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  • Sailor Moon Reflections

    The inside story of the original recordings of the English version of Sailor Moon

    The work of a voice artist isn't necessarily what it may seem to the viewer or listener. It is a craft that is learned through intense study and practice. The cast of Sailor Moon were paragons of this art form and reveal their techniques in accomplishing their roles in this book. This is the inside story of the English recording of Sailor Moon and will make the reader aware of the arduous work ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • ASMP Professional Business Practices in Photography

    At last! The eagerly anticipated revised edition of the photographer’s "business bible" is here, fully updated with the last word on key business practices, industry standards, and resources. Up-to-the-minute coverage now includes digital asset management; metadata standards; the role of Internet, FTP, and e-mail technologies; the impact of media consolidation on assignment and stock photography; ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Curtains?

    The Future of the Arts in America

    In this clear-minded but sobering book, Michael M. Kaiser assesses the current state of arts institutions—orchestras; opera, ballet, modern dance, and theater companies; and even museums. According to Kaiser, new developments in the twenty-first century, including the Internet explosion, the death of the recording industry, the near-death of subscriptions, economic instability, the focus on STEM ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Performing Arts Management

    A Handbook of Professional Practices

    Do you know what it takes to manage a performing arts organization today? In this comprehensive volume, more than 100 managers of top nonprofit and commercial venues share their winning strategies.* Financial management, building a funding base, labor relations, much more* Explores the realities of running a performing arts organization todayFrom theater to classical music, from opera to dance, ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Technical Theater for Nontechnical People

    Second Edition

    by Drew Campbell ...
    Completely updated to reflect state-of-the-art standards in today's fast-changing theater technology, Technical Theater for Nontechnical People helps actors, dancers, playwrights, and directors to understand every aspect of a traditional and digitally supported backstage environment-from scenery, lighting, and sound to props, costumes, and stage management. All sides of production are clearly ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Business of Broadway

    An Insider's Guide to Working, Producing, and Investing in the World's Greatest Theatre Community

    New York’s Broadway theatre scene has long been viewed as the top of the heap” in the world theatre community. Taking lessons from the very best, this innovative guide delves into the business side of the renowned industry to explain just how its system functions. For anyone interested in pursuing a career on Broadway, or who wants to grow a theatre in any other part of the world, The Business of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Big Picture

    The New Logic of Money and Power in Hollywood

    During the heyday of the studio system spanning the 1930s, ‘40s, and ‘50s, virtually all the American motion picture industry’s money, power, and prestige came from a single activity: selling tickets at the box office. Today, the movie business is just a small, highly visible outpost in a media universe controlled by six corporations–Sony, Time Warner, NBC Universal, Viacom, Disney, and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Music Never Stops

    What Putting on 10,000 Shows Has Taught Me About Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Magic

    by Peter Shapiro ...
    The engrossing, insightful, and personal musical odyssey of Peter Shapiro, perhaps the most notable independent concert promoter since Bill GrahamPeter Shapiro is the best known and most influential concert promoter of his generation. He owned the legendary Wetlands in Tribeca and has gone on to much bigger things, including Brooklyn Bowl (NYC, Las Vegas, Philadelphia, and Nashville), the Capitol ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Your Career in Animation (2nd Edition)

    How to Survive and Thrive

    by David B. Levy ...
    **A Newly Revised Edition of the Go-To Guide for Any Animation Artist!“Your Career in Animation is the most comprehensive and valuable book on animation careers that you’ll ever need.” —Bill Plympton, Animator / Producer**Whether you want to break into the animation industry or “toon up” to a better career, this comprehensive guide will show you how. A leading animation professional surveys the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Cycle

    A Practical Approach to Managing Arts Organizations

    In the third book of his popular trilogy on creating and sustaining arts organizations, Michael Kaiser reveals the hidden engine that powers consistent success. According to Kaiser, successful arts organizations pursue strong programmatic marketing campaigns that compel people to buy tickets, enroll in classes, and so on—in short, to participate in the organization’s programs. Additionally, they ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • BossWriter Magazine

    Introducing the founder: Montice L. Harmon

    Where theres hope, theres change lets make the world a better place. BossWriter Magazine starts with change and continues to enforce change within our communities and most importantly our world. Aiming in all directions, BossWriter Magazine supports the style of music, fashion and literature and supports those who have a word that needs to be heard. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Director Should've Shot You

    Memoirs of the Film Trade

    The #1 New York Times–bestselling prolific author recounts his storied career as one of the top novelizers of films and television in Hollywood.Author Alan Dean Foster is a Grand Master of Media Tie-In Fiction. He has written both original tie-ins and script novelizations since the 1970s, bringing his straightforwardness—a favorite to readers but a nuisance to directors—to his many projects. For ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Filmmaker's Guide to Production Design

    Learn to turn a simple screenplay into a visual masterpiece! Top production designers share their real-life experiences to explain the aesthetic, narrative, and technical aspects of the craft. Step by step, aspiring filmmakers will discover sound instruction on the tools of the trade, and established filmmakers will enjoy a new outlook on production design. They will learn, for example, the craft ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Lean Media

    How to focus creativity, streamline production, and create media that audiences love

    by Ian Lamont ...
    Most new media is destined to fail. Whether it’s a song, film, website, book, video game, advertisement, or other type of media production, it’s extremely difficult to create works that resonate with audiences.  Lean Media can give creators and media companies an edge. The framework has worked for some of the biggest media brands and most well-known artists, as well as smaller teams and media ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Technical Film and TV for Nontechnical People

    by Drew Campbell ...
    Technical Film and TV for Nontechnical People introduces film students, actors, producers and other nontechnical film people to the technical aspects that everyone working on a film set should know. Author Drew Campbell is a lighting and sound designer for Universal Studios who started out in theater and who was struck by the complex technical procedures and idiosyncratic expressions that he ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Playwriting with Purpose

    A Guide and Workbook for New Playwrights

    Playwriting with Purpose: A Guide and Workbook for New Playwrights provides a holistic approach to playwriting from an award-winning playwright and instructor.This book incorporates craft lessons by contemporary playwrights and provides concrete guidance for new and emerging playwrights. The author takes readers through the entire creative process, from creating characters and writing dialogue and ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Liberating Hollywood

    Women Directors and the Feminist Reform of 1970s American Cinema

    Winner of the 2018 Richard Wall Memorial Award from the Theater Library AssociationLiberating Hollywood examines the professional experiences and creative output of women filmmakers during a unique moment in history when the social justice movements that defined the 1960s and 1970s challenged the enduring culture of sexism and racism in the U.S. film industry. Throughout the 1970s feminist reform ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • The Thriving Artists

    A Guide to an Inspired Life, Empowered Career, and Entrepreneurial Finances

    What is it that distinguishes one artist from the next? Why do some seem to Thrive in every way possible while others perpetually live the life of a "starving artist"? The answer has less to do with what you are doing, and much more to do with WHO is doing it. Dressing up a pig to look like a person doesn't change the fact that it's still a pig. The same holds true between being a Thriving Artist ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What Just Happened?

    Bitter Hollywood Tales from the Front Line

    by Art Linson ...
    This film producer’s honest, hilarious behind-the-scenes memoir “details the planning, handholding and power games involved in making movies” (Publishers Weekly).Art Linson has had a hand in producing some of the most unforgettable films of the past half-century—Fast Times at Ridgemont High, The Untouchables, Fight Club—and has worked with some of America’s finest actors and directors. In what the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • To Sell or Not To Sell? An Introduction to Business Models (Innovation) for Arts and Cultural Organisations

    Artistic and cultural organisations – especially those working as non-profit organisations - are experiencing increasing pressure to become more business-minded and to achieve economic sustainability. While ‘business models’ and related terms, largely used in the corporate sector, are more and more used in the non-profit sector as well, many professionals from the artistic field believe that ... Read more

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  • They Told Me Not to Take that Job

    Tumult, Betrayal, Heroics, and the Transformation of Lincoln Center

    by Reynold Levy ...
    When Reynold Levy became the new president of Lincoln Center in 2002, New York Magazine described the situation he walked in to as "a community in deep distress, riven by conflict." Ideas for the redevelopment of Lincoln Center's artistic facilities and public spaces required spending more than 1.2 billion, but there was no clear pathway for how to raise that kind of unprecedented sum. The ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • There's Money Where Your Mouth Is

    A Complete Insider's Guide to Earning Income and Building a Career in Voice-Overs

    Voices are increasingly in demand for commercials, cartoon characters, announcements, and other spots. This outstanding handbook explains how to launch a career and ?nd work. Along with sample commercials and script copy, the author gives advice on vocal exercises, self-promotion, and business matters. Chapters include: getting started, voice-over aerobics, copy basics, melody and tempo, layering ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Animation: The Whole Story

    Professional animator Howard Beckerman has drawn them all: Popeye, Heckle & Jeckle, even Mickey Mouse. In Animation, he offers a road map to the complex art of making an animated feature. Vivid sketches, screen shots, and step-by-step illustrations show how to make a drawing come to life, create storyboards, use form and color, develop a soundtrack, edit, and more. This new edition is also ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Thriving Artist

    Saving and Investing for Performers, Artists, and the Stage & Film Industries

    The old cliché about the "starving" artist may have a basis in reality, but it isn’t set in stone! The Thriving Artist provides valuable advice for the performing artist, whether you’re an actor, dancer, lighting guru, costumer, or stagehand, on investing, saving, and building a diversified and stable financial portfolio. Written specifically for artists who have fluctuating, uncertain, and ... Read more

    $42.99 USD