Performing Arts

Right from the origins of cinema, countless films and television dramas have offered sensational and seductive representations of young people's lives. Youth is typically associated with energy, idealism and physical beauty, but it is often represented...

Chevy Chase is a much-loved Hollywood star. His success as a writer and actor on Saturday Night Live in the 70s made him a household name. It had been a long, hard route to the top for Chevy. Behind the fame lay a childhood riddled with abuse. But his...

Tonight Neverland is fleshed out with plenty of plant life, certainly bettering 2011's production of Jack and the Bean-Cactus. So, with no further ado, please put your hands together for J.M. Barrie's Christmas classic: Peter Pan! The inept and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060953034Author J. SeinfeldFormat PaperbackPage Count 526Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 748g

In November 2007, Channel 4 will be twenty-five years old. Today, such TV events as the 'Big Brother/Jade Goody Affair' have put the channel itself at the centre of public debate. Yet during its foundation years on British screens, Channel 4 was seen as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957041622Author Andrey ZvyagintsevFormat PaperbackImprint CygnnetPublisher Cygnnet

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Responsible for some of the greatest films of the 20th century-The Grapes of Wrath, How Green Was My Valley, and The Quiet Man among others-John Ford was best known for motion pictures that defined the American West and the face of wartime military. A...

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The pontianak, a terrifying female vampire ghost, is a powerful figure in Malay cultures, as loved and feared in Southeast Asia as Dracula is in the West. In animist tradition, she is a woman who has died in childbirth, and her vengeful return upsets...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615932719Author Paul DudbridgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Michael Wiese ProductionsPublisher Michael Wiese Productions

Despite his iconic status, Kurosawa's life story remains an enigma and art imitates life with its own "Rashomon" effect. To discover Kurosawa, Paul Anderer guides us through the ruins of a defeated country and a shattered family. He brings to life the...

This collection of essays displays the range and breadth of Hitchcock scholarship and assesses the significance of his body of work as a bridge between the fin de siecle culture of the 19th century and the 20th century. It engages with Hitchcock's...

Performance and Professional Wrestling is the first edited volume to consider professional wrestling explicitly from the vantage point of theatre and performance studies. Moving beyond simply noting its performative qualities or reading it via other...

Celebrated as one of Japan's greatest filmmakers, Kobayashi Masaki's scorching depictions of war and militarism marked him as a uniquely defiant voice in post-war Japanese cinema. A pacifist drafted into Japan's Imperial Army, Kobayashi survived the war...

Visual politics and the aesthetic turn in international relations have emphasized the power of the image in world politics. Postcolonial and decolonial feminist theory shows the urgent need to rethink research and teaching methods. What happens when...

In this passionate and controversial work, director and critic Rustom Bharucha presents the first major critique of intercultural theatre from a 'Third World' perspective. Bharucha questions the assumptions underlying the theatrical visions of some of...

From the very beginnings of cinema in America the Western has been a central genre. The hazardous lives of the settlers, their conflict with Native Americans ('the Indians'), the lawless frontier towns, outlaws and cattle rustlers, all found their way...

Cinema has long shaped not only how mass violence is perceived but also how it is performed. Today, when media coverage is central to the execution of terror campaigns and news anchormen serve as embedded journalists, a critical understanding of how the...

What did Basil Fawlty fail to avoid mentioning? Why did Sybil keep snagging her cardies? Where was Polly on the night of the Great Wedding Anniversary disaster? This book presents the scripts for the show's classic episodes.Book InformationISBN...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903364031Author Geoff KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Wallflower PressPublisher Wallflower PressWeight(grams) 196gDimensions(mm) 215mm * 144mm...

For this was the summer when, after the hiatus of the Second World War, French critics were again given the opportunity to view films from Hollywood. The films they saw, including The Maltese Falcon, Double Indemnity. Laura, Murder, My Sweet, and The...

This engaging text explores the role of the writer and the text in collaborative practice through the work of contemporary writers and companies working in Britain, offering students and aspiring writers and directors effective practical strategies for...

Bicycle Thieves (Ladri di biciclette, 1948) is unarguably one of the most important films in the history of cinema. It is also one of the most beguiling, moving and (apparently) simple pieces of narrative ever made. The film tells the story of one man...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556523519Author Mel WatkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint A Cappella BooksPublisher A Cappella BooksWeight(grams) 911g

The Routledge Companion to Performance Philosophy is a volume of especially commissioned critical essays, conversations, collaborative, creative and performative writing mapping the key contexts, debates, methods, discourses and practices in this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905674459Author Peter HamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Wallflower PressPublisher Wallflower PressWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 232mm * 163mm...

In 2002, director Richard Linklater and a crew began filming the "Untitled 12-Year Project." He cast four actors (Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke, Ellar Coltrane, and Lorelei Linklater) in the role of a family and filmed them each year over the next dozen...

Collection of 277 litle-known medieval manuscripts, second only in number to Durham; special strengths are scholastic theology, biblical studies and sermons 13c-15c, and early music. Worcester Cathedral Library contains 277 medieval manuscripts, the...

Edgar Small is not the first actor who became an agent, but he may be the first agent who returned to acting after spending 40 years as a producer and agent.Book InformationISBN 9780573606144Author Edgar SmallFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Samuel...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941084038Author Stephen HooverFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Stephen HooverPublisher Stephen HooverWeight(grams) 266gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

The animations of Japan's Studio Ghibli are amongst the most respected in the movie industry. Their delightful films rank alongside the most popular non-English language films ever made, with each new eagerly anticipated release a guaranteed box office...

Uncover the most mesmerizing moments in ballet history with this scintillating visual guide.Written with ballet legend Viviana Durante, this book will introduce you to the most famous performers and enthrall you with fascinating stories. Discover more...

Stanley Kubrick died on 7 March 1999 at his Hertfordshire home, having finished the editing of his last film. Eyes Wide Shut was released later that year. Adapted from Arthur Schnitzler's 1926 Viennese novel Dream Story, relocated and updated to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553212044Author DanteFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group...

This first collection of Nick Dear's work for the stage displays the breadth and achievement of one of the most talented and inventive dramatists writing in Britain today. The volume contains two of his re-workings of eighteenth-century history, The Art...

Stanley Kubrick was up to something. But neither his fiercest admirers nor his harshest critics ever suspected what it was. His movies were the means. So what was the end? In this experimental analysis of the work of Stanley Kubrick, Jasun Horsley...

Dance and the Corporeal Uncanny takes the philosophy of the body into the field of dance, through the lens of subjectivity and via its critique. It draws on dance and performance as its dedicated field of practice to articulate a philosophy of agency and...

Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window is one of the icons of American filmmaking. A perfect example of Hollywood cinema at its best, it is an engaging piece of entertainment as well as a fascinating meditation on the nature of the film itself. A suspense...

An unrivalled unofficial history of the rise - and partial fall - of fringe theatre, Mike Bradwell's deadpan account of his adventures is one of the funniest and angriest books to come out of theatre today. Winner of the 2010 Theatre Book Prize awarded...