Performing Arts
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Pulling a Rabbit Out of a Hat: The Making of Roger Rabbit
$30.00 Add to cartWho Framed Roger Rabbit emerged at a nexus of people, technology, and circumstances that is historically, culturally, and aesthetically momentous. By the 1980s, animation seemed a dying art. Not even
- Author: Anderson, Ross
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1496822331
- Language: English
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Small Explosions: Bold and Combustible New Monologues for All Ages and Genders
$22.43 Add to cartOver ninety searing new monologues from acclaimed playwright Adam Szymkowicz, traversing the extremes of heartbreak and joy across a range of moods and voices
- Author: Szymkowicz, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: February 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1493071378
- Language: English
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Acting Is Your Business: How to Take Charge of Your Creative Career
$27.95 Read moreAfter training and studying for years, you’ve earned a degree: now what? How to get a job and have a career as an actor is the number one question facing emerging artists and one which this book answe
- Series: Introductions to Theatre
- Author: Kurtzman, Wendy S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: January 25 2024
- ISBN10: 1350385786
- Language: English
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Japanese Cult Cinema: Films From the Second Golden Age Selected Essays & Reviews
$12.99 Add to cartJapanese Cult Cinema: Films from the Second Golden Age is a collection of film reviews and in-depth essays exploring some of the best from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s.
During the period between t
- Author: Upton, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: May 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1399952277
- Language: English
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Sound Design: The Expressive Power of Music, Voice and Sound Effects in Cinema
$26.95 Add to cartOffers user-friendly knowledge and stimulating exercises to help compose story, develop characters and create emotion through skillful creation of the sound track.
- Author: Sonnenschein, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: June 15 2002
- ISBN10: 0941188264
- Language: English
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In and Out of Character
$28.48 Add to cart“Basil Rathbone’s book about himself…is better written than most books by or about actors and is more intellectually vigorous…Sherlock Holmes fans will be much interested in his remarks on the cha… [more below]
- Series: Limelight
- Author: Rathbone, Basil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 01 2004
- ISBN10: 879101199
- Language: English
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Making Documentary Films and Videos: A Practical Guide to Planning, Filming, and Editing Documentaries
$25.99 Add to cartThe classic guide to making documentaries, now revised and expanded for today’s filmmaker
The second edition of Making Documentary Films and Videos fully updates the popular guidebook that has given r- Author: Hampe, Barry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: December 10 2007
- ISBN10: 080508181X
- Language: English
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From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film
$27.95 Add to cartAn essential work of the cinematic history of the Weimar Republic by a leading figure of film criticism
First published in 1947, From Caligari to Hitler remains an undisputed landmark study of the ric- Series: Princeton Classics #43
- Author: Kracauer, Siegfried
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 02 2019
- ISBN10: 0691191344
- Language: English
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Ubik: The Screenplay
$13.95 Add to cart“An accident has occurred. Joe Chip and his colleagues–all but one of them–have narrowly escaped an explosion at a moon base. Or is it the other way round? Did Joe and the others die, and did the on… [more below]
- Author: Dick, Philip K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 17 2012
- ISBN10: 0547572697
- Language: English
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The Apocalypse Now Book
$19.99 Add to cartThe making of Francis Ford Coppola’s epic, based on unprecedented access to his private archives
The movie took years to be filmed and edited, and was the subject of endless stories, rumors, and spec- Author: Cowie, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 07 2005
- ISBN10: 0306810468
- Language: English
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Scorsese by Ebert
$19.00 Add to cartRoger Ebert wrote the first film review that director Martin Scorsese ever received–for 1967’s I Call First, later renamed Who’s That Knocking at My Door–creating a lasting bond that made him one of
- Author: Ebert, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0226182037
- Language: English
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The Writers’ Room Survival Guide: Don’t Screw Up the Lunch Order and Other Keys to a Happy Writers’ Room
$29.95 Add to cartWriters’ rooms can be a heaven or hell,
depending on a few things. The best rooms foster inclusive and productive
creative flow. The worst create a toxic stew of bad feelings and doubt. Both
kinds- Author: Levy, Niceole
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1615933468
- Language: English
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Crafting and Revising Dialogue
$19.99 Add to cart“What is ‘good’ dialogue? Ask the question of a writer, reader, movie-goer or television binge-watcher, and you’ll get a bunch of different responses.
Good dialogue is quotable.
Rapid-fire.
Character-
- Author: Gorney, Allen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: September 13 2021
- ISBN10: 1940761425
- Language: English
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Miracle Mongers and Their Methods (Centennial Edition): A Complete Exposé of the Modus Operandi of Fire Eaters, Heat Resistors, Poison Eaters, Venomou
$14.99 Add to cartThis book is a republication of the 1920 edition of Houdini’s Miracle Mongers and Their Methods, as originally published by E. P. Dutton & Company. In it, Houdini collects notes and stories about vari
- Author: Houdini
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 173532017X
- Language: English
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The Circus. 1870s-1950s
$116.67 Read moreIn its heyday, the American circus was the largest showbiz industry the world had ever seen. From the mid-1800s to mid-1900s, traveling circuses performed for audiences of up to 14,000 per show, emplo
- Author: Granfield, Linda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: April 06 2021
- ISBN10: 3836586649
- Language: English
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Star Wars: The Mandalorian: Guide to Season One
$19.99 Read moreA book dedicated to the first season of the successful hit live action series The Mandalorian, streaming on Disney+, featuring character files, plots, settings, and behind-the-scenes content.
With nev- Author: Titan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 18, 2021
- ISBN10: 1787737101
- Language: English
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The Taming of the Shrew
$9.95 Add to cart“Wonderfully informative and fun. You can’t do better.”–Charles P. Lord, headmaster, St. Timothy’s School, Baltimore, Maryland
- Series: 30-Minute Shakespeare
- Author: Newlin, Nick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 90
- Publish Date: July 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1935550330
- Language: English
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“One Man Crazy … !” The Life and Death of Colin Clive; Hollywood’s Dr. Frankenstein
$30.00 Add to cartHe immortalized Henry Frankenstein in Hollywood’s Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein, but his too-brief life was often a horror saga as well.
“One Man Crazy ” The Life and Death of Colin Clive is
- Author: Mank, Gregory W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 378
- Publish Date: November 29 2018
- ISBN10: 1936168812
- Language: English
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Above & Below: A 25th Anniversary Beauty and the Beast Companion
$35.00 Add to cartBeauty and the Beast may be a tale as old as time, but never has it been more imaginatively told than in the 1987-1990 live action television series created by Ron Koslow. The concept has a noble lion… [more below]
- Author: Gross, Edward
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: November 29 2012
- ISBN10: 1629330248
- Language: English
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Crazy Screenwriting Secrets: How to Capture a Global Audience
$29.95 Add to cartThrough a “Crazy” approach in writing the feature screenplay, the first half of the book guides the reader in how to create and develop: Story Idea, Characters, One Page Step Outline, and the solid sc… [more below]
- Author: Lin, Weiko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: July 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1615933018
- Language: English
