Performing Arts
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The Film Director’s Intuition: Script Analysis and Rehearsal Techniques
$29.95 Add to cartAcclaimed director Judith Weston offers a deeply creative exploration on how to access and stimulate the filmmaker’s most precious assets: instincts, imagination, and intuition.
- Author: Weston, Judith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: September 25 2003
- ISBN10: 0941188787
- Language: English
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Two-Character Plays for Student Actors
$18.95 Add to cartEach of the plays in this theater book is a complete dramatic work balanced for a two-actor performance. Lengths vary from ten to thirty minutes. Many different types of roles from liberated women to
- Author: Mauro, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 01 1988
- ISBN10: 0916260534
- Language: English
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Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film
$22.00 Add to cartIn this “dishy…superbly reported” (Entertainment Weekly) New York Times bestseller, Peter Biskind chronicles the rise of independent filmmakers who reinvented Hollywood–most notably Sundance founde… [more below]
- Author: Biskind, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: January 03 2005
- ISBN10: 0684862581
- Language: English
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How to Stop Acting
$18.00 Add to cart“The Great Guskin” (John Lahr, The New Yorker) shares the approach he uses to help actors land roles, develop them, and keep them alive
Harold Guskin is an “acting doctor” whose clients include Kevin- Author: Guskin, Harold
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 25 2003
- ISBN10: 0571199992
- Language: English
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Come from Away: Welcome to the Rock: An Inside Look at the Hit Musical
$40.00 Add to cartCome From Away: Welcome to the Rock – a fully illustrated companion volume to the hit Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, featuring the book and lyrics for the first time in print, backstage stories … [more below]
- Author: Sankoff, Irene
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 24 2019
- ISBN10: 0316422223
- Language: English
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Unwritten Literature of Hawaii: The Sacred Songs of the Hula
$15.99 Add to cartUnwritten Literature of Hawaii: The Sacred Songs of the Hula (1909) is a collection of hulas and essays by Nathaniel B. Emerson. Translating previously unwritten songs, interviewing native Hawaiians,
- Series: Mint Editions – Hawaiian Library
- Author: Emerson, Nathaniel B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 340
- Publish Date: August 03 2021
- ISBN10: 151329590X
- Language: English
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Incredibly Strange Films
$25.00 Read moreIncredibly Strange Films is a functional guide to important territory neglected by the film-criticism establishment, spotlighting unhailed directors — Hershell Gordon Lewis, Russ Meyer, Larry Cohen, … [more below]
- Series: Re/Search #10
- Author: Vale, V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 18 2017
- ISBN10: 1889307114
- Language: English
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Esoteric Hollywood II: More Sex, Cults & Symbols in Film
$19.95 Add to cartLike no other book before it, this work delves into the deep, dark, and mysterious undertones hidden in Tinsel town’s biggest films. Esoteric Hollywood is a game-changer in an arena of tabloid-populat… [more below]
- Author: Dyer, Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 396
- Publish Date: December 21 2018
- ISBN10: 1634241932
- Language: English
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It’s a Wonderful Life: A Memory Book
$20.99 Add to cartPaperback release of 2003 holiday bestseller which offers behind the scenes info on this holiday classic as well as current info on stars from the show.
- Author: Cox, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 139
- Publish Date: June 15 2005
- ISBN10: 1581824343
- Language: English
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Drama Games and Acting Exercises: 177 Games and Activities for Middle School
$17.95 Add to cartBody movement, gesture, voice, and interaction are all essential parts of this large selection of games and exercises. Within its twelve chapters are games for getting acquainted, over fifty games on
- Author: Martin, Rod
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 119
- Publish Date: October 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1566081661
- Language: English
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William Goldman: Five Screenplays with Essays
$29.93 Add to cartWILLIAM GOLDMAN FIVE SCREENPLAYS WITH ESSAYS
- Series: Applause Books
- Author: Goldman, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: February 01 2000
- ISBN10: 1557833621
- Language: English
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Four by Truffaut: The Adventures of Antoine Doinel
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the film director behind his creation, Four gives readers an exclusive look at the adventures of Antoine Doinel through the screenplays and stills of the four films he appears in.
Thought by man- Author: Truffaut, Francois
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 04 2014
- ISBN10: 1501102524
- Language: English
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Acting in the Space Between
$21.99 Add to cart- Author: John W. Kirk
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: September 07 2004
- ISBN10: 1413452167
- Language: English
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The Body Speaks: Performance and Expression
$19.99 Add to cartLorna Marshall’s revolutionary new book, The Body Speaks, is a fundamental rethinking of our relationship to the body and its role in performance. Seventy percent of everyday conversation is conveyed
- Author: Marshall, Lorna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 01 2002
- ISBN10: 1403960283
- Language: English
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Notes from the Road: A Filmmaker’s Journey through American Music
$32.00 Add to cartNamed to Kirkus Review’s List of “Best Indie Books of 2023”
“A documentarian revisits the funkiest musical byways in this scintillating memoir…A vibrant, entertaining panorama of music-making and the
- Author: Mugge, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 366
- Publish Date: February 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1958861103
- Language: English
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Cut to the Chase: Forty-Five Years of Editing America’s Favorite Movies
$24.95 Add to cartThis groundbreaking book takes the reader behind the closed doors of the editing room where Sam O’Steen along with some of the world’s top directors controlled the fate of many legendary films. Editor… [more below]
- Author: O’Steen, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: January 25 2002
- ISBN10: 094118837X
- Language: English
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Andy Griffith Show Book
$19.95 Add to cartThe Andy Griffith Show was one of the most successful series in television history. It ranked among the top ten shows in the nation during each of its eight prime-time seasons, from 1960 to 1968. Over
- Author: Kelly, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 286
- Publish Date: January 01 1981
- ISBN10: 0895870436
- Language: English
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The Dark Side of the Screen: Film Noir
$21.99 Add to cartFoster Hirsch’s Dark Side of the Screen is by far the most thorough and entertaining study of the themes, visual motifs, character types, actors, directors, and films in this genre ever published. Fro… [more below]
- Author: Hirsch, Foster
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 25 2008
- ISBN10: 0306817721
- Language: English
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Video Storytelling Projects: A DIY Guide to Shooting, Editing and Producing Amazing Video Stories on the Go
$62.48 Read morePart handbook, part classroom this book has everything you need to make your story a reality.
Nowadays, telling a story through video is a necessity. Video has become the new printed word. Creators mu
- Series: Voices That Matter
- Author: Concepcion, Rafael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0137690711
- Language: English
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Michael Curtiz: A Life in Film
$30.00 Read moreAcademy Award–winning director Michael Curtiz (1886–1962) — whose best-known films include Casablanca (1942), Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), Mildred Pierce (1945) and White Christmas (1954) — was in
- Series: Screen Classics
- Author: Rode, Alan K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 712
- Publish Date: February 16 2021
- ISBN10: 0813180430
- Language: English
