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Adapting Television Drama: Theory and Industry by Christopher Hogg
RRP: €71.40€65.75This book explores adaptation in its various forms in contemporary television drama. It considers the mechanics of adaptation as an ever-more prevalent form of production, most notably in the reworking of literary sources for television. It also explores... -
Artists in the Archive: Creative and Curatorial Engagements with Documents of Art and Performance by Nick Kaye
RRP: €51.16€45.21Artists in the Archive explores the agency and materiality of the archival document through a stunning collection of critical writings and original artworks. It examines the politics and philosophy behind re-using remains, historicising this artistic... -
The Intercultural Performance Reader by Patrice Pavis 9780415081542
RRP: €42.83€37.71What can performers in the West learn from the technical performance traditions of Africa and Asia?The Intercultural Performance Handbook opens up a new world of technique for performers. The first ever full-length, fully illustrated manual for... -
Music and Trance: A Theory of the Relations Between Music and Possession by Gilbert Rouget 9780226730066
RRP: €51.17€49.68Ritual trance has always been closely associated with music-but why, and how? Gilbert Rouget offers and extended analysis of music and trance, concluding that no universal law can explain the relations between music and trance; they vary greatly and... -
Framing Blackness: The African American Image in Film by Ed Guerrero
€33.52From D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation to Spike Lee's Malcolm X, Ed Guerrero argues, the commercial film industry reflects white domination of American society. Written with the energy and conviction generated by the new black film wave, Framing... -
Video Production: Putting Theory into Practice by Steve Dawkins
€50.29It's tempting to skip over theory when you want to get on with the practice of video production. But understanding theory can actually give you the confidence to make good practical decisions and to produce higher-quality videos and films. This... -
Marjorie Barstow and John Dewey: Critical Thinking and Pedagogy in the Performing Arts by Amanda Cole
RRP: €95.19€85.87This book focuses on the teaching and philosophy of the pioneering performing arts teacher and educator Marjorie Barstow. She is one of the best and brightest exponents of the Alexander Technique (AT), an approach to awareness and movement widely... -
Jean-Pierre Jeunet by Elizabeth Ezra
€19.90This is the first book on Jean-Pierre Jeunet, the popular and critically acclaimed director of films such as Amelie, Delicatessen, A Very Long Engagement, Alien Resurrection, and City of Lost Children. Jeunet's work exemplifies Europe's engagement with... -
Art Into Theatre: Performance Interviews and Documents by Nick Kaye
RRP: €51.16€44.73Art Into Theatre investigates the processes of hybrid forms of performance developed between 1952 and 1994 through a series of interviews with key practitioners and over 80 pieces of documentation, many previously unpublished, of the works under... -
Theatre for Change: Education, Social Action and Therapy by Robert J. Landy 9780230243668 [USED COPY]
RRP: €33.31€25.80Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Theatre for Change: Education, Social Action and Therapy by Robert J. Landy
€42.74Building on Robert J. Landy's seminal text, Handbook of Educational Drama and Theatre, Landy and Montgomery revisit this richly diverse and ever-changing field, identifying some of the best international practices in Applied Drama and Theatre. Through... -
Staging Musicals by Matthew White 9781474247726
€34.59Ever dreamt of putting on a musical from scratch? Or perhaps you already have, but some extra guidance would be welcome. Look no further: this book will give you all the information you need to successfully stage a musical. Placing a firm emphasis on... -
Reading Stephen Sondheim: A Collection of Critical Essays by Sandor Goodhart 9780815337683
RRP: €44.02€38.71Stephen Sondheim is arguably the most important writer for the American musical stage today, the equivalent in his field of Miller, Albee, O'Neill, and Williams. Yet he has rarely been treated seriously within the academy. Reading Stephen Sondheim: A... -
Derek Jarman's Angelic Conversations by Jim Ellis
RRP: €26.12€17.95Best known as an iconoclastic, wildly inventive filmmaker, Derek Jarman was also an accomplished author, painter, and landscape artist. In Derek Jarman's Angelic Conversations, Jim Ellis considers Jarman's wide-ranging oeuvre to present a broad... -
The Senses in Performance by Sally Banes 9780415281867
RRP: €51.16€44.73This ground-breaking anthology is the first to be dedicated to assessing critically the role of the human sensorium in performance. Senses in Performance presents a multifaceted approach to the methodological, theoretical, practical and historical... -
How to be a Goofy Juggler: A Complete Course in Juggling Made Ridiculously Easy! by Bruce Fife 9780941599047
RRP: €13.03€11.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780941599047Author Bruce FifeFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Piccadilly Books,U.S.Publisher Piccadilly Books,U.S. -
Beginner Intermediate And Advanced Hot Rod Techniques For Guitar: A Wiring Guide For The Fender Stratocaster by Tim Swike 9781438201689
RRP: €17.79€16.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438201689Author Tim SwikeFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Opera North: Historical and Dramaturgical Perspectives on Opera Studies by Kara McKechnie
RRP: €88.05€75.42This illustrated study is a resource for opera scholars, opera workers and opera lovers. It explores the field of opera studies in three ways: Through history: Opera North is presented through a historical lens within the UK operatic landscape. The... -
American Accent Drills for British and Australian Speakers by Amanda Quaid
RRP: €29.74€25.95American Accent Drills for British and Australian Speakers provides a comprehensive guide to learning a "General American" accent, made specifically for native English speakers. Unlike most American accent guides, which are geared toward ESL learners,... -
Teaching Critical Performance Theory: In Today's Theatre Classroom, Studio, and Communities by Jeanmarie Higgins
RRP: €38.07€33.71Teaching Critical Performance Theory offers teaching strategies for professors and artist-scholars across performance, design and technology, and theatre studies disciplines. The book's seventeen chapters collectively ask: What use is theory to an... -
Feminism and Theatre by Sue-Ellen Case 9780416015010
RRP: €47.59€41.72This classic study is both an introduction to, and an overview of, the relationship between feminism and theatre.Book InformationISBN 9780416015010Author Sue-Ellen CaseFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Egmont Books LtdPublisher Egmont UK... -
La Pocha Nostra: A Handbook for the Rebel Artist in a Post-Democratic Society by Guillermo Gómez-Peña
RRP: €38.07€33.71La Pocha Nostra: A Handbook for the Rebel Artist in a Post-Democratic Society marks a transformation from its sister book, Exercises for Rebel Artists, into a pedagogical matrix suited for use as a performance handbook and conceptual tool for artists,... -
Antonin Artaud: A Critical Reader by Edward Scheer
RRP: €42.83€37.71This resource collects for the first time some of the best criticism on Artaud's life and work from writers such as Jacques Derrida, Julia Kristeva, Maurice Blanchot, Herbert Blau, Leo Bersani and Susan Sontag.Antonin Artaud was one of the most brilliant... -
The Magic World of Orson Welles by James Naremore
€20.37Prodigy. Iconoclast. Genius. Exile. Orson Welles remains one of the most discussed figures in cinematic history. In the centenary year of Welles's birth, James Naremore presents a revised third edition of this incomparable study, including a new section... -
The Eisenstein Reader by Sergei Eizenshtein
€42.74Presents, in a concise form, a selection of Sergei Eisenstein's significant writings. The texts, drawn from the BFI's "Selected Works of Eisenstein", address subjects including sound, film language, and his theories of "montage". This reader provides an... -
Analysing Performance: A Critical Reader by Patrick Campbell 9780719042508
€21.21Each chapter in this important critical reader tackles the theory and practice of modern performance work, and enables students and teachers to see what is at stake in analysing dance, drama, music and videos using contemporary critical theories... -
Body Voice Imagination: ImageWork Training and the Chekhov Technique by David Zinder
RRP: €38.07€33.71David Zinder's Body Voice Imagination is written by one of the master teachers of the Michael Chekhov technique of acting training. This book is a comprehensive course of exercises devoted to the development of actors' creative expressivity, comprising... -
The Routledge Reader in Politics and Performance by Lizbeth Goodman
RRP: €44.02€38.71The Routledge Reader in Politics and Performance brings together for the first time a comprehensive collection of extracts from key writings on politics, ideology, and performance. Taking an interdisciplinary approach to the subject, and including new... -
Penelope Cruz by Ann Davies
€29.33Part of a vanguard of Spanish talent claiming success at home and in Hollywood, Penelope Cruz is one of the best known European stars today. Focusing on Cruz's key films and their surrounding discourse, Ann Davies charts the development of Cruz's star... -
West End Women: Women and the London Stage 1918 - 1962 by Maggie Gale 9780415084963
RRP: €44.02€38.71Maggie Gale's West End Women uncovers groundbreaking material about women playwrights and the staging of their performances between the years 1918 and 1962. It documents a dynamic era of social and theatrical history, analysing the transformations that... -
Kelly Reichardt by Katherine Fusco
€20.94Kelly Reichardt's 1994 debut River of Grass established her gift for a slow-paced realism that emphasizes the ongoing, everyday nature of emergency. Her work since then has communed with--yet remained apart from--postwar European realisms, the American... -
Perform or Else: From Discipline to Performance by Jon McKenzie 9780415247696
RRP: €42.83€37.71'Performance' has become one of the key terms for the new century. But what do we mean by 'performance'? In today's world it can refer to experimental art; productivity in the workplace; and the functionality of technological systems. Do these disparate... -
The Ritual Theatre of Theodoros Terzopoulos by Freddy Decreus
RRP: €46.40€40.72The Ritual Theatre of Theodoros Terzopoulos outlines the story of the Athenian-based Attis Theatre and the way its founder and director, Theodoros Terzopoulos, introduced bio-energetic presences of the body on the stage, in an attempt to redefine and... -
Painting the Stage: Artists as Stage Designers by Denise Wendel-Poray
RRP: €65.45€44.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857230061Author Denise Wendel-PorayFormat HardbackPage Count 444Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 1760g -
Collecting Visible Evidence by Jane Gaines 9780816631360
€23.31A redefinition of the nature of documentary film.In documentary studies, the old distinctions between fiction and nonfiction no longer apply, as contemporary film and video artists produce works that defy classification. Coming together to make sense of... -
The New Television Handbook by Jonathan Bignell
RRP: €52.35€46.22The New Television Handbook provides an exploration of the theory and practice of television at a time when the medium is undergoing radical changes. The book looks at television from the perspective of someone new to the industry, and explores the place... -
The Laban Sourcebook by Dick McCaw 9780415543323
RRP: €44.02€38.71Rudolf Laban (1879 - 1958) was a pioneer in dance and movement, who found an extraordinary range of application for his ideas; from industry to drama, education and therapy. Laban believed that you can understand about human beings by observing how they... -
Physical Theatres: A Critical Reader by John Keefe 9780415362528 [USED COPY]
RRP: €44.02€4.69Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Physical Theatres: A Critical Reader by John Keefe
RRP: €44.02€39.19Physical Theatres: A Critical Reader is an invaluable resource for students of physically orientated theatre and performance. This book aims to trace the roots and development of physicality in theatre by combining practical experience of the field with... -
On Directing by Harold Clurman 9780684826226
RRP: €22.60€15.67"A straightforward, tasteful, and articulate account of what it is to bring a play to palpitating life upon a stage" (The New York Times Book Review).In this classic guide to directing, we are taken logically from the choice of the play right through...