Performing Arts

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Cedric J. Robinson offers a new understanding of race in America through his analysis of theater and film of the early twentieth century. He argues that economic, political, and cultural forces present in the eras of silent film and the early...

Filmmaker David Lynch asserts that when he is directing, ninety percent of the time he doesn't know what he is doing. To understand Lynch's films, Martha Nochimson believes, requires a similar method of being open to the subconscious, of resisting the...

Frank Capra called her, "The greatest emotional actress the screen has yet known." Yet she was one of its most natural, timeless, and underrated stars. Now Victoria Wilson, gives us the most complete portrait we have yet had, or will have, of this...

Safety and Health for the Stage: Collaboration with the Production Process is a practical guide to integrating safety and health into the production process for live entertainment in the context of compliance with applicable codes, standards, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692203156Author Angus ScrimmFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Harker PressPublisher Harker PressWeight(grams) 535g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615932887Author Diane BellFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Michael Wiese ProductionsPublisher Michael Wiese Productions

EThe Rocky Horror Picture Show FAQE is the in-depth story of not only the legendary stage show and movie but of a unique period in theatrical history a in the movie's UK homeland as well as overseas. ERocky HorrorE has been performed worldwide for more...

Peculiar Lives and Strange Times of Music Hall and Variety Artistes. What was the vulgar dressing-room practice of Jack Haig, Nutty but Nice, that so dismayed his fellow artists? How did the mysterious Werth, Banana Skin and Stone Manipulator, display...

For Ellen Terry, actress-manager Lena Ashwell (1869-1957) was 'a passionate voice'. From her first appearance on stage in 1891 to the end of her life, Ashwell was determined to make the theatre accessible and relevant to everyone, prompting G.B. Shaw to...

Both a refraction of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and a protest against Western values, butoh is a form of Japanese dance theater that emerged in the aftermath of World War II. Sondra Fraleigh chronicles the growth of this provocative art form...

Obscured behind concrete and razor wire, the lives of the incarcerated remain hidden from public view. Inside the walls, imprisoned people all over the world stage theatrical productions that enable them to assert their humanity and capabilities. Prison...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780937645093Author David KoteenFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Contact EditionsPublisher Contact Editions

Since 1993, Hollywood has been rendering popular video games on the silver screen, mainly to critical derision and box office failure. While a few have succeeded, many have been hailed as the "worst movie ever" and left gamers asking: how did that get...

The French New Wave: An Artistic School is a lively introduction to this critical moment in film history by one of the worlda s leading scholars on the New Wave. * Provides a concise account of the French New Wave by one of the worlda s leading film...

Directions for Directing: Theatre and Method lays out contemporary concepts of directing practice and examines specific techniques of approaching scripts, actors, and the stage. Addressed to both young and experienced directors but also to the broader...

When Kenneth Johnson's science fiction miniseries V premiered in 1983, it netted more than 40 percent of the television viewing audience and went on to spawn a sequel, a weekly series, novelizations, comic books and a remake. Entertainment Weekly named...

What if the asteroid that forever changed life on Earth missed the planet completely and giant dinosaurs never became extinct? The Good Dinosaur takes you on an epic journey into the world of dinosaurs where an Apatosaurus named Arlo makes an unlikely...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578221397Author Linda SaboFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Farnham Academy PressPublisher Farnham Academy PressWeight(grams) 608g

Orson Welles called Ernst Lubitsch (1892-1947) "a giant" whose "talent and originality are stupefying." Jean Renoir said, "He invented the modern Hollywood." Celebrated for his distinct style and credited with inventing the classic genre of the Hollywood...

Are you a theatre-maker looking for devising tools? A writer wanting to improve your dialogue? A director trying to create a story through improvisation? Three Plays by Squint & How They Were Made brings three of the company's plays together with the...

Annette Bercut Lust has spent a lifetime developing the knowledge to produce this definitive work on mime. One of the few studies covering the historical flow of mime from its beginnings to postmodern movement theatre, this book explores the evolution...

An introductory guide for students learning professional make-up, hairdressing and wardrobe skills and `front of camera' professionals needing an understanding of the techniques.Written by an experienced professional, this manual offers a step-by step...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629331638Author Martin LandauFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint BearManor MediaPublisher BearManor MediaWeight(grams) 649gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm...

The screenplay of the award-winning picture from the director Wes Anderson, at once tender and probing, mindful of New York and its special mixture of grit and glory.Reviews'The film of the year... The Royal Tenenbaums speaks in its own singular voice:...

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Described by its maker as a 'poem of horror', Vampyr (1932) is one of the founding works of psychological horror cinema, adapted from a collection of gothic stories by Sheridan Le Fanu and directed by the revered Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557836151Author Leon KatzFormat PaperbackPage Count 338Imprint Applause Theatre Book PublishersPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams)...

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The films of Jonathan Demme (b. 1944) reflect his ebullient personality and are often infused with his love for Caribbean culture, pop music, fashion, and characters who reveal offbeat tastes and depths. He emerged from the 1970s American Renaissance...

Contemporary Feminist Theatres is a major evaluation of the forms feminism has taken in the theatre since 1968. Lizbeth Goodman provides a provocative and interdisciplinary study of the development of feminist theatres in Britain. She examines the...

'He is a Chekhov of our time: holding his characters with as much humanity, compassion, humor and love - but without holding back his scathing indictment of deeply entrenched, systemic injustices and inequities.' - David Schwimmer The Inequalities...

Case studies examine competing definitions of feminism, contoured by The Second World War, circulating in cinema, women's magazines, social policies, government pamphlets, fashion, and broadcasting -- .Book InformationISBN 9780719083501Author Christine...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781884956539Author Peter DunneFormat PaperbackPage Count 405Imprint Quill Driver Books, U.S.Publisher Quill Driver Books, U.S.Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

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What is the relationship between touring and other kinds of theatre work? How should theatre circulate, and how are we to understand this circulation? What impact do tour routes have beyond the dissemination of what is on stage? Whose travel stories are...

Clint Eastwood is one of the world's most popular action stars, who has matured into a fine American producer-director. Entertaining, illuminating and packed with information, up to and including "The Changeling", this is the first book to cover his full...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784756252968Author Shirow MiwaFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Pie International Co., Ltd.Publisher Pie International Co., Ltd.