Performing Arts

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956683458Author Gary RhodesFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint Tomahawk PressPublisher Tomahawk PressWeight(grams) 500g

In Write to TV (third edition) industry veteran Martie Cook offers practical advice on writing innovative television scripts that will allow you to finally get that big idea out of your head and onto the screen. With this book you'll learn to craft...

Writing Audio Drama is a comprehensive and intelligent guide to writing sound drama for broadcasting and online production. The book uses new and original research on the history of writing radio plays in the UK and USA to explore how this has informed...

From Salvador Dali to Walt Disney, animals have been a constant yet little-considered presence in film. Indeed, it may come as a surprise to learn that animals were a central inspiration to the development of moving pictures themselves. In "Animals in...

It may be drama features that win the most awards and kudos from critics, but in the current marketplace you're unlikely to sell a drama screenplay in the way you would a genre script. Breaking down the nuts and bolts of what differentiates drama from...

From the vengeful ghosts of J-horror to the walking dead in 28 Days Later and World War Z, from the creepiness of Spain's haunted houses to the graphic gore of the New French Extremism, horror is everywhere in the twenty-first century. This lively and...

From mainstream blockbusters to art house cinema, narrative and narration are the driving forces that organize a film. Yet attempts to explain these forces are often mired in notoriously complex terminology and dense theory. Warren Buckland provides a...

Psychology for Dancers: Theory and Practice to Fulfil Your Potential examines how psychological theory can be related to dance practice. Aimed at the dancer who wants to maximize their potential but has no grounding in psychology, the book begins with an...

This text attempts to shape definitions of the American science fiction film, studying the connection between the films and social preconceptions. It covers many classic films and discusses their import, seeking to rescue the genre from the neglect of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615140094Author Nadine DuBoisFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint Nadine DubooisPublisher Nadine DubooisWeight(grams) 435g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420964097Author Anton ChekhovFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 73gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 3mm

An atmospheric Gothic ghost story, where The Silent Companions meets Daphne du Maurier in South America and a woman faces the darkness bestowed by vengeance. "A phantasmagoric mixture of M. R. James, The Shining and The Turn of the Screw set among the...

Dramatherapy and Recovery offers a comprehensive and groundbreaking approach to harnessing the power of theater in the recovery process through the use of playmaking and performance.This manual is based on the CoActive Therapeutic Theater (CoATT) model,...

Work is a joke. Laughing at it is political.Humor, Groucho Marx asserted, is "reason gone mad." For Walter Benjamin, laughter was "the most revolutionary emotion." In a moment when great numbers of people are reevaluating their commitment to the...

Widely referred to as the "bible of stage makeup," the timely revision of this classic text addresses principles and techniques in the use of makeup for the contemporary performer.This extensive exploration of the application and use of stage makeup and...

You can't live your life thinking everything you text will become public knowledge. Censoring yourself is no way to live. Everyone needs Jim. His mother. His best friend. His brother. A hopeful future President. But can Jim really help anyone,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781932907278Author Sheldon BullFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Michael Wiese ProductionsPublisher Michael Wiese ProductionsWeight(grams) 386g

Projections is a forum for practitioners of the cinema to write about their work. The first issue includes a journal compiled by John Boorman which records his responses to the events and trends of 1991, and their implications for the future of cinema...

What happens when 'happy ever after' isn't quite so simple? Today's attitudes to love and romance are as varied and diverse as individuals, and audiences want and need more sophisticated, authentic films that show how we live and love now. So what does...

What is unique and essential about theater? What separates it from other arts? Do we need "theater" in some fundamental way? The art of theater, as Paul Woodruff says in this elegant and unique book, is as necessary - and as powerful - as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538766767Author Philomena CunkFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Grand Central PublishingPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557830418Author Charles McKeownFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint Applause Theatre Book PublishersPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams)...

A backstage look at the making of the latest television series of "Star Trek Voyager". This book is illustrated with behind-the-scenes photographs and pre-production artwork.Book InformationISBN 9780671534813Author Stephen PoeFormat PaperbackPage Count...

Hollywood celebrities feared her. William Randolph Hearst adored her. Between 1915 and 1960, Louella Parsons was America's premier movie gossip columnist and in her heyday commanded a following of more than forty million readers. This first full-length...

The visual image is the common denominator of cinema and painting, and indeed many filmmakers have used the imagery of paintings to shape or enrich the meaning of their films. In this discerning new approach to cinema studies, Angela Dalle Vacche...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226813868Author Professor Julia A SternFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher The University of Chicago...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385308243Author Julie SalamonFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957261044Author Tony NourmandFormat HardbackPage Count 350Imprint Reel Art PressPublisher Reel Art Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780470225561Author Lois H. GreshFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint John Wiley & Sons LtdPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)...

Paolo Cherchi Usai provides a comprehensive introduction to the study, research and preservation of silent cinema from its heyday in the early 20th century to its present day flourishing. He traces the history of the moving image in its formative years,...

Indonesian wayang kulit (shadow puppet) performance is one of the oldest and greatest storytelling traditions in the world and lies close to the heart of Javanese culture. These flat puppets, made from water buffalo hide, are elaborately decorated and...

Katie has gone from a little girl who used to climb trees, ride bikes and go on adventures to an adult who worries about everything. But now Katie is a mum, she must be brave in a whole new way. Determined that her young daughter will never lose the...

It's hard keeping it together when your whole life is falling apart. But the pressures of teaching, Tinder and outrageous Irish best mates are a lot to juggle, especially when you're stumbling through the maze of trying to be a grown-up. It explores the...

The essay-with its emphasis on the provisional and explorative rather than on definitive statements-has evolved from its literary beginnings and is now found in all mediums, including film. Today, the essay film is, arguably, one of the most widely...

From films ranging from An American in Paris and Flying Down to Rio to such Broadway landmarks as Oklahoma and West Side Story and television hits such as Cinderella and High School Musical, the American musical has thrilled audiences around the world...

Voodoo Science Park started life as a poetic film about the science of accident investigation practised by the Health and Safety Laboratory in the Peak District of England. In the book of the film, Victoria Halford and Steve Beard reveal the thinking...

From Commedia dell'Arte came archetypal characters that are still with us today, such as Harlequin and Pantalone, and the rediscovered craft of writing comic dramas and masked theatre. From it came the forces that helped create and influence Opera,...

Remember a time when all of Hollywood-with the expressed encouragement and investment of the government-joined forces to defend the American way of life? It was World War II and the gravest threat faced the nation, and the world at large. Hollywood...

Harry Alan Towers' reputation rests upon a corpus of 95 low budget productions shot post-haste in every corner of the globe. He took an integral part, however, in the development of the protocols that now underpin much transnational film production; he...

What choices- creative, practical, and technical- make a movie what it is? Here a gifted writer and filmmaker takes us behind the camera and provides a full description of the movie-making process.When John Sayles turned from writing fiction to making...