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Telling Tales: New One-Act Plays by Eric Lane 9780140482379
£17.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140482379Author Eric LaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Penguin Books LtdPublisher Penguin Books LtdWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 209mm * 128mm... -
Jean Epstein: Corporeal Cinema and Film Philosophy by Christophe Wall-Romana
RRP: £19.99£15.18If cinema can be approached as poetry and philosophy, it is because of Jean Epstein. Cocteau, Bunuel (who was his assistant), Hitchcock, Pasolini and Godard, and theoreticians Kracauer, Deleuze and Ranciere are directly influenced by Epstein's pioneering... -
That's the Way it is: A History of Television News in America by Charles L. Ponce De Leon
RRP: £17.00£16.68When critics decry the current state of our public discourse, one reliably easy target is television news. It's too dumbed-down, they say; it's no longer news but entertainment, celebrity-obsessed and vapid. The critics may be right. But, as Charles L... -
Symbolic Narratives/African Cinema: Audiences, Theory and the Moving Image by June Givanni
£41.21In the conference Africa and the History of Cinematic Ideas held in London in 1995, film-makers, cultural theorists and critics gathered to debate a range of issues. Views were exchanged on such topics as imperialism, and the problems of distribution... -
Out of the Shadows: A Story of Toni Wolff and Emma Jung by Elizabeth Clark-Stern 9780981393940
£14.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981393940Author Elizabeth Clark-SternFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Genoa HousePublisher Genoa HouseWeight(grams) 145g -
A Reflective Practitioner's Guide to (Mis)Adventures in Drama Education -or- What Was I Thinking? by Peter Duffy 9781783204731
RRP: £40.95£36.04This collection of essays from many of the world's preeminent drama education practitioners captures the challenges and struggles of teaching with honesty, humour, openness and integrity. Collectively the authors possess some two hundred years of shared... -
Cinema's Missing Children by Emma Wilson 9781903364505
RRP: £18.99£7.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903364505Author Emma WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Wallflower PressPublisher Wallflower PressWeight(grams) 370gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 158mm... -
Last Operas and Plays by Gertrude Stein
RRP: £34.00£31.01In the more than 75 plays Gertrude Stein wrote between 1913 and 1946, she envisioned a new dramaturgy, beginning with the pictorial conception of a play as a landscape. She drew into her plays the daily flow of life around her - including the natural... -
Media, Communication, Culture: A Global Approach James Lull (San Jose State University) 9780745621913
RRP: £17.99£16.29Media, Communication, Culture offers a bold and comprehensive analysis of developments in the field amidst the effects of postmodernism and globalization. James Lull, one of the leading scholars in the discipline, draws from a wide range of social and... -
The Cinema of Krzysztof Kieslowski by Marek Haltof 9781903364918
RRP: £17.99£15.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903364918Author Marek HaltofFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Wallflower PressPublisher Wallflower PressWeight(grams) 292gDimensions(mm) 237mm *... -
Antonin Artaud: A Critical Reader by Edward Scheer
RRP: £35.99£31.69This resource collects for the first time some of the best criticism on Artaud's life and work from writers such as Jacques Derrida, Julia Kristeva, Maurice Blanchot, Herbert Blau, Leo Bersani and Susan Sontag.Antonin Artaud was one of the most brilliant... -
Inclusive Dance: The Story of Touchdown Dance by Katy Dymoke 9781789388367
RRP: £39.95£37.71Inclusive Dance is an ethnography of disability arts, and historiographic overview of the 1980s when many new disability arts groups came to fruition. Touchdown Dance was the research 'ambition' of dancer Steve Paxton and theatre maker and... -
Melodrama and Meaning: History, Culture, and the Films of Douglas Sirk by Barbara Klinger
RRP: £19.99£18.47Melodrama and Meaning is a major addition to the new historical approach to film studies. Barbara Klinger shows how institutions most associated with Hollywood cinema-academia, the film industry, review journalism, star publicity, and the mass... -
Deep Mediations: Thinking Space in Cinema and Digital Cultures by Karen Redrobe
RRP: £27.99£24.14The preoccupation with "depth" and its relevance to cinema and media studiesFor decades the concept of depth has been central to critical thinking in numerous humanities-based disciplines, legitimizing certain modes of inquiry over others. Deep... -
The Art of Cinematic Storytelling: A Visual Guide to Planning Shots, Cuts, and Transitions by Kelly Gordon Brine
£24.19To dramatize a story using moving images, a director must have a full understanding of the meaning and emotional effect of all the various types of shots and cuts that are available to advance the story. Drawing upon his extensive experience as a... -
Cape by Inua Ellams
£12.20It's a simple idea, really. 1. Wear a uniform; 2. Protect who you love, what you care about; 3. Let nothing get in your way. Someone mugged Bruce's mum and he is not having it. The shock is still visible in her trembling fingers, rippling out across... -
Planet of the Apes on Film and Tv by Scott V. Palmer 9781088012352
£34.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781088012352Author Scott V. PalmerFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSpark -
Voices in the Dark: THE NARRATIVE PATTERNS OF *FILM NOIR* by J. P. Telotte
RRP: £25.99£23.62The American film noir, the popular genre that focused on urban crime and corruption in the 1940s and 1950s, exhibits the greatest amount of narrative experimentation in the modern American cinema. Spurred by postwar disillusionment, cold war anxieties,... -
The ABCs of Classic Hollywood by Robert B. Ray 9780195322927
RRP: £32.49£28.55Speaking about the kind of filmmaking now known as Classic Hollywood, the most popular and influential cinema ever invented, Vincente Minnelli once gave away its secret: "I feel that a picture that stays with you is made up of a hundred or more... -
Performance and Spectatorship in Edwardian Art Writing by Sophie Hatchwell 9783030170233
RRP: £44.99£40.25This book explores how Edwardian art writing shaped and narrated embodied, performative forms of aesthetic spectatorship. It argues that we need to expand the range of texts we think of as art writing, and features a diverse array of critical and... -
Nollywood: The Creation of Nigerian Film Genres by Jonathan Haynes
RRP: £31.00£30.59Nigeria's Nollywood has rapidly grown into one of the world's largest film industries, radically altering media environments across Africa and in the diaspora; it has also become one of African culture's most powerful and consequential expressions,... -
The Sounds of Early Cinema by Richard Abel
RRP: £20.99£19.32The Sounds of Early Cinema is devoted exclusively to a little-known, yet absolutely crucial phenomenon: the ubiquitous presence of sound in early cinema. "Silent cinema" may rarely have been silent, but the sheer diversity of sound(s) and sound/image... -
Empire Movie Miscellany: Instant Film Buff Status Guaranteed by Empire Magazine
RRP: £15.99£5.02From the team who brought you The Empire Film Guide, here are all the obscure, indecent and downright bizarre movie facts and figures that were not considered sensible for a practical film guide. Discover which country translated GI Jane as Satan Female... -
The Routledge Circus Studies Reader Peta Tait 9781138125353
RRP: £48.99£43.06The Routledge Circus Studies Reader offers an absorbing critical introduction to this diverse and emerging field. It brings together the work of over 30 scholars in this discipline, including Janet Davis, Helen Stoddart and Peta Tait, to highlight and... -
Analyzing Mad Men: Critical Essays on the Series by Scott F. Stoddart 9780786447381
RRP: £21.99£18.83AMC's episodic drama Mad Men has become a cultural phenomenon, detailing America's preoccupation with commercialism and image in the Camelot of 1960s Kennedy-era America, while self-consciously exploring current preoccupations. The 12 critical essays... -
The Apu Trilogy: Satyajit Ray and the Making of an Epic by Andrew Robinson 9781848855168
£22.13"I can never forget the excitement in my mind after seeing 'Pather Panchali'", noted Akira Kurosawa. Satyajit Ray's three films about the boyhood, adolescence and manhood of Apu, 'Pather Panchali' (1955), 'Aparajito' (1956) and 'The World of Apu' (1959)... -
Orwell Subverted: The CIA and the Filming of Animal Farm by Daniel J. Leab
RRP: £24.95£23.09Since its release in 1954, scholars have been aware of the Central Intelligence Agency's involvement in the making of the controversial animated motion picture adaptation of George Orwell's Animal Farm. In Orwell Subverted, Daniel Leab gives an... -
Masked Men: Masculinity and the Movies in the Fifties by Steve Cohan
RRP: £19.99£18.88The fifties marks the moment when a heterosexual/homosexual dualism came to dominate U.S. culture's thinking about masculinity. The films of this era record how gender and sexuality did not easily come together in a normative manhood common to American... -
Shafted! by John Godber 9780573116230
£11.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573116230Author John GodberFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
Restaging the Past: Historical Pageants, Culture and Society in Modern Britain by Angela Bartie 9781787354067
RRP: £25.00£21.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787354067Author Angela BartieFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 650g -
Revisiting Star Studies: Cultures, Themes and Methods by Sabrina Qiong Yu
RRP: £28.99£24.75From Hollywood to Bollywood, from China to Italy, and from Poland to Mexico, this collection revisits the definitions and origins of star studies, and points the way forward to new ways of approaching the field.Book InformationISBN 9781474440974Author... -
Superman: The Movie: The 40th-Anniversary Interviews by Gary Bettinson 9781783209590
£22.17At a moment when superheroes dominate pop culture, Gary Bettinson takes us back to the first comic book blockbuster. Superman: The Movie - The 40th Anniversary Interviews is a revealing behind-the-scenes portrait of the personalities and expertise that... -
Experimental Filmmaking: BREAK THE MACHINE by Kathryn Ramey
RRP: £47.99£35.22Become a master in the influential, diverse, and highly innovative field of experimental filmmaking. Harness the little-known techniques and subtle aesthetics required for this imagination-driven art form.For the first time in a single volume, Kathryn... -
Science Fiction Film: A Critical Introduction Keith M. Johnston 9781847884763
£35.02Science Fiction Film develops a historical and cultural approach to the genre that moves beyond close readings of iconography and formal conventions. It explores how this increasingly influential genre has been constructed from disparate elements into a... -
Two of a Kind – The Morecambe and Wise Story by Paul Burton
RRP: £16.99£13.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781963371Author Paul BurtonFormat HardbackImprint Fantom Films LimitedPublisher Fantom Films Limited -
The Vespers: 100 Monologues for Everyone by Philip Ridley 9781350181656
RRP: £19.99£18.80Have you ever struggled to find the perfect monologue? Do you want to lose yourself in an unforgettable story? Do you want to be...transported? Philip Ridley's The Vespers is a major work by a major writer. 100 original, self-contained monologues... -
The Wonderful World of Dissocia Anthony Neilson 9781350200975
RRP: £12.99£11.86'Anthony Neilson's 2004 play is half a lark, half deadly serious' TIME OUT 'A profane, madcap, Alice-in-Wonderland trip morphs into something much more profound in Anthony Neilson's weirdly compelling 2004 study of mental instability' EVENING STANDARD ... -
The Feminist, the Housewife, and the Soap Opera by Charlotte Brunsdon 9780198159810
£42.24The Feminist, the Housewife, and the Soap Opera traces the history of the feminist engagement with soap opera using a wide range of sources from programme publicity to interviews with key soap opera scholars. The book reveals that feminist scholarship on... -
Crooked, but Never Common: The Films of Preston Sturges by Stuart Klawans
RRP: £22.00£18.27In a burst of creativity unmatched in Hollywood history, Preston Sturges directed a string of all-time classic comedies from 1939 through 1948-The Great McGinty, The Lady Eve, Sullivan's Travels, The Palm Beach Story, and The Miracle of Morgan's Creek... -
Directing Scenes and Senses: The Thinking of Regie by Peter Boenisch 9781526123015
RRP: £19.99£17.61As European theatre directors become a familiar presence on international stages and a new generation of theatre makers absorbs their impulses, this study develops fresh perspectives on Regie, the Continental European tradition of staging playtexts...