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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648946403Author Becky GilhespieFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Thorpe-BowkerPublisher Thorpe-BowkerWeight(grams) 168gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Singing and the Actor takes the reader step by step through a practical training programme relevant to the modern singing actor and dancer. A variety of contemporary voice qualities including Belting and Twang are explained, with excercises for each...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486406459Author A. C. ScottFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.

Film noir's popularity with cinema audiences, enthusiasts and scholars has remained unabated since post-war French critics began discerning a new trend in American film with the release of such stylish and atmospheric crime features as Double Indemnity...

Raymond Sarlot bought the Chateau Marmont in 1975, but what was originally a business purchase became a love affair as he delved into the hotel's incredible history. From its perch overlooking the Sunset Strip, the glamorous Marmont reigned for decades...

The Method Acting Exercises Handbook is a concise and practical guide to the acting exercises originally devised by Lee Strasberg, one of the Method's foremost practitioners. The Method trains the imagination, concentration, senses and emotions to...

Helen Lewis' acclaimed memoir, A Time to Speak (Blackstaff Press, Belfast, 1997), tells the story of the first thirty years of her life in Czechoslovakia, from childhood to her professional training as a choreographer and dancer. It also contains her...

A tender and funny tale about our secret selves, No Romance is a play about our search for connection in a fractured world. It received the Stewart Parker Trust Award in 2012. Laura has a secret. Joe's has been revealed. Peg's been keeping hers for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780359652433Author Michael WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.com

The survival of cinema in Europe and the analysis of its heritage are key issues for the new century. This book asks how we can define European cinema and how it should be studied. It provides an overview of the problems, traditions and key questions...

In 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...

In "100 Road Movies", each entry will offer an insightful critique in terms of aesthetics, plot structure and defining formal and thematic features, whilst also considering the title in the wider context and understanding of by what criteria a film may...

T?his is the first book about reality television to make class its central focus. Despite popular and media debate about the 'classed' behaviour of reality stars such as Jade Goody and Shilpa Shetty, and the class confrontations depicted in shows such as...

A dark fable of the emotionally stultifying effects of small-town life, from the author of Disco Pigs and The Walworth Farce. Three sisters in a remote fishing village, trapped in the years that have passed since their halcyon days at The New Electric...

The popularity of yoga and Zen meditation has heightened awareness of somatic practices. Individuals develop the conscious embodiment central to somatics work via movement and dance, or through touch from a skilled teacher or therapist often called a...

This edited collection brings together essays presenting an interdisciplinary dialogue between theatre and performance and the fields of care ethics, care studies, health and social care. The book advances our understanding of performance as a mode of...

Performance Studies: The Basics offers an overview of the multiple, often overlapping definitions of performance, from performance art, performance as everyday life, and rituals, to the performative dimensions of identity, such as gender, race and...

First Published in 1997. Can South African theatre continue to maintain its autonomy and exercise its critical role? Can one rethink form and find new content? Can a concept of post-protest theatre be developed? How might theatre contribute to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780380811274Author Ian ChristeFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 484gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781366561329Author Stephanie AirdFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 127gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 6mm

This international collection of essays forms a vibrant picture of the scope and diversity of contemporary queer performance. Ranging across cabaret, performance art, the performativity of film, drag and script-based theatre it unravels the dynamic...

Playing Boal examines the techniques in application of Augusto Boal, creator of Theatre of the Oppressed, Brazilian theatre maker and political activist. This text looks at the use of the Theatre of the Oppressed exercises by a variety of practitioners...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781037114397Author Matt ZinaFormat HardbackPage Count 148Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Before his death in 2016, Abbas Kiarostami wrote or directed more than thirty films in a career that mirrored Iranian cinema's rise as an international force. His 1997 feature Taste of Cherry made him the first Iranian filmmaker to win the Palme d'Or at...

In 1991, a new comedy hit British screens and, at first glance, it was just another sofa-based sitcom. Soon, it became clear Bottom was a masterpiece. Mixing cartoon-style slapstick, knob gags and Beckettian nihilism, it left an indelible mark on British...

In a significant departure from other works on Ritwik Ghatak, this book establishes him as an auteur and a maestro on par with some of the great film directors, like Sergei Eisenstein, Satyajit Ray, Ingmar Bergman, Federico Fellini, Kenji Mizoguchi and...

From TikTok star and the author of I Didn't Know I Needed This Eli Rallo, a reflection on the anxiety of transitioning into adulthood, navigating the quarter-life crisis, and realizing you're actually not alone. Does anyone else feel like they're the...

Throughout Disney's phenomenally successful run in the entertainment industry, the company has negotiated the use of cutting-edge film and media technologies that, J. P. Telotte argues, have proven fundamental to the company's identity. Disney's...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781068541926Format PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint MT Theatre Guides & JournalsPublisher MT Theatre Guides & Journals

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905929757Author Brian BakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 267Imprint Chester Academic PressPublisher Chester Academic Press

This collection of essays explores the stakes of that seemingly anachronistic comeback. It reframes portraiture as a set of cultural techniques for the dynamic performance of subjects entangled in specific medial configurations. Tracking the portrait...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781835436509Author Majid GhorbaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher Olympia Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739302085Author Gordon HouseFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Beercott BooksPublisher Beercott Books

In their previous book, Economies of Collaboration in Performance, Savage and Symonds explored the economy as a metaphor for understanding collaborative practices in the arts. This book, Ecologies of Community in Performance, continues to explore arts...

Richard Rodgers. Miles Davis. Van Cliburn. Itzhak Perlman. Robin Williams, Kevin Kline, Patti LuPone. Mandy Patinkin. For over a century, Juilliard has trained the artists who compose the elite of the performing arts in the United States. Andrea...

Near the end of the third decade of the sixteenth century, a five-volume set of madrigal and motet partbooks was assembled in Florence and sent as a gift-or "musical embassy"-to the English court of Henry VIII. The manuscript set-minus the missing altus...

Ginette Vincendeau analyses Bardot's rise to fame as a highly-acclaimed French international film star and fashion icon from her early days as a fashion model and ballet dancer to her period of 'high stardom' between 1956 and 1960. A serious and...

From Oscar-winning British classics to Hollywood musicals and Westerns, from Soviet epics to Bollywood thrillers, Shakespeare has inspired an almost infinite variety of films. Directors as diverse as Orson Welles, Akira Kurosawa, Franco Zeffirelli,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788424500948Author Robert H MethmonFormat PaperbackImprint Fundamentos EditorialPublisher Fundamentos EditorialWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm) 193mm *...