Performing Arts

Review of the classic TV series starring Karl Malden and Michael Douglas that aired on the ABC television network from 1972-1977. Featuring commentary from Michael Douglas, fifth seasonco-star Richard Hatch, producer John Wilder, plus photos, episode summaries, biographies and more.Author: James RosinPublisher: Createspace Independent...

Celebrating 35 years of rare and iconic TRANSFORMERS imagery, this deluxe limited edition art book will delight fans of all ages! This deluxe limited edition comes packaged in a beautiful collector's box with an exclusive variant cover design and five gorgeous and frame-ready prints...

Special edition Hard cover graphic novel with bonus pin-ups. So much has been left unsaid about the passing of legendary music innovator Prince Rogers Nelson. Prince, a prolific musician from Minneapolis, started a musical revolution with the hits "1999," "Little Red Corvette," "When Doves...

"This is an exciting and excited collection of essays by a talented group of psychoanalysts, scholars and artists who take us right into the dark, antic, ribald, mocking heart and brilliant mind of that enfant terrible of Spanish film--Pedro Almod var. His wildly joyous,...

Michael Langlois began studying ballet at the age of ten, convinced it would catapult him from Pop Warner directly into the NFL. Eventually forced to choose between football and ballet, he looked at his less-than-five-foot frame and decided ballet might be a more practical...

Dating Your Character: A Sexy Guide to Screenwriting for Film and TV is based on the principle that interesting characters actually are co-creators in the writing process. It's organized into some of the standard stages in an evolving, romantic relationship, launched by a couple...

The cartoon series My Little Pony is beloved of little girls and grown men alike. In My Nationalist Pony, "brony" blogger Buttercup Dew gives a New Rightist reading to My Little Pony, arguing that it in addition to its wholesome stories of friendship and...

From the winner of the 2014 Regional Emmy Award for A Farm Winter with Jerry Apps Jerry Apps, renowned author and veteran storyteller, believes that storytelling is the key to maintaining our humanity, fostering connection, and preserving our common history. In Telling Your Story,...

This book, written to help beginners navigate the world of line dancing, contains descriptions of standard step sequences, with step sheets, choreographed by the authors, for 72 dances.Author: Susan Prats, Kitty RussellPublisher: Kittyco PressPublished: 07/14/2018Pages: 122Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.33lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.26dISBN:...

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy improvised many of the scenes for their classic comedies while the cameras were rolling, which meant that some excellent material in their scripts was lost - until now. Twenty complete, original screenplays for their short subjects are presented here...

In this book you will discover the secrets of picking pockets for entertainment purposes. Written by a professional magician, the techniques are based on elementary principles of misdirection and sleight-of-hand, which can be easily learned by anyone. Anything that can be carried in a...

In the late 1950s, Mario Bava helped to create and define the Italian horror film. His classic directorial works of the 1960s and 1970s, including Black Sunday, Kill, Baby ... Kill and Lisa and the Devil, remain among the most colorful and imaginative in...

In Space Helmet for a Cow 2, Paul Kirkley (Doctor Who Magazine, Radio Times, SFX) continues his witty and irreverent history of Doctor Who, from the wilderness years of the 1990s - when the 30th anniversary special was so bad, it didn't even go...

Since the earliest blossoming of British television drama, scriptwriter Nigel Kneale has been a seminal figure. His BBC Quatermass serials were seismic events in Fifties popular culture, becoming internationally successful when adapted for the big screen. His later TV plays, such as The Road,...

Romantic Comedy offers an introduction to the analysis of a popular but overlooked film genre. The book provides an overview of Hollywood's romantic comedy conventions, examining iconography, narrative patterns, and ideology. Chapters discuss important subgroupings within the genre: screwball sex comedy and the radical...

The meteoric rise of Hammer Films as a force in world horror cinema resulted from the release of two seminal movies: The Curse Of Frankenstein in 1957 and, especially, 1958's Dracula starring Christopher Lee. Lee became the most famous incarnation of the vampire Count...

An artist of uncompromising vision who gives free range to his brilliant, often bizarre imagination, H.R. Giger has created some of the most successful marriages of design and film in history. In this collection, Giger takes readers on a tour of his fantastic designs,...

Captain Kathryn Janeway's Starship Voyager Lavishly illustrated with detailed technical information, this third volume in the Illustrated Handbook series features the U.S.S. Voyager from the hit Star Trek TV series. The perfect gift for the Star Trek fan in your life This Star Trek...

"Christopher Frayling's Spaghetti Westerns is a particularly entertaining and enjoyably readable book. Frayling is obviously both a film buff and film critic, so he is able to appreciate Spaghetti Westerns as popular entertainments, to celebrate their cinematic stylishness, while simultaneously knowledgeably exploring their many...

UKIYO-E, the art of woodblock design and printing, enjoyed a symbiosis with the kabuki theatre almost from its inception in the late 17th century, with a significant number of images devoted to the popular theatre. These comprise kabuki-e -- dynamic frames, diptychs and triptychs...