Browsing the "Performing Arts" category: 378 books
Based on Frank Herbert's Dune, the epic new SCI FI Channel mini-series embodies science fiction adventure at its grandest! This lavish new production, starring William Hurt, Alec Newman and Giancarlo Giannini, and featuring the direction of John Har ...more »
ISBN: 1588242560 / iBooks / Pub Date: Oct 2000 / File Size: 2242K
ISBN: 0231500122 / Columbia University Press / Pub Date: Aug 1999 / File Size: 2043K
With the popularity of Pok+â-¬mon still far from waning, Japanese animation, known as anime to its fans, has a firm hold on American pop culture. However, anime is much more than children's cartoons. It runs the gamut from historical epics to sci-fi ...more »
ISBN: 0312299400 / Palgrave / Pub Date: Oct 2001 / File Size: 2537K
Highlights, stories, and pictures of Hollywood's 50 greatest disasters-- movies never released. ...more »
ISBN: 0312264380 / St Martins / Pub Date: Jul 1999 / File Size: 1320K
Here is a naked-truth collection of interviews with today's hottest film directors detailing how they made their first films and "broke into" the movie industry.When Nicholas Jarecki graduated from New York University's film schoo ...more »
ISBN: 0767910907 / Broadway Books / Pub Date: Dec 2001 / File Size: 1066K
In Truth to Tell, Lanny Davis -- premier White House "spinmeister" from 1996-1998 -- shares his secrets for making bad news better. As only an insider could, Davis reveals what went on behind the scenes as the White House managed -- and mismanaged -- ...more »
ISBN: 0684864134 / The Free Press / Pub Date: Dec 2000 / File Size: 491K
In an era when news rules, Larry King has the best seat in the house. With our world being shaped and reshaped by a dizzying cast of characters and a merry-go-round of incredible events--from the blockbuster murder trial of a football icon to the nea ...more »
ISBN: 0759580170 / Warner Books / Pub Date: Nov 2000 / File Size: 358K
Written for a new generation of journalists, this handbook schools readers in the art and science of reporting as practiced at the world?s largest and oldest news service. Written by an ace reporter with over 20 years on the job, it provides expert g ...more »
ISBN: 0071389695 / McGraw-Hill / Pub Date: Aug 2001 / File Size: 259K
The First Amendment ideal of an independent press allows American journalists to present critical perspectives on government policies and actions; but are the media independent of government in practice? Here Jonathan Mermin demonstrates that when it ...more »
ISBN: 1400805333 / Princeton Univ. Press / Pub Date: Feb 2001 / File Size: 712K
Krajicek, a former crime reporter, takes an unblinking look at his profession and the country's crime dilemma. He concludes that while journalists have increasingly focused on trivial sleaze, celebrity scandals, and gruesome but unrepresentative crim ...more »
ISBN: 0231500254 / Columbia University Press / Pub Date: Apr 1998 / File Size: 663K
The latest volume in this unauthorized, trivia-packed, super-successful line zeroes in on the hottest show on television: The X-Files. Just in time for the show's fifth season and the start of syndication in the fall of 1997 comes a book that will fe ...more »
ISBN: 0440333849 / Dell / Pub Date: Sep 2000 / File Size: 1057K
This book is 100% dedicated to selling screenplays and stage plays. Contains sample query letters, list of literary agents, resources, valuable advice for writers with over 40 illustrations on how to professionally package your script and query lett ...more »
ISBN: 091636741X / James Russell / Pub Date: Jun 2000 / File Size: 1874K
Rat Pack Confidential offers an "exuberant, opinionated, and irreverent" (San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle) look at Frank Sinatra and company during the heyday of the group. 16 pp. of photos. 352 pp. Author promo. Radio giveaw ...more »
ISBN: 0385500254 / Doubleday / Pub Date: Sep 2000 / File Size: 1676K
Martin Plissner was involved with CBS's political campaign coverage for three decades, covering every election since 1964. Now, drawing on his intimate knowledge of life inside the control room, he provides a lively and authoritative account of the w ...more »
ISBN: 0684871416 / The Free Press / Pub Date: May 1999 / File Size: 321K
Siegfried Kracauer has been misunderstood as a nanve realist, appreciated as an astute critic of early German film, and noticed as the interesting exile who exchanged letters with Erwin Panofsky. But he is most widely thought of as the odd uncle of f ...more »
ISBN: 1400804523 / Princeton Univ. Press / Pub Date: Feb 2001 / File Size: 360K
Since the 1950s, our country's greatest libraries have, as a matter of common practice, dismantled their collections of original bound newspapers and so-called brittle books, replacing them with microfilmed copies. The marketing of the brittle-paper ...more »
ISBN: 0375507027 / Random House / Pub Date: Jan 2001 / File Size: 381K
Be prepared. This book weighs in at 5.5MB in size. You'll need to make sure you've got plenty of room on your PDA before you try to sync up this one. This book is full of stories and photographs and is the perfect book for anyone with o ...more »
ISBN: 0767910451 / Broadway / Pub Date: Apr 2002 / File Size: 8186K
Comedy Screenplay. Joey and Sherry travel from England to America to track down Joey?s daughter Angus to bring her back home, but they all fall in love complicating the mission. ...more »
ISBN: 0916367495 / James Russell / Pub Date: Sep 2001 / File Size: 1859K
This hilarious inside look at Hollywood from the bottom up bares all about what it's really like to assist the major players. Robinson and Morris include startling stories from the front lines that will educate, entertain, and terrify. ...more »
ISBN: 0743221915 / Fireside Books / Pub Date: Jan 2001 / File Size: 354K
A classic updated for the '90s, from the industry leaders who know the inside story. Mike Medavoy, David Puttnam, Mel Brooks, Sydney Pollack, Henry Jaglom and many others present an insider's look at the creation, financing, making, selling, and exhi ...more »
ISBN: 074321935X / Fireside Books / Pub Date: Mar 2001 / File Size: 1843K
Anna Deavere Smith, the award-winning playwright and actor, has spent a lifetime listening--really listening--to the people around her. As a child in the segregated Baltimore of the early 1960s, Smith absorbed the words of her parents, teachers, neig ...more »
ISBN: 0375506403 / Random House / Pub Date: Jan 2001 / File Size: 303K
Romantic comedy screenplay. Three rich men become railroad hoboes in search of utopia, until the wives find out and the great railroad chase begins. A romantic Christmas story. If you like trains, youGÇÖll love True Bums. ...more »
ISBN: 0916367436 / James Russell / Pub Date: Sep 2001 / File Size: 1212K
In Landscapes of Loss, Naomi Greene makes new sense of the rich variety of postwar French films by exploring the obsession with the national past that has characterized French cinema since the late 1960s. Observing that the sense of grandeur and dest ...more »
ISBN: 1400803055 / Princeton Univ. Press / Pub Date: Feb 2001 / File Size: 490K
Theater veteran and acting teacher Joanna Merlin has written the definitive guide to auditioning for stage and screen, bringing to it a valuable dual perspective. She has spent her career on both sides of the auditioning process, both as an award-win ...more »
ISBN: 0375727833 / Knopf / Pub Date: Jun 2001 / File Size: 173K
Finally, a sequel as good as the original!Enlivened by humorous incidents, brewing controversies, and deeply moving personal dramas, Inside Oscar 1995-2000 offers the complete lowdown on six more years of Academy Awards glory... from ...more »
ISBN: 0345448006 / Ballantine / Pub Date: Feb 2002 / File Size: 782K
