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The Coffee Break Screenwriter...Breaks the Rules: A Guide for the Rebel Writer by Pilar Alessandra 9781615932825
RRP: $23.38$15.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615932825Author Pilar AlessandraFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Michael Wiese ProductionsPublisher Michael Wiese Productions -
From Stanislavsky to Today: Active Analysis for Actors and Directors by David Chambers 9781138782136
RRP: $62.38$55.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781138782136Author David ChambersFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis Ltd -
Noise Receptor Journal: Archive Volume 2: Sound with Impact A Analysing the Abstract by Richard Stevenson
RRP: $44.83$30.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915316028Author Richard StevensonFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint HeadpressPublisher Headpress -
Humphrey Jennings: Film-maker, Painter, Poet by Marie-Louise Jennings
$56.26Humphrey Jennings was one of Britain's greatest documentary film-makers, described by Lindsay Anderson in 1954 as 'the only real poet the British cinema has yet produced'. A member of the GPO Film Unit and director of wartime canonical classics such as... -
A Small Family Business by Alan Ayckbourn 9780571315703
RRP: $21.43$14.70Well, that's one down, isn't it. Nine to go. Next! Thou shalt not kill. What about that then? Let's have a crack at that one next, shall we? Jack McCracken: a man of principle in a corrupt world. But not for long. Moments after taking over his... -
ACOSTA DANZA: Fusion: The Vision of Carlos Acosta's Dance Company by Carlos Acosta
RRP: $87.75$62.52Taking readers behind the scenes of one of the world's most exciting dance companies, this richly illustrated book also tells the incredible back story of its famed creator and his brilliant vision to weave Cuban culture and history into classical and... -
Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street by Michael Davis 9780143116639
$23.42"Sesame Street" is the longest-running-and arguably most beloved- children's television program ever created. Today, it reaches some six million preschoolers weekly in the United States and countless others in 140 countries around the world. "Street... -
Queer Cinema in the World by Karl Schoonover
RRP: $46.78$41.26Proposing a radical vision of cinema's queer globalism, Karl Schoonover and Rosalind Galt explore how queer filmmaking intersects with international sexual cultures, geopolitics, and aesthetics to disrupt dominant modes of world making. Whether in its... -
Movie Speak: How to Talk Like You Belong on a Film Set by Tony Bill 9780761143598
RRP: $15.58$14.84"Movie Speak won't guarantee you a job, but having a knowledge of the industry terms will fool everyone into thinking you own the place." - Steven Spielberg "Finally a book that celebrates the process-the dynamic web of people, technique, and... -
The Life of the Drama by Eric Bentley 9781557831101
RRP: $25.33$18.93Eric Bentley's radical new look at the grammar of theatre...is a work of exceptional virtue... The book justifies its title by being precisely about the ways in which life manifests itself in the theatre...This is a book to be read again and again. a... -
Zombies: A Cultural History by Roger Luckhurst 9781780236698
RRP: $23.38$17.80Zombies: 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... -
The Apocalypse Now Book by Peter Cowie 9780306810466
RRP: $29.23$28.29The movie took years to be filmed and edited, and was the subject of endless stories, rumors, and speculation. At a screening at Cannes in May 1979, Francis Ford Coppola said simply, "There wasn't a truthful thing written about [the film] in four years."... -
Timing for Animation, 40th Anniversary Edition by Harold Whitaker
RRP: $87.73$80.09Timing for Animation has been one of the pillars of animation since it was first published in 1981. Now this 40th anniversary edition captures the focus of the original and enhances this new edition with fresh images, techniques, and advice from... -
Inwardness and Theater in the English Renaissance by Katharine Eisaman Maus 9780226511245
RRP: $50.70$48.46This text explores the preoccupation of many Renaissance writers' with the inwardness and invisibility of truth. The perceived discrepancy between a person's outward appearance and inward disposition, it argues, influenced the ways in which English... -
Britcoms FAQ: All That's Left to Know About Our Favorite Sophisticated Outrageous British Television Comedies Dave Thompson 9781495018992
RRP: $29.23$23.26ÊBritcoms FAQÊ is a sweeping survey of the very best in British television comedy from the early days of 1950s television and the rise of Tony Hancock through the golden age of ÊMonty PythonÊ ÊAre You Being Served?Ê and ÊSteptoe and SonÊ ä featuring... -
La Grande Illusion by Julian Jackson 9781844572854
$19.58Jean Renoir's 1937 film La Grande Illusion is set during the First World War, but its themes of Franco-German conflict, divided loyalties in a time of war and the rise of anti-Semitism made it compelling and controversial viewing. Julian Jackson traces... -
Footlights: Critical Notebook by Serge Daney 9781635901986
RRP: $33.13$23.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635901986Author Serge DaneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher Semiotext (E) -
Aural/Oral Dramaturgies: Theatre in the Digital Age by Duska Radosavljevic
RRP: $68.23$60.16Aural/Oral Dramaturgies: Theatre in the Digital Age focuses on the 'aural turn' in contemporary theatre-making, examining a number of seemingly disparate trends that foreground speech and sound -- 'post-verbatim' theatre, 'amplified storytelling' (works... -
Good Nights Out: A History of Popular British Theatre Since the Second World War by Aleks Sierz
RRP: $44.83$39.84London's West End is a global success story, staging phenomenal hit shows that have delighted millions of spectators and generated billions of pounds in revenue. In Good Nights Out, Aleks Sierz provides a thematic survey of such popular theatre shows... -
Apocalypse Television: How The Day After Helped End the Cold War by David Craig 9781493079179
RRP: $58.50$43.64On November 20, 1983, a three-hour made-for-TV movie The Day After premiered on ABC. Set in the heartland of Lawrence, Kansas, the film depicted the events before, during, and after a Soviet nuclear attack with vivid scenes of the post-apocalyptic... -
Detour by Noah Isenberg 9781844572397
$19.29Long considered an unpolished gem of film noir, the private treasure of film buffs, cinephiles and critics, Edgar G. Ulmer's Detour (1945) has recently earned a new wave of recognition. In the words of film critic David Thomson, it is simply 'beyond... -
Cinema Studies: The Key Concepts Susan Hayward 9780367646370
RRP: $70.18$64.29A one-stop-shop that introduces students to the field and provides an essential guide to key terms and concepts.Ideal summer reading for students before their degree course and an essential reference to keep to hand throughout the degree program.This new... -
The Routledge Encyclopedia of Film Theory by Edward Branigan 9781138849150
RRP: $103.33$95.67The Routledge Encyclopedia of Film Theory is an international reference work representing the essential ideas and concepts at the centre of film theory from the beginning of the twentieth century, to the beginning of the twenty-first.When first... -
Terror in the Desert: Dark Cinema of the American Southwest by Brad Sykes 9781476672410
RRP: $42.88$35.04Set in the American Southwest, "desert terror" films combine elements from horror, film noir and road movies to tell stories of isolation and violence. For more than half a century, these diverse and troubling films have eluded critical classification... -
Stand Up: On Being a Comedian Oliver Double (University of Kent, UK) 9780413703200
$39.14Stand-Up! is the first book to both analyse the background of stand-up comedy and take us inside the world of being a solo comedian Oliver Double writes a lively history of the traditions of British stand-up comedy - from its roots in music hall and... -
Childsplay: A Collection of Scenes and Monologues for Children by Kerry Muir 9780879101886
RRP: $25.33$18.93EChildsplayE is a very charming and enchanting book a and an important book for children who want to act! Not only can they use this wonderful collection as a guide to the sorts of plays and parts that are available to them they will discover here how... -
100 Things WWE Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die by Bryan Alvarez 9781629376936
RRP: $29.15$23.65Most WWE fans tune in each year to watch WrestleMania, remember the Monday Night Wars of the 1990s, and have heard the story behind the Montreal Screwjob. But only real fans recall the name of Steve Austin's original character, can tell you how the... -
Oxford Playhouse: High and Low Drama in a University City by Don Chapman 9781902806877
RRP: $25.33$24.08Don Chapman tells for the first time the story of the "Oxford Playhouse", to coincide with the seventieth anniversary of its present home in Beaumont Street, Oxford. He traces the history of this great theater back to its earliest roots in a production... -
A Queer History of the Ballet by Peter Stoneley 9780415972802
RRP: $70.18$61.80Designed for students, scholars and general readers with an interest in dance and queer history, A Queer History of the Ballet focuses on how, as makers and as audiences, queer men and women have helped to develop many of the texts, images, and legends... -
Witchfinder General by Ian Cooper
RRP: $32.16$30.11Witchfinder General (1968), known as The Conqueror Worm in America, was directed by Michael Reeves and occupies a unique place in British cinema. Equally praised and vilified, the film fictionalizes the exploits of Matthew Hopkins, a prolific, real-life... -
Fifty Years of "The Battle of Algiers": Past as Prologue by Sohail Daulatzai
RRP: $17.55$15.76The Battle of Algiers, a 1966 film that poetically captures Algerian resistance to French colonial occupation, is widely considered one of the greatest political films of all time. With an artistic defiance that matched the boldness of the anticolonial... -
From Here to Eternity by J. E. Smyth
$19.58From Here to Eternity (1953) is one of the most controversial films of its time. Adapted from James Jones's bestselling novel, the landmark blockbuster deals frankly with adultery, military corruption, physical abuse, racism and murder, and traces the... -
Performance Research: Letters from Europe by Ric Allsopp
RRP: $52.63$45.75Europe is a continent in a state of rapid - and frequently unsettling, transition. In the past five years, a total of twelve new states have emerged in a continent in which only five countries can boast of having had stable borders for more than a... -
Silent Film Sound by Rick Altman 9780231116633
RRP: $68.25$59.44Because silent cinema is widely perceived as having been exactly that-silent-no one has fully examined how souns was used to accompany the films of this era. Silent Film Sound reconsiders all aspects of sound practices during the entire silent film... -
Queer Images: A History of Gay and Lesbian Film in America by Harry M. Benshoff 9780742519725
RRP: $87.75$80.32From Thomas Edison's first cinematic experiments to contemporary Hollywood blockbusters, Queer Images chronicles the representation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer sexualities over one hundred years of American film. The most up-to-date and... -
Write Screenplays That Sell: The Ackerman Way: 20th Anniversary Edition, Newly Revised and Updated by Hal Ackerman 9781931290685
RRP: $42.80$32.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781931290685Author Hal AckermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Tallfellow PressPublisher Tallfellow PressWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 226mm *... -
To See the Saw Movies: Essays on Torture Porn and Post-9/11 Horror by James Aston 9780786470891
RRP: $42.88$36.72This is the first edited collection addressing the Saw franchise, which to date is the highest grossing horror series of all time. The films are often derided by critics as ""torture porn,"" and as just an excuse to show blood and gore. This collection... -
Kung Fu Cult Masters by Leon Hunt 9781903364635
RRP: $39.00$36.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903364635Author Leon HuntFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Wallflower PressPublisher Wallflower PressWeight(grams) 452gDimensions(mm) 244mm * 152mm *... -
The Studs Terkel Interviews: Film and Theater by Studs Terkel 9781595583598
RRP: $33.05$23.85A collection of the Pulitzer-Prize winning oral historian's remarkable conversations with some of the greatest luminaries of theatre and film. Among the many highlights are Buster Keaton explaining the wonder of unscripted silent comedy and interviews... -
Studying TV Drama by Michael Massey 9781906733049
RRP: $53.63$49.80Graduate students of media studies have benefited from a variety of books on television genres, yet lower level students lack resources that focus specifically on TV drama. With this genre now dominating this area of study, it is important for students...