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Where the Dark and the Light Folks Meet
Race and the Mythology, Politics, and Business of Jazz
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2010
Sandke tackles the stubborn and controversial question of whether jazz is the product of an insulated African-American environment, shut off from the rest of society by strictures of segregation and discrimination; or whether it is more properly understood as the juncture of a wide variety of influences...
What It Is
The Life of a Jazz Artist
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Dave Liebman is one of the leading forces in contemporary jazz. Prominently known for performing with Miles Davis and Elvin Jones, he has exerted considerable influence as a saxophonist, bandleader, composer, author, and educator. In addition to his recent recognition as a National Endowment for the...
by James M. Welsh, Gene D. Phillips, Rodney F. Hill
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2010
Francis Ford Coppola's career has spanned five decades, from low budget films he produced in the early 1960s to more personal films of recent years. Because of the tremendous popular success of The Godfather and the tremendous critical success of its sequel, Coppola is considered to be one of the...
Musicals!
Directing School and Community Theatre
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 1997
Musicals! is an illustrated sourcebook for total theatre training, emphasizing the director's role in the three main building blocks for mounting a performance: preparation, production, and performance. Boland and Argentini provide a comprehensive step-by-step theatre primer which will prove invaluable...
The Contemporary Circus
Art of the Spectacular
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2006
The fun, energy, and hard work integral to the exciting world of the circus is lovingly captured in The Contemporary Circus: Art of the Spectacular, an in depth look at the creative process of today's circuses. Through numerous personal interviews with directors, designers, composers and performers,...
Blood on the Stage, 1925-1950
Milestone Plays of Crime, Mystery, and Detection
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2009
In Blood on the Stage, 1925-1950: Milestone Plays of Crime, Mystery, and Detection: An Annotated Repertoire, author Amnon Kabatchnik continues the focus of his previous volume (1900-1925) and provides an overview of the most important and memorable theatrical works of crime and detection of this period....
by Keith Aspley
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2010
Surrealism was a broad movement, which attracted many adherents. It was organized and quite strictly disciplined, at least until the death of its leader, AndrZ Breton, in 1966. As a consequence, its membership was in a constant state of flux: persons were constantly being admitted and excluded, and...
by K Edgington, Thomas Erskine, James M. Welsh
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2010
Whether chronicling an athlete's rise, fall, and redemption or following a team's improbable triumph on the field, sports have been a favorite theme of filmmakers almost since movies were first produced. And whether focusing on soccer (Bend It Like Beckham), boxing (Rocky and its sequels), hockey...
by Jasper Sharp
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
The cinema of Japan predates that of Russia, China, and India, and it has been able to sustain itself without outside assistance for over a century. Japanese cinema's long history of production and considerable output has seen films made in a variety of genres, including melodramas, romances, gangster...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2002
Steven Spielberg has fashioned an enviable career as a writer, producer, and director of American motion pictures, winning Academy Awards for Best Direction (Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List), and for Best Film (Schindler's List). With David Geffen and Jeffrey Katzenberg he founded Dreamworks...
Directors Close Up 2
Interviews with Directors Nominated for Best Film by the Directors Guild of America: 2006 - 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012
Since 1992, the Directors Guild of America has hosted an annual symposium featuring its nominees for outstanding feature film directing. From the first, film and television director Jeremy Kagan has moderated these sessions in which the finest contemporary directors weigh in on every aspect of the...
by Andrea L Kross, James M. Morris
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2009
This reference contains more than 600 cross-referenced dictionary entries on utopian thought and experimentation that span the centuries from ancient times to the present. The text not only covers utopian communities worldwide, but also its ideas from the well known such as those expounded in Thomas...
by Keith M. Booker
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2011
One of the most powerful forces in world culture, American cinema has a long and complex history that stretches through more than a century. This history not only includes a legacy of hundreds of important films but also the evolution of the film industry itself, which is in many ways a microcosm...
Leaving Home
A Hollywood Blacklisted Writer's Years Abroad
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
Anne Edwards is the author of several bestselling biographies of notable figures, including film stars Judy Garland, Vivien Leigh, and Katharine Hepburn, as well as Queen Mary and Gone with the Wind novelist Margaret Mitchell. A fastidious researcher and accomplished writer, Edwards received a Pulitzer...