Performing Arts

Invisible sonic transmissions are all around, bonding you to other human beings! The world of radio is vast and might surprise you! From hardboiled detectives to pirate broadcasters, Sonic Bonds is a personal book/zine journey that rides the waves from the 1940s to present...

Sometimes, it's hard to be a kid. Everyone is always telling you what to do, and for some kids, it can be hard to listen!"Sit Down!" is all Luna seems to hear - from her parents, her sister and even her teacher. But what...

Sometimes, it's hard to be a kid. Everyone is always telling you what to do, and for some kids, it can be hard to listen!"Sit Down!" is all Luna seems to hear - from her parents, her sister and even her teacher. But what...

David Fincher's Seven (1995) follows two detectives, David Mills (Brad Pitt) and William Somerset (Morgan Freeman), as they investigate a series of gruesome murders. One of the most acclaimed films of the 1990s, it explores themes of moral decay, human darkness, and the blurred...

You're trying to finish a screenplay, but there's a voice in your ear whispering, "You should know more about how cinema story works." Perhaps you've heard how many successful screenwriters deconstruct or "break down" films and study them. You'd like to try this method...

Barbara Browning combines a lyrical, personal narrative with incisive theoretical accounts of Brazilian dance cultures. While she brings ethnographic, historiographic, and musicological scholarship to bear on her subject, Browning writes as a dancer, fully engaged in the dance cultures of Brazil and of Brazilian...

While sizable literature exists on the themes, issues and voices that constitute resistance in historical Indian documentary cinema, less is known about contemporary modes of resistance in Indian documentary. This volume identifies languages and practices of resistance constructed by Indian documentary practitioners located in...

Apart from its brilliance as television, it's amazing what Deadwood gets away with. This acclaimed series from HBO, which premiered in 2004, is set in the teeming outlaw camp of 'Deadwood'. It has been described by Variety as 'a vulgar, gritty, at times downright...

The first and only first words and pop music ABC book, Pop ABC celebrates the stars, spirit, and sequins of pop music with both common words and musical vocabulary. With over 100 pop-themed and basic words, Pop ABC is the perfect way to help...

Two bombs in one day is a foul coincidenceDon't forget the lightning strike A normal day. A person stands in the market square watching the world go by.What happens next verges on the ridiculous. There's ice cream. Sunshine. Shops. Some dogs. A wedding. Bombs....

Fictional attorney Anthony Petrocelli was first introduced by Barry Newman in The Lawyer (1970), loosely based on real-life Sam Shepperd, a neurosurgeon initially convicted for the 1954 brutal bludgeoning murder of his wife, Marilyn. The success of the pilot Night Games (1974) led to...

This anthology examines the life and selected works of North Carolina's most distinguished playwright of the 20th century, Paul Green (1894-1981). Paul Green is best known for his outdoor historical dramas, which are still performed across the United States. However, he was not only...

Here's the script to the winner of "Best Off-Broadway Play of 1989" as voted by the Outer Critics Circle. "Funny, serious, suspenseful, involving, disturbing, and above all, expertly crafted...It concerns the intended hostile takeover of a deserving but obsolescent Rhode Island family business, New...

How films help us understand the inevitable death of Earth and humanity Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction brings cinema studies, queer theory, and psychoanalysis into novel configuration around the concept of negative life, a sundering of human and nonhuman relations. Engaging a philosophical...

This book contains the largest collection of movie ads ever published.There are over five hundred single page stories meant to promote, thrill and entice audiences to watch their movies.The ads have been professionally reproduced from the originals to give the best quality images as...

Highlighting Florida's essential, often overlooked role in shaping American film and television Motion Picture Paradise is a sweeping story of filmmaking in Florida, featuring the activities of studios and filmmakers across the peninsula by looking at the many iconic films and television shows shot...

Torture porn, shock-for-shock's sake, violence that doesn't serve the plot, and characters you hate - what was going on in the 2000s in horror cinema? And why were audiences hungry for it? Millennial Nasties takes a critical but appreciative look at an oft-ignored subset...

Torture porn, shock-for-shock's sake, violence that doesn't serve the plot, and characters you hate - what was going on in the 2000s in horror cinema? And why were audiences hungry for it? Millennial Nasties takes a critical but appreciative look at an oft-ignored subset...

Living in a new world ... with shadows from the past.Mustapha never imagined that ruling as the King of Rhye would be easy. Building a world from nothing, uniting a wildly diverse populace, and doing it all while looking fabulous proved challenging enough ......

Made of Pen and Ink: Fleischer Studio, The New York Years" will introduce readers to the influential, innovative and still funny animated cartoons produced by Max Fleischer. If you want to learn how the Popeye, Betty Boop and Out of the Inkwell cartoons were...