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Practical Dreamers

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Practical Dreamers

'The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers.'  Man Ray What if there were movies made the same way as suits, custom fitted, each one tailored for one person? Not broadcast, but narrowcast? Not theatres around the world showing the same globalized pictures, but instead a local circumstance, a movie so particular, so peculiar, it could cure night blindness or vertigo? Welcome to the world of fringe movies, where artists have been busy putting...

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Discovering the Clown, or The Funny...

Christopher Bayes

Discovering the Clown, or The Funny Book of Good Acting

• A one-of-a-kind guide to the acting craft of clowning• A guide composed from the teachings of Christopher Bayes from the clown school he founded: The Funny School of Good Acting • Bayes has received numerous awards and grants including a Jerome Foundation Travel/Study Grant, a General Mills Foundation Artist Assistance Grant, and both a Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship Grant and a Career Opportunity Grant. He is a 1999/2000 Fox Fellow.• He has taught classes and workshops nationally and...

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Christopher Bayes

Girl from the North Country

Conor McPherson

Girl from the North Country

• World premiere in the spring of 2017 at The Old Vic theatre in London• Includes 16 Dylan songs, including classics like: «Just Like A Woman, Like a Rolling Stone, I Want You, Ballad of a Thin Man, Slow Train Coming, Love Sick, and Forever Young»• He has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Minnesota Music Hall of Fame, Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, and Songwriters Hall of Fame.• The Pulitzer Prize jury in 2008 awarded him a special citation for «his profound impact on...

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Conor McPherson

Radical Mainstream

Colin Perry

Radical Mainstream

Radical Mainstream examines independent film and video cultures in Britain from the mid-1970s to the late 1980s in the context of struggles against capitalism, patriarchy, racism, colonialism and homophobia, examining relations between counterpublics and social change. The book considers this period in order to examine the capacity for radical discourse to affect dominant cultural media forms, arguing that independent film- and video-makers helped transform television into a vital site of...

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Colin Perry

Big Book of Magic Tricks

Karl Fulves

Big Book of Magic Tricks

"The best book yet on easy-to-do magic." — Martin GardnerAmaze friends, astonish your family, and fascinate any audience by infallibly dealing a royal flush, correctly predicting the outcome of the World Series, unmasking a psychic fraud, and performing a host of other dazzling deceptions. You can do it with the help of this book, one of the best guides to magic tricks that don't require long hours of practice or elaborate preparation.You'll find invaluable techniques...

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Karl Fulves

Nordic Exposures

Arne Lunde

Nordic Exposures

Nordic Exposures explores how Scandinavian whiteness and ethnicity functioned in classical Hollywood cinema between and during the two world wars. Scandinavian identities could seem mutable and constructed at moments, while at other times they were deployed as representatives of an essential, biological, and natural category. As Northern European Protestants, Scandinavian immigrants and emigres assimilated into the mainstream rights and benefits of white American identity with comparatively few...

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Arne Lunde

Magic Tricks and Card Tricks

Wilfrid Jonson

Magic Tricks and Card Tricks

Here are two excellent books for the beginner interested in learning to perform magic and card tricks. Bound together in one convenient volume, both approach the art of conjuring in a business-like manner, grounding the novice in fundamentals and leading him gradually to a surprising mastery of some 80 different tricks involving cards, coins, matches, tumblers, handkerchiefs, rings, and various other articles associated with legerdemain. The art of presenting magic for the spectator’s...

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Wilfrid Jonson

Lone Scherfig's Italian for Beginne...

Mette Hjort

Lone Scherfig's Italian for Beginners

Lone Scherfig was the first of a number of women directors to take up the challenge of Dogme, the back-to-basics, manifesto-based, rule-governed, and now globalized film initiative introduced by Danish filmmakers Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg in 1995. Entitled Italiensk for begyndere (Italian for Beginners), Scherfig's Dogme film transformed this already accomplished filmmaker into one of Europe's most noteworthy women directors. Danish and international critics lavished praise...

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Mette Hjort

Thomas Vinterberg's Festen (The...

C. Claire Thomson

Thomas Vinterberg's Festen (The Celebration)

Danish filmmaker Thomas Vinterberg's searing film Festen (�The Celebration�) was the first film from the Dogme 95 stable. Adhering to Dogme's cinematic purity � no artificial lighting, no superficial action, no credit for the director, and only handheld cameras for equipment � Festen was a commercial and critical success, winning the Jury Prize at Cannes in 1998 and garnering worldwide attention.The film is set at the sixtieth birthday party...

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C. Claire Thomson

Costume Design in the Movies

Elizabeth Leese

Costume Design in the Movies

"An attractive and informed guide. It includes an extensively cross-referenced list of films on which leading couturiers worked, a superb collection of stills, and a brief history of costume on the screen." — George L. George, MillimeterThis handsome book, the first comprehensive reference work on costume design in films, is a remarkable tribute to the men and women who «dress» a film. Substantially revised and updated, it not only presents a splendid record of costume...

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Elizabeth Leese

Conversations with Anne

Anne Bogart

Conversations with Anne

From one remarkable mind to another, Conversations with Anne documents the series of intimate interviews that theater director Anne Bogart has conductedbefore live audienceswith major artists and cultural thinkers at her West Side studio over half a decade. In these extraordinary conversations, Bogart and her guests consider such free-ranging topics as the driving forces in their work, the paths their lives have taken, and their visions for the future of their field. Bogart...

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Anne Bogart

Conversations with Peter Brook: 197...

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Conversations with Peter Brook: 1970-2000

“A fascinating and provocatively stimulating distillation of three decades of intense conversations between one of the twentieth century’s few true theater innovators and America’s leading writer on the theatrical avant-garde. A splendid book.”—Clive Barnes “Peter Brook continues to astonish, not in an ordinary, fashionable way, but in an ancient, insistent way that always forces one inward. There is a true, honest, fearless voice in...

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Culture is the Body

Tadashi Suzuki

Culture is the Body

"Mr. Suzuki's art seeks to reach audiences not through the intellect but through the senses and instincts."— New York Times "In my opinion, a 'cultured' society is one where the perceptive and expressive abilities of the human body are used to the full; where they provide the basic means of communication."—Tadashi SuzukiRenowned for his actor training methods, Tadashi Suzuki provides a thorough and accessible formulation of his ideas and beliefs in...

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Tadashi Suzuki

Audience Revolution: Dispatches fro...

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Audience Revolution: Dispatches from the Field

• A collection of essays written by theatre practitioners and experts with track records of successful audience engagement• Discusses findings from TCG's ongoing assessments and research of the field, as well as findings from cross-disciplinary sources• Explores current audience engagement and community development models in the field• Dynamic essays that aim to connect with their theatre peers to share successful strategies• Every essay is selected from Svich’s work with the “TCG Circle,”...

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An Actor's Companion

Seth Barrish

An Actor's Companion

"I was totally unprepared for the transformation that Seth's technique created in me. . . . I realized that what I thought I knew about acting up to that point was largely misguided . . . but I now had a great, talented, dedicated teacher who generously wanted to share his tools with everyone. There is muscularity, not to mention wisdom and truth to Seth's techniques. He is a wonderful teacher, and I know that having him as my first guide is one of the luckiest things to have...

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Seth Barrish

The Viewpoints Book

Anne Bogart

The Viewpoints Book

The Viewpoints is a technique of improvisation that grew out of the postmodern dance world. It was first articulated by choreographer Mary Overlie, who broke down the two dominant issues performers deal with—space and time—into six categories. Since that time, directors Anne Bogart and Tina Landau have expanded her notions and adapted them for actors to function together spontaneously and intuitively and to generate bold, theatrical work.The Viewpoints are a set of names...

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Anne Bogart

Offstage Voices

Peg Guilfoyle

Offstage Voices

In 1969, the Village Voice described Minneapolis as "America's second theater city after New York." In the forty-plus years since, the theatrical offerings of Minneapolis and St. Paul have only grown—everything from world-renowned venues to independent stages and innovative festivals—and the Twin Cities hold a prominent place in the national theater scene today. In Offstage Voices, author Peg Guilfoyle provides an in-depth look at this vibrant world...

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Peg Guilfoyle

All the Lights On

Michelle Hensley

All the Lights On

Michelle Hensley, founder of Ten Thousand Things Theater in Minneapolis, shares more than twenty years of her company's nationally unique work bringing professional theater to those in prisons, homeless shelters, adult education centers, and rural areas, as well as the general public. More than a chronological history, All the Lights On is also about the radiant power of theater. In this articulate and compelling book, Hensley distills what nontraditional...

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Michelle Hensley

Marvelous Bodies

Vetri Nathan

Marvelous Bodies

Historically a source of emigrants to Northern Europe and the New World, Italy has rapidly become a preferred destination for immigrants from the global South. Life in the land of la dolce vita has not seemed so sweet recently, as Italy struggles with the cultural challenges caused by this surge in immigration. Marvelous Bodies by Vetri Nathan explores thirteen key full-length Italian films released between 1990 and 2010 that treat this remarkable moment of cultural role reversal through a...

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Vetri Nathan

MGM

Michael Troyan

MGM

M-G-M: Hollywood’s Greatest Backlot is the illustrated history of the soundstages and outdoor sets where Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer produced many of the world’s most famous films. During its Golden Age, the studio employed the likes of Garbo, Astaire, and Gable, and produced innumerable iconic pieces of cinema such as The Wizard of Oz, Singin’ in the Rain, and Ben-Hur.It is estimated that a fifth of all films made in the United States prior to the 1970s were shot at MGM...

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Michael Troyan

The Quotable Actor

Damon Dimarco

The Quotable Actor

Collecting advice, quotes, essays, and observations from hundreds of famous actors and highly regarded acting teachers, The Quotable Actor covers a wide range of topics on the art and history of acting.Entertaining, instructive, and informative, it is organized into specific, easy-to-search categories, such as «On Why We Act»; «On Auditioning»; «On Struggling and Building a Career»; and «On Gender Differences and Aging in the Biz.»From art and technique to business and lifestyle, entries include...

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Damon Dimarco

L.A. Noir

James Ursini

L.A. Noir

Los Angeles has always been as much a star in film noir as any actor, be it Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner or Jack Nicholson. In L.A. Noir: The City as Character renowned film historians Alain Silver and James Ursini explore the world of noir cinema in the context of Los Angeles. The book features dozens of noir and neo-noir landmark films from Double Indemnity, Criss Cross, Sunset Boulevard, Gun Crazy, The Big Heat, Kiss Me Deadly, and Touch of Evil in the...

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James Ursini

The Complete History of American Fi...

Jerry Roberts

The Complete History of American Film Criticism

The Complete History of American Film Criticism is a chronicle of the lives and work of the most influential film critics of the past 100 years. From the first movie review in the New York Times in 1896 through the Silent Era, the pre- and postwar years, the Film Generation of the 1960s, the Golden Age of the 1970s, and into the 21st century, critics have educated generations of discriminating moviegoers on the differences between good films and bad. They call attention to great directors,...

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Jerry Roberts

Quentin Tarantino and Philosophy

Richard Greene

Quentin Tarantino and Philosophy

The films of Quentin Tarantino are ripe for philosophical speculation, raising compelling questions about justice and ethics, violence and aggression, the nature of causality, and the flow of time. In this witty collection of articles, no subject is too taboo for the writers to tackle. From an aesthetic meditation on the use of spraying blood in Kill Bill to the conundrum of translation and reference in Vincent and Jules' discussion about French Big Macs in Pulp Fiction, Tarantino and...

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Richard Greene

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