Performing Arts

Eager to respond to the concerns and tastes of the increasingly influential baby-boomer generation, musical theater in the late 1960s began to embrace formerly taboo subjects--including the triumvirate of postwar social change: sex, drugs, and rock & roll. Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll, and...

Encounters, transformations, and reflections from in-prison and post-release theater workshops See Me is a collection of intimate dialogues about collective experiences in the context of prison theater workshops. Each essay is a collaboration between two or three people who connected profoundly in the temporary...

Worries often fill the minds of children as they dream of becoming a singer or an actress. They may wonder if they are good enough or if their dreams are too big. This book addresses these worries by sharing the inspiring journey of Sabrina...

From escape rooms to TikTok to Tim Horton's "Roll Up the Rim to Win" to DIY everything, participatory performance is ingrained in the very fabric of our contemporary society. Written in a series of alphabetical, standalone mini essays that activate the reader as a...

NBC & ME MY LIFE AS A PAGE IN A BOOK (A MOCK MEMOIR OF MY BIG '80s DAZE WITH THE PEACOCK NETWORK) From May 1984 to December 1985, actor/author/TV producer/singer Herbie J Pilato worked as a Page for NBC-TV in Burbank, California. Many...

More Dance Improvisations builds on the success of its predecessor, Dance Improvisations, and offers 78 brand-new activities that have been tested and refined by author Justine Reeve, a veteran dance instructor and choreographer. This text offers a wealth of creative ideas that instructors can...

MARVELOUS NAMESIN LITERATURE AND CINEMABy P. Adams SitneyA new collection of essays from P. Adams Sitney, author of Visionary Film, an important and influential early study of American experimental cinema. P. Adams Sitney explores topics such as Herman Melville and the novel Moby-Dick, Charlie...

For many, costumes represent only one day a year-Halloween. But not for anyone born into the Malabar family! Being a Malabar meant you were an active participant in forming the history of Canada's premier theatrical supplier, one costume at a time. From its humble...

In Made in NuYoRico, Marisol Negr?n tells the cultural history of salsa, tracing the music's Nuyorican meanings over a fifty-year period that begins with the establishment of Fania Records in 1964 and how it capitalized on salsa's Nuyorican imaginary to cultivate a global audience....

Meet more than 200 minifigures from the LEGO Star Wars galaxy! DK's LEGO Star Wars Character Encyclopedia Updated Edition is packed with all the latest and new LEGO Star Wars minifigures! Meet amazing minifigures from all the Star Wars movies and TV shows, including...

From the earliest origins of animated imagery, the colorful link between paper and screen was created by legions of female artists working on the slick surface of celluloid sheets.With calligraphic precision and Rembrandtesque mastery, these women painstakingly brought pencil drawings to vibrant, dimensional life....

A documentary filmmaker uncovers the secrets of an enigmatic author in this subtly enthralling novel from "one of Europe's most exciting writers" (New York Times Book Review). For days, documentary filmmaker Andrea and her team have been waiting for Richard Wechsler in his Swiss...

Imprints is a collection of essays, interviews, ephemera, and personal reflections that chart the life and work of filmmaker Louise Bourque. Since 1989, Bourque has made a significant mark on Canadian experimental cinema. Her works often involve the physical manipulation of emulsion, with the...

Is your brilliant screenplay gathering digital dust on your hard drive? It's time to give it new life as a novel! In How to Turn Your Screenplay Into a Novel, you'll discover the step-by-step process to adapt your script into a riveting book. From...

Hip Hop Changed The World - A Black Children's Coloring Book, is a Salute to Hip Hop music, with fun and exciting images including informative captions of Hip Hop Legends and History.Children and adults both will enjoy this black children's coloring book for girls...

In this lively account of her adventures and misadventures in Hollywood, one of the most successful women in the film industry takes readers behind the scenes to explain the rules of the game and the nature of power. of photos.Author: Lynda ObstPublisher: Crown Publishing...

Graveyard Gothic is the first sustained consideration of the graveyard as a key Gothic locale. This volume examines various iterations of the Gothic graveyard (and other burial sites) from the eighteenth century to the twenty-first, as expressed in numerous forms of culture and media...

The director of classic films such as Sylvia Scarlett, The Philadelphia Story, Gaslight, Adam's Rib, A Star Is Born, and My Fair Lady, George Cukor is widely admired but often misunderstood. Reductively stereotyped in his time as a "woman's director"--a thinly veiled, disparaging code...

Discover 37 delicious recipes inspired by classic and newcomer cult series, from Star Trek to Game of Thrones, from Thibaud Villanova, author of Gastronogeek Anime Cookbook and The Unofficial Ghibli Cookbook. From the classics such as The X-Files, Star Trek, Lost, to newer fan-favorites...

"Writing this funny requires immense talent." --AV Club H. Jon Benjamin--the lead voice behind Archer and Bob's Burgers--helps us all feel a little better about our own failures by sharing his own in a hilarious memoir-ish chronicle of failure. Most people would consider H....