Performing Arts

Good for acting exercises and auditions. --Village VoiceAuthor: Sam ShepardPublisher: PAJ PublicationsPublished: 07/28/1981Pages: 96Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.28lbsSize: 8.76h x 6.01w x 0.34dISBN: 9780933826236

Fans of the quirky Connecticut town and the fast-talking characters of Gilmore Girls can now laugh along to their favorite quotes while coloring in twenty whimsical postcards inspired by iconic Stars Hollow locations in Gilmore Girls: Greetings from Stars Hollow, the first officially licensed...

Heureux comme un Juif a Hollywood? Le cinema hollywoodien constitue l'un des meilleurs exemples de la reussite des Juifs aux Etats-Unis et de leurs apports a la culture et a l'imaginaire americain. Paradoxalement, sur les ecrans, les personnages juifs ont surtout brille par leur...

"If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else" nennt es Toni Morrison und damit sind alle aufgerufen, sich zu fragen, was kann ich beitragen? Sind doch politisch marginalisierte Gruppen - darunter Frauen*, Gefluchtete, Personen mit bildungsferner Herkunft sowie nicht-binare...

Four remarkable women in Mexico, each pursue their own happiness. Cartel leader Emilia enlists Rita, an unappreciated lawyer, to help fake her death so that she can finally live authentically as her true self.Author: Erik GrossPublisher: Independently PublishedPublished: 12/11/2024Pages: 126Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.68lbsSize: 11.00h...

Dieses Werk bietet fur Film- und Architekturinteressierte in drei Teilen einen prazisen architekturtheoretischen Blick auf die James Bond-Filme. Es erschliesst sich hier eine cineastische Welt zwischen Fiktion und Wirklichkeit, deren Wandel ebenso das politische Umfeld, als auch das Spannungsverhaltnis zwischen Bruch und Kontinuitat im...

A grotesque and hilarious satire about the American dream, suburban living, and the corrupting influence of power, set in a world that could only have sprung from the unhinged and brilliant mind of John Waters. On the verge of a suburban mental health crisis,...

Ce livre explore quelques-unes des formes selon lesquelles la melancolie devient moteur de l'acte de creation artistique. Le cinema hollywoodien, qui assume pleinement son statut d'art industriel, est le terrain choisi pour cette exploration. L'histoire du cinema, breve pourtant, est l'une des plus discontinues...

Born Alfred Reginald John Truscott-Jones, Welsh American actor Ray Milland (1907-1986) appeared in more than 135 theatrical releases between 1929 and 1985 and on radio, television, and the stage, while also becoming a film director; Milland's extensive canon across such a period is remarkable,...

I...think I mistake correspondence for contact sometimes. During the course of a routine shift on the content moderation floor of an unnamed social media company, Alan and Alannah, two moderators, will have their lives forever altered when a particular video appears on their screens...

2023 de la Torre Bueno(R) First Book Award, Dance Studies AssociationThe impact of folkloric dance and performance on Mexican cultural politics and national identity. The years between 1910 and 1940 were formative for Mexico, with the ouster of Porfirio D?az, the subsequent revolution, and...

What contemporary horror films teach us about the cruelties of capitalist societyCapitalism Hates You uses the horror film genre as a tool to diagnose and expose the hostile conditions of life under capitalism. Through incisive critical analyses of popular films such as Get Out,...

For over fifty years, the American Film Institute has flourished as one of America's great cultural entities. Its graduates, faculty, supporters, and trustees have included such acclaimed individuals as Steven Spielberg, Maya Angelou, Gregory Peck, Meryl Streep, Les Moonves, Patty Jenkins, David Lynch, Jane...

The collection Art's Visionary Moment: Personal Encounters with Works That Last a Lifetime was inspired by T. S. Eliot's observation in his Dante (1929): "The experience of a poem is the experience both of a moment and of a lifetime. ... There is a...

A collection of plays that spotlights women whose professions are pitted against their gender. Each play in this collection explores an imagined moment in the life of a little-known scientist sidelined by gender. Six brilliant women--Pythias of Assos, Susanna Lister, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, Lise Meitner,...

Though it lasted just two seasons, Twin Peaks (1990-1991) raised the bar for television and is now considered one of the great dramas in TV history. Its complex plots and sensational visuals both inspired and alienated audiences. After 25 years, the cult classic is...

London. Early 1600's during the plague. The theaters have all been closed. Six of Shakespeare's most iconic characters are out of sorts (and out of work) because of the plague. They meet up at The Boar's Head Tavern to ruminate, commiserate, and celebrate life,...

From debut author Ashley Cullins, the definitive story of the Scream movie franchise, with more than eighty exclusive interviews from key players and an in-depth exploration of the creation and legacy of the films that rebooted a dying genre It has been more than...

Analyzing contemporary theater and performance works about Korean transnational adoption, Jieun Lee's Unsettling Acts: Performing Transnational Adoption challenges longstanding ideas about adoption. Lee contends that in staging adoptees' birth family searches and reunions, theater and performance artists unsettle dominant discourses that have essentialized adoptees...

Film poster art and design from Japan is renowned as being among the most striking and dynamic in the world, with kanji logograms adding an extra dimension of graphic integration for the Western eye. TOKYO SEXY CINEGRAPHIX 2 collects 100 Japanese film posters that were...