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  • Story

    Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting

    by Robert McKee ...
    Robert McKee's screenwriting workshops have earned him an international reputation for inspiring novices, refining works in progress and putting major screenwriting careers back on track. Quincy Jones, Diane Keaton, Gloria Steinem, Julia Roberts, John Cleese and David Bowie are just a few of his celebrity alumni. Writers, producers, development executives and agents all flock to his lecture series ... Read more

    RM 108.19

  • 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

    RM 53.99

  • 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

    RM 258.89

  • 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

    RM 67.09

  • 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

    RM 62.99

  • 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

    RM 33.19 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

    RM 67.09

  • 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

    RM 25.31

  • 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

    RM 33.80

  • 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

    RM 119.09

  • 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

    RM 614.19

  • 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

    RM 154.79

  • The Films of John Carpenter

    by John Kenneth Muir ...
    The films of John Carpenter cover a tremendous range and yet all bear his clear personal stamp. From the horrifying (Halloween) to the touching (Starman) to the controversial (The Thing) to the comic (Big Trouble in Little China), his films reflect a unique approach to filmmaking and singular views of humanity and American culture. This analysis of Carpenter's films includes a historical overview ... Read more

    RM 63.99

  • Vietnam at 24 Frames a Second

    A Critical and Thematic Analysis of 360 Films About the Vietnam War

    by Jeremy M. Devine ...
    Beginning in 1948 with Paramount's Saigon and Universal's Rogue's Regiment, Hollywood has produced hundreds of features and made-for-television films about Vietnam and the ensuing conflict. With the exception of The Green Berets (1968), few were designed to rally Americans to the cause as earlier war movies had done. Many were not even combat films, instead dealing with such domestic issues as ... Read more

    RM 95.99

  • Astor Pictures

    A Filmography and History of the Reissue King, 1933-1965

    by Michael R. Pitts ...
    Founded by Robert M. Savini in 1933, Astor Pictures Corporation distributed hundreds of films in its 32 years of operation. The company distributed over 150 first run features in addition to the numerous re-releases for which it became famous. Astor had great success in the fields of horror and western movies and was a pioneer in African-American film productions. While under Savini's management, ... Read more

    RM 121.59

  • The Routledge Dictionary of Performance and Contemporary Theatre

    by Patrice Pavis ...
    The Routledge Dictionary of Contemporary Theatre and Performance provides the first authoritative alphabetical guide to the theatre and performance of the last 30 years.Conceived and written by one of the foremost scholars and critics of theatre in the world, it literally takes us from Activism to Zapping, analysing everything along the way from Body Art and the Flashmob to Multimedia and the ... Read more

    RM 269.24

  • The London Stage 1950-1959

    A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel

    by J. P. Wearing ...
    Series series The London Stage
    Theatre in London has celebrated a rich and influential history, and in 1976 the first volume of J. P. Wearing’s reference series provided researchers with an indispensable resource of these productions. In the decades since the original calendars were produced, several research aids have become available, notably various reference works and the digitization of important newspapers and relevant ... Read more

    RM 936.09

  • La stirpe di Topolino

    by Domenico Misciagna ...
    "La stirpe di Topolino" si propone come uno strumento per orientarsi nel modo più completo possibile, senza riassunti, in oltre novant'anni di animazione Disney. Come in un libro di storia, ognuno dei venti capitoli è dedicato a un periodo i cui lavori sono accomunati da realtà artistiche e produttive. L'opera è completata da: veloci schemi di ricapitolazione al termine di ogni sezione; ... Read more

    RM 59.29 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Drag in the Global Digital Public Sphere

    Queer Visibility, Online Discourse and Political Change

    Edited by Niall Brennan, David Gudelunas ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
    This volume explores drag in global online spaces as a distinct departure from the established success, and limitations, of RuPaul’s Drag Race. Centred around discourses of LGBTQ+ visibility and political mobilization, the volume addresses how these discourses have moved beyond the increasingly limited qualities of the television series to reconfigure the parameters of drag in emerging communities ... Read more

    RM 238.02

  • How To Draw Animals

    Your Step By Step Guide To Drawing Animals

    by HowExpert, Therese Barleta ...
    If you want to learn how to draw all kinds of animals from A to Z in a step by step way, then check out How to Draw Animals.In this book How to Draw Animals, you will learn how to draw ALL types of animals in a step-by-step manner.Do you love animals and like art activities? If you have always wanted to draw animals from scratch by yourself, and wanted to learn it in a quick and easy way without ... Read more

    RM 38.99 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Performing Arts in Transition

    Moving between Media

    Edited by Susanne Foellmer, Maria Katharina Schmidt, Cornelia Schmitz ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
    Artists especially from dance and performance art as well as opera are involved to an increasing degree in the transfer between different media, not only in their productions but also the events, materials, and documents that surround them. At the same time, the focus on that which remains has become central to any discussion of performance. Performing Arts in Transition explores what takes place ... Read more

    RM 253.63

  • Part II - Early English Stages 1576-1600

    Edited by Glynne Wickham ...
    This volume forms part of the 5 volume set Early English Stages 1300-1660. This set examines the history of the development of dramatic spectacle and stage convention in England from the beginning of the fourteenth century to 1660. ... Read more

    RM 995.11

  • Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing and Horror Cinema

    A Revised and Expanded Filmography of Their Terrifying Collaborations, 2d ed.

    by Mark A. Miller, David J. Hogan ...
    From their first pairing in Hamlet (1948) to House of the Long Shadows (1983), British film stars Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing forged perhaps the most successful collaboration in horror film history. In its revised and expanded second edition, this volume examines their 22 movie team-ups, with critical commentary, complete cast and credits, production information, details on cinematography ... Read more

    RM 63.99

  • Folk-dancing as a Popular Recreation: A Handbook

    by Elizabeth Burchenal ...
    "Miss Burchenal is the best-known American exponent and teacher of the folk-dance." -The Survey"Elizabeth Burchenal has won wide recognition for her celebration of folk dancing." -The Little PaperAs Elizabeth Burchenal notes in her 1922 book "Folk Dancing As A Popular Recreation," folk dancing has great and worthy purposes to serve; it is a pure and fundamental art form, and as such should be ... Read more

    RM 3.86 or Free with Kobo Plus