Títulos em Entretenimento e Artes Cênicas

Derived from a popular series of lecture-recitals presented by Carol Montparker over the past several years, The Composer's Landscape features eight insightful essays on the piano repertoire. Each chapter focuses on a single composer: Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Chopin, and Mendelssohn. Montparker uses landscape as a metaphor for the score, whether it be a well-tended garden of Mozart or the thorny thickets on a Schumann page: the topographical peaks and valleys, the circuitous melodic lines, the thoroughfares where all the voices convene, and so on.

Award-winning British playwright, composer and screenwriter Leo Butler looks back over 25 of writing for the stage and his extensive experience teaching and mentoring emerging playwrights. With honesty and humour, Leo Butler shares his experiences from his working-class upbringing in Sheffield, including his disastrous state education, his years on the dole, to his breakthrough into the professional theatre industry.

Parigi, 1794. Il fervore rivoluzionario è sfociato nel Regime del Terrore. Paul Courtney si nasconde tra la folla mentre osserva i condannati a morte salire sulla ghigliottina. Tra loro c'è anche sua madre Constance. Mentre assiste alla sua brutale esecuzione, sa che deve evitare la stessa sorte e mantenere la promessa che le ha fatto: restare vivo, a qualunque costo. Così si unisce all'esercito di Napoleone e viene inviato in Egitto, ma con il mondo in guerra e traditori in ogni angolo, fino a che punto sarà disposto a spingersi per sopravvivere? Città del Capo, 1806.

Der größte Vorteil im Leben eines Standup-Comedians? Egal was dir passiert, jede Glückssträhne und jede Katastrophe – irgendwann wird eine fulminante Bühnennummer draus. Und so holt Markus Barth in seiner neuen Liveshow die Schaufel raus und gräbt nach den Nuggets. Der Meister des maximal-minimalistischen Stand-ups („Eine Bühne, ein Mikro – alles andere überlass' ich Helene Fischer") buddelt überall da, wo's funkelt – aber auch dort, wo's weh tut.

Want to learn the improv techniques that helped Mike Myers, Chris Farley, John Belushi, and many others along the road to TV and film stardom? Then let two esteemed founders of long-form improvisational theatre, Del Close and Charna Halpern, teach you the "Harold." This groundbreaking acting exercise emphasizes pattern recognition and subversion of the audience's expectations, which are important factors for making people laugh without ever telling a joke.

As much coverage as Jane Fonda has elicited through the years, the stories often skim past her prime filmmaking core. Fonda on Film spotlights the signature political films Fonda generated in the 1970s—Coming Home, The China Syndrome, 9 to 5, and more—that are still underappreciated even as Fonda endures as one of the world’s most admired and controversial performers. This is a movie book about a mega-celebrity, an origin story voyaging through Fonda’s learning years in the 1960s and the calculated payoff of the 1970s.

Jasper Carrott is rightly regarded as one of the UKs finest ever comedians. His long career is testimony to his clever, brilliant and funny storytelling. In this superb recording he dazzles with anecdotes and hilarious stories for over two hours. His topics include holidays, Royalty, strippers, teenagers and the world's hottest curry! It’s a comedy masterclass.

Габриэль Гарсиа Маркес — один из величайших писателей ХХ века, лауреат Нобелевской премии по литературе, автор романов «Сто лет одиночества», «Осень патриарха», «Любовь во время чумы» и многих других произведений. В 1986 году он основал Международную школу кино и телевидения на Кубе, а в следующем открыл особые курсы — сценарную мастерскую Габриэля Гарсиа Маркеса. Вместе с молодыми талантливыми сценаристами, операторами, актерами и режиссерами маэстро сочинял и разбирал разнообразные сюжеты, превращая их, словно по волшебству, в полноценные киносценарии.

Storytelling isn’t just a tool; it’s the bridge that transforms simple words into unforgettable experiences. This book guides you in harnessing the timeless power of storytelling—an age-old practice that has shaped human culture and communication. From ancient myths to modern anecdotes, stories have been at the core of how we share wisdom, convey emotions, and inspire action. Through compelling narratives, you’ll learn how to evoke emotion and connect with your audience on a deeper level.

Making people laugh injects yourself and others with a free shot of endorphins and dopamine (or so the science nerds tell us). In fact, being funny is almost heroic; you’re giving folks CPR for their soul. “You’re welcome, humanity.” In book 3 of the Funny Muscle series, veteran comic Mike Lukas (NBC, Comedy Central, CBS Radio, Second City) teaches you how (and when) to deliver laughs like a pro.

From Dustin McNeill, co-author of TAKING SHAPE and REIGN OF CHUCKY, comes HOUSE OF REJECTS, an exhaustive new exploration of Rob Zombie’s controversial horror franchise. Go behind the scenes of the Firefly trilogy like never before with new insights, details, and anecdotes from the creation of House of 1000 Corpses, The Devil’s Rejects, and 3 From Hell.

Part memoir, part manifesto, this is the story of a woman determined to go deep inside a business she was raised to hate, so she could save the world – and herself – through advertising. What could possibly go wrong? As a high-level advertising creative director for 14 years, Lu Chekowsky...

Este libro aborda con pasión y rigor el cine forense, entendiendo por tal el extraordinariamente numeroso conjunto de películas que tratan de casos, cuestiones y problemas jurídicos, con o sin juicio de por medio. Las películas son analizadas en un doble contexto histórico, el de la propia obra cinematográfica y el del caso que constituye su argumento.

Crazy Wrongs Sayings is combining "Things Not to Say to a Woman", Book One, and "Things Not to Say to a Woman", Book Two. This is for those of you who liked the first one so much that you want to learn more of what not to say! LOL

As one of the world's leading voice coaches, Patsy Rodenburg describes practical ways to approach language, using Shakespeare, Romantic poetry, modern prose and a range of other texts to help each of us discover our own unique need for words. Drawing on Rodenburg's time spent coaching in the worlds of business and politics, this edition reflects on how the way we use words has changed since the book was first published.

Practical, passionate and inspiring, this book teaches how to use the voice fully and expressively, without fear and in any situation. Patsy Rodenburg is one of the world's foremost voice and acting coaches, having trained thousands of actors, singers, lawyers, politicians, business people, teachers and students: her book distills that knowledge and experience so that everyone can enjoy the right to speak.

Written for the training and working actor, Rodenburg's book brings to life a wide range of exercises and methods to release the actor's voice, covering everything from posture, breath and the body, performing in specific spaces, previews and first performances, managing different length runs, using microphones and dealing with an ageing or sick voice. This book allows the reader to perform every night, reaching the pitch, passion and vocal intensity that the best roles require.

Il nostro corpo racconta molte cose se può manifestarsi con libertà. I pantaloni con cui Marlene Dietrich arrivò a Parigi nel 1930 fecero gridare allo scandalo perché non solo parlavano di una sessualità dominatrice, ma di una donna che attingeva agli stereotipi del potere maschile diventando una vampira di energie invece che una donatrice devota. Il seno turgido che sbocciava dall'abito di Marilyn Monroe mentre cantava al suo amante "Happy Birthday, Mr. President", alludeva a una seduzione di nuovo conio, ribelle alle convenzioni del matrimonio, della ragion di Stato e della donna per bene.

Internationally renowned, David Lynch was America's premier purveyor of the surreal, an artist whose work in cinema, television, and the internet exposed the world to his highly personalized view of society. This book examines his oeuvre, from the cult surrealism of his debut feature Eraserhead to his last feature Inland Empire, considering the themes, motifs, and stories behind his incredible feature films, shorts, and internet projects.

Behind every graceful pirouette is a ballet teacher silently questioning their life choices—and probably wishing for a timeout from reality. The Ballet Teacher’s NLP Survival Guide is your backstage pass to mastering the mental chaos lurking beneath the tulle and toe shoes. This isn’t your typical feel-good teaching manual. It’s packed with sharp, practical NLP techniques wrapped in ballet jargon and just enough dark humor to keep you sane while dealing with students who think “assemblé” is a fashion statement and not a step.