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158 produkter
Why Is That So Funny?: A Practical Exploration of Physical Comedy
Av John Wright
Häftad, 2007
438 kr
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Film Noir the Directors
Häftad, 2012
294 kr
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Noted film noir historians Alain Silver and James Ursini, acting as editors, concentrate in this work on the thirty key directors of the classic noir period. These include well-known luminaries, such as Orson Welles, Billy Wilder, Nicholas Ray, and Joseph Losey as well as lesser-known lights of …
4 Lives in the Bebop Business
Häftad, 2004
173 kr
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The lives of Herbie Nichols, Cecil Taylor, Ornette Coleman, and Jackie McLean are dicussed through biographical sketches and quotations. Photographs are included.
Fischer-Dieskau Book of Lieder
Häftad, 1984
285 kr
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This new translation of the original texts of over 750 songs allows the reader to follow, line by line, the English directly opposite the German.“Will no doubt become the standard lieder-resource for the English-speaking world...”– Choice
Great Singers on Great Singing
A Famous Opera Star Interviews 40 Famous Opera Singers on the Technique of Singing
Av Jerome Hines
Häftad, 1994
329 kr
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Jerome Hines has interviewed 40 singers, a speech therapist, and a throat specialist to provide this invaluable collection of advice for all singers. This collection includes the commentary of Licia Albanese, Franco Corelli, Placido Domingo, Nicolai Gedda, Marilyn Horne, Sherrill Milnes, Birgit …
Gospel Sound
Good News and Bad Times
Häftad, 2004
227 kr
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This book relays the complete history of gospel music, paying special attention to the relationship between gospel and other African American musical forms in America such as jazz and R&B. It discusses specific gospel music singers as well as the world of the gospel church itself. Includes …
Harpo Speaks!
Av Harpo Marx
Häftad, 1985
309 kr
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“This is a riotous story which is reasonably mad and as accurate as a Marx brother can make it. Despite only a year and a half of schooling, Harpo, or perhaps his collaborator, is the best writer of the Marx Brother. Highly recommended.” –Library Journal “A funny, affectionate and unpretentious …
After the Ball
Pop Music from Rag to Rock
Av Ian Whitcomb
Häftad, 1986
212 kr
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An irreverent and engaging chronicle of popular music dating from the 1880s, when Tin Pan Alley was founded, to the present by a British-born songwriter and onetime pop star.“Brash, learned, funny, and perspicacious.”– The New Yorker
100 Lessons in Classical Ballet
The Eight-Year Program of Leningrad's Vaganova Choreographic School
Häftad, 1987
285 kr
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The complete 8-year curriculum of Leningrad's famed Vaganova Choreographic School, which trained Nureyev, Baryshnikov, and Makarova, including over 100 photographs. A volume which no teacher, scholar, or student of the dance can afford to miss. “A serious, indeed indispensable, textbook.” –Clive …
Callback
How to Prepare for the Callback to Succeed in Getting the Part
Häftad, 1996
124 kr
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“Ginger Howard Friedman is one of the most innovative and important teachers of our time.”--Jerry OrbachYou got the audition. Now how do you get the part? What can you do to ensure getting a callback? And what can you do at the callback to demonstrate that you're the one for that role? In this …
Fromentmal Halevy
His Life & Music
Av Ruth Jordan
Inbunden, 1996
373 kr
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“Jordan paints a rich portrait of Halévy at the height of his powers in the mid-1850s. A prolific output included at least one new opera a year, occasionally three...he was renowned as a productive public speaker, author of learned papers...a supporter of young artists, much loved professor of …
D.W. Griffith
An American Life
Häftad, 2004
264 kr
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“This magnificent and important biography...is the best ever written on the man.” – The New Republic; “Mr. Schickel's excellent and important biography makes it clear that when the movers of our century are tallied, D.W. Griffith, flawed genius that he was, can never lose his eminent position.” – …
Only Victims
A Study of Show Business Blacklisting
Häftad, 1996
212 kr
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A necessary book with a necessary goal – stressing the importance of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and citing the dangers of what happens when its cherished tradition is jeopardized. In the name of combating Communism liberties were jettisoned, while the art of stool pigeon …
Off Stage
Av Betty Comden
Häftad, 2004
197 kr
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In this incandescent autobiographical collage, lyricist, playwright and performer Betty Comden takes an exuberant and rueful look back on a lifetime of celebrated triumphs and private sorrow. With her lifelong collaborator Adolph Green, she has achieved glorious success on stage in such musical …
What to Listen for in the World
Inbunden, 2004
285 kr
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With disciplined lyricism and entirely devoid of technical jargon, Bruce Adolphe's book probes into the heart of such matters as the role of memory and imagination in creative expression, the meaning of inspiration, spirituality in music, the challenge of arts education and how music communicates.
Making It Big
The Diary of a Broadway Musical
Inbunden, 1996
373 kr
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Long-time theatre writer and Los Angeles Times correspondent Barbara Isenberg received rare access to every aspect of the creative process and the financial planning that went into Big...The Musical. “Marvelous. Barbara Isenberg's precise and perceptive account of Big from its birth pangs to its …
Swashbuckling
A Step-by-Step Guide to the Art of Stage Combat & Theatrical Swordplay
Av Richard Lane
Häftad, 1999
373 kr
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The ultimate guide to stage fighting technique and basic swordplay, this book covers everything an actor must do to give a dynamic and convincing performance as a stage combatant. “âThis bookã is more than a manual... A necessity! Richard Lane's concepts are vital...'Why' and 'When' are explained …
Dozen French Farces
Häftad, 2004
253 kr
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This collection of hilarious plays from the 15th - 20th centuries is brimming with all the venerable ingredients of French farce. Distinguished drama scholar Bermel has gathered some of the best in the genre, and the merriment, ribaldry, and wit of the works dance through his translations …
Making Musicals
An Informal Introduction to the World of Musical Theater
Av Tom Jones
Häftad, 1998
227 kr
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The lyricist/librettist of The Fantasticks, the longest-running show in the history of the American theater, takes on a new role as your guide through the magical world of the stage musical.
Four Voices of Man
Av Jerome Hines
Häftad, 2004
302 kr
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Distinguished Metropolitan Opera basso Jerome Hines provides a wealth of information and advice for all those who have embarked on or plan to embark upon a serious singing career. From basic information on how the head and body combine to produce vocal sound, he goes on to analyze the “four voices” …
Producing Theatre
A Comprehensive Legal and Business Guide
Häftad, 2004
285 kr
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For the professional and student here is a basic guide to raising money, obtaining rights and bringing a play to the stage. Appendices include actual examples of commonly used legal forms and contracts. “...likely to remain for some time to come the authoritative reference in its field.” –Variety
Producing, Financing, and Distributing Film
A Comprehensive Legal and Business Guide
Häftad, 1992
212 kr
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The original edition of this book, long out of print, was published almost 20 years ago. The decades since then have brought enormous changes to the business side of moviemaking, requiring that the new edition be totally rewritten. This is, then, a brand new book and one that has been most eagerly …
Some Time in the Sun
The Hollywood Years of F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Nathanael West, Aldous Huxley & J Agee
Av Tom Dardis
Häftad, 2004
171 kr
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Written with a rare combination of an informed film background and a sophisticated knowledge of literature... a valuable contribution of both literary and film history. – Variety
Keaton
The Man Who Wouldn't Lie Down
Av Tom Dardis
Häftad, 1988
218 kr
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“...the definitive life. I don't think it will ever be superseded ... It is scholarly yet readable, the fullest, most objective and factually detailed book on virtually every aspect of Buster's career and personality: artistic, financial, and pyschological ... full of the most interesting (and …
High Times Hard Times
Av Anita O'Day
Häftad, 1989
227 kr
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“...in the tradition of the best jazz autobiographies...a fascinating travelogue through the jazz world, filled with vivid images of Gene Krupa, Stan Kenton, Roy Eldridge and Billie Holiday...Her prose is as hip as her music.” –The New York Times Book Review
In and Out of Character
Häftad, 1989
234 kr
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“Basil Rathbone's book about himself...is better written than most books by or about actors and is more intellectually vigorous...Sherlock Holmes fans will be much interested in his remarks on the character with whom he has been so closely identified.” –Library Journal “Quite naturally full of …
Diary of a Somebody
Av John Lahr
Häftad, 1989
128 kr
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Screenplay to John Lahr's successful dramatization of The Orton Diaries that chronicles the last eight months of Joe Orton's life, his growing theatrical celebrity, and the corresponding punishing effect it had on his relationship with his friend and mentor Kenneth Halliwell, who murdered him on …
