Entertainment & Performing Arts

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684424801Author Fred Lawrence GuilesFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Turner Publishing CompanyPublisher Turner Publishing Company

"Knowledgeable, probing, and thoughtful." -Foreword Reviews Smokey Robinson * Barbara Kingsolver * Francis Ford Coppola * David Sedaris * Jane Goodall and other luminaries reveal the secrets to their creative success. Amy Tan talks about how she...

Jim Dearden's latest book, A John Ruskin Collection, brings together a lifetime's worth of articles on the lives of John Ruskin and those around him. In each, Dearden's vast knowledge of Ruskin and exceptional capacity for recollection deftly and...

"Beautiful Chaos is an extraordinary journey of Carey Perloff and her theatre, ACT. Their continued evolution and ability to define and re-define themselves with courage, tenacity, and bravery allow them to confront what seem like insurmountable odds...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770412873Author Barry AvrichFormat HardbackPage Count 394Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,CanadaWeight(grams) 705g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770412521Author Kathleen CremonesiFormat HardbackPage Count 396Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,CanadaWeight(grams) 661g

A rollicking recounting of the landmark case a writer brought against Miramax, whom he accused of stealing his screenplay and turning it into the cult classic Rounders.When a young screenwriter goes online to check out the promotional website for a new...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770410299Author Frank PeppiattFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,CanadaWeight(grams) 481g

Legendary Hollywood entertainment manager and publicist Ramon Hervey II shares insightful tales of his remarkable four-decade career plotting and overseeing fame, success, crisis and spinning for seminal talents at the top of their game, from Little...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623717148Author Simon LouvishFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Interlink BooksPublisher Interlink Publishing Group, IncWeight(grams) 439g

In the vinyl era, David W. Berner played rock 'n' roll in a neighborhood garage band. Decades later at the age of 57 he enters a national songwriting contest and quite unexpectedly is named a finalist. But there's more. He's called on to perform the song...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910903858Author Suzan MutesiFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie PublishersPublisher Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398425705Author Mohinder DhillonFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley PublishersWeight(grams) 203g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735235113Author Mark CritchFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Random House CanadaPublisher Random House CanadaWeight(grams) 132g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640095588Author Omar Sharif JrFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint

Carmen Miranda got knocked down and kept going. Filming an appearance on The Jimmy Durante Show on August 4, 1955, the "ambassadress of samba" suddenly took a knee during a dance number, clearly in distress. Durante covered without missing a...

How do you navigate a career as an entertainment designer while maintaining a sense of self-worth and value in the various off-ramps and sidestreets you may choose to take on the journey? The Art of Scenic Design provides an in-depth look at the scenic...

Akira Kurosawa said of the great director: 'Not to have seen the cinema of Ray means existing in the world without seeing the sun or the moon.' Martin Scorsese remarked on Ray's birth centenary in 2021: 'The films of Satyajit Ray are truly treasures of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226813691Author Professor Julia A SternFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher The University of Chicago...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743264839Author Carrie FisherFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...

In celebration of his one-hundredth birthday, a charming, irresistibly readable, and handsomely packaged look back at the life and times of the greatest entertainer in American history, Frank Sinatra. Sinatra's Century is an irresistible collection of...

You may know him as Mango, Mr. Peepers, the gibberish-spouting Suel Forrester, or one half of the head-bopping brothers in A Night at the Roxbury. Maybe you remember him as the forlorn gothic kid Azrael Abyss, Gay Hitler, or the guitarist in the "More...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781455564989Author Bruce CookFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 363g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062342850Author Michael SchulmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Harper PaperbacksPublisher Harper PaperbacksWeight(grams) 227g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781894864428Author Stone WallaceFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Folklore PublishingPublisher Folklore PublishingWeight(grams) 162g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061856013Author Donald SpotoFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 399g

Characterised by grandiose song-and-dance numbers featuring ornate geometric patterns and mimicked in many modern films, Busby Berkeley's unique artistry is as recognizable and striking as ever. From his years on Broadway to the director's chair,...

In this essay collection, established experts and new researchers, reassess the performances and cultural significance of Ellen Terry, her daughter Edith Craig (1869-1947) and her son Edward Gordon Craig (1872-1966), as well as Bram Stoker, Lewis Carroll...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398406087Author Lois BromfieldFormat HardbackPage Count 54Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley PublishersWeight(grams) 127g

This work covers Bronson's entire output in film and on television, and includes many film stills and photographs. Alphabetical entries list film or episode, complete cast and credits, and year of release. Accompanying each entry's plot synopsis and...

Dancing with Merce Cunningham is a buoyant, captivating memoir of a talented dancer's lifelong friendship with one of the choreographic geniuses of our time.Marianne Preger-Simon's story begins amid the explosion of artistic creativity that followed...

In the tradition of Daniel Levitin's This Is Your Brain on Music and Oliver Sacks' Musicophilia, Bad Singer follows the delightful journey of Tim Falconer as he tries to overcome tone deafness - and along the way discovers what we're really hearing when...

Known for his visual style as well as for his experimentation in virtually every genre of narrative cinema, award-winning director Sidney J. Furie also has the distinction of having made Canada's first ever feature-length fictional film in English, A...

Anna Held (1870?-1918), a petite woman with an hourglass figure, was America's most popular musical comedy star during the two decades preceding World War I. In the colorful world of New York theater during La Belle Epoque, she epitomized everything that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312422691Author Carol Loeb ShlossFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 703gDimensions(mm) 216mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312340070Author Josh FrankFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 476g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943848928Author Cliff SimonFormat PaperbackPage Count 203Imprint Primedia eLaunch LLCPublisher Primedia eLaunch LLCWeight(grams) 374g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905192021Author Martin SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Bookmarks PublicationsPublisher Bookmarks PublicationsWeight(grams) 151g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988329317Author Leo Adam BigaFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Inside Stories LLCPublisher Inside Stories LLCWeight(grams) 449gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982115227Author Richard SchickelFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...