Títulos em Entretenimento e Artes Cênicas

The co-founder and longtime president of Pixar updates and expands his 2014 New York Times bestseller on creative leadership, reflecting on the management principles that built Pixar’s singularly successful culture, and on all he learned during the past nine years that allowed Pixar to retain...

Em maio de 2012 o autor best-seller Neil Gaiman subiu ao palco da University of the Arts na Filadélfia para fazer um discurso de formatura. Durante dezenove minutos ele dividiu com os formandos suas ideias sobre criatividade, bravura e força, encorajando os novos pintores, músicos, escritores e sonhadores a quebrar as regras, pensar de forma inovadora e, acima de tudo, a fazer boa arte.

Little gems exploring the human mind and its querkiness!

For years, Akira Kurosawa resisted writing about himself. The memoir he finally started serializing in 1978, Something like an Autobiography, ended with Rashomon, the film that launched him on the world's stage in 1950. Long Take, first published in Japan shortly after Kurosawa's death in 1998, at last tells the story of the rest of his life.

What happens when a generation raised on dial-up internet, Saturday morning cartoons, and “you can be anything” grows up—and realizes that being anything comes with bills, burnout, and a strange nostalgia for when life was simpler? Welcome to The Art of Growing: A Millennial Manifesto by Brooke Haven, a raw, funny, and refreshingly honest look at what it means to grow up in a world that never stops changing.

Before it became iconic, it was accidental. Before it was pop art, it was procedure. Before it was remembered, it was thinking. The Avengers was never just a spy show. It was a cultural experiment—one that smuggled philosophy, intelligence culture, fashion, and quiet rebellion into living rooms under the cover of wit and elegance.

Brought to you by Penguin. If there's one thing that Joanne McNally knows it's that we may have smart phones, Prozac and Prosecco, but we're still just animals trying to survive. And in Femme Feral, she explores the chaos and exhilaration that results from following our basic instincts. Blending...

From a wayward California girl growing up in the heart of the porn-born San Fernando Valley, Gina Gershon found herself on a journey that has been anything but traditional. Along the way, she had to learn how to spot the toxic types―in both her personal life and her career―and figure out how to dodge, outsmart, or hustle her way through. From the Valley to the slums of Beverly Hills to New York City, she was confronted with shady characters and sketchy situations, all the while fighting to protect her autonomy as a woman and as an actress with a decidedly unconventional path.

“You can’t make this stuff up. It’s a wonder anyone bothers writing fiction.” Join our narrator in encounters ranging from poignant to absurd, many laugh-out-loud funny, as he wrestles with self-identity on a journey towards acceptance and gratitude.

When Fast, Cheap & Under Control first hit shelves in 2006, it became the underground handbook for a generation of indie filmmakers. Now, two decades on, this 20th Anniversary Special Edition proves the lessons inside aren't just timeless—they're more essential than ever.

Written during the formative years of motion pictures, How to Write Photoplays (Third Edition) by Embrie Zuver is a practical, no-nonsense guide to storytelling in the silent-film era—when images carried meaning, structure was everything, and writers learned to think in reels rather than words.

The Creative Mastermind Mind is a strategic field guide for creators, storytellers, and entertainment professionals navigating the new content-driven world. Daniel Cubillo—veteran showrunner, global storyteller, and creative executive—distills over three decades of experience across fiction, non-scripted, news, live sports, documentaries, game shows, and reality competitions. In an era where anyone can publish, pitch, post, or produce in seconds, the world is drowning in content.

The Anatomy of Art reconnects you with the creative current already moving through you. A choose-your-own-adventure for performing artists, it offers 1000+ questions, frameworks, and field-tested scores that reveal options, deepen rigor, and help you trust yourself. Twelve elements—Time, Space, Relationship, Meaning, Environment, Process, Facts, Faith, Communication, Material, Context & Culture, and Priorities—create a working map for practice and performance.

This book tells the story of the Footlights, chronicling its evolution from its creation in the 1880s to the present. This book traces the journeys of its most distinguished alumni, including Germaine Greer, John Cleese, Douglas Adams, Peter Cook, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Miriam Margolyes, Emma Thompson, Richard Ayoade, David Mitchell and Sue Perkins, among many others.

Mais, loin d'être de simples contes de fée, ces dessins animés mythiques nous invitent à nous questionner sur notre rapport à la Nature, à l'animal et sur notre propre place sur Terre.

Fredric Jameson’s most wide-ranging work seeks to crystalize a definition of ”postmodernism”. Jameson’s inquiry looks at the postmodern across a wide landscape, from “high” art to “low” from market ideology to architecture, from painting to “punk” film, from video art to literature.

DO NOT take on a leadership role until you have listened to this! Buy this for your new boss and put it on their desk. An essential listen, self-help what not-to-do leadership book like no other. Following on from his publication of “Throwing Fruit at Drug Dealers”, Ian Dandleroar has matured from the inane and profane to practical advice for future leaders drawn from over 30 years of military and civilian flying.

The enormously puzzling TV series The Prisoner has developed a rapt cult following, and has often been described as "surreal" or "Kafkaesque." Alex Cox watched all the episodes of The Prisoner on their first broadcast, at the ripe old age of thirteen. In I Am (Not) a Number, Cox believes he provides the answers to all the questions which have engrossed and confounded viewers.

As Jan Brady, America’s most memorable middle child on the beloved TV sitcom, The Brady Bunch, Eve Plumb has been an enduring icon of American pop culture for over 60 years. Now in an engaging, intimate memoir, she shares the behind-the-scenes story of her colorful and impressively versatile Hollywood career and revelatory recollections of her off-camera life along the way—complete with many photos from her private archives.

"Meisner Activities Volume 5: Drama Theater Stagecraft Doings" by Simon Blake is an essential addition to the acclaimed series that continues to deepen the exploration of authentic acting through the lens of stagecraft, performance, and emotional truth. In this fifth volume, Simon Blake offers artists, actors, directors, and students a comprehensive handbook that bridges the artistry of emotional honesty with the practical skills needed to embody characters convincingly on stage.