The Backstage Handbook: An Illustrated Almanac of Technical Information |  | Author: Paul Carter
Creator: George Chiang
Publisher: Broadway Press
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 13113
Media: Imitation Leather
Edition: 3rd
Pages: 310
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.5 x 1
ISBN: 0911747397
Dewey Decimal Number: 792
EAN: 9780911747393
ASIN: 0911747397
Publication Date: January 1, 1994
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Product Description
First published in 1988, Backstage Handbook is one of the most widely used stagecraft textbooks in the United States, with about 10,000 copies sold every year.
This handy reference book brings together under one cover an incredible variety of information useful to designers, technicians and students who work behind the scenes in theatre, film and television. Its sturdy leatherette binding will stand up to years of constant use.
The third edition updates this popular reference book with new terminology and materials, and adds dozens of new illustrations of grip hardware, film lighting equipment and painting tools. Backstage Handbook includes chapters on Tools, Hardware, Materials, Electrics, Shop Math, Architecture and Theatre. There are hundreds of illustrations, tables and charts which cover everything from the stock sizes and specs of wood screws, to safe working loads for several kinds of rope, to illustrations of twenty-two types of standard lamp bases.
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 An excellent reference for the novice or professional! August 16, 1999
Joshua C. Allen (ja-allen@mindspring.com) (New York, NY)
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
The Backstage Handbook covers and illustrates much extremely useful information pertaining to the theatre and releated industry. This book should be required reading by ALL college theatre majors - both design/technical and performance. The illustrated references make for easier learning when used in conjunction with hands-on instruction. If you do not own this book and are involved in the entertainment industry, you should purchase a copy right away! -Joshua C. Allen Lighting Design, New York, NY
A Standard in need of a new Printing September 18, 2001
J. P. Osnes (Boulder, CO USA)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I've used this book as a 'bible' for ten years. There is nothing like it. It is concise, exact and obviously created by actual working live production personnel. Paul Carter fills a much needed lack of reference material in the production field. The illustrations/drawings are more than worth the price of admission. It is most unfortunate that Paul is not here to create new editions. Please keep this in print!
Essential to all students and practicioners of theatre March 18, 2000
Joe (Orlando, Fl)
10 out of 12 found this review helpful
Quite possibly the best reference of it's kind, this book condenses the most commonly needed answers to the most commonly asked questions of technical theatre into a convenient volume. I keep it in my tool bag, and it has proved exceptionally useful. Carter has collected all those thing that you're bound to forget. Get a copy, keep it with your tools, and never have to go crazy trying to find the elusive bit of knowledge you seem to have suddenly forgotten!
Everything about Backstage "You Need to Know" in ONE PLACE! September 27, 1996
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book is soon to be updated for the third time, but for any student or professional in the backstage areas of the theatre this is the reference we all have needed. With humor sprinkled through-out it has all that misc info stage hands, technicians, designers, and stage managers need at
their fingertips. You can keep that eclectic jumble of books and references on their shelf. ANSWER QUSTIONS LIKE:
- How much does something weight?
- What was that formula again?
- What are those things called? You know!
- You said reduce it how many times?
- What does that joint look like?
- What is the ground on this?
- Isn't that too steep for a ramp?
- Now let me show the basic outline of this arch.
There is no better book
Must Have for any Grip February 7, 2007
James W. Schulze (PHX)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Even after 12 years of being a Grip in the industry, I was blown away by this book. There is so much info in this book that I carry it to set everyday. I buy one for every New Grip that I work with.
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