Breaking the Fourth Wall

Breaking the Fourth Wall
Title Breaking the Fourth Wall PDF eBook
Author Tom Brown
Publisher Edinburgh University Press
Pages 188
Release 2013-08-12
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 0748669531

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An examination of the role of direct address within fiction cinema, focusing on its role in avant-garde or experimental cinema, and popular genre traditions.

The Fourth Wall

The Fourth Wall
Title The Fourth Wall PDF eBook
Author Amy Arbus
Publisher
Pages 149
Release 2008
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1599620448

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What happens when a performing actor leaves behind his lines, staging, sets, and lighting, and steps beyond the fourth wall? For three years, Amy Arbus has been exploring this question in a series of dramatic portraits of celebrated actors, both on and off Broadway. Fully costumed but stripped of their context, Arbus's actors remain in character as they step outside the fiction of theater into the reality of the world beyond. Staged in anonymous public spaces--in theater lobbies, on city streets, in parks, and in stage door alleys--Arbus's images achieve an unexpected blend of spectacle and high art; formality and sontaneity; vulnerability and pretense. Collected in The Fourth Wall are some of the modern stage's most gifted actors, including Alan Cumming in Cabaret, John Malkovitch in Lost Land, Liev Schreiber in Talk Radio, Ed Harris in Wrecks, Cherry Jones in Doubt, Christine Ebersol in Grey Gardens, and Ethan Hawke and Martha Plimpton in The Coast of Utopia. Actors are included from such successful and ambitioud productions as Wicked, The Light in the Piazza, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and The Color Purple, to name but a few. Portraits are accompanied by synopses of the plays as well as quotes from a number of the actors portrayed. In 2006's critically acclaimed book On the Street, Arbus focused her lens on those who dressed to express themselves--now she turns her attention to those who dress to become someone else. The result is a collection of potent photographs that pay remarkable tribute to contemporary theater and the performers who bring fantasy to life.

The Mysteries of Harris Burdick

The Mysteries of Harris Burdick
Title The Mysteries of Harris Burdick PDF eBook
Author Chris Van Allsburg
Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages 36
Release 1996
Genre Authorship
ISBN 0395827841

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Since its publication in 1984, The Mysteries of Harris Burdick has stimulated the minds of readers of all ages and backgrounds. Now the original fourteen drawings are available in a large portfolio edition of loose sheets. In addition, a newly discovered fifteenth drawing, titled The Youngest Magician, has been added, as well as an updated introduction by the author. The puzzles of these mysterious drawings will be even more provocative because of the larger size and the exceptional printing quality. For the first time, the drawings can be shared with groups or displayed singly. The Mysteries of Harris Burdick was a New York Times Best Illustrated Book of 1984.

Holy Terror

Holy Terror
Title Holy Terror PDF eBook
Author Frank Miller
Publisher Legendary Comics LLC
Pages 0
Release 2011
Genre Graphic novels
ISBN 9781937278007

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There's a deadly menace somewhere in Empire City, and The Fixer only has until dawn to save his town - and civilization as we know it! This title features the desperate and brutal quest of a hero as he is forced to run down an army of murderous zealots in order to stop a crime against humanity.

Parker, Lopez and Stone's The Book of Mormon

Parker, Lopez and Stone's The Book of Mormon
Title Parker, Lopez and Stone's The Book of Mormon PDF eBook
Author Brian Granger
Publisher Routledge
Pages 81
Release 2019-10-16
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 0429682085

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'Hasa Diga Eebowai' In 2011, a musical full of curse words and Mormon missionaries swept that year’s Tony Awards and was praised as a triumphant return of the American musical. This book explores the inherent achievements (and failures) of The Book of Mormon—one of the most ambitious, and problematic, musicals to achieve widespread success. The creative team members—Matt Parker, Trey Stone and composer Robert Lopez—were collectively known for their aggressive use of taboo subjects and crude, punchy humor. Using the metaphor of boxing, Granger explores the metaphorical punches the trio delivers and ruminates over the less-discussed ideological wounds that their style of shock absurdism might leave behind. This careful examination of where The Book of Mormon succeeds and fails is sure to challenge discussion of our understanding of musical comedy and our appreciation for this cultural landmark in theatre.

Gwenpool, The Unbelievable Vol. 4

Gwenpool, The Unbelievable Vol. 4
Title Gwenpool, The Unbelievable Vol. 4 PDF eBook
Author Chris Hastings
Publisher Marvel Entertainment
Pages 117
Release 2017-12-20
Genre Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN 1302501569

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Collects The Unbelievable Gwenpool #16-20. Gwen Poole is everyone's favorite character from the "real" world! And her super-power is Official Handbook-level knowledge of top-secret comic-book facts! But the longer she's in the Marvel Universe, and not reading about it from the outside, the more her powers run out...or do they? Maybe a trip back to her world might help - but if that happens, will she be able to return to the MU? And at what cost? Plus: Gwenpool is no stranger to trouble, but she'll brand herself a menace when she blurts out a certain somebody's secret identity! You'd have thought by now that she'd know what comes with great power. How can she fix her self-induced continuity drama? And, er, who's that evil-looking version of Gwen?

Lost in the Funhouse

Lost in the Funhouse
Title Lost in the Funhouse PDF eBook
Author John Barth
Publisher Anchor
Pages 225
Release 2014-06-25
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0804152500

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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • John Barth's lively, highly original collection of short pieces is a major landmark of experimental fiction exploring themes of purpose and the meaning of existence. "[Barth] ran riot over literary rules and conventions, even as he displayed, with meticulous discipline, mastery of and respect for them." —The New York Times From its opening story, "Frame-Tale"--printed sideways and designed to be cut out by the reader and twisted into a never-ending Mobius strip--to the much-anthologized "Life-Story," whose details are left to the reader to "fill in the blank," Barth's acclaimed collection challenges our ideas of what fiction can do. Highlights include the Homerian story-wthin-a-story-within-a-story (times seven) of "Menalaiad,' and "Night-Sea Journey," a first-person account of a confused human sperm on its way to fertilize an egg. All of the characters in Lost in the Funhouse are searching, in one way or another, for their purpose and the meaning of their existence. Together, their stories form a kaleidescope of exuberant metafictional inventiveness.