Performing Arts

Went the Day Well? is one of the most unusual pictures Ealing Studios produced,a distinctly unsentimental war film made in the darkest days of World War II, and nothing like the loveable comedies that later became the Ealing trademark.Its clear-eyed view...

Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing (1989) is one of the most popular and celebrated examples of the African-American new black film wave. Set during the hottest day of a hot summer in New York City, the film's ensemble cast, including Lee himself,...

Now in paperback, this posthumous work by an American classic was a fitting last book, an instant bestseller, and a huge success!One of the undisputed heavyweight champions of American comedy, with nineteen appearances on the Johnny Carson show, thirteen...

In Inside Studio 54, the former owner takes you behind the scenes of the most famous nightclub in the world, through the crowd, to a place where celebrities, friends, and the beautiful people sip champagne and share lines of cocaine using rolled-up...

In Women's Cinema, World Cinema, Patricia White explores the dynamic intersection of feminism and film in the twenty-first century by highlighting the work of a new generation of women directors from around the world: Samira and Hana Makhmalbaf, Nadine...

During the 1960s, many models, Playboy centerfolds, beauty queens, and Las Vegas showgirls went on to become "decorative actresses" appearing scantily clad on film and television. This well illustrated homage to 75 of these glamour girls reveals their...

Northern California Book Awards ShortlistThe comprehensive critical biography of silent-screen star Marion Davies, who fittingly referred to herself as "the captain of my soul." From Marion Davies's humble days in Brooklyn to her rise to fame alongside...

In The Handmaid's Tale and Philosophy, philosophers give their insights into the blockbuster best-selling novel and record-breaking TV series, The Handmaid's Tale. The story involves a future breakaway state in New England, beset by environmental...

From the New York Times ebook bestselling author of the Because You Are Mine series and The Affair, for fans for Sylvia Day, J. Kenner and Maya Banks. This is the fourth in Beth Kery's One Night of Passion series about a group of connected characters who...

In Describing Cinema, award-winning film scholar Timothy Corrigan explores the art and poetics of writing about film. Part theory, part rhetoric, and part pedagogy, the text examines and demonstrates acts of describing scenes, shots, and sequences in...

This is, for the first time in its entirety, the story of the arrest and trial of Clay Shaw, charged with conspiracy in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.About the AuthorPatricia LambertBook InformationISBN 9780871319203Author Patricia...

'It's a wonderful institution and the training is amazing.' SAM HEUGHAN 'I can honestly say, no word of a lie, that the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland changed my life.' JACKIE KAY For 175 years, a Glasgow institution has been teaching the...

Millions have sat under the "big top," watching as trapeze artists glide and clowns entertain, but few know the captivating stories behind the men who shaped the circus.Battle for the Big Top is the untold story of the battles of the three circus...

This study provides a detailed account of the 1960s film, "L'avventura", arguing that in order to appreciate its greatness it is necessary to understand not only that the film is a classic but also that it represents a revolution in cinema.As a whole...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787056688Author Maureen WhittakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint MX PublishingPublisher MX PublishingWeight(grams) 494gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm...

A sumptuously illustrated survey of the remarkable flowering of radical, visionary and experimental design for performance in Russia in the twenty years between 1913 and 1933. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Russian theatre produced an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909394810Author Martin HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint HeadpressPublisher Headpress

The multiple award-winning Doctor Zhivago (1965) is one of America's finest films of all time. Ian Christie contextualizes the film as an epic Russian love story and a Cold War classic, charts its production and reception, including the contribution of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Independent Publisher Book Awards (Popular Culture/Leisure) 2013.Book InformationISBN 9781550229844Author Robert A. SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984860934Author Anita SarnaFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566563260Author Rosina-Fawzia Al-RawiFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Interlink BooksPublisher Interlink Publishing Group, IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307739766Author Warren LittlefieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 326gDimensions(mm) 202mm...

Reveals the convergence of perception and destruction in the parallel technologies of warfare and cinema.A rich and suggestive analysis of military "ways of seeing"About the AuthorPaul Virilio trained as an artist in stained glass, working with Braque...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907352065Author Roland MuldoonFormat PaperbackPage Count 358Imprint Just PressPublisher Just PressWeight(grams) 156g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615533612Author William RabkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Moon & Sun & Whiskey, IncorporatedPublisher Moon & Sun & Whiskey,...

The third volume in Philip Pullman's groundbreaking His Dark Materials trilogy, re-published in hardback with a stunning fine art cover.Now a major, critically acclaimed BBC/HBO TV series. "We're going to the land...

Updated to include 50 additional grooves, this encyclopedic book and two-CD set contains more than 450 musical examples in standard notation, showing grooves and practical variations. Overviews of the history and development of almost all popular music...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955708992Author David BabouleneFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint Dreamengine Media Ltd.Publisher Dreamengine Media Ltd.Weight(grams) 445g

The identity of Shakespeare, the most important poet and dramatist in the English language, has been debated for centuries. This historical work investigates the role of Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford, establishing him as most likely the...

Being a successful editor is about more than just knowing how to operate a certain piece of software, or when to make a certain transition. On the contrary, there are many unwritten laws and a sense of propriety that are never discussed or taught in film...

In this now-classic study, Linda Williams moves beyond the impasse of the anti-porn/anti-censorship debate to analyze what hard-core film pornography is and does--as a genre with a history, as a specific cinematic form, and as part of contemporary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780975944677Author Tat WoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Mad Norwegian PressPublisher Mad Norwegian PressWeight(grams) 794gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Few modern art forms are as misunderstood as the craft of creating movie scripts, but "Tales from the Script" puts readers in the trenches of the Hollywood development process. Readers will revel in the exploits of Shane Black ("Lethal Weapon"), John...

For many, Blue Velvet is David Lynch's masterpiece. It represents a unique act of cinema: an 80s Hollywood studio film as radical, visionary and cabalistic as anything found in the avant-garde; a mysteriously symbolic and subterranean ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644627167Author John BellFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Page Publishing, Inc.Publisher Page Publishing, Inc.Weight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Michel Saint-Denis was one of twentieth century theatre's most influential directors and theorists. This book combines his seminal Theatre: The Rediscovery of Style with material from Training for the Theatre, newly edited to create a work which moves...

Jack Clayton's gothic masterpiece The Innocents, though not a commercial success on its release in 1961, has been hailed as one of the greatest psychological thrillers of all time. Dividing reviewers with its ambiguous depiction of ghosts, the film...

The first collection of its kind, The Oberon Book of Queer Monologues chronicles over one hundred years of queer and trans performance. Combining stage plays with spoken word and performance art, this anthology features over forty extracts from some...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616557904Author Gene YangFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Dark Horse ComicsPublisher Dark Horse ComicsWeight(grams) 199g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681377803Author Robert BressonFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc