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The Analysis of Performance Art: A Guide to its Theory and Practice Anthony Howell 9789057550867
RRP: £38.99£34.22This finely illustrated book offers a simple yet comprehensive 'grammar' of a new discipline. Performance Art first became popular in the fifties when artists began creating 'happenings'. Since then the artist as a performer has challenged many of the... -
Award Monologues for Women by Patrick Tucker
RRP: £24.99£21.06Award Monologues for Women is a collection of fifty-four monologues taken from plays written since 1980 that have been nominated for the Pullitzer Prize, the Tony and the Drama Desk Awards in New York, and The Evening Standard and Laurence Olivier Awards... -
The League of Gentlemen by Leon Hunt
£27.99The League of GentlemenPart sitcom, part sketch show, part 'Kitchen Sink', part 'Northern Gothic', The League of Gentlemen is one of British television's most innovative and enduring comedy series. Set in the northern town of Royston Vasey, the series... -
Encyclopedia of Card Tricks by Jean Hugard 9780486212524
£15.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486212524Author Jean HugardFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 475gDimensions(mm)... -
Crackpot: The Obsessions of by John Waters 9780743246279
RRP: £18.99£11.22Waters dispenses useful advice: how not to make a movie, how to become famous, how to have a sense of humour even if you've been sentenced to life in prison, and perhaps most appropriately, how to most effectively shock and attract the nation's public... -
Johnny Depp: Anatomy of an Actor by Corinne Vuillaume
RRP: £29.95£22.99A comprehensive study of Johnny Depp's work through the lens of ten of his most iconic roles American film star Johnny Depp (b.1963) has led an incredibly diverse career, playing eccentric characters in what are now considered classics including Edward... -
Demonizing the Other: Antisemitism, Racism and Xenophobia Robert S. Wistrich 9780415516198
RRP: £52.99£46.43At the close of the twentieth century the stereotyping and demonization of 'others', whether on religious, nationalist, racist, or political grounds, has become a burning issue. Yet comparatively little attention has been paid to how and why we fabricate... -
Acting (Re)Considered: A Theoretical and Practical Guide by Phillip B. Zarrilli 9780415263009 [USED COPY]
RRP: £48.99£2.65Acting (Re)Considered is an exceptionally wide-ranging collection of theories on acting, ideas about body and training, and statements about the actor in performance. This second edition includes five new essays and has been fully revised and updated,... -
Acting (Re)Considered: A Theoretical and Practical Guide by Phillip B. Zarrilli
RRP: £48.99£43.06Acting (Re)Considered is an exceptionally wide-ranging collection of theories on acting, ideas about body and training, and statements about the actor in performance. This second edition includes five new essays and has been fully revised and updated,... -
Magic For Dummies by David Pogue
RRP: £18.99£13.15You don't need a white tiger, expensive props, or hours of preparation to do magic. With a little practice, some clever misdirection (which lays at the heart of all magic tricks), and showmanship, you can surprise family, friends, and coworkers using a... -
Stairway to Heaven: Led Zepplin Uncensored by Richard Cole 9780060938376
RRP: £13.99£12.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060938376Author Richard ColeFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 1230gDimensions(mm)... -
Posthuman Bodies by Judith Halberstam
RRP: £23.99£20.84" . . . will draw a wide readership from the ranks of literary critics, film scholars, science studies scholars and the growing legion of 'literature and science' researchers. It should be among the essentials in a posthumanist toolbox." -Richard... -
Little Wimmin by Figs in Wigs
RRP: £14.99£9.88Come join Figs in Wigs for their live art feminist adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's classic novel Little Women. Blurring the boundaries of live art, music, theatre, comedy and dance Little Wimmin will examine how we think about the past, what's wrong... -
Everything That Happened: Manchester International Festival by Sarah Walters 9781911397656
RRP: £30.00£20.55Manchester International Festival (MIF) has invited some of the world's greatest living artists to delight and often challenge crowds in spaces of all shapes and sizes; from disused railway stations to atmospheric concert halls. It's crossed boundaries... -
Psychoanalysis and Performance by Patrick Campbell
RRP: £36.99£32.93The field of literary studies has long recognised the centrality of psychoanalysis as a method for looking at texts in a new way. But rarely has the relationship between psychoanalysis and performance been mapped out, either in terms of analysing the... -
Being a Director: A Life in Theatre by Di Trevis
RRP: £31.99£28.33Di Trevis is a world-renowned director, whose work with Britain's National Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, and directing productions worldwide, has deeply informed her knowledge of the director's craft.In Being a Director, she draws on a wealth of... -
The Telling of Our Truths by Peter K Elkus 9780615271996
RRP: £15.00£11.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615271996Author Peter K ElkusFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Peter K ElkusPublisher Peter K ElkusWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
Back to Frank Black by Adam Chamberlain 9780988392298
RRP: £20.88£18.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988392298Author Adam ChamberlainFormat PaperbackImprint Fourth HorsemanPublisher Fourth HorsemanWeight(grams) 744g -
Hey, Nietzsche! Leave Them Kids Alone! by Craig Schuftan 9780733324024
RRP: £12.99£11.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780733324024Author Craig SchuftanFormat PaperbackPage Count 370Imprint ABC BooksPublisher ABC BooksWeight(grams) 475g -
Star Studies: A Critical Guide by Martin Shingler
£25.15Martin Shingler presents the mother volume for Palgrave's Film Stars series in three easily-navigable chapters in which he provides a summative and instructive account of star studies for today's film student. Via a critical evaluation of the work of... -
Film, Drama and the Break Up of Britain by Steve Blandford 9781841501505
£29.85When the sun set on the British Empire, the resultant fragmentation of British identity emerged most tellingly in artistic works: cinematic works such as Howards End depicted a richly historical land steeped in tradition and tragedy, while the more... -
The Art of Phil Bevan by Stephen James Walker
RRP: £39.99£34.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845832063Author Stephen James WalkerFormat HardbackImprint Telos Publishing LtdPublisher Telos Publishing Ltd -
Cicero Orationes. Vol. II: (Pro Milone, Caesarianae, Philippicae.) by A. C. Clark 9780198146063
RRP: £24.49£24.27Cicero Orationes. Vol. II (Pro Milone, Caesarianae, Philippicae.)Book InformationISBN 9780198146063Author A. C. ClarkFormat HardbackPage Count 356Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressDimensions(mm) 194mm * 131mm * 25mm -
75 Years of Universal Monsters by John L Flynn
RRP: £12.95£11.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780976940067Author John L FlynnFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Galactic BooksPublisher Galactic BooksWeight(grams) 290gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
Edinburgh Festivals: A Biography by David Pollock
RRP: £25.00£17.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804250129Author David PollockFormat PaperbackPage Count 800Imprint Luath Press LtdPublisher Luath Press LtdDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 20mm -
Stanislavski and the Actor: The Method of Physical Action by Jean Benedetti 9780878300907
RRP: £28.99£24.43In Stanislavski and the Actor , Stanislavski scholar and biographer Jean Bendetti has recovered materials that can stand as a final, last work by the great director and teacher. In this volume readers will find the first English text of Stanislavski s... -
The Politics of New Media Theatre: Life (R) (TM) by Gabriella Giannachi 9780415544092
RRP: £27.99£24.28The first book in the field to explore the links between theories of globalization and surveillance, bipower and biopolitics, performance and theatre, computer arts and politics, "The Politics of New Media Theatre" is an investigation into the... -
Vsevolod Meyerhold Prof Jonathan Pitches (University of Leeds, UK) 9780815378334
RRP: £36.99£32.53Vsevolod Meyerhold considers the life and work of the extraordinary twentieth-century director and theatre-maker. This compact, well-illustrated volume includes: a biographical introduction to Meyerhold's life a clear explanation of his theoretical... -
Broderick Crawford Starring in Highway Patrol by Ralph Schiller 9780999367285
RRP: £30.78£27.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999367285Author Ralph SchillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Cp Entertainment BooksPublisher Cp Entertainment BooksWeight(grams) 699g -
Site-Specific Art: Performance, Place and Documentation by Nick Kaye
RRP: £44.99£39.68Site-Specific Art charts the development of an experimental art form in an experimental way. Nick Kaye traces the fascinating historical antecedents of today's installation and performance art, while also assembling a unique documentation of contemporary... -
Sleight of Hand: Practical Manual of Legerdemain for Amateurs and Others by Edwin Sachs 9780486239118
RRP: £20.99£14.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486239118Author Edwin SachsFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 510gDimensions(mm)... -
The Transformative Power of Performance: A New Aesthetics by Erika Fischer-Lichte 9780415458566
RRP: £36.99£32.53In this book, Erika Fischer-Lichte traces the emergence of performance as 'an art event' in its own right. In setting performance art on an equal footing with the traditional art object, she heralds a new aesthetics.The peculiar mode of experience that a... -
Channel Fear by Lisa Richardson 9781915026125
RRP: £8.99£6.43A heart-in-mouth YA horror-thriller, perfect for teen fans of The Haunting of Hill House ... Iris is obsessed with star YouTube ghost hunting duo, Zach and Lucas, who disappeared at an undisclosed location several months... -
Theatre and War by Natalie Alvarez
RRP: £9.99£8.76Theatre and war have long been bedfellows. This brief study looks beyond theatre that is about war, and instead focuses on the relationship between theatre and war: how they feed into and inform one another, from rehearsal to post-production analysis... -
One Off by Ric Renton
£11.05If I owned Durham, and I owned hell, I'd rent out Durham and I'd live in hell. Born in Denton Burn, Ric Renton had a troubled upbringing that led to him spending his young adulthood in prison. During a stint in solitary confinement, he declined a... -
Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction Cinema by M. Keith Booker 9781538130094
RRP: £112.00£102.88The history of science fiction film now spans more than 100 years, during which time more than 1000 science fiction films of various kinds have been made, thanks to the contributions of filmmakers from around the world. The versatility of science fiction... -
Acting: The First Six Lessons: Documents from the American Laboratory Theatre by Richard Boleslavsky
RRP: £35.99£31.69Acting: The First Six Lessons was first published in 1933 and remains a key text for anyone studying acting today. These dramatic dialogues between teacher and idealistic student explore the field of acting according to one of the original teachers of... -
Cutting Edge: Art-Horror and the Horrific Avant-garde by Joan Hawkins 9780816634149
RRP: £21.99£19.19Explores what horror movies tell us about issues of taste.Even before Jean-Luc Godard and other members of the French New Wave championed Hollywood B movies, aesthetes and cineasts relished the raw emotions of genre films. This contradiction has been... -
My Viola and I: A Complete Autobiography by Lionel Tertis
RRP: £16.95£16.46Lionel Tertis was internationally recognised to have been perhaps the greatest viola player of all time. That the viola is today an important solo instrument and orchestral unit is entirely his achievement, and his design of a large but easily manageable... -
The Cinematic Connery: The Films of Sir Sean Connery by A. J. Black
RRP: £17.99£12.83Scotland's greatest export. The world's first super spy. Voted the sexiest man on the planet. Sir Sean Connery was a titanic figure on screen and off for over half a century. Behind the son of a factory worker, growing up in near-poverty on the harsh...