Performing Arts

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...

The Fourth Edition of AHistory amends and vastly expands (by about 40%) the work of Third Edition, continuing to incorporate the whole of Doctor Who into a single timeline. All told, this Fourth Edition takes about 2000 (!!!!!) full-length Doctor Who...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644301289Author Stephen MosleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Midnight Marquee Press, Inc.Publisher Midnight Marquee Press, Inc.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948174831Author Editors of the Official John Wayne MagazineFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Topix Media LabPublisher Topix Media LabWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615932825Author Pilar AlessandraFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Michael Wiese ProductionsPublisher Michael Wiese Productions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573690860Author Hugh WhitemoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French LtdWeight(grams) 127gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Immerse yourself in Julian Fellowes' multi-award-winning drama. The full scripts of Series Three include previously unseen dialogue and drama. Downton Abbey has become a national phenomenon and the most successful British drama of our time...

B. Ruby Rich designated a brand new genre, the New Queer Cinema (NQC), in her groundbreaking article in the Village Voice in 1992. This movement in film and video was intensely political and aesthetically innovative, made possible by the debut of the...

She would appear in more than thirty films and be named after a Road Atlas by Cecil B Demille. A football play would be named after her. She would appear on To Tell the Truth. She would be arrested six times in one day for indecency. She would be...

" . . . an important collective work for communication practitioners, students, and scholars who want to have a deeper understanding of film making in Asia and of the promotion of nationalism through communication." -Media Asia" . . . a momentous...

Taking a fresh look at The Shining (1980), this book situates the film within the history of the horror genre and examines its rightful status as one of the greatest horror movies ever made. It explores how Stanley Kubrick's filmmaking style, use of dark...

This book tells the story of the influential group of creative artists - Pauline Oliveros, Morton Subotnick, Ramon Sender, William Maginnis, and Tony Martin - who connected music to technology during a legendary era in California's cultural history. An...

For generations, members of the LGBTQ+ community in Hollywood needed to be "discreet" about their lives but-make no mistake-they were everywhere, both in front of and behind the camera. On the eve the 20th century, in Thomas Edison's laboratory, one of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957606210Author Paul SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 436Imprint Wonderful BooksPublisher Wonderful BooksDimensions(mm) 228mm * 152mm * 25mm

One film out of every five made anywhere on earth comes from India. From its beginnings under colonial rule through to the heights of Bollywood , Indian Cinema has challenged social injustices such as caste, the oppression of Indian women, religious...

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A is for...Awards. E4's The Inbetweeners has proved a huge comedy hit and has won a host of well deserved comedy awards. Amongst their haul of gongs was, in 2010, the Audience Award at the British Television Awards, the only award voted for by the...

The Northman: A Call to the Gods is the official look at how this epic Viking revenge thriller was conceived, written, cast, and produced by acclaimed director Robert Eggers. Set against the ruthless backdrop of tenth-century Norse territory, The...

How the creative use of pop music in film—think Saturday Night Fever or Apocalypse Now—has shaped and shifted music history since the 1960s Quick: What movie do you think of when you hear “The Sounds of Silence”? Better yet, what song comes to mind when...

Latinx Actor Training presents essays and pioneering research from leading Latinx practitioners and scholars in the United States to examine the history and future of Latino/a/x/e actor training practices and approaches.Born out of the urgent need to...

Director J.J. Abrams' new vision of the greatest space adventure of all time, Star Trek features a young, new crew venturing boldly where no man has gone before, as it tells the story of how the brash Starfleet cadet James T. Kirk first meets a Vulcan...

?Bringing Up Baby, directed by Howard Hawks in 1938, is one of the greatest screwball comedies and a treasure from the Golden Age of Hollywood. Cary Grant plays a naive and repressed palaeosaurologist who becomes entangled with (and ensnared by) a wilful...

Written by leading scholars in the field, this book is an internationally relevant, cutting-edge reassessment of both current methods and practices in television historiography and of assumptions and critical common places about television history itself...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780306874598Author James VeitchFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Hachette BooksPublisher Hachette BooksWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 196mm * 130mm *...

Uncover the secrets of the Skywalkers: the family that shaped a galaxy far, far away...The Skywalker story has everything: passion, intrigue, heroism, and dark deeds.This revelatory biography explores every twist and turn of the Skywalker dynasty: the...

Lourdes Orozco considers different representations of animals in performance; suggesting that all animals have the ability to make us question the human, and its relationship to the other. She examines ways in which animals challenge theatre's ability to...

This is classic Hollywood history as told through the life and career of one of its most iconic actresses. The book benefits tremendously from the author's meeting with Olivia de Havilland after he was assigned to handle her projected memoir at the...

Rocliffe Notes is a compendium for screenwriters and filmmakers which brings together tips and opinions from over 140 film and TV industry professionals, and provides a step-by-step, common-sense guide on how writers and writer-directors can best present...

James Naremore's study of Max Ophuls' classic 1948 melodrama, Letter from an Unknown Woman, not only pays tribute to Ophuls but also discusses the backgrounds and typical styles of the film's many contributors--among them Viennese author Stephan Zweig,...

After a shooting in London goes hideously wrong, two hitmen, Ray and Ken, are sent to hide out in the strange, Gothic, medieval town of Bruges, Belgium, by their volatile and dangerous boss, Harry Waters.While awaiting instructions from him as to what to...

Teaching What You Want to Learn distils the five decades that Bill Evans has spent immersed in teaching dance into an indispensable guide for today's dance instructor. From devising specific pedagogical strategies and translating theory into...

Art of the Cut provides an unprecedented look at the art and technique of contemporary film and television editing. It is a fascinating "virtual roundtable discussion" with more than 50 of the top editors from around the globe. Included in the discussion...

ESomething's Coming Something Good: West Side Story and the American ImaginationE takes a critical comprehensive look at one of the most inventive influential and internationally beloved Broadway musicals of all time a from its inception by a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573705649Author Qui NguyenFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

This addition to the Royal Ballet Yearbook series includes extra editorial features and exclusive behind-the-scenes content - in addition to the usual selection of beautiful ballet images. This lavish book opens with a Welcome note by Royal Ballet...

Released in 1984, "Once Upon a Time in America" was the final work of Sergio Leone, best known for Speghetti Westerns such as "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly". This "testament film" marries the director's flamboyant, expressionistic style to a story full...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780962970931Author Eric MorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Ermor Enterprises,U.S.Publisher Ermor Enterprises,U.S.Weight(grams) 272g

Beginning in the mid-1940s, the bleak, brooding mood of film noir began seeping into that most optimistic of film genres, the western. Story lines took on a darker tone and western films adopted classic noir elements of moral ambiguity, complex...

With more than 120 illustrations to accompany instructions to more than 100 tricks, and a new foreword by Steven Cohen, a master of sleight of hand, this edition of Jean Hugard's classic is an essential edition to any illustionist's library.If you...