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This book investigates theories and practices shaped by a performance’s relationship to the archive. The contributions in the volume examine how the changing nature of performance practices has made it imperative to understand how the archive and...

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...

Tragic Resistance analyzes playwrights, directors, and performers who shatter gender norms to gain agency within the patriarchal institutions restricting them.The artists in this book work against the tragic narratives that would otherwise constrict...

Choreographing the North examines eleven contemporary dance pieces that perform northern culture, landscape, folklore and ideas of North.The choreographers, from Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Luxembourg, Australia, and...

Filled with gorgeous illustrations and concept art from the hit Netflix series, The Art and Making of Arcane is an immersive journey behind the scenes of the Emmy Award-winning Animated Series!

This book refers to the artistic deviation from dominant goals in a social system or from means considered legitimate in that system.This book explores a "New Humanism" in the performing arts, unique in the sense of human's ability to co-create and...

Boris Karloff, Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee: three middle-class Englishmen whose names are synonymous with the history of the horror movie. Karloff was born in 1887, the year of Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee, and Lee, the youngest, died in 2015,...

London has been a favourite city for film directors to shoot on location for decades, as it houses some of the most iconic British landmarks as well as beautiful historic buildings. With the constant regeneration of the city, there are also inevitably...

A thoroughly enjoyable fact-filled romp… a must-read for any fan of the Carry On films." - Daily Mail "We knew the Carry On films without really knowing them. Caroline Frost puts that right. A fascinating story." - Adrian Chiles "Essential reading for...

In the wake of both Joycean and Dantean celebrations, this volume aims to investigate the fecund influence of Italian culture on Samuel Beckett’s work, with a specific focus on the Twentieth Century.Located at the intersection of historical avant-garde...

A resource for actors, directors, and writers (both professional and in training), this is a step-by-step, practical guidebook to the PRE-REHEARSAL analysis of a script. Its aim is to de-mystify and organise the questions necessary to ask in order to...

A resource for actors, directors, and writers (both professional and in training), this is a step-by-step, practical guidebook to the PRE-REHEARSAL analysis of a script. Its aim is to de-mystify and organise the questions necessary to ask in order to...

Foundations of Stage Makeup, Second Edition is a comprehensive exploration into the creative world of stage makeup.Step-by-step makeup applications paired with textual content create an enriching experience for future performers and makeup artists...

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Film Fiends shares known and lesser-known stories of Hollywood films and the stories behind them, including Psycho, The Silence of the Lambs, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Monster, My Friend Dahmer, Zodiac, Helter Skelter, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861662890Author Alan MooreFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Knockabout ComicsPublisher Knockabout ComicsWeight(grams) 1000g

Based on the author’s decades of teaching, pedagogical and theatrical research, and his professional experience as actor and director, Making a Scene: Creating a Scene Study Class for Actors offers a pedagogical approach rehearsal scenes as a primary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798886637960Author David HawcockFormat HardbackPage Count 12Imprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight Editions

Pier Paolo Pasolini gehoert zu den streitbarsten und schillerndsten Figuren des 20. Jahrhunderts, dessen Texte und Filme - er war Dichter und gleichzeitig Regisseur - die Gemuter bis auf den heutigen Tag bewegen und durch ihren experimentellen Charakter...

Beyond the principles of reduce, reuse, recycle, this book looks at the way that every department on a production can contribute to reducing waste and making a smaller footprint. Are you making a green film? Is your filmmaking contributing to the...

Dramaturgy and History provides a practical account of an aspect of dramaturgical practice that is often taken for granted: dramaturgs’ engagements with history and historiography.Dramaturgs play a vital role in amplifying and activating theatre’s unique...

The collection Art’s Visionary Moment: Personal Encounters with Works That Last a Lifetime was inspired by T. S. Eliot’s observation in his Dante (1929): “The experience of a poem is the experience both of a moment and of a lifetime. … There is a first,...

Experiential Spectatorship offers a lens for analyzing audience experience with(in) a variety of contemporary media.Using a broad-based perspective this media includes participatory theatre, video games, digital simulations, social media platforms,...

Foundations of Stage Makeup, Second Edition is a comprehensive exploration into the creative world of stage makeup.Step-by-step makeup applications paired with textual content create an enriching experience for future performers and makeup artists...

Gesellschaftsdiagnosen durchkreuzen die Soziologiegeschichte in sehr unterschiedlichen Formen. Während sich geschichtsphilosophische Traditionslinien weitestgehend verflüchtigt haben, bestimmen aktuell neuartige Experimentierfelder das Geschäft der...

What is dramaturgy? Can you be taught how to do it?1000 Ways to Ask Why, is a practical how to guide and introduction to dramaturgy and dramaturgical thinking for dramaturgs, directors, playwrights, devised theatre makers, choreographers, and performers...

The need for a research volume on European theatre music and sound is almost self-evident. Musical and sonic practices have been an integral part of theatre ever since the art form first existed 2500 years ago: not just in subsequent genres that are...

This collection of essays, covering a broad historical range, shows that women working in theatre and drama since the time of Aphra Behn have been engaged in pushing the boundaries of conventional representation and dramaturgical convention. Collectively...

This book radically reimagines theatre/performance pedagogy and dramaturgy in response to the accelerating climate crisis.This text is founded upon the principle that the theatre is the most anthropocentric of all the arts: the means of its...

Based on the author’s decades of teaching, pedagogical and theatrical research, and his professional experience as actor and director, Making a Scene: Creating a Scene Study Class for Actors offers a pedagogical approach rehearsal scenes as a primary...

What is dramaturgy? Can you be taught how to do it?1000 Ways to Ask Why, is a practical how to guide and introduction to dramaturgy and dramaturgical thinking for dramaturgs, directors, playwrights, devised theatre makers, choreographers, and performers...

This book sheds light on the practice of French choreographer Jérôme Bel, who is active in the fields of performing arts and contemporary art.Shuntaro Yoshida examines a case study of collective creation involving the choreographer and a group of amateur...

This monograph is the first history of ballets based on William Shakespeare’s works from the birth of ballet as an independent art form in the eighteenth century to the present. It focuses on two main questions: “How can Shakespeare be danced?”, and “How...

This book radically reimagines theatre/performance pedagogy and dramaturgy in response to the accelerating climate crisis.This text is founded upon the principle that the theatre is the most anthropocentric of all the arts: the means of its...

This captivating book explores the intersection where performing art meets human interaction and delves into the application of human factors’ principles in this field. From music and theatre to cinema and magic shows, indoor and outdoor performances are...

Never forget one of Lorelai’s iconic scarves, get fancy with Richard’s Friday Night Dinner Bowtie, and carry around your drum sticks in the adorable drum stick bag inspired by Lane Kim and her band, Hep-Alien! Inspired by the beloved and always quirky...

This accessible book outlines the key ideas that define the global phenomenon of applied theatre, examining not only its theoretical underpinning, its origins and practice, but also providing eight real-life examples drawn from a diversity of forms and...

This accessible book outlines the key ideas that define the global phenomenon of applied theatre, examining not only its theoretical underpinning, its origins and practice, but also providing eight real-life examples drawn from a diversity of forms and...

What does it mean to be in a place and out of place at the same time? Gabrielle Civil explores this question by making black feminist performance art in Mexico. She asks unsuspecting Mexicans if they have good hair, visits legendary black expatriate...

Performing Maternities is a collection of essays, creative work, images and scripts which emerged out of an online international symposium held at Brighton University in November 2020. Collectively, the contributors challenge, celebrate and share the...