Performing Arts

Liza Dalby, author of The Tale of Murasaki, is the only non-Japanese woman ever to have become a geisha. This is her unique insight into the extraordinary, closed world of the geisha, a world of grace, beauty and tradition that has long fascinated and...

An exciting series that provides students with direct access to the ancient world by offering new translations of extracts from its key texts. This book offers a valuable guide to Greek theatre. It presents a broad selection of key ancient sources, both...

Christopher Nolan is the writer and director of Hollywood blockbusters like The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises, and also of arthouse films like Memento and Inception. Underlying his staggering commercial success however, is a darker sensibility...

Harryhausen - The Movie Posters showcases the posters from all of Ray's movies, from 1949's Mighty Joe Young, to Clash of the Titans in 1981. There has never been a book published devoted solely to the promotional art associated with the films themselves...

This is an accessible and informative critical introduction to Tom Stoppard's "Arcadia" - a play commonly studied at undergraduate level.Tom Stoppard is widely regarded as one of the leading contemporary British playwrights, a writer who has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781962640Author Lyndsy SpenceFormat HardbackImprint Fantom Films LimitedPublisher Fantom Films Limited

George III's behaviour has often been odd, but now he is deranged, with rumours circulating that he has even addressed an oak tree as the King of Prussia. Doctors are brought in, the government wavers and the Prince Regent manoeuvres himself into power...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840683424Author Kagami Jigoku KobaysFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint ShinbakuPublisher Creation Books

Dive into an incredible gourmet universe of anime, from the great classics of the 80s to newcomers on the small screen. Re-discover the most essential and popular works of the moment in this collection in the most gourmet way possible, from the One...

This collection of short, accessible essays serves as a supplementary text to Morgan Lloyd Malcolm's play, Emilia. Critically acclaimed and beloved by audiences, this innovative and ground-breaking show is a speculative history, an imaginative...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385334297Author Nick ToschesFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint Bantam Dell Publishing Group, Div of Random House, IncPublisher Random House USA...

A hilarious and timely essay collection about race, gender, and pop culture from comedy superstar and 2 Dope Queens podcaster Phoebe Robinson Being a black woman in America means contending with old prejudices and fresh absurdities every day. Comedian...

Nicolas Roeg's Don't Look Now (1973) has been called "a ghost story for adults." Certainly, in contrast to the more explicitly violent and bloodthirsty horror films of the 1970s, Don't Look Now seems of an entirely different order. Yet this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorRandall Lotowycz lives with his family in Brooklyn. He is a lifelong film and comic book aficionado who can prattle on about both subjects for hours. He also...

From the legendary Cormac McCarthy, author of Blood Meridian and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, The Gardener's Son is the tale of two families: one, owners of the local cotton mill, the other a family of mill workers beset by misfortune.'[A] memorable...

Is a sound an object, an experience, an event, or a relation? What exactly does the emerging discipline of sound studies study? Sound Objects pursues these questions while exploring how history, culture, and mediation entwine with sound's elusive...

This is the second major revision of a book universally acclaimed as the definitive history of the documentary film. The final section has been completely rewritten and expanded to take into account the major films and trends of the past nine years...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953242924Author Thomas O'FlahertyFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint WWW.Spiritsalsa.comPublisher WWW.Spiritsalsa.com

"Son, that girl, she’s a nice girl, but she don’t study accounting. Her lips move when she read the horoscope – that ain’t the mark of a future accountant!" Since his wife died, ex-cop Walter ‘Pops’ Washington has filled his palatial rent-controlled...

The films of David Lynch are sometimes said to be unintelligible. They confront us with strange dreamscapes populated with bizarre characters, obscure symbols and an infuriating lack of narrative consistency. Yet despite their opacity, they hold us...

This title unravels politics from theatre in order to propose a new means to politicize performance. Performance analyses ranging from child actors, animals and objects to reflections on the innovative theatre work of Societas Raffaello Sanzio, Forced...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780962183713Author Janet LeaFormat PaperbackPage Count 354Imprint Laurel House PressPublisher Laurel House PressWeight(grams) 449g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985480288Author John David EbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Post Egoism MediaPublisher Post Egoism MediaWeight(grams) 231gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Beware the buried skull underfoot and watch out for children with fur on their backs...Blood on Satan's Claw is widely regarded as part of the 'unholy trinity' of cult classics which gave birth to the film genre that would become known as folk horror...

From the repurposed rubble of salvagepunk to undead hordes banging on shopping mall doors, from empty waste zones to teeming plagued cities, Combined and Uneven Apocalypse grapples with the apocalyptic fantasies of our collapsing era. Moving through the...

...in the tradition of the best jazz autobiographies...a fascinating travelogue through the jazz world filled with vivid images of Gene Krupa Stan Kenton Roy Eldridge and Billie Holiday...Her prose is as hip as her music. aEThe New York Times Book...

David Greig: Plays 1 brings together four key plays by the playwright described by the Daily Telegraph as 'one of the most interesting and adventurous British dramatists of his generation'. In Outlying Island two young Cambridge ornithologists are sent...

In 2021, its Diamond Jubilee year, the Association of British Theatre Technicians (ABTT) undertook to revise Theatre Buildings: A Design Guide (Routledge, 2010). This new edition (Routledge, 2023) has substantially re-written text with fresh images and...

"Performance" has multiple and often overlapping meanings that signify a wide variety of social behaviors. In this invitation to reflect on the power of performance, Diana Taylor explores many of its uses and iterations: artistic, economic, sexual,...

"From Fay's methodology, I learned to use my intuition and lived experiences in myriad new ways." -Winston Duke, actor, Black Panther, Avengers, Us, and Nine DaysEngaging Mind and Body to Develop the Complete Physical Nature of Characters Actors are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910162217Author Kevin KennedyFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Paperbooks Publishing LtdPublisher Paperbooks Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 285g

Radio Hitler follows the life of Deutschlandsender, the Nazi equivalent of BBC Radio 4, and its sister stations that transmitted to Germany and the world at large. Using first-hand interviews, archives, diaries, letters and memoirs, this book examines...

No film critic has ever been as influential or as beloved as Roger Ebert. Over more than four decades, he built a reputation writing reviews for the Chicago Sun-Times and, later, arguing onscreen with rival Chicago Tribune critic Gene Siskel and later...

A is for...Awards. The Big Bang Theory has been showered with awards for being the smartest and funniest TV sitcom around. B is for...Barenaked Ladies. Read all about the band that performed the show's famous theme song, 'The History of Everything'. C...

Often hailed as the 'best' James Bond film, From Russia With Love (1963) is celebrated for its direction by Terence Young, memorable performances from Sean Connery in his second outing as 007, Pedro Armendariz as Kerim, Lotte Lenya as the lesbian villain...

This companion piece to Susan Hayward's Film Ecology focuses on ecology-documentaries produced in the first 20 years of the new millennia (2000-2019). Using Kate Raworth's regenerative economic theoretical model as set out in Doughnut Economics, this...

In the second edition of Designer Drafting and Visualization for the Entertainment World, Patricia Woodbridge, a highly experienced art director of feature films and a long time teacher of scenic drafting and set design at the graduate level teams up...

'England? It seemed to be raining the whole time . . . Or maybe it was me'MARILYN MONROEIn July 1956, Marilyn Monroe arrived in London, on honeymoon with her husband Arthur Miller, to make The Sleeping Prince (later released as The Prince and the...

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A romantic-comedy-thriller about the heat of love and the magic of changing perspectives. Lin Han and Jie Hui have exchanged 536 emails and 72 jpegs, though they've only just met. She's sure he's the man she could fall in love with, if only he'd do it...