Performing Arts

"Empire of Ecstasy" offers a novel interpretation of the explosion of German body culture between the two wars - nudism and nude dancing, gymnastics and dance training, dance photography and criticism, and diverse genres of performance from solo dancing...

Since the mid-80s, Prapto's moving/dancing has delighted and inspired thousands of people in the West (as well as many more in his native Java) who have witnessed, worked with or been otherwise influenced by his Amerta Movement practice. But what is...

The Royal Ballet Yearbook series is back, with extra editorial features and exclusive behind-the-scenes content - in addition to the usual selection of beautiful ballet images. Featuring lavish photographs of last Season's performances, a special...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845838720Author Keith ToppingFormat PaperbackPage Count 536Imprint Telos Publishing LtdPublisher Telos Publishing Ltd

Seven Up was made as a one-off documentary by Granada's flagship current affairs series "World in Action" in 1964. It featured fourteen seven-year-olds who were interviewed about their lives and what they wanted to be when they grew up. The children...

Part of a larger project to examine the Elizabethan politics of representation, this work refigures the social and cultural context within which Elizabethan drama was created. The author first locates the public and professional theatre within the...

Written by one of the foremost and widely-respected writers in the field, this volume sheds new light on the forms and premises of the communicative experience. In doing so, it challenges the theoretical positions of marxist and "political economy of...

The early twenty-first century has seen the emergence of a new style of television drama in Britain that adopts the professional practices and production values of high-end American television while remaining emphatically 'British' in content and outlook...

This, the first book length study of one of Britain's leading television writers, Jimmy McGovern, links his work to key changes in British television over the last thirty years. McGovern's versatility has meant that his work ranges from soap opera to...

Stanley Kubrick ranks among the most important American film makers of his generation, but his work is often misunderstood because it is widely diverse in subject matter and seems to lack thematic and tonal consistency. Thomas Nelson's perceptive and...

Television was one of the forces shaping the cultural revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, when a blockbuster TV series could reach up to a third of a country's population. This book explores television's impact on social change by comparing three sitcoms...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781989555460Author Jaime WeinmanFormat HardbackPage Count 375Imprint The Sutherland House Inc.Publisher The Sutherland House Inc.

This book explores the "avisual" and its effect on the visual world. Dreams, x-rays, atomic radiation, and "invisible men" are phenomena that are visual in nature but unseen. "Atomic Light (Shadow Optics)" reveals these...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861967483Author David CurtisFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint John Libbey & Co LtdPublisher John Libbey & Co

Music in film is often dismissed as having little cultural significance. While Hammer Film Productions is famous for such classic films as ""Dracula"" and ""The Curse of Frankenstein"", few observers have noted the innovative music that Hammer...

Combining ethnography, film criticism, and his extensive knowledge of the Middle East, Steven C. Caton presents an innovative and fascinating examination of the classic film, Lawrence of Arabia. Caton is interested in why this epic film has been so...

2016 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Finalist for 2016 Richard Wall Memorial Award from the Theatre Library Association Long-listed for the 2017 Best Photography Book Award from the Kraszna-Krausz Foundation Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo, and...

Sometimes a lie is a wish. Once upon a time there was a lonely carpenter, a curious cat, and a little wooden puppet who one day came to life... In this spectacular new version of the much-loved classic tale, Pinocchio discovers why it's best to...

Montage, today, is a widespread procedure that doesn't concern just artistic production, but also our daily lives and the use everyone makes of that huge visual archive contemporary media places at our disposal. In a technologically advanced society,...

How the media are organised and funded is central to understanding their role in society. Critical Political Economy of the Media provides a clear, comprehensive and insightful introduction to the political economic analysis of contemporary media...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647221553Author Denis VilleneuveFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight EditionsWeight(grams) 1905gDimensions(mm) 264mm *...

Discover over a dozen collectible items including stickers, a keychain, bookmarks in this magical portfolio filled with facts and images from Disney animated films! Celebrate your love of Disney's classic animated films throughout the years and bring...

Three new plays from three of the UK's most celebrated playwrights. All rooted in West London, the plays explore race, identity and our sense of place and purpose, presented together as one piece, Out West. The Overseas Student by Tanika Gupta ...

Hail, Caesar! is the story of Eddie Mannix, tireless pursuer of the interests of fictional Capitol Pictures, circa 1951. He is the ultimate studio fixer and---since the studio is his world---the ultimate earthly one. There is no star scandal he cannot...

The Art of Writing Drama is an indispensable textbook for wherever writing for the stage is taught, but also serves as a foundational book for any student taking courses in performance media - radio, television and film. Coupling theory with practice,...

The Art of Madagascar 3 provides a fascinating look at the character design, development art, and special effects that make up this stunning CG movie from the artists at DreamWorks Animation. In the third installment of the Madagascar series, Alex the...

Celine Sciamma is the most visible and important feminist, and lesbian, director in contemporary international filmmaking. Her fourth feature, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, competed for the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 2019 and intervened directly in debates...

Among the top-grossing Hollywood blockbusters of all time, Star Wars launched one of the most successful movie and licensing franchises in history. Yet much of the film's backstory was set in Britain, where the original trilogy was made and where early...

Budgeting and scheduling are easy in principle but hard in practice. The successful producer has a solid plan for juggling dozens of activities and costs while retaining the flexibility to cope with those inevitable last-minute changes and stay on course...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903364413Author Samantha LayFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Wallflower PressPublisher Wallflower PressWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 215mm *...

Both informational and inspirational, THE STEADICAM (R) OPERATOR'S HANDBOOK is the number one comprehensive guide to becoming a successful owner and operator of the Steadicam. Packed with interviews and instruction by the world's premier Steadicam...

In this second volume of Tino Balio's history of United Artists, he examines the turnaround of the company in the hands of Arthur Krim and Robert Benjamin in the 1950s, when United Artists devised a successful strategy based on the financing and...

'...the history of this pub, the possibilities of what once could have happened in this room in which we're now gathered ... Well. The possibilities'. Written as a response to the 50th anniversary celebration of the King's Head Theatre, Mark...

Art Into Theatre investigates the processes of hybrid forms of performance developed between 1952 and 1994 through a series of interviews with key practitioners and over 80 pieces of documentation, many previously unpublished, of the works under...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781649705426Author Scott V PalmerFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint Cypress Hills PressPublisher Cypress Hills PressWeight(grams) 939gDimensions(mm) 254mm...

The Body in Sound, Music and Performance brings together cutting-edge contributions from women working on and researching contemporary sound practice. This highly interdisciplinary book features a host of international contributors and places emphasis on...

'The Humphrey Jennings Film reader' tells the story of his brief, varied life in his own words, using many previously unpublished letters, treatments and screen-plays. it reprints all of his unpublished critical writings on literature, painting and other...

Handmade films stretch back to cinema's beginnings, yet until now their rich history has been neglected. Process Cinema is the first book to trace the development of handmade and hand-processed film in its historical and contemporary contexts, and from a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780977064120Author Scott SeditaFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Atides PublishingPublisher Atides PublishingWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

This anthology explores the resilience and ubiquity of the Gothic in cinema from its earliest days to its most contemporary iterations. Fifteen newly commissioned chapters by prominent scholars in the field of Gothic and cinema studies examine the myriad...