(Guitar Recorded Versions). This 2002 follow-up to Coldplay's widely adored debut Parachutes finds Chris Martin and crew in fine form. Our songbook features note-for-note transcriptions with tab for all 11 tracks: Amsterdam * Clocks * Daylight * God Put a Smile upon Your Face * Green Eyes * In My Place * Politik * A Rush of Blood to the Head * The Scientist * Warning Sign * A Whisper. Grammy winner for Best Alternative Music Album View More...
Grace Russo Bullaro's timely and vibrant edition of essays about Roberto Benigni covers the bases of Benigni's foundations as a comedian, from his directing debut "You Upset Me", his brilliant comedy "Johnny Stecchino", the apex of his work as a comic actor in "The Monster", even musings about the ethnocentricity of the reception of "Pinocchio". Russo Bullaro's collection wisely focuses on Benigni's Oscar winning "La vita bella" (Life is Beautiful), a film which has set off continuous and often bitter debate about Holocaust representation and historical consciousness. The topics covered in R... View More...
Hirohito and his Mickey Mouse watch, Goofy and Donald as our "Goodwill Ambassadors: " Disney Discourse is an interdisciplinary examination of the founder and his empire. These essays use an interdisciplinary approach to read through Disney's domestic cultural production "innocent" national icons, as well as theme parks, cartoons and television to analyze the global impact of American popular culture, the politics of Disney, and the complex reception Disney productions have received around the world. The Disney corporation's ever-increasing visibility the opening of Euro Disney and new stores i... View More...
Known as one of the great producers and promoters of the film industry, Eric Pommer had a life-long commitment to German film - despite his emigration in 1933 - and worked in France and Britian, as well as the United States. As German producer, studio executive, and film politician in the pre-Hitler era Erich (later Eric) Pommer (1889-1966), a native of Germany, was an innovator and pioneer, a vital force in leading German cinema to international acclaim with successes such as The Cabinet of Dr Caligari, The Nibelungen and The Blue Angel. As Motion Picture Control Officer of the US Military ... View More...
Features top flight actors from Britain and the United States - including Willem Dafoe, Eve Ensler, Miriam Margolyes, Hugh Quarshie, Anthony Sher and Elaine Stritch who discuss their craft focusing on the how, why and wherefore of acting in present times. View More...
Mark Morris, written with the choreographer's full cooperation, is part biography, part critical study. It describes how he has lived and how he turns his life - and music, narrative, and tradition - into dance, and it discusses how to look at his dances.
In answer to countless requests from I Love Lucy fans around the world, Bart Andrews has revised, updated, and expanded his classic book on TV's most beloved series. B & W photographs throughout. View More...
From the Algonquin Round Table to the Gershwins and the Hollywood moguls, Moss Hart knew and delighted everybody. Vanity Fair has called him one of American theater's greatest geniuses, the man responsible for such indelible successes as A Star Is Born, Camelot, and My Fair Lady. His rags-to-riches autobiography, Act One, became one of the most successful and beloved books ever published about the lure of the theater. But it ended at the beginning--when Hart was only twenty-five. Now, at last, we have the whole and far richer story in this first full-scale biography of the Prince of Broadway. ... View More...
