Performing Arts

This is the story of the survival of American circuses throughout one of the most perilous periods in our nation's history: 1860-1865. This was a period of transition for traveling exhibitions. The size of equipment and personnel had leveled off, performances were fixed, and...

Celebrating women directors and their incredible contributions to filmmaking, this fascinating survey includes a brief history about groundbreaking trailblazers, in-depth interviews with singular female directors, and a comprehensive list of noteworthy talents and their films. From the birth of cinema in the 1890s to...

Cabin Pressure is set in the wing and a prayer world of a tiny, one-plane charter airline; staffed by two pilots, one on his way down, and one who was never up to start with. Whether flying a cat to Abu Dhabi, dealing with...

Brooklyn has always dreamt of being a ballerina. She had waited a long time to participate in ballet class, and now her time has come. Take a journey with Brooklyn as she explores herself and overcomes obstacles from within that allow her to have...

- A practical guide that shows BIPOC actors how to break down the audition process rather than being broken down by the entertainment industry and its practices of exclusion and bias. Author: Nicole Hodges Persley, Monica White NdounouPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublished: 06/15/2024Pages: 190Binding...

SHADES OF BACCHUS! A BOUNTIFUL BALLYHOO BONANZA!W. C. Fields was one of the most popular film comedians of the 1930s and 1940s, bringing riotous laughter to depression-era audiences in a series of classic motion pictures. Bantering Ballyhoo! Selling W. C. Fields To 20th Century...

In A Siberian History of Soviet Film, Caroline Damiens explores how the depictions of the indigenous 'Peoples of the North' in Soviet cinema and television evolved between 1920 and 1980. Damiens combines a detailed analysis of key works such as Forest People (1928), Igdenbu...

And Finally... is the injection of cheer we all need in these rather depressing times. This heart-warming book takes a look at the very best '...and finally' segments of the news - those funny, silly and often eccentric stories the newsreaders save until the...

Yesterday's Song, a novelOne simple song can change everything for those whose story began at a 1970 rock festival.As the 1970s dawn in Virginia, grieving guitarist Cal Leonardowski is ready to end it all when he hears Hendrix will play at the Second Atlanta...

In the 1950s and 1960s, small-town AM radio was the life force of many Southern communities, energized by the birth of rock 'n' roll and the arrival of the civil rights movement. Therein lies a wonderful untold-until now-story about unheralded heroes who sacrificed everything...

With bylines spanning six decades, Joan Didion's legacy towers over the landscape of American letters. Although she launched her career in New York City, she soon struck out for Los Angeles, where the nation's dreams were manufactured--and every aspect of her work reflected what...

The Increased Difficulty of Concentration is a metaphysical farce, written by dissident Czechoslovak playwright (and future president) V clav Havel. Hummel, an academic, juggles lovers, philosophy, and the questions from a strange machine called Pazuk, while trying to make sense of his life. A...

In The Films of Walter Hill: Another Time, Another Place, Brian Brems explores how, as action emerged as a full-fledged genre of cinema, Walter Hill established his position in the genre, first as a screenwriter and then as a director. Hill, Brems argues, helped...

Mom put her fingers to her mouth and whistled, and it was loud. Then she yelled out in a loud voice, "Hach, Hach, MosesI!" looked up at her in dismay. I had no idea what she was yelling. Then she yelled again, saying, "Hach,...

My name is Karim Amir, and I am an Englishman born and bred. Almost. South London in the late seventies. High unemployment, high inflation, food shortages and strikes. But despite the winter of discontent, 17-year-old Karim's life is about to explode into glorious technicolour...

"He was much like the Walter Cronkite of Philadelphia."--Ed Rendell, former Philadelphia Mayor and Pennsylvania Governor, about Jim Gardner, the trusted voice of WPVI's Action News for 47 years "We were the only station that stayed on the air continuously. We even pre-empted the...

This textbook offers a detailed and expansive account of theatre and performance in contemporary Scotland. It considers the underlying historical and cultural developments that have enabled the recent renaissance in Scottish theatre and the emergence of playwrights of international standing, such as David Greig,...

Author: Meredith KecskemetyPublisher: Dark Horse BooksPublished: 12/10/2024Pages: 192Binding Type: HardcoverISBN: 9781506747590

Staging Buenos Aires centers theater as a source of historical inquiry to understand how nonelites experienced and shaped a city undergoing dramatic transformations. Commercial theater constituted the core of the city's public sphere, one in which middle-class playwrights and audiences assumed the leading role....

Pickford, Lloyd, Keaton, Garbo. You're familiar with these icons of silent film, of course - and they are here within these pages. But are you familiar with Francelia Billington? No? How about Harold Lockwood, Edna Flugrath, Marion Byron, Virginia Brown Faire? Still, no? Well,...