Saturday, June 26, 2010

The Monkey Wrench Gang



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Edward Abbey called The Monkey Wrench Gang a "comic extravaganza," which it is, although one with a clear, serious message: to protect the American wilderness from the forces of commercial enterprise. The story centers on George Hayduke, an ex-Green Beret and Vietnam vet, who returns to the Southwestern desert after the war to find his beloved canyons and rivers threatened by industrial development. On a whitewater rafting trip down the Colorado River, Hayduke joins... More >>

The Monkey Wrench Gang

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

The 101 Habits Of Highly Successful Screenwriters: Insider's Secrets from Hollywood's Top Writers


  • ISBN13: 9781580625500
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As an aspiring screenwriter, you dream of one day seeing the fruits of your vision splashed across the big screen. Whether you believe great screenwriters are made or born, you'll be on the fast track to finding your Muse after tuning in to the secrets of fourteen of Tinseltown's top screenwriters, including Ron Bass (Rain Man), Eric Roth (Forrest Gump), Amy Holden Jones (Indecent Proposal), and Steven DeSouza (Die Hard). Author Karl Iglesias, Hollywood story anal... More >>

The 101 Habits Of Highly Successful Screenwriters: Insider's Secrets from Hollywood's Top Writers

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

The Importance of Being Earnest



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(Description From Wikipedia) The Importance of Being Earnest is a play by Oscar Wilde. It premiered on February 14, 1895 at the St. James's Theatre in London.

Set in England during the late Victorian era, the play's humour derives in part from characters maintaining fictitious identities to escape unwelcome social obligations. It is replete with witty dialogue and satirizes some of the foibles and hypocrisy of late Victorian society. It has proved Wilde's mos... More >>

The Importance of Being Earnest

Sunday, June 20, 2010

Understanding Movies



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  Updated in a new 12th edition , this book is organized around the elements of film and provides readers valuable insight into how movies communicate and convey meaning to their audiences.

This book engages readers in the fascinating language of film and helps further their appreciation and understanding of why and how movie watchers respond as they do to different films. From Slumdog Millionaire to Transformers. this book provides readers with a new way ... More >>

Understanding Movies

Thursday, June 17, 2010

The Laramie Project


  • ISBN13: 9780375727191
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On October 7, 1998, a young gay man was discovered bound to a fence in the hills outside Laramie, Wyoming, savagely beaten and left to die in an act of hate that shocked the nation. Matthew Shepard’s death became a national symbol of intolerance, but for the people of Laramie the event was deeply personal, and it’s they we hear in this stunningly effective theater piece, a deeply complex portrait of a community.... More >>

The Laramie Project

Monday, June 14, 2010

An Actor Prepares


  • ISBN13: 9780878309832
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Stanislavski's simple exercises fire the imagination, and help readers not only discover their own conception of reality but how to reproduce it as well.Amazon.com Review
So much mystery and veneration surrounds the writings of the great Russian teacher and director Stanislavski that perhaps the greatest surprise awaiting a first-time reader of An Actor Prepares is how conversational, commonsensical, and even at times funny this legendary book is. After ma... More >>

An Actor Prepares

Sunday, June 6, 2010

The Fifth Elephant



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A new stage adaptation of one of Pratchett's best-selling novels



Commander Vimes is sent to wild, wintry and Transylvania-like Uberwald to establish trade links with the King of the Dwarfs but he ends up trying to stop and inter-species war. On his side though, is a talking dog, a reformed vampyre and a self-made man. You can tell he's self-made because the stitches still show.

Vimes may have arrived as Ankh-Morpork's ambassador but he soon fin... More >>

The Fifth Elephant

Friday, June 4, 2010

Macbeth



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The shortest of Shakespeare's tragedies, Macbeth is compressed, complex and ambiguous and has been interpreted in various ways. This Introduction describes major productions and performers that include David Garrick, Sarah Siddons, Henry Irving, Ellen Terry and Laurence Olivier. A detailed commentary accompanying the play's text describes how specific episodes and passages have been interpreted in the theater.... More >>

Macbeth