Performing arts

Famous and seductive, female stage performers haunted French public life in the century before and after the Revolution.

In this new and updated ultimate filmmaker's guide, Louise Levison gives you easy-to-use steps for writing an investor-winning business plan for a feature film, including: A comprehensive explanations for each of the eight sections of a plan Full financial section with text and tables A sample business planA companion website with additional information for various chapters and detailed financial instructions advanced math not neededAn explanation on how feature documentary, animated and large-format films differA guide to pitching to investors: who they are, what they want and what to tell themWords of advice: Filmmakers share their experiences raising money from equity investors

A Monologue is an Outrageous Situation!

In this entertaining and informative book, Victor L.

In the steamy summer of 1787, as America's founding fathers fashioned their Constitution, they told the most powerful institution in their new nation what it must not do: "e;Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.

In this book, world-renowned theatre artist Pamela Howard OBE shows how her life has always been part of the art of making theatre.

Astyanax is thrown from the walls of Troy; Medeia kills her children as an act of vengeance against her husband; Aias reflects with sorrow on his son's inheritance, yet kills himself and leaves Eurysakes vulnerable to his enemies.

Offering the first sustained and comprehensive scholarly consideration of the dramatic potential of the blazon, this volume complicates what has become a standard reading of the Petrarchan convention of dismembering the beloved through poetic description.

More than four decades after the premiere of his first film, Steven Spielberg (b.

A Brief History of Comic Book Movies traces the meteoric rise of the hybrid art form of the comic book film.

Elements of Performance is based on Pauline Koner's course of the same name taught at the Juilliard School in New York.

In film, the femme fatale has long been constructed as a beautiful heterosexual Caucasian woman.

Fictions of Youth is a comprehensive examination of adolescence as an aesthetic, sociological, and ideological category in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s prose, poetry, and cinema.

This is the first book to critically explore international leisure during the COVID-19 pandemic.

How filmmaker-philosophers brought the dream of making documentaries and strengthening democracy to award-winning realitywith help from nuns, gang members, skateboarders, artists, disability activists, and more.

NEW IN PAPERBACKFirst performed at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1904, directed by Konstantin Stanislavski, The Cherry Orchard remains a classic of the theatre.

The Ritual Theatre of Theodoros Terzopoulos outlines the story of the Athenian-based Attis Theatre and the way its founder and director, Theodoros Terzopoulos, introduced bio-energetic presences of the body on the stage, in an attempt to redefine and reappraise what it means today not only to have a body, but to fully be a body.

Consider the usual view of film noir: endless rainy nights populated by down-at-the-heel boxers, writers, and private eyes stumbling toward inescapable doom while stalked by crooked cops and cheating wives in a neon-lit urban jungle.

Awarded the Tudor Vianu Prize for Literary and Cultural Theory by the National Museum of Romanian Literature.

As living subjects rather than static icons, studio-era Hollywood actresses actively negotiated a balance between their public personas, film roles, and corporeal presence.

Nominated for the TaPRA Early Career Research Prize 2018In this book, Jo Scott shares writing and documentation from her practice as research (PaR) project, which explored and analysed a mode of performance she developed, called live intermediality.

This book explores new developments in the dialogues between science and theatre and offers an introduction to a fast-expanding area of research and practice.

Thomas Hardy and the Folk Horror Tradition takes the uncanny and unsettling fiction of Thomas Hardy as fundamental in examining the lineage of 'Hardyan Folk Horror'.

The longer the distance run, the more women have an edge over their male competitors.

The poet and author’s “beautiful .

Contemporary actor training in the US and UK has become increasingly multicultural and multilinguistic.

Among Hollywood's child stars are some talented children, normal and pleasant who find fame in film.

When he was seventeen years old, Audie Murphy falsified his birth records so he could enlist in the Army and help defeat the Nazis.

So, You're the New Musical Director!

The only collection of essays on one of Britain's Angry Young Men, this book contains discussions of most of Wesker's published plays with an emphasis on the more recent works.

Imagined Theatres collects theoretical dramas written by some of the leading scholars and artists of the contemporary stage.

A collection of essays exploring the philosophical themes and aesthetic vision behind blockbuster film including The Insider, Public Enemies,and more.

Every year, countless young adults from affluent, Western nations travel to Brazil to train in capoeira, the dance/martial art form that is one of the most visible strands of the Afro-Brazilian cultural tradition.

From the show's modest beginnings to its massive Emmy sweep, You Are My Happy Ending tells the story of how Schitt's Creek became the surprise hit that changed the way we think about LGBTQ relationships.

A project based guides to learn animation, advanced shaders, environments, particle rendering, and networked games with Godot 3.

Celebrate the 25th anniversary of Survivor with a look back at one of history's most popular and long-running reality shows.

Part of a vanguard of Spanish talent claiming success at home and in Hollywood, Pen lope Cruz is one of the best known European stars today.

The Front Lawn is a multi-award-winning, much-loved New Zealand duo-turned-trio made up of Don McGlashan, Harry Sinclair and, eventually, Jennifer Ward-Lealand.

From the favorites of Tin Pan Alley to today's international blockbusters, the stylistic range required of a musical theatre performer is expansive.

'Mischievous and measured, Joanna Lumley gives us a remarkable portrait of a groovy life' The Times'Captures perfectly the mixture of poshness and larkiness that has captivated Joanna Lumley's audiences.

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The North American entertainment industry is rapidly consolidating, and new modes of technological delivery challenge Canadian content regulations.

This book contains a collection of mystifying magic and card tricks.

The multiple award-winning Doctor Zhivago (1965) is one of America's finest films of all time.

Harry Benjamin (18851986), a German-born endocrinologist, was a pivotal figure in the development of transgender medicine.

The Routledge Dictionary of Contemporary Theatre and Performance provides the first authoritative alphabetical guide to the theatre and performance of the last 30 years.

This volume frames the concept of a national play.