Performing Arts

The 5th book in the delightful Ella Bella Ballerina series will transport you to the magical world of fairies and royalty in this enchanting re-imagination of A Midsummer's Night's Dream. In this story, Ella's kindly ballet teacher, Madame Rosa, has given the children costumes...

Author: Lavanya KarthikPublisher: DuckbillPublished: 04/15/2023Pages: 48Binding Type: PaperbackISBN: 9780143458425Audience: Ages 9-12

Author: James HowePublisher: Candlewick Press (MA)Published: 08/10/2010Pages: 32Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 10.60h x 9.80w x 0.40dISBN: 9780763644376Audience: Ages 4-8Accelerated Reader:Reading Level: 2.2Point Value: 0.5Interest Level: Lower GradeQuiz #/Name: 138801 / BrontorinaAward: Beehive Awards - NomineeReview Citation(s): Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2011 pg. 31Booklist 05/15/2010...

Pamela has been writing since her junior year of high school when her class was assigned to write a biography of a classmate. Hers was singled out by the teacher and read aloud to the class. Since then, she has written scores and scores...

'Left or Right? Directing Lateral Movement in Film' offers an in-depth analysis of film, television, and new media directing from a perspective of clearly articulated directorial concept linked to the placement and movement of performers in shot design. This book strives to demonstrate the...

Beginning in the 1920s, audiences around the globe were seduced not only by Hollywood films but also by lavish movie theaters that were owned and operated by the major American film companies. These theaters aimed to provide a quintessentially "American" experience. Outfitted with American...

In the 1940s, folks at bars and restaurants would gather around a Panoram movie machine to watch three-minute films called Soundies, precursors to today's music videos. This history was all but forgotten until the digital era brought Soundies to phones and computer screens--including a...

Who could forget the great setpieces Tom Savini dreamed up for his remake of George Romero's classic Night of the Living Dead? Like that wonderful scene where Ben, able to get only one shell into his revolver, is being attacked by a zombie, and...

"What is it that we're doing, when we're acting well?" This is the question famously posed by Earle Gister, the legendary head of the acting department at Yale School of Drama from 1979 to 1999. In Acting Action, actor, director, and teaching artist Hugh...

This book examines the relation between bodies and political economies at micro and macro levels. It stands in the space between ends and beginnings - some long-desired, such as the end of capitalism and racism, and others long-dreaded, such as the climate catastrophe -...

Grab a ukulele and sing along as a dog-owner tries to help a pack of itchy dogs, with tips on how to tune and play your uke and more! I play ukulele and my dog sings alongHer friends all wag to our rocking song...

The most current and insightful look at the politics and culture of the Bond world as the last Daniel Craig movie hits theaters. This book presents an insightful and thoroughly entertaining exploration of the political context of the Bond books and films. Jeremy Black...

The real traveling carnival is in the pathos of carnival lives behind the scenes. American Oz is a rollicking, gritty, adventurous story of life in the secretive subculture of traveling carnivals. You'll never see your state fair or neighborhood festival the same way again...

The always thrilling and entertaining cases of Leroy Jethro Gibbs (cover shot), played by Mark Harmon, and his NCIS-crew have been keeping a vast amount of followers all around the world glued to their seats and have made this series to one of the...

How can Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu prompt us to re-imagine the cinema? Although no-one goes to the cinema in the novel, and its narrator is critical of a 'merely' cinematographic account of reality, the proposition of Thinking Cinema with Proust is...

A fascinating year-by-year history of American film in the seventies, a decade filled with innovations that reinvented the medium and showed that movies can be more than entertainment. In The Seventies: The Decade That Changed American Film Forever, Vincent LoBrutto tracks the changing of...

Like an alchemist, Tennessee would dip his pen in reality and make fiction out of it. This journey through his life focuses on the influence of specific people and places on selected works.Author: Augustin J. CorreroPublisher: Pelican Publishing CompanyPublished: 02/22/2021Pages: 224Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize:...

The great American Westerns can be profoundly meaningful when read metaphorically. More than mere shoot 'em up entertainment, they are an essential part of a vibrant, evolving national mythology. Like other versions of the archetypal Hero's Journey, these films are filled with insights about...

Omens, Alchemy, and Occult Wisdom in the Works of the Great Bard Shakespeare's plays and sonnets are steeped in magic and esoteric lore. So Potent Art explores fascinating examples of astrology, alchemy, and Hermeticism in addition to herbalism, witchcraft, fairies, ghosts, and divine intervention....

The definitive history of twentieth-century theatrical dance, enhanced with more than 200 exceptional photographs Winner of the 2005 Congress on Research in Dance Award for Outstanding Publication in Dance Research"This work is not just reader friendly, it's downright compelling in its chronicle of the...