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Meyerhold and the Cubists: Perspectives on Painting and Performance by Amy Skinner
RRP: £70.95Booksplease Price: £63.11This book offers a rich analysis of collage practices in the theatre of Vsevolod Meyerhold. Focusing on the philosophical and formal tenets of the form, and supporting her analysis with wide-ranging... -
Performing Exile: Foreign Bodies by Judith Rudakoff
RRP: £80.95Booksplease Price: £78.27Bringing together a range of perspectives to examine the full impact of political, socio-economic or psychological experiences of exile, Performing Exile: Foreign Bodies presents an inclusive mix of... -
Directory of World Cinema: China 2 by Gary Bettinson
RRP: £46.95Booksplease Price: £45.30Since the publication of the first volume of Directory of World Cinema: China, the Chinese film industry has intensified its efforts to make inroads into the American market. The 2012 acquisition of... -
Italian Women's Theatre, 1930-1960: An Anthology of Plays by Daniela Cavallaro
Booksplease Price: £25.54Between 1930 and 1960, popular female dramatists, including Paola Riccora, Anna Bonacci, Clotilde Masci, and Gici Ganzini Granata, set the stage for a new generation of feminist theatre and the... -
The Audience Experience: A Critical Analysis of Audiences in the Performing Arts by Jennifer Radbourne
RRP: £52.95Booksplease Price: £51.83The Audience Experience identifies a momentous change in what it means to be part of an audience for a live arts performance. Together, new communication technologies and new kinds of audiences have... -
Who's Who in Research: Performing Arts by Intellect Books
RRP: £105.95Booksplease Price: £101.63Increasingly, academic communities transcend national boundaries. "Collaboration between researchers across space is clearly increasing, as well as being increasingly sought after," noted the online... -
Invisible Country: Four Polish Plays by Teresa Murjas
Booksplease Price: £24.74The late nineteenth and early twentieth century marked a tumultuous period in Poland's history, with artists and writers working under difficult sociopolitical conditions. This book contains the... -
Rosebud Sleds and Horses' Heads: 50 of Film's Most Evocative Objects - An Illustrated Journey Scott Jordan Harris (United Kingdom.) 9781783200405
Booksplease Price: £12.35Dorothy's ruby slippers. Michael Myers's mask. Marilyn Monroe's billowy white dress. Indiana Jones's trusty hat. These objects are icons of popular culture synonymous with the films they appear in,... -
Dance, Somatics and Spiritualities: Contemporary Sacred Narratives by Amanda Williamson
RRP: £58.95Booksplease Price: £57.19This anthology negotiates the influential, yet silent educational presence of spiritualities within the field of somatic movement dance education internationally. The expressive and integral nature... -
Creativity, Culture and Commerce: Producing Australian Children's Television with Public Value by Anna Potter
Booksplease Price: £30.34Since the late 1970s, Australia has nurtured a creative and resilient children's television production sector with a global reputation for excellence. Providing a systematic analysis of the creative,... -
Beyond Text: Learning through Arts-Based Research Jeff Adams (University of Chester) 9781789383553
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £75.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789383553Author Jeff AdamsFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint Intellect BooksPublisher Intellect... -
Traumatic Encounters in Italian Film: Locating the Cinematic Unconscious by Dr. Fabio Vighi
RRP: £40.95Booksplease Price: £40.62'Traumatic Encounters' addresses the question of the relationship between psychoanalysis and film in a thoroughly original way, bringing together Lacanian theory and Italian cinema as a means to... -
Serious Play: Modern Clown Performance by Louise Peacock
Booksplease Price: £24.74Clowns' slapstick is their primary mode of performance and allows them to provoke audiences to laughter wherever they perform. This innovative book, focussing on contemporary practice in the USA and... -
Artistic Research in the Future Academy by Danny Butt
RRP: £78.95Booksplease Price: £76.10The rapid growth of doctoral-level art education challenges traditional ways of thinking about academic knowledge and, yet, as Danny Butt argues in this book, the creative arts may also represent a... -
Picturing the Cosmos: A Visual History of Early Soviet Space Endeavor by Iina Kohonen
Booksplease Price: £32.17Picturing the Cosmos elucidates the complex relationship between visual propaganda and censorship in the Soviet Union in the Cold War period, focusing on the 1950s and 1960s. Drawing from a... -
Fan Phenomena: Marilyn Monroe by Marcelline Block
Booksplease Price: £24.74Born Norma Jeane Mortenson, Marilyn Monroe was an actress, singer and sex symbol whose influence far outlasted her short life. Contributors to Fan Phenomena: Marilyn Monroe situate the platinum... -
Fan Phenomena: The Hunger Games Nicola Balkind 9781783202041
RRP: £23.95Booksplease Price: £22.64An exciting dystopian fantasy thriller series, The Hunger Games began its life as a trilogy of books by Suzanne Collins, the first released in 2008. An immediate success, the first instalment had a... -
World Film Locations Barcelona by Helio San Miguel
RRP: £23.95Booksplease Price: £22.64Barcelona is one of the world's most beautiful cities. A permanent showcase of the work of acclaimed architect Antoni Gaudi, it also has a long and rich cinematic legacy. Great directors from all... -
Art, Technology, Consciousness: Mind @ Large by Roy Ascott
Booksplease Price: £35.95Within a technological context, this volume addresses contemporary theories of consciousness, subjective experience, the creation of meaning and emotion, and relationships between cognition and... -
Architecture and the Virtual by Marta Jecu
RRP: £40.95Booksplease Price: £40.62Architecture and the Virtual is a study of architecture as it is reflected in the work of seven contemporary artists, working with the tools of our post-digital age. The book maps the convergence of... -
Celebrity Culture and the Entertainment Industry in Asia: Use of Celebrity and its Influence on Society, Culture and Communication by Vivienne Leung
Booksplease Price: £25.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783208074Author Vivienne LeungFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Intellect BooksPublisher... -
Crime Uncovered: Anti-Hero by Fiona Peters
Booksplease Price: £23.80There are few figures as captivating as the antihero: the character we can't help but root for, even as we turn away in revulsion from many of the things they do. What is it that draws us to... -
Applied Theatre Second Edition: International Case Studies and Challenges for Practice Monica Prendergast (University of Victoria, Canada) 9781783206254
Booksplease Price: £35.95Six years after its initial publication, Applied Theatre returns with a second edition. As the first book to assist practitioners and students to develop critical frameworks for implementing their... -
Directory of World Cinema: Africa: Volume 39 by Blandine Stefanson
RRP: £46.95Booksplease Price: £45.30Eschewing the postcolonial hubris that suggests Africa could only define itself in relation to its colonizers, a problem plaguing many studies published in the West on African cinema, this entry in... -
Irish Drama in Poland: Staging and Reception, 1900-2000 Barry Keane 9781783206087
RRP: £71.95Booksplease Price: £69.56Irish Drama in Poland is the first book to broadly assess Irish drama's impact on both Poland's theatrical world and its cultural and literary heritage in the twentieth century. With a wide-ranging... -
Media and Values: Intimate Transgressions in a Changing Moral and Cultural Landscape by David E. Morrison
RRP: £40.95Booksplease Price: £40.92Media and Values investigates the moral performance of the media. Based on an exhaustive number of focus groups, surveys, and interviews with senior media staffers in the United Kingdom and Europe,... -
Research in Art and Design Education: Issues and Exemplars by Richard Hickman
Booksplease Price: £35.95Although educators are increasingly interested in art education research, there are few anthologies tackling the subject. Research in Art & Design Education answers this call, summarizing important... -
Spatialities: The Geographies of Art and Architecture by Judith Rugg
Booksplease Price: £35.95Spatialities: The Geographies of Art and Architecture draws on a distinguished panel of artists, cultural theorists, architects, and geographers to offer a nuanced conceptual framework for... -
Contingency in Madagascar by Stephen Muecke
RRP: £35.95Booksplease Price: £33.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781841504742Author Stephen MueckeFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Intellect BooksPublisher... -
Confronting Theory: The Psychology of Cultural Studies by Philip Bell
Booksplease Price: £28.47Confronting Theory presents a methodological (philosophical) and educational evaluation and critique of what has come to be known as Theory ('with a capital-T') in cross-disciplinary humanities... -
Transformations: Art and the City by Elizabeth M. Grierson
RRP: £40.95Booksplease Price: £40.62Critically challenging the notion of cities as hegemonic spaces, Transformations: Art and the City explores interactions between the human subject and their urban surroundings through site-specific... -
Fan Phenomena: the Twilight Saga by Laurena Aker
RRP: £23.95Booksplease Price: £22.64From the moment Stephenie Meyer published Twilight in 2005, the series has captivated readers. Through three subsequent novels and the blockbuster movie series, the Twilight Saga quickly became more... -
World Film Locations: Istanbul by Ozlem Koksal
Booksplease Price: £24.74From Fatih Akin's Head-On (2004) to Sydney Lumet's Murder on the Orient Express (1974), World Film Locations: Istanbul offers a compelling look at many films shot on location in this multicultural... -
Point Blank: Nothing to Declare, Operation Wonderland and Roses and Morphine by Liz Tomlin
Booksplease Price: £24.74Point Blank, one of Britain's most provocative new theater companies, has received a deluge of critical acclaim for its darkly comic political satire and bleak metaphorical landscapes. Point Blank:... -
Lovefuries: The Contracting Sea, The Hanging Judge, Bite or Suck by David Ian Rabey
Booksplease Price: £24.74David Ian Rabey is one of the most explosive, pioneering, and erotic playwrights ever to emerge from Wales. Lovefuries features three of his performance texts that flaut national and personal... -
Habitus of the Hood by Hans Skott-Myhre
Booksplease Price: £35.95Since the 1990s, popular culture the world over has frequently looked to the 'hood for inspiration, whether in music, film, or television. Habitus of the Hood explores the myriad ways in which the... -
Directors: From Stage to Screen and Back Again by Susan Beth Lehman
RRP: £23.95Booksplease Price: £13.98Despite the increasing popularity of academic filmmaking programs in the United States, some of contemporary America's most exciting film directors have emerged from the theater world. Directors:... -
The Performing Observer: Essays on Contemporary Art, Performance and Photography Martin Patrick 9781789386745
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £18.65The Performing Observer is a collection of short, critical writings on contemporary art, performance, and photography written over the course of the past two decades. These texts were originally... -
Crime Uncovered: Private Investigator Alistair Rolls 9781783205233
Booksplease Price: £30.21The private investigator is one of the most enduring characters within crime fiction. From Dashiell Hammett's Sam Spade - the hard-boiled loner trawling the mean streets - to Agatha Christie's... -
Inside the TV Newsroom: Profession Under Pressure Line Hassall Thomsen 9781783208838
RRP: £40.95Booksplease Price: £40.62In an era where the way people get news is ever-changing, how do broadcast journalists work? How do changes to the field affect journalists at traditional public broadcasters? And what similarities...