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American 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 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...

This 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 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,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780306825385Author Doug StanhopeFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Da Capo Press IncPublisher Hachette BooksWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm) 213mm *...

This 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...

Prodigy. 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...

This book of piano sheet music by Laura Sullivan contains some of her best loved pieces and adaptations from her first 4 albums: Piano Solos, Pianoscapes for the Trails of North America, Mystical America and Feast of Joy and Love. Songs included are:...

Each 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...

David 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 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...

Maggie 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781481122184Author Rebecca ScottFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Presents, 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...

Engaging Audiences asks what cognitive science can teach scholars of theatre studies about spectator response in the theatre. Bruce McConachie introduces insights from neuroscience and evolutionary theory to examine the dynamics of conscious attention,...

Kelly 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...

'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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982153885Author Dr DisrespectFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Gallery BooksPublisher Gallery BooksWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 262mm * 137mm *...

Part 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...

The 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781006892592Author Chess AktFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies 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

A 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244390129Author Ben BridgesFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 191g

This text provides an account of video art, and activism, practice and theory. The follow-up to a project conducted by LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions), this volume comprises original articles by a variety of video artists, filmmakers and...

The 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...

Described by Sir Paul McCartney as "the man who makes clouds disappear", Victor Spinetti is one of Britain's best-loved and most outrageous performers. He became known to the Sixties generation through his comedic roles in the landmark Beatles...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781937620189Author S W ErdnaseFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Charles & Wonder LLCPublisher Charles & Wonder LLCWeight(grams) 440gDimensions(mm) 216mm...

Rudolf 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 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...

Physical 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...

In Unmaking Mimesis Elin Diamond interrogates the concept of mimesis in relation to feminism, theatre and performance. She combines psychoanalytic, semiotic and materialist strategies with readings of selected plays by writers as diverse as Ibsen,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982112721Author Jerry SeinfeldFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 214mm *...

First published in 1911, On the Art of the Theatre remains one of the seminal texts of theatre theory and practice.Actor, director, designer and pioneering theorist, Edward Gordon Craig was one of twentieth century theatre's great modernisers. Here, he...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573708015Author Harvey FiersteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Shakespeare, Performance and the Archive is a ground-breaking and movingly written exploration of what remains when actors evacuate the space and time of performance. An analysis of 'leftovers', it moves between tracking the politics of what is...

Alan Read asserts that there is no split between the practice and theory of theatre, but a divide between the written and the unwritten. In this revealing book, he sets out to retrieve the theatre of spontaneity and tactics, which grows out of the...

Containing over two decades of research, Near Dublin tells the story of the visits to Irish shores in the early 1950s of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Drawing on newspaper interviews, personal recollections and archive material, it follows their every...

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,...

In this much needed examination of Mike Leigh, Sean O'Sullivan reclaims the British director as a practicing theorist--a filmmaker deeply invested in cinema's formal, conceptual, and narrative dimensions. In contrast with Leigh's prevailing reputation as...