This delightfully overstuffed fact book dives into the world of Ser Duncan the Tall - Westeros's most earnest, well meaning, and occasionally accident prone knight - and his squire Egg, who is absolutely not hiding anything suspicious under that bald little head of his.
A brave and intelligent book Daily TelegraphAn unforgettable memoir about gender, journeys and enduring friendshipFor years Richard Beard would take spontaneous holidays with his motor-cycling friend Drew.
'A rollicking good time: this is royal memoir by way of Jilly Cooper' - Daily TelegraphFrom much-loved West End and Broadway star Ruthie Henshall, The Showgirl and the Prince is a funny, honest and touching real-life Cinderella story - if Cinders is a lycra-clad chorus girl from Bromley who drinks and smokes too much.
Advance your playwriting ideas from concept to production Playwriting For Dummies brings clarity, inspiration, practical know-how, and fun to every stage of your playwriting journey.
The name John Lennon immediately conjures up thoughts and images of the iconic sixties band 'The Beatles', the 'Let It Be' roof top concert, a pedestrian crossing at Abbey Road Studios, a white room, the song 'Imagine' and Yoko Ono.
From Philip Henslowe to David Merrick, the producer or theatre manager has generally been seen as a combination of Shylock and Simon Legree, usurer and slavedriver, wholly concerned with profit and loss, indifferent to art and artists.
One of America's foremost contemporary composers, professor of music at the University of California, Roger Sessions here discusses the musical experience of the composer, the performer, the listener.
This work explains how and why Japan supports a community of professional dancers, musicians, production companies, and visual artists that has nearly tripled in size during the past 25 years.
Starting from the assumption that all theater is at least implicitly participatory, Professor Whitaker approaches thirteen plays, from Ibsen's Rosmersholm to Beckett's Endgame and Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.
A pioneer of stage naturalism, David Belasco has come to be universally recognized as one of the first important directors in the history of the American stage.
Besides documenting the predominant presence of privileged patrons in the audience, the author discusses the shape of the privileged life, the place of the privileged in the social structure, the forces that drew so many of them to London, and the factors that made them such avid theatergoers.
This book is a comprehensive study of the customary practices of English players of the period--how they lived and worked and were paid, organized, and cast for parts in the phenomenally popular theaters of England.
This book, a companion to the author's Pierrot: A Critical History of a Mask (Princeton, 1978), provides a detailed history of nineteenth-century French pantomime, from the feeries of Jean-Gaspard Deburau at the Theatre des Funambules to the cabaret entertainments of Georges Wague at the height of la Belle Epoque.
Unlike the contrast between the sacred and the taboo, the opposition of "e;comic"e; and "e;tragic"e; is not a way of categorizing experience that we find in cultures all over the world or even at different periods in Western civilization.
Film, a latecomer to the realm of artistic media, alludes to, absorbs, and undermines the discourses of the other arts--literature and painting especially--in order to carve out a position for itself among them.
This rich, wide-ranging book explores Italy's national film style by relating it closely to politics and to the historicist thought of Croce, Gentile, and Gramsci.
An extraordinary drama of flight and rescue arising from women's resistance to marriage, The Suppliants is surprising both for its exotic color and for its forceful enactment of the primal struggle between male and female, lust and terror, brutality and cunning.
This is the definitive biography of Emile Cohl (1857-1938), one of the most important pioneers of the art of the animated cartoon and an innovative contributor to popular graphic humor at a critical moment when it changed from traditional caricature to the modern comic strip.
Elizabeth Belfiore offers a striking new interpretation of Aristotle's Poetics by situating the work within the Aristotelian corpus and in the context of Greek culture in general.
Este libro traza las continuidades y discontinuidades filmicas subterraneas del legado del surrealismo y del compromiso politico dentro del estado espanol desde los anos treinta hasta la actualidad, desde la obra pionera de Carlos Velo, Jose Val del Omar, Luis Bunuel y Salvador Dali, hasta el cine militante actual forjado en la estela del 15-M.
Este libro ofrece un recorrido por la filmografia de Nolan hasta sus ultimas superproducciones en Hollywood ("e;Interstellar"e;, "e;Tenet"e;, "e;Oppenheimer"e;), sin olvidar hitos fundamentales como la "e;Trilogia del Caballero Oscuro"e;, que renovo desde sus cimientos el genero de superheroes.
Paolo Sorrentino (1970) es autor de una de las obras mas interesantes del panorama cinematografico contemporaneo, repleta de imagenes y secuencias de extraordinaria potencia estetica que no se quedan en la mera belleza, sino que dialogan con otras manifestaciones artisticas y campos del saber, estableciendo, al mismo tiempo, una continua reflexion sobre los temas de actualidad, sin dejar de repensar el pasado y como este afecta al devenir de sus personajes.
Basilio Martin Patino (Lumbrales, Salamanca, 29 de octubre de 1930-Madrid, 13 de agosto de 2017) estudio Filosofia y Letras en la Universidad de Salamanca, donde fundo el Cine Club Universitario.
"e;Script Analysis"e; explores the core components of cinematic storytelling, offering readers a framework to dissect and appreciate the underlying structure of films and television.
