Performing arts Books

Book SynopsisTrade Review"A much-needed critical volume. Movie Workers fills a major gap in scholarly and popular film history, presenting a meticulous and engaging analysis of a wealth of fascinating new data and case studies." --Technology and Culture "This is a very important book. It is no exaggeration to say that it totally re-writes the labour history of the British film industry. . . . Methodologically precise." --Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television "This important study acts as a political weapon, a much-needed act of recovery and a revision of British film history." --Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsCoverTitleCopyrightContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. Women’s Work in Film Production: Concepts, Materials, and Methods1. Organizing Work: Gender and the Film Trade Union2. The 1930s: Modernizing Production3. The 1940s: Wartime Opportunities4. The 1950s: Rebuilding Britain5. The 1960s: The New Pioneers6. The 1970s and 1980s: Working with FeminismEpilogue: Legacies and New BeginningsAppendix A: Application Form for Membership in the Association of CineTechnicians (circa 1930s)Appendix B: ACT Job Levels, 1947Appendix C: Film Technicians: Numbers and Percentage by Gender, Decade, and Production CategoryNotesSelect GlossaryIndexBack cover

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Book SynopsisA deep—and darkly comic—dive into the nature of disasters, and the ways they shape how we think about ourselves in the worldTrade Review“In this brilliant book, David Thomson tells the story of how we came to make disaster and catastrophe our best friends—how we let terror cocoon and take over our imaginations to avoid seeing the things that really frighten us. Riveting and totally original.”—Adam Curtis, BBC filmmaker and political journalist“David Thomson is, I think, the best writer on film in our time. He is our most argumentative and trustworthy historian of the screen.”—Michael Ondaatje, author of The Cat’s Table“With bracing prose and intensity of feeling, this book will rivet any serious reader concerned about the world—climate change, COVID, war, and other menaces. A grim but burnished book.”—Diane Johnson, author of Lorna Mott Comes Home“David Thomson’s Disaster Mon Amour is a piñata of literary pleasures: acid thoughts, film lore, historical meditations, and astute observation, especially about the culture’s gourmandizing of despair. His high-stepping book is informed, alert, full of fury and fun.”—John Lahr, author of Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh“Any book that takes Laurel and Hardy and Rachel Maddow as prophets of doom—and makes you want to see a Laurel and Hardy movie with Rachel Maddow as much as you want to see Laurel and Hardy as guests on her show—is going to be read at least twice.”—Greil Marcus, author of Mystery Train

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Packed with interesting details about the filmmaker’s life, interests, and inspirations.”—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post“The celebrated Japanese animation director Hayao Miyazaki came out of retirement last year, making this compact study of his life and work especially timely.”—John McMurtrie, San Francisco Chronicle (Holiday Gift Guide selection)“Susan Napier eloquently defines Miyazaki as an auteur who creates immersive animated realms that vary from film to film but are joined by a consistent (albeit evolving) worldview and tropes . . . An essential work in anime scholarship.”—Angelica Frey, Hyperallergic “Enjoyable and enlightening book.” — Claire Kohda Hazelton, Times Literary Supplement“A refreshing, intimate, highly original look at Miyazaki Hayao’s oeuvre, including early anime features, mainstream hits and the many-volumed manga, Nausicaa. Miyazaki is placed firmly on the world stage, including both local roots and global impact.”—Rachael Hutchinson, University of Delaware "An insightful, fascinating, and revealing study of Miyazaki and his worlds by one of the world’s foremost experts in Japanese animated films, Miyazakiworld is a true achievement."—Karen Thornber, Harvard University"Providing expert guidance to the radically inventive mysteries of Hayao Miyazaki’s films, Susan Napier shows exactly how Japan’s master of animation taps into the wonders of the natural world yet also faces down our demons, exploring trauma, crisis, and the willful destruction of our made world. Like his literary and cinematic forebears, Miyazaki creates a form of wonderlore that reveals the power of art to animate, not just his characters and landscapes, but also his audiences."—Maria Tatar, author of The Annotated Brothers Grimm"In Miyazakiworld, Susan Napier demonstrates her gift for narrative and passion for enchantment in exploring the spacetime between the fantasy worlds of Hayao Miyazaki’s creation and the grittier worlds that created him."—Jennifer Robertson, author of Robo Sapiens Japanicus“This wonderful, lively book introduces the whole life and career of Miyazaki via commentary on the narratives and themes within his films, and some manga, and his personal life.”—Sharon Kinsella, The University of Manchester

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis is Dawn French's fabulous new non-fiction book: take a lovely ramble through the year together with Dawn. Think of it as Dawn's diary, personalized by you . . . perfection. * from the publisher's description *Who wouldn't want to spend a year in the company of Dawn French? -- BEST BOOKS OF 2017 * Best *[A] must-read to pass on to friends and family of all ages * Woman & Home *A lovely concept . . . it's very intimate -- Matt Baker * BBC The One Show *A lovely stocking filler -- Jane Garvey * BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour *A manual for how to be a good person, make peace with your life and create your own happiness * Sunday Times *Dawn French will get you thinking with Me. You. A Diary. That's Christmas sorted! * Fabulous Magazine *Me. You. A Diary reveals what [Dawn] has learned in her 60 years and features blank pages for readers to include their own entries. A mellow, gentle read with words of wisdom * The Independent *One brilliant, inspiring woman . . . I'm going to love spending a year with you -- Emma KennedyI spent a good 10 minutes snogging it -- Sarah CoxI love it. Lots of my friends are getting sent one now!!! -- Deborah MeadenIt's as if she's in your head. Feisty. Intimate. True. LOVE IT! -- Helen LedererHours of joy -- Emma FreudWreck This Journal meets Dawn French's ruminations on the seasons, ageing and more - this is a companion piece to help you through life itself. A very good idea * Stylist *A national treasure. Loyal, self-deprecating and garrulous, French's story makes for entertaining reading. This is an original book, and will delight her fans and, indeed anyone with a sense of humour * Mail on Sunday (on 'Dear Fatty') *Heavens, she's a funny lady * Sunday Telegraph *Dawn tackles the big ones - love, death, grief, childhood, motherhood, parenthood - head on * Guardian *A wonderful writer - witty, wise, poignant * Daily Mail *Makes you laugh on every page * The Times *This book is inspired!!! -- Nadiya Hussain[It's] beautiful, like Dawn, and stuffed full of goodies -- Jo BrandThe most fun you'll have with a book all year . . . The perfect stocking filler * Mayfair & Marylebone Edition *This woman is a warm hug in human form - just thinking about her makes me smile. Dawn spreads joy in abundance. She is dazzling -- Lorraine KellyTop tome for THIS YEAR'S STOCKINGS! Start a journal alongside Dawn's witty outlook on life. This will have you laughing about your year * Prima *

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Book SynopsisBertolt Brechtâs methods of collective experimentation, and his unique framing of the theatrical event as a forum for change, placed him among the most important contributors to the theory and practice of theatre. His work continues to have a signiïcant impact on performance practitioners, critics and teachers alike. Now revised and reissued, this book combines: an overview of the key periods in Brechtâs life and work a clear explanation of his key theories, including the renowned ideas of Gestus and Verfremdung an account of his groundbreaking 1954 production of The Caucasian Chalk Circle an in-depth analysis of his practical exercises and rehearsal methods. As a ïrst step towards critical understanding, and as an initial exploration before going on to further, primary research, Routledge Performance Practitioners are an invaluable resource for students and scholars.Trade Review'This is a very useful volume which goes far beyond its ambit as a mere introduction. It offers novel, perceptive, and enlivening insights into the very practical concerns a student may have about Brecht without dismissing the theories as irrelevant appendages to the plays.' - Modern Language Review 'What makes Meg Mumford's new text, Bertolt Brecht, a 'must have' - especially for secondary educators and theatre students - is that here, all these angles are concisely drawn together with an accessible tone and structure, and with pithy key points of analysis... This book exhibits depth as well as clarity... This is a thorough, informative read for theatre educators and students, and a great read in terms of an illustrated twentieth-century life story.' - M/C Reviews'Mumford offers brilliant explanations of difficult Brechtian theoretical concepts' - Choice'Meg Mumford covers ample ground with a sure footedness that has left this reviewer smiling with delight. A wish to demystify Brecht, to prise him out of the political or literary clutches of the jargonists, has motivated my teaching for more than thirty years, but I never managed it as effectively as this.' - Studies in Theatre Production'... Brecht’s changing and contradictory writings on Gestus and Verfremdung are successfully explored within the context of her fascinating case study of the 1954 production of The Caucasian Chalk Circle ...'- New Theatre Quarterly, Tom Cantrell'The book can be highly recommended to students new to Brecht, and also to teachers: I found the practical workshop worked brilliantly with a group of first year undergraduates in what was for many their first practical exploration of Brecht’s work.'- New Theatre Quarterly, Tom Cantrell‘Mumford achieves a rare clarity and specificity in her discussions of Gestus and Verfremdung ...’ - The Brecht Yearbook, Julie JacksonTable of Contents1. A LIFE OF FLUX Which Brecht? On the make: from Bavaria to Berlin (1898–1924) Changing the world: Weimar politics (1924–33) On the run: exile in Europe and America (1933–47) Building a collective: Brecht in the GDR (1947–56) Brecht today? 2. BRECHT’S KEY THEORIES Brecht in dialogue Brecht’s key concerns Getting the gist of Gestus Verfremdung and V-effects Historicization: questioning the present through the past The modern theatre is the epic theatre Dialectics in the theatre Brecht’s socialist realism: imitation meets experimentation Conclusion 3. THE CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE: A MODEL PRODUCTION Prologue: a model A historicizing epic A Berliner Ensemble show Epilogue: ‘The proof of the pudding is in the eating’ 4. PRACTICAL EXERCISES AND WORKSHOP Preparing for spectActorship Section One: remembering exercises from the past Section Two: a workshop for Brechtians Conclusion

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Book SynopsisRobert Brustein's highly acclaimed adaptation of Pirandello's masterpiece, a study in illusion and reality which follows a group of characters who try to fashion their life stories into acceptable drama. Plays for Performance Series.Trade ReviewIngenious...a striking re-imagining of Six Characters that heightens the play's theatricality even as it grounds it in the mundane.... It keeps faith with Pirandello's case for the peculiarly irresistible power of illusion. * The New York Times *

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Book SynopsisCivic Performance: Pageantry and Entertainments in Early Modern London brings together a group of essays from across multiple fields of study that examine the socio-cultural, political, economic, and aesthetic dimensions of pageantry in sixteenth and seventeenth-century London.This collection engages with modern interest in the spectacle and historical performances of pageantry and entertainments, including royal entries, progresses, coronation ceremonies, Lord Mayor's Shows, and processions. Through a discussion of the extant texts, visual records, archival material, and emerging projects in the digital humanities, the chapters elucidate the forms in which the period itself recorded its public rituals, pageantry, and ephemeral entertainments. The diversity of approaches contained in these chapters reflects the collaborative nature of pageantry and civic entertainments, as well as the broad socio-cultural resonances of this form of drama, aTable of ContentsList of Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction Part I: Civic to Global 1. ‘To the Honour of our Nation abroad’: The Merchant as Adventurer in Civic Pageantry 2. Locating the Rhinoceros and Indian: Strangers, Trade, and East India Company in Thomas Heywood’s Porta Pietatis 3. "Cleopatra in Her Barge": Anne Boleyn’s Coronation Pageants and the Production of English Cultural Capital 4. The Unspoken Language of Aliens, or the Spectacular Conversation between Visiting English and Dutch that Transcended Time and Space Part II: Material Encounters 5.The Social and Political Dynamics of the Lord Mayor’s Show, c. 1550-1700 6. Arion’s Harp, Apollo’s Lute: The Instrumental Sounds of London’s Lord Mayors’ Shows 7. Financial Encounter Customs: Tradition and Form in London’s Civic Pageantry Part III: Methodologies for Re-viewing Performance 8. The Duke of Lennox and Civic Entertainments 9. Stephen Harrison’s The Arches of Triumph (1604) and James I’s Royal Entry in the London Literary Marketplace 10. Musical Transformations of the City Soundscape: King James I’s Entry into London in 1604 11. Building a Digital Geospatial Anthology of the Mayoral Shows Index

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Book SynopsisFutures of Performance inspires both current and future artists/academics to reflect on their roles and responsibilities in igniting future-forward thinking and practices for the performing arts in higher education. The book presents a breadth of new perspectives from the disciplines of music, dance, theatre, and mediated performance and from a range of institutional contexts. Chapters from teachers across various contexts of higher education are organized according to the three main areas of responsibilities of performing arts education: to academia, to society, and to the field as a whole. With the intention of illuminating the intricacy of how performing arts are situated and function in higher education, the book addresses key questions including: How are the performing arts valued in higher education? How are programs addressing equity? What responsibilities do performing arts programs have to stakeholders inside and outside of the academy? What are programs' etTrade Review"What is most meaningful about Futures of Performance is the focus on what individual and collectives of college and university faculty can (and should) do to insure a vibrant and impactful future for the performing arts. Futures of Performance explores the intersection of the vitality of the performing arts in society with the profound potential tertiary education has on preparing vocational professional artists and avocational arts lovers to make and love even more art. The extent to which the volume investigates the socio-political, economic, media, and cultural systems inherent in both the making of art and its consumption, as well as upon the entire educational enterprise, is significant."Tayloe Harding, Dean, School of Music, University of South Carolina, USA "Futures of Performance is distinct in that it places the performing arts in dialogue with each other through an interactive set of responsibilities–to the field, society, and academe–that continually influence and impact each other. One of the strengths of this volume is the personal journeys of the authors as they respond to devising new modes of interaction, the cultural history of their students, unanticipated historical events as well as the politics of the academy, the professional field, and society. Other strengths include the volume’s focus on DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion). Throughout there is an emphasis on wholistic student centered approaches, responsiveness to unique cultural histories, and an open attitude toward an ever-evolving historical context. The essays in this volume are successful in providing this discursive dialogue and therefore provide an important contribution to a consideration of the future of performance in higher education."Barbara Sellers-Young, Professor Emerita, York University, Toronto, CanadaTable of ContentsSection 1: Responsibilities to Academia Section I Introduction Karen Schupp Performance Across the Disciplines: Envisioning Transdisciplinary Performance Pedagogies in Postsecondary Education Jesse Katen Ethics, Standards, Evaluation, and Support of Creative Research in Academia Ali Duffy, Isabella Gonzales, and Destanie Davidson Preston Ugly Feelings and Social Justice: Interrupting Inaction in Times of Perpetual Crisis Lauren Kapalka Richerme Hosting Co(n)fusion: Art Residencies as Invitation-Practices Janaína Moraes Decolonizing Tertiary Dance Education Through Including Student Voices in a Curricula Change Project Camilla Reppen, Lovisa Lundgren, and Tone Pernille Østern The Creative Spaces at HBCUs Avis HatcherPuzzo, Soni Martin, Denise Murchison Payton, and Amanda Virelles Call of the Butterfly: The Tao of GenuineGenerosity Robert Farid Karimi Section 2: Responsibilities to the Fields Section II Introduction Karen Schupp The Distance of Education Adesola Akinleye Performing Hartford: A Community Turns its Head Rebecca K. Pappas Integrating Disciplines–Disciplining Integration: Opera Curriculum through a Transdisciplinary Counter-Critical Pedagogy Kevin Skelton Sustainable Futures in Performance Practice, Production, and Distribution Ecologies Max Zara Bernstein Fighting for Equity With(in) Parasitical Resistance Jessica Rajko A Tertiary Music Performance Education Through a Lens of Entrepreneurship Deanna Swoboda "Undervalued, Underpaid, Underappreciated": The Lived Experiences of Adjunct Faculty in the Performing Arts. Karen Schupp, Artemis Preeshl, and Joya Scott Section 3: Responsibilities to Society Section III Introduction Karen Schupp Performing Arts Education for Democracies: Are We Cultivating Citizens or Docile Laborers? Robin Raven Prichard Revitalizing the US Baccalaureate Dance Major: Integrating Values of Diversity and Interdisciplinarity Sherrie Barr and Wendy Oliver Interrogating the Academy’s Role in the Journey from Art Music to Heart Music Fiona Evison Toward a Pedagogy of Care: Well-being, Grief, and Community-based Theatre’s Role in Higher Education Rivka Eckert Arts Education in Community Colleges: A Critical Connection Amy C. Parks Pedagogies of Critical Embodiment: Activating Submerged Histories, Moving Toward Anti-Racist Futures Dasha A. Chapman The Performing Arts in the Next America: Preparing Students for Their Future Peter Witte

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Book SynopsisThis well-illustrated Companion offers a comprehensive, authoritative account of the development of Greek art through the 1st millennium BC.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix List of Color Plates xxvii List of Maps xxix Notes on Contributors xxx Preface xxxviii PART I Introduction 1 1 The Greeks and their Art 3Tyler Jo Smith and Dimitris Plantzos PART II Forms, Times, and Places 15 2 Chronology and Topography 17Nicki Waugh 3 Greek Decorated Pottery I: Athenian Vase-painting 39Thomas Mannack 4 Greek Decorated Pottery II: Regions and Workshops 62Stavros A Paspalas 5 Free-standing and Relief Sculpture 105Dimitris Damaskos 6 Architecture in City and Sanctuary 132Marina Yeroulanou 7 Architectural Sculpture 153Olga Palagia 8 Wall- and Panel-painting 171Dimitris Plantzos 9 Mosaics 186Ruth Westgate 10 Luxury Arts 200John Boardman and Claudia Wagner 11 Terracottas 221Lucilla Burn 12 Coinages 235François de Callataÿ 13 Workshops and Technology 255Eleni Hasaki 14 Ancient Writers on Art 273Kenneth Lapatin PART III Contacts and Colonies 291 15 Egypt and North Africa 293Sabine Weber 16 Cyprus and the Near East 312Tamar Hodos 17 Asia Minor 330Veli Köse 18 The Black Sea 350Jan Bouzek 19 Sicily and South Italy 369Clemente Marconi PART IV Images and Meanings 397 20 Olympian Gods at Home and Abroad 399H.A Shapiro 21 Politics and Society 414Eleni Manakidou 22 Personification: Not Just a Symbolic Mode 440Amy C Smith 23 The Non-Greek in Greek Art 456Beth Cohen 24 Birth, Marriage, and Death 480John H Oakley 25 Age, Gender, and Social Identity 498Jenifer Neils 26 Sex, Gender, and Sexuality 510Timothy J McNiven 27 Drinking and Dining 525Kathleen M Lynch 28 Competition, Festival, and Performance 543Tyler Jo Smith 29 Figuring Religious Ritual 564François Lissarrague 30 Agency in Greek Art 579James Whitley PART V Greek Art: Ancient to Antique 597 31 Greek Art through Roman Eyes 599Michael Squire 32 Greek Art in Late Antiquity and Byzantium 621Anthony Kaldellis 33 The Antique Legacy from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment 633Jill Johnson Deupi 34 Greek Art and the Grand Tour 649Sue Blundell 35 Myth and the Ideal in 20th c Exhibitions of Classical Art 667Delia Tzortzaki 36 The Cultural Property Debate 683Stelios Lekakis 37 Greek Art at University, 19th–20th c 698Stephen L Dyson 38 Surveying the Scholarship 711Lucie Wall Stylianopoulos Bibliography 723 Index 817

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Book SynopsisUnderstand the businesssideofyourshowbizcareer We all know acting can be a glitteringwhirl of glamourplushred carpets,simplydivineoutfits,huge sums ofmoney, and oh, the parties!But what a lot ofwannabeactors forget is thatittakesa lot ofpractical workto get to the flashbulbs of your first premiere,and that the savviest actors put as much stress on thebusinessside of the profession as they do on theshow.BreakingIntoActing For Dummiesdemystifies the behind-the-curtain side of showbiz to help you understand how itreallyworks, who the decision-makers are, what they're looking for when they're picking talent, and how to get them on your side.Ifyoutrulywant to be the next Emma Stone or Leonardo DiCaprio, you'll wantto have awell-thumbedcopy of this book alongside yourpile of scripts. Written by twofriendlyinsiders, thisguide takes you behind the scenesto help youmap out yourplan of attack, showing you how to open doorsand keep them openand use your time wisely, so you're not breaking a leg rushing fromonerandom audition toanother.You'll understand how to flesh out your professional persona as thoroughly as a movie part,craft your resume asminutelyas a script, and judge theangleofyour headshots and webcam appearances asintimatelyas anydirector.Once you've masteredtheseskills,it'stime to go to market asyour own publicity department,buildingyourmedia andonline presence untileveryone who's anyone knowsexactlywho you are. Understand different acting marketsfromtheater to commercialsNetwork in-person and onlineBuild your image via resumes, head shots, and webcamKeep a firm grip on the financial side Whether you're studying, ahopefulamateur,or have beentreading the boardsfor a while,thisis yourbreakthroughscript forsucceeding in the business of acting, andforlearning how to playyour ultimaterole: yourself.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 About This Book 1 Foolish Assumptions 2 Icons Used in This Book 3 Where to Go from Here 3 Part 1: Figuring Out the Business of Acting 5 Chapter 1: Staying on Top of the Changes in Show Business 7 Understanding the World of Acting 8 What You Need to Succeed 8 An attention-grabbing head shot 9 A five-star acting resume 9 Polished talent 10 Taking Your First Steps in Show Business 11 Marketing yourself 11 Finding your first ally: An agent 11 Showcasing your talent: Auditioning 12 Discovering the Many Ways to Make Money as an Actor 12 Managing Money (A Little or a Lot) 13 Knowing What to Expect from an Acting Career 14 Chapter 2: Discovering How Show Business Has Changed and Adapted 15 Understanding the Business of Show Business 15 Taking It “from the Top” — It All Begins with an Idea 16 Selling an Idea 17 Producing a Script 18 Going into Production 20 Action: It’s Showtime! 21 Cleaning Up in Post-Production 22 Distributing the Product 23 Chapter 3: From Agents, Managers, and Unions: Introducing the Movers and Shakers 27 Producers: The Champions of Every Project 28 Directors: The Bosses on the Set 29 Writers: The Idea Makers 29 The Studios: The Ones That Make Everything Possible 30 Financing a project 31 Marketing and distributing a project 32 Casting Directors: The Gatekeepers 33 Agents: Your Door to Show Business 34 Personal and Business Managers: The Guiding Forces Behind the Scenes 34 Actors: The Talent in Front of the Spotlight 35 Unions: An Actor’s Best Friend 36 The Screen Actors Guild (SAG-AFTRA) 37 Actors’ Equity Association 38 Part 2: Packaging and Marketing Yourself 41 Chapter 4: Making a Great First Impression with a Head Shot and Samples of Your Work 43 Introducing the Head Shot: An Actor’s Calling Card 44 Examining Variations on the Standard 46 The commercial head shot 47 The theatrical shot 47 Creating the Perfect Head Shot 48 Hiring a professional photographer 48 Picking the right look 50 Making the most of your photo session 50 Getting Your Head Shot Ready 51 Publicizing Your Head Shot with a Twist 52 Avoiding Problems with Head Shots 52 Is that really you? 52 Technical problems: You look great but your head shot still stinks 52 Using Film to Represent Your Work 53 Chapter 5: Creating a Five-Star Acting Resume 55 Tackling the Basics of Creating a Resume 56 Creating an Online Resume 56 Identifying the Info to Include 57 Your name, union membership, and contact information 57 Your physical characteristics 58 Your acting experience and education 59 Your knowledge of special skills 60 Avoiding Resume No-Nos 61 Examining Sample Resumes 62 The beginner’s resume 63 The intermediate actor’s resume 63 The veteran’s resume 66 Chapter 6: Training to Improve Your Acting Skills 69 Mastering the Art of Auditioning: Taking Classes 69 Benefiting from an auditioning class 70 Advancing your auditioning skills 70 Improving Your Performing Skills 73 Stand-up comedy workshops 75 Improvisation classes 75 Speech and accent coaching 76 Singing and dancing lessons 76 Developing Physical Fitness Skills 77 Improving Your Unique Skills 78 Part 3: Taking Your First Steps into Show Business 79 Chapter 7: Representing Yourself, Networking, and Promoting Yourself on Websites 81 Looking for Your Own Work 82 Relying on the actors’ unions 82 Staying in touch 82 Reading trade publications 83 Using casting websites and social media 83 Contact casting directors on your own 84 Advertising Yourself 86 Showcasing Yourself 86 Chapter 8: Seeking Representation: An Agent, Manager, and/or an Entertainment Attorney 89 Differentiating between Agents, Managers, and Entertainment Attorneys 90 Getting the Ball Rolling to Find Representation 91 Discovering potential representation 91 Contacting potential representation 93 Calling for an appointment 94 Staying determined and be positive 96 Interviewing with Prospective Representation 97 Preparing for your interview 97 Arriving for your interview 98 Conducting yourself during your interview 99 Ending the interview 102 Signing On with an Agent 104 Working with Your Agent 106 Staying in touch 106 Following your agent’s advice 107 Sharing auditioning information with your agent 107 Releasing Your Agent 107 Letting your agent go: Why you’d want to 108 Leaving your agent: The how-to 110 Chapter 9: Auditioning: The Art of What You Need to Know 113 Looking at the Types of Auditions 114 Going to open casting calls (cattle calls) 114 Attending casting auditions 115 Auditioning from Home 116 Preparing for an Audition 118 Planning ahead of time 118 Deciding what to wear 119 Grooming 120 Arriving at the Audition or Callback 120 Impressing a Casting Director 121 Auditioning: What to Expect 122 Speaking your lines 123 Making your exit 124 Preparing for the Next Audition 124 Evaluating yourself 124 Getting on with your life 125 Hoping for the Best That Can Happen: The Callback 126 Dealing with Rejection 127 Saying Thank You 128 Chapter 10: Understanding Diversity Challenges in Show Business 129 Defining Who You Are in the World of Diversity 130 Finding Representation 131 Seeking Diversity in Casting 132 Acknowledging Diversity in the Academy and Emmy Awards 134 Chapter 11: Adapting to Difficult Personalities 137 Dealing with Professionals 138 Treating the casting director with respect 138 Showing respect to the director on set 139 Considering other professionals 140 Respecting Your Fellow Actor 140 Respecting Everyone on the Set 142 Part 4: Scoping Out the Markets 143 Chapter 12: Acting in Film and Television 145 Landing a Job 146 Filming from Different Locations Using Your Computer and Phone 146 Acting in Front of the Camera Versus Acting on the Stage 147 Fine-Tuning Your Performance on Film 148 Playing to the camera 149 Acting consistently with different takes 151 Successfully acting scenes out of order 152 Hitting your mark 153 Recognizing different shots 154 Dealing with close-ups 154 Performing on a Set 156 A typical day on the set 157 What to do when your scene’s done 161 Participating in Post-Production: Looping 161 Gaining Experience and Exposure by Working in Different Markets 162 Chapter 13: Acting in Commercials 165 Understanding How a Commercial Gets Made 165 Preparing for a Career in Commercials 167 Taking a class or workshop 167 Studying working actors 168 Hiring a commercial agent or manager 169 Auditioning for a Commercial Role 169 Fitting the part 170 Preparing your part 170 Handling yourself during the audition 171 Understanding the Market for Commercials 173 The Wonderful New World of Commercials 175 Chapter 14: Acting in Theater 177 Mastering Your Skills Onstage 178 Gearing Up for a Theatrical Career 178 Taking the academic route 179 Pounding the pavement 180 Auditioning for Theater 182 Finding auditions 182 Being prepared 182 Familiarizing Yourself with Stage Types 184 Proscenium stages 185 Thrust stages 187 Arena stages 187 Rehearsing for a Play 189 Read-through 189 Blocking with stage directions 190 Scene work 191 Work-throughs 191 Run-throughs 192 Technical rehearsals 192 Dress rehearsals 193 Working in Different Markets 195 Chapter 15: Performing without Being Seen: Voice-Over Acting 197 What You Need to Succeed in Voice-Over Acting 198 What’s that you say? Speaking clearly 198 Voice versatility 199 Testing testing: Playing to the microphone 200 Training for a Voice-Over Career 201 Finding Voice-Over Work 201 Preparing Your Demo 202 Including all the right stuff 202 Laying down the tracks 204 Recording subsequent demo 204 Getting an Agent or Manager 205 Auditioning for Voice-Over Work 205 Getting Paid as a Voice-Over Actor 206 Chapter 16: Working As an Extra 209 Delving into the Glamorous World of an Extra 210 Recognizing types of extras 211 Getting work as an extra 211 Examining a day in the life of an extra 213 Appreciating the Advantages of Being an Extra 215 Investigating the technical business of show business 216 Studying the acting side of filmmaking 217 Networking with fellow actors 218 Making a little (emphasis on “little”) money 218 Advancing Your Career Beyond an Extra 218 Chapter 17: Getting Your Kid into Show Biz 221 Considering the Commitment 222 Does your kid really want to do this? 222 Do you really want to do this? 223 Setting goals for you and your child 225 Exploring the Acting Options 226 Modeling 227 TV commercials 228 Film and TV shows 228 Theater 230 Investigating the Biz of Child Acting 230 Starting as a proud parent of a child actor 230 Procuring the paperwork 231 Watching out for your child’s welfare 231 Restricting time on the set 232 Educating on the set 233 Managing all that money 234 Helping Your Child Deal with the Ups and Downs of Show Business 236 Part 5: Managing Your Money as an Actor 239 Chapter 18: Don’t Get Ripped Off! Avoiding Con Games, Scams, and Self-Destruction 241 Identifying the Elements of a Con Game 242 The hook — Baiting the suckers 242 The line — Exploiting your trust 242 The sinker — Taking your money 243 Exposing Common Show Business Con Games 243 Fake screen tests 244 Phony agents 244 Shoddy photographers 247 Worthless acting schools 247 Sleazy casting directors 249 Meaningless beauty pageants 249 Shady get-rich-quick schemes 250 Dealing with Dishonesty 251 Potential problems with non-union productions 251 Unscrupulous business managers 252 Casting and networking parties 252 Missing residuals 253 Protect Yourself: Beating the Con at His Own Game 253 Being Your Own Worst Enemy 255 Dealing with drug abuse 255 Separating sex from show business 256 Dealing with alcohol and drug addiction 257 Curbing excessive spending 257 Avoiding criminal activities 258 Handling emotional and psychological problems 258 Chapter 19: Working to Pay Your Bills until You Hit It Big 259 Considering What Kind of Employment You Want 260 Getting temporary work 261 Getting full or part-time work 263 Considering supplemental work 263 Working for Yourself 263 Getting a Job That Pays You to Be Entertaining 264 Teaching traffic school 265 Performing on the street 265 Amusing patrons at an amusement park 266 Entertaining the kiddies 266 Catering to the public or the acting crowd 267 Working in a film or television studio 267 Reading scripts for payment 267 Winning big on a game show 268 Doing a song and dance in a casino 269 Performing on a cruise ship 269 Acting in an interactive play 270 Reading for actors during auditions 271 Getting “extra” time in the studio 271 Chapter 20: Managing Your Finances 273 Handling Your Money 273 Saving it! 274 Dealing with income taxes 275 Digging yourself out of debt 276 Investing your earnings 278 Living Well Without Going Broke 279 Dealing with housing expenses 280 Eating cheaply 280 Buying clothes 281 Deciding When to Quit Your Day Job 281 Part 6: The Part of Tens 283 Chapter 21: Ten Myths Debunked about Show Business 285 Myth #1: Show Business is Closed to Outsiders 286 Myth #2: It’s Who You Know, Not What You Know 286 Myth #3: Only the Young and the Beautiful Get Work 287 Myth #4: You Have to Move to L.A., Vancouver, or New York to Succeed 287 Myth #5: Plastic Surgery and Body Implants Get You Work 288 Myth #6: You Have to Sacrifice Your Principles 289 Myth #7: You Can Break into Show Business by Taking Off Your Clothes 289 The myth of posing nude 290 The myth of sleeping with someone famous or powerful 290 The myth of appearing in adult movies 290 Myth #8: You Can Be Discovered and Made into a Star 291 Myth #9: The Right Agent, Manager, Coach Can Get You Work 291 Myth #10: Show Business Will Destroy You 291 Chapter 22: Ten Traits of Successful Actors 293 Respecting Other People’s Time 294 Planning Ahead 294 Being Flexible and Adaptable 295 Being Professional 296 How a professional actor behaves 296 Acting professionally with your agent 297 Acting professionally with casting directors 297 Acting professionally on the set 298 Being Yourself 299 Being Well-Groomed 299 Being Persistent 300 Avoiding Mind-Altering Substances 301 Being Willing to Improve Yourself 301 Believing in Yourself 302 Chapter 23: Ten Tips for Improving As an Actor 303 Mastering the Art of Auditioning 303 Knowing How to Audition and Act for the Camera 304 Auditioning for the camera 304 Acting for the camera 305 Expecting the Unexpected: Improvising 305 Developing a Sense of Humor 306 Overcoming Stage Fright 307 Understanding Human Psychology 307 Developing Your Voice and Improving Your Body 308 Your voice 308 Your body 308 Maintaining a Reliable Source of Income 309 Avoiding Guaranteed Failure 309 Staying Sharp 310 Chapter 24: Ten Ways to Act Just for the Fun of It 311 Join a Community Theater Group 312 Become a Storyteller 313 Join an Improvisational Group 313 Volunteer at Your Local School Drama Department 314 Put on a Play for a Charity 314 Appear in a Student Film 315 Work as an Extra 315 Volunteer at Your Local Museum 316 Appear on Public Access TV 317 Produce Your Own YouTube Show 317 Index 319

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Book Synopsis'Dear Mr. Adam, I am writing on behalf of the Central Watch and Social Problems Committee of the Mothers’ Union to ask whether you have a programme in mind on the moral issue of venereal disease.''Sir, Where are the B.B.C’s censors? We do not care for the language that was inflicted on us Tuesday night in “The Battle of Britain”. Don’t retort, ‘You need not listen if you don’t want to’. We did not know it was coming.''Dear Mr. Frost, Let me start by saying how much I enjoy your programme & that I was among those many who felt almost that they had lost a blowsy old friend when dear & vulgar, but nonetheless thought-provoking and funny TW3 went off the air.'For anyone who regularly feels tempted to put pen to paper, I’m Sure I Speak For Many Others is an alternative history of the BBC, from its triumphant broadcast of the coronation in 1953, to that Tynan moment, the controversial That Was The Week That Was, and the groundbreaking Grange Hill.Stretching across over forty years of programming, these never before seen letters represent the joy, the fury and the wit of the nation.

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Book SynopsisExperience the interdisciplinary performance scene of the 1980s and beyond through the eyes of one of its most compelling witnesses. Jacki Apple’s Performance / Media / Art / Culture traces performance art, multimedia theatre, audio arts and dance in the United States from 1983 to the present. Showcasing 35 years of Apple’s critical essays and reviews, the collection explores the rise and diversification of intermedia performance; how new technologies (or rehashed old technologies) influence American culture and contemporary life; the interdependence of pop and performance culture; and the politics of art and the performance of politics. Apple writes with a journalist’s attention to the immediacy of account and a historian’s attention to structural aesthetic and personal networks, resulting in a volume brimming with big ideas but grounded in concentrated reviews of individual performances. Many of the pieces featured in this collection originally appeared in small press journals and magazines that have now gone out of print. Preserved and republished here for current and future readers, they offer a rich portrait of performance at the end of the millennium.Trade Review'This book is a stunning piece of scholarship, authorship, curation, and artistry. A potent historical record of performance art, it would serve well as a primer for any scholar, artist, or upper-level/graduate course interested in learning this history from a primary source. At the same time, the essays combine to become an inspiring call-to-action for experimental art-making. I frequently found myself wanting to know Apple and LaPalma’s current thoughts on the questions they raise, but the book’s true gift is the space they allow for the essays to question each other. Through their tremendous restraint in not adding additional comment, they invite readers to explore their own curiosity about performance, performance art, or whatever term comes next.' -- Daniel Bird Tobin, Ecumenica: Performance and Religion'[Apple] seems to have done more thinking and writing about this unstable and hard-to-contain genre than anyone else on the West Coast. [...] As a chronicle of 35-plus years of avant-garde ‘barricadesmanship’ in Los Angeles, Performance / Media / Art / Culture preserves an atmosphere of politico-aesthetic urgency, which can give the reader the off-kilter feeling that art ‘spaces’ surely are the place where ‘the world’ gets changed. [...] It’s a valuable history of some very untamed goings-on over time, and a detailed chronicle of what can happen when art turns into agitprop ruled by committee. One has the feeling that Jacki Apple’s influence extends to many an arts professor and art performer working today; this book ensures that and also shows why. It will have a long shelf life in academic and art libraries.' -- Anthony Mostrom, Los Angeles Review of Books'Only a handful of writers have the intellectual chops, creative intuition and vision of art history to speak holistically about performance art, but Jacki Apple consistently proves herself essential to the field and how we understand it. She digs into both the formal and the ineffable dimensions of performance with unmatched power and clarity without sacrificing honesty about the art and artists she clearly loves. Jacki stands in the evolving vortex of performance art so we can see its future.' -- Eric Gutierrez, Writer/former Executive Editor, High Performance'In the late 1980s and early '90s, Jacki Apple's pioneering essays on radio art as an emerging practice in the U.S. stood tall. Hardly any other writers publishing texts on radio, came from an arts background let alone an interdisciplinary one. Apple did, and her voice spoke with unprecedented insight, intellectual rigour, clarity and passionate conviction on the subject. She discussed and critiqued the most innovative and inspiring art works for broadcast in the context of the politics of the industry and of contemporary American culture. This wonderful edition encompasses the full range of her critical writings.' -- Regine Beyer, writer/radio producer and editor, Germany-USA'For several decades now, Jacki Apple's astute observations of the arts, performance and culture in Los Angeles have added profound insight to this still burgeoning landscape populated by the movers and shakers who flock here. Her history as an artist in her own right expands the depth and comprehension of her analysis. She has been an influencer in the truest sense, advancing the cultural discussion with erudition and compassion. Among the annals of tomes dedicated to understanding why LA is so significant, so centripetal, this is a long- awaited addition.' -- Tony Abatemarco, Playwright, Performer, Co-Artistic Director - Skylight Theatre Company'Writing with deep historical knowledge, compassion and generosity, Jacki Apple is an artists’ critic, always seeking first to reveal and then to celebrate the heart of a performance, no matter what the medium. Her fearless radicalism, tempered by a refreshing sense of humour, uncovers buried roots while also posing the most essential cultural question: how does this art help us understand who we are? I am particularly enthralled by the final section, Concerning Nature, essential reading during a time when ecocidal capitalism has surely reached the breaking point.' -- Gregory Whitehead, Artist/writer'Jacki Apple’s writing about the temporal arts stuns the reader with its capacity to contextualise projects historically. She weaves together diverse cultural interventions with an urgency about their meaning for this crucial moment in the world.' -- Beverly Naidus, artist, author, activist and Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts, University of Washington, Tacoma'Jacki Apple has always made works that come at you from every possible angle. As composer, performer, writer and cultural detective, she is fearless at pushing the boundaries of her own work, while simultaneously providing platforms for other artists to push their own possibilities. This book has been brewing for over 35 years. It is the story of what where when why and how we are in this culture now, told by a vital participant and invaluable witness.' -- Terry Allen, Artist 2019'Jacki Apple is a tireless advocate for the aesthetic, the generative, for art that intervenes and illuminates. She is the rare artist who is generous and revelatory, bringing enormous skill and knowledge to the work of fellow artists crossing many disciplines, as do her own intricate and multifaceted creations.' -- Jeff McMahon, Performer and writer. Associate Professor, Arizona State University'Jacki Apple has always been a fair and thoughtful advocate of the arts. There are so few writers with her depth and knowledge around. Expansive and generous, Jacki writes with an open, inclusive heart.' -- Ping Chong, Artistic director, Ping Chong and Company'Jacki Apple’s heightened artistic perception has opened my eyes to the meaning of my early visceral raw performances from the 1980’s to the present more theatrically polished ones. Her insightful critical writing not only changed the way I understood my own work and its role in pushing boundaries and breaking taboos, but also the performance work of my peers in times of political pressure. For anyone who wants to understand this history, this book is eye-opening.' -- John Fleck, Performance artist'Jacki Apple’s accurate, intimate, gracious, erudite and insightful writing provides a front row seat to an expanding cultural big-bang. This book is a gift to those of us determined to understand the who, the where, the when, the how and the why of the tectonic shifts that brought social interaction into the scope and insight of art makers. Her enthusiasm for the subject coupled with a commitment to her readers makes for learning more than history. She makes the history feel contemporary.' -- Conrad Gleber PhD, Media artistTable of ContentsForeword by Marina LaPalma PART I - THE TV GENERATION: MEDIA CULTURE AND PERFORMANCE PART II - SPECTACLE, FILM, COLLABORATION PART III - CROSSING CULTURES: SOUND, SPACE, GESTURE PART IV - HISTORY RESTAGED PART V - PROPHESIES PAST TENSE PART VI - POLITICS OF CULTURE PART VII - CONCERNING NATURE Afterword: A Retrospective View

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the experience and value of dancing for people living with the neurodegenerative disorder Parkinson''s disease. Sara Houston argues that the benefits of participatory dance are best understood through the experiences, lives, needs and challenges of people living with Parkinson''s who have chosen to dance.

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Book Synopsis'Theatre is the greatest of collaborative art forms, and Shakespeare its greatest exponent: he used the form better than anyone else ever has to speak truth about the world.' In Exploring Shakespeare, acclaimed theatre director Bill Alexander takes us inside the rehearsal room to reveal – in unprecedented and captivating detail – exactly what happens there. He examines the key relationship between the actors and the director, how they work together to bring Shakespeare's vision to life, and how choices are made that will shape every aspect of the play in production. Full of acute observations and perceptions drawn from a long and brilliant career, the book covers the essential aspects of any Shakespeare production, from understanding the world of the play, to preparing and cutting the text, deciding on costumes and set design, handling soliloquies, and considering character and backstory. There are detailed studies of eight plays spanning the full length and breadth of the Shakespearean canon, from Titus Andronicus and The Shrew to The Tempest, via Othello, Hamlet, Lear, The Merchant of Venice and Twelfth Night. Alexander also provides first-hand case studies of three of his own productions, including his famous Richard III starring Antony Sher. Personal, forthright, and full of pragmatic advice, Exploring Shakespeare is a masterclass for directors and actors, and a fascinating insight for anyone interested in Shakespeare. Bill Alexander was an Associate Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, and then Artistic Director of Birmingham Rep. His landmark productions include Richard III and The Merry Wives of Windsor (both Olivier Award-winners), The Merchant of Venice, The Taming of the Shrew, Titus Andronicus and King Lear with Corin Redgrave. 'Bill Alexander is a brilliant director, whose work has powerfully shaped my understanding of Shakespeare's plays, Richard III most of all' James Shapiro, author of 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare Trade Review'An accessible read, in absorbing detail, from someone who has seen it all. This is a personal perspective that will surely be of use to all who read it, and may well make you see your favourite Shakespeare play in quite a different light' * Broadway World *'A primer for the Shakespeare director, packed full of wisdom, pithily expressed… [This book] is a fine achievement – a necessary and timely one – and I cannot recommend it highly enough' * Stagetalk Magazine *'Insightful, practical and down to earth... Bill Alexander is a companionable writer to spend time with. He is never abstruse or over-academic. He simply wants us to understand how theatre can tell stories once it has negotiated the many text-driven decisions which have to be made on the way' * Ink Pellet Magazine *

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Book SynopsisDuring a long Fleet Street career Tim Walker met and interviewed many of the world’s most famous actors and entertainers but, it isn’t just the names of his subjects that glitter — although they are impressive enough — it is the insights, the humour, and the exquisite style of these pieces that makes them jump off the page. Walker does more than sprinkle a little star dust into our lives. Time and again he crystallizes what others might have sensed but not articulated, casting light into previously unseen corners of the lives we thought we knew. Here you have 71 of the world’s most celebrated people captured by a master craftsman who analyses and defines, but is never overawed. You will, at turns, be entertained, enlightened, surprised and occasionally shocked but, best of all, repeatedly made to laugh aloud at the wit, passion, talent and foibles of those who have entertained us for most of our lives.Trade ReviewSangita Myska, BBC A brilliant book… a brilliant set of pen profiles from Charlton Heston to Greta Scacchi and Ronnie Corbett. When you read Tim Walker’s Star Turns, you feel as though you’re sitting down, having a glass of wine with them, and having a good old gossip. Fay Weldon, Mail on Sunday 'Tim Walker writes such a good, readable book.' Kevin Maguire, the New Statesman 'He may have escaped the Greensill inquiry with the official equivalent of a slap on the wrist from a wet lettuce leaf, but David Cameron didn’t emerge so lightly from a brush with Ronnie Corbett. The 5ft 1in comedian never looked up to Dodgy Dave after an encounter in No 10. 'In a forthcoming book Star Turns, the author and former Telegraph journalist Tim Walker recalls how Corbett disapprovingly regarded Cameron as unimpressive and “too eager to please” at a Downing Street reception that was given in order to enlist opponents of Scottish independence. 'The final half of the Two Ronnies died in 2016, a year that Walker, who was briefly a Liberal Democrat candidate in Canterbury at the last general election, describes as the loss of innocence and the start of a harsher, less humorous era with Brexit.' Richard Eden, the Daily Mail 'Waspish theatre critic Tim Walker has optimistically invited national treasure Stephen Fry to the launch party for Star Turns, his forthcoming book about his encounters with the rich and famous. 'Walker has included a chapter on Fry, who was upset by something he'd written about him. 'He even quotes the multi-talented comedian and author on the back-cover blurb of the book, saying: 'Tim Walker is a creep from the inner ring of Satan's rectum.' 'I look forward to the party, Tim, but I don't expect to see Fry there.'

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Book SynopsisSay ‘Eh-oh!’ to Nikky Smedley and Laa-Laa Over the Hills and Far Away follows Nikky through the Teletubbies years, from her role as a bistro table during her audition to the show’s international success and the accompanying hounding by the press. In this warm, funny, affectionate look back at life on the Teletubbies set, Nikky reveals all, including tales about dogs and asthma, raging arguments about fruit, and the games the cast and crew played to amuse themselves during long shoots in their massive costumes. Join Nikky and Laa-Laa on their extraordinary journey from the very beginning to handing the torch to another performer for the next generation.Trade Review‘Puts us right inside those hellishly uncomfortable costumes, without trashing the magic or betraying the children who gave Laa-Laa their love.’ ‘Charming, funny, insightful, beautifully written.’My showbiz memoir of the year. A hit!Top notch insight into the woman within the puppet.Funny, poignant and heart-warming.This book is the reminder I didn’t know I needed.What a wonderful book! Beautifully written and Nikki’s sense of humour shines through the pages.

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Book SynopsisALICE COOPER CONFIDENTIAL is the profusely illustrated ultimate Alice Cooper book, written by Alice''s authorized biographer. In 1992, veteran CREEM Magazine rock critic Jeffrey Morgan was chosen to write the authorized biography of Alice Cooper, which appeared in the Warner Bros. box set The Life And Crimes Of Alice Cooper. Now, decades later, Jeffrey Morgan unseals his confidential Coop files in this full color hard cover coffee table size book to reveal previously unpublished interrogations, rare incriminating photographs, and hysterical fan letters-plus other ghastly horrors too shocking to mention here. No wonder Alice doesn''t look happy. He''s read ALICE COOPER CONFIDENTIAL!

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Book SynopsisLife isn''t how to survive the storm, it''s about how to dance in the rain This is the definitive story of Taylor Swift and her incredible rise to success from being just a smalltown girl with a dream to becoming one of the most influential and successful artists of her generation. Ever since she was 14-years-old Taylor has never known any other world than showbusiness, and we follow her journey through the good times and the times not so good, none more heartbreaking than losing the rights to her own music - her stolen lullabies. In her own words and those who have played major parts in her career, we look back at how she turned failures into unbelievable success and chart the creation of a wonderful legacy by one of music''s undoubted masterminds. There is no doubt that with her words of inspiration and the powerhouse lyrics to her songs, the world is a far better place thanks to the unstoppable force that is TAYLOR SWIFT.

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Book SynopsisCapture the dreams that you wish will come true in this beautifully illustrated, year-long guided journal inspired by Disney’s Wish!Harness the strength, hope, and joy of Disney’s Wish with guided prompts inspired by the film. This year-long journal includes full color illustrations from the film that will provide a beautiful backdrop for your deepest wishes. GUIDED PROMPTS: Asha, Star—and sometimes even Valentino!—guide you with a new prompt or exercise each week. Write, color, make lists, draw, fill in the blanks, create connections, and so much more as you explore and manifest your thoughts and wishes over an entire year. JOURNAL WITH WISH: This beautiful journal brings the magic of Wish to every dreamer. A YEAR OF WISHING: Featuring daily writing exercises, free-writing prompts, creative/drawing prompts, quotes from the film, list-making activities, coloring meditations, and more, this journal will guide you toward making your wishes come true.

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Book SynopsisChion analyzes imaginative uses of the human voice by directors like Lang, Hitchcock, Ophuls, Duras, and de Palma.Trade Review[A] creative look at sound in the cinema. -- R. Blackwood ChoiceTable of ContentsI. Mabuse: Magic and Powers of Acousmetre1. The Acousmetre2. The Silences of Mabuse3. The I-VoiceII. Tamaki: Tales of the Voice4. The Voice Connection5. The Screaming Point6. The Master of Voices7. The Mute Character's Final Words8. The Siren's SongIII. Norman; Or The Impossible Anacousmetre9. The Voice that Seeks a Body10. The ConfessionEpilogue: Cinema's Voices of the 80's and 90's

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis volume brings wonderful clarity to a complex field. In a historical framework with international perspective, the book explores an impressive breadth of representative films in their often controversial political, theoretical and aesthetic debates. And through all this, it certainly makes these readings about saucy daddies and friends of Dorothy a great pleasure. -- Randalll Halle, University of Pittsburgh This short book will be a boon for film scholars looking to quickly survey and learn about the history of queer cinema... Highly recommended. ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1. The Origins of Queer Cinema: Schoolgirls, Vampires and Cross-Dressers 2. Camp: Where Art Meets Trash 3. Stonewall and the Positive Identification Figure 4. New Queer Cinema: A New Aesthetic Language 5. Gay Cowboys, Fabulous Femmes and Global Queers Conclusion Notes Filmography Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisMatchbox Theatre presents a sketch show in miniature: thirty short entertainments by Michael Frayn, author of Skios and Noises Off, ''the funniest farce ever written'' (New York Times).These tiny plays are offered here for performance in the smallest theatre in the world: the theatre of your own imagination. The scripts are provided. Everything else -- casting, set design, ice-cream sales -- is up to you . . .

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Book SynopsisIn this invitation to reflect on the power of performance, Diana Taylor explores the multiple and overlapping meanings of performance, showing how it can convey everything from artistic, economic, and sexual performance, to providing ways of understanding how race, gender, identity, and power are performed.Trade Review"Performance offers scenarios... for active pedagogy, inviting students and others to explore and perhaps undo the links between images and writing, texts and performances, so as to conduct their own performatic appropriations." -- Loren Kruger * Critical Inquiry *"Taylor's fascinating, multicultural analysis of performance explores not only what performance is but also what it does—what it allows one to see, to experience, and to theorize—and 'its complex relation to systems of power.' . . . Recommended." -- M. S. LoMonaco * Choice *"The book is performative and multivocal, combining images of performances in the Americas, Taylor’s narrative essays, and important excerpts from key texts on performance by academics, activists, and artists....The result is a work that gives ample space to artists/artivists as the creators of tactics rather than to performance studies scholars who analyze nonperformance phenomena as performance." -- Patricia Ybarra * TDR: The Drama Review *"Introduction, reflection, and provocation coalesce most successfully in Taylor’s passionate insistence on the necessity of performance and its academic study. Performance, Taylor argues, has real effects, but the nature of those effects is not pre-determined. The wielder determines the worth of the weapon. These passages alone would suffice to make the book a trusted companion of students and senior scholars alike." -- David Calder * New Theatre Quarterly *"This book is a valuable introduction to performance art and performance studies. It is deftly argued and elegantly composed. Taylor concludes by saying that performance is ‘world-making’ and that we need to understand it (208). This book helps us to do just that." -- Adrian Curtin * Studies in Theatre and Performance *“Incredibly important. Performance is a proffer of a new way of looking and thinking about performance.” -- Robert Summers * CAA Reviews *Table of ContentsPreface 1. Framing [Performance] 2. Performance Histories 3. Spect-Actors 4. The New Uses of Performance 5. Performative and Performativity 6. Knowing through Performance: Scenarios and Simulation 7. Artivists (Artist-Activists), or What's to Be Done? 8. The Future(s) of Performance 9. Performance Studies Notes

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Book SynopsisAn ethnographic study of the kathak dance form in the San Francisco Bay Area community formed by Pandit Chitresh Das.Trade Review"Novel, original, and impressive. A story of the dance and one of its most important personalities, and an important book for all interested in the diaspora of Indian and Eastern arts."--George E. Ruckert, author of Music in North India: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture

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Book SynopsisTheo and Cecily want to be honest about their sexual histories, but what happens when telling the truth jeopardizes everything? A contemporary queer love story, Plot Points in Our Sexual Development explores gender, intimacy, and the dangers of revealing yourself to the person you love.

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Book SynopsisThe spectacular new musical about discovering who you are and defining who you?re meant to be.From Tony winners Terrence McNally Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens creatorsof suchBroadway classics asRagtimeandOnce On This Island this dazzling show transports its audience from the twilight of the Russian Empire to the euphoria of Paris in the 1920s as a brave young woman sets out to discover the mystery of her past. Pursued by a ruthless Soviet officer determined to silence her Anya enlists the aid of a dashing con man and a lovable ex-aristocrat. Together they embark on an epic adventure to help her find home love and family.

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Book SynopsisOne of America's foremost contemporary composers, professor of music at the University of California, Roger Sessions here discusses the musical experience of the composer, the performer, the listener. He believes this experience to be shared, on in which all three participants play vital roles, and in this book he speaks especially to the listener.Table of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*PREFACE, pg. v*CONTENTS, pg. vi*I.THE MUSICAL IMPULSE, pg. 1*II. THE "MUSICAL EAR", pg. 21*III. THE COMPOSER, pg. 43*IV. THE PERFORMER, pg. 68*V. THE LISTENER, pg. 87*VI. MUSIC IN THE WORLD TODAY, pg. 107

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Book SynopsisEssays that converge on the idea of spectatorship in the theatre, in criminal punishment, in religious worship, in urban perambulation, and even where least expected.Trade Review"Early Modern Spectatorship brings together and expands the concept of spectatorship by effectively demonstrating its wide applicability. It also makes a strong case for digital humanities by showing how digital materials enhance the ability of literary scholars to make use of artifacts from material and popular culture, as well as sixteenth-, seventeenth-, and eighteenth-century science and technology." Elizabeth Skerpan-Wheeler, Texas State University

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This book is about co-leadership: A leadership practice and structure often found in arts organizations that consist of two or three executives who bridge the art and business divide at the top.Many practitioners recognize this phenomenon but the research on this topic is limited and dispersed. This book assembles a coherent overview and presents new insights of the field. While co-leadership is well institutionalized in the West, it is also criticized for management's constraint of artistic autonomy and for its pluralism that dilutes leadership clarity. However, co-leadership also personifies the strategic objectives of art, audiences, organization, and community, by addressing plural logics navigating the demands of artistic vision and organizational stability. It is an integrating solution. The authors investigate its specifics in the arts, including global practice and its interdisciplinary nature. The theoretical frame of plural leadership supports their empirical explo

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Book SynopsisWhy is it that in going to see plays we are also touched or moved by them, and is there more than metaphor involved in such claims? Considering these and other questions, this book examines a range of contemporary performance works in which performers and their audiences occupy a shared realm of feelings, in which the play is not always the thing.Trade Review'Welton's Feeling Theatre: Staging Sensation provides a thought-provoking overview of how the senses are fundamental to theatre experiences both in practice and appreciation - in a diversity of ways. The questioning approach and accessible tone is highly relevant to contemporary performance practice and analysis. In addition to its place within educational contexts Feeling Theatre will also be of interest to those currently engaged in professional performance practice. The author's own concern with practice, alongside the consideration of example work from a variety of performances, lends itself to the practitioner perspective in this regard. The foregrounding of 'practice-based research' with a focus on the interdisciplinary is apposite to both academic and artistic perspectives. The overriding strength of Feeling Theatre is that it deliberates on the particularly affective nature of live performance and provides a clear argument for the need to expand the sensorium of theatrical criticism beyond the audio-visual to consider the full and interactive sentience of the human body and the varied ways in which it 'makes sense' during and following a variety of theatrical events. The elision of 'feeling' (in its various modes), looking and listening foregrounds how the focus shifts within and beyond seeing and hearing and adds a sensual touch to the analysis; a writerly 'feel' that migrates between emotion, cognition and touch. In considering 'theatre's full-fleshed perceptivity' Welton breaks down each chapter to focus on specific affects ascribed to certain senses and, in so doing, explores the complex nature of perceptual experience in performance practice to examine what it is to experience 'feelingly'. The 'getting a feel for how it goes' mantra is a fundamental precept of the book and shows a sensitivity to the exchange that occurs in performance between performer and spectators; a factor that places Feeling Theatre firmly within the vital and ongoing movement in embodied thinking. ' Jo Machon, Lecturer in Theatre, Brunel University, UKTable of ContentsPreface Introduction Shows of Feeling Feeling Your Way in the Dark The Sensuousness of Silence Somewhere, Somehow Bringing the Weather Indoors Afterword Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisExploring research into mobile phone use as props to subjective identity, Norman Taylor employs concepts from Michelle Foucault, Gilles Deleuze and actor network theory to discuss the affect of mechanisms of make-believe, from celebrity culture to avatar-obsessed game players, and digital culture.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Contents Foreword Introduction PART I: APPROACHES TO DIGITAL CULTURE A Conceptual History Mobile Affect Affective Networks PART II: CINEMATIC PERSPECTIVES Classical Hollywood's Mature Technology Stars and Avatars Film and Hybridity PART III: CONSORTING WITH THE MACHINE Machines of Celebrity Machines of Legal Subjectivity Machines of the Networked Assemblage Machines to Consort With Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisKristi McKim offers close-analyses of films in which attachment and detachment, intimacy and distance, ephemera and endurance become more visible and meaningful. Films discussed include Wim Wenders'' Wings of Desire , Agnès Varda''s Jacquot de Nantes , Doris Dörrie''s Cherry Blossoms and Olivier Assayas'' Summer Hours.Trade Review'Kristi McKim is a keen, imaginative and moving analyst of texts both cinematic and theoretical and she writes in a powerfully evocative and poetic style that is nonetheless precise and rigorous. Her analyses of an international array of films are superlative. This is theoretical and critical work of the highest order, a highly original work of cinema studies and in particular of the representation of time and love in the cinema.' - Matthew H. Bernstein, Emory University, USATable of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction Love in the Time of Cinema Cinematic Reconciliation of Romantic and Historical Time: Wim Wenders' Wings of Desire Mortality and Cinephilia in the Cinematic Elegy: Agnès Varda's Jacquot de Nantes Learning to Love What Passes: Hirokazu Kore-eda's After Life Making Art of What Endures: Doris Dörrie's Cherry Blossoms and Olivier Assayas' Summer Hours Conclusion Endnotes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIntroduction: Transatlantic Broadway: The Infrastructural Politics of Global Performance 1. Networking the Waves: Ocean Liners, Impresarios, and Broadway's Atlantic Expansion 2. Along the Wires: Telegraphic Performances and the Wiring of Broadway 3. White Collar Broadway: Performing the Modern Office 4. ''My Word! How He is Kissing Her': The Material Culture of Theatrical Promotion 5. Epilogue: Transatlantic (re)Crossings Endnotes Bibliography IndexTrade Review“Transatlantic Broadway makes an important contribution to theatre and performance studies, American cultural history, histories of capitalism, and studies of print and material culture. … Essential for scholars and teachers of theatre history, Schweitzer’s study prompts readers to envision historiography as competing and overlapping threads or networks. … Transatlantic Broadway attends to performers, spaces, and archives that have been neglected in previous studies of the theatre, thus encouraging scholars to rethink the literal and disciplinary borders of US theatre history.” (Nicole Berkin, Theatre Survey, Vol. 58 (1), January, 2017)“This finely wrought book significantly expands the fields of US theatre history and performance studies by mapping a new historiographical framework for understanding Broadway’s formation. … Schweitzer’s combined application of ANT and ‘scriptive thing’ theory to transatlantic Broadway offers an inspiring historiographical model for performance scholars.” (Kim Marra, Theatre Journal, Vol. 68 (4), December, 2016) “Transatlantic Broadway examines a wide range of theatrical media, tracing their circuits through Europe and the United States and considering the ways that they establish communities. … Though the book will be most immediately valuable to scholars of performance and mobility, it will also be useful to mobility studies scholars interested in media, business, and urban geography.” (Sunny Stalter-Pace, Transfers Review, Vol. 5 (3), Winter, 2015)Table of ContentsIntroduction: Transatlantic Broadway: The Infrastructural Politics of Global Performance 1. Networking the Waves: Ocean Liners, Impresarios, and Broadway's Atlantic Expansion 2. Along the Wires: Telegraphic Performances and the Wiring of Broadway 3. White Collar Broadway: Performing the Modern Office 4. ''My Word! How He is Kissing Her': The Material Culture of Theatrical Promotion 5. Epilogue: Transatlantic (re)Crossings Endnotes Bibliography Index

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