Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2008: Film, Television, Radio, Theatre, Dance, Music, Cartoons, and Popular Music

Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2008 is a comprehensive and well done reference work. In one volume, author Harris M. Lentz, covers the breadth of entertainment and pop culture deaths occurring in 2008. The work consists of four sections: acknowledgements, introduction, reference bibliography, and the list of obituaries. The bulk of the work encompasses over 468 pages devoted to approximately 1,330 alphabetically arranged obituaries. Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2008 is international in scope and will be of interest to libraries collecting in the area of the performing arts field.

Lentz, a seasoned obituary writer, fills the introduction with long...