Performing Arts

A 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...

Graduate 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...

This book is a general introduction to the structures of the different medieval Romance vernaculars most commonly known as Old or Medieval Spanish, as preserved in texts from Spain from the eleventh to the fifteenth centuries. After discussing general...

Alexander Cunningham, India's first professional archaeologist, became the first Director General of the Archaeological Survey of India in 1871. This volume contains a collection of 193 letters he wrote between 1871 and 1888 to his Archaeological...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559360593Author Athol FugardFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S...

A stunning backstage photographic study of Mark Rylance and the cast of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.About the AuthorMary McCartney's photographic work focusses on discovering those rare moments of unguarded, emotionally charged intimacy that offers us a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881880212Author Burt ShevelovePage Count 152Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

In a career that spanned eight decades, Christopher Lee (1922-2015) appeared in more than 200 roles for film and television. Though he is best known for his portrayal of Dracula in films of the 1950s, '60s, and '70s-as well as his appearances in the Lord...

Although cinema was invented in the mid-1890s, it was a decade more before the concept of a "film spectator" emerged. As the cinema began to separate itself from the commercial entertainments in whose context films initially had been shown-vaudeville,...

At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In this beautifully written and deeply researched study,...

"In all film there is the desire to capture the motion of life, to refuse immobility," Agnes Varda has noted. But to capture the reality of human experience, cinema must fasten on stillness and inaction as much as motion. Slow Movies investigates movies...

Judah Friedlander is the world champion, the greatest athlete in the world, a master of the martial arts, the only extra-dark blackbelt to ever exist. He's banned from China because he's too good at karate; that's why they built The Great Wall - to keep...

Until now, Hollywood's political history has been dominated by a steady stream of films and memoirs decrying the nightmare of the Red Scare. But Ronald and Allis Radosh show that the real drama of that era lay in the story of the movie stars, directors...

Guy Maddin is one of Canada's most celebrated and original filmmakers, the director of such delirious films as Tales from the Gimli Hospital, Careful, Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary, The Saddest Music in the World and My Winnipeg. Few know,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889227743Author Ludovic FouquetFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint TalonbooksPublisher TalonbooksWeight(grams) 637gDimensions(mm) 241mm * 152mm * 31mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879102685Author Gregg RickmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint Limelight EditionsPublisher Limelight EditionsWeight(grams) 703gDimensions(mm) 225mm *...

The industry's only director-cinematographer-screenwriter-producer-actor-editor, Steven Soderbergh is contemporary Hollywood's most innovative and prolific filmmaker. A Palme d'or and Academy Award-winner, Soderbergh has directed nearly thirty films,...

The Oxford Handbook of Dance and the Popular Screen sets the agenda for the study of dance in popular moving images - films, television shows, commercials, music videos, and YouTube - and offers new ways to understand the multi-layered meanings of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903364864Author Erica SheenFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Wallflower PressPublisher Wallflower PressWeight(grams) 496gDimensions(mm) 237mm * 168mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557836564Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 422Imprint Applause Theatre Book PublishersPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams)...

Anton Chekhov is justly famous as an author and a playwright, with his work continuing to appear on stages around the world more than a century after his death. However, he is rarely studied for his intellectual and philosophical theories. His...

This is a major new study of the films of Luis Bunuel, surrealist scourge of the bourgeoisie and enduring influence on European cinema. Uniquely, the book offers an extended analysis of Bu~nuel's films in the context of contemporary debates in film...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101910849Author David ThomsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Troubled Everyday' offers the first detailed examination of the relationship between violence and the everyday in European art cinema. It calls for a re-evaluation of what gives these films such affective force, and such a prolonged grip on our...

In 1931 Universal Studios released Dracula starring Bela Lugosi. This box office success was followed by a string of films featuring macabre characters and chilling atmospherics, including Frankenstein, The Mummy, and The Invisible Man. With each new...

In Totally Truffaut, author Anne Gillain answers two complex riddles: How is experience imprinted into films? What draws audiences to theaters? Francois Truffaut, like Fellini, Bergman or Scorsese, worked with an autobiographical material and Totally...

How the Movies Got a Past presents a comprehensive survey of the rise of historiographical discourse on cinema in North America as it is reflected in publications, exhibitions, lectures, and films about the cinema as a technology, form of art, and source...

Celebrate the wonder of Disney in its 100th year in this platinum collection of vintage stickers. Capture and keep the magic with Disney characters from across ten decades of history, including icons Mickey and Minnie, Disney Princesses, Pixar characters...

In this riveting popular history, the creator of You Must Remember This probes the inner workings of Hollywood's glamorous golden age through the stories of some of the dozens of actresses pursued by Howard Hughes, to reveal how the millionaire mogul's...

Spanning the epic science fiction franchise's fifty-one-year history, a breathtaking collection of the most compelling Star Trek facts and trivia, including events from both on and off-screen, available in 100 concise lists. Since Gene Roddenberry's...

The second in a series: the master filmmaker's prose scenarios for four of his notable filmsOn the first day of editing Fata Morgana, Werner Herzog recalls, his editor said: "With this kind of material we have to pretend to invent cinema." And this,...

From the hosts of the Riverdish podcast, the unauthorized case files from the world of the CW's teen drama sensation Riverdale.For Archie Andrews, Veronica Lodge, Jughead Jones, and Betty Cooper, high school is more than just pep rallies and milkshakes...

Chroma: A Book of Color is a meditation on the color spectrum by Britain's most controversial filmmaker. From the explosions of image and color in Edward II, The Last of England, The Garden, and Wittgenstein, to the somber blacks of his collages and tar...

The pioneering genius of Japan's "God of Comics," Osamu Tezuka (1928-89), is examined through his life's masterwork: Tetsuwan Atomu, also known as Mighty Atom or Astro Boy, a comic series featuring a cute little android who yearns to be more human. The...

With the growth of film festivals, cable networks, specialty home video, and the Internet, there are more outlets and opportunities for screening short films now than at any time in the last 100 years. But before you can screen your short film, you need...

For the first time in English, and in his signature prose poetry, the film scripts of four of Werner Herzog's early works "Herzog doesn't write traditional scripts," Film International remarked of the master filmmaker's Scenarios I and II. "Instead, he...

Michael Pennington's solo show about Shakespeare, Sweet William, has been acclaimed throughout Europe and in the US as a unique blend of showmanship and scholarship. In this book, he deepens his exploration of Shakespeare's life and work - and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780930452643Author Holly HillFormat PaperbackPage Count 253Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683835332Author Deborah RileyFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight EditionsWeight(grams) 3402gDimensions(mm) 330mm *...

Are artists seismographs during processes of transformation? Is theatre a mirror of society? And how does it influence society offstage? To address these questions, this collection brings together analyses of cultural policy in post-apartheid South...