooksPublished: 02/01/2013Pages:...

This book examines how fashion intersects with political expression in the United States and across the globe. The chapters cover a diversity of perspectives, including experiences of men, minoritized people and women, and LGBTQ persons, as well as examining strategic choices by political actors...

Go on a musical journey at the beach with a little girl as she revisits her favorite part--the waves! They go up and down, they crescendo, and they crash! Discover a variety of musical terms and have fun riding the waves.Author: Leah FinkleaPublisher: Christian...

From a bestselling and award-winning team comes a moving, gorgeously illustrated picture-book biography of one of the greatest cellists of all time, Yo-Yo Ma, and his lifelong passion for using music to unite people in harmony and joy "I've been asking myself all my...

Author: John BleasdalePublisher: University Press of KentuckyPublished: 12/03/2024Pages: 292Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.35lbsSize: 9.06h x 6.06w x 0.94dISBN: 9781985901186Review Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 10/21/2024Kirkus Reviews 12/01/2024

The Housing Film examines how a century of realities and possibilities in domestic living have been profiled and foregrounded through studies and representations of Housing in the medium of Film. The filmic investigations, analysis and expos?s of homes and our way of occupying them,...

Fusing a distinctive feminist aesthetics with a startling vision of twentieth-century Spain, the work of Cecilia Bartolom? casts a new light on the histories of both Spanish national film, and transnational women's cinema. This book places Bartolom? among other key auteurs of national Spanish,...