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From one of our most distinguished film scholars, comes a rich,
penetrating, amusing book about the golden age of movies and how
the studios worked to manufacture stars.
With revelatory insights and delightful asides, Jeanine Basinger
shows us how the studio "star machine" worked when it worked, how
it failed when it didn't, and how irrelevant it could sometimes be.
She gives us case studies focusing on big stars groomed into the
system: the "awesomely beautiful" (and disillusioned) Tyrone Power;
the seductive, disobedient Lana Turner; and a dazzling cast of
others. She anatomizes their careers, showing how their fame
happened, and what happened to them as a result. Deeply engrossing,
full of energy, wit, and wisdom, The Star Machine is destined to
become an classic of the film canon.
In this digital age, it is more exciting than ever to seek a career
in the entertainment industry-from stuntmen and musicians to
actresses, dancers, and even make-up artists. With the advent of
social media, YouTube, Facebook, and more, someone with talent in
any medium can (and needs to) create their own brand, steer their
career, and master the art of "virtually auditioning" at all times
with every post. This is a far cry from the "old days" of paper
headshot and cattle calls. Forbes Riley, an overnight success 20+
years in the making, shares her insights, obstacles, and successes
as she pursued her career as an actress, dancer, and TV host. For
her, meeting Will Quinones and hearing his dream of building his
audition platform, Virdition, to help struggling artists of all
levels was a dream come true. Virdition takes auditioning to a
whole new level and helps aspiring entertainers truly understand
the possibilities from contest shows like The Voice and American
Idol to feature film casting.
The Spark will help create a legacy dance students will never
forget! The Spark: The Legacy that Changed the Dance World is about
the journey of creative artists and dancers-turned-teachers who are
now struggling with the complexities of teaching. Choosing a ballet
program that juggles all styles, techniques, and methodologies and
that all levels of students will progressively love is a daunting
task. In this book, dance teachers will discover what the greatest
masters have always known: the true essence of dancing. Quite
simply, they will learn how to teach pure, fluid movement with an
age-appropriate curriculum proven for the past 60 years to
effectively transcend any limiting beliefs about the basis for all
dance. If you're looking for an empowered learning community with
the perfect balance of discipline, integrity, and a curriculum that
forms lifetime bonds with students, teachers, and parents, you've
come to the right place. Celebrate your "sparkdom"!
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Dangerous, outrageous, comic and committed, the extraordinary
performers collected here have altered the history of popular
entertainment in America and Europe. Some have rarely had their
story told, others are familiar figures. The essays explore what
made these performers extraordinary: how they were trained, how
they practised their art, how they were received, celebrated,
satirised and mythologised. From the explosive acting of Richard
Burbage to the dislocating quirkiness of Peter Lorre, from the
dangerous satire of commedia dell'arte troupes in Russia to the
bittersweet collaboration of Morecambe and Wise, this volume
explores what made these actors popular. Each contributor has taken
care to set the performer and their work in cultural context, so
that the collection as a whole charts the changing relationship
between acting and popular culture over the last four hundred
years. Part One examines seventeenth and eighteenth century
performers, as they built a sense of the excitement and possibility
of theatre with audiences in Britain and Europe. The idea of
acting, its art and popular practice was being formed during this
period. Part Two explores nineteenth-century popular performers who
became cultural icons and developed popular performance that
contributed to the regeneration of national identity. Part Three
looks at twentieth-century performers whose acting continued to
reach popular audiences in remarkable ways, across national
boundaries, as the acting industry underwent transformation in the
face of technological change This is a unique collection of essays
on performers such as Richard Burbage, Sarah Siddons, Peter Lorre,
George Formby, Laurel and Hardy, and Morecombe andWise. It provides
an outstanding selection of contributors: Richard Boon, Colin
Chambers, Chris Dymkowski, Ger Fitzgibbon, Viv Gardner, Baz
Kershaw, Alexander Leggatt, Chris McCullough, Jan McDonald, Joel
Schechter, Laurence Senelick, Martin White, and Don Wilmeth.
First full-scale thematic analysis of Pina Bausch's 'Tanztheater',
critically evaluating the impact of modernist theatre on her
choreographic methodThis book presents a new reading of Pina
Bausch's dance theatre, orienting it within an international legacy
of performance practice. The discussion considers not only the
influence of German and American modern dance on Bausch's work but,
crucially, interrogates parallels with modernist and postdramatic
theatre (including Antonin Artaud, Samuel Beckett, Jerzy Grotowski,
and Robert Wilson), the influence of which has been largely
neglected in existing studies of her oeuvre.'Pina Bausch's Dance
Theatre' provides a wide-ranging study of Bausch's aesthetic and
methods of practice, with case studies ranging from the beginning
of her career to her final choreographies.Key FeaturesThe first
full-scale study interrogating the relationship between Bausch's
'Tanztheater' and modernist theatre practice, structured around a
chronological framework of case study choreographiesA new
theorisation of the development of Bausch's oeuvre, locating her
approach in a broader context of intercultural artistic exchange in
the post-WWII periodDraws on literary and theatre theory to form an
interdisciplinary methodology for understanding and interrogating
Bausch's oeuvreBased on extensive archival research and a
specialised knowledge of the evolution of modern dance
This account of Thomas Sheridan's career as theater manager has
been based on biographies written by his contemporaries, on
18th-century newspapers and pamphlets, and on letters written to
and by Sheridan. The author also gives us much new information
about Sheridan's relations with David Garrick. In an appendix, the
author has included a Smock-Alley Calendar, giving a daily record
of performances and casts. Most of the material in the Calendar has
not been collected before and should be invaluable to theater
historians. Originally published in 1967. The Princeton Legacy
Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make
available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished
backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the
original texts of these important books while presenting them in
durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton
Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly
heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton
University Press since its founding in 1905.
Since the late 1990s, Rupert Goold has garnered a reputation as one
of the UK's most exciting and provocative theatre directors. His
exhilarating, risk-taking productions of both classic texts and new
plays have travelled from regional stages to the National Theatre,
the West End, Broadway and beyond. Through his artistic
directorship of Northampton's Royal & Derngate, the touring
theatre company Headlong and London's Almeida Theatre, he has
radically transformed, not only the companies themselves, but the
landscape of British theatre. This is the first book to survey and
analyse the full range of Goold's work to date and is a vital
resource for students, scholars and fans of his work. Based on
extensive interviews with Goold and some of the playwrights,
designers, actors and other creatives who have collaborated with
him, The Theatre of Rupert Goold provides an account of Goold's
work from the beginnings of his career to the present day, offering
a backstage view of the creative processes behind some of his most
successful productions including: Paradise Lost, Faustus (Royal
& Derngate); Macbeth (Chichester Festival Theatre); The
Tempest, Romeo and Juliet (RSC); Six Characters in Search of an
Author, ENRON (Headlong); Time and the Conways (National Theatre);
Charles III and Ink (Almeida). The Theatre of Rupert Goold is an
accessible and fascinating guide to Goold's approach to making
theatre, an approach that asks provocative questions of the modern
world in the most theatrical ways imaginable.
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