Theater, Drama & Film

Theater is the branch of the performing arts defined simply as what "occurs when one or more persons, isolated in time and/or space, present themselves to another or others." By this broad definition, theater has existed since the dawn of man, as a result of a human tendency to tell stories. Since its inception, theater has taken many forms, often utilizing elements such as speech, gesture, music, dance, and spectacle, other performing arts, and often the visual arts, into a single artistic form. Modern Western theater is dominated by realism, though many other forms, including classical, experimental, and Eastern forms, are frequently performed.

Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. Dramas are performed in various media: theater, radio, film, and television. Drama is often combined with music and dance: the drama in opera is sung throughout; musicals include spoken dialogue and songs; and some forms of drama have regular musical accompaniment (melodrama and Japanese No, for example). In improvisation, the drama does not pre-exist the moment of performance; performers devise a dramatic script spontaneously before an audience.

Film is a term that encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects. Films are cultural artifacts created by specific cultures, which reflect those cultures, and, in turn, affect them. Film is considered to be an important art form, a source of popular entertainment and a powerful method for educating—or indoctrinating—citizens. The visual element of cinema gives motion pictures a universal power of communication. Some films have become popular worldwide attractions by using dubbing or subtitles that translate the dialogue.

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20 Exciting Plays for Medieval History Classes
by Dean Bowman
from Walch Publishing
for 7th-9th grade
in Middle Ages (Location: HISW-MID)
$25.00
20 Plays for U. S. History Classes
by Dean R. Bowman
Revised from Walch Publishing
for 7th-9th grade
in Theater, Drama & Film (Location: ELE-THEAT)
24 Exciting Plays for Ancient History Classes
by Dean R. Bowman
from Walch Publishing
for 5th-8th grade
in Ancient History (Location: HISW-ANC)
Art of Interpretation
by Nicholas R. Elledge
from Institute for Cultural Communicators
for 9th-12th grade
in Speech & Debate (Location: SPEECH)
$10.00 (2 in stock)
At Play: Teaching Teenagers Theater
by Elizabeth Swados
from Farrar, Straus and Giroux
for 7th-Adult
in Theater, Drama & Film (Location: ELE-THEAT)
$5.00 (1 in stock)
Child Star
by Lydia Weaver
from Viking Press
for 4th-7th grade
in Great Depression (1929-1939) (Location: HISA-20GD)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
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by Laura I. Baldt
1922 Printing from J.B. Lippincott Co.
for Adult
in Vintage Nonfiction (Location: VIN-NFIC)
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DK Eyewitness Series
by Richard Platt
from Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
History Reference for 4th-8th grade
in Theater, Drama & Film (Location: ELE-THEAT)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Give Me a Hand! History Skits 1942-1945
by Rebecca Locklear
for 8th-12th grade
in Theater, Drama & Film (Location: ELE-THEAT)
$12.00
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!
by Laura Amy Schlitz
from Candlewick Press
for 5th-9th grade
2008 Newbery Medal Winner
in Historical Fiction (Location: FIC-HIF)
$12.99
Hollywood Worldviews
by Brian Godawa
from InterVarsity Press
for 11th-Adult
in Culture & Discernment (Location: XCU-DIS)
Illustrated Encyclopedia of World Costume
by Doreen Yarwood
from Dover Publications
for 9th-Adult
in Diversity & Multicultural Books (Location: HISMC-MUL)
$22.00 (1 in stock)
Invention of Hugo Cabret
by Brian Selznick
First Edition from Scholastic Inc.
for 4th-6th grade
2008 Caldecott Medal winner
in Action & Adventure Stories (Location: FIC-ADV)
$29.99
Jesus of Nazareth
by William Barclay
from Collins
for 3rd-7th grade
in Theater, Drama & Film (Location: ELE-THEAT)
$5.00 (1 in stock)
Lord of the Rings The Two Towers Visual Companion
by Jude Fisher, introduction by Viggo Mortensen
from Houghton Mifflin
for 9th-Adult
in Lord of the Rings (Location: LIR-LOTR)
Meaning at the Movies
by Grant Horner
from Crossway Books
for Adult
in Culture & Discernment (Location: XCU-DIS)
Movies As Literature
by Kathryn Stout, Richard Stout
from Design-A-Study
for 9th-12th grade
in Theater, Drama & Film (Location: ELE-THEAT)
$16.00 (1 in stock)
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by Kathryn Stout, Richard Stout
from Design-A-Study
for 9th-12th grade
in Theater, Drama & Film (Location: ELE-THEAT)
$20.00 (1 in stock)
My Dinner with Andre
by Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory
from Grove Press, Inc.
for Adult
in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20)
$8.00 (1 in stock)
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by Robert Flaherty, edited from the film by Robert Kraus
First Printing from Windmill Books
for Kindergarten-Adult
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
$24.00 (1 in stock)
Performing Literature - Student Textbook
by Diana Smith
from Bob Jones University Press
for 10th-Adult
in Theater, Drama & Film (Location: ELE-THEAT)
$29.00
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by Diana Smith
from Bob Jones University Press
for 9th-12th grade
in Theater, Drama & Film (Location: ELE-THEAT)
$39.00
Reel Spirituality
by Robert K. Johnston
from Baker Academics
for Adult
in Clearance: Christian Books (Location: XCLE)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
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by Katherine Miller, illustrated by Wallace Tripp
from Houghton Mifflin
for 4th-9th grade
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
Shakespeare of London
by Marchette Chute
1st edition from E.P. Dutton & Co.
for 6th-12th grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
Silent Clowns
by Walter Kerr
from Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
for Adult
in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
$8.00 (1 in stock)
Sound of Music
from Random House
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
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by Rebecca Locklear
for 6th-Adult
in Theater, Drama & Film (Location: ELE-THEAT)
$25.00
Tall American
by Richard Gehman, illustrated by Albert Micale
from Hawthorn Books, Inc.
for 3rd-6th grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
Tempest for Kids
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by Lois Burdett
from Firefly Books
for 4th-6th grade
in Shakespeare Materials (Location: LIR-SHA)
Those Little Rascals
by Rebecca Gulick
from Crescent Books
in Theater, Drama & Film (Location: ELE-THEAT)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Treasury of Gilbert & Sullivan
by William Gilbert & Arthur Sullivan
from Simon and Schuster
for 8th-Adult
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
$9.00 (1 in stock)
Voyage of the Mimi
by Richard M. Hendrick, head writer
from Holt, Rinehart and Winston
for 6th-8th grade
in Theater, Drama & Film (Location: ELE-THEAT)
$20.00 (1 in stock)
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by Marie Hammontree
from Aladdin Paperbacks
Biography for 3rd-6th grade
in Childhood of Famous Americans (Location: BIO-COFA)
$6.99
Walt Disney: Young Movie Maker
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by Marie Hammontree
from Aladdin Paperbacks
Biography for 3rd-6th grade
in Childhood of Famous Americans (Location: BIO-COFA)
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Who Was?...Series
by Whitney Stewart
from Grosset & Dunlap
for 3rd-6th grade
in Who Was? biographies (Location: BIO-WHO)