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Boom and Bust: American Cinema in the 1940s by Thomas Schatz
RRP: £35.00£30.48"Boom and Bust" traces the movie industry through the momentous decade of the 1940s. It discusses changes in the structure of the studio system - including the shift to independent production - and the dominant stars, genres, and production trends... -
The Green Hornet-The Series by Scott V Palmer 9781647864347
£33.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647864347Author Scott V PalmerFormat HardbackPage Count 202Imprint Cypress Hills PressPublisher Cypress Hills PressWeight(grams) 549gDimensions(mm) 229mm... -
Forgeries of Memory and Meaning: Blacks and the Regimes of Race in American Theater and Film before World War II by Cedric J. Robinson 9780807858417
£38.73Cedric 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... -
The Passion of David Lynch: Wild at Heart in Hollywood by Martha P. Nochimson
RRP: £22.99£20.01Filmmaker 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... -
A Life of Barbara Stanwyck: Steel-True 1907-1940 by Victoria Wilson 9781439194065
£22.44Frank 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 William J. Reynolds 9780815353263
RRP: £31.99£28.54Safety 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... -
Phantasm Exhumed: The Unauthorized Companion by Angus Scrimm 9780692203156
RRP: £14.99£14.51Apologies 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 -
Shoot From the Heart: Rebel Filmmaking From Funding Through Self-Distribution by Diane Bell 9781615932887
RRP: £20.00£18.30Apologies 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 -
The Rocky Horror Picture Show FAQ: Everything Left to Know About the Campy Cult Classic by Dave Thompson
£16.17EThe 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... -
Grace, Beauty and Banjos Peculiar Lives and Strangetimes of Music Hall and Variety Artistes by Michael Kilgarriff
£16.12Peculiar 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... -
Lena Ashwell by Margaret Leask 9781907396649
RRP: £25.00£22.43For 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... -
Butoh: Metamorphic Dance and Global Alchemy by Sondra Fraleigh 9780252077418
RRP: £24.99£22.41Both 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... -
Prison Theatre and the Global Crisis of Incarceration by Ashley E. Lucas
RRP: £24.99£21.78Obscured 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... -
Caught Falling: The Confluence of Contact Improvisation, Nancy Stark Smith, and Other Moving Ideas by David Koteen 9780937645093
£33.17Apologies 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 -
Lights, Camera, Game Over!: How Video Game Movies Get Made by Luke Owen 9780764353178
RRP: £18.99£13.32Since 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 Michel Marie (La Sorbonne) 9780631226581
RRP: £29.95£26.82The 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 Avra Sidiropoulou 9780415789288
RRP: £35.99£30.81Directions 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... -
Fascist Lizards from Outer Space: The Politics, Literary Influences and Cultural History of Kenneth Johnson's V by Dan Copp 9781476667126
RRP: £14.99£12.55When 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... -
The Art of The Good Dinosaur by John Lasseter
£32.24What 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... -
Musical Theatre Choreography: Reflections of My Artistic Process for Staging Musicals by Linda Sabo 9780578221397
RRP: £26.95£22.03Apologies 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 -
How Did Lubitsch Do It? by Joseph McBride 9780231186445
RRP: £35.00£29.45Orson 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... -
Three Plays by Squint & How They Were Made: Long Story Short, Molly, The Incredible True Story of the Johnstown Flood by Squint Theatre
RRP: £24.99£23.77Are 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... -
From the Greek Mimes to Marcel Marceau and Beyond: Mimes, Actors, Pierrots and Clowns: A Chronicle of the Many Visages of Mime in the Theatre by Annette Bercut Lust 9780810845930
RRP: £58.00£50.59Annette 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... -
Make-Up, Hair and Costume for Film and Television by Jan Musgrove
RRP: £43.99£38.21An 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... -
The Notebooks of Serafino Gubbio: Shoot! by Luigi Pirandello 9781912868582
RRP: £9.99£8.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912868582Author Luigi PirandelloFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Dedalus LtdPublisher Dedalus LtdWeight(grams) 126g -
Mr. Novak: An Acclaimed Television Series by Martin Landau 9781629331638
RRP: £30.00£25.71Apologies 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 Royal Tenenbaums by Wes Anderson 9780571215454
£11.94The 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:... -
Tea and Sympathy by Robert Anderson 9780573616372
£11.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573616372Author Robert AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Samuel French, IncPublisher Samuel French Inc -
Vampyr by David Rudkin 9781844576449
RRP: £12.99£11.04Described 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... -
Classical Monologues: Women: From the Restoration to Bernard Shaw (1680s to 1940s) by Leon Katz 9781557836151
£9.02Apologies 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)... -
Screen Culture and the Social Question, 1880-1914, KINtop 3 by Ludwig Vogl-Bienek
RRP: £18.99£16.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861967094Author Ludwig Vogl-BienekFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint John Libbey & Co LtdPublisher John Libbey & CoWeight(grams) 354g -
Jonathan Demme: Interviews by Robert E. Kapsis 9781604731187
RRP: £31.50£29.86The 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: To Each Her Own by Lizbeth Goodman
RRP: £39.99£35.06Contemporary 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... -
The Inequalities: Beyond Caring; LOVE; Faith, Hope and Charity by Alexander Zeldin
RRP: £24.99£21.93'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... -
Nationalising Femininity: Culture, Sexuality and British Cinema in the Second World War by Christine Gledhill 9780719083501
RRP: £19.99£17.61Case 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... -
Zombie Holocaust by David Flint
RRP: £14.99£10.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859653978Author David FlintFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Plexus Publishing LtdPublisher Plexus Publishing Ltd -
Emotional Structure: Creating the Story Beneath the Plot by Peter Dunne 9781884956539
RRP: £22.99£15.79Apologies 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 *... -
The Batman: Mysteries of Gotham City by Insight Editions
RRP: £22.00£15.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647228798Author Insight EditionsImprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight EditionsWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 140mm * 41mm -
Theatre and Travel Fiona Wilkie 9781350331259
RRP: £9.99£8.33What 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... -
Aim for the Heart: The Films of Clint Eastwood by Howard Hughes
£49.51Clint 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...