After the Final Curtain: The Fall of the American Movie Theater (Lambros Matt)(Pevná vazba)

After the Final Curtain: The Fall of the American Movie Theater (Lambros Matt)(Pevná vazba)

Historical Dictionary of American Theater: Modernism, Second Edition (Fisher James)(Pevná vazba)

This second edition of Historical Dictionary of American Theater: Modernism covers the history of modernist American Theatre through a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 2,000 cross-referenced entries on actors and actresses, directors,

A Raisin in the Sun (Hansberry Lorraine)(Pevná vazba)

'Never before, the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of black people's lives been seen on the stage,' observed James Baldwin shortly before A Raisin in the Sun opened on Broadway in 1959. Indeed Lorraine Hansberry's award-winning drama about the hopes and aspirations

Art and China After 1989: Theater of the World (Munroe Alexandra)(Pevná vazba)

Twenty years of experimental art from a globalized ChinaPublished on the occasion of the largest exhibition of contemporary art from China ever mounted in North America, organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World explores recent experimental art

Ice Coven (Seeck Max)(Pevná vazba)

Picking up six months after the brutal final scenes of the first book, The Ice Coven follows Detective Jessica Niemi and her colleagues as they trace the disappearance of two popular social media

Survivors: The Gathering Darkness: The Final Battle (Hunter Erin)(Pevná vazba)

The time has come for a traitor to fall. Don't miss the action-packed final adventure in the Survivors: The Gathering Darkness series From Erin Hunter, #1 nationally bestselling author of Warriors, Survivors is full of 'wild and wonderful adventure' (Kirkus; starred review) that will thrill fans of

Theatre Cat (Streatfeild Noel)(Pevná vazba)

A picture book by the author of BALLET SHOES, available again after almost 70 years! Pinkie the cat works at the ballet theatre as a mouser. He loves watching the dancers, but he's scared of the mice he's meant to catch! What's a ballet-loving cat to

The Polish Theatre of the Holocaust (Niziolek Grzegorz)(Pevná vazba)

Grzegorz Niziolek's The Polish Theatre of the Holocaust is a pioneering analysis of the impact and legacy of the Holocaust on Polish theatre and society from 1945 to the present. It reveals the role of theatre as a crucial medium of collective memory - and collective forgetting - of the trauma of

The Theatre of Apparitions (Ballen Roger)(Pevná vazba)

The Theatre of Apparitions is an immersive and groundbreaking new monograph by the critically acclaimed art photographer Roger Ballen.The author of numerous publications, including Asylum of the Birds and Outland, Ballen is best known for his psychologically powerful and masterfully composed

Classic American Crime Fiction of the 1920s (Klinger Leslie S.)(Pevná vazba)

American crime writing was reborn in the 1920s. After years of dominance by British authors, new American writers--with fresh ideas about the detective and the mystery--appeared on the scene and rose to heights of popularity not witnessed since the success of the Sherlock Holmes tales in America

Worldmaking After Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination (Getachew Adom)(Pevná vazba)

Decolonization revolutionized the international order during the twentieth century. Yet standard histories that present the end of colonialism as an inevitable transition from a world of empires to one of nations--a world in which self-determination was synonymous with nation-building--obscure just

Harryhausen - The Movie Posters (Holliss Richard)(Pevná vazba)

Harryhausen - The Movie Posters showcases the posters from all of Ray's movies, from 1949's Mighty Joe Young, to Clash of the Titans in 1981. There has never been a book published devoted solely to the promotional art associated with the films themselves. Featuring posters from all over the world,

American Weathervanes: The Art of the Winds (Shaw Robert)(Pevná vazba)

Nickelodeon Paw Patrol: Movie Theater Storybook & Movie Projector, 1 (MacKenzie Buckley)(Pevná vazba)

Get ready to join these courageous canines on two exciting adventures With the PAW Patrol Movie Theater Storybook and Movie Projector, all the action and energy of the popular animated TV show is recreated right in your child's room First, the team solves a fishy mystery on Cap'n Turbot's boat in

The Cambridge Companion to American Theatre Since 1945 (Listengarten Julia)(Paperback)

The Cambridge Companion to American Theatre since 1945 provides an overview and analysis of developments in the organization and practices of American theatre. It examines key demographic and geographical shifts American theatre after 1945 experienced in spectatorship, and addresses the economic,

Nicholas and Alexandra: The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty (Massie Robert K.)(Pevná vazba)

The Making of Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey' (Bizony Piers)(Pevná vazba)

Get closer than ever to the movie that changed the movies. This behind-the-scenes spectacular of 2001: A Space Odyssey sheds light on the lead actors, senior production designers, special-effects experts and masterminds of Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke, who together revolutionized science

The Federal Theatre Project, 1935-1939: Engagement and Experimentation (Karoula Rania)(Pevná vazba)

Investigates the explosive phenomenon of the Federal Theatre Project (FTP) from a transatlantic perspective Offers the first comparative study of the history, performances and politics of the FTP in a book form Contributes significantly to the study of Hallie Flanagan as the bridge between the

Revolution 1989 - The Fall of the Soviet Empire (Sebestyen Victor)(Paperback / softback)

For more than 40 years after the Second World War the Iron Curtain divided Europe physically, with 300 km of walls and barbed wire fences; ideologically, between communism and capitalism; psychologically, between people imprisoned under totalitarian dictatorships and their neighbours enjoying

On the Shoulders of Giants (Eco Umberto)(Pevná vazba)

The final collection from the internationally acclaimed and bestselling author of The Name of the Rose and The Prague Cemetery, on the subjects of art and culture.In this collection of essays we find Umberto Eco’s perennial areas of interest explored in a lively and engaging style, accompanied by

The Final Curtain (Masters Priscilla)(Pevná vazba)

A former child soap star needs Detective Inspector Joanna Piercy's help - are her claims real-life drama or just an act? Just back from her honeymoon, the last thing Detective Inspector Joanna Piercy wants deal with on her return to work is nuisance calls from an old lady ringing the police

Profane Parables: Film and the American Dream (Rindge Matthew S.)(Pevná vazba)

The sacred ethos of the American Dream has become a central pillar of American civil religion. The belief that meaning is fashioned from some mixture of family, friends, a stable career, and financial security permeates American culture. Profane Parables examines three films that assault this

They Will Have to Die Now - Mosul and the Fall of the Caliphate (Verini James)(Pevná vazba)

When the Curtain Falls (Fletcher Carrie Hope)(Pevná vazba)

The Sunday Times Bestseller 'Enchanting, evocative and utterly magical, When The Curtain Falls is a theatrical delight... I LOVED this book!' Miranda Dickinson 'Carrie Hope Fletcher has carved out a lovely niche with her fantastical novels. But this new one - set in the West End showbiz world -