Rakuten Kobo

Shopping Cart

Item(s) unavailable for purchase

Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.

itemsitem

- Unlimited access to eBooks
  
  Unlimited access to audiobooks
  
  No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions
  
  Get 1 credit every month for the audiobook of your choice
  
  No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions
  
  Unlimited access to eBooks
  
  Unlimited access to audiobooks
  
  No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions
  Audiobook
  by ,
  
  Available:
  
  . No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions.
  
  Pre-order
  1 audiobook monthly
  
  + FREE 30-day trial
  
  Special Offer
  
  Get 1 credit every month to exchange for an audiobook of your choice
  
  *No commitment, cancel anytime
  
  FREE

itemsitem

Unlimited access to eBooks

Unlimited access to audiobooks

No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions

Get 1 credit every month for the audiobook of your choice

No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions

Unlimited access to eBooks

Unlimited access to audiobooks

No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions
Audiobook
by ,

Available:
. No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions.

Pre-order
1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Special Offer

Get 1 credit every month to exchange for an audiobook of your choice

*No commitment, cancel anytime

FREE

Recommended For You

Book on Acting

Improvisation Technique for the Professional Actor in Film, Theater, and Television

by Stephen Book ...

The ability to improvise a skilled performance while speaking scripted and memorized lines is of paramount importance to actors working in today’s film and television productions, which often allow very little if any rehearsal time. Through his innovative Improvisation Technique, Stephen Book shows the actor how to create a spontaneous performance by applying improvisation to traditional script ... Read more

₹2,836.14

The ability to improvise a skilled performance while speaking scripted and memorized lines is of paramount importance to actors working in today’s film and television productions, which often allow very little if any rehearsal time. Through his innovative Improvisation Technique, Stephen Book shows the actor how to create a spontaneous performance by applying improvisation to traditional script
... Read more
The Intent to Live

Achieving Your True Potential as an Actor

by Larry Moss ...

“I call this book The Intent to Live because great actors don’t seem to be acting, they seem to be actually living.”–Larry Moss, from the IntroductionWhen Oscar-winning actors Helen Hunt and Hilary Swank accepted their Academy Awards, each credited Larry Moss’s guidance as key to their career-making performances. There is a two-year waiting list for his advanced acting classes. But now everyone ... Read more

₹704.33

“I call this book The Intent to Live because great actors don’t seem to be acting, they seem to be actually living.”–Larry Moss, from the IntroductionWhen Oscar-winning actors Helen Hunt and Hilary Swank accepted their Academy Awards, each credited Larry Moss’s guidance as key to their career-making performances. There is a two-year waiting list for his advanced acting classes. But now everyone
... Read more
Freeing the Natural Voice

Imagery and Art in the Practice of Voice and Language (Revised & Expanded)

by Kristin Linklater ...

Knowing how to connect language with breath and voice is a golden key to hang on the chain of the actor's craft! Linklater’s groundbreaking original Freeing the Natural Voice sold more than 100,000 copies. Now, revised and greatly expanded this edition has been eagerly adopted by Linklater students, selling 30,000 copies to date. Emphasizing the use of imagery and imagination in developing the ... Read more

₹2,614.48

Knowing how to connect language with breath and voice is a golden key to hang on the chain of the actor's craft! Linklater’s groundbreaking original Freeing the Natural Voice sold more than 100,000 copies. Now, revised and greatly expanded this edition has been eagerly adopted by Linklater students, selling 30,000 copies to date. Emphasizing the use of imagery and imagination in developing the
... Read more
Glitter and Concrete

A Cultural History of Drag in New York City

by Elyssa Maxx Goodman ...

*NATIONAL BESTSELLER**A STONEWALL AWARD HONOR BOOK**The Millions Most Anticipated List of 2023**A Vogue Best LGBTQ+ Book of 2023*From journalist and drag historian Elyssa Maxx Goodman, an intimate, evocative history of drag in New York City exploring its dynamic role, from the Jazz Age to Drag Race, in queer liberation and urban lifeFrom the lush feather boas that adorned earl... ... Read more

₹983.05

*NATIONAL BESTSELLER**A STONEWALL AWARD HONOR BOOK**The Millions Most Anticipated List of 2023**A Vogue Best LGBTQ+ Book of 2023*From journalist and drag historian Elyssa Maxx Goodman, an intimate, evocative history of drag in New York City exploring its dynamic role, from the Jazz Age to Drag Race, in queer liberation and urban lifeFrom the lush feather boas that adorned earl...
... Read more
The Stanislavski System

The Professional Training of an Actor; Second Revised Edition

by Sonia Moore, John Gielgud ...

Practical tips, techniques, and exercises to help you become a better actorThis essential guide to the Stanislavski method has long been a favorite among acting students and teachers. This updated edition includes a revised section on the subtext of a role, along with detailed explanations of all the methods that actors in training have found indispensable for decades, including:• Emotional memory ... Read more

₹598.48

Practical tips, techniques, and exercises to help you become a better actorThis essential guide to the Stanislavski method has long been a favorite among acting students and teachers. This updated edition includes a revised section on the subtext of a role, along with detailed explanations of all the methods that actors in training have found indispensable for decades, including:• Emotional memory
... Read more
Your Storytelling Potential

The Underground Guide to Finally Writing a Great Screenplay or Novel

by Mitchell German, Russell Phillips ...

Writers seeking to create novels and screenplays with genuine layers and depth will find essential insight in Mitchell German's Your Storytelling Potential!After studying filmmaking and screenwriting at NYU—one of the premier film studies programs in the United States (if not the world)—Mitchell German graduated with a complete doctrine on storytelling theory in his arsenal; yet his screenplays ... Read more

₹213.33 or Free with Kobo Plus

Writers seeking to create novels and screenplays with genuine layers and depth will find essential insight in Mitchell German's Your Storytelling Potential!After studying filmmaking and screenwriting at NYU—one of the premier film studies programs in the United States (if not the world)—Mitchell German graduated with a complete doctrine on storytelling theory in his arsenal; yet his screenplays
... Read more
A Dictionary of Bharata Natya

by U. S. K.Rao ...

The dictionary is a response to a long-felt need of students, scholars and afficionados of the art for a comprehensive coverage of the terminology peculiar to Bharata Natya. ... Read more

₹339.88

The dictionary is a response to a long-felt need of students, scholars and afficionados of the art for a comprehensive coverage of the terminology peculiar to Bharata Natya.
... Read more
Our Films Their Films

by Satyajit Ray ...

This book brings together Satyajit Rays major writings and talks on film makers, and presents them in two sections. Our Films is devoted mainly to his own experiences and contains many interesting anecdotes, but also has observations to offer on trends in Indian films. Their Films deals with some films abroad that have become landmarks in the history of cinemafrom the silent era to the present day ... Read more

₹567.23

This book brings together Satyajit Rays major writings and talks on film makers, and presents them in two sections. Our Films is devoted mainly to his own experiences and contains many interesting anecdotes, but also has observations to offer on trends in Indian films. Their Films deals with some films abroad that have become landmarks in the history of cinemafrom the silent era to the present day
... Read more
To Act Is to Do

Six Classes for Teachers and Actors Based on the Uta Hagen Technique

by Richard Alan Nichols ...

To Act Is to Do by RICHARD ALAN NICHOLS, who studied as a scholarship student for five years with Uta Hagen at the HB Studio in New York, is the ultimate guide for both actors and teachers.In six informative and interactive class sessions, Nichols details twenty exercises designed to solve most acting problems that arise while working on plays. Also included are eighteen evaluations of work ... Read more

₹1,022.10 or Free with Kobo Plus

To Act Is to Do by RICHARD ALAN NICHOLS, who studied as a scholarship student for five years with Uta Hagen at the HB Studio in New York, is the ultimate guide for both actors and teachers.In six informative and interactive class sessions, Nichols details twenty exercises designed to solve most acting problems that arise while working on plays. Also included are eighteen evaluations of work
... Read more
Project Planning for the Stage

Tools and Techniques for Managing Extraordinary Performances

by Rich Dionne ...

Author Rich Dionne reframes theatre production as a project and provides essential tools for understanding and managing it efficiently, whether it be a stage play, an opera, a dance piece, or other performance that requires the collaboration of the artists and artisans creating the visual and aural landscape for it.Project Planning for the Stage is organized into four sections corresponding to the ... Read more

₹1,829.34

Author Rich Dionne reframes theatre production as a project and provides essential tools for understanding and managing it efficiently, whether it be a stage play, an opera, a dance piece, or other performance that requires the collaboration of the artists and artisans creating the visual and aural landscape for it.Project Planning for the Stage is organized into four sections corresponding to the
... Read more
Christians in the Movies

A Century of Saints and Sinners

by Peter E. Dans ...

Christians in the Movies traces the arc of the portrayal in film of Christians from 1905 to the present. For most of the first six decades, the portrayals were favorable and even reverential. By contrast, from 1970 on, Christians have often been treated with hostility and often outright ridicule. This book explores this shift through in-depth reviews and commentaries on 100 important films, as ... Read more

₹3,299.27

Christians in the Movies traces the arc of the portrayal in film of Christians from 1905 to the present. For most of the first six decades, the portrayals were favorable and even reverential. By contrast, from 1970 on, Christians have often been treated with hostility and often outright ridicule. This book explores this shift through in-depth reviews and commentaries on 100 important films, as
... Read more
Shakespeare / Text

Contemporary Readings in Textual Studies, Editing and Performance

by Professor Sonia Massai, Dr. Farah Karim Cooper, Professor Gordon McMullan, Lucy Munro ...

Series series Arden Shakespeare Intersections
Shakespeare / Text sets new agendas for the study and use of the Shakespearean text. Written by 20 leading experts on textual matters, each chapter challenges a single entrenched binary – such as book/theatre, source/adaptation, text/paratext, canon/apocrypha, sense/nonsense, extant/ephemeral, material/digital and original/copy – that has come to both define and limit the way we read, analyze, ... Read more

₹3,082.50

Shakespeare / Text sets new agendas for the study and use of the Shakespearean text. Written by 20 leading experts on textual matters, each chapter challenges a single entrenched binary – such as book/theatre, source/adaptation, text/paratext, canon/apocrypha, sense/nonsense, extant/ephemeral, material/digital and original/copy – that has come to both define and limit the way we read, analyze,
... Read more
Chevrons Locked: The Unofficial Unauthorized Oral History of Stargate SG-1

by Edward Gross ...

Our PR/Marketing Division work strategically to promote Nacelle’s content. We connect with fans daily on dozens of platforms, engaging with followers to have a direct connection with the fanbase.Combined mailing/social subscribers: 4 million+Coordinate promotional asset campaigns across all Nacelle social media channelsAuthor appearances/signings at multiple conventions across the country in ... Read more

₹1,351.91

Our PR/Marketing Division work strategically to promote Nacelle’s content. We connect with fans daily on dozens of platforms, engaging with followers to have a direct connection with the fanbase.Combined mailing/social subscribers: 4 million+Coordinate promotional asset campaigns across all Nacelle social media channelsAuthor appearances/signings at multiple conventions across the country in
... Read more
Historical Dictionary of Contemporary American Theater: 1930-2010

2 Volumes

by James Fisher ...

Series series Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts
From legends like Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, and Arthur Miller to successful present-day playwrights like Neil LaBute, Tony Kushner, and David Mamet, some of the most important names in the history of theater are from the past 80 years. Contemporary American theater has produced some of the most memorable, beloved, and important plays in history, including Death of a Salesman, A Streetcar ... Read more

₹11,072.87

From legends like Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, and Arthur Miller to successful present-day playwrights like Neil LaBute, Tony Kushner, and David Mamet, some of the most important names in the history of theater are from the past 80 years. Contemporary American theater has produced some of the most memorable, beloved, and important plays in history, including Death of a Salesman, A Streetcar
... Read more
Hand-Organs

by Edward Spencer ...

This article "Hand Organs," by Edward Spencer, from the October 1865 issue of The Knickerbocker magazine, discusses the state and quality of American music at the time. ... Read more

₹95.37 or Free with Kobo Plus

This article "Hand Organs," by Edward Spencer, from the October 1865 issue of The Knickerbocker magazine, discusses the state and quality of American music at the time.
... Read more
Subscribe Now!

Building Arts Audiences Through Dynamic Subscription Promotion

by Danny Newman ...

"Buy it, borrow it, steal it, but get your hands on it! If you follow Danny's advice on how to sell tickets, you won't have an unsold seat in the house all season long!"--Ralph Black, American Symphony League ... Read more

₹1,507.91

"Buy it, borrow it, steal it, but get your hands on it! If you follow Danny's advice on how to sell tickets, you won't have an unsold seat in the house all season long!"--Ralph Black, American Symphony League
... Read more
The London Stage 1910-1919

A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel

by J. P. Wearing ...

Series series The London Stage
Theatre in London has celebrated a rich and influential history, and in 1976 the first volume of J. P. Wearing’s reference series provided researchers with an indispensable resource of these productions. In the decades since the original calendars were produced, several research aids have become available, notably various reference works and the digitization of relevant newspapers and periodicals ... Read more

₹16,206.46

Theatre in London has celebrated a rich and influential history, and in 1976 the first volume of J. P. Wearing’s reference series provided researchers with an indispensable resource of these productions. In the decades since the original calendars were produced, several research aids have become available, notably various reference works and the digitization of relevant newspapers and periodicals
... Read more
Lillian Crombie’s Biography Book

The Untold truth behind the death of Lillian Crombie

by Bryce M. Luck ...

She came from the shadows of history, a blazing soul in a stolen age.More than an actor, Lillian Crombie was a prism, refracting the tales of her people with unrelenting brightness. On stage, she was a flurry of emotions, demanding attention with the calm dignity of an old river and the raw strength of a desert storm. Her life was a tapestry woven with strands of tenacity, resistance, and an ... Read more

₹680.90 or Free with Kobo Plus

She came from the shadows of history, a blazing soul in a stolen age.More than an actor, Lillian Crombie was a prism, refracting the tales of her people with unrelenting brightness. On stage, she was a flurry of emotions, demanding attention with the calm dignity of an old river and the raw strength of a desert storm. Her life was a tapestry woven with strands of tenacity, resistance, and an
... Read more
Origins of Chinese Opera

by Lim SK ...

Find out more fascinating details about Chinese opera:* Why is the clown mask so colourful?* Who is the “big painted face”?* What does it signify when an opera performer stands on the table?*** Co-published by Asiapac Books and The Chinese Opera Institute, with the support of the National Arts Council ... Read more

₹567.23

Find out more fascinating details about Chinese opera:* Why is the clown mask so colourful?* Who is the “big painted face”?* What does it signify when an opera performer stands on the table?*** Co-published by Asiapac Books and The Chinese Opera Institute, with the support of the National Arts Council
... Read more
LEXX Unauthorized, Series 2:

LEXX Unauthorized, the making of, #2

by D.G. Valdron ...

Series Book 2 - LEXX Unauthorized, the making of
LEXX Unauthorized, Series 2 - The continuing story of Kai, an undead assassin, Zev, a combination of love slave and cluster lizard, Stanley Tweedle, a hapless security guard and 790, a robot head, careening through space together in the LEXX, a stolen, planet destroying, biological warship shaped like a dragonfly. In the second series, the crew travel through space, searching for a new home, or at ... Read more

₹269.00

LEXX Unauthorized, Series 2 - The continuing story of Kai, an undead assassin, Zev, a combination of love slave and cluster lizard, Stanley Tweedle, a hapless security guard and 790, a robot head, careening through space together in the LEXX, a stolen, planet destroying, biological warship shaped like a dragonfly. In the second series, the crew travel through space, searching for a new home, or at
... Read more
British Film Noir Guide

by Michael F. Keaney ...

This work presents 369 British films produced between 1937 and 1964 that embody many of the same filmic qualities as those "black films" made in the United States during the classic film noir era. This reference work makes a case for the inclusion of the British films in the film noir canon, which is still considered by some to be an exclusively American inventory. In the book's main section, the ... Read more

₹1,636.18

This work presents 369 British films produced between 1937 and 1964 that embody many of the same filmic qualities as those "black films" made in the United States during the classic film noir era. This reference work makes a case for the inclusion of the British films in the film noir canon, which is still considered by some to be an exclusively American inventory. In the book's main section, the
... Read more
Kino und Erdkunde

by Hermann Hafker ...

Entdecken Sie die faszinierende Verbindung zwischen der Leinwand und der Welt, die sie abbildet!In "Kino und Erdkunde" von Hermann Hafker entfaltet sich eine spannende Reise durch die Landschaften des Films und die Geografie, die sie inspiriert. Dieses Buch bietet eine einzigartige Perspektive auf die Art und Weise, wie Filme unsere Wahrnehmung von Raum und Ort formen.Hafker beleuchtet die ... Read more

₹999.00

Entdecken Sie die faszinierende Verbindung zwischen der Leinwand und der Welt, die sie abbildet!In "Kino und Erdkunde" von Hermann Hafker entfaltet sich eine spannende Reise durch die Landschaften des Films und die Geografie, die sie inspiriert. Dieses Buch bietet eine einzigartige Perspektive auf die Art und Weise, wie Filme unsere Wahrnehmung von Raum und Ort formen.Hafker beleuchtet die
... Read more
Knocked Up

The Shooting Script

by Judd Apatow ...

Series Book 26 - Newmarket Shooting Script
₹1,226.13
Horror Films of the 1980s

by John Kenneth Muir ...

John Kenneth Muir is back! This time, the author of the acclaimed Horror Films of the 1970s turns his attention to 300 films from the 1980s. From horror franchises like Friday the 13th and Hellraiser to obscurities like The Children and The Boogens, Muir is our informative guide.Muir introduces the scope of the decade's horrors, and offers a history that draws parallels between current events and ... Read more

₹3,109.29

John Kenneth Muir is back! This time, the author of the acclaimed Horror Films of the 1970s turns his attention to 300 films from the 1980s. From horror franchises like Friday the 13th and Hellraiser to obscurities like The Children and The Boogens, Muir is our informative guide.Muir introduces the scope of the decade's horrors, and offers a history that draws parallels between current events and
... Read more

Rakuten Kobo

eReaders

Apps

Accessories

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Your Shopping Cart is empty

Available:

1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Available:

1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Recommended For You

Reference eBooks

Book on Acting

The Intent to Live

Freeing the Natural Voice

Glitter and Concrete

The Stanislavski System

Your Storytelling Potential

A Dictionary of Bharata Natya

Our Films Their Films

To Act Is to Do

Project Planning for the Stage

Christians in the Movies

Shakespeare / Text

Chevrons Locked: The Unofficial Unauthorized Oral History of Stargate SG-1

Historical Dictionary of Contemporary American Theater: 1930-2010

Hand-Organs

Subscribe Now!

The London Stage 1910-1919

Lillian Crombie’s Biography Book

Origins of Chinese Opera

LEXX Unauthorized, Series 2:

British Film Noir Guide

Kino und Erdkunde

Knocked Up

Horror Films of the 1980s