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The Living Line Robin Veder 9781611687248
RRP: £36.00£35.23Robin Veder's The Living Line is a radical reconceptualization of the development of late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century American modernism. The author illuminates connections among the histories of modern art, body cultures, and physiological... -
Italian Gothic Horror Films, 1970-1979 by Roberto Curti 9781476664699
RRP: £28.99£24.75Italian Gothic horror films of the 1970s were influenced by the violent giallo movies and adults-only comics of the era, resulting in a graphic approach to the genre. Stories often featured over-the-top violence and nudity and pushed the limits of what... -
Forest Festivities by Marion Baylis 9780992848231
RRP: £7.99£6.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992848231Author Marion BaylisFormat PaperbackPage Count 183Imprint Beresford LeavensPublisher Beresford LeavensWeight(grams) 400g -
The Cinema of Steven Spielberg by Nigel Morris 9781904764885
RRP: £22.00£18.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904764885Author Nigel MorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Wallflower PressPublisher Wallflower PressWeight(grams) 710gDimensions(mm) 248mm *... -
Star Trek: Fifty Years of Star Trek by Titan 9781785855931
RRP: £17.99£14.90The 50-year history of Star Trek, as told by the people who were there - every cast member interviewed. From the vaults of Star Trek Magazine, we celebrate with classic archive interviews with every lead cast member, from William Shatner to Patrick... -
British War Films, 1939-45 by S. P. Mackenzie 9781852852580
£72.50The cinema was the most popular form of entertainment during the Second World War. Film was a critically important medium for influencing opinion. Films, such as In Which We Serve and One of Our Aircraft is Missing, shaped the British people's... -
Disappearing Acts: Spectacles of Gender and Nationalism in Argentina's "Dirty War" by Diana Taylor
RRP: £22.99£20.32In Disappearing Acts, Diana Taylor looks at how national identity is shaped, gendered, and contested through spectacle and spectatorship. The specific identity in question is that of Argentina, and Taylor's focus is directed toward the years 1976 to 1983... -
Wong Kar-Wai by Jean-Marc Lalanne 9782906571679
RRP: £30.00£20.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782906571679Author Jean-Marc LalanneFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Dis VoirPublisher Dis Voir -
Modern and Contemporary Black British Drama by Mary Brewer 9780230303201
£32.28This indispensable overview of modern black British drama spans seven decades of distinctive playwriting from the 1950s to the present. Interweaving social and cultural context with close critical analysis of key dramatists' plays, leading scholars... -
Star Trek FAQ 2.0 (Unofficial and Unauthorized): Everything Left to Know About the Next Generation the Movies and Beyond by Mark Clark 9781557837936
RRP: £17.99£14.90Illustrations throughoutBook InformationISBN 9781557837936Author Mark ClarkFormat PaperbackPage Count 442Imprint Applause Theatre Book PublishersPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams) 680gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 27mm -
The Instinctive Screenplay: Watching and Writing Screen Drama by Sam North
£27.72What is it that makes humans engage with a dramatic narrative? Is it linked to our primitive selves, contained within our instinctive experience? This innovative text argues that understanding how and why our human instincts are brought into play as... -
The Supernatural Cinema of Guillermo del Toro: Critical Essays by John W. Morehead 9780786495955
RRP: £21.99£17.97Oscar winner Guillermo del Toro is one of the most prolific artists working in film. His directorial work includes Cronos (1993), Mimic (1997), The Devil's Backbone (2001), Blade II (2002), Hellboy (2004), Pan's Labyrinth (2006), Hellboy II (2008) and... -
African Theatres and Performances by Osita Okagbue 9780415304535
RRP: £110.00£95.11African Theatres & Performances looks at four specific performance forms in Africa and uses this to question the tendency to employ western frames of reference to analyze and appreciate theatrical performance. The book examines:masquerade theatre in... -
Ridley Scott: A Biography by Vincent LoBrutto 9780813177083
RRP: £32.00£31.09With celebrated works such as Alien, Blade Runner, Thelma & Louise, and Gladiator, Ridley Scott has secured his place in Hollywood. This legendary director and filmmaker has had an undeniable influence on art and the culture of filmmaking, but is also... -
Making a Splash: Mermaids (and Mer-Men) in 20th and 21st Century Audiovisual Media by Philip Hayward
RRP: £26.99£22.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861967247Author Philip HaywardFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint John Libbey & Co LtdPublisher John Libbey & CoWeight(grams) 399g -
The Age of Netflix: Critical Essays on Streaming Media, Digital Delivery and Instant Access by Cory Barker 9780786497478
RRP: £21.99£18.83Collecting several new essays from scholars around the globe, this collection seeks to participate in the ongoing discourse about Netflix's place in contemporary culture. These contributors explore the intricacies of the enormous effect Netflix has had... -
Peter Pan on Stage and Screen, 1904-2010, 2d ed. Bruce K. Hanson 9780786447787
RRP: £35.99£32.17Recounting the more than century-long stage and screen history of J.M. Barrie's play Peter Pan, Bruce K. Hanson updates and expands his 1993 volume on "The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up." Hanson traces the origin of Barrie's tale through the first London... -
The Cinema of Hal Hartley: Flirting with Formalism by Steven Rybin
RRP: £22.00£17.36Over the course of nearly thirty years, Hal Hartley has cultivated a reputation as one of America's most steadfastly independent film directors. From his breakthrough films - The Unbelievable Truth (1989), Trust (1990), and Simple Men (1992) - to his... -
Costumes for the Films of Andrei Tarkovsky by Nelli Fomina 9780957041646
RRP: £30.00£25.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957041646Author Nelli FominaFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint CygnnetPublisher CygnnetWeight(grams) 900gDimensions(mm) 255mm * 190mm * 21mm -
Performing in Contemporary Musicals David Sisco 9781032079851
RRP: £34.99£31.09Performing in Contemporary Musicals brings into sharp focus the skills performers must possess when tackling shows that are newly written, in development, or somewhere in between.The authors bust myths about contemporary musical theatre and analyze the... -
American Blockbuster: Movies, Technology, and Wonder by Charles R. Acland
RRP: £23.99£20.84Ben-Hur (1959), Jaws (1975), Avatar (2009), Wonder Woman (2017): the blockbuster movie has held a dominant position in American popular culture for decades. In American Blockbuster Charles R. Acland charts the origins, impact, and dynamics of this most... -
Performance Costume: New Perspectives and Methods by Professor Sofia Pantouvaki 9781350098800
RRP: £24.99£23.92Costume is an active agent for performance-making; it is a material object that embodies ideas shaped through collaborative creative work. A new focus in recent years on research in the area of costume has connected this practice in vital and new ways... -
Cicero Orationes. Vol. VI: (Tull., Font., Sull., Arch. Poet., Planc. Scaur.) by A. C. Clark 9780198146100
£37.80(Tull., Font., Sull., Arch. Poet., Planc. Scaur.) Edited by A. C. Clark.Book InformationISBN 9780198146100Author A. C. ClarkFormat HardbackPage Count 188Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressDimensions(mm) 193mm * 127mm * 16mm -
Carnal Aesthetics: Transgressive Imagery and Feminist Politics by Marta Zarzycka
£28.85Art today is an increasingly multifaceted phenomenon, encompassing transgressive works that intervene in war and ecological disasters, in inequalities and revolutionary changes in technology. Carnal Aesthetics is a fascinating, new examination of this... -
Circus Mania: The Ultimate Book for Anyone Who Dreamed of Running Away with the Circus by Douglas McPherson 9780720613520
RRP: £19.95£13.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780720613520Author Douglas McPhersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Peter Owen PublishersPublisher Peter Owen Publishers -
Ida Lupino, Director: Her Art and Resilience in Times of Transition by Therese Grisham 9780813574905
RRP: £31.00£27.57Dominated by men and bound by the restrictive Hays Code, postwar Hollywood offered little support for a female director who sought to make unique films on controversial subjects. But Ida Lupino bucked the system, writing and directing a string of movies... -
Designing Hollywood: Studio Wardrobe in the Golden Age by Christian Esquevin 9780813197913
£48.60Since the 1920s, fashion has played a central role in Hollywood. As the movie-going population consisted largely of women, studios made a concerted effort to attract a female audience by foregrounding fashion. Magazines featured actresses like Jean... -
"Keep 'Em in the East": Kazan, Kubrick, and the Postwar New York Film Renaissance by Richard Koszarski 9780231200998
RRP: £35.00£29.86The year 1955 was a watershed one for New York's film industry: Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront took home eight Oscars, and, more quietly, Stanley Kubrick released the low-budget classic Killer's Kiss. A wave of films that changed how American movies were... -
The Waistcoat Workbook: Historical, Modern and Genre Drafting of Waistcoats for Men and Women 1837 – Present Day by J. François-Campbell 9781032159614
RRP: £36.99£33.84The book contains comprehensive coverage for men and women's styles of this popular garment.Includes step-by-step instructions for design and construction.Includes industry terminology and lists of suppliers.About the AuthorJ. Francois-Campbell currently... -
Alternative Comedy by Oliver Double
£102.71In the late 1970s, the alternative comedy scene exploded into life in Britain and completely changed the style, subject matter and politics of British stand-up. Contemporary critics talked about it as 'anti-matter comedy' that 'makes you laugh while... -
Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905-2016 by Chrissie Iles
RRP: £45.00£39.23A fascinating survey of pioneering work in experimental cinema and art from 1905 to the present day, revealing the high stakes and transformative potential of these forms This generously illustrated publication surveys the work of filmmakers and artists... -
What If I Had Been the Hero?: Investigating Women's Cinema by Sue Thornham 9781844573639
£35.27Sue Thornham's study explores issues in feminist filmmaking through an examination of a wide range of films by women filmmakers, ranging from the avant-garde to mainstream Hollywood, and from the 1970s to the present day, discussing directors including... -
Performing Site-Specific Theatre: Politics, Place, Practice by Anna Birch 9780230364066
RRP: £99.99£89.87This book investigates the expanding parameters for site-specific performance to account for the form's increasing popularity in the twenty-first century. Leading practitioners and theorists interrogate issues of performance and site to broaden our... -
Mythic Imagination and the Actor: Exercises, Inspiration, and Guidance for the 21st Century Actor by Marissa Chibas
RRP: £31.99£28.33In Mythic Imagination and the Actor, Marissa Chibas draws on over three decades of experience as a Latinx actor, writer, filmmaker, and teacher to offer an approach to acting that embraces collective imagination, archetypal work, and the mythic. The book... -
The Great History Of Russian Ballet by Evdokia Belova
£30.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646993925Author Evdokia BelovaFormat HardbackPage Count 204Imprint Parkstone Press USA, LimitedPublisher Parkstone Press USA, Limited -
The Tenth Muse: Writing about Cinema in the Modernist Period by Laura Marcus 9780199590308
£46.51The Tenth Muse explores writings on the cinema in the first decades of the twentieth century. Laura Marcus examines the impact of cinema on early twentieth-century literary and, more broadly, aesthetic and cultural consciousness, by bringing together the... -
In Performance: Contemporary Monologues for Teens JV Mercanti 9781480396616
RRP: £12.99£11.46In this thoughtfully curated collection teen actors preparing for an audition or searching for quality scenes to hone their chops will find a wealth of contemporary material from American and British plays. Almost all of the works are from the year 2000... -
Women, Feminism and Italian Cinema: Archives from a Film Culture by Dalila Missero 9781474463256
RRP: £19.99£17.22Represents the first comprehensive reconstruction of Italian women's film cultures of the 1960s and '70s Provides an innovative, intersectional feminist methodology to cinema history, adopting stand-point theory, archival theory and addressing... -
The Body in Hollywood Slapstick by Alex Clayton 9780786430635
RRP: £21.99£19.17Because they rely heavily on physical comedy, many Hollywood slapstick films can be understood as comic meditations on the place and nature of the human body. Focusing on the works of Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, and Laurel and Hardy,... -
Joyless Streets: Women and Melodramatic Representation in Weimar Germany by Patrice Petro
RRP: £45.00£35.32Patrice Petro challenges the conventional assessment of German film history, which sees classical films as responding solely to male anxieties and fears. Exploring the address made to women in melodramatic films and in popular illustrated magazines, she...