Performing Arts

For the first time ever, immerse yourself in the action-packed thrills of DC at the movies in one spectacular book. From the trailblazing 1940s movie serials that first put Batman and Superman on the silver screen to the Caped Crusader's swinging 1960s escapades and...

Béla Lugosi's commanding presence, hypnotic voice, and mesmerizing gaze made him the embodiment of Count Dracula, a role that has established him as a cultural icon and a legend of the silver screen forever. But there's so much more to this captivating individual than...

Imagine this ... warm, soft beignets covered in powdered sugar. Sounds good, right? Zoe and her brothers couldn't wait to have a bite of beignets. A mistake in baking led Zoe to have specially made beignets that gave her magical ballet powers just in...

Enjoy a taste of Disney with this pocket-size cookbook of snacks inspired by your favorite animated adventures! Celebrate your love of Disney films with this adorable cookbook filled with the most delicious snacks from Insight Editions' bestselling Disney and Pixar cookbooks. BITE-SIZE AND DELICIOUS:...

For twelve-year-old violinist Flora, growing up doesn't always mean growing apart. But when a Battle of the Bands starts to divide Flora's friend group, she knows that music will either separate them or bring them back together again.Playing violin makes twelve-year-old Flora feel alive,...

PLAN YOUR DAYS in 2025 and celebrate the highly anticipated sequel to the film Dune with this stunning 13-month weekly planner. With monthly dividers, dated weekly spreads, notes pages, a storage pocket, and two pages of planner stickers, this planner is the perfect all-in-one...

In this book, Jonah Corne and Monika Vrečar offer a conceptually innovative reexamination of Yiddish cinema, a crucial yet little-known diasporic phenomenon that enjoyed its "golden age" in the mid- to late 1930s. Yiddish cinema, they argue, exhibits a distinctive fascination with media forms,...

The true story that inspired the major motion picture starring Bryan Cranston and Helen Mirren. Dalton Trumbo was the central figure in the "Hollywood Ten," the blacklisted and jailed screenwriters. One of several hundred writers, directors, producers, and actors who were deprived of the...

A sweeping history of racialized performance across the Anglophone imperial world from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century A material history of racialized performance throughout the Anglophone imperial world, Transoceanic Blackface: Empire, Race, Performance revises prevailing understandings of blackface and minstrelsy as distinctively...

Television history was made on October 11, 1975, when a new generation of young performers welcomed America to the first episode of a new late-night comedy and variety show. Combining cutting-edge humor with a satirical sensibility, Saturday Night Live would go on to become...

In The Only Way Out, Katherine Brewer Ball explores the American fascination with the escape story. Brewer Ball argues that escape is a key site for exploring American conceptions of freedom and constraint. Stories of escape are never told just once but become mythic...

Explore the domain of the Pumpkin King in this stunning papercraft display by world-renowned pop-up book creator Matthew Reinhart. Then scream with delight as the scene magically transforms into the joyful holiday world of Sandy Claws. You are cordially invited to explore two of...

Between 1934 and 1968, no Hollywood studio could make a movie without the permission of and a seal of approval from the Production Code Administration. The Production Code was Hollywood's official censor. Screenplays, books, plays, costumes and even story ideas and songs had to...

Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2023 The Myth of Harm engages and analyses controversies generated by horror that examines some of the most high-profile media debates around the issue of whether or not horror texts corrupt children. The horror genre has endured a long and...

Author: Various AuthorsPublisher: BatiscafoPublished: 07/02/2024Pages: 288Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.30w x 0.70dISBN: 9788417800093Language: Spanish

Let's get adorably lovesick and twisted with this coloring book that delivers goth valentines all year round with cute zombie cupids, coffins covered in hearts, sweet treats with fangs, and more. Creepy, cute love is in the air...and breaking down the boundaries between sinister...

This title offers readers a backstage pass to Taylor Swift's iconic The Eras Tour. Included in this comprehensive encyclopedia is a detailed exploration of each tour stop in North America, the stage design, costumes, and dancers, and an in-depth analysis of every song featured...

The Beginning Actor Series was created for elementary and middle school students as an introduction to acting. The introductory chapters on how to perform monologues and duet scenes are easy to read and give students a good background for performing. Each monologue and scene...

A musical one hundred years in the making, Suffs brings to life a complicated chapter in the ongoing battle for the right to vote.Written by one of the most exciting new voices in theater, this epic new musical takes an unflinching look at the...

The decades following the independences from colonialism saw a pioneering generation of realist novels and films emerge across Africa and South Asia. They told stories of people living through national circumstances fast diverging from the promises of decolonisation. Subjectivity and Decolonisation in the Post-Independence...