Performing Arts

The Ultimate Souvenir Guide to Episode 8 of the epic Star Wars franchise!About the AuthorTitan Magazines has been publishing the official Star Wars Insider magazine worldwide for over 60 issues and has featured celebrity contributors and guest editors...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781452166513Author Peter LordFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Chronicle BooksPublisher Chronicle BooksWeight(grams) 930gDimensions(mm) 267mm * 231mm *...

The Radical in Performance investigates the crisis in contemporary theatre, and celebrates the subversive in performance. It is the first full-length study to explore the link between a western theatre which, says Kershaw, is largely outdated and the...

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy provides an excellent way of looking at some intriguing issues in philosophy, from vegetarianism and Artificial Intelligence to God, space and time. This is an entertaining yet thought provoking volume for students,...

FLY BY NIGHT is about the helicopter crash on the set of "Twilight Zone: The Movie" - the Warner Bros. film co-produced by Steven Spielberg and John Landis - that killed actor Vic Morrow, and two children who had been hired illegally.Confidential sources...

Ballet in Western Culture is a history of the development of ballet designed for dance history courses. After a brief discussion of the origins of dance through the middle ages, the author then traces the beginnings of ballet to Renaissance spectacle in...

A chronological overview of one of modern cinema's most celebrated directors, featuring interviews with Jane Campion herself Jane Campion on Jane Campion offers a unique perspective on the creative process of one of cinema's greatest contemporary film...

In Bigger Than Life Mary Ann Doane examines how the scalar operations of cinema, especially those of the close-up, disturb and reconfigure the spectator's sense of place, space, and orientation. Doane traces the history of scalar transformations from...

From his early days as a playwright, David Hare has moved deliberately between stage, film and television, over the years building up a repertoire of work, most of which seeks to capture the changing feelings of contemporary life. Now, for the first...

From the mid-1930s to the late 1950s, Mexican cinema became the most successful Latin American cinema and the leading Spanish-language film industry in the world. Many Cine de Oro (Golden Age cinema) films adhered to the dominant Hollywood model, but a...

First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9783718656059Author Valerie Preston-DunlopFormat PaperbackPage Count 740Imprint Harwood-Academic PublishersPublisher Harwood-Academic...

The idea of American musical theatre conjures up images of bright lights and big city, but its lifeblood is found in local and amateur productions at schools, community theatres, summer camps, and more. In Beyond Broadway, author Stacy Wolf considers the...

Studio Ghibli picture books capture the magic of the legendary studio's animated films with easy-to-read text, full-color pictures direct from the film, and a family-friendly oversized hardcover format. In a long-ago war, humankind set off a devastating...

This book focuses on Somatic Movement Dance Therapy and the importance of self-regulation and co-regulation. The chapters attend to self-regulating different tissues through movement, breath, sound and the imagination. Throughout the book the author...

Before establishing himself as the "master of disaster" with the 1970s films The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno, Irwin Allen created four of television's most exciting and enduring science-fiction series: Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea,...

Studio and outside broadcast is often done with more than one camera and has its own distinct discipline and operational procedures. Many camera operators now start with single camera operations and have little or no experience of the skills required for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375714344Author Anthony LaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 784Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 577gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Why should the digital bring about ideas of progress in the theatre arts? This question opens up a rich seam of provocative and original thinking about the uses of new media in theatre, about new forms of cultural practice and artistic innovation, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789492095206Author Guy CoolsFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint ValizPublisher Valiz

Jean-Luc Godard, like many of his European contemporaries, came to filmmaking through film criticism. This collection of essays and interviews, ranging from his early efforts for La Gazette du Cinema to his later writings for Cahiers du Cinema, ...

In 1968, Suzuki Seijun-a low-budget genre filmmaker known for movies including Branded to Kill, Tokyo Drifter, and Youth of the Beast-was unceremoniously fired by Nikkatsu Studios. Soon to be known as the "Suzuki Seijun Incident," his dismissal became a...

Who exactly are the Guardians of the Galaxy? Why are the Infinity Stones so important? What's the best order to watch the films in? And are Iron Man and Captain America friends or enemies? If you've ever mixed up the different Thor movies, or you get...

Screenshots and deomnstrations feature the most current software such as SoundForge, Audacity, Premiere Pro, Media Composer and Vegas Pro. Features brand new, in-depth interviews with current practitioners, including Oscar-winning Randy Thom. Includes...

Offers a startling re-evaluation of what has until now been seen as the most critically lacklustre period of the British film history. Covers a variety of genres, such as B-movies, war films, women's pictures and theatrical adaptations; as well as social...

If we imagine multiple ways of being together, how might that shift choreographic practices and help us imagine ways groups assemble in more varied ways than just pairing another man with another woman? How might dancing queerly ask us to imagine futures...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573705533Author Alice BirchFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French LtdWeight(grams) 73gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615931712Author Blake SnyderFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Michael Wiese ProductionsPublisher Michael Wiese ProductionsWeight(grams)...

With no formal training as an actor, Welsh-born Ray Milland (1907-1986), a former trooper in the British Army's Household Cavalry, enjoyed a half-century career working alongside some of the great directors and stars from the Golden Age of cinema. He...

Homer Vol. V. Hymns, etc (Hymni, Cyclus, Fragmenta, Margites, Batr, Vitae)Book InformationISBN 9780198145349Author D. B. MonroFormat HardbackPage Count 294Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressDimensions(mm) 193mm * 128mm * 22mm

An unusually brilliant generation of film-makers emerged from British television drama in the 1960-70s - none more formidable than Alan Clarke. Yet Clarke enjoyed only a vague renown among the public, even though some of his most incendiary productions -...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615932658Author Peter D. MarshallFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Michael Wiese ProductionsPublisher Michael Wiese ProductionsWeight(grams)...

Bill Bryden's Cottesloe Company, which flourished at Peter Hall's National Theatre, was the English theatre's only true ensemble of the last thirty or so years. Impossible Plays tells the story of the company and the many actors and musicians connected...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879109547Author Richard KoszarskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 404Imprint Limelight EditionsPublisher Limelight EditionsWeight(grams) 644gDimensions(mm)...

This guide to anime offers an overview of the art form, looking at its development in Japan and its export to other cultures. It includes a history of Japanese animation from early examples to the relaunch of animation as a viable commercial entity and...

Building Embodiment: Integrating Acting, Voice, and Movement to Illuminate Poetic Text offers a collection of strategic and practical approaches to understanding, analyzing, and embodying a range of heightened text styles, including Greek tragedy,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550229516Author Nikki StaffordFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,CanadaWeight(grams) 670g

Did you ever wonder why so much fantastic music started coming out of Britain in the 60s? Pirates did it. That's right, Pirates. The story of how they did it seems unbelievable, but it really happened, and it completely altered the course of rock and...

Ruth Padel explores Greek conceptions of human innerness and the way in which Greek tragedy shaped European notions of mind and self. Arguing that Greek poetic language connects images of consciousness, even male consciousness, with the darkness...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781088031278Author Scott V PalmerFormat HardbackPage Count 190Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 526gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 16mm