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The Complete Making of "Indiana Jones": The Definitive Story Behind All Four Films by J. W. Rinzler 9780345501295
RRP: $87.75$60.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345501295Author J.W. RinzlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 1928gDimensions(mm)... -
Jasmin Vardimon's Dance Theatre: Movement, memory and metaphor Libby Worth (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK) 9780415741637
RRP: $72.13$63.43Jasmin Vardimon's Dance Theatre offers an unusual, intimate insight into the devising and training processes of a choreographer in the midst of her practice. Libby Worth and Jasmin Vardimon take a collaborative approach to recording and exploring the... -
The Forbidden Body: Sex, Horror, and the Religious Imagination by Douglas E Cowan
RRP: $48.73$42.26From creature features to indie horror flicks, find out what happens when sex, horror, and the religious imagination come together Throughout history, religion has attempted to control nothing so much as our bodies: what they are and what they mean;... -
Theatre and Medicine Stanton B. Garner, Jr. (University of Tennessee, USA) 9781350330153
RRP: $19.48$16.50Theatre and Medicine offers a tour of this interdisciplinary terrain. Organized into four distinct topics, each represents crucial ways of understanding the theatre-medicine relationship. From discussions on the somatic underpinnings of the body that... -
Celestial Bodies: How to Look at Ballet by Laura Jacobs
RRP: $42.90$30.46A distinguished dance critic offers an enchanting introduction to the art of balletAs much as we may enjoy Swan Lake or The Nutcracker, for many of us ballet is a foreign language. It communicates through movement, not words, and its history lies almost... -
SceneWriting: The Missing Manual for Screenwriters by Chris Perry 9781501352126
RRP: $37.03$34.77You've got an idea for the next great screenplay. Maybe you're just getting started or perhaps you've spent time with other screenwriting books, and you have your hero's journey, plot twists, reversals, and cat-saving scenes all worked out. Either way,... -
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool: A True Story by Peter Turner 9781509860425
RRP: $15.58$12.83On 29 September 1981, Peter Turner received a phone call that would change his life. His former lover, Hollywood actress Gloria Grahame, had collapsed in a Lancaster hotel and was refusing medical attention. He had no choice but to take her into his... -
Lena Ashwell by Margaret Leask 9781907396649
RRP: $48.75$44.42For Ellen Terry, actress-manager Lena Ashwell (1869-1957) was 'a passionate voice'. From her first appearance on stage in 1891 to the end of her life, Ashwell was determined to make the theatre accessible and relevant to everyone, prompting G.B. Shaw to... -
Installation and the Moving Image by Catherine Elwes
RRP: $42.90$35.63Film and video create an illusory world, a reality elsewhere, and a material presence that both dramatizes and demystifies the magic trick of moving pictures. Beginning in the 1960s, artists have explored filmic and televisual phenomena in the controlled... -
When Harry Met Cubby: The Story of the James Bond Producers by Robert Sellers 9780750990424
RRP: $39.00$31.36'Enthralling . . . an essential read, particularly for fans of 007.' - Cinema Retro'When Harry Met Cubby is a fitting tribute to two extraordinary men. If you love behind the scenes stories about the making of movies, there's plenty of drama to sate you... -
The Damned United by David Peace
RRP: $23.38$22.62When Don Revie took over this club, Leeds were a rugby league town. No interest in football. Gates under 10,000. We'd never won a thing. He built one of the great clubs of English football, one of the great teams of English football, from scratch on... -
Good, the Tough and the Deadly: Action Movies and Stars 1960s-Present by David J. Moore 9780764349959
RRP: $79.93$55.52This massive study on action movies and stars from around the world, from the 1960s to the present, is filled with more than a thousand in-depth movie reviews that cover every action star who's crossed over from the world of martial arts, sports,... -
The Book What I Wrote: Eric, Ernie and Me by Eddie Braben 9780340833742
RRP: $21.43$15.17With his recent theatrical success, The Play What I Wrote, Braben shows that the audience for the spirit of the incomparable Eric and Ernie is just as alive today as it was in their glory years. Now, the key figure behind their success, scriptwriter... -
Anthems for Choirs 2 by Philip Ledger 9780193532403
RRP: $40.85$38.3424 anthems for sopranos and altos (unison and two-part)About the AuthorEducated at King's College, Cambridge, Sir Philip Ledger CBE was Director of Music at King's College, Cambridge from 1974-1982 and Conductor of the Cambridge University Musical... -
La Regle du jeu by V. F. Perkins
$19.58Renoir's famous and controversial comedy of manners has a troubled history. Victor Perkins presents here a sensitive socio-historical study of Renoir's revised edition of the film, released 20 years after its premiere; shaped by the profundity and... -
Jacques Lecoq Simon Murray (University of Glasgow, UK) 9781138570801
RRP: $76.03$67.26This volume offers a concise guide to the teaching and philosophy of one of the most significant figures in twentieth century actor training. Jacques Lecoq's influence on the theatre of the latter half of the twentieth century cannot be overestimated.Now... -
Being a Ballerina: The Power and Perfection of a Dancing Life by Gavin Larsen 9780813066899
RRP: $52.55$35.65A look inside a dancer's worldInspiring, revealing, and deeply relatable, Being a Ballerina is a firsthand look at the realities of life as a professional ballet dancer. Through episodes from her own career, Gavin Larsen describes the forces that drive a... -
Overlord: The Complete Anime Artbook II III by Hobby Book Editorial Department
RRP: $60.43$42.33Get a behind-the-scenes look at the sensational dark fantasy, Overlord!! When thesecond season and third season aired in 2019, many watchers were enamored by itsincredible world building. This book delves into the nitty gritty of the show'sproduction,... -
The Art of Star Trek: Discovery by Paula Block
RRP: $77.98$61.95The official Star Trek: Discovery art book. Star Trek: Discovery, the newest chapter in the Star Trek Universe, follows the exploits of Vulcan-raised science officer Michael Burnham and the crew of the U.S.S. Discovery as they boldly go where no one... -
Fly By Night: The Secret Story of Steven Spielberg, Warner Bros, and the Twilight Zone Deaths by Steven Chain
RRP: $52.55$41.40FLY BY NIGHT is about the helicopter crash on the set of "Twilight Zone: The Movie" - the Warner Bros. film co-produced by Steven Spielberg and John Landis - that killed actor Vic Morrow, and two children who had been hired illegally.Confidential sources... -
Miami vice by Steven Sanders 9780814334195
$34.36There may be no more iconic image of mid-1980s network television than Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs speeding down Biscayne Boulevard in Crockett's sleek black Ferrari on Miami Vice. With its unprecedented $1.3 million-per-episode budget and executive... -
Journey's End: A Biography of a Classic War Play by Robert Gore-Langton 9781849433952
$22.27R C Sherriff's Journey's End is a syllabus text and the most famous play about World War One. First staged in 1928, this book tells the story of what went into the making of this extraordinary and powerful trench drama. It outlines Sherriff's career from... -
How Magicians Think by Joshua Jay
RRP: $42.88$35.33The door to magic is closed, but it's not locked. And now Joshua Jay, one of the world's most accomplished magicians, not only opens that door but brings us inside to reveal the artistry and obsessiveness, esoteric history, and long-whispered-about... -
Hollywood Remakes of Iconic British Films: Class, Gender and Stardom by Agnieszka Rasmus
RRP: $165.75$157.25Hollywood Remakes of Iconic British Films: Class, Gender and Stardom investigates film remaking from the unique perspective of cross-cultural exchange between two countries who share a common language and history in film cooperation. Each chapter... -
Rethinking Visual Anthropology by Marcus Banks 9780300078541
$55.59This pathbreaking book brings together essays by leading anthropologists that cover an entire range of visual representation, from Balinese television to computer software manuals. Contributors discuss the anthropology of art, ritual, media and... -
100 Animated Feature Films: Revised Edition by Andrew Osmond
RRP: $38.98$31.9020 years ago, animated features were widely perceived as cartoons for children. Today they encompass an astonishing range of films, styles and techniques. There is the powerful adult drama of Waltz with Bashir; the Gallic sophistication of Belleville... -
Hidden Universe Travel Guide: Star Trek: Qo'nos and the Klingon Empire by Dayton Ward 9781785654374
RRP: $29.23$15.00Explore the homeworld and vast dominion of Star Trek's most formidable race, the Klingons, in this thrilling travel guide. nuqneH! Bored of standard vacations to places like Risa or Wrigley's Pleasure Planet? Want to discover a unique and ancient culture... -
The New Female Antihero: The Disruptive Women of Twenty-First-Century Us Television by Sarah Hagelin
RRP: $44.85$43.15The last ten years have seen a shift in television storytelling toward increasingly complex storylines and characters. In this study, Sarah Hagelin and Gillian Silverman zoom in on a key figure in this transformation: the archetype of the female antihero... -
The Routledge Companion to Dramaturgy by Magda Romanska
RRP: $72.13$65.87Dramaturgy, in its many forms, is a fundamental and indispensable element of contemporary theatre. In its earliest definition, the word itself means a comprehensive theory of "play making." Although it initially grew out of theatre, contemporary... -
Film's Musical Moments by Ian Conrich
RRP: $56.53$52.47The scope of this collection is indicative of the breadth and diversity of music's role in cinema, as is its emphasis on musical contributions to 'non-musical' films. By bringing together chapters that are concerned both with the relationship between... -
Firefly: Vol. 2: Official Companion by Joss Whedon
$19.01Before the smash hit movie "Serenity" came "Firefly", the cult TV series, which started it all and became a DVD phenomenon, selling almost half a million copies. Set 500 years in the future, "Firefly" centres around Mal Reynolds, captain of the... -
Su Friedrich: Interviews by Sonia Misra
RRP: $48.65$38.03Su Friedrich (b. 1954) has been described as an autobiographical filmmaker, an experimental filmmaker, a documentary filmmaker, an independent filmmaker, a feminist filmmaker, and a lesbian filmmaker-labels that she sprucely dodges, insisting time and... -
Spoiler Alert!: The Badass Book of Movie Plots: Why We All Love Hollywood Cliches by Steven Espinoza
RRP: $35.08$25.31Feel like you've seen these movies before? Spoiler Alert celebrates Hollywood film-making in all its formulaic and predictable glory!Spoiler Alert! takes 38 mainstream movie genres, from 'Teen Sex Comedy' and 'Buddy Action Comedy' to 'Film Noir Detective... -
The Contemporary Hollywood Film Industry Paul McDonald (University of Portsmouth) 9781405133883
RRP: $64.25$57.25The Contemporary Hollywood Film Industry is a collection of essays by leading scholars that examines the state of the U.S. film industry, from the l980s to present day. Includes important discussions of the industry's labour and star systems, as well... -
Masterpieces by Elaine Aston 9781474218061
$22.25You are not at liberty to avenge the pornography industry in this country. We have the censorship laws for that. Masterpieces opens on three couples having dinner in a restaurant, exchanging sexist jokes. The response is varied: some of them laugh... -
Sushio Artworks by Sushio 9784756250612
RRP: $78.00$55.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784756250612Author SushioFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Pie International Co., Ltd.Publisher Pie International Co., Ltd. -
Sense of Occasion by Harold Prince
RRP: $29.23$22.82In this fast-moving, candid, conversational, and entertaining memoir, Harold Prince, the most honoured director/producer in the history of the American theatre looks back over his seventy-year (and counting!) career. In 1974, Prince released his first... -
No Applause -Just Throw the Money by S.D. Trav 9780865479586
$24.12Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Dead of Night by Jez Conolly
RRP: $44.83$41.03Released a matter of days after the end of the Second World War and a dozen years ahead of the first full-blooded Hammer Horror, the Ealing Studios horror anthology film Dead of Night featured contributions from some of the finest directors, writers and... -
The Routledge Companion to Puppetry and Material Performance Dassia N. Posner 9781138913837
RRP: $87.73$77.98The Routledge Companion to Puppetry and Material Performance offers a wide-rangingperspective on how scholars and artists are currently re-evaluating the theoretical, historical,and theatrical significance of performance that embraces the agency of...