Performing arts

Show Boat: Performing Race in an American Musical tells the full story of the making and remaking of the most important musical in Broadway history.

In recent years, a growth in dance and wellbeing scholarship has resulted in new ways of thinking that place the body, movement, and dance in a central place with renewed significance for wellbeing.

Religious Communication Association's Book of the YearHollywood and Christianity often seem to be at war.

Andre Bazin, often dubbed the father of the French New Wave, has had an immense impact on film art.

The reality of transnational innovation and dissemination of new technologies, including digital media, has yet to make a dent in the deep-seated culturalism that insists on reinscribing a divide between the West and Japan.

It's all about the scratch in Groove Music, award-winning music historian Mark Katz's groundbreaking book about the figure that defined hip-hop: the DJ.

Conversion has played a central role in the history of Christianity.

Why have certain kinds of documentary and non-narrative films emerged as the most interesting, exciting, and provocative movies made in the last twenty years?

In this deeply researched and vividly written volume, Melvyn Stokes illuminates the origins, production, reception and continuing history of this ground-breaking, aesthetically brilliant, and yet highly controversial movie.

Critics hailed previous editions of Visionary Film as the most complete work written on the exciting, often puzzling, and always controversial genre of American avant-garde film.

The ancient world served as an unconventional source of inspiration for a generation of modernists.

Now long out of print, John Dunning's Tune in Yesterday was the definitive one-volume reference on old-time radio broadcasting.

Now available in paperback, Harold Seymour and Dorothy Seymour Mills' Baseball: The Early Years recounts the true story of how baseball came into being and how it developed into a highly organized business and social institution.

Why have certain kinds of documentary and non-narrative films emerged as the most interesting, exciting, and provocative movies made in the last twenty years?

Here is an exciting collection of writings about The Grateful Dead, offering both classic and hard-to-find essays, reporting, and reviews.

In his 1967 megahit "e;San Francisco,"e; Scott McKenzie sang of "e;people in motion"e; coming from all across the country to San Francisco, the white-hot center of rock music and anti-war protests.

In its seven years on television, Buffy the Vampire Slayer earned critical acclaim and a massive cult following among teen viewers.

Conversion has played a central role in the history of Christianity.

It's all about the scratch in Groove Music, award-winning music historian Mark Katz's groundbreaking book about the figure that defined hip-hop: the DJ.

Film music is as old as cinema itself.

From the dance floor of a tango club to group therapy classes, from ballet to community theatre, improvised dance is everywhere.

With its dynamic choreographies and booming drumbeats, taiko has gained worldwide popularity since its emergence in 1950s Japan.

A theory of the soundtrack is concerned with what belongs to the soundtrack, how a soundtrack is effectively organized, how its status in a multimedia object affects the nature of the object, the tools available for its analysis, and the interpretive regime that the theory mandates for determining the meaning, sense, and structure that sound and music bring to film and other audiovisual media.

Ted Shawn (1891-1972) is the self-proclaimed "e;Father of American Dance"e; who helped to transform dance from a national pastime into theatrical art.

Ted Shawn (1891-1972) is the self-proclaimed "e;Father of American Dance"e; who helped to transform dance from a national pastime into theatrical art.

In this deeply researched and vividly written volume, Melvyn Stokes illuminates the origins, production, reception and continuing history of this ground-breaking, aesthetically brilliant, and yet highly controversial movie.

Here is a panoramic history of America from 1954 to 1973, ranging from the buoyant teen-age rebellion first captured by rock and roll, to the drawn-out and dispiriting endgame of Watergate.

This second edition of Helping in Child Protective Services: A Competency-Based Casework Handbook is a comprehensive desk reference that serves as both a daily guide for workers and a training tool for supervisors and administrators.

Now available in paperback, Harold Seymour and Dorothy Seymour Mills' Baseball: The Early Years recounts the true story of how baseball came into being and how it developed into a highly organized business and social institution.

The Queer Biopic in the AIDS Era offers a new account of the AIDS crisis and the emergence of New Queer Cinema.

The Queer Biopic in the AIDS Era offers a new account of the AIDS crisis and the emergence of New Queer Cinema.

American police departments have presided over the business of motion pictures since the end of the nineteenth century.

American police departments have presided over the business of motion pictures since the end of the nineteenth century.

In popular thought, Christianity is often figured as being opposed to dance.

In popular thought, Christianity is often figured as being opposed to dance.

Before the tumultuous events of the 1960's ended his long life, "e;Sambo"e; prevailed in American culture as the cheerful and comical entertainer.

This is the second volume of Thomas Cripps's definitive history of African-Americans in Hollywood.

The American urban scene, and in particular New York's, has given us a rich cultural legacy of slang words and phrases, a bonanza of popular speech.

"e;Music and girls are the soul of musical comedy,"e; one critic wrote, early in the 1940s.

Become a little expert in how the country is run!

A new 3rd edition of the book is now available for preorderJoin Zander live on 29th March for a hands-on workshop, scroll down to grab your tickets!

From the dance floor of a tango club to group therapy classes, from ballet to community theatre, improvised dance is everywhere.

A refreshing new practical approach to documentary filmmaking, Get Close: Lean Team Documentary Filmmaking equips new and veteran filmmakers with the knowhow to make artistically rewarding documentaries for less money, less hassle, and less time.

A refreshing new practical approach to documentary filmmaking, Get Close: Lean Team Documentary Filmmaking equips new and veteran filmmakers with the knowhow to make artistically rewarding documentaries for less money, less hassle, and less time.

Reframing Vivien Leigh takes a new look at the laboring life one of the twentieth century's most iconic stars.

Reframing Vivien Leigh takes a new look at the laboring life one of the twentieth century's most iconic stars.

Stereotypes often cast communism as a defunct, bankrupt ideology and a relic of the distant past.

Stereotypes often cast communism as a defunct, bankrupt ideology and a relic of the distant past.

With its dynamic choreographies and booming drumbeats, taiko has gained worldwide popularity since its emergence in 1950s Japan.

The backstudio picture, or the movie about movie-making, is a staple of Hollywood film production harking back to the silent era and extending to the present day.