Performing Arts

You've got an idea for the next great screenplay. Maybe you're just getting started or perhaps you've spent time with other screenwriting books, and you have your hero's journey, plot twists, reversals, and cat-saving scenes all worked out. Either way, what stands between you...

Although known principally for his modernist masterpiece, The Man Without Qualities, Robert Musil (1880-1942) was also a playwright and drama critic. Musil's plays and theatrical investigations, written between 1921-1929, are inseparable form his later literary work and from his life-long commitment to art as...

Catherine Fowler's study positions Jeanne Dielman as a 'contrary' classic, its contrariness arising from director Chantal Akerman's decision to frame an unliberated housewife through a kind of 'slow looking'. By choosing to stay with Jeanne in the kitchen, the film both 'differences' the canon...

Experiencing Speech: A Skills-Based, Panlingual Approach to Actor Training is a beginner's guide to Knight-Thompson Speechwork(R), a method that focuses on universal and inclusive speech training for actors from all language, racial, cultural, and gender backgrounds and identities. This book provides a progression of...

Coldplay's warm and infectious hit song "Strawberry Swing" finds a perfect vessel in this gentle picture book for children. I remember We were walking up to strawberry swing I can't wait till the morning Wouldn't wanna change a thing... Strawberry Swing is a tenderly...

Watch out, Internet! Babymouse is about to influence you in the next book in the Babymousetastic, highly illustrated Babymouse: Tales from the Locker series. Babymouse's whiskers are in a twist! Literally. She tries out a new style--the twist--and now everyone wants to know her...

Prop Building for Beginners outlines the basic concepts of prop building by featuring step-by-step instructions to create twenty of the most commonly featured items in theatrical and filmed productions. This book uses a combination of projects to expose readers to a wide range of...

Go behind-the-scenes to discover how the most iconic Star Wars' heroes were brought to the screen in this collection of incredible interviews and articles. The actors and creators behind 15 of Star Wars' most popular heroes discuss the process behind creating some of the...

#1 New York Times bestselling Who HQ series brings you the stories behind the most beloved characters of our time. Grab your golden ticket and learn how Willy Wonka became an internationally popular figure in literature and film. The whimsical, wacky, and wondrous character...

The White Liars depicts a fateful encounter between a down-and-out fortune teller, a rock musician, and his agent. The agent bribes Baroness Lemberg to fake some hocus-pocus over a crystal ball, ostensibly to discourage the musician from pursuing his girlfriend. The trickery entangles each...

Like many artists of his generation, George Barbier was fascinated by the work of the dancer Vaslav Nijinsky, and in this book Barbier pays homage to the great dancer in the form of twelve fantastical colour designs which convey the impression Nijinsky produced in...

A look inside Off-Broadway's Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish, the ground-breaking, award-winning musical.Samantha Hahn, the youngest member of the cast, tells the story of how "Yiddish Fiddler" came to be.Samantha has interviewed the cast, crew, and creative team - each with a unique...

In a follow-up to the beloved Brontorina, a young dinosaur finds unexpected support for his secret dream: to defy expectations and become a dancer. Tyrone has a dream. But it seems like everyone else has their own dream for Tyrone. Should he be a...

Peek behind the curtain and find the Ballet Bunnies in this new full-color chapter book series featuring the most darling dancers you will ever meet The Ballet Bunnies dance to the rescue The Ballet Bunnies live at Miss Luisa's School of Dance. The only...

Relive the epic romance of Outlander with this vivid 1,000-piece puzzle that features a transporting image of Claire and Jamie enjoying a hilltop picnic in the Scottish Highlands. - Officially licensed from the hit Starz television series based on Diana Gabaldon's bestselling Outlander novels,...

Award-winning screenwriters reveal their Hollywood secrets in crafting brilliant stories and methodology through interviews with world-renowned UCLA screenwriting professor Lew Hunter. Naked Screenwriting includes interviews with Francis Ford Coppola, Billy Wilder, Oliver Stone, Bruce Joel Rubin, William Goldman, Julius Epstein, Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor,...

Bong Joon Ho won the Oscar(R) for Best Director for Parasite (2019), which also won Best Picture, the first foreign film to do so, and two other Academy Awards. Parasite was the first Korean film to win the Palme d'Or at Cannes. These achievements...

Author: Amy LewisPublisher: Smith Street BooksPublished: 10/06/2020Pages: 96Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 7.80h x 5.30w x 0.40dISBN: 9781925811728About the AuthorAmy Lewis is a freelance writer from Melbourne, Australia. With a unique talent for retaining TV sitcom quotes, Amy has previously authored Inside Dunder Mifflin and...

The Warner Bros. western series Lawman starring John Russell, Peter Brown, and Peggie Castle originally broadcast on ABC-TV airing 156 new episodes between September 1958 and June 1962. As played by steel-eyed John Russell, Dan Troop is a no-nonsense marshal who has little patience...

NEW REVISED EDITION - The entertainment industry is a multi-billion dollar business that showcases the work, services, talent, and creativity of a cross-section of the international workforce. The modern entertainment industry is the convergence of the business of music, books, movies, television, radio, Internet,...