Entertainment Performing Arts category: 25367 books
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Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2018
The creative and cultural industries are a dynamic and rapidly expanding field of enterprise. Yet all too often the dominant narrative about arts organisations is one of crisis, collapse, and closure. This edited collection seeks to challenge that narrative through pursuing a focus on organisational...
by Bill Cassara
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2019
EDGAR KENNEDY appeared in over 400 Hollywood films spanning four decades. An original Keystone Kop for Mack Sennett, he went on to support such film luminaries as Charlie Chaplin, Laurel & Hardy, the Marx Bros. John Wayne, Lucille Ball and Doris Day. Billed as "The Average Man," Edgar...
Days of Twilight, Nights of Frenzy
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
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 sound. For years, his work was eclipsed by contemporaries...
by Neal Gabler
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2006
The definitive portrait of one of the most important cultural figures in American history: Walt Disney.
Walt Disney was a true visionary whose desire for escape, iron determination and obsessive perfectionism transformed animation from a novelty to an art form, first with Mickey Mouse and then...
by Rees Quinn
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2018
Walter Elias "Walt" Disney - artist, entrepreneur, innovator, filmmaker, and theme-park impresario - gave birth to a sprawling entertainment enterprise that, in the half-century since his death in 1966, remains a fixture in the culture unlike any other. A titan of the American Century, Walt...
This Is Just My Face
Try Not to Stare
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
“Gabourey Sidibe’s delightful memoir offers a memorable look into what happens when a black girl’s dreams come true, from the inside out. Sidibe is fearless, incredibly funny, and gorgeously open. What she offers of herself in these pages is a gift.”—Roxane Gay
In This Is Just My Face, Gabourey...
Dangerously Funny
The Uncensored Story of "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour"
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
An unprecedented behind-the-scenes look at the rise and fall of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour -- the provocative, politically charged program that shocked the censors, outraged the White House, and forever changed the face of television.
Decades before The Daily Show, The Smothers Brothers...
by Bryan Cranston
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
“Nothing short of riveting...an engrossing first-person account by one of our finest actors” (Huffington Post)—both a coming-of-age story and a meditation on creativity, devotion, and craft—Bryan Cranston, beloved and acclaimed star of one of history’s most successful TV shows, Breaking...
Andy and Don
The Making of a Friendship and a Classic American
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
A lively and revealing biography of Andy Griffith and Don Knotts, this “humorous, informative, and poignant book” celebrates the powerful real-life friendship behind one of America’s most iconic television programs and “shows how the magic was created” (Library Journal).
Andy Griffith...
Springfield Confidential
Jokes, Secrets, and Outright Lies from a Lifetime Writing for The Simpsons
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Semi-Finalist for the 2019 James Thurber Award * One of Vulture's Top-10 Comedy Books of 2018 * A "Must" pick by Entertainment Weekly * **An A.V. Club Best Books selection * A "New and Noteworthy" selection by USA Today
In celebration of The Simpsons thirtieth anniversary,...
I'll Have What She's Having
How Nora Ephron's Three Iconic Films Saved the Romantic Comedy
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
A backstage look at the making of Nora Ephron's revered trilogy--When Harry Met Sally, You've Got Mail, and Sleepless in Seattle--which brought romantic comedies back to the fore, and an intimate portrait of the beloved writer/director who inspired a generation of Hollywood women, from Mindy Kaling...
by Ali MacGraw
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
This is the autobiography of a former photographer's stylist who became an international film celebrity and married two of Hollywood's biggest names, but then seemed to throw it all away. The role of Jenny in "Love Story" brought Ali MacGraw stardom. She married producer Bob Evans and bore him a son,...
Footprints on Broadway
My Journey to the Feet of the Stars
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
FOOTPRINTS ON BROADWAY is a personal memoir of "a journey to the feet of the stars." During his thirty-six years with Capezio Dance as Director of Theatrical Sales and Fittings, David Shaffer fit cast members for hundreds of Broadway Shows, National Tours, as well as Regional and Community...
Whatever It Takes
Life Lessons from Degrassi and Elsewhere in the World of Music and Television
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2018
This book will change the way you think about success.
Producer of television’s iconic Degrassi franchise Stephen Stohn tells stories from behind the scenes and of making it in the music and television world in this star-studded, rock ’n’ roll trip through a Canadian show business explosion....