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The business of show business : a guide to career opportunities behind the scenes in theatre and film / Judith A. Katz.
LIBRA PN1580 .K3 1981 copy 2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Katz, Judith A.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Performing arts--Vocational guidance--United States.
- Performing arts.
- Performing arts--Vocational guidance.
- United States.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 254 pages : portraits ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Barnes & Noble Books, [1981]
- Contents:
- Part I: A quick overview of the business of show business
- 1. How and where films and plays are put together
- 2. How unions affect theatre and film jobs
- 3. Types of theatre and film
- Part II: Administration
- 4. Administrative job descriptions
- 5. Administrative profiles:
- Maxine Fox, producer of the play Grease on broadway
- Sidney Kiwitt, Warner Brothers business affairs expert
- Bob Moss, producing director of Playwrights Horizons
- Peter Saphier, Universal Pictures production executive
- Part III: Production
- 6. Production job descriptions
- 7. Production profiles:
- Vinnette Carroll, artistic director of the Urban Arts Corps theatre and creater of Don't bother me, I can't cope
- Paul Monette, Hollywood screenwriter
- Richard Fischoff, associate producer of Kramer vs. Kramer
- Robert (Bob) Allan Ackerman, director of the broadway production of Bent
- Lewis Jackson, a New York independent filmmaker
- Part IV: Production crafts
- 8. Production crafts job descriptions
- 9. Production artisan profiles:
- Susan (Sandy) E. Morse, editor of Manhattan
- Mel Bourne, production designer of Annie Hall
- Zoya Wyeth, equity stage manager
- Fred Schuler, camera operator of The deer hunter and director of photography of Gloria
- A. Christina (Stia) Giannini, costume designer to Agnes de Mille and Alvin Ailey
- Part V: Supporting services
- 10. Supporting services job descriptions
- 11. Supporting services profiles:
- Geoffrey Sanford, Hollywood literary agent
- David Denby, film critic of New York magazine
- Part VI: Finding a job
- 12. The first step
- Epilogue
- Appendix A: Jobs in show business
- Appendix B: Resources.
- Notes:
- "Barnes & Noble books."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0060148470
- 9780060148478
- 0064635341
- 9780064635349
- OCLC:
- 7275108
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