Performing Arts

Within a short space of time, the film Memento has already been hailed as a modern classic. Memorably narrated in reverse, from the perspective of Leonard Shelby, the film's central character, it follows Leonard's chaotic and visceral quest to discover...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683902010Author George E TurnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 680Imprint Pulp Hero PressPublisher Pulp Hero PressWeight(grams) 894gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Hailed as the first pan-Indian female superstar in an era which literally offered actresses crumbs, Sridevi tamed Hindi cinema like no other. Beginning her affair with the camera when she was four, this doe-eyed beauty conquered Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam...

Paring a novel into a two-hour film is an arduous task for even the best screenwriters and directors. Often the resulting movies are far removed from the novel, sometimes to the point of being unrecognizable. Stanley Kubrick's adaptations have...

This book traces the history of Seinfeld's path onto NBC's schedule and rise up the Nielsen ratings, offering a fresh look at the episodes themselves. It pays close attention to the writers and writing of the show, carefully analyzing individual episodes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781778353376Author Andy MundyFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Andy MundyPublisher Andy MundyWeight(grams) 118g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902588247Author Jack HunterFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Glitter BooksPublisher Creation BooksWeight(grams) 147g

Two migrants both alike in dignity in this city where we lay our dreams. Two men arrive in London looking for Shakespeare. They say they are from Balaika, Africa. They have passed through fire to be here and are determined for the great man to hear...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629330907Author John FarkisFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint BearManor MediaPublisher BearManor MediaWeight(grams) 612gDimensions(mm) 280mm * 216mm *...

For more than thirty years, the Wing has produced the "Working in the Theatre" seminars, a series that features the greatest names in theatre. It is now available in book form for the first time, compact, and at an affordable paperback price...

Edgar G. Ulmer is perhaps best known today for Detour, considered by many to be the epitome of a certain noir style that transcends its B-list origins. But in his lifetime he never achieved the celebrity of his fellow Austrian and German emigre...

One Sunday afternoon in a tiny postage-stamp garden, James Mullinger made the life-altering decision to give it all up: the London pubs, bustling city streets, and a flourishing comedy career. But where in the world would he and his partner raise a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787359178Author Philip SteadmanFormat HardbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 970g

The 2005 James McTeigue and Wachowski Brothers' film ""V for Vendetta"" represents a postmodern pastiche, a collection of fragments pasted together from the original Moore and Lloyd graphic novel of the same name, along with numerous allusions to...

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...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre, Performance and Cognitive Science integrates key findings from the cognitive sciences (cognitive psychology, neuroscience, evolutionary studies and relevant social sciences) with insights from theatre and performance...

The international success of Downton Abbey has led to a revived interest in period dramas, with older programs like The Forsyte Saga being rediscovered by a new generation of fans whose tastes also include grittier fare like Ripper Street. Though often...

Fifty years after the publication of Martin Esslin's The Theatre of the Absurd , which suggests that 'absurd' plays purport the meaninglessness of life, this book uses the works of five major playwrights of the 1950s to provide a timely reassessment of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307742957Author Richard RhodesFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

So, You're the New Musical Director! is aimed at the person who has music training but little or no experience with musical theatre, the high school choral director with a degree in music education, or the actor participating in community theatre...

Tailor your screenplay to sell. Find out what Hollywood script readers, producers, and studio executives want in a screenplay (and why) from someone who's been there. Discover what it takes to begin a lasting career as a screenwriter.Peppered with...

This is an eclectic, interdisciplinary overview of persuasive strategies and propaganda techniques. Living in a saturated media environment, we are crowded from all sides by persuasive messages and information. Advice, promotion and propaganda form a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312295158Author Kelly R McEvenueFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 240gDimensions(mm) 217mm...

'Norman Stanley Fletcher, you have pleaded guilty to the charges brought by this court and it is now my duty to pass sentence.' Those words, spoken by a judge to the show's hero in the title sequence of every Porridge episode, are among the most famous...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861966820Author Marie BeardmoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint John Libbey & Co LtdPublisher John Libbey & CoWeight(grams) 499g

Fully loaded with John McClane sarcasm, Alan Rickman as a German terrorist, and Nakatomi Plaza blowing up on Christmas Eve, Die Hard is often cited as the film that took action blockbusters to the next level, but what has earned the film its fiercely...

The legal terminology is portrayed in a simple and accessible way, making it ideal for beginner filmmakers with zero law knowledge Organized chronologically according to the life cycle of a film, but written in a way that allows the filmmaker to jump in...

In his latest iconoclastic work, Douglas Brode-the only academic author/scholar who dares to defend Disney entertainment-argues that "Uncle Walt's" output of films, television shows, theme parks, and spin-off items promoted diversity decades before such...

This is the first full-length study of the screenwriter Troy Kennedy Martin, whose work for film and television includes Z Cars, The Italian Job, Kelly's Heroes, The Sweeney, Reilly - Ace of Spies and Edge of Darkness. With a career spanning six decades...

Weyward Macbeth, a volume of entirely new essays, provides innovative, interdisciplinary approaches to the various ways Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' has been adapted and appropriated within the context of American racial constructions. Comprehensive in its...

Screenplays ... How to Write and Sell Them is an accessible yet comprehensive book aimed at those with a keen interest in writing feature film screenplays. Using case studies, creative exercises and interviews from the industry, the book will guide...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647220600Author James MottramFormat HardbackPage Count 156Imprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight EditionsWeight(grams) 1315gDimensions(mm) 287mm *...

Based on "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens, this fresh, funny new version of Scrooge, by Channel 4 comedy writer Brian Luff, takes the much-loved Christmas story and turns it into a traditional British pantomime. While staying true to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557836717Author Jeff LenburgFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint Applause Theatre Book PublishersPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

Widely regarded as Japan's greatest animated director, Hayao Miyazaki creates films lauded for vibrant characters and meaningful narrative themes. Examining the messages of his 10 full-length films-from Nausicaa (1984) to The Wind Rises (2013)-this study...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906830915Author Victor DandreFormat HardbackPage Count 422Imprint David LeonardPublisher David LeonardWeight(grams) 821gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm *...

How do James Bond's X-ray glasses work, the ones he uses to see whether the lady at the roulette table has a pistol concealed in her underwear? Is it really possible to launch oneself into the air and catch up with a plane that is free-falling towards...

No composer contributed more to film than Bernard Herrmann, who in over 40 scores enriched the work of such directors as Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Francois Truffaut, and Martin Scorsese. In this first major biography of the composer, Steven C...

This book focuses on the teaching and philosophy of the pioneering performing arts teacher and educator Marjorie Barstow. She is one of the best and brightest exponents of the Alexander Technique (AT), an approach to awareness and movement widely...

Frederic Jameson and Film Theory is the first collection of its kind, it assesses and critically responds to Fredric Jameson's remarkable contribution to film theory. The essays assembled explore key Jamesonian concepts-such as totality, national...