Performing Arts

Effective TV Production gives a succinct but thorough overview of the production process. Whatever your role in television, this book outlines the main functions of your job, placing them in the context of all other operations and showing how they are...

What Is Lighting Design?: A Genealogy of People and Ideas explains what lighting design is by looking at the history of ideas that are a part of this craft and how those ideas developed.Lighting design began in the West with the Renaissance, and each...

This title highlights the industries, markets, identities, and histories that distinguish cinema beyond the traditional hubs of mainstream Western cinema. From Iceland to Iran, from Singapore to Scotland, a growing intellectual and cultural wave of...

This work is a unique collection of key articles on feminist theatre and performance form The Drama Review (TDR). Carol Martin juxtaposes theory and practice to provide an exceptionally comprehensive overview of the development of feminist theatre. This...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905674350Author Libby SaxtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Wallflower PressPublisher Wallflower PressWeight(grams) 338gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593764067Author John Ross BowieFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Soft Skull PressPublisher Soft Skull Press

After scores of books and commentaries on film noir and its classic period experts Alain Silver and James Ursini turn their full attention to neo-noir the self-conscious mannered sometimes ersatz and often surprising genre that sprang from the...

A Dirty Broth Early Twentieth-Century Welsh Plays in English Edited by David Cottis With an introduction by David Cottis and Alyce von Rothkirch When Caradoc Evans' play Taffy was first performed in London, the Western Mail reviewer...

In this ultimate guide to the lives of Finn the Human and Jake the Dog, Adventure Time's most epic duo provides all the instructions needed to rescue princesses, explore deadly dungeons, and save the world from unspeakable evil. Finn the Human and Jake...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781006898433Author Chess AktFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 152g

From the beginning of the sound era until the end of the 1930s, independent movie-making thrived. Many of the independent studios were headquartered in a section of Hollywood called ""Poverty Row."" Here the independents made movies on the cheap, usually...

Over its five seasons on the air, the televised series Outlander has combined romance, adventure, history, and time travel into a classic saga of love, war, and the ties that bind family together. After surviving the 1746 uprising of the Scottish...

This introductory text analyzes 25 years of popular French film including recent developments in all genres. Reflecting French cinema's diversity since the new Wave, chapters include the Heritage film; thrillers; war movies; Cinema-du-Look;...

The 1960s was a pivotal decade in dance, an era of intense experimentation and rich invention. In this volume a range of dance critics and scholars examine the pioneering choreographers and companies of the era, such as Anna Halprin's West Coast...

Frederick Wiseman is America's foremost chronicler of public institutions. His films have focused on city, state, and local governments; hospitals; asylums; creative organizations and museums; schools; libraries; and more. In recent years, Wiseman's work...

From Skirts Ahoy! to M*A*S*H, Private Benjamin, G.I. Jane, and JAG, films and television shows have grappled with the notion that military women are contradictory figures, unable to be both effective soldiers and appropriately feminine. In Soldiers'...

JoJo Siwa is only 16 years old, but she's already captured the hearts and imaginations of fans around the world - and she's not slowing down!Dream Crazy Big traces every step of this young star's rise to success, from making a splash on shows like Abby's...

What if Dorothy Gale wasn't the only person who went to see the Wizard of Oz? MGM's landmark 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz, starring Judy Garland, did not mark the beginning of adventures in Oz. Both before and since, dozens of tales have been told of the...

Claude Lanzmann's monumental Shoah is the most celebrated film about the Holocaust ever made. For eleven years, Lanzmann traveled the world in search of those witnesses closest to the agony of the Jews of Europe during the Nazi terror. In superbly...

Hailed as a leading innovator of visual montage, unique storytelling style, and ground-breaking cinematography, Jean-Luc Godard is a prominent pioneer in sculpting complex soundtracks altering the familiar relationship between sound and image, but his...

EMonologue MasteryE is a manual and workbook for the beginning actor as well as the seasoned professional. It addresses in specific detail every phase of monologue preparation from selection to performance. It covers in great detail the three most...

Jeff Nuttall: Anything But Dull is the first full-length biography of the poet, performance artist, provocateur, and polymath Jeff Nuttall, who famously wrote "I paint poems, sing sculptures, draw novels." Nuttall was a key figure in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551527611Author R. L. CagleFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Arsenal Pulp PressPublisher Arsenal Pulp Press

The first volume in Kaya's series examining the work of a new wave of Asian filmmakers who are reshaping contemporary cinema Called "the world's most original action auteur" by the Village Voice, Takeshi Kitano is already legendary in Japan, where he...

In the mid-1970s, Jay Leno, David Letterman, Andy Kaufman, Richard Lewis, Robin Williams, Elayne Boosler, Tom Dreesen, and several hundred other shameless showoffs and incorrigible cutups from across the country migrated en masse to Los Angeles, the new...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813183664Author Paul Benedict RowanFormat PaperbackPage Count 364Imprint University Press of KentuckyPublisher University Press of KentuckyWeight(grams)...

Many people who are involved in the theatre come across terminology with which they are unfamiliar. This reference work is described as an encyclopedia of stage technology terms. It embraces all aspects of the technical operation of the stage, covering...

This bold new collection offers an innovative discussion of Shakespeare on screen after the millennium. Cutting-edge, and fully up-to-date, it surveys the rich field of Bardic film representations, from Michael Almereyda's Hamlet to the BBC...

The classic situation comedy ""Bewitched"" chronicled the everyday lives of Samantha, a witch, and Darrin Stephens, her mortal husband, dramatizing the often-humorous troubles caused by their ""mixed marriage.""...

Crossing the Stage brings together for the first time essays which explore cross-dressing in theatre, cabaret, opera and dance. The volume contains seminal pieces which have become standard texts in the field, as well as new work especially commissioned...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733006460Author Delbert L HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint Spring Knoll PressPublisher Spring Knoll PressWeight(grams) 848gDimensions(mm) 279mm...

Dance Partnering Basics: Practical Skills and Inclusive Pedagogy With HKPropel Access presents easy-to-implement, technique-based partnering instruction for dancers of all ages. The exercises and techniques, which are broken down into parts and presented...

Reflexivity refers to those moments in fiction and film when the work suddenly calls attention to itself as a fictional construct. For example, in literature a character might suddenly step out of the story and address the reader. This study of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984468805Author Roger RueffFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Transcend PressPublisher Transcend PressWeight(grams) 95g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250807625Author Brian MoylanFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Flatiron BooksPublisher Flatiron BooksWeight(grams) 286gDimensions(mm) 212mm * 140mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692848500Author Sophia ChapadjievFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Beat by Beat PressPublisher Beat by Beat PressWeight(grams) 272g

From Joseph Vogelsang and his mysterious peep-box to Hollywood blockbusters and Netflix, R.A. Savoldelli’s survey of cinema and film is based on practical experience – he was once the enfant terrible of Swiss cinema – and years of contemplation and study...

Budd Schulberg's classic story of the New York waterfront and the kid who "coulda been a contender" is best known in its memorable movie version with Marlon Brando. But here, adapted for the stage by Mr. Schulberg and Stan Silverman, it remains a moving...

Akira Kurosawa is widely known as the director who opened up Japanese film to Western audiences, and following his death in 1998, a process of reflection has begun about his life's work as a whole and its legacy to cinema. Kurosawa's 1950 film Rashomon...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906841041Author David MandersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Association for Scottish Literary StudiesPublisher Association for Scottish Literary...