Ten popular and acclaimed film directors whose film careers began in front of the cameras candidly offer their insights into the all-important and generally underexplored subject of directing actors. Each actor/director discusses filmmaking as …
Results 1 - 30 of 223
Ten popular and acclaimed film directors whose film careers began in front of the cameras candidly offer their insights into the all-important and generally underexplored subject of directing actors. Each actor/director discusses filmmaking as …
TV A-Go-Go: Rock on TV from American Bandstand to American Idol
From Elvis and a hound dog wearing matching tuxedos and the comic adventures of artificially produced bands to elaborate music videos and contrived reality-show contests, television—as this critical look brilliantly shows—has done a superb job of …
Stagecraft 1: A Complete Guide to Backstage Work
Nineteen chapters detailing all the fundamentals of backstage work—all the tools and the language which apply to any theatre operation. The book is loaded with photographs, illustrations and diagrams of the text material. The what, when and why …
We call them Collectors' Journals, but you can fill them with whatever you please. Especially designed for doll lovers and teddy bear lovers, these elegant blank books are waiting for your secret thoughts, wish lists, identification notes or, …
The most comprehensive book of monologs ever! With 127 audition pieces, this handbook has a monolog for almost any audition situation. It's important that the actor be inventive and imaginative in performing a monolog. This book shows students …
Screenplay: Writing the Picture
complete screenwriting course, this book features illustrative examples, writing techniques, sage advice from veteran writers, and pertinent writing anecdotes.
Improvisation for Actors and Writers: A Guidebook for Improv Lessons in Comedy
This book provides the basics and the exercises for proficiency at both acting and writing.
Once Upon a Time in Paradise: Canadians in the Golden Age of Hollywood
When sound arrived in Hollywood in the late 1920s, Canadians were already holding some of the most important roles in the motion picture industry. Louis B. Mayer, from New Brunswick, was boss at MGM; Jack Warner, from Ontario, was head of Warner …
Clown Skits for Everyone: How to Become a Performing Clown
Everything you need to know to be a performing clown—written by a performing clown! Advice and ideas plus thirty-two easy-to-perform skits for one or two clown acts. Talks about gestures and actions, rehearsals and routines, talking or miming, …
Unknown Matisse: The Early Years, 1869-1908 The
Matisse was, with Picasso, one of the two great geniuses of 20th-century Western art. This is the first of a two-part biography which examines the relationship between Matisse's life and his art.
Hollywood, Interrupted: Insanity Chic in Babylon - The Case Against Celebrity
"Rosemary's baby has grown up and is running Hollywood. One of America's greatest industries has become one of the most destructive. Entertainment titans like Walt Disney, Morrie Ryskind, and Frank Capra have been replaced by people whose idea of …
Grammar Wars: 179 Games and Improvs for Learning Language Arts
Improv is a fun way to learn language arts as well as acting and theatrical skills. The author, a leading California language arts and theatre educator, years ago discovered improv exercises and games that blur the lines between performance and …
For speech contests, acting exercises, auditions or audience entertainment in a stage review, these short monologs are to theatre what Art Buchwald is to journalism, Warm, Funny. And best of all—reall Sixty-five characterizations for girls, boys …
50 Great Monologs for Student Actors: A Workbook of Comedy Characterizations for Students
These are professional-level comedy monologs, but they can be easily performed by talented high school actors. Most all of the characterizations can be effectively performed by either sex. The emphasis is on comedy and social satire. Nothing is …
In response to the overwhelming success of the premiere issue, Reverie Publishing is pleased to present High Style 2004, which highlights even more photographs of redone and redressed Tonner dolls and includes popular features such as Chloe Jette'…
Tennessee Williams: A Portrait in Laughter and Lamentation
When Harry Rasky, one of the most prolific and innovative documentary filmmakers, persuaded Tennessee Williams to become a subject of a film, Rasky stated in the opening narrative, "In a sense this is a memory play about Tennessee Williams. What …
World's Most Beautiful Dolls: Volume Two
Breathtaking color photographs of 108 new dolls by 54 of today's best international artists fill the pages of this stunning new book. Created in response to the overwhelming success of the original The World's Most Beautiful Dolls, volume two …
Total Directing: Integrating Camera and Performance in Film and Television
This guide to directing films includes information on project development, screenplay analysis, choosing and working with a production team, auditioning and casting, script preparation, using the language of acting, and much more.
Introduction to Readers Theatre: A Guide to Classroom Performance
complete textbook on all aspects of Readers Theatre for high school and college use. The early texts of this unique performance technique are now out of print. This contemporary text includes complete documentation of the earliest days of Readers …
Edward R. Murrow and the Birth of Broadcast Journalism
"Get it, read it, and pass it on."—Bill Moyers "Most Americans living today never heard Ed Murrow in a live broadcast. This book is for them I want them to know that broadcast journalism was established by someone with the highest standards. …
Bear Collector's Record Book: A Guide to Managing Your Collection
75 Perforated record sheets tear out and store in your binder — Sample record forms of both antique and modern teddy bears
Dance as a Theatre Art: Source Readings in Dance History from 1851 to Present
"living history" of dance through the writings of its greatest innovators.
Everything New and Who's Who in Clown Ministry
The author of the popular Clown Ministry Handbook returns with a look back at the progress that clown ministry has made in the past decade and a look ahead with dynamic new clown material. The book features inspirational chats with veteran clown …
Looking back a thousand years, composer and broadcaster Howard Goodall guides us through five seismic developments in the history of Western music: the invention of notation, of opera, of equal temperament (the vital gaps between notes), of the …
Speechcraft: An Introduction to Public Speaking
Many speech texts are either too theoretical or too bland for effective use in the typical classroom. This book provides students with enough theory and information to learn beginning speech, but emphasizes practical exercises and activities. …
What a Producer Does: The Art of Moviemaking (Not the Business)
Houghton delves into the area of movie production and addresses the job's creative concerns rather than the fund-raising aspects. His insights into choosing a story, the writer, director, production crew and cast, and the whole of the moviemaking …
Everything about Theatre!: The Guidebook of Theatre Fundamentals
It's all here in one book — a complete overview of all aspects of theatre! The history, the crafts and the art of the stage are presented in eighteen easy-to-learn units. Theatre history in four parts gives the text an orderly structure. Between …
From America's most trusted and best-known film critic, one hundred brilliant essays on the films that define for him cinematic greatness. For the past five years Roger Ebert, the famed film writer and critic, has been writing biweekly essays for …
How to Write a Selling Screenplay
Christopher Keane has spent 20 years in the business, learning the truths—and the tricks—of writing a selling screenplay. In "How to Write a Selling Screenplay, he takes writers through the entire process, from developing a story to finding the …
Selected Writings of John Darcy Noble: Favorite Articles from Dolls Magazine: 1982-1995
collection of 35 articles on antique dolls, which originally appeared in Dolls magazine from 1982-1995 by the renowned author, artist, scholar and curator emeritus of the Toy Collection of the Museum of the City of New York. The selected articles …