Skip to main content

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

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
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...

Reference eBooks

If you like Reference eBooks, then you'll love these top picks.
Showing 1 - 24 of 413 Results
Skip side bar filters
  • 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

    ₹2,670.95

  • 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

    ₹699.37

  • Glitter and Concrete

    A Cultural History of Drag in New York City

    *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

    ₹925.82

  • The Stanislavski System

    The Professional Training of an Actor; Second Revised Edition

    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

    ₹635.89

  • Freeing the Natural Voice

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

    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

    ₹2,462.20

  • 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

    ₹534.19

  • To Act Is to Do

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

    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

    ₹962.51 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    ₹320.09

  • 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

    ₹8,652.81

  • 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

    ₹875.26 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

    ₹1,540.83

  • 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

    ₹320.09 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The A to Z of Animation and Cartoons

    Series series The A to Z Guide Series
    Animation was once a relatively simple matter, using fairly primitive means to produce rather short films of subjects that were generally comedic and often quite childish. However, things have changed, and they continue changing at a maddening pace. One new technique after another has made it easier, faster, and above all cheaper to produce the material, which has taken on an increasing variety of ... Read more

    ₹3,568.90

  • 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

    ₹929.24

  • 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

    ₹7,800.02

  • ART BEYOND BOARDERS

    A Global Creative Dialogue

    Art Beyond Borders explores the unstoppable movement of creativity across continents, anchored in African expression and amplified by global exchange. Art speaks before words, travels before people, and connects humanity through emotion and shared experience. From Nigerian rhythms that shaped global Afrobeats to Nollywood stories that resonate worldwide, creativity moves freely, carrying identity, ... Read more

    ₹855.35 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bigger Than Blockbusters

    Movies That Defined America

    by James Roman ...
    Whether it's the hum drum existence of Marion Crane and her illicit love affair, the psychotic antics of Norman Bates, the sudden irrational migration of birds, a crop duster swooping down on Roger Thornhill in the middle of nowhere, or Vincent Vega and Mia Wallace's unforgettable dance at Jack Rabbit Slim's - they are all cinematic moments that forever changed the psyche and viewing experience of ... Read more

    ₹4,986.43

  • Theater - Zettel - Sammlungen

    Erschließung, Digitalisierung, Forschung

    Series Book 1 - Bibliographica
    Theaterzettel sind, sofern es sich um Ankündigungen berühmter Opern- und Theateraufführungen handelt, beliebte Ausstellungsstücke, und für die Spielplanforschung seit jeher eine bedeutende Quelle. In den letzten Jahren hat das Interesse an Theaterzetteln in auffälliger Weise zugenommen: Die Theaterwissenschaft nimmt sich nun verstärkt dieses Mediums an, was eine deutliche Erweiterung des ... Read more

    ₹2,099.00 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Das ultimative James Bond Quizbuch

    6 Themengebiete, 60 Jahre James Bond, 600 Fragen

    Von "James Bond 007 jagt Dr. No" (1962) bis "Keine Zeit zu sterben" (2021): Wer hat das ultimative Agentenwissen?Was saugt James Bond in "Feuerball" aus dem Fuß des Bond-Girls? Warum musste der Beißer am Set von "Der Spion, der mich liebte" so oft würgen? Beim Dreh welchen Bond-Films wurde Daniel Craig ein Zahn ausgeschlagen? Wie oft hat 007 bisher geweint? Wird James Bond in "Keine Zeit zu ... Read more

    Was ₹1,099.00 Now ₹959.00 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    ₹10,632.85

  • 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

    ₹599.00

  • 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

    ₹2,003.27

  • 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

    ₹699.00 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • L'Homme difficile (Hugo von Hofmannsthal - mise en scène Jacques Lassalle - 1996)

    Les Fiches Spectacle d'Universalis

    Une fiche de référence sur L'Homme difficile de Hugo von Hofmannsthal, un spectacle mis en scène par Jacques Lassalle.De Hugo von Hofmannsthal, né et mort à Vienne (1874-1929), nous avons longtemps eu en France une vue brouillée par sa collaboration avec Richard Strauss, son compatriote, pour lequel il écrivit notamment les livrets d'Elektra et du Chevalier à la rose. Mais l'œuvre de Hofmannsth.. ... Read more

    ₹699.00 or Free with Kobo Plus