Performing Arts

I want to give my country a model of perfection. My country needs cheering up. I'm the man to do it.A man of great passions, John Christie wooed his opera singer wife with a determination befitting a man who won the Military Cross at the Battle of Loos...

In They Shouldn't Have Killed His Dog: The Complete Uncensored Ass-Kicking Oral History of John Wick, Gun-Fu and The New Age of Action, bestselling authors Mark A. Altman and Edward Gross take you behind the scenes of a franchise that includes three...

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's emblem, which has opened thousands of movies since 1924, is the most recognized corporate symbol in the world. Not just in the entertainment industry, it should be noted, but of any industry, anywhere, in the history of human...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807073315Author Terry GallowayFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 238gDimensions(mm) 215mm * 139mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955767012Author Graham RinaldiFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Tomahawk PressPublisher Tomahawk PressWeight(grams) 838g

A volume of four new plays as part of the RSC's Midsummer Mischief by Alice Birch, E. V. Crowe, Timberlake Wertenbaker and Abi Zakarian. The writers had the famous quote by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, "Well-behaved women seldom make history" as an initial...

Explore the mind and world of the brilliant neurosurgeon-turned-Sorcerer Supreme Doctor Stephen Strange Marvel Comics legends Stan Lee and Steve Ditko first introduced Doctor Stephen Strange to the world in 1963--and his spellbinding adventures have...

Discover the tips, tricks and techniques that really work for concept artists, matte painters and animators. Compiled by the team at 3dtotal.com, Digital Painting Techniques, Volume 1 offers digital inspiration with hands-on insight and techniques from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788763507844Author Dorita HannahFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Museum Tusculanum PressPublisher Museum Tusculanum PressWeight(grams)...

Manchester International Festival (MIF) has invited some of the world's greatest living artists to delight and often challenge crowds in spaces of all shapes and sizes; from disused railway stations to atmospheric concert halls. It's crossed boundaries...

The Cinema of Takeshi Kitano: Flowering Blood is a detailed aesthetic, Deleuzian, and phenomenological exploration of Japan's finest currently-working film director, performer, and celebrity. The volume uniquely explores Kitano's oeuvre through the...

I Know Where I'm Going! (1945) is widely regarded as one of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's most remarkable achievements and a cinematic tour de force. A simple moral tale set in the wild Scottish Highlands, it follows the journey of a headstrong...

This book is a practical and theoretical exploration of the embodied imagining processes of devised performance in which the human and more-than-human are co-implicated in the creative process.This study brings together the work of French theatre...

Documentary films are the rock and roll of our times. Why are they made? Who are in the tribe of documentary film-makers? Do their films really change the world? Eighteen years ago, Nick Fraser created BBC Storyville, producing films that won Oscars,...

The 1st of the 24 Marvel Cinematic Universe Infinity Saga film titles being published as a complete set. This fully illustrated tome treats fans to a comprehensive, unique and privileged behind-the-scenes look at the creative process behind the...

If you've ever wondered what it's like to soar through space like a leaf on the wind in a Firefly spaceship, this is the manual for you. The Firefly-class transport ship was originally created by the Allied Spacecraft Corporation, but since the...

Joan Acocella, "one of our finest cultural critics" (Edward Hirsch), has the rare ability to examine literature and unearth the lives contained within it - its authors, its subjects, and the communities from which it sprung. In her hands, arts criticism...

'It's no wonder Oprah Winfrey and Reese Witherspoon are fans of Jasmine Guillory - she writes the sexiest and smartest romances. This tale . . . ticks all the romcom boxes' Red MagazineHave you discovered New York Times bestseller and Reese's Book Club...

Widely acclaimed as the best animated film of all time, Tale of Tales is a poetic amalgam of Yuri Norstein's memories of his past and hopes and fears for the future: his post-war childhood, remnants of the personal tragedies of war, the little wolf...

The roaring twenties. A world in flux. The magnetic Florence Lancaster draws people to her like moths to a flame. But when her son Nicky arrives home from Paris with an unexpected fiancee and a secret, it sets off a chain of events which threatens to...

Film production is a highly creative and collaborative industry, full of multi-skilled artists and craftsmen. The fast-moving pace of technology makes it hard to keep abreast of current practices in production design. However, the ethos and skills...

Cardiff East 'As scene melts into scene, one's appetite for knowing more and more about these people is constantly whetted, even for the ones one would avoid in real life. Each and every [character] rings true and resonates further... A play which is...

Decalogue, The Double Life of Veronique and his trilogy, Three Colours, earned Kieslowski his reputation as a world-class film-maker. Kieslowski was notoriously reticent, and even dismissive of his work and talent, but these frank and detailed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578410845Author Thom WallFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Modern Vaudeville PressPublisher Modern Vaudeville PressWeight(grams) 268g

Starring internationally renowned actors Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Barry Morse and Catherine Schell, the British-made Space: 1999 was the only truly original space adventure of the mid-1970s. Sandwiched between the demise of the original Star Trek and...

The Shadow and Its Shadow is a classic collection of writings by the Surrealists on their mad love of moviegoing. The forty-odd theoretical, polemical, and poetical re-visions of the seventh art in this anthology document Surrealism's scandalous and...

In recent years the use of film and video by British artists has come to widespread public attention. Jeremy Deller, Douglas Gordon, Steve McQueen and Gillian Wearing all won the Turner Prize (in 2004, 1996, 1999 and 1997 respectively) for work made on...

Survivor has proven to be one of the most popular shows to ever hit television screens. What has this pop culture phenomenon shown us -- by placing a few hundred people on islands around the world -- about the psychological make-up of the average...

Avant-garde film is almost indefinable. It is in a constant state of change and redefinition. In his highly-acclaimed history of experimental film, A.L. Rees tracks the movement of the film avant-garde between the cinema and modern art (with its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979388149Author Lloyd PyeFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Bell Lap Books Inc.Publisher Bell Lap Books Inc.Weight(grams) 390g

'Like a pizza delivery driver who travels everywhere by moped, or a volcanologist who keeps turning the central heating up, I'm a film critic who loves going to the cinema.' - Peter Bradshaw. Peter Bradshaw is the film reviewer for intelligent,...

A behind-the-scenes look at the life of the most extraordinary martial artist of all time-Bruce Lee.Bruce Lee: The Celebrated Life of the Golden Dragon is an illustrated biography of this fascinating martial artist and movie star, from the start of his...

From concept to finished draft-a nuts-and-bolts approach to adaptations Aspiring and established screenwriters everywhere, take note! This down-to-earth guide is the first to clearly articulate the craft of adaptation. Drawing on his own experience and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645176506Author Patti StilesFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Big Toast EntertainmentPublisher Big Toast EntertainmentWeight(grams)...

Erika Fischer-Lichte's introduction to the discipline of Theatre and Performance Studies is a strikingly authoritative and wide ranging guide to the study of theatre in all of its forms. Its three-part structure moves from the first steps in starting to...

Praised for its unabashed portrait of the 'death care' industry, HBO's 'Six Feet Under' is less about the business of death than the art of living well. It was created by Alan Ball ('American Beauty') and centres on a Pasadena undertakers run by two...

Butterfly McQueen will always be remembered for her first screen role-as Scarlett O'Hara's hysterical servant girl, Prissy, in Gone With the Wind (1939)-and for her most famous line in the Civil War epic: "I don't know nuthin' 'bout birthin' babies!"...

Winner of New Diorama, Underbelly and Methuen Drama's Untapped Award 2022 A dying man's last wish: for his friends to create a show about death. Will it be subtle? Will it be sophisticated? Probably not, but it's his funeral. Literally. ...

Dudley Andrew is a master at making the world of film theory accessible to a largely mystified public. Since the publication of his Major Film Theories, a classic in the field, the sophistication of the debate concerning the proper approach to film has...

The definitive guide to the making of the Prime Video smash hit The Boys, featuring exclusive insights into the origins, themes and production of the show from the cast and crew. The Art and Making of The Boys is a fascinating insight into the...