By Darden Asbury Pyron

Extra humans watched his nationally syndicated tv express among 1953 and 1955 than i like Lucy. Even a decade after his demise, the attendance files he set at Madison sq. backyard, the Hollywood Bowl, and Radio urban song corridor nonetheless stand. Arguably the preferred entertainer of the 20 th century, this very public determine still saved quite a lot of secrets and techniques. Darden Asbury Pyron, writer of the acclaimed and bestselling Southern Daughter: The lifetime of Margaret Mitchell, leads us throughout the lifetime of America's leading showman together with his clean, provocative, and definitive portrait of Liberace, an American boy.

Liberace's profession follows the trajectory of the vintage American dream. Born within the Midwest to Polish-Italian immigrant mom and dad, he was once a toddler prodigy who, via the age of twenty, had played with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. leaving behind the live performance level for the profitable and glittery international of nightclubs, celebrities, and tv, Liberace grew to become America's preferred entertainer. whereas wildly profitable and reliable natured outwardly, Liberace, Pyron unearths, was once a classy guy whose political, social, and non secular conservativism existed side-by-side with a life of secretive homosexuality. however, his swishy personality belied an internal lifetime of ferocious aggression and ambition. Pyron relates this inner most guy to his public personality and locations this amazing lifestyles within the swiftly altering cultural panorama of twentieth-century America.

Pyron provides Liberace's existence as a metaphor, for either solid and unwell, of yankee tradition, with its buying shops and insatiable starvation for star. during this interesting biography, Pyron complicates and celebrates our photograph of the guy for whom the streets have been paved with gold lamé.

By Scott Kirsner

A vital advisor for filmmakers, musicians, writers, artists, and different artistic varieties. "Fans, buddies & fans" explores the innovations for cultivating an internet fan base which could help your artistic occupation, allowing you to do the paintings you need to do and make a residing at it. in response to dozens of interviews with the artists pioneering new techniques to creation, advertising and marketing, merchandising, collaboration, and distribution, it provides thoughts that paintings - in an easy, jargon-free means. Featured artists contain YouTube famous person Michael Buckley; the animators at the back of JibJab, Homestar Runner, and crimson vs. Blue; video artist Ze Frank ("theshow"); comic Eugene Mirman; singer-songwriters Jill Sobule and Jonathan Coulton; okay pass frontman Damian Kulash; filmmakers M dot unusual ("We Are the Strange") and Curt Ellis ("King Corn"); writers Brunonia Barry ("The Lace Reader") and Lisa Genova ("Still Alice"); and artists Tracy White, Natasha Wescoat, and Dave Kellett.

By Julia Annas

Oxford reviews in old Philosophy is an annual ebook along with unique articles, that may be of considerable size, on a variety of subject matters in historic philosophy, and assessment articles of significant books.

By Scott Curtis

During this tremendously wide-ranging learn, Scott Curtis attracts our eye to the position of clinical, clinical, academic, and aesthetic statement in shaping smooth conceptions of spectatorship. concentrating on the nontheatrical use of movie expertise in Germany among the Eighteen Nineties and global struggle I, he follows experts throughout disciplines as they debated and appropriated movie for his or her personal ends, negotiating the interesting, every now and then fraught dating among know-how, self-discipline, and specialist imaginative and prescient. As researchers, academics, and intellectuals tailored movie and its know-how to their viewing practices, usually emphasizing the formal connection among fabric and self-discipline, they produced new rules of mass spectatorship that proceed to impact the way in which we make and adventure movie. via staging a collision among the relocating snapshot and clinical or scientific commentary, visible guideline, and aesthetic contemplation, Curtis showcases either the entire volume of early cinema's innovative impression on society and tradition and the demanding situations the recent medium put on methods of seeing and studying.

By Joe Randazzo

It takes guts to be a comic, and it takes smarts to make a dwelling off it. during this insider's consultant, former Onion Editor Joe Randazzo grants a humorous and insightful blueprint for these seeking to flip their humorousness right into a vocation. Explaining the way it works and the way to wreck in, Joe presents assistance and counsel, outlines profitable occupation paths, and solicits suggestion and tales from the likes of Judd Apatow, Jack Handey, Joan Rivers, Tim & Eric, and extra. From writing for television to doing standup or constructing a profitable YouTube channel, humorous on function supplies readers the information and notion to release a profession in comedy with self belief.

By Foster Hirsch

A revised and up-to-date version of the definitive examine of movie noir—the most unique style of yank cinema—with a brand new afterword by means of the author

Since The darkish facet of the display first seemed over 20 years in the past, it has served because the crucial tackle what has turn into one in every of today’s so much pervasive reveal affects and enduringly well known genres. overlaying over 100 striking movies and providing greater than 200 conscientiously selected stills, it really is by means of a ways the main thorough and pleasing learn to be had of noir topics, visible motifs, personality kinds, actors, and administrators. This landmark paintings covers noir in complete, from the enduring performances of Burt Lancaster, Joan Crawford, and Humphrey Bogart to the digicam angles, lighting fixtures results, and tale traces that represent the paintings of administrators Fritz Lang, Billy Wilder, and Orson Welles.

With a brand new afterword in regards to the lasting legacy of noir in addition to lately rediscovered movies deserving in their personal screenings along the classics, The darkish facet of the reveal reestablishes itself as either an unsurpassed source and a charming must-read for any fan of noir.

By Wallace Wang, Larry Garrison

Offers the professional recommendation you want to get your titanic break!

Jump-start your profession and land that paying part

From getting ready for auditions to discovering an agent, the appearing company is a tough and aggressive box. This quintessential advisor is what each aspiring actor must get a foot within the door. realize easy methods to industry your self, decide upon a dynamic head shot, create a stellar performing resume, subscribe to unions, and pay the accounts if you pursue your performing dreams.

The Dummies Way
* motives in undeniable English
* "Get in, get out" information
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* Tear-out cheat sheet
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* a touch of humor and enjoyable

By Peter Guralnick, Ernst Jorgensen

Author note: ahead by means of Peter Guralnick
Publish yr note: First released September 2d 2000
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For the 1st time, the full tale of Elvis Presley's recording profession is advised during this striking booklet. With particular entry to the RCA vaults, manufacturer Ernst Jorgensen brings to intimate existence each second that Elvis spent within the studio—from the spontaneous pleasure of his early classes to the intensely inventive sessions of his later occupation.

At as soon as the definitive recording consultation consultant and a compellingly readable narrative, this is often the last word significant other to the singer and his songs.

By Grigory Kogan, Svetlana Belsky

Ferruccio Busoni is most generally recognized this day because the composer of such works because the moment Violin Sonata, the incidental song for Gozzi's Turandot, and the main enormous piano concerto within the repertory (some 80 mins lengthy, with male refrain within the finale). yet Busoni used to be additionally well known in his day as an writer and pedagogue and, so much specially, as a pianist. Busoni's recordings of items by way of Chopin and Liszt -- and of his personal preparations of keyboard works by means of Bach and Beethoven -- are a lot prized and studied at the present time through connoisseurs of piano taking part in. but even his most vital biographers have solid just a cursory look on the pianistic element of Busoni's interesting profession. Grigory Kogan's booklet Busoni as Pianist (published in Russian in 1964, and the following translated for the 1st time) used to be and continues to be the 1st and merely learn to pay attention solely on Busoni's contributions to the area of the piano. Busoni as Pianist summarizes reports of Busoni's taking part in and his personal writings at the topic. It additionally heavily analyzes the surviving piano roles and recordings, and examines Busoni's variants, preparations, and pedagogical output. As such, will probably be of curiosity to pianists, lecturers and scholars of the piano, historians, and all who love piano tune and the artwork of piano taking part in. Grigory Kogan (1901-1979) was once a number one Soviet pianist and song critic. A conservatory professor on the age of twenty-one, Kogan created the first-ever path in Russia facing the heritage and idea of pianism. via his awesome lectures, his live performance performances, and his many books, articles, and stories, Kogan encouraged a whole iteration of Soviet pianists. Svetlana Belsky is a instructor and performer, and is coordinator of Piano reports on the college of Chicago.

By Ed Hooks

All actors and appearing lecturers want the last word Scene and Monologue Sourcebook, the valuable advisor to discovering simply definitely the right piece for each audition. the original layout of the ebook is perfect for performing academics who wish their scholars to appreciate each one monologue in context. This impressive booklet describes the characters, motion, and temper for greater than 1,000 scenes in over three hundred performs. utilizing those guidance, the actor can speedy pinpoint the correct monologue, then locate the textual content within the Samuel French or Dramatist Play provider variation of the play. Newly revised and increased, the booklet contains the author's personal review of every monologue.