Performing Arts

Written by a highly influential post-Stanislavskian practitioner, this book offers an accessible and contemporary interpretation of The Method, setting out techniques and exercises to train and develop actors today. Going back to the roots of Method Acting and the work of Lee Strasberg and...

Exploring a wide variety of examples of activist performances, such as David Buckel's self-immolation, and the January 6th capitol insurrection, this book analyses activist performance through the lens of postdramatic theatre theory. Staging Change poses the provocative question: are activists addicted to drama? Scrimer...

From Norman Bates dressed as "Mother" in Psycho to the rouged cheeks of Leatherface in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, many slasher icons have borne traces of queer and gender nonconforming behavior since the subgenre's very beginning.Queer Slashers presents the first book-length study of how...

Author: Brian KellowPublisher: Penguin Publishing GroupPublished: 10/30/2012Pages: 432Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 8.30h x 5.30w x 1.30dISBN: 9780143122203Audience: Young AdultReview Citation(s): New York Times Book Review 12/02/2012 pg. 72About the AuthorBrian Kellow is the author of Can I Go Now?: The Life of Sue Mengers,...

A timeless, musical Christmas story like you have never known! Once Upon A Christmas Morning shares the story of a father, who when down on his luck, suggests that Christmas should be skipped. Downtrodden, the magic of Christmas is restored for a father who...

Can Roohi find the courage and rhythm to play the rabab at her school's Eid concert? "To play the music of the mountains, you must feel the rhythm, feel the beat of your people." Roohi's most treasured time of the day is when she...

Can Roohi find the courage and rhythm to play the rabab at her school's Eid concert? "To play the music of the mountains, you must feel the rhythm, feel the beat of your people." Roohi's most treasured time of the day is when she...

Mitzi Gaynor (b. September 4, 1931) is an American actress, singer, dancer and writer. As a child dancer, she performed in the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera Association before being discovered by 20th Century-Fox for the movies. She was in a number of Fox...

What is the relationship between filmmaking and mapping? Accounting for the unique characteristics of Taiwan's cinema from 2008 to 2020, this book examines how filmmakers have depicted and imagined the island's diverse environments. Drawing on cinema, cartography, and cultural studies, Christopher Brown argues that...

Mamiachi & Me es un libro ilustrado l?rico y empoderador, escrito por Jolene y Dakota Guti?rrez e ilustrado por Mirelle Ortega, ganadora de un Pura Belpr? Illustrator Honor, que trata sobre lo que significa ser mariachi en una banda compuesta s?lo por mujeres. Hoy...

A guide to making movies at home with whatever equipment you have, learning the basics of cinematographic and storytelling techniques.Filmmaking, we are told in the introduction, is the "reverse engineering of dreams... a spell that brings dreams and visions to life." This book is...

Author: David TomlinsonPublisher: Dean Street PressPublished: 03/03/2025Pages: 190Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.42lbsSize: 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.40dISBN: 9781917382045

A scrappy TV director lands her big break only to go head-to-head with the surly yet sexy director of photography, in this page-turning romance perfect for fans of Ava Wilder and Tessa Bailey. Up-and-coming TV director Cali Daniels knows sex. Well, okay, she knows...

Zeedee has kickboxing. Oscar has basketball. Soren has fishing. Lewis has . . . nothing. He had the band, but everyone else is too busy for the band now. Lewis loves music, but he needs another hobby too. Will this be the end of...

Freshly revised and chock-full of new, vibrant stories, Last Night a DJ Saved My Life is the "lively and . . . necessary" (New York Times Book Review), and first and foremost definitive history of the musical outlaws who revolutionized the music industry: the...

'911, what's your emergency?''My husband... they shot him... they all did.' July 10th 1981. Skidmore, Missouri. A man is shot dead in broad daylight. There are sixty witnesses - but no one saw a thing. Part True Crime, part Western, KENREX is a gritty,...

Jay Marshall, an edgy junior theater major, befriends Emma Montgomery, a celibate Christian sophomore transfer student with bipolar disorder. They bond after Emma's embarrassing tumble and become best friends. Emma falls for Brady Ellison, but Jay secretly loves her while he continues to mess...

This Play Is A Modern Poetic Version Of The Biblical Book Of Job Which Attempts To Relate The Concept Of Goodness To Contemporary Life.Author: Archibald MacLeishPublisher: Literary Licensing, LLCPublished: 04/07/2012Pages: 160Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.49lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.34dISBN: 9781258275655This title is not returnable

"Traditional speech work has long favoured an upper-class white accent as the model of intelligibility. Because of that, generations of actors have felt disconnected from their own identities and acting choices. This much-needed textbook redresses that trend and encourages actors to achieve intelligibility through...

Author: Miranda HartPublisher: Michael JosephPublished: 10/10/2024Pages: 448Binding Type: PaperbackSize: 9.17h x 6.06w x 1.34dISBN: 9780241718872