Performing Arts

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781087893297Author Scott V PalmerFormat HardbackPage Count 118Imprint Cypress Hills PressPublisher Cypress Hills PressWeight(grams) 390gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

A Sight & Sound Book of the Year Jez Stewart charts the course of this extraordinarily fertile area of British film from early experiments with stop-motion and the flourishing of animated drawings during WWI. He reveals how the rockier interwar period...

Until recently, it was assumed that the Nazis agitated against Chaplin from 1931 to 1933, and then again from 1938, when his plan to make The Great Dictator became public. This book demonstrates that Nazi agitation against Chaplin was in fact a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615931316Author Jennifer DornbushFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Michael Wiese ProductionsPublisher Michael Wiese Productions

Serial Television focuses on contemporary television drama, offering detailed accounts of hugely popular, influential, and groundbreaking shows such as The Sopranos, Queer as Folk, Sex and the City, Twin Peaks, This Life, Prime Suspect, Cold Lazarus, The...

In their third and final screen teaming, Judy Garland and Gene Kelly starred together in the MGM musical Summer Stock. Despite its riveting production history, charismatic lead actors, and classic musical moments, the movie has not received the same...

The cinematographer must translate the ideas and emotions contained in a script into something that can be physically seen and felt onscreen, helping the director to fulfil the vision of the film. The shots may look good, but they will not serve the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559360098Author Lenora ChampagneFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806542911Author Tom LisantiFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781512600797Author Laura YoungFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint University Press of New EnglandPublisher University Press of New England

This engaging book explores some of the most significant films to emerge from Latin America since 2000, an extraordinary period of international recognition for the region's cinema. Each chapter assesses an individual film, with some contributors...

Iranian cinema has an extraordinary history that has been marked by religion and ever-shifting political, economic, and social environments. This addition to Intellect's Directory of World Cinema series turns the spotlight on the award-winning cinema of...

Of Jean Renoir's "La Regle du jeu" (1939), Richard Roud noted: 'if France were destroyed tomorrow and nothing remained but this film, the whole country and its civilization could be reconstructed from it'. This is an extravagant claim, but one that in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566080798Author Irina LevinFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Christian Publishers LLCPublisher Christian Publishers LLCWeight(grams) 168g

Unlike collections of essays which focus on a single century or whose authors are drawn from a single discipline, this collection reflects the myriad performance options available to London audiences, offering readers a composite portrait of the music,...

Stagecraft Fundamentals, Fourth Edition, is an entry-level how-to guide and reference on backstage theatre, covering every aspect of basic theatre production.The history of stagecraft, safety precautions, lighting, costumes, scenery, special effects,...

The recent history of cultural exchange between France and the United States would appear to be defined by "freedom fries" and boycotts against Beaujolais - or, on the other side of the Atlantic, by enraged farmers toppling statues of Ronald McDonald...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913425814Author Jeremy ArblasterFormat HardbackPage Count 148Imprint ArtCircus BooksPublisher YouCaxton Publications

The Encyclopedia of Early Cinema, now in a new paperback edition, is a unique one-volume reference work which explores the first 25 years of cinema's development, from the early 1890s to the mid-1910s. These early years of the history of cinema have...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666767995Author Robert BrasselFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Resource Publications (CA)Publisher Resource Publications (CA)Weight(grams)...

Where is the place of the voice in film? Where others have focused on Hollywood film, this volume aims to extend the field to other cinemas from around the world, encompassing Latin America, Asia and Africa amongst others. Traditional theoretical...

Now in its seventh edition, The Art of Voice Acting covers all aspects of the craft and business of performing voiceover. Starting with the basics of voice acting, every aspect of the craft and business of performing voiceover is explained in detail,...

Approaches the recent resurgence of the fantastic in Chinese cinemas Offers the framework of 'Sino-enchantment' as a new theoretical lens through which readers can engage elements of the fantastic in Chinese cinema Addresses the increasing prominence...

The History of Italian Cinema is the most comprehensive guide to Italian film ever published. Written by the foremost scholar of Italian cinema and presented here for the first time in English, this landmark book traces the complete history of filmmaking...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615932443Author John T. TrigonisFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Michael Wiese ProductionsPublisher Michael Wiese Productions

More than three decades ago, the film Field of Dreams made grown men cry with its tale of a son's quest to know his father through the magic of baseball. The mystical baseball field of that movie continues to attract thousands of visitors and here is the...

While the Cabinet of Dr. Caligari became an international film classic, its director, Robert Wiene, was disparaged and even forgotten. Wiene's oeuvre, however, exhibits a surprising versatility and quality, featuring Raskolnikov, an expressionist...

Based on interviews with over forty award-winning artists, How to Rehearse a Play offers multiple solutions to the challenges that directors face from first rehearsal to opening night. The book provides a wealth of information on how to run a rehearsal...

- Provides aspiring screenwriters and filmmakers with a solid understanding of what makes for an authentic screen character and provides them with tools they can use to evaluate the complexity of their own characters, so they can begin drawing their own...

Yevgeny Vakhtangov was a pioneering theatre artist who married Stanislavski's demands for inner truth with a singular imaginative vision. Directly and indirectly, he is responsible for the making of our contemporary theatre: that is Andrei Malaev-Babel's...

What might the cinema tell us about how and why the prospect of cloning disturbs our most profound ideas about gender, sexuality, difference, and the body? In The Cinematic Life of the Gene, the pioneering feminist film theorist Jackie Stacey argues that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904851806Author David PermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Rockingham PressPublisher Rockingham Press

Ever watched a war film made in the 1940's or 50's and asked, did this really happen or is it a fictional action story made to entertain? Every one of these classic British war films had a vital purpose in telling the narrative of the conflict;...

Contributes a genealogical approach to debates on critical transnationalism Demonstrates that representations of crime in cinema are part of an ongoing recognition and reordering of relations of power at the levels of individual, collective, and state...

Rome is a city rich in history and culture and imbued with a realism and romanticism that has captured the imaginations of filmmakers throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. With over two and a half thousand years of continuing history, Rome...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845839390Author David JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Telos Publishing LtdPublisher Telos Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 186gDimensions(mm)...

When the movie business adopted some of the ways of other big industries in 1920s America, women--who had been essential to the industry's early development--were systematically squeezed out of key behind-the-camera roles. Yet, as female producers and...

Spanning a hundred years (1910 - 2010) and three geographical locations - Europe, Japan and North America - this unique book examines the capacity of performance to recode reality. It argues for a seamless continuity between philosophy, critical theory...

There isn't a person in this country who hasn't heard of The Brady Bunch. Whether it's the show they watched growing up, or the one their parents did--whether adored, or great to poke fun at--The Brady Bunch is unarguably one of the most enduring and...

Brecht projects an ancient Chinese story onto a realistic setting in Soviet Georgia. In a theme that echoes the Judgment of Solomon, two women argue over the possession of a child. Thanks to the unruly judge, Azdak (one of Brecht's most vivid creations)...