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Urban Drama: The Metropolis in Contemporary North American Plays by J. Chris Westgate 9781349296019
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £33.58Identifying an apprehension about the nature and constitution of urbanism in North American plays, Westgate examines how cities like New York City and Los Angeles became focal points for identity... -
Modern American Drama, 1945-2000 by C. W. E. Bigsby 9780521794107
RRP: £47.00Booksplease Price: £43.30In this new edition of the widely-acclaimed Modern American Drama, Christopher Bigsby completes his survey of postwar and contemporary theatre and brings the reader up to 2000. While retaining the... -
Rooms with a View: The Stages of Community in the Modern Theater by Richard L. Barr 9780472108732
Booksplease Price: £71.19In Sam Shepard's play Action a character asks, "What's a community?" only to find that no one really knows. Rooms with a View attempts to chart the development of communal concepts through the... -
Talking about Pauline Kael: Critics, Filmmakers, and Scholars Remember an Icon by Wayne Stengel 9781442254596
Booksplease Price: £91.39For nearly 25 years, Pauline Kael was one of America's most respected, controversial, and talked-about film reviewers. A contributor to the New Yorker from 1968 until 1991, Kael's reviews were... -
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Plays, Movies, and Critics by Jody McAuliffe 9780822314042 [USED COPY]
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £1.03This exceptional collection explores the mutual concerns of dramatic theater, film, and those who comment on them. Plays, Movies, and Critics opens with an original play by Don DeLillo. In the form... -
Wes Craven: Interviews by Shannon Blake Skelton
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36With a career spanning four decades, Wes Craven (1939-2015) bridged independent exploitation cinema and Hollywood big-budget horror. A pioneer of the modern horror cinema, Craven directed such... -
Wes Craven: Interviews by Shannon Blake Skelton 9781496825964
Booksplease Price: £105.05With a career spanning four decades, Wes Craven (1939-2015) bridged independent exploitation cinema and Hollywood big-budget horror. A pioneer of the modern horror cinema, Craven directed such... -
Machine, Metaphor, and the Writer: A Jungian View by Bettina L. Knapp 9780271026466
Booksplease Price: £37.39The brilliant and far-reaching comparative and interdisciplinary work explores the impact of the machine on the literary mind and its ramifications. Knapp displays an unusual command of world... -
Jessica Lange: An Adventurer's Heart by Anthony Uzarowski
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £22.81Brilliant, beautiful, driven, uncompromising, elusive, iconic - Jessica Lange is one of the most gifted and fascinating actors of her generation. From her rise to fame in Dino De Laurentiis's remake... -
Playwrights in Rehearsal: The Seduction of Company by Susan Letzler Cole
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.99Playwrights 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... -
American Voices: Five Contemporary Playwrights in Essays and Interviews by Esther Harriott 9780786476039
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.19Sam Shepard, Lanford Wilson, David Mamet, Charles Fuller, and Marsha Norman were born within ten years of one another. While they are not linked to a particular movement or school, they are fellow... -
Hearing Voices: Modern Drama and the Problem of Subjectivity by Prof. John Harry Lutterbie 9780472108084
Booksplease Price: £74.97In this postmodern world where the very foundations of traditional moral practices are called into question, Hearing Voices explores the issue of ethics by looking at the processes through which we... -
That Day: Pictures in the American West by Laura Wilson
RRP: £32.50Booksplease Price: £31.11"Rather than the proverbial melting pot, Wilson asks us to recognize a West that is at least a place where, against a backdrop of aridity and expansive space, diverse lives can and do coexist." -John... -
Small Acts of Repair: Performance, Ecology and Goat Island by Stephen Bottoms 9780415365154
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Goat Island are one of the world's leading contemporary performance ensembles. Their intimate, low-tech, intensely physical performances represent a unique hybrid of strategies and techniques drawn... -
Understanding Marsha Norman by Lisa Tyler 9781643360027
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £20.89Best known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning play 'night, Mother and her acclaimed adaptations of The Secret Garden and The Color Purple for musical theater, Marsha Norman has produced an impressive... -
Legends of the Chelsea Hotel: Living with Artists and Outlaws in New York's Rebel Mecca by Ed Hamilton 9781568583792
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.00There's a current that courses through the old Chelsea Hotel, an electricity that drives people relentlessly to create. It's an energy that longtime resident and creator of "Living with Legends:... -
The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary American Playwrights by Peter Paul Schnierer
Booksplease Price: £34.47Unrivalled in its coverage of recent work and writers, The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary American Playwrights surveys and analyses the breadth, vitality and development of theatrical work to... -
Infinity (Stage) by Spencer Jay Golub 9780472110360
Booksplease Price: £75.60Infinity (Stage) is a highly original study and poetic meditation on the themes of death, memory, identity, and representation in theater, film, and literature. Inspired in part by the death of his... -
Witness Of Combines by Kent Meyers 9780816631056
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.67An exciting new writer looks at rural life and coming of age.When Kent Meyers was sixteen years old, his father died of a stroke. There was corn to plant, cattle to feed, and a farm to maintain... -
Playing Underground: A Critical History of the 1960s Off-off Broadway Movement by Stephen J. Bottoms 9780472031948
RRP: £20.95Booksplease Price: £20.93"Scrupulously researched, critically acute, and written with care, Playing Underground will become a classic account of an era of hard-won free expression." -William Coco "At last---a book... -
American Drama in the Age of Film by Zander Brietzke
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £34.76Is theater really dead? Does the theater, as its champions insist, really provide a more intimate experience than film? If so, how have changes in cinematic techniques and technologies altered the... -
Glancing at Dramatists' Dialogue: From Shakespeare to Suzan-Lori Parks Ruby Cohn 9781350425965
Booksplease Price: £90.57This book examines dramatic dialogue in English-language theatre, tracing verbal invention across four centuries from Shakespeare and Restoration comedy right up to contemporary English and American... -
The Measure of Darkness by Liam Durcan 9781942658047
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.39Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction Winner National Reading Group Month "Great Group Reads" selection "A deft exploration of the heart and mind that offers the pathos of a Sam Shepard... -
Tesla by Michael Almereyda
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.38Tesla jolts and flows between the extraordinary life of the inventor Nikola Tesla, the making of a feature film about him by the celebrated director Michael Almereyda, and episodes from the... -
Globetrotter by David Albahari 9780300201321
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £14.24One of the most prominent writers to emerge from the former Yugoslavia addresses such universal themes as exile, disorientation, and obsession "Easily one of the finest writers of fiction today... -
The Seventies Now: Culture as Surveillance by Stephen Paul Miller 9780822321668
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.91Most would agree that American culture changed dramatically from the 1960s to the 1980s. Yet the 1970s, the decade "in between," is still somehow thought of as a cultural wasteland. In The Seventies... -
Beat Drama: Playwrights and Performances of the 'Howl' Generation by Deborah R. Geis 9781472567871
Booksplease Price: £29.88Readers and acolytes of the vital early 1950s-mid 1960s writers known as the Beat Generation tend to be familiar with the prose and poetry by the seminal authors of this period: Jack Kerouac, Gregory... -
The Plays of Samuel Beckett by Katherine Weiss 9781408145579
Booksplease Price: £29.55Beckett remains one of the most important writers of the twentieth century whose radical experimentations in form and content won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969. This Critical Companion... -
Just Kids illustrated by Patti Smith 9781526615008
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £26.92THE AWARD-WINNING MASTERPIECE THAT DEFINED ROCK'N'ROLL MEMOIR AND CAPTURED AN ERA Now richly illustrated with new material and never-before-seen photographs 'Sharp, elegiac and finely crafted'... -
Race and New Modernisms by K. Merinda Simmons 9781350030398
Booksplease Price: £31.31From the Harlem and Southern Renaissances to postcolonial writing in the Caribbean, Race and New Modernisms introduces and critically explores key issues and debates on race and ethnicity in the... -
Race and New Modernisms by K. Merinda Simmons 9781350030404
Booksplease Price: £85.65From the Harlem and Southern Renaissances to postcolonial writing in the Caribbean, Race and New Modernisms introduces and critically explores key issues and debates on race and ethnicity in the... -
T Bone Burnett: A Life in Pursuit by Lloyd Sachs
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.12This first critical appreciation of T Bone Burnett reveals how the proponent of Americana music and producer of artists ranging from Robert Plant and Alison Krauss to B. B. King and Elvis Costello... -
100 Greatest American Plays by Thomas S. Hischak 9781442256057
Booksplease Price: £57.47Theatre in America has had a rich history-from the first performance of the Lewis Hallam Troupe in September 1752 to the lively shows of modern Broadway. Over the past few centuries, significant... -
The Maid's Version Daniel Woodrell 9781444732856
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02In 1929, an explosion in a Missouri dance hall killed forty-two people. Who was to blame? Mobsters from St Louis? Embittered gypsies? The preacher who cursed the waltzing couples for their sins? Or... -
Edward Albee: A Critical Introduction by Matthew Roudane 9780521726955
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £20.41Edward Albee (1928-2016) was a central figure in modern American theatre, and his bold and often experimental theatrical style won him wide acclaim. This book explores the issues, public and private,... -
Acid by Edward Falco 9780268006464
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £57.35In this award-winning collection of short stories Edward Falco narrates the lives and times of our contemporaries, characters off the dizzying streets of end of the century America. Within these... -
Is God Is by Aleshea Harris 9781848428874
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73'We ain't killers' 'How you figure that?... Iss in the blood.' When a letter arrives from the mother they thought was dead, twenty-one-year-old twins Racine and Anaia travel from the Dirty South... -
Chances Are by Richard Russo
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.55One beautiful September day, three sixty-six-year-old men convene on Martha's Vineyard, friends ever since meeting in college in the 1960s. They couldn't have been more different then, or even today... -
True Story: A Trilogy by Dan O'Brien 9781628975130
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £9.88True Story: A Trilogy gathers together three documentary plays by award-winning playwright and poet Dan O'Brien concerning trauma, both political and personal. The Body of an American speaks to a... -
Tall in the Saddle: The Life of Ben Johnson, Hollywood’s Real Cowboy Kathryn Jones 9781496861559
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.29Tall in the Saddle: The Life of Ben Johnson, Hollywood's Real Cowboy is the definitive biography of Ben Johnson (1918-1996), the only man to win both an Academy Award and a world rodeo championship...