Performing Arts

Cinematic Encounters with Disaster takes Hollywood's disaster movies and their codified versions of natural disaster, post-apocalyptic survival, and extra-terrestrial threat as the starting point for an analytical trajectory that works toward new understandings of how cinema shapes and informs our conceptions of disaster and...

This book offers various approaches to understanding the short form in television. The collection is structured in three parts, first engaging with the concept of brevity as inherent to television fiction, before going on to examine how the rapidly-changing landscape of "television" outside traditional...

Dive into the dark and dazzling world of Repo! The Genetic Opera with this comprehensive guide by Hollywood historian Staci Layne Wilson. From on-set experiences to exclusive interviews spanning sixteen years, Wilson offers an unparalleled look at the 2009 cult classic that merged sci-fi,...

This is a tale of A BLACK MAN, not THE BLACK MAN, for we're not a monolith. We each have different ways of being. Maybe a collection like this changes perceptions, for we're not only a group who share a similar hue. There's a...

Happy little leaf-cutter bee Betty lives a busy life where fields are green, until a smoky wind blows her away on an incredible adventure! Will Betty the busy bee find her way back home?Betty the busy leaf-cutter bee lives where the flowers are colorful,...

Happy little leaf-cutter bee Betty lives a busy life where fields are green, until a smoky wind blows her away on an incredible adventure! Will Betty the busy bee find her way back home?Betty the busy leaf-cutter bee lives where the flowers are colorful,...

Bart Simpson, the bad boy of Springfield, is back in Bart Simpson: Big Shot, a bold series of comic misadventures.All of your favorite characters here, including Maggie and Lisa Simpson, Milhouse, and neighborhood bully Nelson Muntz.With full-color illustrations throughout, this monumental collection of big-headed...

Under the editorship of the late Robert Nemiroff, with a provocative and thoughtful introduction by preeminent African-American scholar Margaret B. Wilkerson and a commentary by Spike Lee, this completely restored screenplay is the accurate and authoritative edition of Lorraine Hansberry's script and a testament...

Step up to the barre with Angelina Ballerina as she tackles new challenges in this paperback bind-up of four chapter books full of beautiful black-and-white illustrations and with sparkly foil on the cover. Angelina Ballerina welcomes her little sister and other new students to...

Film scholar Murray Pomerance presents a series of fascinating and groundbreaking meditations on six films directed by the legendary Alfred Hitchcock, a master of the cinema. Two of the films, North by Northwest and Vertigo, are extraordinarily famous and have been seen--and misunderstood--countless times....

Marvel, like other media "universes," is a collection of highly profitable and audience-satisfying products that exist not only as individual items of popular culture but coalesce to form a unique and all-encompassing identity. Within media studies, elements of popular culture once dismissed as low-brow...

Darby Swank's entire life changed when her Aunt Bea was brutally murdered one summer in their rural Saskatchewan community. Following her gripping debut Friendly Fire, Lisa Guenther skillfully picks up Darby's story a few weeks after the dramatic finale. Building her life anew, Darby...

A Critical Companion to Christopher Nolan provides a wide-ranging exploration of Christopher Nolan's films, practices, and collaborations. From a range of critical perspectives, this volume examines Nolan's body of work, explores its industrial and economic contexts, and interrogates the director's auteur status. This volume...

Celebrate the highly anticipated film Wicked with this officially licensed journal featuring Emerald City on the cover and an elegant velvet ribbon page marker adorned with an enameled hot air balloon charm. 184 RULED PAGES: Write down all your magical notes and thoughts in...

The official behind-the-scenes companion to Asteroid City and the latest volume in the bestselling Wes Anderson Collection series Asteroid City--the eleventh feature film from Academy Award-winning director Wes Anderson--follows a group of teen geniuses and their families as they attend the 1955 Junior Stargazers...

A guided tour through the nuanced politics of architectural illusion, The Vatican to Vegas takes the reader from lavish Baroque fantasies of the seventeenth century to the Electronic Baroque of today. The >scripted spacesscripted spacesAuthor: Norman M. KleinPublisher: Transcript PublishingPublished: 03/25/2025Pages: 520Binding Type: PaperbackISBN:...

No one knows anything about Tom Buckram - the friendly piano man who wanders the countryside - except that he somehow carries a piano on his back, plays beautifully, and keeps a wolf as a companion. No one would guess the truth about why...

Full Length, DramaCharacters: 1 male, 1 female Interior setOriginally produced at New York's Circle Rep, this tender, ribald, and complex love story is set in a waterfront bar where seaman Harry Bales spends his shore leave. "The Sea Horse" is run by Gertrude Blum,...

After a panic attack prevents Florencia from performing as Clara in The Nutcracker and her best friend takes the lead, a new dance style helps her face her anxiety as well as a troubled friendship.Ballet is Florencia del Lago's entire world. After years of...

The Oneiric in the Films of David Lynch is the first systematic book-length study to explore the nature and function of dreams in David Lynch's different phases and audio-visual formats. There is hardly a contemporary film director whose name is as closely linked to...