Search results for “[Subject: performing-arts]”

• Author(s): Brenda D. Gottschild • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Dance - FolkThis ground-breaking work brings dance into current discussions of the African presence in American culture. Dixon Gottschild argues that the...

• Author(s): Brenda Gottschild • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Dance - FolkFrom the Back CoverThis ground-breaking work brings dance into current discussions of the African presence in American culture. Dixon Gottschild...

• Author(s): Bruce G. Shapiro • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Acting & AuditioningDramatic performance involves an intricate process of rehearsal based upon imagery inherent in the dramatic text. A playwright first ...

• Author(s): Julie Malnig • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Dance - PopularThis fascinating book explores the rich history of exhibition ballroom dancing from its heyday in the 1910s to the present. Julie Malnig's record ...

• Author(s): Nancy Kindelan • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Theater - Stagecraft & ScenographyThis insightful work fills a gap in theatre studies, illuminating how modernism influences theatrical interpretations and...

• Author(s): Mark S. Weinberg • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Theater - History & CriticismCollective theatres are collectively organized and run performing groups, usually socially conscious and politically oriente...

• Author(s): Sidney Berger • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Theater - History & CriticismGiving equal space to the sanctity of script and the artistic freedom of directors, this book addresses the difficulties encoun...

• Author(s): Starra Andrews • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Acting & AuditioningWhat is it like to pursue a career in acting? Forty working actors comment on auditions, day jobs, agents, rejection, and what drives t...

• Author(s): Daniel Friedman • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Theater - Stagecraft & ScenographyThis collection of essays defines and explores American theatres that consciously appealed primarily to workers. The sco...

• Author(s): David Leonard • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Television - GeneralA comprehensive look at the history of African Americans on television that discusses major trends in black TV and examines the broader soci...

• Author(s): Marsha McCreadie • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Film - GeneralThis collection of film reviews and essays focuses on the role of women in films during the 1970s and 1980s. The author, a widely published fil...

• Author(s): Barbara Quart • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Film - Direction & ProductionQuart here extends her previous writings on what she terms the best narrative cinema: women-centered cinema' and feminist film...

• Author(s): Vincent LoBrutto • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismThough movies have remained our foremost cultural pastime for over 100 years, many of us still know very little about the tools...

• Author(s): John A. Gallagher • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Film - Direction & ProductionFrom the Back CoverThe big gamblers who spend millions per film as well as the colorful low-budget kings provide an intrigu...

• Author(s): Vincent LoBrutto • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismThis volume can rightfully be called "a film school in a single book." Investigating and analyzing the elements and concepts of...

• Author(s): Jeffrey Friedman • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Film - Direction & ProductionThe past few years have featured such blockbusters as Super-Size Me, Fahrenheit 9/11, Sicko, March of the Penguins, and An I...

• Author(s): Carol T. Williams • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Television - GeneralSoap opera story, the only mass-public form of continuing narrative today, is oral culture for our electronic era. Carol Williams' It's ...

• Author(s): Georganne Scheiner • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Film - GeneralMotion pictures have been one of the forces that have both shaped and reproduced adolescent femininity. Films not only reflect culture--they ...

• Author(s): Charles M. Oliver • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Film - Guides & ReviewsThe essays in A Moving Picture Feast discuss every Hollywood film made from a Hemingway work and represent the most diverse respo...

• Author(s): Jason Vest • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismSpike Lee's journey from guerrilla filmmaker to Hollywood insider is explored in light of his personal background, the cultural influ...

• Author(s): Brooks Landon • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Film - GeneralBrooks Landon's book is wide-ranging, thought-provoking, and near state-of-the-art. It concerns science fiction film and, toward the end, almost b...

• Author(s): Leonard Quart • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismFrom Steven Spielberg's Lincoln to Clint Eastwood's American Sniper, this fifth edition of this classic film study text adds even ...

• Author(s): Gordon Arnold • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Film - GeneralThis provocative book reveals how Hollywood films reflect our deepest fears and anxieties as a country, often recording our political beliefs and ...

• Author(s): Kendall R. Phillips • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismMovie audiences seem drawn, almost compelled, toward tales of the horrific and the repulsive. Partly because horror continue...

• Author(s): Neil Martin Blackadder • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Theater - GeneralModern theater history is punctuated by instances of scandalized audience members disrupting and in some cases suspending the first pr...

• Author(s): Barbara K. Quart • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: GeneralQuart here extends her previous writings on what she terms the best narrative cinema: women-centered cinema' and feminist filmmaking. Quart addresses...