Performing Arts

A History of Italian Cinema, 2nd edition is the much anticipated update from the author of the bestselling Italian Cinema - which has been published in four landmark editions and will celebrate its 35th anniversary in 2018. Building upon decades of...

A deep-and darkly comic-dive into the nature of disasters, and the ways they shape how we think about ourselves in the world "In this brilliant book, David Thomson tells the story of how we came to make disaster and catastrophe our best friends-how we...

Full colour making of book featuring exclusive photos, cast and crew interviews, glimpses behind the scenes and production notes. Every character will be detailed with revealing test and amazing photographs. The Art of Preacher will be an engrossing and...

Born out of interviews with the producers of some of the most popular and culturally significant podcasts to date (Welcome to Night Vale, Radiolab, Serial, The Black Tapes, We're Alive, The Heart, The Truth, Lore, Love + Radio, My Dad Wrote a Porno, and...

In 1959, the Bolshoi Ballet arrived in New York for its first ever performances in the United States. The tour was part of the Soviet-American cultural exchange, arranged by the governments of the US and USSR as part of their Cold War strategies. This...

Dave Baranek (callsign "Bio") was one of 451 young men to receive his Wings of Gold in 1980 as a naval flight officer. Four years later, seasoned by intense training and deployments in the tense confrontations of the cold war, he became the only one of...

Little White Lies film magazine presents a The Flip Side of Pulp Fiction, a comic spin on a cult classic. A fleeting yet delightful flipbook experience, The Flip Side of Pulp Fiction is the physical embodiment of a one-liner - the perfect gift for the...

An American in Paris (1951) was a landmark film in the careers of Vincente Minnelli, Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron. A joyous celebration of George Gershwin's music, French art, the beauty of dance and the fabled City of Light, the film was heralded as a...

Lanza turns his attentions to the production, reception, social climate, and impact of a movie that rattled the American psyche in the wake of Nixon, Watergate, and Vietnam.When Tobe Hooper's low-budget slasher film, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, opened...

"For its sheer excellence, diversity, and cultural impact, Paul Hirsch's filmography speaks for itself. They say a film is made in the editing room, and this book is easily the most comprehensive, revelatory, and illuminating account of this essential...

Whether you are a young actor seeking to land your first screen role or a workshop leader looking for relevant exercises that won't involve vast technical support, this book belongs on your shelf. Many screen actors begin their careers lacking the...

One minute we had customers, the next minute there was no-one. In a lost village, blurred by redrawn borders, hidden under a crumb on the map, Bear Ridge Stores still stands. After a hundred years, the family butchers and grocers - a place for odds...

An extra-terrestrial alien, capable of replicating any living form it touches, infiltrates an isolated research base in the Antarctic, and sows suspicion and terror among the men trapped there. Which of them is still human, and which a perfect alien...

For many years, kisses were the only sexual acts to be seen in mainstream American movies. Then, in the 1960s and 1970s, American cinema "grew up" in response to the sexual revolution, and movie audiences came to expect more knowledge about what happened...

SPACE. THE FINAL FRONTIER. THESE WERE ALMOST THE VOYAGES OF THE STARSHIP ENTERPRISE. We think we know the history of Star Trek. Born at the height of 1960s popular culture, the five-year mission of Captain James T. Kirk and his crew faced early...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of OBIE Award for Playwriting 1995-6.Book InformationISBN 9781559361354Author Suzan-Lori ParksFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc...

Sylvester Stallone has been a defining part of American film for nearly four decades. He has made an impact on world entertainment in a surprisingly diverse range of capacities - as actor, writer, producer, and director - all while maintaining a...

The Marx Brothers are universally considered to be classic Hollywood's preeminent comedy team and Duck Soup is generally regarded as their quintessential film. A topical satire of dictatorship and government in general, the movie was a critical failure...

The auteur theory, of which film criticAndrew Sarris was the leading American proponent, holds that artistry in cinema can be largely attributed to film directors, who, while often working against the strictures of studios, producers, and scriptwriters,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566081801Author Gerald Lee RatliffFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Meriwether Publishing,U.S.Publisher Christian Publishers LLCWeight(grams) 268g

Public issue television is a major contribution to understanding the relationship between television, politics and society. Based on full access to the archives, it offers a fascinating historical account of how one television series, Granada's World in...

Renowned editor Lawrence 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...

Peter Weir: Interviews is the first volume of interviews to be published on the esteemed Australian director. Although Weir (b. 1944) has acquired a reputation of being guarded about his life and work, these interviews by archivists, journalists,...

Foreword by Ellen Page, star of Inception, Juno and X-Men The perfect humorous gift for students, actors and anyone with an interest in theatre. In the most important theatrical book of this or any other decade, Twitter sensation @tips4actors gives...

Had I become disenchanted with the form I had once fallen so madly in love with as a pubescent, pimple-faced suburban homo with braces? Maybe theatre was like an all-consuming high school infatuation that now, ten years later, I saw as the closeted...

Illustrations throughoutBook InformationISBN 9781557838551Author David J. HoganFormat PaperbackPage Count 442Imprint Applause Theatre Book PublishersPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams) 676gDimensions(mm) 225mm * 148mm * 27mm

"Extremely well written, and exceedingly well informed, this is a work that opens a variety of important questions in sophisticated and theoretically nuanced ways. It is hard to imagine a better tour guide than Fuchs for a trip through the last thirty...

This volume uniquely draws together seven contemporary plays by a selection of the finest African women writers and practitioners from across the continent, offering a rich and diverse portrait of identity, politics, culture, gender issues and society in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845832230Author Andrew MorganFormat HardbackImprint Telos Publishing LtdPublisher Telos Publishing Ltd

Twenty-one philosophers investigate the implications of the Jurassic Park franchise for our lives, our values, and our future. Human beings live and thrive by modifying nature, but when do the risks of changing nature outweigh the likely benefits? If...

Offering a broad perspective on the Hollywood dad, looking at important Hollywood fathers and discussing films from many genres, this book adopts a multi-faceted theoretical approach, making use of psychoanalysis, sociology and masculinity studies and...

Just like Robert Tanitch's critically acclaimed book on the London stage in the twentieth century, this wonderful new book is 'fascinating - absolutely wonderful for finding what you aren't looking for'. Presented chronologically, the concise and...

Filled with practical advice from an award-winning playwright, with a range of resources to guide you in the craft and business of theatre writing, The Art of Writing for the Theatre provides everything you need to write like a seasoned theatre...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Tayshas Reading 2003.Book InformationISBN 9780060007782Author Antwone Quenton FisherFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635572988Author Isaac ButlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 574g

From its beginnings as an alternative and dissident form of dance training in the 1960s, Somatics emerged at the end of the twentieth century as one of the most popular and widespread regimens used to educate dancers. It is now found in dance curricula...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307388759Author Jeanine BasingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 663gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780970703958Author President James MonacoFormat PaperbackPage Count 372Imprint Harbor Electronic PublishingPublisher Harbor Electronic...

The first comparative study on the history and practice of popular theatre in Britain and overseas. The fragmentation of social groups in the face of the global mass media has begun to threaten the survival of popular theatre companies. This study traces...

Using our favourite Springfield family as a case study, Watching with The Simpsons examines the textual and social role of parody in offering critical commentary on other television programs and genres. Jonathan Gray brings together textual theory,...