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The Health & Safety Guide for Film, TV & Theater, Second EditionThis essential book, now in its second edition, has been expanded and updated to address new hazards, unique health and safety problems, and particular regulations that threaten anyone working in the entertainment industries today. Artists' advocate Monona Rossol exposes the hazards of; Theatrical paints...
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Meet the Mertzes: The Life Stories of I Love Lucy's Other CoupleMeet the Mertzes is an expansive dual biography chronicling the lives of two of America's most popular situation-comedy actors, William Frawley and Vivian Vance, who portrayed Fred and Ethel Mertz on I Love Lucy. This meticulously researched book contains interviews with Frawley's and Vance's...
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Jean-Luc Godard: InterviewsSome thirty years ago filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard told critic Gene Youngblood, I am trying to change the world. He has pursued his revolution in works ranging from the explosive Breathless to the eloquent Contempt to the controversial Hail Mary and the postmodern Histoire(s) du...
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Conducting Business: Unveiling the Mystery Behind the MaestroConducting an orchestra is something that is seen as well as heard, but it is quite misunderstood when it comes to knowing what this person actually does for a living. This most mysterious of jobs is brought to life for the music lover as...
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Duke Ellington's Nutcracker SuiteIt's a challenge to transform the Nutcracker Suite's romantic orchestra into jumpin' jazz melodies, but that's exactly what Duke Ellington and his collaborator, Billy Strayhorn, did. Ellington's band memebers were not so sure that a classical ballet could become a cool-cat jazz number. But...
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Freestyle: The Ultimate Guide to Riding, Training, and Competing to MusicThe complete resource to developing, editing, choreographing, and performing a fabulous musical Freestyle performance. Award-winning musical Freestyle designer Sandra Beaulieu has a lifetime's experience as a dressage competitor and professional entertainer. Here she provides everything readers need to know to enjoy creating Freestyles of...
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The Way of the Actor: A Path to Knowledge & PowerFor thousands of years, in traditional societies around the world, actors were seen as the guardians of intuitive wisdom, and the way of the actor was a path to knowledge and power. Brian Bates believes that this is still the case today -- that...
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TypewriterA neglected Russian typewriter clicks, clacks, and rings to life with a new owner.Author: Yevgenia NaybergPublisher: Creative EditionsPublished: 02/25/2020Pages: 32Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 10.40h x 10.50w x 0.60dISBN: 9781568463445Audience: Ages 4-8Review Citation(s): Kirkus Reviews 02/01/2020School Library Journal 03/01/2020 pg. 94
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The Men Who Made the Movies: Interviews with Frank Capra, George Cukor, Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, Vincente Minnelli, King Vidor, Raoul Walsh,One of our most thoughtful film critics here takes on eight of Hollywood's finest directors in conversation, reminiscing about their working lives which spanned the most intriguing decades of American filmmaking. The directors are Alfred Hitchcock, Frank Capra, Vincente Minnelli, George Cukor, Howard Hawks,...
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Just Me: 100 Monologues for TeensThis unique collection of contemporary monologues covers a wide range of teenage experience. With 50 monologues for girls and 50 for guys, almost every possible comedic and/or dramatic situation is brought to life with characters who speak as teenagers today. With so many humorous,...
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Power Plays: Dramatic Short Plays for Acting StudentsIntense. Poignant. Moving. Powerful. The twenty short plays in this collection cover a broad spectrum of dramatic situations, including revenge, abuse, loneliness, homelessness, eating disorders, death, and relationships. With moods ranging from sentimental to hard-hitting and from heart-warming to heart-wrenching, the wide variety of...
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Costumes, Accessories, Props and Stage Illusions: Over 100 Costume Designs with Photos and DiagramsBarb Rogers' creativity rises to new levels in her latest book, which takes her concept of conversion costuming and also applies it to accessories, props, and illusion costumes. While still dedicating a complete section to costuming, you'll especially love learning how to accessorize your...
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Sketch-O-Frenia: Fifty Short and Witty Satirical SketchesA rare collection of comedy sketches suitable for stage, television or film. Think: ants, fish and other unlikely creatures satirizing everything we consider normal and acceptable. Other spoofs in the collection parody many of the sacred icons of our everyday life. These super-funny sketches...
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Culture Is the Body: The Theatre Writings of Tadashi SuzukiFrom his artistic home in the small village of Toga Mura in the Japanese Alps, Tadashi Suzuki's influence has spread around the world, transcending cultural and political boundaries. His bold vision of what the theatre can be and what the theatre can do is...
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind: The Making of Steven Spielberg's Classic Film"Morton has written the definitive book on this innovative movie by Steven Spielberg...Meticulous research of this caliber is not found in other books on Close Encounters. Fans will find Morton's take informative and fascinating." - Library Journal. Steven Spielberg's 1977 masterpiece used all of...
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Film Noir FAQ: All That's Left to Know About Hollywood's Golden Age of Dames, Detectives and Danger(FAQ). Film Noir FAQ celebrates and reappraises some 200 noir thrillers representing 20 years of Hollywood's Golden Age. Noir pulls us close to brutal cops and scheming dames, desperate heist men and hardboiled private eyes, and the unlucky innocent citizens that get in their...
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One on One: The Best Women's Monologues for the NinetiesOver 75 monologues for women from the contemporary stage, written by these and other major dramatists: David Mamet - Brian Friel - Steve Tesich - Harold Pinter - Alan Ayckbourn - Timberlake Wertenbaker - Neil Simon - John Patrick Shanley - Jane Anderson -...
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The National Black Drama Anthology: Eleven Plays from America's Leading African-American Theaters"Though New York remains the de facto capital of American theater, much of the most daring and interesting work today is done by regional theaters. This is doubly true of plays by African American authors, who, despite a few notable exceptions (August Wilson, George...
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Slumdog Millionaire: The Shooting ScriptWinner 8 Academy Awards(R) including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted ScreenplayToday is the biggest day in Jamal Malik's life.A penniless, eighteen-year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, he's one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's Who Wants...
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A Futile and Stupid Gesture: How Doug Kenney and National Lampoon Changed Comedy ForeverNow a Netflix original film starring Will Forte, Domhnall Gleeson, and Emmy Rossum. Comic genius Doug Kenney cofounded National Lampoon, cowrote Animal House and Caddyshack, and changed the face of American comedy before mysteriously falling to his death at the age of 33. This...
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