Performing Arts
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Hollywood Gothic: The Tangled Web of Dracula from Novel to Stage to Screen
$26.99 Add to cartA fully updated edition of David J. Skal’s Hollywood Gothic, “The ultimate book on Dracula” (Newsweek).
The primal image of the black-caped vampire Dracula has become an indelible fixture of the moder- Author: Skal, David J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 18 2004
- ISBN10: 0571211585
- Language: English
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A Hard Day’s Work: Storyboards and Stories of 12 Select Films and Television Shows
$48.00 Read moreWarren Drummond, a masterful Storyboard Artist to major directors in Hollywood shares his illustrious Storyboards and fantastic stories of his experiences on set with major directors such as Ron Howar… [more below]
- Author: Drummond, Warren K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 170
- Publish Date: September 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0578335557
- Language: English
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History of Film
$25.95 Add to cartIn this lively and up-to-date analysis, David Parkinson traces the evolution of the moving image from the earliest shadow shows to the digital filmmaking of the twenty-first century. Covering the key … [more below]
- Series: World of Art #0
- Author: Parkinson, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 306
- Publish Date: October 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0500204101
- Language: English
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Japanese No Masks: With 300 Illustrations of Authentic Historical Examples
$14.95 Add to cart120 full-page plates of magnificent, elaborately carved, museum-quality masks worn by actors playing gods, warriors, beautiful women, feudal lords, and supernatural beings. Captions.
- Series: Dover Books on Fine Art
- Author: Perzynski, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 178
- Publish Date: June 17 2005
- ISBN10: 0486440141
- Language: English
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Greek Astronomy
$14.95 Add to cartSuperb scholarly study documents extraordinary contributions of Pythagoras, Aristarchus, Hipparchus, Anaxagoras, many other thinkers in laying the foundations of scientific astronomy. Essential readin… [more below]
- Series: Dover Books on Astronomy
- Author: Heath, Thomas L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 01 1991
- ISBN10: 0486266206
- Language: English
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Orchesography
$19.95 Add to cartThe most valuable resource for 16th-century dances and dance music, this volume describes galliards, pavans, branles, gavottes, lavolta, basse dance, morris dance, and more, with detailed instructions… [more below]
- Author: Arbeau, Thoinot
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 18 2011
- ISBN10: 0486217450
- Language: English
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Why Did It Have to Be Snakes: From Science to the Supernatural, the Many Mysteries of Indiana Jones
$15.95 Add to cartCould you really use a bullwhip to swing across a chasm? Or rip out a man’s heart without killing him? At last, here is the book that finally answers the Indiana Jones-related questions that have trou… [more below]
- Author: Gresh, Lois H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0470225564
- Language: English
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French Cinema: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartIt is often claimed that the French invented cinema. Dominating the production and distribution of cinema until World War 1, when they were supplanted by Hollywood, the French cinema industry encompas… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Andrew, Dudley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0198718616
- Language: English
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Comedy Against Work: Utopian Longing in Dystopian Times
$20.00 Add to cartWork is a joke. Laughing at it is political.
Humor, Groucho Marx asserted, is “reason gone mad.” For Walter Benjamin, laughter was “the most revolutionary emotion.” In a moment when great numbers of pe… [more below]
- Author: Lane-McKinley, Madeline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1942173709
- Language: English
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From Hollywood with Love: The Rise and Fall (and Rise Again) of the Romantic Comedy
$27.99 Read more“From culture writer and GQ contributor Scott Meslow, an in-depth celebration of the romantic comedy’s modern golden era and its role in our culture, tracking the genre from its heyday in the ’80s and… [more below]
- Author: Meslow, Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0063026295
- Language: English
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Murder by Design: The Unsane Cinema of Dario Argento
$50.00 Add to cartThis book covers the films of Dario Argento, Italy’s acknowledged master of horror and suspense, has made a career out of exploring the macabre poetry of images of violent death. He did not, however,
- Author: Howarth, Troy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 30 2020
- ISBN10: 1644301156
- Language: English
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112 Acting Games
$22.95 Add to cartThe second edition of this popular text includes twenty-five new bonus games The revised introduction from the author emphasizes the versatility of these games, and explains how directors and instruc… [more below]
- Author: Levy, Gavin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 17 2015
- ISBN10: 1566082005
- Language: English
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Famous Fantasy Character Monologs: Starring the Not-So-Wicked Witch and More
$16.95 Add to cartIf you’re looking for monologs that are witty, hysterical, and completely fresh and different, then look no further! You will recognize the fantasy characters in this collection of monologs even thoug
- Author: Young, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: September 30 2006
- ISBN10: 1566081165
- Language: English
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As If!: The Oral History of Clueless as Told by Amy Heckerling and the Cast and Crew
$20.99 Add to cartWill we ever get tired of Clueless? Ugh, as if!Acclaimed pop culture journalist Jen Chaney celebrates the twentieth anniversary of the classic film’s release in the first book of its kind, weaving tog… [more below]
- Author: Chaney, Jen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 07 2015
- ISBN10: 1476799083
- Language: English
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How Not to Make a Short Film: Secrets from a Sundance Programmer
$21.99 Add to cartAnyone can make a short film, right? Just grab some friends and your handheld and you can do it in a weekend or two before being accepted to a slew of film festivals, right? Wrong. Roberta Munroe scre… [more below]
- Author: Munroe, Roberta Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 20 2009
- ISBN10: 1401309542
- Language: English
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Christopher Lee: The Loneliness of Evil
$30.00 Add to cartWhen Sir Christopher Lee passed away at the age of 93 in 2015, it was truly the end of an era. He was the last of the great horror stars.
This book is a comprehensive overview of Lee’s work in the hor… [more below]
- Author: Mosley, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: May 31 2022
- ISBN10: 1644301288
- Language: English
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Crisis: The Theatre Responds
$16.95 Add to cartThis new book by Dr Carol Rocamora (New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts) explores the courageous playwrights of the world who used the stage as a platform to address crises of the 20th and
- Author: Rocamora, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: May 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1914228812
- Language: English
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Abbas Kiarostami: Interviews
$50.00 Add to cartThe cinephile community knows Abbas Kiarostami (1940-2016) as one of the most important filmmakers of the previous decades. This volume illustrates why the Iranian filmmaker achieved critical acclaim … [more below]
- Series: Conversations with Filmmakers (Hardcover)
- Author: Raesch, Monika
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 166
- Publish Date: April 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1496844874
- Language: English
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Broadway Decoded: Musical Theatre’s Forgotten References
$41.93 Add to cartA lively guide to fifty popular musicals from the comedy classics of the 1930s and 1940s to the frequently-produced darlings of modern theater.
- Author: Hischak, Thomas S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 314
- Publish Date: September 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1493074326
- Language: English
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Accidental Genius: An Oral History of the Room
$18.95 Add to cartAccidental Genius features intimate and laugh-out-loud commentary from The Room cast and crew, including interviews from its star Greg Sestero.
What a story indeed! A rollicking recollection of experi… [more below]
- Author: J. Rausch, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 282
- Publish Date: December 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1955904960
- Language: English
