Performing Arts

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781736213506Author B Rain BennettFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Flying Flounder PublishingPublisher Flying Flounder PublishingWeight(grams)...

Mention Shaft and most people think of Gordon Parks' seminal 1971 film starring Richard Roundtree in a leather coat, walking the streets of Manhattan to Isaac Hayes' iconic theme music. But the black private dick who inspired the blaxploitation film...

* This book covers everything you need to know about Color Management for Visual Effects. * Written by an artist for artists, in a clear and easy way, starting from the beginning. * The information is sourced from an expert of color management in VFX and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781960644046Author Joshua CutchinFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Educated Dragon PublishingPublisher Educated Dragon PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559367967Author Seth BarrishFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.

`In Comes I' explores performance and land, biography and locality, memory and place. The book reflects on performances past and present, taking the form of a series of excursions into the agricultural landscape of eastern England, and drawing from...

The highest artistic achievement of Hecht-Hill-Lancaster, an innovative production company that emerged in Hollywood at the end of the classic studio system, Sweet Smell of Success (1957) portended the collapse of Breen-Office censorship and was the...

Gregory Doran's account of his quest to re-discover Cardenio, the lost play written by Shakespeare and John Fletcher. A thrilling act of literary detection that takes him from the Bodleian Library in Oxford, via Cervantes' Spain to the stage of the Royal...

Move over, movies: the freshest storytelling today is on television, where the multi-episodic format is used for rich character development and innovative story arcs. Directors Tell the Story, Second Edition offers rare insight and advice straight from...

Before 2010, there were no Israeli horror films. Then distinctly Israeli serial killers, zombies, vampires, and ghosts invaded local screens. The next decade saw a blossoming of the genre by young Israeli filmmakers. New Israeli Horror is the first book...

Working with Actors provides the key to unlocking the honest, dynamic performance every actor has within them. It offers a well-articulated formulation of the Meisner Technique easy for directors and actors to use within a working context. Through...

An Introduction to Film Genres, written by leading film scholars specifically for undergraduates who are new to the study of film, provides an introduction that helps students see thirteen film genres in a new light---to help them identify the themes,...

L.A. Confidential was released in 1997 to huge critical acclaim and it went on to be nominated for nine Academy Awards. Its reputation has since grown to the point that the film is now widely seen as a key Hollywood movie of the 1990s. But it fared...

'To Those who Appreciate Wistaria and Sunshine. Small medieval castle on the shores of the Mediterranean to be let For the month of April, above a bay on the Italian Riviera.' Four very different women--the dishevelled and downtrodden Mrs Wilkins, the...

In E25 10-Minute Plays for TeensE young thespians in high school and middle school will find terrific plays by some of our most prominent playwrights such as Don Nigro Wendy MacLeod Jeff Goode Bekah Brunstetter and Constance Congdon; and equally...

James Kirkwood Full Length, Comedy Characters: 3 male, 1 female Interior Set In the West Village of Manhattan, Jimmy Zoole, a thirty-ish actor is having a run of bad luck. He's been robbed twice (they even took the only copy of his first novel), fired...

Historical Wig Styling: Ancient Egypt to the 1830s, 2nd edition, is a guide to creating beautiful, historically accurate hairstyles for theatrical productions and events. This volume covers hairstyles from Ancient Egypt through Romantic/Biedermeier...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316818704Author Lee StrasbergFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Little, Brown & CoPublisher Little, Brown & Company

A richly informed, up-to-date performance guide to more than 140 favorite ballets, from the classical era to the present day This engaging book is a welcome guide to the most successful and loved ballets seen on the stage today. Dance writer and critic...

This critical history of Doctor Who covers the series 60 years, from the creation of the show to its triumph as Britain's number one TV drama. Opening with an in-depth account of the creation of the series within the BBC of the early 1960s, each...

Eddie Muller-host of TCM's Noir Alley, one of the world's leading authorities on film noir, and cocktail connoisseur-takes film buffs and drinks enthusiasts alike on a spirited tour through the "dark city" of film noir in this stylish book packed with...

In this classic book, Norah Waugh explores the changing shapes of women's dress from the 1500s to the 1920s. Simple laced bodices became corsets of cane, whalebone and steel, while padding at shoulders and hips gave way to the structures of farthingales,...

Studio Ghibli picture books capture the magic of the legendary studio's animated films with easy-to-read text, full-color pictures direct from the film, and a family-friendly oversized hardcover format. In a long-ago war, humankind set off a devastating...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683835899Author Insight EditionsFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight EditionsWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 89mm *...

Renowned editor Larry Harbison brings together approximately one-hundred never-before-published men's monologues for actors to use for auditions and in class, all from recently produced plays. The selections include monologues from plays by both...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780762494019Author Running PressFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Rp MinisPublisher Rp MinisWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 89mm * 79mm * 48mm

Available for the First Time in Paperback!THFrom Aristotle's EPoeticsE to Vaclav Havel the debate about the nature and function of theatre has been marked by controversy. Daniel Gerould's landmark work ETheatre/Theory/TheatreE collects history's most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781898591139Author Charlie DanceyFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint ButterfingersPublisher Butterfingers

"A Shakespearean Theatre" is an invaluable guide to an important period in English history. With the use of superb cutaway illustrations, we take a look at the different people involved in the theatre, providing a vivid and dramatic insight into life in...

Even though essay films have been a key practice since the 1950s, there is scant analysis about this form in English. Part of this is likely due to the inherent difficulty of definition. The films, which foreground subjectivity and adopt an explicit,...

"A fascinating account of the trials and tribulations behind what turned into a triumphant South African production of Shakespeare's bloodiest tragedy, Titus Andronicus" (Independent) "Shakespeare in Tarantino mode" is how actor...

John Ford's masterpiece The Searchers (1956) was voted the seventh greatest film of all time in Sight & Sound's most recent poll of critics. Its influence on many of America's most distinguished contemporary filmmakers, among them Martin Scorsese, Paul...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909394445Author Amanda ReyesFormat PaperbackPage Count 342Imprint HeadpressPublisher Headpress

The autobiography of a legendary swing dancerThe autobiography of a legendary swing dancerAbout the AuthorLindy hopper Frankie Manning won a 1989 Tony Award for his choreography in Black and Blue, was honored by the National Endowment for the Arts with a...

Collective creation - the practice of collaboratively devising works of performance - rose to prominence not simply as a performance making method, but as an institutional model. By examining theatre practices in Europe and North America, this book...

Owen McCafferty's second collection includes plays that span from the sinking of the Titanic to the lingering aftermath of the Troubles in twenty-first-century Belfast.Absence of Women'A fine example of theatre at its small-scale best.' Evening...

G.W. Pabst's 1929 silent classic Pandora's Box (Die Buchse der Pandora), stars Hollywood icon Louise Brooks as the enigmatic heroine whose erotic charms lead to disaster for the men drawn into her web. Despite failing commercially upon release, it has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476738260Author Turner Classic Movies, Inc.Format HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Simon & Schuster Children's PublishingPublisher Simon &...

Zombies: A Cultural History, now available in paperback, sifts materials from anthropology, folklore, travel writing, colonial histories, long-forgotten pulp literature, B-movies, medical history and cultural theory to give a definitive short...

"Do's dim hawl 'da ti adael, Do's dim hawl 'da ti anghofio pwy wyt ti" "You don't get to leave, You don't get to forget who you really are" Erin, a young mother, has lost her son - but no one will listen. Driven and desperate, she must find him...