Arts

Screen Adaptations: Romeo and Juliet: A close study of the relationship between text and film

by Courtney Lehmann

The Screen Adaptations series provides an in-depth look at how classic pieces of literature have been adapted for screen. It assesses the ways in which alternative screen interpretations offer up different readings...

Essential Radio Skills: How to present a radio show

by Peter Stewart

"One of the few books we’d recommend" BBC Training

"The perfect guide for anyone who wants to get on in this ever-changing and challenging media" Controller BBC Radio 5 Live

"A rich repository of real, practical...

A Night at the Opera: An Irreverent Guide to The Plots, The Singers, The Composers, The Recordings

by Denis Sir Forman

This slightly irreverent guide to opera summarizes the plots of 17 of the world's great operas, including Aida, La Boheme, and Carmen, and describes their characters, artists, and composers.

From the Hardcover...

John Huston: Courage and Art

by Jeffrey Meyers

From the acclaimed biographer of Ernest Hemingway, Humphrey Bogart, and

Errol Flynn comes the first complete biography of the legendary John Huston, the extraordinary director, writer, actor, and bon vivant...

2010 Artist's & Graphic Designer's Market

by Editors of Writer's Digest Books

The Tools to Build a Successful Art Career

2010 Artists & Graphic Designer's Market is the must-have reference guide for emerging artists who want to establish a successful career in fine art, illustration,...

Layout Index

by Jim Krause

Idea Index kick-started a revolution in graphic design books, unique in size, feel—and most important—wealth of ideas. Layout Index is the next step, a compendium of layout idea-generators that will help designers...

Exhibition 36

by Susan Tuttle

Within the pages of Exhibition 36, readers will enter a virtual art exhibit featuring thirty-six mixed-media artists whose collage, digital, assemblage, altered and repurposed art adorn the walls and pedestals...

Leaving Home, Of the Fields, Lately, and Salt-Water Moon: Three Mercer Plays

by David French

Leaving Home tells the story of the Mercers, a Newfoundland family that has lost its way after emigrating. The sequel, Of the Fields, Lately, finds son Ben returning home to find his mother trying to sustain...

Contemporary Wedding Photography

by Julie Oswin

Wedding photography has become about story-telling—capturing the emotions and atmosphere of the day through reportage-style photography. This user-friendly manual reveals the techniques needed to create this...

100 Ways to Take Better Portrait Photographs

by Daniel Lezano

100 Ways to Take Better Portrait Photographs is a practical and informative guide to every aspect of portrait photography from informal pictures of family and friends to professional studio techniques. It contains:...

Photography Essentials: Waiting for the Light

by David Noton

Waiting for the Light is a breathtaking visual celebration of award-winning landscape photographer David Noton's work to date. A long-awaited exploration of David's images, this book showcases the very best...

Dreaming of Chanel: Vintage Dresses, Timeless Stories

by Charlotte Smith & Grant Cowan

Inheriting a priceless vintage clothing collection sounds like every woman’s dream come true.

But when Charlotte Smith discovered that her American godmother, Doris Darnell, had made her custodian of more...

Luck and Circumstance: A Coming of Age in Hollywood, New York, and Points Beyond

by Michael Lindsay-Hogg

From acclaimed director Michael Lindsay-Hogg (The Normal Heart, The Beatles’ Let It Be, Brideshead Revisited, The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus, etc.), son of glamorous Warner’s movie star Geraldine...

Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday

by Angela Y. Davis

From one of this country's most important intellectuals comes a brilliant analysis of the blues tradition that examines the careers of three crucial black women blues singers through a feminist lens. Angela...

On Curating: Interviews with Ten International Curators Kindle Edition

by Carolee Thea & Thomas Micchelli

On Curating, Carolee Thea's second volume of interviews with ten of today's leading curators, explores the intellectual convictions and personal visions that lay the groundwork for the most prestigious and influential...

Reel Asian: Asian Canada on Screen

by Elaine Chang

Founded in 1997 by producer Anita Lee and journalist Andrew Sun, the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival is a unique showcase of contemporary Asian cinema and work from the Asian diaspora. The festival...

Practical Dreamers: Conversations with Movie Artists

by Mike Hoolboom

'The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers.' – Man Ray

What if there were movies made the same way as suits, custom fitted, each one tailored for one person? Not broadcast, but...

Exploring Contemporary Craft: History, Theory and Critical Writing

by Jean Johnson

The craft of craft, the art of craft – here in Canada we're just starting to really talk about these things. In March 1999, Jean Johnson, who runs Toronto's Craft Studio at Harbourfront Centre, organized a...

From the Atelier Tovar: Selected Writings of Guy Maddin

by Guy Maddin

Guy Maddin is one of Canada's most celebrated and original filmmakers, the director of such delirious films as Tales from the Gimli Hospital, Careful, Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary, The Saddest Music...

Don’ts for Dancers

by Karsinova

Following hot on the heels of the best-selling Don’ts for Husbands, Don’ts for Wives and Don’ts for Golfers this facsimile copy of the original edition contains everything youever needed to know, from what...