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  • Sanford Meisner on Acting

    Sanford Meisner was one of the best known and beloved teachers of acting in the country. This book follows one of his acting classes for fifteen months, beginning with the most rudimentary exercises and ending with affecting and polished scenes from contemporary American plays. Written in collaboration with Dennis Longwell, it is essential reading for beginning and professional actors alike. ... Read more

    $75.19 HKD

  • Tattoo for beginners

    The Comprehensive Guide to Drawing Classic Tattoos for Beginners with Mastering Traditional Tattoo Designs, Aftercare Essentials, and Exploring Various Tattooing Techniques.

    by Dewei Chu. ...
    .The body is a canvas, waiting to be filled with the story of your soul."Introducing "Tattoo For Beginners: The Comprehensive Guide to Drawing Classic Tattoos for Beginners with Mastering Traditional Tattoo Designs, Aftercare Essentials, and Exploring Various Tattooing Techniques". This book is your one-stop guide to transforming your interest in tattoos into a proficient skill.Master the Art of ... Read more

    $30.73 HKD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • British Thrillers, 1950-1979

    845 Films of Suspense, Mystery, Murder and Espionage

    The three decades following WWII are considered the golden age of the British thriller film. Newer characters like James Bond, along with established icons such as Sherlock Holmes, Miss Marple and The Saint, all contributed to the era's bountiful array of cinematic mystery, danger, excitement and suspense. For the first time, the extensive output of British thrillers from 1950 to 1979 is covered ... Read more

    $294.89 HKD

  • Back to the Body

    Infusing Physical Life into Characters in Theatre and Film

    Back to the Body: ***Infusing Physical Life into Characters in Theatre and Film***guides you to experience and use your body and its energy as a basic point of departure for performance and expression. You will learn to apply your entire self in acting, with your voice, body, mind, and emotion. This integrated training is designed to combine all these elements of yourself with your material, the ... Read more

    $126.19 HKD

  • Essentials of Screenwriting

    The Art, Craft, and Business of Film and Television Writing

    Hollywood's premier teacher of screenwriting shares the secrets of writing and selling successful screenplays in this perfect gift for aspiring screenwriters.Anyone fortunate enough to win a seat in Professor Richard Walter's legendary class at UCLA film school can be confident their career has just taken a quantum leap forward. His students have written more than ten projects for Steven Spielberg ... Read more

    $71.79 HKD

  • The Christopher Lee Film Encyclopedia

    In a career that spanned eight decades, Christopher Lee (1922–2015) appeared in more than 200 roles for film and television. Though he is best known for his portrayal of Dracula in films of the 1950s, ’60s, and ’70s—as well as his appearances in the Lord of the Rings trilogy—Lee also appeared in many other films, including The Three Musketeers, The Man with the Golden Gun, and Star Wars.The ... Read more

    $838.89 HKD

  • Serial Thrillers:

    The Adventure Serial on British Radio

    Following the end of the Second World War, a new form of radio entertainment would explode across Britain – the adventure serial. Whether solving murders, foiling conspiracies or journeying into space, the heroes of these radio serials would be the idols of an entire generation of post-war radio listeners. Dick Barton, Paul Temple, Dan Dare and Jet Morgan were once among the most famous names in ... Read more

    $63.92 HKD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Columbia Comedy Shorts

    Two-Reel Hollywood Film Comedies, 1933-1958

    Columbia produced over 500 two-reel shorts from 1933 through 1958, with Hollywood's finest comics (the Three Stooges, Andy Clyde, Buster Keaton, Harry Langdon, Charley Chase, others). Fully illustrated with never-before-published photographs, the book chronicles the history of all, including interviews with the veterans. The filmography covers all of the 526 two-reelers: credits, date, synopsis. ... Read more

    $128.19 HKD

  • What is Art? (English version, Abridged)

    by Leo Tolstoy ...
    Leo Tolstoy's fascinating classic treatise on art is as relevant today as it was over one hundred years ago. Highly-readable, often witty, anyone with an interest in the nature of art and its connection to what it is to be human will find this book a treat.For the first time, this long out-of-print volume is available as an affordable, well-formatted book for e-readers and smartphones.Be sure to ... Read more

    $23.18 HKD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Art of Governance

    Edited by Nancy Roche, Jaan Whitehead ...
    The Art of Governance is an essential guide for trustees in the performing arts and for the artists, managers, and community leaders who work with them. This book provides the larger context in which trustees govern—the art, artists, history, institutions, and national policies of the performing arts—and also explores more practical issues, such as board development, planning, finance, and ... Read more

    $140.69 HKD

  • Sherlock Holmes on the Stage

    A Chronological Encyclopedia of Plays Featuring the Great Detective

    One of the world's most well known fictional characters, Sherlock Holmes first appeared in print in 1887. The detective was featured in four novels and 56 short stories written by his creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Within a decade of his creation Sherlock Holmes made his theatrical debut, first in a couple of obscure productions and soon in the celebrated play adapted by and starring William ... Read more

    $756.19 HKD

  • Encyclopedia of the Black Arts Movement

    The Black Arts Movement (BAM) encompassed a group of artists, musicians, novelists, and playwrights whose work combined innovative approaches to literature, film, music, visual arts, and theatre. With a heightened consciousness of black agency and autonomy—along with the radical politics of the civil rights movement, the Black Muslims, and the Black Panthers—these figures represented a collective ... Read more

    $1,030.89 HKD

  • Explorer Kaamelott

    Les dessous de la Table ronde

    Découvrez l'envers du décor de la série humoristique Kaamelott et les plus grands mystères que sa production recèle !S'immergeant dans les coulisses de création, les ambitions et les contraintes de la série, ou dans la comédie source d'une multitude de citations cultes, l'ouvrage Explorer Kaamelott - Les dessous de la Table ronde et son auteur nous appellent à nous rassembler aux côtés de héros ... Read more

    $63.92 HKD

  • George Orwell on Screen

    Adaptations, Documentaries and Docudramas on Film and Television

    by David Ryan ...
    British author and essayist George Orwell shot to fame with two iconic novels: the anti-Stalinist satire Animal Farm and the dystopian masterpiece Nineteen Eighty-Four.A few years after his death in 1950, the CIA bankrolled screen adaptations of both novels as Cold War propaganda. Orwell's depiction of a totalitarian police state captivated the media in the 1980s. Today, mounting anxieties about ... Read more

    $166.69 HKD

  • Fin de partie (Samuel Beckett - mise en scène Alain Françon - 2011)

    Les Fiches Spectacle d'Universalis

    Une fiche de référence sur Fin de partie de Samuel Beckett, un spectacle mis en scène par Alain Françon.«C'est laid, c'est sale, c'est désolant, c'est malsain, c'est vide et misérable.» Ainsi se plaignait le célèbre critique Jean-Jacques Gautier dans les colonnes du Figaro, quelques jours après la première en France de Fin de partie. S'en prenant à Beckett, qui «a installé sur scè...Un ouvrage ... Read more

    $74.59 HKD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sakountala (chorégraphie Marie-Claude Pietragalla - 2000)

    Les Fiches Spectacle d'Universalis

    Une fiche de référence sur Sakountala, un spectacle chorégraphié par Marie-Claude Pietragalla.Sakountala, spectacle créé en 2000 par Marie-Claude Pietragalla pour le Ballet national de Marseille, évoque, dans une grande fresque spectaculaire, la vie et l'œuvre de Camille Claudel (1864-1943). Associant la danse, les arts du cirque et le théâtre, cette création s'inscrit dans une d...Un ouvrage ... Read more

    $74.59 HKD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pour un oui ou pour un non (Nathalie Sarraute - mise en scène Jacques Lassalle - 1998)

    Les Fiches Spectacle d'Universalis

    Une fiche de référence sur Pour un oui ou pour un non de Nathalie Sarraute, un spectacle mis en scène par Jacques Lassalle.Signe d'une volonté de remettre le texte, l'intime et l'infime au centre de la représentation théâtrale, aux antipodes du spectaculaire, la pièce de Nathalie Sarraute, Pour un oui ou pour un non, a fait l'objet de deux mises en scène différentes à l'automne 1998. Simone ... Read more

    $74.59 HKD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Phèdre (Jean Racine - mises en scène Christian Rist - 2002, Patrice Chéreau - 2003)

    Les Fiches Spectacle d'Universalis

    Une fiche de référence sur Phèdre de Jean Racine, un spectacle mis en scène par Christian Rist et Patrice Chéreau.En 2002-2003, le sable de Trézène, trop souvent foulé, a donné lieu à deux nouvelles et grandes mises en scène. À partir d'un dispositif scénique semblable, la perspective bi-frontale, les choix de Christian Rist (Maison de la culture de Bourges et théâtre de la Tempête de la ... Read more

    $74.59 HKD

  • Modern Painting

    by George Moore ...
    The Editor of "The Speaker" allowed me to publish from time to time chapters of a book on art. These chapters have been gathered from the mass of art journalism which had grown about them, and I reprint them in the sequence originally intended. ... Read more

    $31.19 HKD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Encyclopedia of Vaudeville

    by Anthony Slide ...
    The Encyclopedia of Vaudeville provides a unique record of what was once America's preeminent form of popular entertainment from the late 1800s through the early 1930s. It includes entries not only on the entertainers themselves, but also on those who worked behind the scenes, the theatres, genres, and historical terms. Entries on individual vaudevillians include biographical information, ... Read more

    $168.89 HKD

  • Cyrano de Bergerac

    Cyrano de Bergerac est une comédie héroïque écrite par Edmond Rostand en 1897. Elle raconte l'histoire de Cyrano, un homme brillant mais laid, qui tombe amoureux de Roxane, une belle cousine. Bien qu'il soit trop timide pour lui déclarer ses sentiments, il aide Christian, un ami plus beau mais moins intelligent, à séduire Roxane en lui écrivant des lettres d'amour. Cependant, lorsque Christian ... Read more

    $53.25 HKD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Games for Circus Educators, Organizers and Innovators

    With over 100 games organized for optimal use in cooperative movement based settings, this is a must have for every circus school, teaching artist, and arts education program! Games are organized by age, number of participant, energy level, and social/emotional learning outcome, and also includes special notes for working with a variety of populations that may require adaptation or modifications ... Read more

    $78.99 HKD

  • Eleonora Duse

    Les Grands Articles d'Universalis

    Partez à la découverte d'Eleonora Duse avec ce Grand Article Universalis !Actrice italienne qui trouva ses meilleurs rôles chez deux grands dramaturges européens : l'Italien Gabriele D'Annunzio et le Norvégien Henrik Ibsen. Née à Vigevano, en Lombardie, le 3 octobre 1858, la Duse, issue d'un milieu d'acteurs, fit ses débuts au théâtre à l'âge de quatre ans dans une ...Un ouvrage spécialement conçu ... Read more

    $74.59 HKD