From Lillian Gish in Way Down East (1920) to Renée Zellweger in Nurse Betty (2000), DiLeo takes movie fans on an unpredictable ride through 80 years of film history, showcasing a variety of genres and performing styles, and providing fresh...
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 fat, lavishly illustrated run through of...50 Hollywood movies from the 1930s up to a few years after World War II...valuable and entertaining today not only as a social record but as sheer entertainment...[Zinman] begins with Mae West's...
Coming of age in Paris in the 1920s, film and stage actress Lois Moran was a rumored paramour of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald and the inspiration for the character of Rosemary in his Tender Is the Night. As a young girl, Lois moved to Paris with her...
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...
A Killer Life is a book about just that: the killer life of an alternative film producer who's forged her own path of success between the disparate pillars of art and commerce. Strong, steady, creative, loyal, funny, artistic, and doggedly...
“...his economical writing style ... manages to pack lots of information – and opinion – into a few carefully chosen words ... Besides detail work well-grounded in scholarship...the author isn't afraid to interpolate such...
This practical reference manual, with its precise, authentic instructions on how to speak in more than 100 dialects, has established itself as the most useful and comprehensive guide to accents available, now increased by a third in this revised...
While television commercials often elicit groans from the viewer, they mean work for actors and can be the bread-and-butter backbone of an actor's career, providing a safety net of income while he or she climbs the ladder to greater success. And for...
“Fascinating anedcotes about Adler's wit and style make this book an entertainment to read...” – Choice“Rotté's account creates a vivid portrait of Adler as a consummate teacher and a complex woman.”...
Blumenfeld convincingly argues that the basic techniques of acting apply whether the actor is performing onstage or in a sound studio. Numerous practice exercises help the actor to speak the words of a text that can be enhanced by the varying sounds...
Includes Lillian Gish, Gregory Peck, Jose Ferrer, Sterling Hayden, Danny Kaye, Paul Winfield, Stacy Keach, Jessica Tandy, among others. “Mr. Brown's volume is one of the finest interview collections ever published.”...
While some of the thirty-two speeches included here – those from Hamlet, Henry V and As You Like It, for example – are well known and favorites for audition purposes, most are less familiar and so provide challenging new opportunities...
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...
A guide for actors, and everyone else, to getting the best for less and surviving, thriving and living the good life in the Big Apple. Here is the ultimate guidebook for the hordes of aspiring young performers who arrive in the Big City determined...
