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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952027475Author Felton PerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint New Leaf Media, LLCPublisher New Leaf Media, LLCWeight(grams) 263gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

No play in the history of the American Stage has been as ubiquitous and as widely viewed as Uncle Tom's Cabin . This book traces the major dramatizations of Stowe's classic from its inception in 1852 through modern versions on film. Frick introduce the...

An ambitious interpretation of the critically celebrated and widely popular crime drama Breaking Bad , this book argues that not only should the series be understood as a show that revolves around the dramatic stakes of dignity, but that to do so reveals...

This book renews thinking about the moving body by drawing on dance practice and performance from across the world. Eighteen internationally recognised scholars show how dance can challenge our thoughts and feelings about our own and other cultures, our...

This book brings together recent Spanish fictions and films that point to individualism as the root problem driving diverse circumstances of social, economic, and psychological suffering in the present and recent past. The works privilege sensation,...

This book explores manifestations and perpetuations of the sentimental in Mainland Chinese cinema from the 1990s to the 2000s. A sentimental Chinese cinema - one that articulates notions of homecoming and belonging - emerged in the 1990s with its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524965778Author Drew CurtisFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.Publisher Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.

This book uses in-depth case studies to explore the significance of the design of the home on screen. The chapters draw widely upon the production designer’s professional perspective and particular creative point of view. The case studies employ a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788172238667Author Raghavendra M KFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint HarperCollins IndiaPublisher HarperCollins IndiaWeight(grams) 326gDimensions(mm)...

This book analyzes the cinematic superhero as social practice. The study's critical context brings together psychoanalysis and restorative and reflective nostalgia as a way of understanding the ideological function of superhero fantasy. It explores the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798201145422Author Robert ReynoldsFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Robert ReynoldsPublisher Robert ReynoldsWeight(grams) 150g

In the first book-length consideration of the topic for sixty years, Kevin Donnelly examines the importance of music in British film, concentrating both on musical scores, such as William Walton's score for Henry V (1944) and Malcolm Arnold's music for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594626319Author S D GordonFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Book JunglePublisher Book JungleWeight(grams) 340g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788890444029Author Giuseppe AyroldiFormat PaperbackImprint Le VespePublisher Le VespeWeight(grams) 381g

Movement: Onstage and Off is the complete guide for actors to the most effective techniques for developing a fully expressive body. It is a comprehensive compilation of established fundamentals, a handbook for movement centered personal growth and a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798880620258Author Helen WinterFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 132g

This book explores how audiences in contemporary Europe engage with films from other European countries. It draws on admissions data, surveys, and focus group discussions from across the continent to explain why viewers are attracted to particular...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781434436429Author Roger BarkannFormat PaperbackPage Count 18Imprint Wildside PressPublisher Wildside PressWeight(grams) 36gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798896092087Author Alexander BundeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Theme Park PressPublisher Theme Park PressWeight(grams) 150g

The Play of Archetypes offers a non-intellectual approach to basic forms of human encounter that are often shaped by archetypes. Losel has worked out basic gestures that help to find a intuitive understanding of archetypes like the Ally, the Shadow, the...

Melodrama in Contemporary Film and Television debates the ways in which melodrama expresses and gives meaning to: trauma and pathos; memory and historical re-visioning; home and borders; gendered and queer relations; the family and psychic identities;...

This book examines The Wire’s authenticity and its establishment of the series realism. Along with tracing creator David Simon’s onscreen critique of numerous failed American institutions, the book focuses on the connection between authenticity and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781605978871Author H G WellsFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Book JunglePublisher Book JungleWeight(grams) 172gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 191mm * 5mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783639170924Author Karyn ParingataiFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint VDM VerlagPublisher VDM VerlagWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 9mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781734225006Author Jonathan FoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Tusitala PublishingPublisher Tusitala PublishingWeight(grams) 152g

By tracing the effects of unprecedented immigration, the advent of the new woman, and the little-known vaudeville careers of performers like the Elinore Sisters, Buster Keaton, and the Marx Brothers, DesRochers examines the relation between comedic...

This book approaches the construction of complex and transgressive 'pervert' characters in mainstream (not 'art'), adult-oriented (not pornographic) cinema. It deconstructs an episteme on which to base the construction of characters in screenplays, in a...

This book explores how to understand the international appeal of Danish television drama and Nordic Noir in the 2010s. Focusing on production and distribution as well as the series and their reception, the chapters analyse how this small nation...

This book is an original volume of essays that sheds new and critical light on current and emerging filmmaking trends and practices in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea. A timely and important contribution to existing scholarship in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798896090212Author Jim KorkisFormat HardbackPage Count 242Imprint Theme Park PressPublisher Theme Park PressWeight(grams) 494g

The Politics of Hollywood Cinema radically transforms our understanding of cinema's potential to be politically engaging and challenging. Examining several films from Hollywood's classical era, including Marked Woman, Mr Smith Goes to Washington, Born...

This book draws on the theatrical thinking of Samuel Beckett and the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze to propose a method for research undertaken at the borders of performance and philosophy. Exploring how Beckett fabricates encounters with the impossible...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945799044Author Vincent EgolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Vention Books, LLCPublisher Vention Books, LLCWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 297mm *...

This book examines performance in the context of the 2003 Iraq War and subsequent conflicts with Daesh, or the so-called Islamic State. Working within a theater and performance studies lens, it analyzes adaptations of Greek tragedy, documentary theater,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942782575Author Bruce Joel RubinFormat PaperbackPage Count 492Imprint Sticking Place BooksPublisher Sticking Place BooksWeight(grams) 581g

This book locates the philosophy of Ubuntu as the undergirding framework for indigenous dance pedagogies in local communities in Uganda. Through critical examination of the reflections and practices of selected local dance teachers, the volume reveals...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781504320290Author Christine GoodmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint Balboa Press AuPublisher Balboa Press AuWeight(grams) 154g

Join our heroes Parodyman and Chaffinch along with the ever present Commissioner Gordonson and Chief O'Klahoma to figure out the mystery of The Master Of Disguise. Helped on the way by billionaire Wayne Bruce and his ward Dick Beigeson and there ever...

This book uses the social transformation that has taken place in Ireland from the decriminalisation of homosexuality in 1993 to the repeal of the 8th amendment in 2018 as backdrop to examine relationships between activism and contemporary Irish theatre...