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  • 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

    S$ 12.74 SGD

  • The Art of Frozen 2

    by Disney Book Group ...
    Through never-before-seen development art, character sketches, storyboards, and color scripts, The Art of Frozen 2 gives fans a front-row view of the vast creative effort behind the epic sequel to Frozen. Filled with gorgeous four-color images and fascinating facts and details from the production team, it's the ultimate insider's look. ... Read more

    S$ 18.30 SGD

  • The Magician's Card Trick Manual Expert

    Expert level - card tricks

    by Steve Bryers ...
    Series series The Magician's Card Trick Manuals
    Are you amazed by card disappearing acts, mind reading card tricks and other magic wonders you see with just a deck of playing cards? This is one of four books in a series that reveal card tricks according to experience, so you can learn easy amateur tricks through to advanced tricks.Always practice every day for at least an hour to master these tricks. If you are recording your act (even a cell ... Read more

    S$ 6.55 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Actor's Detective Guide to Writing Letters to Celebrities

    by Chris Lucas ...
    How would you like to get a personal letter or phone call from your favorite star? Or to have them send you an autographed item that can help you raise money for a charity? This book shows you exactly how to make those things happen!"The Actor's Detective Guide to Writing Letters to Celebrities," is part memoir, part "how to" guide. It tells the story of how a love for writing letters to famous ... Read more

    S$ 11.14 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Biography of Benjamin Zephaniah

    The Life of An Innovative Poet and Social Justice Advocate

    by Addycrown Press ...
    Are you interested in reading about the incredible journey of a youngster who, from the slums of Birmingham, rose to become a renowned poet and novelist? This comprehensive ‘Biography of Benjamin Zephaniah’ presents Benjamin’s writings, which rang with the rhythms of truth and change. This compelling book explores the early years of Benjamin, his scholastic aspirations, and how he rose to ... Read more

    S$ 5.56 SGD

  • DATELINE: WORLD—20 Dispatches from the Earth & One from Hell

    by Milton J. Nieuwsma ...
    “A favorite shelf in my bookcase leads with By-Line: Ernest Hemingway, a compendium of journalism the great novelist wrote to support himself as he worked on his fiction. Right next to it is Ernie’s War, dispatches by Ernie Pyle, the most famous of World War II correspondents. Milton Nieuwsma’s fine volume joins this shelf of honor.”—From the foreword by Tom Stites, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning ... Read more

    S$ 13.87 SGD

  • Alice Guy

    En el centro del vacío hay otra fiesta

    by Juan Laborda Barceló ...
    Este libro recupera la figura de Alice Guy, pionera del cine narrativo y una de las primeras personas en comprender el potencial artístico del nuevo medio. Juan Laborda Barceló reconstruye su trayectoria y reflexiona sobre el silencio histórico que relegó su legado, devolviéndole su lugar central en la historia del cine. ... Read more

    S$ 10.98 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Act ALIVE

    The Essential Guide to Igniting and Sustaining Your Working Actor Career

    by Andi Matheny ...
    Finally - a modern acting method that cuts to the chase of what actors really need to unleash their acting genius! The groundbreaking Act ALIVE approach, with exercises ranging from pragmatic to deeply personal, will give you the tools to quickly bring your skills to the next level, from audition to set. Actor and acting coach Andi Matheny, who has helped launch hundreds of actors on their journey ... Read more

    S$ 17.21 SGD

  • Secrets of Halloween You Didn't Know!

    by Ivy Nakpodia-Egbon ...
    The celebration of Halloween is spreading widely across the globe and there are many hidden facts and meanings to this popular mystical celebration. This book arms you with every piece of information you need to know about Halloween. You are about to have an encounter that brings liberty. Enjoy your ride! ... Read more

    S$ 9.73 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Goodbye

    Cartas para despedirse a tiempo

    by Emmanuel Restrepo, Alejandra Chamorro ...
    Un vistazo tras bambalinas de una de las obras de teatro independientes más exitosas.Ernesto, un hombre de treinta años marcado por una depresión persistente y varios intentos fallidos de suicidio, cree encontrar una salida en Goodbye, la primera clínica de suicidio asistido de la ciudad.Viviana, la secretaria, intenta desviarlo de ese camino. Con calidez y un humor punzante, lo acompaña en cada ... Read more

    S$ 13.98 SGD

  • 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

    S$ 4.17 SGD

  • 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

    S$ 214.50 SGD

  • Jugendfeuer

    Die frühen Jahre des Nick Cave

    by Mark Mordue ...
    Translated by Sabine Thiele ...
    Zwischen Cohen und Lolita: die frühen Jahre des Nick Cave Er ist der Grandseigneur der Alternative-Szene und genießt den Respekt, wie man ihn in der Musikwelt zuvor wohl allenfalls Leonard Cohen entgegenbrachte: Nick Cave begann seine Karriere Anfang der Achtzigerjahre als skandalumwitterter Junkie-Poet, der seine provozierenden Texte zu einem eklektischen Mix aus Blues, Punk und Avantgarde ... Read more

    S$ 14.98 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Recording Unhinged

    Creative and Unconventional Music Recording Techniques

    by Sylvia Massy ...
    Series series Music Pro Guides
    Recording Unhinged: Creative and Unconventional Music Recording Techniques dares you to “unlearn” safe record-making, to get out from behind the windshield, stick your head out the sunroof, and put the pedal to the metal! Sylvia Massy and her cohort of celebrity music industry producers, engineers, and recording stars discard fixed notions about how music should be recorded and explore techniques ... Read more

    S$ 38.14 SGD

  • The art of mentalism Secrets and techniques revealed

    by Jolinar de Médragan ...
    This book explores the art of mentalism, revealing fundamental and advanced techniques for influencing and captivating an audience. With a focus on intuition, human connection, and persuasion, it offers practical tools to enrich personal and professional interactions. Through case studies and exercises, readers learn how to apply these skills in their daily lives. Finally, it emphasizes the ... Read more

    S$ 4.05 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Encyclopedia of the Black Arts Movement

    Edited by Professor Verner D. Mitchell, Professor Cynthia Davis ...
    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

    S$ 158.80 SGD

  • 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

    S$ 29.75 SGD

  • The Complete Costume Dictionary

    by Elizabeth J. Lewandowski ...
    While there are costume and fashion dictionaries tied to specific countries or periods, none have been comprehensive. In The Complete Costume Dictionary, Elizabeth Lewandowski has collected from a variety of sources-including costume history texts, journal articles, historical publications, autobiographies, biographies, foreign language dictionaries, and contemporary publications-to create a ... Read more

    S$ 191.61 SGD

  • 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

    S$ 6.95 SGD

  • Le Cid

    by Pierre Corneille ...
    Le Cid est une tragédie écrite par Pierre Corneille en 1636. Il raconte l'histoire de Rodrigue, surnommé le Cid, qui tombe amoureux de Chimène, la fille du gouverneur de Castille, alors qu'il est promis à une autre femme. Quand son père est injustement accusé d'un crime et tué par le gouverneur, Rodrigue est contraint de prendre les armes contre lui. Il remporte une victoire éclatante, mais doit ... Read more

    S$ 8.56 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Margaret O'Brien

    A Career Chronicle and Biography

    by Allan R. Ellenberger ...
    Among Hollywood's child stars are some talented children, normal and pleasant who find fame in film. Margaret O'Brien is one; her career began in 1941. The fresh-faced moppet quickly became a sensation and won the 1944 Academy Award for Outstanding Child Actress. As Adele in Jane Eyre (1944) and Beth in Little Women (1949), Margaret endeared herself to millions. Despite the strain of growing up on ... Read more

    S$ 22.88 SGD

  • Frederick

    Roman

    by Perikles Monioudis ...
    Fred Astaire in allen FacettenEr übte versessen, tanzte mit unglaublicher Hingabe – und wurde der beste Stepptänzer aller Zeiten: Fred Astaire. Er verkörperte den Höhepunkt einer Kunst, die mit ihm auch wieder unterging. Er strebte nach Perfektion, Eleganz und Schönheit, und doch musste er sich sein ganzes Leben gegen einen geradezu teuflischen Begleiter wehren, der ihn überreden will aufzuhören. ... Read more

    S$ 15.98 SGD

  • Eaten Alive at a Chainsaw Massacre

    The Films of Tobe Hooper

    by John Kenneth Muir ...
    The sound of chainsaws revving on "haunted" Halloween trails has evoked untold screams since Tobe Hooper's 1974 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre hit the cinemas. Since that first take-no-prisoners horror movie, Hooper's reputation as a master of horror has been secured by his adaptations of Stephen King (Salem's Lot, 1978, and The Mangler, 1995), his blockbuster breakthrough Poltergeist (1982) and a ... Read more

    S$ 22.88 SGD

  • The Complete Idiot's Guide to Ventriloquism

    by Taylor Mason ...
    The art of "bellyspeaking" isn't for dummies.The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Ventriloquism teaches everyone to speak from their bellies, create and substitute sounds, use all the registers of their voice, and create diversions to attract the listener's ear - whether they invest in a fancy puppet or create their own figure out of a sweat sock.?Includes tips for making, manipulating, and talking with ... Read more

    S$ 26.80 SGD