Series: Limelight

A world-renowned opera star interviews 40 famous opera singers.

The Fischer-Dieskau Book of Lieder (Limelight) offers a new translation of the original texts of over 750 songs. This resource allows the reader to follow, line by line, the English translation directly opposite the German text. "Will no doubt become the standard lieder-resource for the English-speaking world..." Choice

Funny and engaging, wise and poignant.

In this essential study of film noir, editors Alain Silver and James Ursini select the most significant and influential articles on the movement from their highly respected Film Noir Reader series and assemble them into a single, convenient, heavily illustrated volume. Still included, of course, are many rare early articles and such seminal essays as Borde and Chaumeton's Towards a...

Film Noir the Directors explores the influential contributors to the world of classic noir cinema. Noted film noir historians Alain Silver and James Ursini, acting as editors, focus on thirty key directors from the noir era. This comprehensive work delves into the careers of well-known luminaries such as Orson Welles, Billy Wilder, Nicholas Ray, and Joseph Losey, while also shedding...

This practical reference manual, with its precise, authentic instructions on how to speak in more than 100 dialects, has established itself as the most useful and comprehensive guide to accents available, now increased by a third in this revised printing. As before, the accents range from regional US and British dialects to European accents that include, among others, the Germanic,...