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Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot by Mark Taylor-Batty 9780826495945
$37.13This title provides informative critical introduction to Beckett's "Waiting for Godot", one of the most commonly studied modern plays."Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot" is not only an indisputably important and influential dramatic... -
The Transformative Power of Performance: A New Aesthetics by Erika Fischer-Lichte 9780415458566
RRP: $72.13$63.43In this book, Erika Fischer-Lichte traces the emergence of performance as 'an art event' in its own right. In setting performance art on an equal footing with the traditional art object, she heralds a new aesthetics.The peculiar mode of experience that a... -
The Art of John Alvin by John Alvin
RRP: $48.73$38.47John Alvin's movie poster art is among the most iconic of the last 40 years, from Disney films such as Beauty and the Beast and Pinocchio, to Empire of the Sun, The Goonies, Blazing Saddles, Jurassic Park, and Star Wars Celebration posters. This book not... -
Dancing In The Distraction Factory: Music Television and Popular Culture by Andrew Goodwin 9780816620630
RRP: $42.88$38.01Cultural Studies"Entertaining proof that good sense means good theory, this book is the first to treat music TV as vision and sound. Academically, I had most fun applauding Andrew Goodwin's elegant skewering of postmodernists; as a rock fan I was... -
The Film Music of John Williams: Reviving Hollywood's Classical Style by Emilio Audissino
RRP: $48.65$37.36From the triumphant 'Main Title' in Star Wars to the ominous bass line of Jaws, John Williams has penned some of the most unforgettable film scores-while netting more than fifty Academy Award nominations. This updated and revised edition of Emilio... -
Scorsese by Ebert by Roger Ebert
RRP: $31.20$26.99Roger Ebert wrote the first film review that director Martin Scorsese ever received - for 1967's "I Call First", later renamed "Who's That Knocking at My Door" - creating a lasting bond that made him one of Scorsese's most appreciative and perceptive... -
Mark Wilson's Complete Course in Magic by Mark Anthony Wilson 9780762414550
$41.36The ultimate book of magic for kids from a world-famous magician, complete with photographs for easy to follow instructions. From one of the world's premier practitioners of classic magic, with years of experience instructing younger readers in the... -
Zendaya: The Unauthorized Biography by Alison James 9781789295481
RRP: $29.23$22.05Discover how Zendaya conquered the worlds of film, TV and fashion to become the face of a generation. This is her life story, as never told before. Zendaya is a phenomenon. Beginning as a precocious child star on the Disney Channel, she has since... -
Columbo: A Rhetoric of Inquiry with Resistant Responders by Christyne Berzsenyi
RRP: $58.50$57.15This book presents an analysis of Lieutenant Columbo's investigative method of rhetorical inquiry as seen in the television police procedural Columbo (1968-2003). With a barrage of questions about minute details and feigned ignorance, the iconic... -
Discorrelated Images by Shane Denson
RRP: $46.78$41.26In Discorrelated Images Shane Denson examines how computer-generated digital images displace and transform the traditional spatial and temporal relationships that viewers had with conventional analog forms of cinema. Denson analyzes works ranging from... -
Auto/Biography and Identity by Maggie B. Gale 9780719063336
RRP: $38.98$34.34This groundbreaking book shows how female performers - one of the first groups of professional women - used and still use autobiography and performance as both a means of expression and control of their private and public selves, the 'face and the mask'... -
My Left Nut by Michael Patrick 9780573116414
$20.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573116414Author Michael PatrickFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
Behind the Burly Q: The Story of Burlesque in America by Leslie Zemeckis
RRP: $25.33$22.82By the director of the hit documentary Behind the Burly Q comes the first ever oral history of American Burlesque--as told by the performers who lived it, often speaking out here for the first time. By telling the intimate and surprising stories from its... -
The Makeup Artist Handbook: Techniques for Film, Television, Photography, and Theatre by Gretchen Davis
RRP: $85.78$79.17Learn first-rate techniques and tips from some of the best makeup artists in the business in the new edition of The Makeup Artist Handbook. Renown makeup pros Gretchen Davis and Mindy Hall bring an impressive set of experience in all areas to the book,... -
We’re Not Worthy: From In Living Color to Mr. Show, How ‘90s Sketch TV Changed the Face of Comedy by Jason Klamm 9781948221269
RRP: $38.98$26.44LIMITED FIRST EDITION contains blue foil gilded page edges and a white satin ribbon marker.In the '70s and '80s Saturday Night Live, SCTV, and Monty Python ruled the television airwaves with sketch comedy. But then came the 1990s-and alongside grunge... -
Short Plays by Michelle Ashton 9780244390556
RRP: $25.33$23.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244390556Author Michelle AshtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.com -
Rent by Jonathon Larson 9780688154370
RRP: $77.90$58.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pulitzer Prize (Drama/Theater) 1996. Short-listed for Lambda Literary Awards (Drama/Theater) 1997.Book InformationISBN 9780688154370Author Jonathon LarsonFormat... -
Complex TV: The Poetics of Contemporary Television Storytelling by Jason Mittell
RRP: $40.93$37.17A comprehensive and sustained analysis of the development of storytelling for television Over the past two decades, new technologies, changing viewer practices, and the proliferation of genres and channels has transformed American television. One of the... -
Theatre-Rites: Animating Puppets, Objects and Sites Liam Jarvis 9781138352278
RRP: $70.18$62.28Theatre-Rites are regarded as pioneers in the field of object-led and site-specific performance, creating ground-breaking work for family audiences since 1995. This book marks the company's 25th anniversary, offering the first in-depth exploration of... -
Il conformista (The Conformist) by Chris Wagstaff
$19.58Il Conformist has mesmerised audiences by Bertulocci's mastery of the telling, the beauty of the images, the camera work, its soundtrack, and the intensity with which the characters convey powerful psychic energies. This unique European film classic... -
Marvel's Falcon and the Winter Soldier Collector's Special by Titan Magazines
RRP: $38.98$28.63A guide to Marvel Studios' action-packed Disney+ series, featuring Sam Wilson and Bucky Barnes. Includes interviews with the cast and crew of Marvel Studios' The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, along with exclusive photos and art. This special... -
The Americans by Linda Mizejewski 9780814347430
RRP: $38.90$31.06Explores The Americans as a groundbreaking series that brilliantly merged the spy genre and domestic melodrama. Based on the actual KGB strategy of planting "illegals" into American life during the Cold War, The Americans (FX 2013-2018) focuses on Philip... -
Screenwriting is Rewriting: The Art and Craft of Professional Revision by Jack Epps 9781628927405
RRP: $44.83$44.36If there is one skill that separates the professional screenwriter from the amateur, it is the ability to rewrite successfully. From Jack Epps, Jr., the screenwriter of Top Gun, Dick Tracy, and The Secret of My Success, comes a comprehensive guide that... -
Practice-based Research for Filmmakers Agata Lulkowska 9781032391250
RRP: $97.48$88.55Evaluating the existing position of film as research, Practice-based Research for Filmmakers offers clear guidance and practical advice from the planning and conception of research films to the making, evaluation, dissemination and impact of... -
Structural Design for the Stage Alys Holden (Theatrical Systems Designer, Walt Disney Imagineering; Instructor, California Institute of the Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA) 9780240818269
RRP: $253.50$211.07The follow-up to the 2000 Golden Pen Award-winning Structural Design for the Stage, this second edition provides the theater technician with a foundation in structural design, allowing an intuitive understanding of "why sets stand up." It introduces the... -
Embodied Acting: What Neuroscience Tells Us About Performance by Rick Kemp
RRP: $62.38$55.24'A focus on the body, its actions, and its cognitive mechanisms identifies ... foundational principles of activity that link the three elements of theatre; Story, Space, and Time. The three meet in, are defined by, and expressed through the actor's body... -
Film Marketing into the Twenty-First Century by Nolwenn Mingant 9781844578382
$74.02How do you sell British humour to a French audience? Could piracy actually be good for the film business? Why are The Hobbit's revolutionary technologies not mentioned in some adverts? Exploring these questions and many more, Film Marketing into the... -
Robert De Niro at Work: From Screenplay to Screen Performance by Adam Ganz 9783030479596
RRP: $48.73$40.89Robert De Niro at Work is the first critical study to examine how Robert de Niro, perhaps the finest screen actor of his generation, works with screenplays to imagine, prepare and denote his performance. In categorising the various ways in which De Niro... -
The Cinema of Sofia Coppola: Fashion, Culture, Celebrity by Professor Suzanne Ferriss
RRP: $56.53$46.68The Cinema of Sofia Coppola provides the first comprehensive analysis of Coppola's oeuvre that situates her work broadly in relation to contemporary artistic, social and cultural currents. Suzanne Ferriss considers the central role of fashion - in its... -
Audition Songs for Men by Paul Harvard
RRP: $25.33$18.53THE GOOD AUDITION GUIDES: Helping you select and perform the audition piece that is best suited to your performing skills If you're auditioning for a musical - or needing to choose a song to perform for an exam, showcase or drama-school application -... -
Children of the Sun by Maxim Gorky
RRP: $21.43$14.70I didn't read your books. I licked them, I rubbed them all over my naked body and licked them.Protasov, detached and idealistic, wants only to immerse himself in chemical experiments to perfect mankind. He's more or less oblivious to the voracious... -
The Male Dancer: Bodies, Spectacle, Sexualities by Ramsay Burt
RRP: $70.18$61.80This revised third edition of The Male Dancer updates and enlarges a seminal book that has established itself as the definitive study of the performance of masculinities in twentieth century modernist and contemporary choreography. In this authoritative... -
Live Art in the UK: Contemporary Performances of Precarity by Ms Maria Chatzichristodoulou
RRP: $48.73$43.15Since entering the performance lexicon in the 1970s, the term Live Art has been used to describe a diverse but interrelated array of performance practices and approaches. This volume offers a contextual and critical introduction to the scene of... -
Drama Games & Acting Exercises: 177 Games & Activities by Rod Martin
RRP: $37.03$24.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566081665Author Rod MartinFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Christian Publishers LLCPublisher Christian Publishers LLCWeight(grams) 200g -
The 100 Greatest Looney Tunes Cartoons by Jerry Beck
RRP: $40.95$27.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647221379Author Jerry BeckFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight Editions -
Clementine's Walk Annie White 9781913639709
RRP: $15.58$10.55Clementine is intent on finding someone (anyone!) to take her for a walk, but everyone is just too busy. When it is finally time to go for a walk, Clementine is nowhere to be found.About the AuthorAnnie White illustrates and writes for children from her... -
The Art of Eric Guillon - From the Making of Despicable Me to Minions, the Secret Life of Pets, and More by Ben Croll
RRP: $87.73$44.15Delve behind the scenes of artist Eric Guillon's artwork for Illumination and Entertainment's popular films, including Despicable Me, Sing, and upcoming The Secret Life of Pets 2. Illumination Entertainment has produced some of this century's most... -
Undead John Russo 9780857685704
$13.75George A. Romero's classic 1968 film, "Night of the Living Dead", introduced a new era of gutmunching cinematic mayhem and inspired legions of directors and writers, among them Quentin Tarantino and George Lucas. John A. Russo co-wrote the... -
The Greatest Play in the History of the World by Ian Kershaw
RRP: $23.38$22.95What is it that you would want to be preserved for eternity? A man wakes in the middle of the night to discover that the world has stopped. Through the crack in his bedroom curtains he can see no signs of life at all...other than a light in the... -
The Zodiac Gestures in Eurythmy by Werner Barfod 9781782505679
RRP: $33.13$24.32Eurythmy is an art form that makes sounds visible. By incorporating zodiac gestures into their art, as indicated by Rudolf Steiner, eurythmists can draw on a deep connection between the earth and the cosmos.The zodiac, as representative of the whole...