Performing Arts

Imprints is a collection of essays, interviews, ephemera, and personal reflections that chart the life and work of filmmaker Louise Bourque. Since 1989, Bourque has made a significant mark on Canadian experimental cinema. Her works often involve the physical manipulation of emulsion, with the...

Is your brilliant screenplay gathering digital dust on your hard drive? It's time to give it new life as a novel! In How to Turn Your Screenplay Into a Novel, you'll discover the step-by-step process to adapt your script into a riveting book. From...

Hip Hop Changed The World - A Black Children's Coloring Book, is a Salute to Hip Hop music, with fun and exciting images including informative captions of Hip Hop Legends and History.Children and adults both will enjoy this black children's coloring book for girls...

In this lively account of her adventures and misadventures in Hollywood, one of the most successful women in the film industry takes readers behind the scenes to explain the rules of the game and the nature of power. of photos.Author: Lynda ObstPublisher: Crown Publishing...

Graveyard Gothic is the first sustained consideration of the graveyard as a key Gothic locale. This volume examines various iterations of the Gothic graveyard (and other burial sites) from the eighteenth century to the twenty-first, as expressed in numerous forms of culture and media...

The director of classic films such as Sylvia Scarlett, The Philadelphia Story, Gaslight, Adam's Rib, A Star Is Born, and My Fair Lady, George Cukor is widely admired but often misunderstood. Reductively stereotyped in his time as a "woman's director"--a thinly veiled, disparaging code...

Discover 37 delicious recipes inspired by classic and newcomer cult series, from Star Trek to Game of Thrones, from Thibaud Villanova, author of Gastronogeek Anime Cookbook and The Unofficial Ghibli Cookbook. From the classics such as The X-Files, Star Trek, Lost, to newer fan-favorites...

"Writing this funny requires immense talent." --AV Club H. Jon Benjamin--the lead voice behind Archer and Bob's Burgers--helps us all feel a little better about our own failures by sharing his own in a hilarious memoir-ish chronicle of failure. Most people would consider H....

Regala la magia de El cascanueces con este libro interactivo de Navidad para niños. Únete a Clara y el Cascanueces en una aventura musical con este inolvidable cuento navideño y descubre uno de los ballets más amados del mundo. Con preciosas ilustraciones y un...

In a world where dinosaurs drive music trucks that match their personality and seem to find the street that needs their special music each day, Finn the T-Rex is having trouble finding his own music. Will he find his destiny in a world that...

This is the story of the survival of American circuses throughout one of the most perilous periods in our nation's history: 1860-1865. This was a period of transition for traveling exhibitions. The size of equipment and personnel had leveled off, performances were fixed, and...

Celebrating women directors and their incredible contributions to filmmaking, this fascinating survey includes a brief history about groundbreaking trailblazers, in-depth interviews with singular female directors, and a comprehensive list of noteworthy talents and their films. From the birth of cinema in the 1890s to...

Cabin Pressure is set in the wing and a prayer world of a tiny, one-plane charter airline; staffed by two pilots, one on his way down, and one who was never up to start with. Whether flying a cat to Abu Dhabi, dealing with...

Brooklyn has always dreamt of being a ballerina. She had waited a long time to participate in ballet class, and now her time has come. Take a journey with Brooklyn as she explores herself and overcomes obstacles from within that allow her to have...

- A practical guide that shows BIPOC actors how to break down the audition process rather than being broken down by the entertainment industry and its practices of exclusion and bias. Author: Nicole Hodges Persley, Monica White NdounouPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublished: 06/15/2024Pages: 190Binding...

SHADES OF BACCHUS! A BOUNTIFUL BALLYHOO BONANZA!W. C. Fields was one of the most popular film comedians of the 1930s and 1940s, bringing riotous laughter to depression-era audiences in a series of classic motion pictures. Bantering Ballyhoo! Selling W. C. Fields To 20th Century...

In A Siberian History of Soviet Film, Caroline Damiens explores how the depictions of the indigenous 'Peoples of the North' in Soviet cinema and television evolved between 1920 and 1980. Damiens combines a detailed analysis of key works such as Forest People (1928), Igdenbu...

And Finally... is the injection of cheer we all need in these rather depressing times. This heart-warming book takes a look at the very best '...and finally' segments of the news - those funny, silly and often eccentric stories the newsreaders save until the...

Yesterday's Song, a novelOne simple song can change everything for those whose story began at a 1970 rock festival.As the 1970s dawn in Virginia, grieving guitarist Cal Leonardowski is ready to end it all when he hears Hendrix will play at the Second Atlanta...

In the 1950s and 1960s, small-town AM radio was the life force of many Southern communities, energized by the birth of rock 'n' roll and the arrival of the civil rights movement. Therein lies a wonderful untold-until now-story about unheralded heroes who sacrificed everything...