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Apocalypse Television: How The Day After Helped End the Cold War by David Craig 9781493079179
RRP: £30.00£22.03On 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... -
Unti Conversations with Stephen Sondheim by D T Max
RRP: £20.99£11.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063279810Author D T MaxFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 185mm * 135mm *... -
Brain Is The Screen: Deleuze and the Philosophy of Cinema by Gregory Flaxman 9780816634477
RRP: £21.99£20.18The first broad-ranging collection on Deleuze's essential works on cinema. In the nearly twenty years since their publication, Gilles Deleuze's books about cinema have proven as daunting as they are enticing-a new aesthetics of film, one equally at home... -
Harry Potter: Dark Arts by Jody Revenson 9781803362830
RRP: £19.99£15.00Explore the Dark Arts of the Harry Potter films, with more than a dozen collectible stickers, cards, patches, prints, and more! Open the sturdy portfolio to discover the secrets behind Voldemort, Death Eaters, Horcruxes, and more in this exclusive... -
Faking it: Mock-Documentary and the Subversion of Factuality by Craig Hight
RRP: £19.99£18.76The first major study of mock-documentary - one of a number of screen forms that play with the assumed boundaries between 'fact' and 'fiction'. Examines mock-documentary through the specific relationship which the form has with documentary. Part of a... -
The Suspect Culture Club by Graham Eatough
£35.64Suspect Culture was Scotland's leading experimental theatre company between 1993 and 2009. Based in Glasgow, it was formed of a core group of associate artists who collaborated in making groundbreaking, high quality new work which gained an... -
Melodrama - Genre, Style, Sensibility by John Mercer 9781904764021
RRP: £17.99£14.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904764021Author John MercerFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Wallflower PressPublisher Wallflower PressWeight(grams) 196gDimensions(mm) 215mm * 139mm... -
Producing with Passion: Making Films That Change the World by Dorothy Fadiman
RRP: £11.99£8.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781932907445Author Tony LevelleFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Michael Wiese ProductionsPublisher Michael Wiese ProductionsWeight(grams) 454g -
Teen Dreams: Reading Teen Film and Television from 'Heathers' to 'Veronica Mars' by Roz Kaveney
£27.50Jocks, cheerleaders, nerds, goths and stoners - the American teen movie is peopled with types and tribes yet manages to speak interestingly about hopes and dreams that do not have just to do with skipping detention or going to the prom. In her new book,... -
Working with Actors: Meisner Technique for Directors and Actors Stephen Bayly 9781350295285
RRP: £16.99£14.21Working with Actors provides the key to unlocking the honest, dynamic performance every actor has within them. It offers a well-articulated formulation of the Meisner Technique easy for directors and actors to use within a working context. Through... -
Madeleine Carroll: Actress and Humanitarian, from The 39 Steps to the Red Cross by John Pascoe 9781476675466
RRP: £28.99£24.85At the height of her celebrity, Madeleine Carroll (1906 1987) was the world's highest-paid actress. She worked alongside such greats as Laurence Olivier and Charles Laughton, British directors Victor Saville and Alfred Hitchcock, and Hollywood directors... -
James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction by Randall Frakes 9781683834977
RRP: £25.00£23.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683834977Author Randall FrakesFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight Editions -
Creative Documentary: Theory and Practice by Wilma de Jong 9781405874229
£43.25What does it mean to be a documentary filmmaker in today's world?How are new technologies changing documentary filmmaking?What new forms of documentary are emerging?Recent technological developments have made the making and distribution of documentary... -
Doctor Who and Race by Lindy Orthia 9781783200368
RRP: £23.95£23.22Doctor Who is the longest running science fiction television series in the world and is regularly watched by millions of people across the globe. While its scores of fans adore the show with cult-like devotion, the fan-contributors to this book argue... -
Swing to Bop: An Oral History of the Transition in Jazz in the 1940s by Ira Gitler 9780195050707
RRP: £37.99£26.22This indispensable book brings us face to face with some of the most memorable figures in jazz history and charts the rise and development of bop in the late 1930s and '40s. Ira Gitler interviewed more than 50 leading jazz figures, over a 10-year period,... -
Integrative Alexander Technique Practice for Performing Artists: Onstage Synergy by Cathy Madden
RRP: £40.95£38.62An educational method used to improve performance, the Alexander Technique teaches people to replace unnecessary muscular and mental effort with consciously coordinated responses, maximizing effectiveness while also relieving, if necessary, any chronic... -
How to Produce Comedy Bronze by Jon Plowman
RRP: £16.99£13.02In HOW TO PRODUCE COMEDY BRONZE, legendary TV producer Jon Plowman lifts the hood on the comedy industry so you can peer inside and wonder how any of it ever got made in the first place. In a career spanning 30 years Jon has learned (almost) everything... -
Star Wars: The Last Jedi The Official Collector's Edition by Titan Magazines
RRP: £14.99£7.69Star Wars returns, as the hotly anticipated sequel to The Force Awakens takes us to new planets where we will encounter all-new aliens and creatures, along with some old favorites. Re-encounter old friends like Finn, Rey, Luke Skywalker and General Leia,... -
Jimmy Perry and David Croft by Simon Morgan-Russell
RRP: £19.99£18.10This book explores the collaborative sitcoms of two of British television's most well-known comedy writers. Written over a period of twenty-five years, the four series 'Dad's Army', 'It Ain't Half Hot, Mum', 'Hi-de-Hi!' and 'You Rang M'Lord?' have... -
The Clanlands Almanac: Seasonal Stories from Scotland by Sam Heughan 9781529372182
RRP: £14.99£12.59A seasonal meander through the wilds of Scotland.'If Clanlands was a gentle road trip through Scotland, this almanac is a top down, pedal to the metal up and down odyssey through the many byways of a Scottish year. An invitation to anyone who picks up... -
Thinking Film: Philosophy at the Movies Professor Richard Kearney 9781350113466
RRP: £28.99£25.61Hailed as one of America's original art forms, film has the distinctive character of crossing high and low art. But film has done more than this. According to American philosopher Stanley Cavell, film was also a place where America in the 1930s and 1940s... -
Hitchcock: Suspense, Humour and Tone by Susan Smith
£37.96The author's treatment of the works of the most subtle of all film-makers analyzes the key elements of suspense, humour and tone across the whole of the director's career. The book examines in detail such films as "North by Northwest", "The Birds" and... -
The Story of British Animation by Jez Stewart
RRP: £24.99£21.50A Sight & Sound Book of the Year Jez Stewart charts the course of this extraordinarily fertile area of British film from early experiments with stop-motion and the flourishing of animated drawings during WWI. He reveals how the rockier interwar period... -
Film Curatorship – Archives, Museums, and the Digital Marketplace by Alexander Horwath
RRP: £28.00£23.62What are the major issues and challenges that film archives, cinematheques, and film museums are bound to face in the digital age and at a time when there is an expectation of access on demand? What is curatorship, and what does it imply in the context... -
The Taylor Mac Book: Ritual, Realness and Radical Performance by David Roman
RRP: £36.50£36.44This is the first book to dedicate critical attention to the work of influential theater-maker Taylor Mac. Mac is particularly celebrated for the historic performance event A 24-Decade History of Popular Music, in which Mac, in fantastical costumes... -
Behind the Scenes at the Ballets Russes: Stories from a Silver Age by Michael Meylac 9781780768595
RRP: £50.00£37.39The Ballets Russes was perhaps the most iconic, yet at the same time mysterious, ballet company of the twentieth century. Inspired by the unique vision of their founder Sergei Diaghilev, the company gained a large international following. In the... -
Us: The Complete Annotated Screenplay Jordan Peele 9781941753330
RRP: £17.00£15.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941753330Author Jordan PeeleFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Inventory Press LLCPublisher Inventory Press LLC -
Listen to This by Frayn 9780573691799
£12.12This varied collection of short sketches and monologues by the author of NOISES OFF, BENEFACTORS and others is essential to any actor's library. Most pieces are comic and all are perfect for classes and auditions. Contents: At the Sign of the Rupture... -
Digital and Other Virtualities: Renegotiating the Image by Antony Bryant 9781845115685
£29.25If virtuality is being celebrated as heralding a radically new era, rich with new possibilities and futures hitherto unimagined through cybernetics, networking and digitalizaton, such claims are also being viewed with deep scepticism and countered by... -
Les Diaboliques by Susan Hayward
£27.50Hugely enjoyable and exciting, long awaited book by top world authority on French cinema. This is the first book to focus on this very contemporary film. "Les Diaboliques" is often shown and is easily available on DVD and video "Les Diaboliques" was a... -
Ecogothic by Andrew Smith 9781526106896
RRP: £19.99£17.61This book will provide the first study of how the Gothic engages with ecocritical ideas. Ecocriticism has frequently explored images of environmental catastrophe, the wilderness, the idea of home, constructions of 'nature', and images of the... -
Performance in the Twenty-First Century: Theatres of Engagement by Andy Lavender
RRP: £35.99£31.69Performance in the Twenty-First Century: Theatres of Engagement addresses the reshaping of theatre and performance after postmodernism. Andy Lavender argues provocatively that after the 'classic' postmodern tropes of detachment, irony, and contingency,... -
Chinese Films in Focus II by C. Berry
£37.77Chinese cinema continues to go from strength to strength. After art-house hits like Chen Kaige's Yellow Earth (1984) and Wong Kar-wai's In the Mood for Love (2000), the Oscar-winning success of Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (2000) disproved the... -
The Disney Revolt: The Great Labor War of Animation's Golden Age by Jake S. Friedman 9781641607193
RRP: £26.95£24.68An essential piece of Disney history has been unreported for eighty years. Soon after the birth of Mickey Mouse, one animator raised the Disney Studio far beyond Walt's expectations. That animator also led a union war that almost destroyed it. Art... -
Rooted Jazz Dance: Africanist Aesthetics and Equity in the Twenty-First Century by Lindsay Guarino 9780813069111
£38.10An African American art form, jazz dance has an inaccurate historical narrative that often sets Euro-American aesthetics and values at the inception of the jazz dance genealogy. The roots were systemically erased and remain widely marginalized and... -
Harry Potter: Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes: Artifacts from the Wizarding World by Jody Revenson 9781803367705
RRP: £19.99£13.57Opening Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes Ephemera Kit is the next best thing to visiting Fred and George Weasley's Diagon Alley shop! The sturdy portfolio is bursting with more than a dozen exclusive collectible stickers, cards, patches, and postcards! ... -
Predator the Official Collector's Edition by Titan Magazines
RRP: £14.99£7.54A behind-the-scenes guide to the long-awaited return of one of cinema's most iconic aliens: The Predator! Go behind the scenes of the epic new movie The Predator with interviews with the cast and crew, rare interviews in a step-by-step guide to the... -
Death in Venice: A Queer Film Classic Will Aitken 9781551524184
RRP: £14.99£10.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551524184Author Will AitkenFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Arsenal Pulp PressPublisher Arsenal Pulp PressWeight(grams) 210g -
Hawk Moon: Short Stories, Poems, and Monologues by Sam Shepard 9780933826236
£12.25In this collection of more than fifty monologues, short stories and poems-Shepard's first-one of America's most acclaimed writers and actors reflects on growing up in America, rock and roll, the sex of fishes, and other topics. Shepard displays his... -
The Beiderbecke Affair by William Gallagher 9781844574698
£28.62With as little plot as its creator Alan Plater could get away with and as much jazz as he could manage, the 1985 television drama The Beiderbecke Affair had a far-reaching impact, inspiring sequels, novels, albums and even jazz tours. Much like its Bix...