Performing Arts

Like his fellow filmmakers Stanley Kubrick, Quentin Tarantino, and Sofia Coppola, Wong Kar-wai crafts the soundtracks of his films by jettisoning original scores in favor of commercial recordings. In Remixing Wong Kar-wai, Giorgio Biancorosso examines the combinatorial practice at the heart of Wong's cinema...

Religion, Theology and Stranger Things: Studies from the Upside Down on Evil, Ethics, Horror, and Hope brings interdisciplinary analysis to the teeming spiritual side of the hit television series. With chapters from social scientists, historians, theologians, and Biblical scholars, the volume addresses the many...

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...

A new expanded edition documenting the seminal notation theory instrumental to dance, behavioral science and more fieldsDeveloped by Noa Eshkol and Abraham Wachmann in the 1950s, Eshkol-Wachman Movement Notation (EWMN) is a polyphonic notation system treating different parts of the body as separate instruments....

Rediscovering a momentous cinema movement, its canonization, and its recasting through global discourse. The last of the so-called new waves in film, New German Cinema of the 1970s and early 1980s represents much more than a national phenomenon; it impacted and was influenced by...

Our identities are shaped by narratives, and cinema contributes to that process. While there is substantial scholarship on both narrative identity and film narrative, there is very little investigation of the intersection between them. This book provides that, with particular attention to how the...

Pennywise. Xenomorphs. Freddy Krueger. Beetlejuice. Jason Voorhees. Most movie fans immediately recognize these creatures and characters, but hardly know much about the artists behind these iconic designs. In Monsters, Makeup & Effects: Volume 1, journalist Heather Wixson shines the spotlight on twenty special makeup...

Scripts of Barry Morse's one-man show, as performed live by Barry Morse at theatre venues internationally. In a career that spanned seven decades, actor and director Barry Morse played more than 3,000 radio, television, stage, and film roles. He was a five-time winner of...

Music is a popular form of media, and today it is easier than ever for people to create their own. This title explores the history of music and music artists, as well as the equipment, skills, challenges, and marketing strategies involved in making and...

After nearly fifty years of disrupting media, gleefully Rabelaisian uberindie filmmaker Lloyd Kaufman (b. 1945) has been maligned, mocked, and--worst of all--ignored throughout the general course of his wildly eclectic and impactful filmography. As the equally huckster-ish and self-denigrating cofounder and president of Troma...

Comedy / 5m 3f / Unit set. In this hilarious comedy by the author of Lend Me A Tenor and Moon Over Buffalo two English Shakespearean actors Jack and Leo find themselves so down on their luck that they are performing "Scenes from Shakespeare"...

Sing along to the lyrics from "How Far I'll Go" from Disney Moana in this beautifully illustrated Little Golden Book! Set sail and join Disney Princess Moana as she dreams about the world beyond her island! This beautiful Little Golden Book features the lyrics...

*** Bilingual Vietnamese-English Edition ***Discover the life of Hayao Miyazaki, the little Japanese boy who became one of the world's most influential animators and film directors!Growing up in wartime Tokyo, Hayao Miyazaki found inspiration at his father's airplane parts plant and through his bright,...

A young pianist realizes that mistakes can sometimes lead to joyful discoveries When Hannah plays piano, music dances in the air. Her notes line up and hold hands, stand straight and spin. They keep perfect pitch and a steady tempo. And Hannah, elegant and...

First Nations Monologues brings together over 30 bold texts, each an excerpt from a play written by esteemed playwrights such as Jada Alberts, Kodie Bedford, Wesley Enoch, Andrea James, Leah Purcell, and many more. These gritty and poignant monologues, from a range of genres...

Contributions by Vlad Dima, Laura Hatry, Alicia Kozma, Lynette Kuliyeva, Madhuja Mukherjee, Frank Percaccio, Gary D. Rhodes, Courtney Ruffner Grieneisen, Marlisa Santos, Michael L. Shuman, and Robert Singer Movie posters, regardless of their country of origin, have become indelibly linked with the films they...

This fully revised second edition textbook is especially designed to introduce undergraduate students to the most important qualitative methodologies used to study film and television.The methodologies covered in Film and Television Analysis include: ideological analysis, auteur theory, genre theory, semiotics and structuralism, psychoanalysis and...

From popular films like Greta Gerwig's Barbie (2023) to Chantal Akerman's avant-garde classic Jeanne Dielman (1975), feminist cinema can provoke discomfort. Ambivalence, stasis, horror, cringe-these and other affects refuse the resolution of feeling good or bad, leaving viewers questioning and disoriented. In Feminism and...

Dive into the inspiring journey of NFL superstar Patrick Mahomes in this thrilling biography comic! This comic captures the life of one of football's greatest talents. From his Texas roots and multi-sport high school days to his meteoric rise as a Super Bowl champion...

The first English translation of Chris Marker's early writings on film, religion, philosophy, politics, and art. Before making his first films in the 1950s, Chris Marker was a regular contributor to the Paris-based magazine Esprit from 1946 to 1952. Unbound by genre or form,...