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

Author: Walter Disney, Staff of the Walt Disney ArchivesISBN-10: 1368061877ISBN-13: 9781368061872Publisher: Disney EditionsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/07/2023Pages: 352Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.00lbs

هذا كتاب ثري ثراء التراث العربي نفسه. جمع المؤلف فيه أطرافا شتى من خيرة الطرائف وجميل الحكم والفصاحة والبداهة والعبر. إنه متعة خالصة، سهل المطالعة. ولئن كان واحدا من قلائل في مجاله، فإنه، بكل المعاني أفضلها جمعا، وأشملها لمّا وأوسعها تنوعا، حتى ليغني بمفرده...

هذا كتاب ثري ثراء التراث العربي نفسه. جمع المؤلف فيه أطرافا شتى من خيرة الطرائف وجميل الحكم والفصاحة والبداهة والعبر. إنه متعة خالصة، سهل المطالعة. ولئن كان واحدا من قلائل في مجاله، فإنه، بكل المعاني أفضلها جمعا، وأشملها لمّا وأوسعها تنوعا، حتى ليغني بمفرده...

This is a short, quick, and easy read.Most of these anecdotes are probably just OK (humor is hard!), but there should be at least one or two that you will want to tell your friends.This book contains 250 anecdotes, including these: Starting out as...

In a major addition to the academic library on the cinema of Youssef Chahine and on Arab and Egyptian cinema in general, Malek Khouri here presents the most comprehensive and up-to-date study on Chahine's work to appear since his death in 2008. The methodological...

- archival research including untranslated and uncollected texts; - original hermeneutic approach to Bazin's intertextual references; - contemporary understanding of canonical concepts in film theory.Author: Blandine JoretISBN-10: 9462989524ISBN-13: 9789462989528Publisher: Amsterdam University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/30/2019Pages: 192Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.63lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.50dAbout the AuthorBlandine...

Landscape and the Arts in Early Modern Italy: Theatre, Gardens and Visual Culture argues that theatre, and the new genre of opera in particular, played a key role in creating a new vision of landscape during the long seventeenth century in Italy. It explores...

- Translated from French, this non-fiction on Indian dance theatre provides both an insider's and an outsider's perspective. The author-Katia L geret-Manochhaya - narrates her real life experiences with the art forms she learned in India. With distinguished expertise on the aesthetics of Indian...

"Behind the Scenes of Hindi Cinema is an insightful journey into the complex worlds of fantasy and reality inhabited by creative artistes. India is a unique country that exists in multiple centuries simultaneously. This book unravels the various mysteries and contradictions embedded in our...

Mirjam Rajner traces the lives and creativity of seven artists of Jewish origin, emphasizing their fluctuating identities, and showing how their art intertwined with the turbulent history of the region.Author: RajnerISBN-10: 9004408851ISBN-13: 9789004408852Publisher: BrillLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/19/2019Pages: 474Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.00lbsSize: 9.30h x 6.20w x 1.20dAbout...

A comprehensive and innovative analysis of Soviet literary and cinematic children's canon. Marking the centennial of Soviet cultural production for children, it reviews the rich and dramatic history of Soviet children's books, films, and animation and explores their importance for contemporary Russian audiences.Author: VoroninaISBN-10:...

The book as theater: four astounding luxury editions of Painting the Stage, each housed in a wooden sculpture by archistar Mario Botta, with prints by William Kentridge, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, and Jan FabreFor this extraordinary tour de force of bookmaking, the acclaimed Swiss...

The Theatre Theory Reader provides the first comprehensive and critical anthology of texts reflecting on the development of the theater theory of the Prague School--or Prague Linguistic Circle--beginning with early twentieth-century composer and aesthetician Otakar Zich. The majority of the thirty-eight texts date from...

I am an avant-gardist who crawls the Earth-this is how the world-famous Butoh dancer Min Tanaka describes himself. For over 30 years, the photographer Masato Okada followed Tanaka, trying to capture the invisible essence of his dance, among the mountains of Tokason in Yamanashi,...

Reading books is a kind of enjoyment. Reading books is a good habit. We bring you a different kinds of books. You can carry this book where ever you want. It is easy to carry. It can be an ideal gift to yourself and...

Shammi Kapoor gathers Lifetime Achievement Awards, but what is more important is that the country still dances to his songs and relishes his unusual acting style.Author: Deepak GahlotISBN-10: 8183281036ISBN-13: 9788183281034Publisher: Wisdom TreeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/30/2009Pages: 112Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 6.00h x 6.00w x 0.70d

Rainer Werner Fassbinder's fourteen-part Berlin Alexanderplatz, broadcast on German television in 1980, is a pivotal work in the artist's oeuvre. The 1929 novel by Alfred D blin, a subproletarian apocalypse set in the Weimar Republic, provided Fassbinder with material to historicize the avant-garde of...

For younger critics and audiences, Taiwanese cinema enjoys a special status, comparable with that of Italian Neorealism and the French New Wave for earlier generations, a cinema that was and is in the midst of introducing an innovative sensibility and a fresh perspective. Hou...