Individual actors and performers

'I've been protected by studio publicity men most of my life, so in some ways I'm a goddam image, not a person.

Die beiden Flüsse Nera und Karasch grenzen ein Gebiet im südlichen Banat ein, das für Dragan Aleksic Heimat bedeutet.

This entertaining and informative study of the Three Stooges focuses on the nearly 190 two-reel short comedies the boys made at Columbia Pictures during the years 1934-59.

'Ever since I was a child I loved to dance.

A major reappraisal of the life of legendary entertainer Sammy Davis, Jr.

This book offers new ways of thinking about dance-related artworks that have taken place in galleries, museums and biennales over the past two decades as part of the choreographic turn.

For every woman searching for her voice, Anna Kloots shares her story of starting over by trusting the magic that was always within.

Violations of religious freedom and violence committed in the name of religion grab our attention on a daily basis.

This volume offers the first comprehensive analysis of the work of East German theatre director Fritz Bennewitz in India between 1970 and 1994.

Charles Dibdin (1745-1814) was one of the most popular and influential creative forces in late Georgian Britain, producing a diversity of works that defy simple categorisation.

This edited volume discusses the topic of immersion, approaching it from the perspective of various media and stakeholders: experiencers and creators.

What did modern theatre in Russia look like and how did it foreground tradition building and transmission processes?

"e;A riveting account of the life of the international socialite and billionairess Lily Safra.

What roles do King Nebuchadnezzar, ruler of ancient Babylon, and Donald J.

As a director, author, actor, and educator, Frank Galati has been a prominent American artist since the 1980s and continues to create new and innovative work for the theatre.

Sex, violence, power, and redemption.

Née à Arvida en 1940, Louise Latraverse a connu un parcours remarquable.

A bristling and brilliant memoir of the mid-twentieth-century New York School of painters and their times by the renowned artist and critic Edith Schloss, who, from the early years, was a member of the group that shifted the center of the art world from Paris to New YorkThe Loft Generation: From the de Koonings to Twombly; Portraits and Sketches, 1942-2011 is an invaluable account by an artist at the center of a landmark era in American art.

Mit Mitte fünfzig zieht der Erzähler zu seiner Mitte achtzigjährigen Mutter aufs Land, um dort an einem Roman über das Theater mit dem Titel »Scham und Bühne« zu schreiben.

What is hip-hop, and how does it impact the Black Church?

"e;Nelson's unmistakable voice shines through .

'Mesmerising .

Douglas Fairbanks and the American Century brings to life the most popular movie star of his day, the personification of the Golden Age of Hollywood.

Born and raised on the streets of Southtown, two exits from the Mexico border, Sonny Sandoval was always going to go his own way.

"e;This biography will not disappoint those who loved the novel and the feisty, independent, fiercely loyal Scout, in whom Harper Lee put so much of herself.

Religious traditions in the United States are characterized by ongoing tension between assimilation to the broader culture, as typified by mainline Protestant churches, and defiant rejection of cultural incursions, as witnessed by more sectarian movements such as Mormonism and Hassidism.

Michael Palin's bestselling diaries before, during and after Monty Python.

Providing one of the first critically sustained engagements with the new forms of verbatim and testimonial theatre that emerged in the late 1990s and early 2000s, this book examines what distinguishes verbatim theatre from the more established documentary theatre traditions developed initially by Peter Weiss, Bertolt Brecht and Erwin Piscator.

Based on long-lost recordings between Orson Welles and Henry Jaglom, My Lunches with Orson presents a set of riveting and revealing conversations with America's great cultural provocateur.

Thirty years ago, Kathryn Tanner put forward a daring proposal.

'Grylls takes you behind the scenes on his most thrilling adventures.

Described by theater critics as one of the twentieth century's greatest talents, Benjamin Zuskin (1899-1952) was a star of the Moscow State Jewish Theater.

"e;Sophie has a great style of cooking and recipes you really want to eat.

One hot summer night in 1945, three young American writers, each an enfant terrible, came together in a stuffy Manhattan apartment for the first time.

A concise and authoritative introduction to Islamic political ideasIn sixteen concise chapters on key topics, this book provides a rich, authoritative, and up-to-date introduction to Islamic political thought from the birth of Islam to today, presenting essential background and context for understanding contemporary politics in the Islamic world and beyond.

This volume chronicles the lives and artistry of Elia Kazan, Jerome Robbins, and Lloyd Richards.

The new wave of documentaries that prominently feature their filmmakers, such as the works of Michael Moore and Morgan Spurlock, have attracted fresh, new audiences to the form but they have also drawn criticism that documentaries now promote entertainment at the expense of truth.

The first sustained exploration of aporia as a vital, subversive, and productive figure within Beckett''s prose and theatre.

Uplifting the People is a history of the Alabama Missionary Baptist State Convention-its origins, churches, associations, conventions, and leaders.

'[Georgeff's] superb biography is .

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERDiscover the moving, entertaining, never-before-told story of how one man found his calling: to see that those who defend this country and its freedoms are never forgotten.

This vivid memoir by well-known New Zealand actor and novelist Barbara Ewing covers her tumultuous childhood, adolescence, and young-adulthood in Wellington and Auckland in the 1950s and early 1960s-a very different time-and ends in 1962, when she boards a ship for London to study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

Now firmly established as one of the leading textbooks in the increasingly popular field of radio studies, Radio in Context provides students with a practical, critical and comprehensive understanding of the main principles and techniques used in radio programming.

The large number of portraits of the actress Tilla Durieux gained her the reputation as "most-painted woman of her epoch".

This volume assesses the contributions of David Belasco, Arthur Hopkins, and Margaret Webster, whose careers shaped the artistic and specialist identity of the Broadway director.

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