Performing Arts

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911579496Author Sheridan MorleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Dean Street PressPublisher Dean Street Press

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The Doctor may have regenerated on many occasions, but so too has Doctor Who. Moving with the times, the show has evolved across fifty years...New Dimensions of Doctor Who explores contemporary developments in Doctor Who's music, design and...

E5-Minute Plays for TeensE is the latest collection from veteran editor Lawrence Harbison a man who has...We know - we're already losing your attention. And that's okay! In keeping with the spirit of this book we'll give it to you in five.THTH1.On any...

In the late 1980s, the major conservative Christian groups suffered a series of public setbacks. In Hollywood Under Siege: Martin Scorsese, the Religious Right, and the Culture Wars, Thomas R. Lindlof asserts that the Christian right realigned itself and...

Drawing on cultural policy, queer and feminist theory, materialist media studies, and postcolonial historiography, Bliss Cua Lim analyzes the crisis-ridden history of Philippine film archiving-a history of lost films, limited access, and collapsed...

Widely regarded as one of the most innovative and passionate filmmakers working in France today, Claire Denis has continued to make beautiful and challenging films since the 1988 release of her first feature, Chocolat. Judith Mayne's comprehensive study...

In Guinea's capital city of Conakry, dance is everywhere. Most neighborhoods boast at least one dance troupe, and members of those troupes animate the city's major rites of passage and social events. In Infinite Repertoire, Adrienne Cohen shows how dance...

Michael Curtiz (1888-1962) was without doubt one of the most important directors in film history, yet he has never been granted his deserved recognition and no full-scale work on him has previously been published. The Casablanca Man surveys Curtiz'...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551525198Author Lucas HilderbrandFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Arsenal Pulp PressPublisher Arsenal Pulp PressWeight(grams) 182g

Jonathan Bignell presents a wide-ranging analysis of the television phenomenon of the early twenty-first century: Reality TV, exploring its cultural and political meanings, explaining the genesis of the form and its relationship to contemporary...

Before award-winning director Dan Curtis became known for directing epic war movies, he darkened the small screen with the horror genre's most famous soap opera, Dark Shadows, and numerous subsequent made-for-TV horror movies. This second edition...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683830566Author Steve O'brienFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight Editions

From the Holocaust to 9/11, modern communications systems have incessantly exposed us to reports of distant and horrifying events, experienced by strangers, and brought to us through media technologies. In this book leading scholars explore key questions...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993261930Author Simon MawdsleyFormat PaperbackImprint Roister Doister PublishingPublisher Roister Doister Publishing

Signs of Performance provides the beginning student with working examples of theatrical analysis. Its range covers the whole of twentieth century theatre, from Stanislavski to Brecht and Samuel Beckett to Robert Wilson. Colin Counsell takes an historical...

April 7 1991 saw the broadcast of the first instalment of Prime Suspect, a new crime series by screenwriter Lynda La Plante, starring Helen Mirren as DCI Jane Tennison. The drama focused on the desperate efforts of the Metropolitan Police to catch and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981650616Author Joseph VogelFormat HardbackPage Count 226Imprint Cardinal BooksPublisher Cardinal Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312302542Author Sam StaggsFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams) 612gDimensions(mm)...

World War II irrevocably shaped culture-and much of cinema-in the 20th century, thanks to its devastating, global impact that changed the way we think about and portray war. This book focuses on European war films made about the war between 1945 and 1985...

In this epic history-cum-anthology, Megan Vaughan tells the story of the theatre blogosphere from the dawn of the carefully crafted longform post to today's digital newsletters and social media threads. Contextualising the key debates of fifteen years of...

The history of Italian cinema includes, in addition to the renowned auteurs, a number of peculiar and lesser-known filmmakers. While their artistry was often plagued with production setbacks, their works--influenced by poetry, playwriting,...

I'm doing this for her because this was my sister's dream. This isn't my natural habitat. I wouldn't normally choose this. But she would have. Two sisters. One dream. The hardest open-water swim in the world. This triumphant play from Olivier...

In this book, Peter Brunette analyzes the theatrical releases of Austrian film director Michael Haneke, including The White Ribbon, winner of the 2009 Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Perhaps best known to U.S. audiences for Cache, The Piano...

Over the past twenty-five years, photography has moved to centre-stage in the study of visual culture and has established itself in numerous disciplines. This trend has brought with it a diversification in approaches to the study of the photographic...

Contemporary Irish Documentary Theatre is the first anthology of Irish documentary drama. It features five challenging plays by Irish writers, and one by an international author, interrogating and commenting on crucial events of Irish history and of the...

Largely forgotten during the last 20 years of his life, the Soviet filmmaker Dziga Vertov (1896-1954) has occupied a singular and often controversial position over the past sixty years as a founding figure of documentary, avant-garde, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781919627724Author Melissa GordonFormat PaperbackImprint Occasional PapersPublisher Occasional Papers

Community Performance: A Reader is the first book to provide comprehensive teaching materials for this significant part of the theatre studies curriculum. It brings together core writings and critical approaches to community performance work, presenting...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312295141Author Patsy RodenburgFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm)...

Since 1992, the Directors Guild of America has hosted an annual symposium featuring its nominees for outstanding feature film directing. From the first, film and television director Jeremy Kagan has moderated these sessions in which the finest...

This volume is the first to examine, in either French or English, the films of Jean-Jacques Beineix, often seen as the best example of the 1980s cinema du look, with cult films, such as Diva and Betty Blue (37 2 le matin).. After an introduction which...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312119089Author Professor David HowardFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 400g

What does it mean for a cinematic work to be "Chinese"? Does it refer specifically to a work's subject, or does it also reflect considerations of language, ethnicity, nationality, ideology, or political orientation? Such questions make any single...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788461696529Author Caroline DreamFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Alejandro Carlos Navarro GonzalezPublisher Alejandro Carlos Navarro...

The notion of landscape is a complex one, but it has been central to the art and artistry of the cinema. After all, what is the French New Wave without Paris? What are the films of Sidney Lumet, Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, and Spike Lee without New...

Alien: Covenant is the long-awaited sequel to the Alien franchise, and Alien: Covenant Official Collector's Edition brings you everything you need to know about Ridley Scott's latest masterpiece!About the AuthorTitan Magazines has been creating...

For decades, Screen World has been the film professional's, as well as the film buff's, favorite and indispensable annual screen resource, full of all the necessary statistics and facts. Now Screen World editor Barry Monush has compiled another...

A classic study of physiology and the effect of psychological processes on movement that has a mind/body approach, which makes it a favorite of dancers.Reviews"Still ahead of much contemporary practice in movement education." --Martha Meyers, Dance...

No-one who has ever seen the original The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) is ever likely to forget the experience. An intense fever dream (or nightmare), it is remarkable for its sense of sustained threat and depiction of an insane but nonetheless...