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Kiss Marry Kill by Daphna Attias 9781350506992
RRP: £10.99£10.77I’m a monster. You can’t marry me. Jay and Paul are both serving life sentences for homophobic murders. Incredibly, they fall in love and seek permission to marry. Inspired by real-life events, Kiss Marry Kill is a provocative new play that reimagines... -
Producing Theatre: A Comprehensive and Legal Business Guide by Donald C. Farber 9780879103170
£18.94Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Directing Your Heart Out: Essays for Authenticity, Engagement, and Care in Theatre by Tom Dugdale
£17.82A ground-floor guide to the practice and philosophy of directing that is open to all, including newcomers to the field. Through a series of concise and engaging essays, Directing Your Heart Out will inspire the next generation of theatre directors by... -
Designs on Film: A Century of Hollywood Art Direction by Cathy Whitlock 9780060881221
RRP: £55.00£39.35Who can forget the over-the-top, white-on-white, high gloss interiors through which Fred Astaire danced in Top Hat? The stark modernist high-rise architecture, inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright, in the adaptation of Ayn Rand's "The Fountainhead"?... -
Warren William: Magnificent Scoundrel of Pre-Code Hollywood by John Stangeland 9780786448784
RRP: £24.99£21.24On the motion picture screen, Hollywood star Warren William (1894-1948) was a magnificent rogue, often deliciously immoral and utterly callous, yet remarkably likable in his wickedness. Off-screen, the actor was as humble and retiring as his film... -
Film and Theory: An Anthology Robert Stam (New York University) 9780631206262
RRP: £37.95£34.62This anthology offers a collection of some of the most provocative and influential writings of film theory from the 1960s and 1970s, along with new directions from the last two decades. An introductory essay to the volume sums up developments in film... -
The Empire of Effects: Industrial Light and Magic and the Rendering of Realism by Julie A. Turnock
RRP: £49.00£38.87How one company created the dominant aesthetic of digital realism. Just about every major film now comes to us with an assist from digital effects. The results are obvious in superhero fantasies, yet dramas like Roma also rely on computer-generated... -
Diana Dors: Film Star and Actor by Martin Shingler 9781474474009
RRP: £19.99£18.38Examines Diana Dors' film career, acting method, star image and enduring celebrity Traces the development of Dors' film acting across five decades and a range of genres Emphasises the international nature of Dors' stardom and film work Celebrates... -
Lowering the Boom: Critical Studies in Film Sound by Jay Beck
RRP: £21.99£19.19As the first collection of new work on sound and cinema in over a decade, Lowering the Boom addresses the expanding field of film sound theory and its significance in rethinking historical models of film analysis. The contributors consider the ways in... -
Back to the Dance Itself: Phenomenologies of the Body in Performance by Sondra Fraleigh
RRP: £21.99£19.19In Back to the Dance Itself, Sondra Fraleigh edits essays that illuminate how scholars apply a range of phenomenologies to explore questions of dance and the world; performing life and language; body and place; and self-knowing in performance. Some... -
Out There: The Science Behind Sci-Fi Film and TV by Ariel Waldman 9780762481668
RRP: £22.00£13.29Explore the science behind some of your favorite popular science fiction tropes--from escaping a black hole to riding a space elevator to the stars-in this illustrated guide from NASA advisor and host of the popular Tested podcast OffWorld. Whether it's... -
Introduction to Speechwork for Actors: An Inclusive Approach Ron Carlos (Yale School of Drama, USA) 9781350145962
RRP: £19.99£17.73Traditional speech work has long favored an upper-class white accent as the model of intelligibility. Because of that, generations of actors have felt disconnected from their own identities and acting choices. This much-needed textbook redresses that... -
Peanuts: The Art and Making of the Movie by Jerry Schmitz
RRP: £24.99£19.59For the first time ever, in November 2015, Snoopy, Charlie Brown and the rest of the gang we know and love from Charles Schulz's timeless "Peanuts" comic strip will be making their big-screen debut; like they've never been seen before in a CG-animated... -
The Great Monster Magazines: A Critical Study of the Black and White Publications of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s Robert Michael Cotter 9781476678986
RRP: £21.99£18.83This is a critical overview of monster magazines from the 1950s through the 1970s. "Monster magazine" is a blanket term to describe both magazines that focus primarily on popular horror movies and magazines that contain stories featuring monsters, both... -
A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 3: The Islamicate Period, 1978-1984 by Hamid Naficy
RRP: £21.99£20.18Hamid Naficy is one of the world's leading authorities on Iranian film, and A Social History of Iranian Cinema is his magnum opus. Covering the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first and addressing documentaries, popular genres, and art films,... -
Refrains for Moving Bodies: Experience and Experiment in Affective Spaces by Derek P. McCormack
RRP: £21.99£19.49In Refrains for Moving Bodies, Derek P. McCormack explores the kinds of experiments with experience that can take place in the affective spaces generated when bodies move. Drawing out new connections between thinkers including Henri Lefebvre, William... -
Until the Lions: Echoes from the Mahabharata by Karthika Nair
RRP: £12.99£9.18The title of this book comes from the African proverb - "until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter." In this poetic reimagining, Nair writes, for the first time, the history of the women in the... -
Liar's Autobiography by Graham Chapman 9780413777287
RRP: £11.99£10.64'It's the Magna Carta and Valley of the Dolls all rolled into one...' Michael Palin Graham Chapman, who died in October 1989, reveals in his autobiography what it was like to be part of the revolutionary and zany Monty Python team. Required reading for... -
Weimar Cinema, 1919-1933: Daydreams and Nightmares Laurence Kardish 9780870707612
RRP: £26.50£18.90Published in conjunction with the Museum's presentation of 75 featurelength films from theWeimar era, many of them only recently restored, Weimar Cinema 1919-1933: Daydreams and Nightmares reconsiders the broad spectrum of influential German films made... -
The Art of Blue Sky Studios by Jake S. Friedman 9781783293544
RRP: £35.00£27.55Enjoy the remarkable tale of Blue Sky's success, from its origins as a live-action vfx company to its reinvention as a driving force in computer-generated animation. With exclusive access to Blue Sky's archives and the exceptional artists who have made... -
Sweet & Savage: The World Through the Mondo Film Lens Mark Goodall 9781909394506
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909394506Author Mark GoodallFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint HeadpressPublisher Headpress -
Italian Horror Cinema by Hunter Baschiera
RRP: £28.99£24.56In its heyday from the late 1950s until the early 1980s Italian horror cinema was characterised by an excess of gore, violence and often incoherent plot-lines. Films about zombies, cannibals and psychopathic killers ensured there was no shortage of... -
This Woman, This Man: Elle et Lui by George Sand 9781912868810
RRP: £9.99£8.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912868810Author George SandFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Dedalus LtdPublisher Dedalus Ltd -
All I Really Need to Know I Learned from Watching Star Trek by Dave Marinaccio 9780517883860
RRP: £15.00£10.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780517883860Author Dave MarinaccioFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Harmony BooksPublisher Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/RodaleWeight(grams)... -
A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs vol 1: From Savoy Stompers to Clock Rockers by Andrew Hickey 9780244548520
RRP: £37.72£33.27In this series of books, based on the hit podcast A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs, Andrew Hickey analyses the history of rock and roll music, from its origins in swing, Western swing, boogie woogie, and gospel, through to the 1990s, grunge, and... -
Film Criticism in the Digital Age by Mattias Frey 9780813570723
RRP: £33.00£25.95Over the past decade, as digital media has expanded and print outlets have declined, pundits have bemoaned a "crisis of criticism" and mourned the "death of the critic". Now that well-paying jobs in film criticism have largely... -
The Sound of Music by Caryl Flinn 9781844574742
£9.89Fifty years after its release, The Sound of Music (1965) remains the most profitable and recognisable film musical ever made. Quickly consolidating its cultural authority, the Hollywood film soon eclipsed the German film and Broadway musical that... -
The Corporeal Image: Film, Ethnography, and the Senses by David MacDougall
RRP: £35.00£27.95In this book, David MacDougall, one of the leading ethnographic filmmakers and film scholars of his generation, builds upon the ideas from his widely praised Transcultural Cinema and argues for a new conception of how visual images create human knowledge... -
Blackpool's Seaside Stars by Steve Singleton 9781780911182
RRP: £14.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780911182Author Steve SingletonFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint DB PublishingPublisher DB Publishing -
Television Studies: The Basics Toby Miller 9780415774239
RRP: £94.99£82.35Television Studies: The Basics is a lively introduction to the study of a powerful medium. It examines the major theories and debates surrounding production and reception over the years and considers both the role and future of television. Topics... -
The Film Work of Norman McLaren by Terence Dobson 9780861967384
RRP: £34.00£28.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861967384Author Terence DobsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint John Libbey & Co LtdPublisher John Libbey & Co -
Film Production Management 101: Management and Coordination in a Digital Age by Deborah S. Patz 9781932907773
RRP: £22.50£15.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781932907773Author Deborah S. PatzFormat PaperbackPage Count 500Imprint Michael Wiese ProductionsPublisher Michael Wiese ProductionsWeight(grams) 930g -
Simon Gray: Plays 4: Common Pursuit; Holy Terror; After Pilkington; Old Flames; They Never Slept by Simon Gray
RRP: £16.99£11.58'Sharp, funny and clever . . . What a pleasure to re-encounter a play that combines unabashed intelligence and zinging wit with a rare generosity of spirit.'Daily Telegraph on The Common Pursuit'Gray's stature as one of the handful of great tragi-comic... -
New Comedy Writing Step by Step by Gene Perret
RRP: £17.99£12.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781884956669Author Gene PerretFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Quill Driver Books, U.S.Publisher Quill Driver Books, U.S.Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
The CIA in Hollywood: How the Agency Shapes Film and Television by Tricia Jenkins
RRP: £19.99£17.54What's your impression of the CIA? A bumbling agency that can't protect its own spies? A rogue organization prone to covert operations and assassinations? Or a dedicated public service that advances the interests of the United States? Astute TV and movie... -
Hollywood, Interrupted: Insanity Chic in Babylon -- The Case Against Celebrity Andrew Breitbart 9780471706243
RRP: £19.99£13.81Hollywood, Interrupted is a sometimes frightening, occasionally sad, and frequently hysterical odyssey into the darkest realms of showbiz pathology, the endless stream of meltdowns and flameouts, and the inexplicable behavior on the part of show business... -
A Companion to Film Theory Toby Miller (University of California at Riverside) 9780631206453
RRP: £45.95£40.82This volume of specially commissioned work by experts in the field of film studies provides a comprehensive overview of the field. Its international and interdisciplinary approach will have a broad appeal to those interested in this multifaceted subject... -
Duck Soup by J. Hoberman
RRP: £12.99£11.04The 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... -
Notes for Violists: A Guide to the Repertoire by David M. Bynog 9780190916114
RRP: £35.49£26.83Notes for Violists: A Guide to the Repertoire offers historical and analytical information about thirty-five of the best-known pieces for the instrument, making it an essential resource for professional, amateur, and student violists alike. With engaging... -
Up in the Cheap Seats: A Historical Memoir of Broadway by Ron Fassler 9780999315392
£15.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999315392Author Ron FasslerFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Griffith Moon PublishingPublisher Griffith Moon PublishingWeight(grams)...