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  • Four Screenplays

    Studies in the American Screenplay: Thelma & Louise, Terminator 2, The Silence of the Lambs, and Dances with Wolves

    by Syd Field ...
    Yes, you can write a great screenplay. Let Syd Field show you how.“I based Like Water for Chocolate on what I learned in Syd's books. Before, I always felt structure imprisoned me, but what I learned was structure really freed me to focus on the story.”—Laura EsquivelTechnology is transforming the art and craft of screenwriting. How does the writer find new ways to tell a story with pictures, to ... Read more

    €5.29

  • Voice Acting For Dummies

    by David Ciccarelli, Stephanie Ciccarelli ...
    Make a career out of your voice? Easy.Voice acting is like acting, but just using your voice! It's a unique career where the actor's voice can be heard worldwide-in commercials, on audiobooks, in animated movies, documentaries, online videos, telephone systems and much, much more. The point is to bring the written word to life with the human voice.With step-by-step explanations and an abundance of ... Read more

    €16.99

  • Act Now!

    A Step-by-Step Guide to Becoming a Working Actor

    by Peter Jazwinski ...
    So, you want to be an actor . . . but you have no idea how to get started. In the pages of Act Now!, you’ll find a step-by-step process to show you not only how to get started, but also how to become a working actor. It will take time and commitment, but if you follow these steps you will find success. Author and acting teacher Peter Jazwinski explains every aspect of becoming an actor from start ... Read more

    €4.39

  • Opening Doors for Working Class Actors

    A practical Guide to the Industry

    by Patricia Jones ...
    Opening Doors for Working Class Actors is a practical guide for those wishing to enter the industry from working class and low income backgrounds. With advice and tips on training, headshots, showreels, self-tapes, approaching agents and casting directors, it is an invaluable resource in helping actors prepare themselves for the modern industry. ... Read more

    €6.37

  • Radical Gestures

    Feminism and Performance Art in North America

    by Jayne Wark ...
    Wark brings together a wide range of artists, including Lisa Steele, Martha Rosler, Lynda Benglis, Gillian Collyer, Margaret Dragu, and Sylvie Tourangeau, and provides detailed readings and viewings of individual pieces, many of which have not been studied in detail before. She reassesses assumptions about the generational and thematic characteristics of feminist art, placing feminist performance ... Read more

    €33.95

  • Thinking in the Dark

    Cinema, Theory, Practice

    by Murray Pomerance, R. Barton Palmer, Jeremy T. Blatter, Tom Gunning, Steven Woodward, Johannes von Moltke, Colin Williamson, Sarah Keller, Matthew Solomon0, Dominic Lennard1, Nathan Holmes2, William Brown3, William Rothman4, Dudley Andrew5, Will Scheibel6, Daniel Morgan7, Tom Conley8, Steven Rybin9, Alex Clayton0, Gilberto Perez1, Jonah Corne2, Kristen Hatch3 ...
    Today’s film scholars draw from a dizzying range of theoretical perspectives—they’re just as likely to cite philosopher Gilles Deleuze as they are to quote classic film theorist André Bazin. To students first encountering them, these theoretical lenses for viewing film can seem exhilarating, but also overwhelming.Thinking in the Dark introduces readers to twenty-one key theorists whose work has ... Read more

    €24.95

  • Creativity: Power of Commitment

    Daily Thoughts to Build Your Dance Business

    by Morwenna Assaf ...
    Being a prfessional belly dancer is really the samething as being a professional in any other creative endeavor.To be taken seriously one must be professionalin attitude from day one. The suggestions here are daily ideasto help you open up your creative sideand be a whole person. Be able to achieve the success you are looking for. This is not a how-to book! It is ideas to open you up creatively as ... Read more

    €9.05

  • A.K., une école de la création théâtrale

    by Cahiers anrat, Alain Knapp ...
    L'enseignement du théâtre selon Alain Knapp. ... Read more

    €14.99

  • Role Playing

    by Gary Bryant ...
    In the struggle for human liberation, no question is more important than the question of identity. The conventional identity, so important in protecting our vulnerability during childhood, is the chief obstacle to our real Identity, much as the dragon of myth and legend guards a hoard of gold. The secret to undermining the hegemony of this false identity is to understand it as an activity, not an ... Read more

    €4.35

  • Schermi, sogni e spettri

    Cinema e televisione. K-punk/2

    by Mark Fisher ...
    Translated by Vincenzo Perna ...
    Schermi, sogni e spettri, il secondo dei volumi che minimum fax dedica agli scritti di Mark Fisher apparsi sul suo leggendario blog k-punk e su diversi giornali e riviste, comprende le sue riflessioni sul cinema e la televisione. Fisher è uno spettatore appassionato e curioso, senza pregiudizi ma con un occhio radicale, che analizza con uguale impegno e passione i film che hanno inciso in ... Read more

    €11.99

  • American Film in the Digital Age

    by Robert C. Sickels ...
    Series series New Directions in Media
    This eclectic, yet comprehensive analytical overview of the cataclysmic changes in the American film industry since 1990 shows how they have collectively resulted in a new era—The Digital Age.The American film industry has entered a new era. American Film in the Digital Age traces the industrial changes since 1990 that have brought us to this point, namely: the rise of media conglomerates, the ... Read more

    €63.49

  • L'Avare

    by Molière ...
    L'Avare est une comédie écrite par Molière en 1668. Il met en scène Harpagon, un homme avare qui est prêt à tout pour protéger sa fortune, même si cela signifie mettre en danger ses proches. Le livre est considéré comme l'une des œuvres les plus importantes de Molière et de la littérature française en général. Il est rempli de satire sociale et de personnages hauts en couleur. Il est également ... Read more

    €4.99 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • William Shakespeare: The Complete Works

    by William Shakespeare ...
    This collection gathers together the works by William Shakespeare in a single, convenient, high quality, and extremely low priced Kindle volume! The Comedies: A Midsummer Night's Dream All's Well That Ends Well As You Like It Love’s Labour ’s Lost Measure for Measure Much Ado About Nothing The Comedy of Errors The Merchant of Venice The Merry Wives of Windsor The Taming of the Shrew The Two ... Read more

    €0.99 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Columbia Comedy Shorts

    Two-Reel Hollywood Film Comedies, 1933-1958

    by Ted Okuda, Edward Watz ...
    Columbia produced over 500 two-reel shorts from 1933 through 1958, with Hollywood's finest comics (the Three Stooges, Andy Clyde, Buster Keaton, Harry Langdon, Charley Chase, others). Fully illustrated with never-before-published photographs, the book chronicles the history of all, including interviews with the veterans. The filmography covers all of the 526 two-reelers: credits, date, synopsis. ... Read more

    €14.49

  • Our Films Their Films

    by Satyajit Ray ...
    This book brings together Satyajit Rays major writings and talks on film makers, and presents them in two sections. Our Films is devoted mainly to his own experiences and contains many interesting anecdotes, but also has observations to offer on trends in Indian films. Their Films deals with some films abroad that have become landmarks in the history of cinemafrom the silent era to the present day ... Read more

    €4.52

  • Voices From Krypton

    by Edward Gross, Mark Waid ...
    Hailed as possibly the most comprehensive oral history of Superman to be committed to print, Voices From Krypton combines over 85 years of Superman's legacy into a sweeping tale of how the champion of the oppressed became one of the world's most recognizable pop culture icons.Not only does this epic collection include interviews with Superman favorites like Henry Cavill, Tom Welling, and Zack ... Read more

    €14.89

  • Reel Winners

    Movie Award Trivia

    by Richard Crouse ...
    Do you know which televised awards show gives a prize for "Favourite Smile"?Or which Oscar host announced that he was going to raffle off a car during the ceremony?Do you know who won the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress of the 20th Century?In Reel Winners, Richard Crouse, Reel to Real movie critic and CBC Radio’s "titan of trivia," gives you the lowdown on movie awards, from eight decades ... Read more

    €6.29 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Margaret O'Brien

    A Career Chronicle and Biography

    by Allan R. Ellenberger ...
    Among Hollywood's child stars are some talented children, normal and pleasant who find fame in film. Margaret O'Brien is one; her career began in 1941. The fresh-faced moppet quickly became a sensation and won the 1944 Academy Award for Outstanding Child Actress. As Adele in Jane Eyre (1944) and Beth in Little Women (1949), Margaret endeared herself to millions. Despite the strain of growing up on ... Read more

    €14.49

  • The Second Doctor

    Chaos and Charm in the TARDIS (Patrick Troughton, 1966-1969)

    by Matthew Petchinsky ...
    The Second Doctor: Chaos and Charm in the TARDIS (Patrick Troughton, 1966-1969) is a masterful deep dive into the era that transformed Doctor Who forever. When Patrick Troughton stepped into the role, regeneration was an untested gamble-but his whimsical brilliance, razor-sharp mind, and mischievous unpredictability reshaped the very identity of the Doctor.This book explores how Troughton's ... Read more

    €5.99

  • 歸零與無限：臺灣特殊藝術金講義（增訂新版）

    by 汪其楣 ...
    **「只要把自己歸零，就能創造無限。」我們每天都在找尋可能，虛心學習這些事：如何丟棄已有，如何歸零，如何使「人」沒有障礙，如何找到快樂。**「透過藝術，人們密切聯接，人們更放心、更自由。我們期待，年輕一代可以回到最初的創作之心；不但發展人與藝術的無限可能，終有一天可以做到：在藝術世界中，沒有障礙，沒有界限，不分階級，不談條件。所謂的弱能者都在本書中或書以外的世界對所有人證明了：他們在看似不可能的困境中揮灑，把藝術的美慷慨送給曾經漠然對待他們的會，而且鼓舞著我們，注視未來，迎接改變。」－－汪其楣史文漢、溫慧玟、張蒼松身上所累積如「語言與文化學習」及「災變重建經驗」等深耕本土的參與；王婉容、楊璧瑩與盲人創作戲劇的扎實經驗，聾人演員輕鬆自如的表演；顏翠珍和「鳥與水」舞集、王滿玉和「小可樂果劇團」釋放綿遠的震撼力。黃聲遠倡導空間與人的互相呵護，于善祿主張「不分」美學觀 ... Read more

    €6.87

  • The One-Act Play Companion

    A Guide to plays, playwrights and performance

    by Colin Dolley, Rex Walford ...
    The one-act play stands apart as a distinct art form with some well known writers providing specialist material, among them Bernard Shaw, Tom Stoppard, Harold Pinter, Caryl Churchill. Alan Ayckbourn, Edward Albee and Tennesee Williams. There are also lesser-known writers with plenty of material to offer, yet sourcing one-act plays to perform is notoriously hard.This companion is the first book to ... Read more

    €27.63

  • The Complete Book of 1970s Broadway Musicals

    by Dan Dietz ...
    The 1970s was an exciting decade for musical theatre. Besides shows from legends Stephen Sondheim (Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, and Sweeney Todd) and Andrew Lloyd Webber (Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita), old-fashioned musicals (Annie) and major revivals (No, No, Nanette) became hits. In addition to underappreciated shows like Over Here! and cult musicals such as The Grass Harp and ... Read more

    €172.50

  • Guilty Pleasures of the Horror Film

    by Gary J. Svehla ...
    Writers defend horror films that have been trashed by film critics and horror film fans. Titles covered include Maniac (1934), Sh! The Octopus, Voodoo Man, Unknown Island, Scared Stiff, Indestructible Man, Rodan, The Tingler, Flesh Eaters, When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth, King Kong (1976) and Dune. ... Read more

    €8.99 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Shakespeare / Text

    Contemporary Readings in Textual Studies, Editing and Performance

    by Professor Sonia Massai, Dr. Farah Karim Cooper, Professor Gordon McMullan, Lucy Munro ...
    Series series Arden Shakespeare Intersections
    Shakespeare / Text sets new agendas for the study and use of the Shakespearean text. Written by 20 leading experts on textual matters, each chapter challenges a single entrenched binary – such as book/theatre, source/adaptation, text/paratext, canon/apocrypha, sense/nonsense, extant/ephemeral, material/digital and original/copy – that has come to both define and limit the way we read, analyze, ... Read more

    €38.33