Product Description: Barbara Niven shares easy, professional tips and secrets to help you prepare and perform like a Pro in your next Video, TV Interview, Radio Show, Audio Recording and Live Presentation! Nowadays it's vital to use media opportunities to promote your business and stand out from the competition...read more

Product Description: New in our Market Books line of bestselling reference guides for writers and creative professionals comes the Screenwriter's & Playwright's Market. This guide is the one-stop resource for playwrights and screenwriters providing both craft and marketing information...read more

Product Description: Many actors treat their profession as a purely artistic endeavor, rarely conceding that there is more to making a living than simply showing up on stage or in front of a camera. By refusing to seriously acknowledge that self-promotion is vital to their livelihoods, many performers can get quickly discouraged by the vicious circle of audition and rejection...read more

Newly revised and updated, Acting as a Business educates actors at all levels by showing them proven ways to take control of their careers. A former talent agent and personal manager, Brian has devoted the past seventeen years soley to working with and teaching actors specific strategies to move their careers forward. This book contains the result's of Brian's research and hands-on career planning sessions and its previous editions have already helped thousands of actors seeking to get ahead in the business.

Product Description: Actors and Performers Yearbook is an established and respected directory that enables actors to find work in stage, screen and radio. It is the only directory to provide detailed information for each listing and specific advice on how to approach companies and individuals, saving hours of further research...read more

Product Description: For every actor beginning a career in Hollywood, this indispensable guide will lay out a clear and comprehensible path with tried-and-true advice. Up-to-date resources and new interviews with recently established actors experiencing the current movieland scene—as well as the timeless voices of established actors and industry pros—make this a rich compendium of Hollywood know-how...read more

This book shows readers how to draw reasonable mechanisms for reactions they have never seen before. This skill will help readers develop a good command of electron-pushing before tackling the detailed mechanistic analysis of physical organic chemistry. It is organized according to mechanistic types in order to clarify the basic mechanistic similarities among apparently diverse reactions. One of the unique features of this book is the common error alert, which warns about common pitfalls and misconceptions.

Product Description: Cultural heritage and contemporary arts benefit from being showcased in events. Arts-related events are each unique in reflecting local culture; they may be therefore spontaneous (street art and so on) or planned (i.e. studio tours or arts festivals)...read more

A memorable performance of the New York City Ballet or a captivating exhibition at the British Museum could only be presented by arts institutions that are well-managed under strong leaders. Arts Leadership is the first book that describes the singular importance and crucial effect that the leader has on these and other world-class institutions. This book takes the reader behind the scenes of the world’s greatest arts institutions and, through case studies and interviews, explores the uniqueness of arts leadership. Arts Leadership also presents the causes and implications of the growing gap between the need for arts leaders and the number of individuals capable of taking on those roles; a gap that will widen worldwide over the next ten years, creating a crisis in the industry. Describing the leadership challenges currently faced in America and Europe and the impending demand in the Middle East and Asia for leaders of museums, orchestras, performing arts centers and other related arts organizations, this text is a must-read for anyone interested in arts management, museum studies, cultural policy or nonprofit administration.

Product Description: From Tennessee Williams and Carson McCullers to Arthur Kopit and Brian Friel, agent Audrey Wood encouraged and guided the unique talents of playwrights in the Broadway theatre of her day. Her quiet determination and burning enthusiasm brought America's finest mid-century playwrights to prominence and altered stage history...read more

Product Description: Superman y Batman son el estandarte de la editorial americana DC. Ambos son, además, las dos caras de una misma moneda: Supermán es la luz y Batman es la sombra.En este libro se analizan las películas y series, en imagen real o animada, que se han realizado sobre estos dos iconos de cómic...read more

Product Description: Love your life as an arts manager without sacrificing your own health and happiness. You can have as much or as little in the work life - home life balance as you want. This guide will help you determine what that means for you and offers easy and proven methods to incorporate all of the healthy things you know you should be doing within the context of the various demands of being an arts and entertainment manager...read more

Today's film industry is a legal and financial obstacle course that all independent filmmakers must learn to master. In view of this, The Biz--a highly accessible overview of the industry's important business, legal and financial aspect--is a must-read for all filmmakers. It includes thorough explanations and discussions of: Film-industry business jargon; Raising financing; Business structuring; Securities laws; Budgeting essentials; Dealing with the guilds; Loans; Completion guarantees; The legal and financial ramifications of distribution deals; Calculating net profits; Film-industry accounting practices and contingent payments; Copyright, publicity, and trademark laws; Screen credits; Talent demands; Litigation problems; Bankruptcy; Taxation of film companies; The Internet distribution of film . . . and much more. The Biz also includes a dozen useful sample forms and agreements.