Publication date: 1991
Review Tom Mix, portrait of a superstar: A pictorial and documentary anthology / Keystone Enterprises:
Creator: Janelle G. Reinelt
Publication date: 1996-07-01
Dewey code: 790
Price: $55.00
Review Crucibles of Crisis: Performing Social Change (Theaterb--Stheory/Text/Performance) / University of Michigan Press:Crucibles of Crisis gathers together critical essays that consider the potential of theater and dance to encourage and participate in social and political change. The authors address a variety of questions about the relationship between politics and culture, and examine the impact of the performing arts, as both catalyst and respondent, on twentieth-century society. International in scope, yet at the same time sensitively grounded in the specific histories and geographies of their subjects, the collection discusses theater and performance in Northern Ireland, Mexico, East Germany, South Africa, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and the United States during the periods of the Harlem Renaissance and the 1960s. The book confronts fundamental questions about the relevance of the performing arts to issues of gender, race, and colonialism by examining specific examples from 1930s New York to the 1960s South, from Berlin to Johannesburg to Buenos Aires. Crucibles of Crisis documents a wide variety of instances when the performing arts participated vigorously in social struggle, contributing to new social formations and leaving rich legacies for future artists and scholars. It argues for the renewed viability and vitality of performance as a tool for social transformation. At the same time, it reveals the limits on the claim of the performing arts to any privileged role in the production of culture-the boundaries of their potential to effect meaningful change. Crucibles of Crisis should interest not only performance specialists but also historians, social theorists, and those engaged in seeking patterns of meaning in the production of culture. The contributors are Lynne Conner, Gregg Dion, Harry Elam Jr. , Loren Kruger, Anthony O'Brien, Patricia R. [+]Schroeder, Katrin Sieg, Diana Taylor, Mary Trotter, Adam Versényi, and W. B. Worthen. Janelle Reinelt is Chair of the Department of Dramatic Art and Dance, University of California-Davis, and has been coeditor of Theatre Journal. She is the author of After Brecht and coeditor of Critical Theory and Performance (with Joseph Roach) and The Performance of Power (with Sue-Ellen Case).
Publication date: 2000-02-01
Dewey code: 741
List Price: $275.00
Price: $624.99
Review Hirschfeld On Line: Hardcover Book - Limited Boxed Signed Edition / Applause Books:This harcover, Deluxe Collectors Edition is signed, numbered and boxed. Hirschfeld is one of the most well-known Hollywood caricaturists, and this unparalleled collection is a must for any serious fan! Over 400 Hirschfeld drawings and photographs - many never before collected. Includes essays by Whoopi Goldberg, Arthur Miller, Mel Gussow, Kurt Vonnegut, Grace Mirabella, Louise Kerz Hirschfeld and more! Commentary by Hirschfeld throughout. Al Hirschfeld is one of the greatest caricaturists ever to have put pen to paper, and this monumental retrospective is a testament to his genius. From '30s icons like actors Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontaine to the stars of Seinfeld, Hirschfeld's fluid line has limned some of the most enduring images of our favorite entertainers. The collection opens with a biographical essay by New York Times writer Mel Gussow that sketches the arc of Hirschfeld's career and the development of his reputation as a chronicler of American show business. Additional essays by Arthur Miller, Kurt Vonnegut, Whoopi Goldberg, and Hirschfeld's daughter Nina cast further light on the artist, but the bulk of the book is, of course, given over to his wonderful drawings. Hirschfeld has written that it is his aim to capture character, rather than caricature, and each of the hundreds of images reproduced here encapsulates its subject perfectly, without ever resorting to cruelty. After more than six decades, Hirschfeld has recorded the careers of generations of performers, and this collection further illuminates his work by including comments on each drawing by the artist himself, providing a delightful personal history of Broadway, Hollywood, and all points in between. -Simon Leake.
Publication date: 1997
Review Harenberg Schauspielfuhrer: Die ganze Welt des Theaters : 265 Autoren mit mehr als 750 Werken / Harenberg:
Authors
- Robert Edward Gard
- Gertrude S. Burley
Dewey code: 792.0223
Price: $57.95
Review Community Theatre: Idea and Achievement / Greenwood Press Reprint:
Creator: Daniel Bernardi
Publication date: 2001-08
Dewey code: 791.436520693
Price: $68.95
Review Classic Hollywood, Classic Whiteness / University of Minnesota Press:Leading scholars address the myriad ways in which America's attitudes about race informed the production of Hollywood films from the 1920s through the 1960s. From the predominantly white star system to segregated mise-en-scènes, Hollywood films reinforced institutionalized racism. The contributors to this volume examine how assumptions about white superiority and colored inferiority, and the politics of segregation and assimilation affected Hollywood's classic period. Contributors: Eric Avila, UCLA; Aaron Baker, Arizona State U; Karla Rae Fuller, Columbia College; Andrew Gordon, U of Florida; Allison Graham, U of Memphis; Sarah Madsen Hardy, Bryn Mawr; Joanne Hershfield, U of North Carolina; Arthur Knight, William and Mary; Gina Marchetti, U of Maryland; Gary W. McDonough; Chandra Mukerji, UC, San Diego; Martin F. Norden, U of Massachusetts; Brian O'Neil, U of Southern Mississippi; Roberta E. Pearson, Cardiff U; Marguerite H. Rippy, Marymount U; Nicholas Sammond; Beretta E. Smith-Shomade, U of Arizona; Peter Stanfield, Southampton Institute; Kelly Thomas; Herman Vera, U of Florida; Karen Wallace, U of Wisconsin, Oshkosh; Thomas E. Wartenberg, Mount Holyoke; Cindy Hing-Yuk Wong, College of Staten Island, CUNY; Geoffrey White, U of Hawai'i; and Jane Yi. [+]Daniel Bernardi is assistant professor in the Department of Media Arts at the University of Arizona.
Publication date: 1971-01-01
Price: $10.00
Review Sbo W/B Film Trainers Guide / Addison-Wesley Professional:
Creator: Stephen Bending
Publication date: 2008-04-30
Dewey code: 792.028092242
List Price: $750.00
Price: $749.99
Review WOMEN'S THEATRICAL MEMOIRS (Chawton House Library Series) / Pickering & Chatto Publishers:By the close of the eighteenth century, the theatrical memoir had become a popular and established genre. The texts brought together in this ten-volume facsimile collection present the lives of some of the most celebrated actresses of their day. As well as offering fascinating accounts of the late eighteenth-century stage, these memoirs also provide revealing insights into contemporary constructions of gender, sexuality and fame. The features include: all texts are republished in full; selected for their rarity, the texts are drawn from Chawton House's unparalleled collection; and, most of the texts included have never before been republished. Each set in the series includes a substantial general introduction, headnotes, endnotes and a consolidated index in their final volume. Each facsimile page is digitally cleaned and enhanced, significantly improving on the quality and legibility of the original.
Creator: Julia Swindells
Publication date: 2007-04-30
Dewey code: 792.028092242
List Price: $750.00
Price: $749.99
Review Women's Theatrical Memoirs (Chawton House Library) / Pickering & Chatto Publishers:By the close of the Eighteenth Century, the theatrical memoir had become a popular and established genre. The texts brought together in this ten-volume facsimile collection present the lives of some of the most celebrated actresses of their day. As well as offering fascinating accounts of the late eighteenth-century stage, these memoirs also provide revealing insights into contemporary constructions of gender, sexuality and fame. All texts are republished in full. Selected for their rarity, the texts are drawn from Chawton House's unparalleled collection. Most of the texts included have never before been republished. Each set in the series includes a substantial general introduction, headnotes, endnotes and a consolidated index in their final volume. Each facsimile page is digitally cleaned and enhanced, significantly improving on the quality and legibility of the original.
Creator: Jenny S. Spencer
Publication date: 1998-07
Dewey code: 792
Price: $60.00
Review Staging Resistance: Essays on Political Theater (Theater: Theory/Text/Performance) / University of Michigan Press:Staging Resistance interrogates political performance in a variety of cultural and national contexts. The book's essays examine work by artists ranging from the Bread and Puppet Theatre to Théatre du Soleil to Athol Fugard to lesser-known grassroots organizations across the globe. The contributors' broad survey of work, as varied as the contexts in which it occurs, indicates that older paradigms for the study of political theater may no longer be viable. As the essays show, a wide variety of theoretical approaches and political assumptions must be actively and self-consciously negotiated in order to make sense of the theater's relevance to the social sphere. Focused studies of individual plays complement broad-based discussions of the place of theater in a radically democratic society. Staging Resistance is particularly strong in its concern with the intersection of gender and national politics; the collection specifically engages work by and about women in relation to broader geopolitical issues. Resisting the urge to be representative, the editors smartly highlight the divergent interests and concerns of authors who envision their work as an active form of cultural struggle. This consistently challenging collection of essays describes an art of change confronting the processes of change itself. "Staging Resistance works and works well. [+]the essays cover a wide range of approaches to contemporary political theatre and produce a wonderfully rich engagement with those questions that predominate thinking in the postcolonial, feminist, and performance fields. " -Susan Bennett, University of CalgaryJeanne Colleran is Associate Professor and Chair of the English Department, John Carroll University. Jenny S. Spencer is Associate Professor of English, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Publication date: 2004-12-30
Dewey code: 792.8
Review Dancing Machines: Choreographies of the Age of Mechanical Reproduction / Stanford University Press:
Publication date: 1980
Review Screenplays / Tanam Press:
Publication date: 1973-03
Review Steele at Drury Lane / Greenwood Press:
Creator: Ian Aitken
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2005-10-27
Dewey code: 070.18
List Price: $625.00
Price: $624.99
Review Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film, 3 Volume Set / Routledge:Documentary film dates back to the last decades of the nineteenth century and has been practiced since then in every region of the world. Varying in style, technique, editing, story-telling, narration, and intent, it is a medium that records the cross-section of human experience, from monumental conflict to simple lives lived day to day. It documents the events, pressures, and institutions of modern society, records traditional cultural practices, cultural changes, and captures the natural and animal world in all their complexity. Diverse in form and subject matter, documentary film can have many missions as well, at times created to inform, intrigue, teach, enlighten, convert, outrage, accuse, and also to serve as perfect propaganda. With over 800 articles from scholars around the world, the Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film is a fully international reference work on the history of the documentary film from the Lumière brothers' Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory (1885) to Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 911 (2004). All over the world documentary films have provided engaging, provocative, and skilled representations of life and this Encyclopedia provides a resource that critically analyzes that history in all its aspects. Not only does this Encyclopedia examine individual films and the careers of individual film makers, it also provides overview articles of national and regional documentary film history. It explains concepts and themes in the study of documentary film, the techniques used in making films, and the institutions that support their production, appreciation, and preservation. With over 200 film stills, this resource provides the decisive entry point into the history of an art form. The Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film:* Discusses individual films and filmmakers including little-known filmmakers from countries such as India, Bosnia, China and others * Examines the documentary filmmaking traditions within nations and regions, or within historical periods in places such as Iran, Brazil, Portugal, and Japan* Explores themes, issues, and representations in documentary film including human rights, modernism, homosexuality, and World War I, as well as types of documentary film such as newsreels and educational films* Elaborates on production companies, organizations, festivals, and institutions such as the American Film Institute, Ceylon Tea Propaganda Board, Hot Docs (Toronto), and the World Union of Documentary* Describes styles, techniques, and technical issues such as animation, computer imaging, editing techniques, IMAX, music, and spoken commentary The Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film is the first work of its kind to provide much-needed support to this increasingly important area of study. [+]Bringing together all aspects of documentary film, this accessible three volume set is an essential and comprehensive resource for scholars, students, and the interested general reader.
Authors
- Evelyn Copeland
- Brian Taves
- Stephen, Jr. Michaluk
- Edward Baxter
- Olivier Dumas
- Ray Cartier
- James Iraldi
Dewey code: 843.8
Price: $55.00
Review The Jules Verne Encyclopedia / Scarecrow Pr:From "Around the World in 80 Days" to "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea", millions of readers around the world have enjoyed the works of Jules Verne, the father of science fiction and one of the most important literary figures of all time. Particularly enjoyable is the autobiographical section that meticulously compiles all references Verne made in his sole autobiographical piece, "Memories of Childhood and Youth," with those made to a variety of journalists. There is also an in-depth, annotated listing of all English language versions of Verne's novels, an analysis of recurring themes in his work, and a detailed discussion of the filmed versions of his books. The authors trace each variation in Verne's published work, including "Paris in the Twentieth Century".
Edition: 1866
Publication date: 2007-06-11
List Price: $625.00
Price: $625.00
Review Actors Of Great Britain And The United States From The Days Of David Garrick To The Present Time (with Brander Matthews) (Notable American Authors) 5 Volumes (With Brander Matthews) / Reprint Services Corp:
Creator: Sara Pendergast
Edition: 4
Publication date: 2000-12-12
Dewey code: 791.4303
List Price: $645.00
Price: $645.00
Review International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers Edition 4. (International Dictionary of Film and Filmmakers) 4-Vol Set / St. James Press:This comprehensive resource provides thorough coverage of films and filmmakers through the spring of 2000. Entrants include legendary films, actors and actresses, directors, writers and other production artists. Entries include a detailed essay written by an expert; biographies; filmographies; comprehensive credits; major awards; and updated bibliographies. This 4th edition includes more than 260 new entries and more than 200 updated entries. Includes more than 1,600 photographs.
Creator: Steven F. Kruger
Publication date: 1997-12
Dewey code: 812.54
Price: $50.00
Review Approaching the Millennium: Essays on Angels in America (Theater: Theory/Text/Performance) / University of Michigan Press:Tony Kushner's complex and demanding play Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes has been the most talked about, analyzed, and celebrated play of the decade. The critic Harold Bloom has included Kushner's play in his "Western canon" alongside Shakespeare and the Bible, and drama scholar John M. Clum has termed it "a turning point in the history of gay drama, the history of American drama, and of American literary culture. " While we might be somewhat wary of the instant canonization that such critical assessments confer, clearly Kushner's play is an important work, honored by the Pulitzer Prize, thought worthy of recognition on "purely aesthetic" grounds at the same time that it has been embraced-and occasionally rejected-for its politics. Kushner's play explicitly positions itself in the current American conflict over identity politics, yet also situates that debate in a broader historical context: the American history of McCarthyism, of immigration and the "melting pot," of westward expansion, and of racist exploitation. Furthermore, the play enters into the politically volatile struggles of the AIDS crisis, struggles themselves interconnected with the politics of sexuality, gender, race, and class. The original essays in Approaching the Millennium explore the complexities of the play and situate it in its particular, conflicted historical moment. The contributors help us understand and appreciate the play as a literary work, as theatrical text, as popular cultural phenomenon, and as political reflection and intervention. Specific topics include how the play thematizes gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity; the postmodern incarnation of the Brechtian epic; AIDS and the landscape of American politics. The range of different international productions of Angels in America provides a rich basis for discussion of its production history, including the linguistic and cultural shifts required in its "translation" from one stage to the next. [+]The last section of Approaching the Millennium includes interviews with Tony Kushner and other key creators and players involved in the original productions of Angels. The interviews explore issues raised earlier in the volume and dialogues between the creative artists who have shaped the play and the critics and "theatricians" engaged in responding to it. Contributors to this volume are Arnold Aronson, Art Borreca, Gregory W. Bredbeck, Michael Cadden, Nicholas de Jongh, Allen J. Frantzen, Stanton B. Garner, Deborah R. Geis, Martin Harries, Steven F. Kruger, James Miller, Framji Minwalla, Donald Pease, Janelle Reinelt, David Román, David Savran, Ron Scapp, and Alisa Solomon. Deborah Geis is Associate Professor of English, Queens College, City University of New York. Steven F. Kruger is Professor and Chair of the Department of English, Queens College, City University of New York.
Publication date: 1985-11
Review Gilbert and Sullivan Quiz and Puzzle Book / Abson Books London:
Publication date: 1983
Review The Queen's Royal Theatre Dublin, 1829-1969 / S. De Burca:
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