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Exercises for Embodied Actors: Tools for Physical Actioning builds on the vocabulary of simple action verbs to generate an entire set of practical tools from first read to performance that harnesses modern knowledge about the integration of the mind and...

Shakespeare, Theory and Performance is a groundbreaking collection of seminal essays which apply the abstract theory of Shakespearean criticism to the practicalities of performance. Bringing together the key names from both realms, the collection...

A collection of essays which debates the past, present and future of British television drama. Writers, producers and television executives reflect on the changing face of TV drama, and academics present case studies on critical approaches, general...

A haunting fascination fuels our interest in the robot, the android, the cyborg, the replicant. Born in science fiction literature, the artificial human has come into its own in films, lurching to life, holding a mirror to humanity's soul. Beginning with...

Celebrity introduces the key terms and concepts, dilemmas and issues that are central to the study and critical understanding of celebrity. Drawing on two dynamic models from two different modes of enquiry - the circuit of celebrity culture and the...

There has never been a show business book quite like The Show Won't Go On, the first comprehensive study of a bizarre phenomenon: performers who died onstage. The Show Won't Go On covers almost every genre of entertainment, and is full of unearthed...

This is a book about collaboration in the arts, which explores how working together seems to achieve more than the sum of the parts. It introduces ideas from economics to conceptualize notions of externalities, complementarity, and emergence, and...

Luck was with Bobby Goldsboro when Roy Orbison came through the area on tour. Orbison took on Goldsboro's band and Bobby stuck with him for the next three years. Bobby went solo and soon scored a modest hit with "Molly," a song that he despised...

This book discusses what it means to "perform the State," what this action means in relation to the country of Iran and how these various performances are represented. The concept of the "State" as a modern phenomenon has had a powerful impact on the...

Writer, musician and filmmaker Chris Wade examines the directorial career of ORSON WELLES, the maverick pioneer of American cinema. Accompanied by pictures from Welles' life, Wade explores the two book ends of Welles' filmography; the miraculously...

Cinema is not only a major industry in India, it is a powerful cultural force. But until now, no one has undertaken a major examination of the ways in which films made in Bombay mediate the urban experience in India. In Bombay Cinema, Ranjani Mazumdar...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903786093Author NA NAFormat PaperbackImprint BFI EducationPublisher BFI Education

Focusing on examples of live performance in drama, dance, opera and light entertainment, Jane Goodall explores a characteristic as compelling and enigmatic as the performers who demonstrate it.The mysterious quality of 'presence' in a performer has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781986770798Author L a Van DijkFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

First Published in 2000. Why do we go to the theater? There's a question! Or put it this way: Why, oh why, do we go to the theater? If we go to a movie and it isn't any good, well it's not the end of the world. We're usually quite content just the same...

Professional Wrestling and the Commercial Stage examines professional wrestling as a century-old, theatrical form that spans from its local places of performance to circulate as a popular, global product.Professional wrestling has all the trappings of...

Before she was a glamorous actress, before she was a war-time pin-up star, even before she was Carole Landis, she was Frances Lillian Ridste, an insecure young girl from Wisconsin. She was strikingly beautiful, talented, and on her way to becoming a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781389638909Author Rachel EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 254gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 9mm

A key figure in the ongoing legacy of modern cinema, David Lynch designs environments for spectators, transporting them to inner worlds built by mood, texture, and uneasy artifice. We enter these famously cinematic interiors to be wrapped in plastic, the...

Bassist Aaron Joy presents his series of music crossword puzzle books that look at the bands, albums and history, including famous and indie. Find his books at www.lulu.com/aronmatyas. This book includes 15 puzzles of the key bands of the Madchester...

Archaeologies of Presence is a brilliant exploration of how the performance of presence can be understood through the relationships between performance theory and archaeological thinking. Drawing together carefully commissioned contributions by leading...

Revolutionary thinking around gender and race merged with new film technologies to usher in a wave of women's documentaries in the 1970s. Driven by the various promises of second-wave feminism, activist filmmakers believed authentic stories about women...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244331375Author The Fans and Friends of Chris CornellFormat HardbackPage Count 408Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 794g

PHILOSOPHY OF THE PERFORMING ARTS "David Davies's Philosophy of the Performing Arts is long-awaited. Not since Paul Thom's For an Audience has a book in the Anglo-American philosophical tradition focused so clearly, exclusively, informatively, and fairly...

The Grand Budapest Hotel and Moonrise Kingdom have made Wes Anderson a prestige force. Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums have become quotable cult classics. Yet every new Anderson release brings out droves of critics eager to charge him with stylistic...

This comprehensive and authoritative casebook includes cornerstone essays on Pinter's creative process, his politics, film adaptations, and acting career. It also includes a collection of photos found nowhere else that document Pinter's "golden...

Playwrights in Rehearsal is an inside look at the writer's role in the creative process of bringing his or her words to life on stage. Susan Letzler Cole, granted rare access to some of the major playwrights of our time, recounts her participation in...

In 1977, the Gardzienice Theatre Association, an experimental theatre company was founded in a tiny Polish village. By 1992 The Observer was hailing "Brilliant Gardzienice...and orgy of joy, anguish, prayer and lamentation performed in candlelight with...

Digital Storytelling, Applied Theatre, & Youth argues that theatre artists must re-imagine how and why they facilitate performance practices with young people. Rapid globalization and advances in media and technology continue to change the ways that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789057551451Author Patrick CampbellFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Harwood Academic (Performing Arts)Publisher Gordon and BreachWeight(grams) 210g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780977984350Author Tobias BeckwithFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Triple Muse PublicationsPublisher Triple Muse PublicationsWeight(grams)...

`one hell of a seminal read ... Here is a book that grapples, with energy, ingenuity and terrific intellectual rigour, with a bewildering forest of issues around gender and politics ... illuminating, insightful, perceptive.' - Women's ReviewAbout the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838377342Author J A CrawshawFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Xylem PublishingPublisher Xylem Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780878058327Author Brooks McNamaraFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint University Press of MississippiPublisher University Press of...

In this study, Kenneth MacKinnon suggests that ultimately masculinity is no straightforward actuality. Instead, several aspects of masculinity are ideals rather than social realities. These ideals might be best understood as forming a near-impossible...

Marilyn Monroe, Vincent van Gogh or the victims of rendition flights - the number and variety of historical and contemporary figures represented on British stages is amazing. This book develops a new theoretical framework for the representation of real...

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