Author: Charles Drazin
Publisher: Limelight Editions
Keywords: limelight, man, third, search
Number of Pages: 207
Published: 2004-08-01
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0879102942
ISBN-13: 9780879102944

Half a century after its opening, The Third Man remains an unquestioned masterpiece of film artistry and, for many, the greatest British movie ever made. Whether it is Harry Lime’s magical first appearance or the celebrated cuckoo clock speech or the climactic chase through the sewers beneath Vienna or the haunting theme music of Anton Karas, the film contains some of the most memorable moments in screen history. Drawing on both contemporary documents and accounts of the people involved, In Search of The Third Man explores the many myths that over the years have grown around this extraor

Author: Various
Publisher: Limelight Editions
Keywords: limelight, softcover, reader, film, gangster
Number of Pages: 424
Published: 2007-02-01
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0879103329
ISBN-13: 9780879103323

In the 1930s the gangster film in the United States coincided with a very real and very sensational gangsterism at large in American society. Little Caesar (1931), The Public Enemy (1931), and Scarface (1932) borrowed liberally from the newspapers and books of the era. With the release of just these three motion pictures in barely more than a year’s time, Hollywood quintessentially defined the genre. The characters, the situations, and the icons-from fast cars and tommy-guns to fancy fedoras and fancier molls-established the audience expectations associated with the gangster film that re

Author: Messerer Asa
Publisher: Limelight Editions
Keywords: limelight, ballet, classical, classes
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2007-03-01
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0879103442
ISBN-13: 9780879103446

A companion guide to one of the bestselling Limelight Edition titles, this book by Asaf Messerer, a founder of what has become known as the Bolshoi School, is one of the most celebrated manuals of classic dance instruction in the world. Messerer has gained an international reputation for his classes in classical technique-models of invention and well-rounded exercise, stressing both precision and fluid artistic control. Nearly 500 photographs of principal Bolshoi dancers illustrate the positions and steps indicated, and an introductory section by Messerer outlines his basic plan and philosophy

Author: Nigel Douglas
Publisher: Limelight Editions
Keywords: limelight, voices, legendary
Number of Pages: 326
Published: 2004-08-01
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0879101938
ISBN-13: 9780879101930

A follow-up to Nigel Douglas’s popular and succesful Legendary Voices, this volume boasts twelve more singers, their private lives and public careers, plus critical comment on their recorded works now available on CD. Once again his pantheon covers the full range of voices and the whole repertoire from Tosca to Tannhauser, from Lieder to light operetta. Artists include Maria Callas, Feodor Chaliapin, Kathleen Ferrier, Beniamino Gigli, Maria Jeritza, John McCormack, Lauritz Melchior, Claudia Muzio, Titta Ruffo, Elisabeth Schumann, Conchita Supervia, and Richard Tauber.

Author: William Goldman
Publisher: Limelight Editions
Keywords: limelight, broadway, candid, season
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 1984-09
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0879100230
ISBN-13: 9780879100230

Playwright/novelist/screenwriter Goldman analyzes Broadway from the perspective of the audiences, playwrights, critics, producers and actors.

Author: Patricia Bosworth
Publisher: Limelight Editions
Keywords: limelight, biography, clift, montgomery
Number of Pages: 438
Published: 2004-08-01
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0879101350
ISBN-13: 9780879101350

Author: Scott Kaiser
Publisher: Limelight Editions
Keywords: limelight, softcover, wordcraft, shakespeare
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 2007-03-01
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0879103450
ISBN-13: 9780879103453

Written for readers who have a passion for Shakespeare, Shakespeare’s Wordcraft takes a comprehensive look at Shakespeare’s stellar use of language devices throughout his plays, devices he used to ink memorable lines like these: + I must be cruel only to be kind + Fair is foul, and foul is fair + Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more! + Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears! In a clear, accessible, non-academic style - using plain terms, modern quotes, and several thousand examples - Shakespeare’s Wordcraft deftly reveals how these lasting lines were not