Performing Arts

Julia Dowling has an unexpected visitor who intends to escort her off to the afterlife. Infusing comedy into the classic Death Takes a Holiday, The Christmas Spirit is set in contemporary Long Island. Julia persuades Death to give her one more day to enjoy...

In this book, a scientist and dedicated film enthusiast discusses the portrayal of science in more than one hundred films, including science fiction, scientific biographies, and documentaries. Beginning with early films like Voyage to the Moon and Metropolis and concluding with more recent offerings...

In his Village Voice "Movie Journal" columns, Jonas Mekas captured the makings of an exciting movement in 1960s American filmmaking. Works by Andy Warhol, Gregory J. Markapoulos, Stan Brakhage, Jack Smith, Robert Breer, and others echoed experiments already underway elsewhere, yet they belonged to...

In New York Times bestselling author Walter Dean Myers's final novel, he delivers a gripping story based on the life of a real dancer known as "Master Juba," who lived in the nineteenth century.This engaging historical novel follows the meteoric rise of an immensely...

Have you ever wanted to host a gathering that could have walked right out of the pages of your favorite fairytale? Have you ever wandered the woods hoping to discover an elven feast or a secret scroll? Do you want the ability to design...

Have you ever wondered why 007 is James Bond's numerical designation? Or where the name Luke Skywalker comes from? How about all those giant faces that pass judgment on General Zod and his lieutenants at the beginning of 1978's Superman? What's behind the symbolism...

Drawing on extensive interviews with the cast and crew of The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Jon Heitland has assembled an incredibly comprehensive, fully illustrated account of the show's history, including: -the program's conception in conference with Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond-U.N.C.L.E.'s remarkable surge in...

Discover the dark secrets of Guillermo del Toro's masterpiece, Pan's Labyrinth, in this thrilling exploration of the film's creation.Released in 2006, Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth was hailed as a dark, thrilling masterpiece and announced the filmmaker as a major creative force, garnering him...

Contains the following songs: It All Comes Back (Opening) Welcome to Our House on Maple Avenue Come to the Fun Home Changing My Major Maps Raincoat of Love Ring of Keys Days and Days Telephone Wire Edges of the World Flying Away (Finale) Bonus...

Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard, a classic film noir and also a damning dissection of the Hollywood dream factory, evokes the glamour and ruin of the stars who subsist on that dream. It's also one long in-joke about the movie industry and those who made...

Anne Bogart is an award-winning theatre maker, and a best-selling writer of books about theatre, art, and cultural politics. In this her latest collection of essays she explores the story-telling impulse, and asks how she, as a 'product of postmodernism', can reconnect to the...

An authoritative history of the groundbreaking syndicated television show that has become an icon of American pop culture, from acclaimed author and filmmaker Nelson George, "the most accomplished black music critic of his generation" (Washington Post Book World).When it debuted in October 1971, seven...

Alejandro Jodorowsky's El Topo helped inaugurate the midnight movie phenomenon. Its success spawned The Holy Mountain, through interventions by John Lennon and Allen Klein. After a scandalous release and a 16-month midnight career, The Holy Mountain was relegated to the underground world of fan...

A "how-to" manual written for the independent travelling magician or any other street performer. Includes the specific details on different approaches for street, bar and restaurant. Some of the topics are: picking the right bar, entering the bar, working the crowd, building the tip,...

British Women's Cinema examines the place of female-centred films throughout British film history, from silent melodrama and 1940s costume dramas right up to the contemporary British 'chick flick'. Author: Melanie BellPublisher: RoutledgePublished: 09/15/2009Pages: 228Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 8.70h x 6.00w x 0.90dISBN: 9780415466974About the...

Charming, engaging, and surprisingly forthright, Michael Caine gives us his insider's view of Hollywood and the story of his brilliant second act When he was in his late fifties, Michael Caine believed his glamorous, rags-to-riches Hollywood career had come to an end. The scripts...

As featured on Deadliest Catch A fourth generation fisherman, Jake Anderson grew up in the rich fishing environment of Anacortes, Washington. At age seventeen, Jake began salmon fishing in Bristol Bay, Alaska, and by the age of twenty-five he was crab fishing in the...

"Manthia Diawara is quite simply the best critic (in any language) currently writing on African cinema." --Robert Stam"Diawara has produced a useful history, a cogent analysis, and, in his arguments on how African cinema should develop, an undoubtedly controversial book." --Studies in Popular Culture"This...

"In my view, life without dancewould be quite unthinkable. In thisbook, Peter Sís confirms" -- MikhailAuthor: Peter SisPublisher: Greenwillow BooksPublished: 05/31/2005Pages: 30Binding Type: Board BookWeight: 0.58lbsSize: 5.78h x 6.07w x 0.67dISBN: 9780060759667Audience: Ages 4-8About the AuthorSis, Peter: - Peter Sís is an internationally acclaimed...

The bandido, the harlot, the male buffoon, the female clown, the Latin lover, and the dark lady--these have been the defining, and demeaning, images of Latinos in U.S. cinema for more than a century. In this book, Charles Ramírez Berg develops an innovative theory...