Category - Performing Arts
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Ernie McClintock and the Jazz Actors Family: Reviving the Legacy
PaperbackOriginal price $44.95 - Original price $44.95Original price $44.95$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /Ernie McClintock and the Jazz Actors Family is a critical biography examining the life and work of Ernie McClintock, the founder of the Jazz Acting...
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Mi lenguaje roto (My Broken Language)
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /La dramaturga ganadora del premio Pulitzer y coguionista de In the Heights cuenta en sus memorias la experiencia de crecer en un barrio pobre de ...
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Tremendous: The Life of a Comedy Savage
HardcoverOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /New York Times Besteseller Outsider. Misfit. Criminal. Convict. . . . Movie star. Family man. Comedy legend. Joey Diaz has been called every name i...
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I Am Dance: Words and Images of the Black Dancer
HardcoverOriginal price $60.00Original price $60.00 - Original price $60.00Original price $60.00Current price $50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /Winner of the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, author and photographer Hal Banfield brings this photographic series to life in the ...
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Elbows in My Ears: My Life with Little People, Tigers, and Wardrobe Trunks
HardcoverOriginal price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /Like many other African American women, Danise Payne graduated from a university and headed out into the world. But she finds herself spellbound on...
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Elbows in My Ears: My Life with Little People, Tigers, and Wardrobe Trunks
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Like many other African American women, Danise Payne graduated from a university and headed out into the world. But she finds herself spellbound on...
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Reel Resistance - The Cinema of Jean-Marie Teno
HardcoverOriginal price $115.00 - Original price $115.00Original price $115.00$134.99$134.99 - $134.99Current price $134.99| /Weaving together critical analysis and a filmic conversation, this book journeys through the multiple layers of Cameroonian filmmaker Jean-Marie Te...
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Feeding the Dragon
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /'Once upon a time, there was a little girl who lived in a library...' Deep in the bowels of a New York Public Library lies a dragon: the monstrous ...
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Lilly: The First Latina Rockette
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /"When I stepped to the center mark and that spotlight hit me, I thought, Aqui estoy mami, aqui estoy!""When I stepped to the center mark and that s...
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Lilly: The First Latina Rockette
HardcoverOriginal price $34.99 - Original price $34.99Original price $34.99$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /"When I stepped to the center mark and that spotlight hit me, I thought, Aqui estoy mami, aqui estoy!"Growing up in an orphanage in the Bronx, sepa...
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MilesStyle: The Fashion of Miles Davis
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Miles Davis is one of the most revered artists of the last 100 years, regardless of the art form. Credited with ushering in a new age of jazz more ...
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Chadwick Boseman: Forever Our King 1976-2020
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A profound remembrance of an extraordinary life cut short, celebrating Chadwick Boseman's brilliance on screen as well as his rich existence as a g...
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In a Pryor Life
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /When I was born, I weighed two pounds, three ounces. The doctor who examined me told my mother, "Congratulations, Mrs. Pryor, you have a boy No, w...
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Kumu Hula: Challenging Journey of a Hula Master
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /There is a persistent myth about hula with its grass shirt and hip movements. But hula tells a story or has a message, and the movements of the han...
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It's Always Loud in the Balcony: A Life in Black Theater, from Harlem to Hollywood and Back
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Richard Wesley was witness to a revolution. As both a celebrated participant and eager student of the Black Theater Movement in the late 1960s, he ...
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Strictly Dynamite: The Sensational Life of Lupe Velez
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00$50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780813198088 Media Type: Hardcover Publisher: University Press of Kentucky Publication Date: 09-19-2023 Pages: 488 Series:...
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Pleading the Blood: Bill Gunn's Ganja & Hess
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /The definitive look at one of the most important Black art films and original filmmakers of the 1970s.Bill Gunn's Ganja & Hess (1973) has acros...
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The Afterlives of Kathleen Collins: A Black Woman Filmmaker's Search for New Life
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /An absorbing portrait of a groundbreaking Black woman filmmaker.Kathleen Collins (1942-88) was a visionary and influential Black filmmaker. Beginni...
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The Afterlives of Kathleen Collins: A Black Woman Filmmaker's Search for New Life
HardcoverOriginal price $65.00 - Original price $65.00Original price $65.00$83.99$83.99 - $83.99Current price $83.99| /An absorbing portrait of a groundbreaking Black woman filmmaker.Kathleen Collins (1942-88) was a visionary and influential Black filmmaker. Beginni...
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Our Laundry, Our Town: My Chinese American Life from Flushing to the Downtown Stage and Beyond
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /With humor and grace, the memoir of a first-generation Chinese American in New York City. Our Laundry, Our Town is a memoir that decodes and proces...
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Our Laundry, Our Town: My Chinese American Life from Flushing to the Downtown Stage and Beyond
HardcoverOriginal price $66.00 - Original price $66.00Original price $66.00$81.99$81.99 - $81.99Current price $81.99| /With humor and grace, the memoir of a first-generation Chinese American in New York City. Our Laundry, Our Town is a memoir that decodes and proces...
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Anna May Wong: From Laundryman's Daughter to Hollywood Legend
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Anna May Wong was the best known Chinese American actress during Hollywood’s golden age, a free spirit and embodiment of the flapper era much lik...
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Daughter of the Dragon: Anna May Wong's Rendezvous with American History
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Born into the steam and starch of a Chinese laundry, Anna May Wong (1905-1961) emerged from turn-of-the-century Los Angeles to become Old Hollywood...
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Viva Hollywood: The Legacy of Latin and Hispanic Artists in American Film
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Through an authoritative narrative and lavish photography, this is an in-depth history of the stars, films, achievements, and influence of the Hisp...
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