Performing Arts

Emily was the worst ballerina in her class - until she found the magical slippers. She became so good that she got the lead in The Nutcracker. But on the day of dress rehearsal, the slippers were gone. She couldn't dance without them! What...

Roger Corman reigns supreme as the godfather of independent filmmaking. Since 1954, he has produced four-hundred-plus movies on shoestring budgets, blending action, sex, humor, and social message into hip (and profitable) entertainments. He has also demonstrated an uncanny eye for talent, launching the Hollywood...

The Complete Linda Lovelace: A Deeper-Than-Deep Look at America's First Porn Queen is the only authorized biography of the most controversial pop-culture icon ever. Adult-industry journalist Eric Danville examines the life and career of Linda Lovelace through an analysis of almost 100 newspaper and...

The Bare Bones Book of Screenwriting is one of the most authoritative, popular and useful books on screenwriting, written by a USC Cinema-Television alumni with several sold, optioned, produced and award winning screenplays. Using a 'let's-get-down-to-brass-tacks' approach it focuses on the essentials of screenwriting:...

Many have told the tragic tale of Mary Queen of Scots - it is irresistible - but none more powerfully than Friedrich Schiller. Like Mary Stuart herself and the legends which pursued her to her death, Schiller's drama continues to captivate the modern imagination...

In this fourth chapter book starring Rafi and Rosi, the curious, fun-loving tree frog siblings explore the bomba, plena, and salsa music traditions of their home island, Puerto Rico.In this new book in the popular Dive Into Reading: Rafi and Rosi chapter book series,...

The screenplay of the 1987 movie, as written by Charles Bukowski.Author: Charles BukowskiPublisher: Ecco PressPublished: 05/31/2002Pages: 176Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.54lbsSize: 8.99h x 5.88w x 0.54dISBN: 9780876857076About the AuthorBukowski, Charles: - Charles Bukowski is one of America's best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose and,...

(Berklee Press). When you think of jazz composers, who comes to mind? Jelly Roll Morton, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, Bob Brookmeyer. This book is about what they (and many others) do. Jazz composition has evolved into a disciplined art that...

Providing an understanding of the history, evolution, and universality of dance as an art form, this guidebook explores the significance of dance in culture, the relationship of dance to other art forms, the contributions of great pioneering choreographers, dancers, and teachers, and the creative...

A comprehensive and multifaceted anthology of dance history -- ideal for the classroom.This new collection of essays surveys the history of dance in an innovative and wide-ranging fashion. Editors Dils and Albright address the current dearth of comprehensive teaching material in the dance history...

Martini Man goes beyond the simple caricature of the boozy lounge singer with a penchant for racy humor to reveal the substantive man behind that mask. Although Martin's movie roles receive in-depth attention in this incisive biography, as does his career-defining partnership with Jerry...

Ever wonder why so many stars and featured players, male or female, in movies of Hollywood's "Golden Age" look like they just stepped out of a beauty parlor even if the story places them in a jungle, a hospital bed, or the ancient past?...

The New Yorker has called Terrence McNally one of our most original and audacious dramatists and one of our funniest. He is the author of such critically acclaimed plays as Love Valour Compassion , Master Class, The Lisbon Traviata, and Frankie and Johnny in...

It is 1936 and A. E. Housman is being ferried across the river Styx, glad to be dead at last. The river that flows through Tom Stoppard's The Invention of Love connects Hades with the Oxford of Housman's youth: High Victorian morality is under...

Traces Morrison's theory of African American mothering as it is articulated in her novels, essays, speeches, and interviews.Mothering is a central issue for feminist theory, and motherhood is also a persistent presence in the work of Toni Morrison. Examining Morrison's novels, essays, speeches, and...

Mexican filmmaking is traced from its early beginnings in 1896 to the present in this book. Of particular interest are the great changes from 1990 to 2004: the confluence of talented and dedicated filmmakers, important changes in Mexican cinematic infrastructure and significant social and...

The worlds of Percy Jackson, Harry Potter, and other modern epics feature the Chosen One--an adolescent boy who defeats the Dark Lord and battles the sorrows of the world. Television's Buffy the Vampire Slayer represents a different kind of epic--the heroine's journey, not the...

What's weighing on Americans? Look to horror movies for your answer--they're one of the best measures of the American consciousness. From an early fascination with the Gothic, to the mutant horrors of the Atomic Age and alien enemies of the Cold War, to the...

America's most trusted and best-known film critic Roger Ebert presents one hundred brilliant essays on some of the best movies ever made. Roger Ebert, the famed film writer and critic, wrote biweekly essays for a feature called The Great Movies, in which he offered...

Batman aficionado Matt Manning gives a unique history of the Dark Knight in this deluxe box set of hardcover books, including: Bat-Signal: Lighting the Dark Knight's Sky Shades of Black: The Many Costumes of Batman The Batman Villains: The Worst Gotham City Has to...