Performing Arts

A beautifully written, evocative literary page-turner about a brilliant nineteenth-century female pianist from Poland lost to history and another woman's quest to ensure she is not forgotten--with a shocking twist of a finale. Clara Bishop hasn't touched a piano since a concert hall fire...

George Lucas's first Star Wars trilogy shows the influences of its era; Cold War tension is evident in its theme of rebellion against totalitarianism. Recent entries in the Star Wars saga--The Phantom Menace (1999) and Attack of the Clones (2002)--are much more concerned with...

This book is an Afrocentric exploration of the royal Indigenous dance known as the Kete dance-music, as an analytical path for reassessing African movement systems in the 21st century. It validates the agency of the Black dancing body as a critical element for the...

Heat rises and sparks fly when a surf-town author and an intimacy coordinator are thrown together to write new, steamy sex scenes for a TV series based on her hit novel in this deliciously fun debut romance.Tash was thrilled when the dramatic rights to...

Whether you're a longtime film buff or new to foreign movies, TCM Imports is an essential, accessible guide to an absorbing selection of cinema from around the world, curated by Turner Classic Movies host Alicia Malone. International cinema offers a one-of-a-kind window to the...

Celebrate the Girl of Steel with the Supergirl Hardcover Ruled Journal, based on CW's hit show. Twelve-year-old Kara escaped the doomed planet Krypton at the same time as the infant Kal-El. Although she hides her superhuman abilities for years, a super-secret agency enlists her...

This comprehensive account of the meteoric rise of The Simpsons combines incisive pop culture criticism and interviews with the show's creative team that take readers inside the making of an American phenomenon during its most influential decade, the 1990s. The Simpsons is an American...

A little mermaid explores the magical feeling of playing and creating with fishy friends in Sounds Like Joy, a colorful underwater picture book and essential read-aloud from Yesenia Moises, illustrator of tennis Olympian Serena Williams's The Adventures of Qai Qai!One day, Joy finds something...

Set in 1985, while working as a coal merchant to support his family, devoted father Bill Furlong discovers disturbing secrets kept by the local convent and uncovers shocking truths of his own forcing him to confront his past and the complicit silence of a...

National Dance Education Organization Ruth Lovell Murray Book AwardUNCG Susan W. Stinson Book Award for Dance EducationStrategies for recovering the Africanist roots of jazz dance in teaching and practiceAn African American art form, jazz dance has an inaccurate historical narrative that often sets Euro-American...

Just in time for the 50th anniversary of Steven Spielberg's Jaws, an intimate and richly-told portrait of the iconic actor and writer Robert Shaw, from his portrayal of the legendary shark hunter Captain Quint and beyond, written lovingly but honestly by his nephew. "Go...

Get little ones ready to ride with The Wiggles in all kinds of cars, trucks and things that move! This simple board book appeals to kids just learning about things with wheels! Featured here are the big red bus, the big red car, the...

Revisiting Revenge Tragedy explores one of the most popular and influential genres of early modern theatre. Revenge tragedies resonated with audiences and authors because of their explicit and often horrific depictions of political instability, religious violence, and affective distress. In innovative and provocative ways,...

ReFocus: The Historical Films of Ernst Lubitsch responds to and reframes the films of German ?migr? director Ernst Lubitsch as film-philosophical exemplars of both early world cinema and historical cinema, from his silent era costume dramas to his post-war Hollywood romances. This edited collection...

Starting in 1966, African American activist Stokely Carmichael and other political leaders adopted the phrase "Black Power!" The slogan captured a militant, revolutionary spirit that was already emerging in the work of playwrights, poets, musicians, and visual artists throughout the Black Arts movement of...

★ "Clearly organized and educational--an incredibly useful tool for both school and public libraries." --School Library Journal, starred review Powwow is a celebration of Indigenous song and dance. Journey through the history of powwow culture in North America, from its origins to the thriving...

Pocoy?. Nueva temporada. Nuevas historias. Una colecci?n de cuentos de Pocoy? para ni?os y ni?as a partir de 4 a?os, perfecta para iniciarse en el mundo de la lectura con el personaje m?s querido y entra?able de televisi?n espa?ola. Pocoy? y Pato ten?an muchas...

Pocoy?. Nueva temporada. Nuevas historias. Una colecci?n de cuentos de Pocoy? para ni?os y ni?as a partir de 4 a?os, perfecta para iniciarse en el mundo de la lectura con el personaje m?s querido y entra?able de televisi?n espa?ola. Hace un d?a estupendo para...

Focusing on visual approaches to performance in global cultural contexts, Perspectives in Motion explores the work of Adrienne L. Kaeppler, a pioneering researcher who has made a number of interdisciplinary contributions over five decades to dance and performance studies. Through a diverse range of...

This book provides a thorough overview of the ostalgie films about the German Democratic Republic (GDR) produced since the 1990s. Far from being a homogenous phenomenon that romanticizes the totalitarian state, the ostalgie genre is multifaceted, reflexive, and at times subversive. Thus, Astafeva argues,...