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The complete screenplay of one of the world's most famous and controversial films "A definitive chronicle of the making of the film" Sheridan Morley, Films & Filming This is the complete companion to Citizen Kane - the film that was "designed to shock"...

Started in Shanghai in the 1920s, the legendary Shaw Brothers Studio began to dominate the worldwide Chinese film market after moving its production facilities to Hong Kong in 1957. Drawing together scholars from such diverse disciplines as history,...

The author's treatment of the works of the most subtle of all film-makers analyzes the key elements of suspense, humour and tone across the whole of the director's career. The book examines in detail such films as "North by Northwest", "The Birds" and...

Reviews of the First Edition`...valuable and enjoyable reading for all studying Shakespeare's plays.'Following in the patternestablished by John Russell Brown for the excellent series (Theatre and Production Studies), he provides first an account of...

Reviews of the First Edition`...valuable and enjoyable reading for all studying Shakespeare's plays.'Following in the patternestablished by John Russell Brown for the excellent series (Theatre and Production Studies), he provides first an account of...

This book explores the "avisual" and its effect on the visual world. Dreams, x-rays, atomic radiation, and "invisible men" are phenomena that are visual in nature but unseen. "Atomic Light (Shadow Optics)" reveals these...

Traces the history of film production in Northern Ireland from the beginnings of a local film industry in the 1920s and 1930s, when the first Northern Irish 'quota quickies' were made, through the propaganda films of the 1940s and 1950s and on to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244903756Author Mila HasanFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.com

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 9780312346348Author Hugh VickersFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 91g

April 7 1991 saw the broadcast of the first instalment of Prime Suspect, a new crime series by screenwriter Lynda La Plante, starring Helen Mirren as DCI Jane Tennison. The drama focused on the desperate efforts of the Metropolitan Police to catch and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781544508078Author Peter McGrawFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Lioncrest PublishingPublisher Lioncrest PublishingWeight(grams) 413gDimensions(mm)...

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The Best New Ten-Minute Plays, 2021 presents thirty new ten-minute plays, selected by renowned editor Lawrence Harbison. This volume is ideal for theatre enthusiasts looking for new and compelling short pieces from some of the finest playwrights of our...

What role can provocation play in the process of renewal, both of individuals and of societies? Provocation in Popular Culture is an investigation into the practice of specific provocateurs and the wider nature of cultural provocation, examining, among...

Research into and around women's participation in cinematic history has enjoyed dynamic growth over the past decade. A broadening of scope and interests encompasses not only different kinds of filmmaking--mainstream fiction, experimental, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780969936305Author Charles IscoveFormat PaperbackImprint Charles IscovePublisher Charles IscoveWeight(grams) 413g

Film is made of moments. In its earliest form, the cinema was a moment: mere seconds recorded and projected into the darkness. Even as film has developed into today's complex and intricate medium, it is the brief, temporary and transitory that combines...

A companion to John Rudlin's best-selling Commedia dell'Arte: A Handbook for Actors, this book covers both the history and professional practice of commedia dell'arte companies from 1568 to the present day. Indispensable for both the beginner and the...

Renaissance Drama in Action is a fascinating exploration of Renaissance theatre practice and staging. Covering questions of contemporary playhouse design, verse and language, staging and rehearsal practices, and acting styles, Martin White relates the...

Fifty years after the publication of Martin Esslin's The Theatre of the Absurd , which suggests that 'absurd' plays purport the meaninglessness of life, this book uses the works of five major playwrights of the 1950s to provide a timely reassessment of...

Based on "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens, this fresh, funny new version of Scrooge, by Channel 4 comedy writer Brian Luff, takes the much-loved Christmas story and turns it into a traditional British pantomime. While staying true to the...

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780415965750Author Roger CopelandFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244393267Author Simon BarclayFormat HardbackPage Count 338Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781493709588Author Ed GlassmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781963371Author Paul BurtonFormat HardbackImprint Fantom Films LimitedPublisher Fantom Films Limited

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486241203Author Isabelle S. SayersFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486241203Author Isabelle S. SayersFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

One of world cinema's most exciting filmmakers, Pedro Almodovar has been delighting, provoking, arousing, shocking, and-above all-entertaining audiences around the globe since he first burst onto the international film scene in the early 1980s. All about...

This in-depth study of Mexican film director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu explores his role in moving Mexican filmmaking from a traditional nationalist agenda towards a more global focus. Working in the United States and in Mexico, Inarritu crosses...

"The Judson Dance Theatre "explores the work and legacy of one of the most influential of all dance companies, which first performed at the Judson Memorial Church in downtown Manhattan in the early 1960s. There, a group of choreographers and...

'Robert Cohen's book, Acting Power, follows the tradition of his other book, Acting One, and has been the veritable bible for acting teachers for the last quarter century.' - David Krasner, Emerson College'This book, above all else, is an attempt to...

Women held more positions of power in the silent film era than at any other time in American motion picture history. Marion Leonard broke from acting to cofound a feature film company. Gene Gauntier, the face of Kalem Films, also wrote the first script...

Drawing on new research in the Stanley Kubrick Archive at the University of the Arts London, Kramer's study explores the production, marketing and reception as well as the themes and style of A Clockwork Orange against the backdrop of Kubrick's previous...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781494837532Author Fernando PenalosaFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

The book that re-established Peckinpah's reputation-now thoroughly revised and updated! When critics hailed the 1995 re-release of Sam Peckinpah's masterpiece, The Wild Bunch, it was a recognition of Paul Seydor's earlier claim that this was a milestone...

A funny play about a new kind of love story and a new kind of family.A funny play about a new kind of love story and a new kind of family.About the AuthorPhil Porter is a multi-award-winning playwright and librettist. His work has been produced at...

Dancing Women: Female Bodies Onstage is a spectacular and timely contribution to dance history, recasting canonical dance since the early nineteenth century in terms of a feminist perspective. Setting the creation of specific dances in socio-political...

The 354 Johnnyarm from Vagland will shortly be arriving in Wombtown, please brace for impact. Three lasses. One lad. And a bucket load of teen angst. When Olivia, Kim and Alisha all take a fancy to the same local lad, friendships and families are...

Introduction to Production: Creating Theatre Onstage, Backstage, & Offstage defines the collaborative art of making theatre and the various job positions that go into realizing a production. Beginning with an overview of the art and industry of theatre,...