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From the 1920s to the 1950s, radio was the entertainment source for millions. Two of the primary themes of radio serials were mysteries and adventure. This is a detailed analysis of the important programs in these genres - ""Jack Armstrong,"" ""The Green...

On January 24, 1897, an event took place that would change Cuban culture forever: the first moving pictures were shown in Havana. A couple of weeks later, on February 7, the first movie was filmed on the island. Since then, cinematography and Cuba...

In the 1950s Hollywood unleashed a wave of monsters; everything from deomon aliens and dinosaurs to blobs and bloated bugs infested theaters and drive-ins. Lost worlds were discovered, unnatural terrors shook the screen, gigantism ran rampant. Moviegoers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940025322Author Patrick OvertonFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Bitterroot Mountain Publishing LLCPublisher Bitterroot Mountain Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802600127Author Ralph ChesseFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint University Publishing House, IncorporatedPublisher University Publishing House,...

This directory provides an extensive listing of household information collected for over 2,500 famous or notorious individuals who were alive during the 1930 United States Census. Figures from the entertainment industry constitute the bulk of the...

This work covers ninety years of animation from James Stuart Blackton's 1906 ""Short Humorous Phases of Funny Faces"", in which astonished viewers saw a hand draw faces that moved and changed, to ""Anastasia"", Don Bluth's 1997 feature-length challenge...

During the first half of this century, motion pictures were often considered disposable once their circulations were over. The recycling of used film and the use of components for war efforts contributed to the loss of many movies, as did the unstable...

Twenty-eight terrific interviews with some of the sharpest and most talkative stars and movie makers of the classic (and c-r-a-z-y!) SF and horror films of the past: Richard Matheson, Janet Leigh, Acquanetta, Hazel Court, Kim Hunter and others...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996501521Author Susan PooleFormat PaperbackPage Count 406Imprint Learn about Network, L. L. C.Publisher Learn about Network, L. L. C.Weight(grams) 934g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996501507Author Susan PooleFormat PaperbackPage Count 418Imprint Learn about Network, L. L. C.Publisher Learn about Network, L. L. C.Weight(grams) 962g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996501552Author Susan PooleFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Learn about Network, LLCPublisher Learn about Network, LLCWeight(grams) 1066g

The entertainment world lost many notable talents in 2019, including television icon Doris Day, iconic novelist Toni Morrison, groundbreaking director John Singleton, Broadway starlet Carol Channing and lovable Star Wars actor Peter Mayhew. Obituaries...

The entertainment world lost many notable talents in 2018, including movie icon Burt Reynolds, "Queen of Soul" Aretha Franklin, celebrity chef and food critic Anthony Bourdain, bestselling novelist Anita Shreve and influential Chicago blues artist...

"This is a book for anyone," Glyn Maxwell declares of On Poetry. A guide to the writing of poetry and a defense of the art, it will be especially prized by writers and readers who wish to understand why and how poetic technique matters. When Maxwell...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780980490947Author Brian LindsayFormat PaperbackPage Count 378Imprint Tranter Ward BooksPublisher Tranter Ward BooksWeight(grams) 503gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981569598Author Ed PooleFormat PaperbackPage Count 358Imprint Learn about Network, L. L. C.Publisher Learn about Network, L. L. C.Weight(grams) 831g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981569581Author Susan PooleFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Learn about Network, L. L. C.Publisher Learn about Network, L. L. C.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595190126Author Bea FogelmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Writers Club PressPublisher Writers Club PressWeight(grams) 426g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566081917Author Rebecca YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 87Imprint Christian Publishers LLCPublisher Christian Publishers LLCWeight(grams) 144g

Now in its seventh decade the annals of The Best American Short Plays series now boasts hundreds of groundbreaking one-acts and an alumni list the likes of which other anthologies can only dream. From luminaries like Tennessee Williams and Edward Albee...

Texas High School Hotshots: The Stars Before They Were Stars is a one-of-a-kind book that offers an entertaining look back at the younger years of more than 200 celebrities who attended high school in Texas.Book InformationISBN 9781556228988Author Alan...

This book offers 18 of the best walking tours you'd ever want to take of the greatest venues of movie scenes in New York City. In one volume Katz updates the two best-selling Limelight Editions guidebooks EManhattan on FilmE and EManhattan on Film 2E...

For more than 70 years ÊThe Best American Short PlaysÊ has been the standard of excellence for one-act plays in America. From its inception it has identified cutting-edge playwrights Tennessee Williams Edward Albee and others who have gone on to...

We live in times of crisis. How has the theatre responded? Has the theatre lived up to its essential purpose: to “hold up the mirror” to our turbulent times? This book will look at the courageous responses from dozens of playwrights over the past...

If Broadway's triumphant musical hits are exhilarating the backstage tales of Broadway failures are tantalizing soap operas in miniature. ESecond Act TroubleE puts you with the creators in the rehearsal halls at out-of-town tryouts in late-night ...

What is theatre? What is performance? What connects them and how are they different? What events, people, practices and ideas have shaped theatre and performance in the twentieth and twenty-first century? The Routledge Companion to Theatre and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550225662Author Lisa BrandtFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,CanadaWeight(grams) 319g

We live in times of crisis. How has the theatre responded? Has the theatre lived up to its essential purpose: to “hold up the mirror” to our turbulent times? This book will look at the courageous responses from dozens of playwrights over the past...

Collection of 277 litle-known medieval manuscripts, second only in number to Durham; special strengths are scholastic theology, biblical studies and sermons 13c-15c, and early music. Worcester Cathedral Library contains 277 medieval manuscripts, the...

With over 2000 plays, Spain's seventeenth-century Golden Age has the richest theatrical heritage of Europe, though only a tiny fraction of it has been performed in modern times. Throughout his forty years of reading, David Castillejo has discovered many...

A great deal has changed in the industry in the last decade. In this new, third edition of An Actor's Guide-Making It in New York City, Glenn Alterman provides everything actors need to know. You'll discover the ten things that it takes to make it as a...

It's easy for new fans to get overwhelmed by the sprawling mythology and complexity of the six films that make up Peter Jackson's epic trilogies. Unlike encyclopedias and guides that offer diehard J.R.R. Tolkien fans trivia, details, and deep dives into...

In conversation with Patrick O'Kane, eleven experienced actors who have made a living, a life, in theatre, television and film, share their process, comment on their experiences and consider their role as theatre artists within the broader spectrum of...

Using interviews with Jerry Lewis and many of his co-stars, this book analyses his collaborative efforts with Dean Martin, his subsequent solo work, his writing and directorial careers, and more recent movies such as Hardly Working (1979) and The King of...

British author and essayist George Orwell shot to fame with two iconic novels: the anti-Stalinist satire Animal Farm and the dystopian masterpiece Nineteen Eighty-Four. A few years after his death in 1950, the CIA bankrolled screen adaptations of...

What is theatre? What is performance? What connects them and how are they different? How have they been shaped by events, people, companies, practices and ideas in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries? And where are they heading next? The Routledge...

What is theatre? What is performance? What connects them and how are they different? How have they been shaped by events, people, companies, practices and ideas in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries? And where are they heading next? The Routledge...