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From Acting to Performance: Essays in Modernism and Postmodernism by Philip Auslander
RRP: £39.99£35.06From Acting to Performance collects for the first time major essays by performance theorist and critic Philip Auslander. Together these essays provide a survey of the changes in acting and performance during the crucial transition from the ecstatic... -
The Man in the High Castle: Creating the Alt World by Mike Avila
RRP: £24.99£19.59Discover the alt worlds of The Man in the High Castle in this exclusive collection of art. Packed with concept art, final designs, and artist commentary plus previously unseen storyboards. The Man in the High Castle is the hit Amazon series, inspired... -
Tracking Loach: Politics, Practices, Production by David Archibald
RRP: £19.99£17.22Tracking Loach presents a ground-breaking and unique contribution to the study of cinema. Archibald was granted unprecedented access to observe one of world cinema's most celebrated and controversial filmmakers, Ken Loach, while he was making the 2012... -
Directing the Decades: Lessons from Fifty Years of Becoming a Director by Sue Dunderdale
RRP: £31.99£29.94- Each historical chapter is followed by a process chapter giving the explication of a detailed rehearsal methodology useful to both directors and actors.- The process chapters include objectives, examples from the practice of other directors and actors,... -
French National Cinema Susan Hayward (University of Exeter, UK) 9780415307833
RRP: £35.99£33.38This revised and updated version of a successful and established text, French National Cinema offers a thorough and much-needed historical overview of French cinema at a time when it continues to grow in popularity with films such as Amelie and... -
She Persisted: One Hundred Monologues from Plays by Women over Forty by Lawrence Harbison
RRP: £16.99£12.94She Persisted: One Hundred Monologues from Plays by Women Over Forty is a collection of monologues from plays by members of Honor Roll!, an advocacy group of women over forty. About Honor Roll!:"Honor Roll! is an advocacy and action group of women+... -
Fast Times and Excellent Adventures: The Surprising History of the '80s Teen Movie by James King
RRP: £16.99£12.36'Brilliant' Mail on SundayTake a trip back to the era of troubled teens and awesome soundtracks; of Reagan, rap and Ridgemont High; of MTV, VHS and 'Axel F'; of outsiders, lost boys and dead poets; of Bill and Ted, Brooke Shields and the Brat Pack; of... -
The Art of Smurfs: The Lost Village by Tracey Miller-Zarneke 9781785655326
RRP: £29.99£23.05Embargoed to 30th March 2017The Art of Smurfs presents hundreds of storyboards, character design, and location concept pieces.With a foreword by Veronique Culliford, daughter of Pierrot "Peyo" Culliford, this insider's guide celebrates her father's... -
Marvel Studios Be More Spider-Man: Follow in the Footsteps of Your Friendly Neighbourhood Hero by Kelly Knox
RRP: £7.99£6.39Be inspired by Spider-Man, the neighbourhood hero who balances his great powers with great responsibility.This web-swinging Avenger will stop at nothing to save those in need and is hugely loyal to friends and family. In the pages of this book, learn to... -
Terry Nation by Jonathan Bignall
RRP: £19.99£18.10This is the first in-depth study of the science fiction television devised and written by Terry Nation. Terry Nation was the inventor of the Daleks and wrote other serials for 'Doctor Who'; he also wrote the BBC's 1970s post-apocalyptic drama 'Survivors'... -
Kelly Reichardt by Katherine Fusco
RRP: £16.99£15.88Kelly Reichardt's 1994 debut River of Grass established her gift for a slow-paced realism that emphasizes the ongoing, everyday nature of emergency. Her work since then has communed with--yet remained apart from--postwar European realisms, the American... -
The Press Gang: Writings on Cinema from New York Press 1991 - 2011 by Godfrey Cheshire
RRP: £25.00£16.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609809775Author Godfrey CheshireFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S. -
As She Likes It: Shakespeare's Unruly Women by Penny Gay 9780415096966
RRP: £44.99£39.28As She Likes It is the first attempt to tackle head on the enduring question of how to perform those unruly women at the centre of Shakespeare's comedies. Unique amongst both Shakespearian and feminist studies, As She Likes It asks how gender politics... -
Bold! Daring! Shocking! True!: A History of Exploitation Films, 1919-1959 by Eric Schaefer
RRP: £25.99£24.33Unashamed nudists, high-flying hopheads, brazen strippers, vicious vice lords, and high school girls who find themselves "in trouble" comprise the population of exploitation films. In the first full-scale history of these low-budget movies of decades... -
Violence. Speed. Momentum. by Dr Disrespect 9781982153885
RRP: £18.99£12.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982153885Author Dr DisrespectFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Gallery BooksPublisher Gallery BooksWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 262mm * 137mm *... -
Imitation and Contamination of the Classics in the Comedies of Ben Jonson: Guides Not Commanders by Tom Harrison 9780367498375
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book focuses on the influence of classical authors on Ben Jonson’s dramaturgy, with particular emphasis on the Greek and Roman playwrights and satirists. It illuminates the interdependence of the aspects of Jonson’s creative personality by... -
McQueen: or Lee and Beauty by James Phillips
£12.88You look otherworldly. Like all my girls. This will make you a queen. Like years ago and people wore clothes like weapons, like weapons against poor people, because even is you were hungry how could you raise your fist against what looked like a god? But... -
I-Docs: The Evolving Practices of Interactive Documentary by Judith Aston
RRP: £28.00£21.80The history of documentary has been one of adaptation and change, as docu-mentarists have harnessed the affordances of emerging technology. In the last decade interactive documentaries (i-docs) have become established as a new field of practice within... -
Opera North: Historical and Dramaturgical Perspectives on Opera Studies Kara McKechnie 9781783505012
RRP: £73.99£62.90This illustrated study is a resource for opera scholars, opera workers and opera lovers. It explores the field of opera studies in three ways: Through history: Opera North is presented through a historical lens within the UK operatic landscape. The... -
Straight Lady: The Life and Times of Margaret Dumont, "The Fifth Marx Brother" by Chris Enss
RRP: £25.00£18.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorChris Enss and Howard Kazanjian have written a number of award-winning books including The Young Duke: The Early Life of John Wayne and Cowboys, Creatures and... -
How TV Can Make You Smarter by Allison Shoemaker 9781452171784
RRP: £9.99£9.25How TV Can Make You Smarter is a lively guide that shows readers the numerous emotional and intellectual benefits of TV. Contrary to conventional wisdom, television can do more than help you veg out, chill, and escape. Author and TV critic Allison... -
Luc Besson Susan Hayward 9780719050763
RRP: £14.99£11.72Widely taught on Film Studies courses and in French Cultural Studies programmesLuc Besson is a popular and respected filmmaker who has achieved international fameA welcome addition to the French Film Directors series.About the AuthorSusan Hayward is... -
British Thrillers, 1950-1979: 845 Films of Suspense, Mystery, Murder and Espionage by Franz Antony Clinton 9780786410323
RRP: £53.99£46.73The three decades following WWII are considered the golden age of the British thriller film, when characters like James Bond provided audiences with a whole new world of mystery, danger, excitement and suspense. For the first time, the extensive output... -
Wings of Desire by Christian Rogowski
RRP: £19.99£17.32A guide through the many aspects of Wenders's groundbreaking film, employing archival research to bring out new insights into its making and its meanings. Filmed in 1986/87 in still-divided Berlin, Wim Wenders's Wings of Desire is both a utopian... -
Virtual Hallyu: Korean Cinema of the Global Era by Kyung Hyun Kim
RRP: £21.99£20.44"[T]his fine book . . . . enlarges our vision of one of the great national cinematic flowerings of the last decade."-Martin Scorsese, from the forewordIn the late 1990s, South Korean film and other cultural products, broadly known as hallyu (Korean... -
Seen and Not Seen: Confessions of a Movie Autist by Jasun Horsley 9781782796756
RRP: £15.99£14.30Popular culture mirrors the human soul and it can't lie about the state it is in-which is what makes it an essential guide on the quest for self-knowledge. Seen and Not Seen: Confessions of a Movie Autist is a series of autobiographical explorations... -
The Art of the Observer: A Personal View of Documentary by David MacDougall
RRP: £24.99£17.91The art of the observer is a personal guide to documentary filmmaking, based on the author's years of pioneering work in the fields of ethnographic and documentary cinema. It stands in sharp contrast to books of academic film criticism and handbooks on... -
Radical Street Performance: An International Anthology by Jan Cohen-Cruz
RRP: £44.99£39.28Radical Street Performance is the first volume to collect together the fascinating array of writings by activists, directors, performers, critics, scholars and journalists who have documented street theatre around the world. More than thirty essays... -
Shooting Martha by David Thewlis
RRP: £9.99£7.16'Darkly comic, beautifully written and full of surprises'Daily Mail 'Really funny. David is a great writer' Paula Hawkins, Good Housekeeping'A riotously good novel, witty and earnest, brimming with sharply drawn characters and creeping suspense. David... -
Between Still and Moving Images: Photography and Cinema in the 20th Century by Laurent Guido
RRP: £27.99£23.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861967070Author Laurent GuidoFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint John Libbey & Co LtdPublisher John Libbey & CoWeight(grams) 930g -
Coming to Terms: The Rhetoric of Narrative in Fiction and Film by Seymour Benjamin Chatman
RRP: £24.99£22.01'About the AuthorSeymour Chatman is Professor of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley.Reviews"Coming to Terms is clearly a major effort in the ongoing project of expanding and specifying our knowledge of narrative and the terms and concepts... -
The Moving Picture Boy Gallery: From the John Holmstrom Collection by Sutton Paul 9780957246287
RRP: £60.00£53.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957246287Author Sutton PaulFormat HardbackImprint Buffalo BooksPublisher Buffalo BooksWeight(grams) 1383g -
500 Chess Puzzles, Mate in 3, Intermediate Level by Chess Akt 9781006892592
RRP: £10.97£9.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781006892592Author Chess AktFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 152g -
World Cinema: Critical Approaches by John Hill 9780198742821
£58.85'The contributors supply skilful overviews of the major critical approaches' Sight and Sound May 1998 international coverage ranges from pre-1930s Europe to contemporary 'Bollywood' musicals first class range of contributors from North America,... -
Television Sitcom by B. Mills 9781844570881
£37.37Despite its global reach, longstanding popularity, and immense profitability, sitcom has been repeatedly neglected in theoretical work on television and media. This book demonstrates that this lack needs to be sorely addressed, by dragging analysis of... -
The Computer's Voice: From Star Trek to Siri by Liz W. Faber
RRP: £20.99£19.32A deconstruction of gender through the voices of Siri, HAL 9000, and other computers that talk Although computer-based personal assistants like Siri are increasingly ubiquitous, few users stop to ask what it means that some assistants are gendered... -
Serenity by Frederick Blichert
£17.76Joss Whedon's Serenity (2005) is at once a symbol of failure and a triumphant success of fan activism. The cult television icon's feature directorial debut functions as an extension of his canceled Fox series Firefly. Mourning their loss, fans of the... -
The Guide to Shakespearean London Theatres by Peter Sillitoe 9780957537903
RRP: £6.50£3.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957537903Author Peter SillitoeFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint ShaLTPublisher ShaLT -
Performer Training Reconfigured by Frank Camilleri
£29.92Offering a radical re-evaluation of current approaches to performer training, this is a text that equips readers with a set of new ways of thinking about and ultimately 'doing' training. Stemming from his extensive practice and incorporating a review of... -
Star Wars: The Visual Encyclopedia by DK
RRP: £32.00£26.12Covering more than 2,500 characters, creatures, planets, vehicles, Droids (TM), weapons, technology, and more from the Star Wars (TM) universe, this visual tour is the ultimate compendium for the epic saga and beyond.Take a stunning visual tour of Star...