Performing arts

The cinema of Japan predates that of Russia, China, and India, and it has been able to sustain itself without outside assistance for over a century.

A Finalist for the 2026 Locus AwardsA bestseller in Korea, a biting, fast-paced vampire murder mystery exploring queer love and the consequences of loneliness.

A Finalist for the 2026 Locus AwardsA bestseller in Korea, a biting, fast-paced vampire murder mystery exploring queer love and the consequences of loneliness.

First appearing in 1976, American Classic Screen was the publishing arm of The National Film Society.

First appearing in 1976, American Classic Screen was the publishing arm of The National Film Society.

In 1927, The Jazz Singer heralded a revolution in the moviemaking industry with the advent of synchronized sound in full-length motion pictures.

African American Theater is a vibrant and unique entity enriched by ancient Egyptian rituals, West African folklore, and European theatrical practices.

One of the most powerful forces in world culture, American cinema has a long and complex history that stretches through more than a century.

Adaptation Studies is a fast-emerging discipline which has expanded into other areas of media scholarship.

Something's Coming, Something Good: West Side Story and the American Imagination takes a critical, comprehensive look at one of the most inventive, influential, and internationally beloved Broadway musicals of all time - from its inception by a brilliant quartet of creators (Robbins, Bernstein, Sondheim, and Laurents) to its smashing success on film, to its ongoing popularity on stages around the world and its potent impact on the Great American Musical.

Something's Coming, Something Good: West Side Story and the American Imagination takes a critical, comprehensive look at one of the most inventive, influential, and internationally beloved Broadway musicals of all time - from its inception by a brilliant quartet of creators (Robbins, Bernstein, Sondheim, and Laurents) to its smashing success on film, to its ongoing popularity on stages around the world and its potent impact on the Great American Musical.

Nonfiction films about sports have been around for decades, yet few scholarly articles have been published on these works.

In his latest book, John Russell Brown offers a new and revealing way of reading and studying Shakespeare's plays, focusing on what a play does for an audience, as well as what its text says.

Adam Szymkowicz is that rarest of things: a full-time playwright.

Adam Szymkowicz is that rarest of things: a full-time playwright.

Drawing on new research in the Stanley Kubrick Archive at the University of the Arts London, Kr mer's study explores the production, marketing and reception as well as the themes and style of A Clockwork Orange against the backdrop of Kubrick's previous work and of wider developments in cinema, culture and society from the 1950s to the early 1970s.

THE HEART-STOPPING MEMOIR, NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING SHAILENE WOODLEY AND SAM CLAFLIN, AND DIRECTED BY BALTASAR KORMAKUR (EVEREST)A compelling, at times devastating, ultimately inspiring account of how much can go wrong on the ocean and how, miraculously, one woman conquered her own fears.

For decades, Screen World has been the film professional's, as well as the film buff's, favorite and indispensable annual screen resource, full of all the necessary statistics and facts.

Focusing on programs from the 1970s to the early 2000s, this volume explores televised youth horror as a distinctive genre that affords children productive experiences of fear.

Focusing on programs from the 1970s to the early 2000s, this volume explores televised youth horror as a distinctive genre that affords children productive experiences of fear.

In Staging Scenes from the Operas of Donizetti and Verdi, veteran opera director William Ferrarapresents a detailed, practical exploration of the staging of twenty-one scenes from two of opera's most beloved composers.

From his early days as a film editor at RKO studios, where he helped Orson Welles shape Citizen Kane, to his success as a director and producer of musical blockbusters of the 1960s, Robert Wise had a long and illustrious film career.

Whether chronicling an athlete's rise, fall, and redemption or following a team's improbable triumph on the field, sports have been a favorite theme of filmmakers almost since movies were first produced.

Improvisational comedy has exploded over the last several decades.

Improvisational comedy has exploded over the last several decades.

Regarded by many as one of America's finest-living writers, Cormac McCarthy has produced some of the most compelling novels of the last 40 years.

The Historical Dictionary of Latin American Literature and Theater provides users with an accessible single-volume reference tool covering Portuguese-speaking Brazil and the 16 Spanish-speaking countries of continental Latin America (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela).

In a world of marquee names and big personalities, Jenny Anderson is a legend in her own right.

The essays in this collection make a contribution to the greening of film studies and expand the scope of ecocriticism as a discipline traditionally rooted in literary studies.

The actions, images and stories within films can impact upon the political consciousness of viewers, enabling their audience to imagine ways of resisting the status quo, politically, economically and culturally.

The actions, images and stories within films can impact upon the political consciousness of viewers, enabling their audience to imagine ways of resisting the status quo, politically, economically and culturally.

The raven, crane, and firebird each chose a tribe of man, granting humans heavenly magic.

Two stories unspool in Sideways Uncorked: the story behind Alexander Payne's modern movie classic adapted from a most unlikely source-an unpublished novel by a burnt-out ex-filmmaker and wine connoisseur Rex Pickett-and the world of Pinot Noir (and Merlot) winemaking before and after Sideways was released.

Two stories unspool in Sideways Uncorked: the story behind Alexander Payne's modern movie classic adapted from a most unlikely source-an unpublished novel by a burnt-out ex-filmmaker and wine connoisseur Rex Pickett-and the world of Pinot Noir (and Merlot) winemaking before and after Sideways was released.

In 10-Minute Plays for Kids, young thespians will find terrific plays by some of our most prominent playwrights - such as Sharyn Rothstein, Alex Broun, Jenny Lyn Bader, Claudia I.

In this complete guide to making documentaries, readers will find a primer that Library Journal notes "e;abundantly supplies suggestions for those in the business"e; and says "e;casual readers will savor stories about the genre's history.

In this complete guide to making documentaries, readers will find a primer that Library Journal notes "e;abundantly supplies suggestions for those in the business"e; and says "e;casual readers will savor stories about the genre's history.

To an unusual degree among writers, playwrights' creations are not simply words on a page.

In 1969, when Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice decided to write a rock opera about Jesus Christ, they had little idea they were about to embark on one of the most popular, boundary-pushing, and influential musicals ever.

What began as an underground 60s Mod scene in unlicensed, no-frills clubs in the North West of England became a youth craze that has long surpassed all others.

A refreshed reissue of the 1952 classic Treasure on Earth.

Gossip meets history—a compulsively readable collection of Hollywood''s most notorious clashes and controversies in the spirit of Hollywood Babylon
Believe it or not, America''s fascination with celebrity culture was thriving well before the days of TMZ, Perez Hilton, Charlie Sheen''s breakdown and allegations against Woody Allen.

The creator of Story Theater, the original director of Second City, and one of the greatest popularizers of improvisational theater, Paul Sills has assembled some of his favorite adaptations from world literature.

In a world of marquee names and big personalities, Jenny Anderson is a legend in her own right.

Eighteenth-century France is understood to have been the dominant cultural power on that era's international scene.

Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England is an annual volume committed to the publication of essays and reviews related to English drama and theatre history to 1642.

With thousands of outlets worldwide and growing, audio drama is the new frontier in storytelling.

Consuming Visions explores the relationship between cinema and writing in early twentieth-century Brazil, focusing on how the new and foreign medium of film was consumed by a literary society in the throes of modernization.

Director Krzysztof Kieslowski's Three Colors trilogy-Blue (1993), White (1993), and Red (1994)-is one of the great achievements of European film.

Since the early days of film, the representation of masculinity has changed considerably.