Performing arts

From his primitive nonseries beginnings through the well known Fox series of 44 films (1931-1949), here is the complete history of famous film detective Charlie Chan.

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How are plays constructed?

The "e;Old Hollywood"e; of studios, stars, and house directors began to break up in the 1960s.

Providing one of the first book-length accounts of Samuel Beckett's poetry, this work illustrates how Beckett's poetry, and its failures, reconfigure the lyric form.

Told through the eyes of a Marine Lieutenant who dropped out of college, this autobiography recounts the Vietnam tour of Joseph L.

The #MeToo movement has heightened awareness about the prevalence of sexual violence across professional, public, and private spheres.

The Contemporary American Survival Film investigates and breaks down the contemporary American Survival Film (from Cast Away onwards), focusing on film, television, literature and video games.

From one of the most celebrated actors of the stage and screen comes this book on the craft of acting.

This work examines how beauty standards, specifically the ideology of "e;fairness"e;, contributed to the racialization of bodies in early modern England.

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Explore an A-Z of everything you need to know about the masterful movies of Quentin Tarantino, from AK-47 to "e;Zed's dead, baby"e; and everything in between.

This Element discusses how are women artists from equity-owed, global majority communities making Shakespeare relevant and powerful today.

This accessible handbook is a practical guide to the concepts and techniques of micro-budget, cinematic storytelling.

The introduction and diffusion of international subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) services in the 2010s represented the most significant disruption of established national broadcast and pay-TV ecologies in their long history.

This book explores the practice of artist filmmaker William Raban from 1970 to the present.

Taboo breakers and trendsetters, shameless hucksters and famous directors.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Writer, director, and actor Avan Jogia delivers a bright and acidic poetry collection on fame, rage, love, and sadness.

This book explores the practice of artist filmmaker William Raban from 1970 to the present.

In this unique new book, The Heart of Drawing, 59 artists from 22 countries exhibit their art and talk about their process of creation to inspire readers and help them find inspiration for their own creative efforts.

A complex and at times controversial film-maker whose career spanned the second half of the twentieth century, Federico Fellini (1920-1993) remains central to the Italian cultural imagery and the object of ongoing debates and critical scrutiny at home and abroad.

This volume discusses gendered transformative initiatives in South Asian feminism, discussing gender norms, labour and market participation by women, along with family planning, reproductive rights and initiatives for the social and financial empowerment of women in South Asia.

In this unique new book, The Heart of Drawing, 59 artists from 22 countries exhibit their art and talk about their process of creation to inspire readers and help them find inspiration for their own creative efforts.

Since its first publication in 2004, The Performance Studies Reader has become the leading anthology of key writings on performance studies.

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'Kate Webb is your next must-read' LUCY FOLEY 'A wonderful addition to contemporary crime' ANN CLEEVESA breathtaking cold case mystery, starring DI Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad.

Nearly fourteen billion years after the universe began, The Big Bang Theory became a pop culture explosion.

An award-winning playwright's story of her madcap race to find fame or enlightenment, whichever comes first- perfect for fans of Lori Gottlieb's Maybe You Should Talk to Someone.

This is an authorized translation of Nemirovich-Danchenko (Moscow, 1979) by Inna Solovyova, historian, author, and senior researcher of the Moscow Art Theatre Archives.

Stanislavsky and Gender explores the intimate and complicated relationship between the enduring influence of Konstantin Stanislavsky and the evolving phenomenon of gender.

Some 80 years after the end of World War two and Nazi Germany's attempt to annihilate European Jews and the Jewish culture, the story of the Holocaust continues to be told in novels, paintings, music, sculpture and film.