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• Author(s): Harris M. Lentz • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Reference The entertainment world lost many notable talents in 2019, including television icon Doris Day, iconic novelist Toni...

• Author(s): Harris M. Lentz • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General The entertainment world lost many notable talents in 2017, including iconic character actor Harry Dean Stanton, comedi...

• Author(s): Harris M. Lentz • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Reference The entertainment world lost many notable talents in 2018, including movie icon Burt Reynolds, "Queen of Soul" Areth...

• Author(s): Paul Fryer • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Film technology developments in the early 20th century opened up a new world of possibilities for th...

• Author(s): Amy Petersen Jensen • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - History & Criticism As the media have increasingly become the lens through which we see the world, media sty...

• Author(s): Robert L. Mott • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - Stagecraft & Scenography This is a comprehensive guide to audio performance--radio, voice-overs, commercials, liv...

• Author(s): Marc Raymond Strauss • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - Broadway & Musicals One of the few studies that cover both Broadway and Hollywood musicals, this book explo...

• Author(s): Luiz Fernando • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - Direction & Production Brazil has one of the most vibrant theater cultures in the world, home to a wide variety of...

• Author(s): Sreenath Nair • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - General The Natyasastra is the deep repository of Indian performance studies. It embodies centuries of performance kno...

• Author(s): Joan Cass • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dance - Classical & Ballet In dance, the choreographer creates, the dancer performs and the viewer observes. This work is a hand...

• Author(s): Steve Capra • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - Direction & Production Theaters worldwide have exhibited a bewildering array of form, style, tone and subject in the...

• Author(s): Stratos E. Constantinidis • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - General Text & Presentation is an annual publication devoted to all aspects of theatre scholarship. It...

• Author(s): Jody Briggs • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - Stagecraft & Scenography This encyclopedia contains more than 1500 detailed entries covering such topics as equipmen...

• Author(s): Phyllis T. Dircks • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Puppets & Puppetry Puppetry has become a significant force in contemporary theatre and thousands of puppets from various...

• Author(s): Sheila Hickey Garvey • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - Broadway & Musicals Based on years of research as well as interviews conducted with Circle in the Square's ...

• Author(s): Kiki Gounaridou • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - History & Criticism Text & Presentation is an annual anthology of essays devoted to all aspects of theatre a...

• Author(s): Ella H. Magruder • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dance - General This book has systematic directions for those who are creating a dance company for young audiences: how to ha...

• Author(s): Diane Christiansen • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dance - General During the 1970s, showgirls represented the pinnacle of club and resort entertainment. In the modern age, v...

• Author(s): Grace Barnes • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - History & Criticism Audiences for musical theater are predominantly women, yet shows are frequently created and pro...

• Author(s): Jeff Johnson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - History & Criticism With its impressive variety of theater, Finland is a superpower of performing arts. Finnish the...

• Author(s): Eva Paulino Bueno | Robson Corrêa de Camargo • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - History & Criticism How did Brazilian theater survive under the military dictatorsh...

• Author(s): Ryan Howard • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - History & Criticism Paul McPharlin is one of the 20th century's most important contributors to the art of puppetry. ...

• Author(s): Vincent Terrace • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - Guides & Reviews In 1954 NBC President Pat Weaver introduced "spectaculars"--lavish entertainment shows desig...

• Author(s): Samuel L. Leiter • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - History & Criticism America's third largest city until 1890, Brooklyn, New York, had a striking theatrical cult...

• Author(s): Jim Cox • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Radio - General Long before the invention of "talk radio," music was the heart and soul of radio programming--whether standing alone, ...

• Author(s): Claudia Durst Johnson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - History & Criticism Throughout nineteenth century America, religious officials often condemned the theatre...

• Author(s): Robert G. Weiner | Shelley E. Barba • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism The award-winning television series Mystery Science Theater 3000 (198...

• Author(s): Michael Dunne • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General The musical has been called "the most popular form of entertainment in the world." This work examines the subject...

• Author(s): Christina Adamou | Sotiris Petridis • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism Online television streaming has radically changed the ways in which p...

• Author(s): Carla Stalling Huntington • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dance - General The influence of dance upon consumers has long been understood by advertisers. This work investigate...

• Author(s): Michael A. Hoey • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism Fame, the hugely popular 1980 musical film inspired by New York's High School of the Perf...

• Author(s): Donald C. King • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - History & Criticism The theatre had a difficult time establishing itself in Massachusetts. Colonial authorities i...

• Author(s): Beth Osnes • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - General This comprehensive book explores the Malaysian form of shadow puppet theatre, highlighting its unique nature with...

• Author(s): Andrew L. Erdman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - History & Criticism This work reveals the often racy, ribald, and sexually charged nature of the vaudeville sta...

• Author(s): Joan Baxter • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - Guides & Reviews In this reference work 222 musicals developed specifically for television are fully detailed, in...

• Author(s): Landis K. Magnuson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - History & Criticism Circle stock theater was based on the repertory companies that began to tour America afte...