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  • Welcome to the O.C.

    The Oral History

    by Josh Schwartz, Stephanie Savage, Alan Sepinwall ...
    “A fascinating peek behind the making of a megahit, and a delightful bit of nostalgia for those of us who remember life before streaming TV.” —Town & CountryWelcome to the O.C., b*tch: it’s the definitive oral history of beloved TV show The O.C., from the show’s creators, featuring interviews with the cast and crew, providing a behind-the-scenes look into how the show was made, the ups and downs ... Read more

    €10.61

  • Voice Acting For Dummies

    by David Ciccarelli, Stephanie Ciccarelli ...
    Make a career out of your voice? Easy.Voice acting is like acting, but just using your voice! It's a unique career where the actor's voice can be heard worldwide-in commercials, on audiobooks, in animated movies, documentaries, online videos, telephone systems and much, much more. The point is to bring the written word to life with the human voice.With step-by-step explanations and an abundance of ... Read more

    €16.99

  • Act Now!

    A Step-by-Step Guide to Becoming a Working Actor

    by Peter Jazwinski ...
    So, you want to be an actor . . . but you have no idea how to get started. In the pages of Act Now!, you’ll find a step-by-step process to show you not only how to get started, but also how to become a working actor. It will take time and commitment, but if you follow these steps you will find success. Author and acting teacher Peter Jazwinski explains every aspect of becoming an actor from start ... Read more

    €4.09

  • Karl et moi

    by Baptiste Giabiconi ...
    " Un jour, tu leur diras... "À l'été 2008, un mannequin inconnu de dix-huit ans apparaît publiquement au côté de Karl Lagerfeld. Baptiste Giabiconi tiendra cette place pendant une décennie, défrayant la chronique en devenant lui-même célèbre. Aujourd'hui, il raconte son Karl, tel qu'il est le seul à l'avoir connu, le seul à l'avoir tutoyé et aimé. Une passion réciproque bien au-delà des apparences ... Read more

    €8.99

  • Four Screenplays

    Studies in the American Screenplay: Thelma & Louise, Terminator 2, The Silence of the Lambs, and Dances with Wolves

    by Syd Field ...
    Yes, you can write a great screenplay. Let Syd Field show you how.“I based Like Water for Chocolate on what I learned in Syd's books. Before, I always felt structure imprisoned me, but what I learned was structure really freed me to focus on the story.”—Laura EsquivelTechnology is transforming the art and craft of screenwriting. How does the writer find new ways to tell a story with pictures, to ... Read more

    €6.49

  • Le Prix de l'étoile

    by François Alu ...
    Et si je vous disais que pour devenir danseur étoile, j'avais dû conclure un pacte avec le diable,Si je vous racontais que c'est après avoir parlé à une voyante que j'ai quitté l'Opéra de Paris pour amener l'art en entreprise,Si je vous expliquais que j'ai dû plonger dans un trou noir pour accéder à la singularité,Si je vous confiais que c'est la souffrance qui m'a permis de comprendre ce qui me ... Read more

    €13.99

  • The Oxford Handbook of Screen Comedy

    Edited by Peter C. Kunze, William V. Costanzo ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Screen Comedy offers a rich sampling of the most current research and evolving trends in a vast and growing field-the study of humor and comedy in movies, television, streaming content, social media, and other forms of mediated comedy. The thirty new essays in this volume, written by leading scholars and emerging researchers, are guideposts to where the field is now and ... Read more

    €148.12

  • Drag in the Global Digital Public Sphere

    Queer Visibility, Online Discourse and Political Change

    Edited by Niall Brennan, David Gudelunas ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
    This volume explores drag in global online spaces as a distinct departure from the established success, and limitations, of RuPaul’s Drag Race. Centred around discourses of LGBTQ+ visibility and political mobilization, the volume addresses how these discourses have moved beyond the increasingly limited qualities of the television series to reconfigure the parameters of drag in emerging communities ... Read more

    €48.24

  • The Films of John Carpenter

    by John Kenneth Muir ...
    The films of John Carpenter cover a tremendous range and yet all bear his clear personal stamp. From the horrifying (Halloween) to the touching (Starman) to the controversial (The Thing) to the comic (Big Trouble in Little China), his films reflect a unique approach to filmmaking and singular views of humanity and American culture. This analysis of Carpenter's films includes a historical overview ... Read more

    €13.49

  • Reel Winners

    Movie Award Trivia

    by Richard Crouse ...
    Do you know which televised awards show gives a prize for "Favourite Smile"?Or which Oscar host announced that he was going to raffle off a car during the ceremony?Do you know who won the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress of the 20th Century?In Reel Winners, Richard Crouse, Reel to Real movie critic and CBC Radio’s "titan of trivia," gives you the lowdown on movie awards, from eight decades ... Read more

    €6.29 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • El Arte de la Privacidad

    Metáforas sobre la (no) conformidad con las reglas en la era de los datos

    by Luca Bolognini ...
    ¿Qué tienen que ver Tiziano y Leonardo da Vinci con la privacidad y la (no) conformidad con las reglas en la era de los datos-cosa y los algoritmos? ¿Y los paisajes de Canaletto y Guardi con una Due Diligence, o los interiores de Pietro Longhi con el smart working? ¿Qué relación puede existir entre un artista de corte del siglo XVI y un Delegado de Protección de Datos del siglo XXI? ¿Puede un ... Read more

    €9.99

  • The Complete Book of 1910s Broadway Musicals

    by Dan Dietz ...
    The 1910s shaped the future of the American musical. While many shows of the decade were imports of European operettas, and even original Broadway musicals were influenced by continental productions, the musicals of the 1910s found their own American voice.In The Complete Book of 1910s Broadway Musicals, Dan Dietz covers all 312 musicals that opened on Broadway during this decade. Among the shows ... Read more

    €149.60

  • Routledge Revivals: Radio Broadcasting from 1920 to 1990 (1991)

    An Annotated Bibliography

    by Diane Foxhill Carothers ...
    First published in 1991, this book presents a comprehensive annotated bibliography of radio broadcasting. Its eleven chapter-categories cover almost the entire range of radio broadcasting — with the exception of radio engineering due to its technical complexity although some of the historical volumes do encompass aspects, thus providing background material. Entries are primarily restricted to ... Read more

    €59.72

  • Teaching and Learning through Dramaturgy

    Education as an Artful Engagement

    Edited by Anna-Lena Østern ...
    Series series Learning Through Theatre
    The aim of this book is to contribute a dramaturgical perspective to education. The authors write from a dramaturgical perspective about the planning of teaching, leadership in the classroom, the teacher-body, the teacher’s oral skills and ethics, communication, and about the spaces in which teaching takes place. The book is written with the pre-understanding that the ways in which art creates ... Read more

    €44.79

  • Stanislavski: An Introduction

    by Jean Benedetti ...
    Series series Performance Books
    'A small jewel of a book, a knowleageable introduction to bothStanislavski's personal development and to the content and range of hiswritings' Theatre Journal'...shows the System to be a practical process - drama school students and actors will be grateful for it' Times Eductational Supplement'A carefully documented study of peak interest and value to every serious student of acting theory' ... Read more

    €19.74

  • The Professional Actor's Handbook

    From Casting Call to Curtain Call

    by Julio Agustin ...
    While there are many books that attempt to teach people how to act, there are few that show aspiring actors what it takes to succeed as a working professional.The Professional Actor’s Handbook: From Casting Call to Curtain Call provides struggling artists—stage and screen actors, dancers, singers—with strategies that will help them successfully negotiate every stage of their careers. This second ... Read more

    €26.09

  • The Second Doctor

    Chaos and Charm in the TARDIS (Patrick Troughton, 1966-1969)

    by Matthew Petchinsky ...
    The Second Doctor: Chaos and Charm in the TARDIS (Patrick Troughton, 1966-1969) is a masterful deep dive into the era that transformed Doctor Who forever. When Patrick Troughton stepped into the role, regeneration was an untested gamble-but his whimsical brilliance, razor-sharp mind, and mischievous unpredictability reshaped the very identity of the Doctor.This book explores how Troughton's ... Read more

    €5.99

  • Independent Pro Wrestling Guide

    How To Become an Independent Professional Wrestler

    by HowExpert, Matthew Soulia ...
    If you want to learn how to become an independent professional wrestler, then check out "Independent Pro Wrestling Guide."This guide is written by a former indie pro wrestler who will show you step by step to get started in the independent wrestling world.• Learn how to get your start in as a professional wrestler on the independent circuit.• Hear tales and get advice from someone who knows what ... Read more

    €9.99

  • Its All Your Fault

    How To Make It As A Hollywood Assistant

    by Bill Robinson, Ceridwen Morris ...
    An Essential Guide to Landing -- and Keeping -- Your first Hollywood JobA position as an assistant to a producer, agent, director, studio executive, or star can be the path to a fabulous career -- or a one-way ticket to hell. How can the aspiring Hollywood assistant quickly learn the inside track to success while avoiding the land mines? It's All Your Fault is the answer. Written by two former ... Read more

    €10.51

  • Shakespeare / Skin

    Contemporary Readings in Skin Studies and Theoretical Discourse

    by Lucy Munro, Professor Sonia Massai, Dr. Farah Karim Cooper, Professor Gordon McMullan ...
    Series series Arden Shakespeare Intersections
    This volume offers a comprehensive array of readings of 'skin' in Shakespeare's works, a term that embraces the human and animal, noun and verb.Shakespeare / Skin departs from previous studies as it deliberately and often explicitly engages with issues of social and racial justice. Each of the chapters interrogates and centres 'skin' in relation to areas of expertise that include performance ... Read more

    €147.56

  • American Film in the Digital Age

    by Robert C. Sickels ...
    Series series New Directions in Media
    This eclectic, yet comprehensive analytical overview of the cataclysmic changes in the American film industry since 1990 shows how they have collectively resulted in a new era—The Digital Age.The American film industry has entered a new era. American Film in the Digital Age traces the industrial changes since 1990 that have brought us to this point, namely: the rise of media conglomerates, the ... Read more

    €63.49

  • 100 Entertainers Who Changed America

    An Encyclopedia of Pop Culture Luminaries [2 volumes]

    Edited by Robert C. Sickels ...
    This fascinating and thought-provoking read challenges readers to consider entertainers and entertainment in new ways, and highlights figures from outside the worlds of film, television, and music as influential "pop stars."Comprising approximately 100 entries from more than 50 contributors from a variety of fields, this book covers a wide historical swath of entertainment figures chosen primarily ... Read more

    Was €169.50 Now €146.99

  • The Musician's Guide to Hand and Wrist Health: Natural Techniques for Injury Prevention and Sustained Performance

    by Lucie Anderson ...
    Are You a Musician Suffering From Hand Pain, Wrist Discomfort, or Fear of Career-Ending Injuries?Every time you practice, do your fingers feel stiff, your wrists ache, or your hands tire too quickly? Thousands of pianists, guitarists, violinists, and drummers struggle with repetitive strain injury, carpal tunnel symptoms, and tendonitis that threaten their passion for music.The Musician's Guide to ... Read more

    €5.49 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cartoon Voices of the Golden Age, Vol. 2

    by Keith Scott ...
    Cartoon voices of the golden age, 1930-70Volume Two of CARTOON VOICES is the massive reference companion to Volume One. This is the information for which animation enthusiasts have been waiting. Based on thirty two years of painstaking research in archives and libraries, this volume features an exhaustive listing of thousands of theatrical cartoons, containing never-before-published voice credits ... Read more

    €8.99 or Free with Kobo Plus