Performing Arts

Crafting Short Screenplays That Connect, Fifth Edition, stands alone among screenwriting books by emphasizing that human connection, though often overlooked, is as essential to writing effective screenplays as conflict. This ground-breaking book will show you how to advance and deepen your screenwriting skills, increasing...

Mildred the accident-prone witch sets her sights on winning the school's top honor (and helping circus animals in need) in the charming finale of the popular series. As seen on Netflix Mildred Hubble returns to Miss Cackle's Academy for Witches with a big dream:...

Au royaume des Morts, Ph dre retrouve Socrate, ab m dans la contemplation du fleuve du Temps. Il lui rappelle le souvenir de l'architecte Eupalinos, constructeur du temple d'Art mis, avec lequel il s' tait li et qui r ussissait, selon ses propres termes,...

This is a reference book that details the 86 episodes of the British made TV series Danger Man, which was known as Secret Agent in the U.S. It starred Patrick McGoohan as secret agent John Drake, who originally works out of Washington for NATO,...

Vinny is a kid just like you, or is he? Vinny is from a family of metalheads and like his parents, he's one too. As a child Vinny was unaware of his family's differences, but as he got older, Vinny noticed that he was,...

One minute we had customers, the next minute there was no-one. In a lost village, blurred by redrawn borders, hidden under a crumb on the map, Bear Ridge Stores still stands.After a hundred years, the family butchers and grocers - a place for odds...

Ana & Andrew are learning to play the violin They are excited to join the youth orchestra. At first it is fun. But when they start to lose interest, Ana & Andrew learn from an important African American about the importance of practicing. Aligned...

Sporting Blackness examines issues of race and representation in sports films, exploring what it means to embody, perform, play out, and contest blackness by representations of Black athletes on screen. By presenting new critical terms, Sheppard analyzes not only "skin in the game," or...

Bestselling true-crime master Harold Schechter explores the real-life headline-making psychos, serial murderers, thrill-hungry couples, and lady-killers who inspired a century of classic films.The necktie murders in Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy; Chicago's Jazz Age crime of passion; the fatal hookup in Looking for Mr. Goodbar; the...

Hong Kong cinema has been a pre-eminent form of local entertainment and a site of ideological contentions propelled by colonial, national and international politics at different historical junctures. The Other Side of Glamour is a study of the historical development of the left-wing film...

Between 1935 and 1939, the United States government paid out-of-work artists to write, act, and stage theatre as part of the Federal Theatre Project (FTP), a New Deal job relief program. In segregated "Negro Units" set up under the FTP, African American artists took...

Alice-Miranda and her friends are off to Hollywood to take part in Lawrence Ridley's new movie. It's a western with a twist, and they'll be shooting some scenes on location at the picturesque Grand Canyon. Everyone's excited to get a sneak peek of the...

ALL COLOR INTERIORVery few men have had the impact on Broadway theatre as did Justin Brooks Atkinson, the drama critic of The New York Times from 1925-1960, and the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for foreign correspondence in 1947. Excepting four years as a...

Depuis la sortie du Septième Sceau et des Fraises sauvages, Ingmar Bergman fut l'une des figures de proue du cinéma international. En 60 ans de carrière, il a écrit, produit et réalisé 50 films, dont Persona, Scènes de la vie conjugale ou Fanny et...

First Published in 1993.A complete autobiography of Evalina Palmer-Sikelianos (1874-1952), a woman of immense spiritual strength who fought for the arts against the background of war. She contributed impressively throughout her life to the revival of interest in classical Greece, the theatre and choral...

Through colorful tunes and splashy illustrations reminiscent of the vibrant flamboyant tree, this collection celebrates life's passages and various island rituals in the tropical isles of Guadeloupe, Haiti, Martinique, and Reunion. Lyrics are reproduced in the original French Creole dialects and translated into English,...

Cartoon Research presents "Ralph Bakshi's The Mighty Heroes Declassified." The origin, history and adventures of Bakshi's ground-breaking, super-hero cartoon series. This launched his historic career as producer, director and designer of award-winning animation films. Bakshi, in his own words, walks readers through how The...

"One For The Coyotes" chronicles the life of Al Wallace, who grew up in a military family in the 1960s and 70s, living in both the United States and Germany. During his early years he became fascinated with history, the Civil Rights Movement and...

Cartoon Research presents "Jay Ward's Animated Cereal Capers." The origins, history and adventures of Cap'n Crunch, Quisp and Quake, and King Vitaman, cartoon commercials produced by Jay Ward Productions from 1963 to 1983. Included inside are original sketches, animation cell art work and complete...

Your best performance is still to come In the latest edition of his book An Actor Performs, Shapiro breaks down the techniques that enable actors to connect with script and character on a new level: In part I, "The Tools," explore the basics through...