Performing Arts Books

Go deeper into the groundbreaking, Golden Globe and Emmy-winning series with this must-have collection--"a completist's dream of a book, including the show's full scripts and Waller-Bridge's commentary" (Vogue).   NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY EVENING STANDARD   "Her coat...

Author: Rosalia FredsonISBN-10: 1006466347ISBN-13: 9781006466342Publisher: BlurbLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/02/2021Pages: 104Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.49lbsSize: 10.00h x 8.00w x 0.22d

Films located in the American West and the Western as a cinematic genre have endured throughout the history of moviemaking. Today, this tradition of battles between good versus evil, populists versus profiteers, and man versus nature may have been largely assimilated and transformed into...

The Futurist opera Victory over the Sun, first staged in 1913 in St Petersburg, was a key event of the Russian avant-garde, notorious for its libretto, its unconventional score and its pioneering abstract sets and costumes designed by Kazimir Malevich. The iconic importance of...

Contradictory to its core, the sitcom--an ostensibly conservative, tranquilizing genre--has a long track record in the United States of tackling controversial subjects with a fearlessness not often found in other types of programming. But the sitcom also conceals as much as it reveals, masking...

Author: Paul W. WilliamsISBN-10: 0813196671ISBN-13: 9780813196671Publisher: University Press of KentuckyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/14/2023Pages: 320Format: Hardcover

Catalyzed by her notoriously dirty, fabulously successful bestseller Valley of the Dolls, the Jackie Susann Sixties brimmed with camp comedy that now permeates contemporary celebrations of the author, from Pee-wee's Playhouse to RuPaul's Drag Race and Lee Daniels's Star. First christened camp by Gloria...

Stephen Prince has written the first book to examine the interplay between the aesthetics and the censorship of violence in classic Hollywood films from 1930 to 1968, the era of the Production Code, when filmmakers were required to have their scripts approved before they...

Author: Paul W. WilliamsISBN-10: 0813196671ISBN-13: 9780813196671Publisher: University Press of KentuckyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/14/2023Pages: 320Format: Hardcover

Author: Burt KearnsISBN-10: 0813196507ISBN-13: 9780813196503Publisher: University Press of KentuckyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/29/2022Pages: 408Format: Hardcover

How creativity makes its way through feeling--and what we can know and feel through the artistic work of Black women Feeling is not feelin. As the poet, artist, and scholar Bettina Judd argues, feelin, in African American Vernacular English, is how Black women artists...

Jean Gabin was more than just a star of iconic movies still screened in film festivals around the world. To many, he was France itself. During his 45-year career, he acted in 95 films, including Le Quai des Brumes, La Grande Illusion, Touchez Pas...

How creativity makes its way through feeling--and what we can know and feel through the artistic work of Black women Feeling is not feelin. As the poet, artist, and scholar Bettina Judd argues, feelin, in African American Vernacular English, is how Black women artists...

The first full biography for more than forty years of Hollywood legend, Carole Lombard Carole Lombard was the very opposite of the typical 1930s starlet. A no-nonsense woman, she worked hard, took no prisoners and had a great passion for life. As a result,...

A 72-page children's sticker book about Star Wars bounty hunters with more than 1,000 stickers. Join Greedo, Boba Fett, Din Djarin, and other famous bounty hunters from the Star Wars galaxy in this fun sticker book. Includes more than 1,000 stickers! Entertaining sticker activities...

Sing along with the Madrigal family from Disney's Encanto as Mirabel learns why they DON'T talk about Bruno! The Madrigal family does NOT talk about Bruno, Mirabel's uncle who can see into the future. But why not? Find out in this fun and colorful...

This fascinating book from veteran film journalist Ian Haydn Smith, with a foreword from award-winning director Asif Kapadia, explores 100 of the most compelling documentaries, each with the power to radically change our perceptions and challenge the way we see the world. Every so...

This comprehensive and in-depth study delves into the life and works of one of modern films most celebrated, succesful and intriguing auteurs, Christopher Nolan. 'What is the most resilient parasite? Bacteria? A virus? An intestinal worm? An idea. Resilient...highly contagious. Once an idea has...

Movement Direction in contemporary theatre production is increasingly recognised and valued as a significant component of the expressive art of bodily communication in live performance. From scene changes, to character development, to dance sequences, movement direction underpins all that we see on stage and...

A man tells a woman that they have met before - that they became lovers but then agreed to separate for a year. The year is now up, and he has come back for her. At first, she remembers nothing, but as he relates...