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Postcards from the Road: Robert Frank's 'The Americans' Jonathan Day 9781783201860
RRP: $64.44Booksplease Price: $58.48Walker Evans said in his 1958 introduction to Robert Frank's The Americans, 'For the thousandth time, it must be said that pictures speak for themselves, wordlessly, visually, or they fail.' The... -
The Cinema Makers: Public Life and the Exhibition of Difference in South-Eastern and Central Europe Since the 1960s Anna Schober 9781841505152
Booksplease Price: $37.95The Cinema Makers investigates how cinema spectators in southeastern and central European cities became cinema makers through such practices as squatting in existing cinema spaces, organizing cinema... -
Playwriting and Young Audiences: Collected Wisdom and Practical Advice from the Field by Matt Omasta
RRP: $50.25Booksplease Price: $49.99Despite the fact that there is a thriving presence of theatre for young people in today's society, there is, however, no contemporary guide dedicated to the writing of plays for young people in both... -
Immigration Cinema in the New Europe Isolina Ballesteros (Vassar College.) 9781783204113
Booksplease Price: $45.30Immigration Cinema in the New Europe examines a variety of films from the early 1990s that depict and address the lives and identities of both first generation immigrants and children of the diaspora... -
Seamlessness: Making and (Un)Knowing in Fashion Practice by Yeseung Lee
Booksplease Price: $46.38Taking the concept of 'seamlessness' as her starting point, Yeseung Lee offers an innovative practice-based investigation into the meaning of the handmade in the age of technological revolution and... -
World-Wide-Walks: Crossing Natural-Cultural-Virtual Frontiers by Peter D'Agostino
RRP: $127.65Booksplease Price: $113.53This book presents Peter d'Agostino's World-Wide-Walks project, providing a unique perspective on walking practices across time and place considered through the framework of evolving technologies and... -
Beauty and the Beast: Italianness in British Cinema by Elisabetta Girelli
Booksplease Price: $41.18Recent years have seen an increased interest in issues of national identity and representation, and cinema is a major medium where strands and layers of representational systems come together in... -
Serbian and Greek Art Music: A Patch to Western Music History by Katy Romanou
Booksplease Price: $46.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781841502786Author Katy RomanouFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Intellect BooksPublisher... -
Journey: The Gateway Theatre Building and Company, 1884-1965 Ian Brown 9781841501086
RRP: $30.90Booksplease Price: $29.21The Gateway Theatre Company between 1953 and 1965 was a major force in developing modern Scottish theatre, moving in 1965 to become the Royal Lyceum Theatre Company. The Gateway Theatre and its... -
Painting, History and Meaning: Sites of Time by Craig Staff
RRP: $47.73Booksplease Price: $43.69This compelling new study considers contemporary painting's relationship with time and with events, ideas and paintings from the past. Following French philosopher Jean-Francois Lyotard's... -
Radio Content in the Digital Age: The Evolution of a Sound Medium by Angeliki Gazi
Booksplease Price: $31.91The traditional radio medium has seen significant changes in recent years as part of the current global shift toward multimedia content, with both digital and FM making significant use of new... -
Europe Faces Europe: Narratives from its Eastern Half by Johan Fornas
RRP: $55.41Booksplease Price: $54.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783207510Author Johan FornasFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Intellect BooksPublisher... -
Howard Barker Interviews 1980-2010: Conversations in Catastrophe Mark Brown 9781841503981
RRP: $30.90Booksplease Price: $29.21British playwright Howard Barker coined the term 'theatre of catastrophe' to describe his unique brand of complex, ambiguous, and often unsettling drama. Revered in continental Europe, North America,... -
Iranian Cinema and Globalization by Shahab Esfandiary
Booksplease Price: $40.25Despite critical acclaim and a recent surge of popularity with Western audiences, Iranian cinema has been the subject of lamentably few academic studies-and those have by and large been limited to... -
TV Format Mogul: Reg Grundy's Transnational Career by Albert Moran
Booksplease Price: $31.91Since the late 1990s, when broadcasters began adapting such television shows as Big Brother, Survivor and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? for markets around the world, the global television industry... -
World Film Locations: Sao Paulo by Natalia Pinazza
Booksplease Price: $31.91Sao Paulo is the largest city in South America and the powerhouse of Brazil's economy. A multi-racial metropolis with a diverse population of Asian, Arabic and European immigrants as well as migrants... -
Cultural Quarters: Principles and Practice by Simon Roodhouse
Booksplease Price: $31.91The much-praised Cultural Quarters returns in a revised edition, offering new case studies and new chapters on the economics of cultural quarters and the importance of historical buildings. This... -
Food Democracy: Critical Lessons in Food, Communication, Design and Art by Oliver Vodeb
Booksplease Price: $43.80In a world where privatisation and capitalism dominate the global economy, the essays in this book ask how to make socially responsive communication, design and art that counters the role of the food... -
The Global Road Movie: Alternative Journeys around the World Jose Duarte (University of Lisbon, Portugal) 9781783208777
Booksplease Price: $102.71The road movie is one of the most tried and true genres, a staple since the earliest days of cinema. This book looks at the road movie from a wider perspective than ever before, exploring the motif... -
Sensing the City Through Television: Urban Identities in Fictional Drama by Peter Billingham
Booksplease Price: $31.91An investigation of the fictional representations of the city in contemporary British and American television drama, assessing their political, sociological and cultural implications. The book draws... -
Neosentience the Benevolence Engine by Bill Seaman
Booksplease Price: $33.62The study addressed in this 'book' puts forward a project that is twofold. Firstly, it discusses the conceptual basis within which it would be possible for the construction of a 'neosentient' system,... -
Shooting Women: Behind the Camera, Around the World by Alexis Krasilovsky
Booksplease Price: $55.42Shooting Women takes readers around the world to explore the lives of camerawomen working in features, TV news, and documentaries. From pioneers like African American camerawoman Jessie Maple Patton... -
The Hour of All Things and Other Plays by Caridad Svich
RRP: $94.11Booksplease Price: $91.33This book presents four plays by Caridad Svich that explore the rough waters of citizenship under the pressure of globalization and the threads of human connection - often tested, but never wholly... -
Beyond the Dance Floor: Female DJs, Technology and Electronic Dance Music Culture by Rebekah Farrugia
Booksplease Price: $31.91A pathbreaking study of the women who create electronic dance music, Beyond the Dance Floor focuses on the largely neglected relationship between these women and the conceptions of gender and... -
Art Education in the Postmodern World: Collected Essays by Tom Hardy
Booksplease Price: $37.95Many of the essays pinpoint the stagnancy of teaching methods today and discuss the reductive parameters enforced by the current curriculum. The radical tone that echoes through the entire series of... -
World Film Locations: Hong Kong by Linda Chiu-Han Lai
Booksplease Price: $31.91The rapid development of Hong Kong has occasioned the demolition of buildings and landscapes of historic significance, but film acts as a repository for memories of lost places, vanished vistas and... -
Nanoart: The Immateriality of Art by Paul Thomas
RRP: $68.31Booksplease Price: $66.86Nano is Greek for dwarf and the word nanotechnology 'was first proposed in the early seventies by a Japanese engineer, Norio Taniguchi, implying a new technology that went beyond controlling... -
Disaster Capitalism; Or Money Can't Buy You Love Three Plays by Rick Mitchell by Rick Mitchell
Booksplease Price: $23.97Disaster capitalism is an increasingly popular critical paradigm for contextualizing and understanding life in the twenty-first century. This book includes three full-length plays by award-winning... -
Australian TV News: New Forms, Functions and Features by Stephen Harrington
RRP: $68.31Booksplease Price: $67.25Australian TV News explores the important role of entertainment in Australian television news over the past decade. Through the use of textual analysis, industry interviews and audience research, it... -
Don't Look Now: British Cinema in the 1970s by Dr. Paul Newland 9781841503202
Booksplease Price: $40.25While postwar British cinema and the British new wave have received much scholarly attention, the misunderstood period of the 1970s has been comparatively ignored. Don't Look Now uncovers forgotten... -
Re-Choreographing Cortical & Cartographic Maps: Going West to Find East Going East to Find West by Henry Daniel 9781789386714
RRP: $122.49Booksplease Price: $108.06This book is a transdisciplinary approach to practice-as-research, complete with its own elaborate theory of practice and a set of four multi-year-performance research projects through which the... -
Removing the Educational Silos: Models of Interdisciplinary and Multi-disciplinary Education by Wiline Pangle 9781789386349
RRP: $116.04Booksplease Price: $102.52The proposed book will be an edited collection of essays / chapters pertaining to interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary methods of teaching. It would serve as inspiration, a guide for project... -
Pasta, Pizza and Propaganda: A Political History of Italian Food TV by Francesco Buscemi 9781789384062
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $97.01This book aims to develop a political history of Italian 'good food' on national television, and the central role of food in Italian culture. The focus is highly original and this is a unique... -
Music by Numbers: The Use and Abuse of Statistics in the Music Industries Richard Osborne 9781789387520
Booksplease Price: $32.29The music industries are fuelled by statistics: sales targets, breakeven points, success ratios, royalty splits, website hits, ticket revenues, listener figures, piracy abuses and big data... -
Remembering Paris in Text and Film by Alistair Rolls 9781789387605
RRP: $32.19Booksplease Price: $19.71This new book explores aspects of Paris from the time of Baudelaire within the context of nostalgia and modernity. It seeks to see Paris, through written texts and movies, from the outside, and as... -
Let's Talk about Critique: Reimagining Art and Design Education by Elissa Armstrong 9781789387711
RRP: $103.14Booksplease Price: $92.48This book explores the tradition of critique in art and design education. It examines how critique, as a signature pedagogy in the field, has evolved, how it falls short, and what else it can be... -
Inclusive Dance: The Story of Touchdown Dance by Katy Dymoke 9781789388695
RRP: $154.74Booksplease Price: $138.60Inclusive Dance is an ethnography of disability arts, and historiographic overview of the 1980s when many new disability arts groups came to fruition. Touchdown Dance was the research 'ambition' of... -
Redefining Theatre Communities: International Perspectives on Community-Conscious Theatre-Making by Marco Galea 9781789388626
RRP: $38.64Booksplease Price: $38.52Redefining Theatre Communities explores the interplay between contemporary theatre and communities. It considers the aesthetic, social and cultural aspects of community-conscious theatre-making... -
6+1 Proposals for Journalism: Safeguarding the Field in the Digital Era by Sofia Iordanidou 9781789386493
RRP: $96.69Booksplease Price: $93.34In 2003, Bowman and Willis wrote that “journalism is in the process of redefining itself, adjusting to the disruptive forces surrounding it”. Almost two decades later, the discussion about journalism... -
The Architect's Dream: Form and Philosophy in Architectural Imagination by Sean Pickersgill 9781789387407
RRP: $141.84Booksplease Price: $138.26Sean Pickersgill demonstrates that the goal of creating meaningful architecture can take a variety of critical and philosophical paths. The importance of architecture as an expression of broad,...