Entertainment & Performing Arts

Part memoir, part guide to life, and all incredibly funny,How to Succeed in Business without Really Cryingis a book by a woman-and for women-who are driven, determined, and definitely not afraid to lean in. Carol Leifer is lucky to have had a long career...

To describe women in film history as "invisible" may seem strange as throughout film history, women on the silver screen have given audiences their version of what it is to be a woman. And as film stars they have always been associated with the glamour...

For forty years, Jackie Frame stood at the center of business, entertainment, and publicity in Classic Hollywood. This stunning collection of never before told vignettes reveals that lost world in all its splendor and with all its quirks. No scholar of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496712967Author Tommy DavidsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Kensington PublishingPublisher Kensington Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528932431Author Barbara Kendall-DaviesFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635901665Author Cookie MuellerFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Semiotext(e)Publisher Semiotext(e)Weight(grams) 133g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583948439Author Ruth ZaporahFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789390918379Author Ajay SethiFormat HardbackPage Count 168Imprint Rupa & CoPublisher Rupa & CoWeight(grams) 129g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063067653Author Kate Andersen BrowerFormat HardbackPage Count 512Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 699gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735235083Author Mark CritchFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Prentice Hall PressPublisher Prentice Hall Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619027077Author Peter CoyoteFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint

John Tesh has achieved more in life than he ever dreamed possible. But the road to success has been anything but easy-and those challenges have become the secret to his success. Through his story, we can learn how to be relentless, how to achieve what we...

Andrei Monastyrski's semi-autobiographical novel Kashira Highway is set in the early 1980s and tells the story of an artist's nervous breakdown, juxtaposing the gray world of Brezhnev-era Moscow and the lurid landscape of the protagonist's imagination...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789390918034Author Tushar GandhiFormat PaperbackPage Count 744Imprint Rupa & CoPublisher Rupa & Co

From the MTV trailblazer, stand-up comedian, and actor, a hilariously candid memoir that is an intimate, entertaining, and heartfelt tour through the exclusive, elusive, and eternally iconic world of '90s pop culture.Imagine 50 Cent's Hustle Harder,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789395767187Author K. Ullas KaranthFormat PaperbackImprint Westland NonfictionPublisher Westland Publications Limited

Ben Hecht called him "White Fang," and director Charles Vidor took him to court for verbal abuse. The image of Harry Cohn as vulgarian is such a part of Hollywood lore that it is hard to believe there were other Harry Cohns: the only studio president who...

This revealing portrait of the real Paris Hilton gets underneath the hype and hate, the glamour and greed. Unlike other biographies that range from the expose to the gushing, Paris Hilton: A Biography is both detailed and objective. It covers Paris's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922235657Author Peter FitzpatrickFormat PaperbackPage Count 450Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University PublishingWeight(grams)...

Starting from humble beginnings under his grandmother's care, Leon takes us to unexpected places in his ascent to the top from the house off the dirt road without electricity in rural Florida to being the first African American director to win a Tony...

In 1933, Shih-I Hsiung (1902-1991), a student from China, met with Allardyce Nicoll, a Shakespearean scholar at the University of London, to discuss his Ph.D. study in English drama. After learning about Hsiung’s interest and background, Nicoll suggested...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of National Prize of Literature 2014.Book InformationISBN 9789925573257Author Andreas KarayanFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Armida Publications LtdPublisher...

George Orson Welles (1915-1985) is considered to be among the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time. At just twenty-five years old, he co-wrote, produced, directed, and starred in his Academy-Award-winning debut film Citizen Kane (1941)...

With the warmth and humour we've come to know, the creator and host of A Prairie Home Companion shares his own remarkable story. In That Time of Year, Garrison Keillor looks back on his life and recounts how a Brethren boy with writerly ambitions grew up...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922633590Author Graeme MacRaeFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour 2022.Book InformationISBN 9780735235090Author Mark CritchFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Prentice Hall...

Born in Tehran in 1957, filmmaker Mohsen Ostad Ali Makhmalbaf grew up in the religious and politically charged atmosphere of the 1960s, and the June 1963 uprising of Ayatollah Khomeini constitutes one of his earliest memories. In 1972, Makhmalbaf formed...

This book chronicles the fascinating life story of the supermodel turned media mogul who has become one of the most influential African American women in our popular culture. Tyra Banks: A Biography tells the story of one of today's most visible,...

Werner Schroeter was a leading figure of New German Cinema. In more than forty films made between 1967 and 2008, including features, documentaries, and shorts, he ignored conventional narrative, creating instead dense, evocative collages of image and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062820488Author Valentin ChmerkovskiyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Dey Street Books, an imprint of HarperCollins USPublisher HarperCollins...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942155300Author Peter JohnsonFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Peter E. Randall PublisherPublisher Peter E. Randall Publisher

Kelly Khumalo is an award-winning Kwaito star who rose to national fame at the age of 21, but due to a string of bad decisions and relationships, she soon lost her shine. This book tracks the life and times of the fallen township pop princess: her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684424726Author Fred Lawrence GuilesFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Turner Publishing CompanyPublisher Turner Publishing Company

First English translation of the memoirs of the vaunted theater producer Aufricht, providing an inside account of the late Weimar theater scene in Berlin and much else of interest. This is the first English translation of the memoirs of the great...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608082346Author John BynerFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint WriteLife LLCPublisher WriteLife LLCWeight(grams) 344gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 152mm * 12mm

This much overdue and generously illustrated monograph traces Isabel Alexander's life, influences and work over her sixty-year career.About the AuthorJanet McKenzie studied history of art and philosophy at the Australian National University and etching...

Few figures in cinema history are as towering as Russian filmmaker and theorist Sergei Mikhailovitch Eisenstein (1898-1948). Not only did Eisenstein direct some of the most important and lasting works of the silent era, including Strike, October, and...

Fanny Brice (1891-1951) was a truly popular entertainer, with a career that spanned four decades. She was a hit in almost every branch of American show business-burlesque and vaudeville, drama and musical revues (including nine Ziegfeld Follies), film...

European stardom is very different from that of Hollywood, where the industry concentrates intensively on establishing and promoting major stars. This unique book sets out to highlight the career of Sophia Loren as a prime example of a highly original...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501155574Author Kevin HartFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 140mm...