Books in the Bibliographies and Indexes in the Performing Arts series

The only comprehensive guide to the crime films of the forties and fifties, this volume focuses on the major events that shaped and molded the genre: war, alienation, drugs, and organized crime.

This work provides a ready reference to significant productions of plays on the London stage during the period 1837 through 1901 and includes extensive information concerning both plays and players.

The immense popularity of movies has its roots in the silent films of the early 1900s, this being especially true of the crime genre.

Each entry includes production information, an annotation detailing the film's Hispanic significance, and references to additional materials. The volume concludes with an alphabetical index of film titles, an index of actors and actresses, an index of place names, a general subject index, and an index of songs.

The index provides easy access to reviews of theatrical films, news pictorials, series and serials, and early travelogues. Many of the films included in this index are no longer extant;

?A fascinating one-volume reference source that identifies and describes the key characters (and their performers) from some of the more memorable films between 1915 and 1983, this work covers mostly American films (all genres). . . . Whether you are looking for the name of the performer who portrayed a role, the name of the character, or the title of the film the character or performer was in, this source will provide the answer and much browsing pleasure for anyone interested in film. Nostalgia buffs, crossword puzzle solvers, and especially players of the silver screen edition of Trivial Pursuit will love it.?-Reference Books Bulletin

The role of censorship, the Production Code Administration, the Motion Picture Society of the Americas, the Latin American market, and Hollywood's version of Hispanic history are fully covered. The Black Legend of Hispanic barbarity has existed in literature since the sixteenth century.

The volume is based on the archives of the Shakespeare Memorial/Royal Shakespeare Theatre, the preeminent theatre for Shakespeare in the world. The volume lists each production by play title.

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Recent crime films such as Scarface, the Dirty Harry series, and The Godfather have captured the American imagination, but they owe a large debt to the early crime talkies such as The Public Enemy, Paul Muni's Scarface, and Little Caesar.

This work states that cinema has seen the impact of Lovecraft and offers a guide to dozens of films that are representative of this influence. The work identifies the major Lovecraft elements and examines the fidelity of the films to the original work.

The profiles (approximately 200 words each) are followed by a chronological list of Broadway credits--in scenic design, followed by lighting design and costume design credits. The introduction outlines the profession in the twentieth century on Broadway and the development of American design from the New Stagecraft.

Over four hundred individuals who designed lighting are profiled here in biographical sketches, each accompanied by a chronological listing of Broadway credits for lighting, and for scenic and costume design when relevant. An introduction briefly surveys the lighting design profession and its development on Broadway.

This comprehensive volume lists and describes all known eighteen century British and Irish promptbooks. Each entry includes the location of the copy, shelf mark, production for which the prompt-book was prepared (theatre, date, prompter's name, if known), the types of notes the copy contains (description of setting, entrance notes, costume notes, ground plans, warnings, cues, stage movement, line interpretation), and citations of any books or articles that have dealt with the copy. The illustrations of sample pages from some of the promptbooks listed will provide the reader with a fuller and more accurate understanding of eighteenth century theatre architecture and staging practices.

But before designers were routinely listed in playbills, they could only be identified through other sources, including press releases, reviews, news articles, contracts, and personal papers.

An attempt to show how the film industry has homogenised the Latin, the Chicano, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Mexican, South American and Caribbean into an ethnic enemy, whose negative traits and character have been conditioned by their national origins; and then has profited from this.

This comprehensive film guide lists the screen credits and provides synopses of more than 5,400 silent western features, documentaries, shorts and serials released from the 1890s through 1930. These westerns came from both the major and lesser known American film studios, many long defunct. The term western is hard to define;

Somerset also offers a summary of the Festival's history and guides readers to the range of material preserved in the Festival Archives. Somerset introduces the indexes by sketching the Festival's history and guiding readers to the Festival Archives and to his own database, which can be used by the public.

This reference is a list of all theatrical productions of the early modern Irish dramatic movement, including premieres and revivals. The volume includes productions from the 1899 founding of the Irish Literary Theatre through the April 1916 Easter Rising.

Examining 40 cycles or themes and more than 1,000 silent films, the author attempts to discern how the screen reflected contemporary social, political, and national trends during the silent years.

This index of 7000 productions by more than 2000 scenic designers, focuses on photographs of 20th-century sets, renderings and models of theatre and opera productions. The selections appear in 114 books and journals likely to be held by most reserach libraries.

This compendium of data on German playwrights and plays emphasizes the working repertory of German theatres during the period from 1767 to 1890.

From the 1920s, Hollywood's view of the American South has been as changing as the place itself. This guide to southern films offers credits, plots, and analyses of how the stereotypes and characterizations in each film contribute to our understanding of a contentious American time and place.

There are over fifty Chan films and an additional three Spanish language Chan films. Each film is given a star rating, and several appendices provide additional information such as the lost films of Charlie Chan, actors who played Chan, and Chan on television.