The Complete Book of Puppetry

Author: George Latshaw
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486409528
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 170

Book Description
An expert conducts readers through every stage of the puppeteer's art, including how to construct several types of puppets, developing distinctive voices for characters, and translating human body language into puppet movement. Other chapters focus on designing stages, writing and adapting plays, directing productions, and performance-related tips. Over 150 black-and-white illustrations.

The Complete Book of Puppetry

Author: David Currell
Publisher: Plays
ISBN:
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 224

Book Description
Introduces the history of puppetry and gives instructions for making various types of puppets, creating stage sets, and producing plays.

The Complete Book of Marionettes

Author: Mabel and Les Beaton
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486317641
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 226

Book Description
DIVHow to construct and manipulate puppets, build little theaters, set up and furnish a stage, light scenes, and more. Over 200 illustrations. /div

Puppets and Puppet Theatre

Author: David Currell
Publisher: Crowood
ISBN: 1847977901
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 397

Book Description
Puppets & Puppet Theatre is essential reading for everyone interested in making and performing with puppets. It concentrates on designing, making and performing with the main types of puppet, and is extensively illustrated in full colour throughout.Topics covered include: nature and heritage of puppet theatre; the anatomy of a puppet, its design and structure; materials and methods for sculpting, modelling and casting; step-by-step instructions for making glove, hand, rod and shadow puppets & marionettes; puppet control and manipulation; staging principles, stage and scenery design; principles of sound & lighting and finally, organisation of a show.

The Complete Book of Puppet Theatre

Author: David Currell
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Puppet making
Languages : en
Pages : 372

Book Description
Introduces the history of puppetry and gives instructions for making various types of puppets, creating stage sets, and producing plays.

The Complete Book of Puppetry

Author: George Latshaw
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486156990
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 158

Book Description
Expert guide explains how to construct several types of puppets and presents exercises for developing distinctive voices, learning puppet movement. Includes stage design, writing plays, directing productions, more. Over 150 black-and-white illustrations.

Leading Kids to Books Through Puppets

Author: Caroline Feller Bauer
Publisher: American Library Association
ISBN: 9780838907061
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 182

Book Description
If you've got an envelope handy, or a paper cup, or a cereal box, you're ready to lead kids to literature through puppetry - Caroline Feller Bauer style. The Bauer style, celebrated throughout the world, means maximum fun for kids with minimum training, preparation, and costs. Bauer's charmingly chatty lessons set your stage up in a wink. She then introduces literature selections to perform - and here draws upon her experience in choosing readings that work. More than thirty selections are presented along with scores of recommended books and a selection on puppetry resources.

Puppetry: How to Do It

Author: Mervyn Millar
Publisher: Nick Hern Books
ISBN: 9781848425460
Category : Puppet plays
Languages : en
Pages : 400

Book Description
A practical, accessible and inspiring guide to using puppetry in theatre--the perfect entry point for anyone looking to use puppets in their productions, to explore what puppets can do, or to develop their puppetry skills. Written by an experienced theatre and puppetry director, Mervyn Millar's Puppetry: How to Do Itfocuses on the performer and the craft of bringing any puppet to life. No puppet-making is required to use this book: starting just with simple objects, it lays out the skills required to unlock a puppet's limitless potential for expression and connection with an audience. Inside you'll discover fifty practical, easy-to-follow exercises - for use in a group or on your own - to develop elements of the craft, build confidence and help you improve your puppetry through play and improvisation. Also included are sections on different types of puppet, thinking about how the puppeteer is presented on stage and how to direct and devise puppet performances. Ideal for actors and performers, for directors and designers, and for teachers and students of all ages and levels of experience, this book will demystify the art of puppetry, and help you become more confident and creative with all kinds of puppets and objects on stage.

Shadow Puppets and Shadow Play

Author: David Currell
Publisher: Crowood
ISBN: 1785000624
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 499

Book Description
Shadow Puppets and Shadow Play is a comprehensive guide to the design, construction and manipulation and presentation of shadow puppets, considered by many to be the oldest puppet theatre tradition. Traditional shadow play techniques, together with modern materials and methods and recent explorations into theatre of shadows, are explained with precision and clarity, and illustrated by photographs that include the work of some of the finest shadow players in the world. Topics covered include an introduction to shadow play, its traditions and the principles of shadow puppet design; advice on materials and methods for constructing and controlling traditional shadow puppets and scenery; step-by-step instructions for adding detail and decoration and creating transculent figures in full-colour; detailed methods for constructing shadow theatres using a wide range of lighting techniques; techniques of shadow puppet performance and contemporary explorations with shadow play; and instructions for making animated, silhouette films with digital photography. Lavishly illustrated throughout, Shadow Puppets and Shadow Play sets out detailed instructions for making and presenting shadow puppets by traditional methods and with the latest materials and techniques. Superbly illustrated with 420 colour photographs and helpful tips and suggestions.

Puppet Master Complete

Author: Nat Brehmer
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476676305
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 254

Book Description
This book is a comprehensive history of the most successful straight-to-video horror franchise of all time: Puppet Master. It provides an in-depth exploration of all 14 films to date--including a made-for-TV crossover and a theatrical reboot--and the action figures, comics, and other merchandise that have helped to keep the brand alive for the past 30 years. Puppet Master was the first film for independent producer extraordinaire Charles Band's Full Moon Entertainment, launching a franchise and a micro-budget studio that have both continued to this day. What led to the film's success? How did a little movie about killer puppets, designed to cater to the then-booming video market, wind up surviving video stores themselves? How did a series that had never even had a theatrical entry wind up with an unusually successful toy series? All of these questions are answered within these pages. Featuring new interviews with some of the biggest creative minds behind the franchise, as well as dozens of behind-the-scenes photos, this book is the ultimate guide to horror's most murderous marionettes.