Performing Arts

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781642932874Author Anthony CumiaFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Post Hill PressPublisher Post Hill PressWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 152mm...

Illegitimacy, Family, and Stigma is the first full-length exploration of what it was like to be illegitimate in eighteenth-century England, a period of 'sexual revolution', unprecedented increase in illegitimate births, and intense debate over children's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905674435Author Caroline BainbridgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Wallflower PressPublisher Wallflower PressWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 234mm...

'Take Hair' is the third collection of writing and drawing from award winning writer and performer Rob Auton. Take Hair' houses the ideas that Rob wants to exist. The ideas that came to him that he got enough from to want to record them and share them...

Film historian Leonard Maltin recreates a whole era of Hollywood cartoons, from Betty Boop to Spielberg's "An American Tail". It also brings the reader up to date on the modern work of Walt Disney and the Warner Bros studio, plus new developments in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556431869Author Ruth ZaporahFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)...

On May 20, 2015, Dave said, "Thank you and goodnight." The Foo Fighters sang "Everlong," and Late Show with David Letterman ended its run. The final six weeks of the series had guests like Julia Roberts, George Clooney, Oprah Winfrey, and the Obamas. All...

Shortlisted for the STR Theatre Book Prize 2023 A LA Times Best Theater Book of 2022 Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard, by most accounts the leading British playwrights of our time, might seem to come from very different aesthetic, cultural and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635901986Author Serge DaneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher Semiotext (E)

Craig on Theatre presents the essence of Edward Gordon Craig's ideas This selection, accompanied by Craig's own drawings and designs includes key sections from his most influential book On the Art of the Theatre, as well as essays from his own theatre...

'If you decide to adapt a classic or much-loved book, your working maxim should be, 'How will it work best as a film?' However faithful it is to the original, if it's not interesting onscreen then you've failed.' - William Boyd in Story and Character:...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905674657Author Ernest MathijsFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Wallflower PressPublisher Wallflower PressWeight(grams) 596gDimensions(mm) 242mm *...

The science fiction genre maintains a remarkable hold on the imagination and enthusiasm of the filmgoing public, captivating large audiences worldwide and garnering ever-larger profits. The Philosophy of Science Fiction Film explores the storylines,...

The Method Acting Exercises Handbook is a concise and practical guide to the acting exercises originally devised by Lee Strasberg, one of the Method's foremost practitioners. The Method trains the imagination, concentration, senses and emotions to...

This is a book about the exhilaration and the catastrophe of embodiment. Analyzing different instances of injured bodies, Peggy Phelan considers what sustained attention to the affective force of trauma might yield for critical theory. Advocating what...

This updated edition is a comprehensive, fully-researched account of the historical and contemporary development of the traditional martial arts genre in the Chinese cinema known as wuxia (literal translation: martial chivalry) - a genre which audiences...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250848826Author Keith PhippsFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Henry Holt & Company IncPublisher Henry Holt & Company IncWeight(grams)...

By the Hollywood correspondent for "The New York Times", "Rebels On The Backlot" is a revealing and page-turning account of the new generation of film directors who are changing the face of today's Hollywood. Very much as the 1970s gave rise to a...

This is an examination of "The Night of the Hunter", Charles Laughton's only outing as a film director. It looks at the symbolism of the piece, at Willa, her throat cut sitting in the Model-T Ford, and the Preacher, a silhouetted threat on the horizon...

- Explains, with sample unit plans, how to teach the basics of 10 popular dance forms for K-12 settings- Explains how to apply educational theories to dance - Presents dance education in context of the national standards for dance- Helps readers build...

When the groundbreaking drama Queer as Folk was first broadcast on Channel 4 in 1999, it was both hailed and reviled for its realistic depiction of gay lives. Davis examines its conception and production, alongside the political and social context in...

Red River (1947) is one of Howard Hawks' near-perfect films. A sweeping, fast-moving Western, it's stunningly shot and stars John Wayne and Montgomery Clift in complex roles set off by typically fine ensemble acting. In her study, Suzanne...

Both a precursor to and a critical member of the French New Wave, Agnes Varda weaves documentary and fiction into tapestries that portray distinctive places and complex human beings. Critics and aficionados have celebrated Varda's independence and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399588174Author Trevor NoahFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint One World BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 533gDimensions(mm) 241mm *...

From the coming of sound to the 1960s, the musical was central to Hollywood production. Exhibiting - often in spectacular fashion - the remarkable resources of the Hollywood studios, musicals came to epitomise the very idea of 'light entertainment'...

This study examines "Rome Open City" and its place in Roberto Rossellini's career. The film is based on events that took place in Nazi occupied Italy 1944, one year before the film was made. The author argues that the film has value as a commerorative...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781087949611Author Scott V PalmerFormat HardbackPage Count 166Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 481gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 14mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573627521Author Michael FraynFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Samuel French, IncPublisher Samuel French Inc

Looking back on her career in 1977, Bette Davis remembered with pride, "Women owned Hollywood for twenty years." She had a point. Between 1930 and 1950, over 40% of film industry employees were women, 25% of all screenwriters were female, two women...

This volume focuses on postmodern film aesthetics and contemporary challenges to the aesthetic paradigms dominating analyses of Hollywood cinema. It explores conceptions of the classical, modernist, post-classical/new Hollywood, and their construction as...

How do political conflicts shape popular culture? This book explores that question by analyzing how the Planet of the Apes films functioned both as entertaining adventures and as apocalyptic political commentary. Informative and thought provoking, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916153707Author Adam RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 243Imprint A Nos AmoursPublisher A Nos AmoursWeight(grams) 493gDimensions(mm) 225mm * 150mm * 18mm

Since the late 1990s, Rupert Goold has garnered a reputation as one of the UK's most exciting and provocative theatre directors. His exhilarating, risk-taking productions of both classic texts and new plays have travelled from regional stages to the...

Podcasting scholarship is still in its nascent stages. The use of podcasting as a tool for scholarly and intellectual inquiry is a relatively new idea, to think about the medium as an alternative outlet for research output. Podcast or Perish maps out not...

A great movie's first few minutes are the key to the rest of the film. Like the opening paragraphs of a novel, they draw the viewer in and set up the thematic concerns and stylistic approach that will be developed over the course of the narrative. A...

Bada bing! What drama. "The most important work of American popular culture in fifty years" is how the "New York Times" describes "The Sopranos". Critically-acclaimed, award-winning, and the most watched show on HBO, the mobster drama swirls around the...

FLEXIBILITY AND WEIGHTFrom Richard Williams' The Animator's Survival Kit comes key chapters in mini form.The Animator's Survival Kit is the essential tool for animators. However, sometimes you don't want to carry the hefty expanded edition around with...

'Tim Crook has written an important and much-needed book, and its arrival on our shelves has come at a highly appropriate time.' Professor Sean Street, Bournemouth UniversityThe Sound Handbook maps theoretical and practical connections between the...

Wild Strawberries is probably Ingmar Bergman's most personal film and one which explores his relation to the history of Swedish cinema. This study is written by Philip French, film critic of "The Observer", who has done new research on the Swedish...

Whether you're a novice making your first film or a more advanced animator looking to strengthen an existing concept, Animating Short Stories provides practical techniques to bring your story to life. Each technique is clearly and beautifully illustrated...