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Cartoon Animation: Cartoons Ink / Pencil by Preston J. Blair - In a book to be treasured by cartoonists and animation and film buffs alike, a master of the craft demonstrates the fundamentals of drawing for the screen, offering tips on two- and four-legged figure construction, body and facial movements, and realistic dialogue, and illustrating concepts such as speed, impact, weight, and recoil. Color photos and line drawings |
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Going Back Home: An Artist Returns to the South by Toyomi Igus, ISBN 0892391375 - More than half a century after her family moved North to find a better life, African American artist Michele Wood returned to the South to see and feel the land where her ancestors lived. In her first book for children, Going Back Home, Wood presents her paintings inspired by this personal journey. Michele Wood collaborated with author Toyomi Igus to interpret her visual images and family stories. Igus' moving text draws on African American history to reveal the experiences of Wood's turn-of-the-century sharecropping family. Through her complex and richly-patterned art, Michele Wood places herself back in history -- in the time of her ancestors -- imagining their struggles to overcome hardship through family love and strong community. Going Back Home marks Michele Wood's memorable return to her home and heritage |
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The long hard road out of hell
by Marilyn Manson, Neil Strauss - Hard rock's favorite whipping boy's tell-all autobiography is a surprisingly candid and well-written confessional of Marilyn Manson's deprived youth, his depraved teenage years, and how, much like Alice Cooper a generation before him, he turned a variety of childhood traumas to his advantage in constructing a rock & roll persona that audiences could either hate with abandon or adopt as one of their own. Backstage tour descriptions are all you'd expect, from sado-masochistic set-pieces with fans to copious drug use and voodoo dabblings, but there are also the more mundane rituals of battles with the record label to get band-approved songs on the album. Our hero gets himself into some pretty shady moral and ethical situations with fans and friends along the way, leading one to ruminate that while Alice Cooper was detached enough from his persona to spend his days off playing rounds of golf, Manson may have disturbingly swallowed his own nihilistic, against God, religion, and whatever-else-you've-got philosophy hook, line, and sinker. |
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Ava Gardner: "Love Is Nothing" by Lee Server - Even Ava Gardner (1922-90) herself could not deny that her beauty and sex appeal dwarfed all her other talents: "After my screen test, the director clapped his hands gleefully and yelled: 'She can't talk! She can't act! She's sensational!'" But the actress who refused to mythologize herself ("Deep down, I'm pretty superficial") rarely denied her audience their obsession. Over the years, she lured Ernest Hemingway, Frank Sinatra, Howard Hughes, George C. Scott, Mickey Rooney, Artie Shaw, and others into her orbit. Lee Server's 600-page life of the Hollywood legend will raise eyebrows and electricity bills. |
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Art of Dramatic Writing: Its Basis in the Creative Interpretation of Human Motives by Lajos Egri - Amid the hundreds of "how-to" books that have appeared in recent years, there have been very few which attempted to analyze the mysteries of play-construction. This book does that - and its principles are so valid that they apply equally well to the short story, novel and screenplay. Lajos Egri examines a play from the inside out, starting with the heart of any drama: its characters. For it is people - their private natures and their inter-relationships - that move a story and give it life. All good dramatic writing depends upon an understanding of human motives. Why do people act as they do? What forces tranform a coward into a hero, a hero into a coward? What is it that Romeo does early in Shakespeare's play that makes his later suicide seem inevitable? Why must Nora leave her husband at the end of A Doll's House? These are a few of the fascinating problems which Egri analyzes.
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Dean and Me: A Love Story by Jerry Lewis, James Kaplan - Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis's run ended on July 25, 1956, exactly ten years after it began. During their decade-long partnership, they were the hottest act in television, nightclubs, and the movies. In fact, the Steubenville crooner and the madcap comic were the world's No. 1 box office earners during their last five years together. But offstage, things were not so happy. In this disarmingly candid memoir, Lewis abandons his bumptious persona to reflect seriously on his career and the historic partnership he helped destroy. |
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Standing Room Only: Strategies for Marketing the Performing Arts by Philip Kotler - A complete and up-to-date sourcebook of marketing strategies and techniques for music, dance, opera, and theater organizations, Standing Room Only is an indispensable tool for performing arts managers, marketers, board members, fund-raisers, educators, donors, corporate sponsors, and consultants. Written by one of the world's leading marketing authorities and a well-known educator and consultant to the arts management community, the book will significantly help performing arts organizations define their goals and improve their practices and impact - while ensuring that they remain true to their artistic and public missions. From cultivating an
organization wide marketing mind-set, doing market research, and understanding your target market to delivering an effective message, designing attractive offerings, managing volunteers, and sustaining viability through fund-raising, the book covers everything you need to know to put a strategic marketing program in place and run it for the future. |
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