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Author: David Lavery & Rhonda V. Wilcox

For every television series, the original vision grows within a press of forces-both social and artistic expectations, conventions of the business, as well as conventions of the art. Bad television-predictable, commercia ...

Author: Peter Bloomfield, Mark Motl & Vilma Barr

This book explains in easy-to-comprehend language the basic concepts of applicable architectural and interior design elements as guidelines for space planning; building infrastructure; layout schemes for offices and tech ...

Author: Anna Beatrice Scott

Through a moving body/a mobilized body/a body of movements, A Fala que Faz seeks to understand the deployment of racial identity as politics cum aesthetics. In the groove and on many "ones," Black people in the city of S ...

Author: Cinzia Padovani

Cinzia Padovani takes an in-depth look at Italian public service broadcasting, covering its history, its role in Italian society, its relationship to the political party system, and its influence on cultural and linguist ...

Author: Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome & John McBrewster

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. A Favorita (English: The Favorite One) was a popular and award-winning telenovela, first ...

Author: Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome & John McBrewster

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. A Fazenda (English: The Farm) is the current Brazilian version of the The Farm reality t ...

Author: Chelsea Monroe-Cassel & Sariann Lehrer

You've seen the series now it's time to feast on dishes straight from Westeros and the Free Cities. A Feast of Ice and Fire will delight fans of the books and award-winning HBO series alike. Includes a Foreword by George ...

Author: Chelsea Monroe-Cassel & Sariann Lehrer

Ever wonder what it's like to attend a feast at Winterfell? Wish you could split a lemon cake with Sansa Stark, scarf down a pork pie with the Night's Watch, or indulge in honeyfingers with Daenerys Targaryen? George R. ...

Author: Caroline Bainbridge

Drawing on the work of philosopher Luce Irigaray, this groundbreaking study intervenes in the debate around women and film. Women's films can be seen as providing a new arena for the exploration of sexual difference and ...

Author: Paul Burns

On 27 August 1979, Paul Burns's life changed for ever. Travelling through Warren Point in Northern Ireland when the IRA detonated two massive bombs, he was involved in a devastating explosion - eighteen soldiers were kil ...

Author: Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome & John McBrewster

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. A Flame in the Wind (sometimes referred to as A Time for Us) is a soap opera that aired ...

Author: Georges Feydeau

Ten French farces as translated by Norman R. Shapiro, including the title play by Feydeau and: The Poor Beggar and the Fairy Godmother (Allais) * Boubouroche, or She Dupes to Conquer (Courteline) * It's All Relative (Lab ...

Author: Gerd Gemunden

With six Academy Awards, four entries on the American Film Institute's list of 100 greatest American movies, and more titles on the National Historic Register of classic films deemed worthy of preservation than any other ...

Author: Gerd Gemunden

With six Academy Awards, four entries on the American Film Institute's list of 100 greatest American movies, and more titles on the National Historic Register of classic films deemed worthy of preservation than any other ...

Author: Michael Kirby

Michael Kirby presents a penetrating look a theater theory and analysis. His approach is analytically comprehensive and flexible, and nonevaluative. Case studies demonstrate this unique approach and record performance ...

Author: Robert Vaughn

In his fifty-year career, Vaughn has made his mark in roles on stage, in film, and on television the world over.

"A Fortunate Life "reveals the details of his early years in Hollywood, when he found himself appeari ...

Author: Brian Johnston

When Brian Johnston was a schoolboy, his reports were full of phrases such as 'talks too much in school' and 'apt to be a buffoon.' Later millions of radio listeners would be delighted to discover that some things never ...

Author: Alexandra Juhasz & Jesse Lerner

This is the first sustained critique of the mockumentary. Fake documentaries mimic documentary genre expectations, unraveling the documentary's authority and dismantling understandings of identity, history, and nation. T ...

Author: Alexandra Juhasz & Jesse Lerner

This is the first sustained critique of the mockumentary. Fake documentaries mimic documentary genre expectations, unraveling the documentary's authority and dismantling understandings of identity, history, and nation. T ...

Author: Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome & John McBrewster

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Frederick Matthias Alexander (20 January 1869 - 10 October 1955) was an Australian actor who developed the educational process that is today called the Alexander Technique - a ...