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California SuiteFull Length, Comedy Characters: 2 male, 3 female Interior set Neil Simon at his most humane, compassionate best. It's a humorous confection divided into four parts: Visitor from New York, Visitor from Philadelphia, Visitors from London and Visitors from Chicago. In Visitor from New...
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Mike Leigh on Mike LeighThis new edition updates Mike Leigh's career to his most recent films, Mister Turner and the epic masterpiece Peterloo. Five-time Oscar nominee and BAFTA winner, the only British director to have won the top prize at both Cannes (for Secrets & Lies) and Venice...
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Marty McGuireA fun, accessible chapter-book debut from an exciting new talent--simultaneous hardcover-paperback launch Marty McGuire would rather spend recess catching frogs in the pond than playing dress-up with the other girls in third grade. So when her teacher casts Marty as the princess in the...
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Sydney the SlothShimmy and spin! Dance the salsa with Sydney!Looking for a story to help your child improve their speech and learn to use the letter S? Sydney the Sloth is a fun, fast-paced dance story designed to support young readers as they begin to recognise...
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Who Was Charlie Chaplin?Who was the real Charlie Chaplin? Kids will learn all about the comic genius who created The Little Tramp Charlie Chaplin sang on a London stage for the first time at the age of five. Performing proved to be his salvation, providing a way...
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When the Moon Waxes Red: Representation, Gender and Cultural PoliticsIn this new collection of her provocative essays on Third World art and culture, Trinh Minh-ha offers new challenges to Western regimes of knowledge. Bringing to her subjects an acute sense of the many meanings of the marginal, she examines topics such as Asian...
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Berlioz the BearA Reading Rainbow Feature Title Zum, zum, buzz.... zum, zum, buzz... What's that strange buzz coming from the double bass? Berlioz has no time to investigate, because he and his bear orchestra are due at the gala ball in the village square at eight....
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The StudioIn 1967, John Gregory Dunne asked for unlimited access to the inner workings of Twentieth Century Fox. Miraculously, he got it. For one year Dunne went everywhere there was to go and talked to everyone worth talking to within the studio. He tracked every...
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The Music of LifeFull of joy and discovery, Louis Thomas' The Music of Life is a simple, melodious picture book about finding big inspiration and beauty in the smallest of details. At night when everyone else is asleep, one artist sits awake--pencil in hand, stuck. Lenny is...
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The Actor's Guide to Creating a Character: William Esper Teaches the Meisner TechniqueWilliam Esper, one of the most celebrated acting teachers of our time, takes us through his step-by-step approach to the central challenge of advanced acting work: creating and playing a character. Esper's first book, The Actor's Art and Craft, earned praise for describing the...
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Who the Hell's in It: Conversations with Hollywood's Legendary ActorsPeter Bogdanovich, known primarily as a director, film historian and critic, has been working with professional actors all his life. He started out as an actor (he debuted on the stage in his sixth-grade production of Finian's Rainbow); he watched actors work (he went...
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The Cult Film Reader""An invaluable collection for anyone researching or teaching cult cinema ... "The Cult Film Reader" is an authoritative text that should be of value to any student or researcher interested in challenging and transgressive cinema that pushes the boundaries of conventional cinema and film...
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Great Operatic DisastersTo its devotees, opera is the most sublime of arts. It is also one of the most accident prone, and when things go wrong, they tend to do so on a grand scale. Great Operatic Disasters records some of the most memorable calamities from...
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Candace Center StageEvery child who loves to dance will surely get a "kick" out of Candace Center Stage, the heartwarming and hilarious tale of a girl who joyfully embraces the song and dance in her heart ... even when she doesn't quite fit in at ballet...
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The Dark Side of the Screen: Film NoirFoster Hirsch's Dark Side of the Screen is by far the most thorough and entertaining study of the themes, visual motifs, character types, actors, directors, and films in this genre ever published. From Billy Wilder, Douglas Sirk, Robert Aldrich, and Howard Hawkes to Martin...
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Stanley Kubrick: A BiographyStanley Kubrick, director of the acclaimed films Path of Glory, Spartacus, Lolita, Dr. Strangelove, 2001: Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, and Full Metal Jacket, is arguably one of the greatest American filmmakers. Yet, despite being hailed as a giant by Orson Welles,...
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Film as Film: Understanding and Judging MoviesWithout fuss, this stimulating book enlarges the ways in which we can look at and listen to the screen.--Foster Hirsch, from his introduction Here at last is an introduction to film theory and its history without the jargon. Noted film scholar V. F. Perkins...
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Masked: The Life of Anna Leonowens, Schoolmistress at the Court of SiamA brave British widow goes to Siam and--by dint of her principled and indomitable character--inspires that despotic nation to abolish slavery and absolute rule: this appealing legend first took shape after the Civil War when Anna Leonowens came to America from Bangkok and succeeded...
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Theatre & MindAll performance depends upon our abilities to create, perceive, remember, imagine and empathize. This book provides an introduction to the evolutionary and cognitive foundations of theatrical performing and spectating and argues that this scientific perspective challenges some of the major assumptions about what takes...
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Powerhouse: The Untold Story of Hollywood's Creative Artists Agency"Magisterial. ... A must read for anyone who wants to work in Hollywood or just know how Hollywood works." -- The Hollywood ReporterA New York Times bestseller, now updated with an afterword and exclusive new materialFrom the #1 bestselling author behind acclaimed oral histories...
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