Browse visually rich books full of ideas, style and creative perspectives.
Explore our most popular performing arts books, ranked by community activity, ratings and reading interest.
Especially useful if you are looking for inspiration, aesthetics and creative direction. If you are looking for performing arts, this category is a strong place to browse next.
Author:
Michael Benson
The definitive story of the making of 2001: A Space Odyssey, acclaimed today as one of the greatest films ever made, and of director Stanley... (Description from external book data)
Author:
Nancy Griffin
Hit and Run tells the improbable and often hilarious story of how two Hollywood film packagers went on a campaign to reinvent themselves as ... (Description from external book data)
Author:
Hal Erickson
"This reference to TV cartoon shows covers some 75 years. In the ten-year period from 1993 through 2003, nearly 450 new cartoon series have ... (Description from external book data)
Author:
Christopher Golden
An official guide to Buffy the Vampire Slayer describes the mythology and influences behind the monsters, ghouls, and characters through int... (Description from external book data)
Author:
Edmund G. Bansak
Cat People (1942) and I Walked with a Zombie (1943) established Val Lewton's hauntingly graceful style where suggestion was often used in pl... (Description from external book data)
Author:
John Donnelly
In a high-end hotel room, rising football stars Jason and Ade are living the dream. Goals, girls and glory. Tomorrow they make their first-t... (Description from external book data)
Author:
Tim Prentki
The Routledge Companion to Applied Performance provides an in-depth, far-reaching and provocative consideration of how scholars and artists ... (Description from external book data)
Author:
American Film Institute
Back in print after more than fifteen years, this American Film Institute Catalog covers the decade of the sixties. This was the era in whic... (Description from external book data)
Author:
Jack Shadoian
Dreams and Dead Ends provides a compelling history of the twentieth-century American gangster film. Beginning with Little Caesar (1930) and ... (Description from external book data)
Author:
Richard Meran Barsam
. " --Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television (Description from external book data)
Author:
Seán Crosson
Seán Crosson examines the social, historical, and ideological significance of sport in film, from the beginnings of cinema through Oscar win... (Automatically generated book description)
Author:
Frederic B. Vogel
(Applause Books). The Commercial Theater Institute sponsors an annual intensive program in New York for individuals interested in producing ... (Description from external book data)
Author:
Chris Holmlund
With the U.S. economy booming under President Bill Clinton and the cold war finally over, many Americans experienced peace and prosperity in... (Description from external book data)
Author:
Steven Cohan
The first comprehensive study of this enduring but ever-changing Hollywood genre and its legacy to world cinema beyond the United States. (Description from external book data)
Author:
Paul Loukides
The essays in Beyond the Stars 5 examine a small but important sample of the conventional themes and ideologies treated in popular film. Amo... (Description from external book data)
Author:
Steve Chibnall
This is the first substantial study of British cinema's most neglected genre. Bringing together original work from some of the leading write... (Description from external book data)
Author:
Jan Simons
Dogma 95, the avant-garde filmmaking movement founded by the Danish director Lars von Trier and three of his fellow directors, was launched ... (Description from external book data)
Author:
Alan L. Gansberg
In this fascinating biography, Alan L. Gansberg reveals the man behind the public face, his many memorable roles among more than 100 films, ... (Description from external book data)
Author:
Alice Helpern
First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. (Description from external book data)
Author:
Poshek Fu
This book offers an interdisciplinary, historically grounded study of Asian cinemas complex responses to the Cold War conflict. It situate... (Description from external book data)
Author:
Brigitte Peucker
A Companion to Rainer Werner Fassbinder is the first of its kind to engage with this important figure. Twenty-eight essays by an internation... (Description from external book data)
Author:
Thomas C. Crochunis
The Routledge Anthology of British Women Playwrights, 1777-1843 brings together ten eclectic plays by female dramatists and writers, to stim... (Description from external book data)
Author:
Tom Wolsky
Go beyond the mechanics of Final Cut Express HD 3.5--learn how to edit with it! More than a button-pushing manual--this workshop give you fi... (Description from external book data)
Author:
C. S. Smith
First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. (Description from external book data)
Author:
I.Q. Hunter
British comedy cinema has been a mainstay of domestic production since the beginning of the last Century and arguably the most popular and i... (Description from external book data)
Author:
Helen Thomas
The Routledge Companion to Dance Studies maps out the key features of dance studies as the field stands today, while pointing to potential f... (Description from external book data)
Author:
Johannes Riis
Characters are central to our experiences of screened fictions and invite a host of questions. The contributors to Screening Characters draw... (Description from external book data)
Author:
Ben Hodges
(Applause Books). Applause Theatre & Cinema Books is proud to announce the publication of the first collected anthology of gay and lesbian p... (Description from external book data)
Author:
Eve Golden
Theda Bars's remarkable life as told by Eve Golden's heartfelt account is short of discovering a means of traveling through time and as clos... (Description from external book data)
Author:
Chris Fujiwara
At least three of director Jacques Tourneur s films ”Cat People, I Walked with a Zombie and The Leopard Man ”are recognized as horror class... (Description from external book data)
