Performing Arts

The Place of Dance is written for the general reader as well as for dancers. It reminds us that dancing is our nature, available to all as well as refined for the stage. Andrea Olsen is an internationally known choreographer and educator who combines the...

Aardman Animations was founded in 1972 by Peter Lord and David Sproxton. Joined by animator Nick Park in 1985, Aardman pioneered a quirky, lovable style of stop-motion animation and is behind a string of unforgettable award-winning hits including Chicken...

The first play collection from Anders Lustgarten, "perhaps Britain's most visible and visibly engaged political playwright" (Time Out London), containing plays from the start of his career up to 2015 with the most recent play in the collection,...

The Best New Ten-Minute Plays, 2020 presents thirty new ten-minute plays, selected by renowned editor Lawrence Harbison. This volume is ideal for theater enthusiasts looking for new and compelling short pieces from some of the finest playwrights of our...

Challenging conventional scholarship placing the origins of film noir in postwar Hollywood, Sheri Chinen Biesen finds the genre's roots firmly planted in the political, social, and material conditions of Hollywood during the war. After Pearl Harbor,...

Casting is a crucial creative element of any production - and yet the craft and skills needed to put together a successful and exciting cast are often overlooked. The Casting Handbook explains the casting process from beginning to end and covers...

Academy Award-winning director Michael Curtiz (1886-1962) - whose best-known films include Casablanca (1942), Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), Mildred Pierce (1945) and White Christmas (1954) - was in many ways the anti-auteur. During his unprecedented...

Ken Kwapis has worked for more than thirty years in Hollywood. With time has come experience, and with experience he has charted a career full of hits, from The Office to The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, and become one of the most reliable and...

Audiences love the glitz and glamour of Hollywood, but beyond the red carpet and behind the velvet curtain exists a legion of individuals who make showbiz work: agents. Whether literary, talent, or indie film, agents are behind the scenes brokering...

Do you believe in monsters? We dare you to take a look inside this cursed tome containing some of the most iconic and obscure monsters from the history of cinema. Cower in fear of Count Dracula and his dreaded children of the night. Abandon hope as...

What can performers in the West learn from the technical performance traditions of Africa and Asia?The Intercultural Performance Handbook opens up a new world of technique for performers. The first ever full-length, fully illustrated manual for...

Western culture has a long and fraught history of cultural appropriation, a history that has particular resonance within performance practice. Patrice Pavis asks what is at stake politically and aesthetically when cultures meet at the crossroads of...

Leading international scholars consider the films and legacy of Howard Hawks. Diverse contributions consider Hawks' work in relation to issues of gender, genre and relationships between the sexes, discuss key films including Rio Bravo, The Big Sleep and...

A scandal half-stifled is worse than a scandal. One is at everybody's mercy. Backstage at a hung parliament, visionary Independent Henry Trebell is co-opted by the Tories to push through a controversial Bill. Pursuing his cause with missionary zeal,...

In An Accented Cinema, Hamid Naficy offers an engaging overview of an important trend--the filmmaking of postcolonial, Third World, and other displaced individuals living in the West. How their personal experiences of exile or diaspora translate into...

Certificate of Merit for the 2009 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research It may be that the song most baby boomers identify from July 1956 is a simple twelve-bar blues, hyped on national...

Winner, Best First Monograph, British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies In the 1980s and 1990s, John Hughes was one of Hollywood's most reliable hitmakers, churning out beloved teen comedies and family films such as The Breakfast Club...

Exploring the archetypal representation of the straight girl with the queer guy in film and television culture from 1948 to the present day, Straight Girls and Queer Guys considers the process of the `hetero media gaze' and the way it contextualizes...

Matthew Solomon's study of Chaplin's The Gold Rush (1925) provides an in-depth discussion of the film's production and reception history, placing it in the context of the turn-of-the-century Alaska Klondike gold rush, and analyses the film's narrative...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345803702Author Luis BunuelFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496453273Author Jodi BensonFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Tyndale House PublishersPublisher Tyndale House Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501190759Author Greg GutfeldFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

In 1966 a coal slag heap collapsed on a school in south Wales, killing 144 people, most of them children. Poet Owen Sheers has given voice to those who still live in Aberfan, the pit village in which tragedy struck, and uses their collective memories to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985358945Author Frederick M BaumgartnerFormat HardbackImprint Society of Broadcast EngineersPublisher Society of Broadcast EngineersWeight(grams) 499g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770412545Author Graeme BurkFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,CanadaWeight(grams) 468g

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Airing on CBS for fourteen seasons (1979-93), Knots Landing was a spinoff of the popular drama Dallas, but ultimately ran longer and took a very different tone on domestic, social, and economic issues than its predecssor. In the first full-length...

Ever dreamt of putting on a musical from scratch? Or perhaps you already have, but some extra guidance would be welcome. Look no further: this book will give you all the information you need to successfully stage a musical. Placing a firm emphasis on...

Two plays by the 2021 Papatango Prize-winning playwright Tom Powell. Surfacing NHS therapist Luc is fine. Honest. She's definitely not overwhelmed by meeting Owen, a new client, definitely not freaked out by what she's started seeing, definitely...

The complete screenplay of one of the world's most famous and controversial films "A definitive chronicle of the making of the film" Sheridan Morley, Films & Filming This is the complete companion to Citizen Kane - the film that was "designed to shock"...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982886366Author Chris AgosFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Ktpr, Inc.Publisher Ktpr, Inc.Weight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 5mm

The Holy Grail, the cup from the Last Supper, is among Christianity's most sacred relics. Down through the ages, the quest to find that vessel has down been the inspiration for many intent upon harnessing the power of the Grail for their own purposes. In...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544334618Author Sam WassonFormat PaperbackPage Count 752Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 135mm...

Film editing is part of the long process of formulating, acquiring and presenting the images and sounds that make a film. The film editor makes decisions about the arrangement of the visual and aural material that they receive in the cutting room, not...

A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year, chosen by Tom Stoppard"A revelation."-Marc Weingarten, Washington PostAcclaimed film director Billy Wilder's early writings-brilliantly translated into English for the first timeBefore Billy Wilder became the...

An intimate, clever, and ultimately gut-wrenching graphic memoir about the daily decision people must make between being sexualized or being invisible-now in paperback In Commute, we follow author and illustrator Erin Williams on her daily commute to and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780896762527Author Marina CalderoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Drama Publishers/Quite Specific MediaPublisher Drama Publishers/Quite Specific...

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The eagerly awaited fourth Terminator movie, "Terminator Salvation", starring Christian Bale and directed by McG, reaches cinemas on 22 May 2009. In a brand-new chapter in the Terminator saga, Judgement Day has come to pass and Skynet has...

Bassist Aaron Joy presents his series of music crossword puzzle books that look at the bands, albums and history, including famous and indie. Find his books at www.lulu.com/aronmatyas. This book includes 14 puzzles of the key bands of the Riot Grrrl...