Performing Arts

Where there's a walrus, there's a way! Bull walrus Franz-Ferdinand doesn't like to move. But when he sees a flock of ice gliding flamingos dance, he discovers his love of ballet. When he decides he wants to join the graceful dance troupe, no one...

The story of Jason, a young man who embarks on a journey to discover the legacy of his family's past. After receiving a "memory box" from his dying grandmother containing photos and journals related to the Tulsa race massacre, Jason realizes his family's history...

Hollywood fantasy cinema is responsible for some of the most lucrative franchises produced over the past two decades, yet it remains difficult to find popular or critical consensus on what the experience of watching fantasy cinema actually entails. What makes something a fantasy film,...

In October 1957, Screen Gems made numerous horror movies available to local television stations around the country as part of a package of films called Shock Theater. These movies became a huge sensation with TV viewers, as did the horror hosts who introduced the...

Sampling and Remixing Blackness is a timely and accessible book that examines the social ramifications of cultural borrowing and personal adaptation of Hip-hop culture by non-Black and non-African American Black artists in theater and performance. In a cultural moment where Hip-hop theater hits such...

There is an entire generation that grew up on Nickelodeon. The network started to get its footing in the '80s and in the '90s became the defining voice in entertainment for kids. For the first time ever, in this book, the entire expanse of...

Finalist, 2021 Bram Stoker Awards (Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction) The first collection of essays to address Satan's ubiquitous and popular appearances in film Lucifer and cinema have been intertwined since the origins of the medium. As humankind's greatest antagonist and the incarnation of pure...

Shock! Theater For the decades between 1930 and 1950, the undisputed masters of horror were Universal Pictures. From their early success with Dracula and Frankenstein to the later additions, such as the Creature from the Black Lagoon, Universal has created and popularized more memorable...

The autobiography-of-sorts of Andr Gregory, an iconic figure in American theater and the star of My Dinner with Andr This Is Not My Memoir tells the life story of Andr Gregory, iconic theater director, writer, and actor. For the first time, Andr shares memories...

The acclaimed "Clown Prince of Crime," Joker. A character with a physical appearance characterised by a disfigured face, white skin, green dyed hair, and red lips. A psychopathic genius with a sadistic and twisted humour. A lover of weapons to which he always gives...

The legendary designer's sketchbook for the Poltergeist sequel, filled with psychedelic shape-shifting ghosts and grotesque monstersThis facsimile edition of Giger's sketchbook contains 155 drawings, from wormlike ghosts to soul-sucking monsters, as well as correspondence between Giger and director Brian Gibson.Author: H. R. GigerPublisher: Patrick...

Gregory Crosby is our go-to poet for cinematic deep-dives, apocalyptic parables, hot takes on literary dustups, and lusty interludes of backlit longing. Said No One Ever collects a decades' worth of breakneck verbal switchbacks and charged poetic insight-there is almost no subject pertinent to...

The year 1955 was a watershed one for New York's film industry: Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront took home eight Oscars, and, more quietly, Stanley Kubrick released the low-budget classic Killer's Kiss. A wave of films that changed how American movies were made soon...

Who are you, if you can't be what you always expected? A moving coming-of-age tale of prodigy and community, unlikely friendship and growing things. Twelve-year-old Rose Brutigan has grown seven inches in the last eight months. She's always been different from her twin brother,...

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The Golden Girls made its prime-time debut in 1985 on NBC, and the critically acclaimed show has been a constant television companion through cable reruns and streaming media services ever since. Most people know that The Golden Girls is a sitcom about four feisty,...

Senegalese Stagecraft explores the theatrical stage in Senegal as a site of poetic expression, political activism, and community engagement. In their responses to the country's colonial heritage, as well as through their innovations on the craft of theater-making, Senegalese performers have created an array...

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A book packed with one hundred monologues, aimed at young performers from pre teens to young adults. The book has been written by a drama teacher with over twenty years' experience which includes heading up a performing arts faculty in a secondary school, GCSE...

Film producer and sales consultant Alec Trachtenberg argues that one must adopt a sales mindset in order to be successful as an independent filmmaker. By highlighting a variety of sales strategies that have worked for him in the world of startup technology companies, Alec...