Search results for “[subject: entertainment-performing-arts]”

• Author(s): Ross Melnick • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismSamuel "Roxy" Rothafel (1882-1936) built an influential and prolific career as film exhibitor, ...

• Author(s): Karen Brazell • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Theater - History & CriticismThe first book of its kind: a collection of the most important genres of Japanese performan...

• Author(s): Xiaomei Chen • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralPerforming the Socialist State offers an innovative account of the origins, evolution, and legacies of key trends in t...

• Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Theater - History & CriticismWinner, 2024 Choice Outstanding Academic Title In this groundbreaking book, Matsuoka Shinpei--a leading scholar of no...

• Author(s): Gabriele Brandstetter • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Dance - GeneralBoth the identity of dance and that of theory are at risk as soon as the two intertwine. This antholo...

• Author(s): Janet Goff • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Theater - History & CriticismWinner, 2024 Choice Outstanding Academic Title In this groundbreaking book, Matsuoka Shinpei--...

• Author(s): Marc Wagenbach • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Dance - Classical & BalletHow should we archive dance? How do we process performative heritage in the twenty-first cent...

• Author(s): Richard J. Meyer • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - GeneralJin Yan The Rudolph Valentino of Shanghai tells the remarkable story of the ...

• Author(s): Gaylyn Studlar • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Acting & AuditioningStudlar looks at four major Hollywood male stars of the silent era--Rudolph Valentino, Douglas Fair...

• Author(s): Hugh Hunt • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Theater - History & CriticismTraces the evolution of the Abbey Theatre from amateur organization to professional theatre of ...

• Author(s): Randal Johnson • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismFrom the documentary to the cinema novo and cannibalism, from Nelson Pereira dos Santos's Vid...

• Author(s): Thomas Doherty • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismFrom 1934 to 1954 Joseph I. Breen, a media-savvy Victorian Irishman, reigned over the Product...

• Author(s): Xing Fan • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaStaging Revolution refutes the deep-rooted notion that art overtly in the service of politics is by definition devoid...

• Author(s): Eithne Quinn • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismHollywood is often thought of―and certainly by Hollywood itself―as a progressive haven. However...

• Author(s): Lauren Rabinovitz • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismAmusement parks were the playgrounds of the working class in the early twentieth century, ...

• Author(s): Harold B. Segel • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Theater - History & CriticismTraces the history of the European cabaret, discusses the types of entertainment that dev...

• Author(s): Scott Curtis • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismScott Curtis draws our eye to the role of scientific, medical, educational, and aesthetic obser...

• Author(s): Priya Joshi • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismBollywood is India's most popular entertainment and one of its most powerful social forces. Its ...