Performing arts

In Staging a Musical, Matthew White describes all the elements involved in putting on a musical production, including: how to choose the right show, budgets and schedules, auditions, rehearsals, and performances.

Widely regarded as Japan's greatest animated director, Hayao Miyazaki creates films lauded for vibrant characters and meaningful narrative themes.

Film Studies in China 2 is a collection of selected articles chosen from issues of the journal Contemporary Cinema published throughout the year and translated for an English-speaking audience.

It's simple: films need to have commercial value for the studios to produce them, distributors to sell them, and theater chains to screen them.

First published in 1997.

This engaging study offers fresh readings of canonical Shakespeare plays, illuminating ways stagecraft and language of movement create meaning for playgoers.

The day-by-day inside story of the making of Tombstone (1993) as told to the author by those who were there--actors, extras, crew members, Buckaroos, historians and everyone in between.

In his day, theater actor and manager Jack Langrishe (1825-1895) was about as well known in the West as General Grant was in the East.

Redefining Theatre Communities explores the interplay between contemporary theatre and communities.

This book provides actors, directors, teachers and students with a clear, practical guide to applying the work of influential theatre practitioner Konstantin Stanislavsky to Shakespeare.

Combining black feminist theory, philosophy, and performance studies, Sarah Jane Cervenak ruminates on the significance of physical and mental roaming for black freedom.

In recent decades historians and film scholars have intensified their study of colonial cinema in Africa.

What is unique and essential about theater?

This detailed portrait of George Balanchine presents new approaches to his choreography.

An interactive guidebook to the history and inner workings of the legislative branch of the U.

Unter dem Titel Reset Postmodernity?

Dana Andrews, arguably the finest minimalist actor of his generation, as one critic commented, could convey more with one look than many actors could with a soliloquy.

Europa brings together four European theatres: Birmingham Repertory Theatre (UK), Dresden State Theatre (Germany), Teatr Polski Bydgoszcz (Poland) and Zagreb Youth Theatre (Croatia) and four leading playwrights from each country Steve Waters (UK), Lutz H bner (Germany), Malgorzata Sikorska-Miszczuk (Poland) and Tena tivicic (Croatia).

Stages of Engagement is a compelling and wonderfully varied account of the relationship between theatre in the United States and the social, cultural, and political forces that shaped it during one of the most formative periods in the nation's history.

This book focuses largely on enabling technologies for network convergence.

I cook here, create here,make here be as much of life as I canbecause outside of thisI'm not safe,I don't know the way.

From the futuristic skyscrapers of Metropolis to the haunting shadows of M, Fritz Lang remains one of the most innovative filmmakers of the 20th century.

Since its inception in November 1963, the British science fiction television series Doctor Who has exerted an enormous impact on the world of science fiction (over 1,500 books have been written about the show).

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

Is Tennessee Williams a social writer at heart?

From the earliest period of its existence, Christianity has been recognized as the "e;religion of the cross.

Robin Nelson's State of play up-dates and develops the arguments of his influential TV Drama In Transition (1997).

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year that Sir Ian McKellen called a shocking tale of heroes and villainsilluminating and upsetting in equal measure.

This book rethinks the study of European Cinema in a way that centres on students and their needs, in a comprehensive volume introducing undergraduates to the main discourses, directions and genres of twenty-first-century European film.

Jackie Robinson, Branch Rickey, and the hidden hand of God that changed history Journalist and baseball lover Ed Henry reveals for the first time the backstory of faith that guided Jackie Robinson into not only the baseball record books but the annals of civil rights advancement as well.

Changing Sex takes a bold new approach to the study of transsexualism in the twentieth century.

Dramatherapy and Recovery offers a comprehensive and groundbreaking approach to harnessing the power of theater in the recovery process through the use of playmaking and performance.

1940 hat Fritz Busch während einer Schiffsreise bereits in seiner Stuttgarter Zeit um 1920 begonnene Aufzeichnungen weitergeführt.

This book investigates the activities undertaken by the variety of actors that contribute to accomplishing cultural policy in Europe.

Enormous quantities of data go unused or underused today, simply because people can't visualize the quantities and relationships in it.

How should the church relate to the public sphere?

Introduced by Apple in January 2005, iWork '05 is an innovative new suite of document and presentation software that's the same caliber as Apple's groundbreaking digital media applications and that's wholly dedicated to what Mac users like you care about most: artistry and creativity.

While transgender and non-binary identities are increasingly visible, too many Christians have either maintained a fearful silence, or have attacked 'transgenderism' as a threat to Christian faith and practice.

Richard Neuse here explores the relationship between two great medieval epics, Dantes Divine Comedy and Chaucers Canterbury Tales.

The future of theatre history studies requires consideration of theatre as a global phenomenon.

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'Massively enjoyable' Dawn FrenchI Carried a Watermelon is a love letter to Dirty Dancing.

Music was everywhere in pre-Revolutionary Williamsburg, Virginia.

"e;The entire town is disguised,"e; declared a French tourist of eighteenth-century Venice.

Richard Wagner's Die Meistersinger has always called forth superlatives from those who have fallen under its spell.

Created when James I granted royal patronage to the former Chamberlain's Men in 1603, the King's Men were the first playing company to exercise a transformative influence on Shakespeare's plays.

A comprehensive guide to science fiction films, which analyzes and contextualizes the most important examples of the genre, from Un voyage dans la lune (1902), to The Road (2009).

Exactly what does a conductor do in front of an orchestra?