Performing Arts

From the alien worlds of Star Trek to the realistic operating room of ER, the design of sets and costumes contributes not only to the look and mood of television shows, but even more importantly to the creation of memorable characters. Yet, until now,...

Greek film director Theo Angelopoulos is one of the most influential and widely respected filmmakers in the world today, yet his films are still largely unknown to the American public. In the first book in English to focus on Angelopoulos's unique...

To win a screen role, an actor must learn to contend with an on-camera audition. Understanding how to make the crucial adjustments to one's craft that this kind of audition requires is vital to the career of any screen actor.Auditioning On Camera sets...

Discarded by archivists and disregarded by scholars despite its cultural impact on post-World War II Europe, the film photonovel represents a unique crossroads. This hybrid medium presented popular films in a magazine format that joined film stills or...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956302120Author Robert GoldenFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Robert Golden Pictures LtdPublisher Robert Golden Pictures LtdWeight(grams)...

Journey to amazing worlds as Star Wars: The Mandalorian, the critically acclaimed series that expands the Star Wars universe, continues to tell the acclaimed story of the mysterious Mandalorian warrior Dyn Jarren and The Child. This collector's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615933334Author Neal Marshall StevensFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Michael Wiese ProductionsPublisher Michael Wiese Productions

One of the most original, rebellious, and idiosyncratic directors in the American cinema, Nicholas Ray lived and worked with an intensity equal to that of his films. Best known for his direction of James Dean in "Rebel Without a Cause" (1955), he is also...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551523637Author Shohini GhoshFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Arsenal Pulp PressPublisher Arsenal Pulp PressWeight(grams) 197g

Whether we are trying to impress a date after an art house film screening or discussing Oscar nominations among friends, we all need ways to look at and talk about movies. But with so much variety between an Alfred Hitchcock thriller and a Nora Ephron...

Marcello Mastroianni is considered by many to be the epitome of the Latin lover, the consummate symbol of Italian masculinity. In Beyond the Latin Lover, Jacqueline Reich unmasks the reality behind the myth. In her investigation of many of Mastroianni's...

While the actor Sessue Hayakawa (1886-1973) is perhaps best known today for his Oscar-nominated turn as a Japanese military officer in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), in the early twentieth century he was an internationally renowned silent film...

From the veteran New York Times bestselling biographer comes a major, in-depth look at one of the most enduring American icons of all time, "the Duke," John Wayne. As he did in his bestselling biographies of Jimmy Stewart and Clint Eastwood, acclaimed...

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Go behind the scenes of DreamWorks Animation's smart,hilarious comedy The Boss Baby. This beautifully illustratedbook includes a wide range of colorful development art,storyboards and character sketches, as well as in-depthinterviews with director Tom...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985471866Author Jennifer Ashley TepperFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Dress Circle PublishingPublisher Dress Circle PublishingWeight(grams)...

Dancing Women: Female Bodies Onstage is a spectacular and timely contribution to dance history, recasting canonical dance since the early nineteenth century in terms of a feminist perspective. Setting the creation of specific dances in socio-political...

Investigating a range of influential movement training practices, this ambitious book considers the significance of professional training to performers and their bodies. Performance training approaches are examined within their wider social and cultural...

Casting fresh light on one of the most important movements in film history, Intermedial Dialogues is the first comprehensive study of the New Wave's relationship with the older arts.Book InformationISBN 9781474481373Author Marion SchmidFormat...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780473665715Author Raymond Webster ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Cumulus Publishing LimitedPublisher Cumulus Publishing LimitedWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566081955Author Justine JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Christian Publishers LLCPublisher Christian Publishers LLCWeight(grams) 508g

Contemporary Queer Plays by Russian Playwrights is the first anthology of LGBTQ-themed plays written by Russian queer authors and straight allies in the 21st century. The book features plays by established and emergent playwrights of the Russian...

The Hollywood family film is one of the most popular, commercially-successful and culturally significant forms of mass entertainment. This book is the first in-depth history of the Hollywood family film, tracing its development from its beginnings in...

A doorway to a new future is ready to open. We are the hinge of that moment. We will let the door swing wide. On a beautiful spring evening - when both moons are full - two teenagers vow eternal love. It is a moment that will have cataclysmic...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902588216Author DK D K HolmFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Glitter BooksPublisher Creation BooksWeight(grams) 182g

Innovation & Digital Theatremaking introduces a blueprint for how to think differently about Theatre, how to respond creatively in uncertainty, and how to wield whatever resources are available to create new work in new ways.In 2020, the COVID-19...

This undergraduate textbook examines American independent cinema from the very beginnings of US cinema and includes chapters on independence within the studio system, B Films, exploitation cinema and independent cinema in the age of the conglomerates. In...

Television studies has come of age as the rapid expansion in media and communications courses shows. The Television Studies Book is a stimulating and challenging collection which analyses how the study of television has developed and points to new...

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Americans have been watching and enjoying British television programming since the mid-1950s, but the information on the personalities involved is difficult, if not impossible, to find in the United States. This guide provides biographical essays,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781734347913Author Bob SaenzFormat PaperbackPage Count 362Imprint Bob SaenzPublisher Bob SaenzWeight(grams) 485gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 19mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474463737Author William BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439186763Author Thomas LennonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Touchstone BooksPublisher Touchstone BooksWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 214mm *...

The first collection of critical essays on HBO's The Wire - the most brilliant and socially relevant television series in years T he Wire is about survival, about the strategies adopted by those living and working in the inner cities of America. It...

INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION: EVERYDAY ENCOUNTERS, 9th Edition, relates theory and skills directly to students' everyday interactions as it delivers a solid introduction to interpersonal communication. An emphasis on cultural diversity is thoroughly woven...

Since his emergence from the Flemish avant-garde movement of the 1980s, Ivo van Hove's directorial career has crossed international boundaries, challenging established notions of theatre-making. He has brought radical interpretations of the classics to...

A companion to UEP's Grand-Guignol: The French Theatre of Horror (now in its third reprint). A genre that has left more of a mark on British and American culture than we may imagine" (Gothic Studies). London's Grand Guignol was established in the...

Factual and fanciful tales of the Nordic warriors known as Vikings have proven irresistible to filmmakers for nearly a century. Diverse, prominent actors from Kirk Douglas, Richard Widmark and Sidney Poitier to Tim Robbins and John Cleese, and noted...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of PEN/Spielvogel-Diamonstein Award - Essay 2014.Book InformationISBN 9780767930635Author James WolcottFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher...