CK - Performing Arts 7

Alongside the commercial cinema of narrative and spectacle there has always been another practice - call it avant-garde, experimental or artists' film (as opposed to art cinema). It is this work tha……続きを見る

In what kind of state is the European film business? This study is the first in a series that provides an accessible understanding of how the world's contemporary screen industries function. It look……続きを見る

Includes the plays Trafford Tanzi, The Dramatic Attitudes of Miss Fanny Kemble and The Seduction of Anne Boleyn Trafford Tanzi began as a pub show in Liverpool. It has since been performed all over ……続きを見る

In this collection of seven provocative essays, acclaimed theatre director and playwright Mick Gordon argues that the theatre represents a physical corollary of the invisible workings of our minds. ……続きを見る

James Dean. Hollywood’s hottest star steps out of his crashed car and looks back on his short life. A timely look at how the Hollywood powerful use sex, drugs and power to make and break careers. A ……続きを見る

A critically acclaimed, smart and fast-paced comedy about faked identities and explosive office politics, adapted from Lars von Trier’s cult classic film. The boss of an IT company is secretly selli……続きを見る

Stanley Kubrick Produces provides the first comprehensive account of Stanley Kubrick’s role as a producer, and of the role of the producers he worked with throughout his career. It considers how he ……続きを見る

This book proposes contemporary decolonization as an approach to developing cultural economies in the Global South. It presents the account of the transformation of television in Jamaica and Ghana t……続きを見る

The TV series that was never made and that you’ve never heard of celebrates its 40th year with an exhaustive retrospective guide! Growing from a child's game, the bizarrely-titled The Magnet Editor ……続きを見る

The Magnet Editor – the sci-fi adventure series known only to a select few – was over. But it had an afterlife… Picking up from where The Magnet Editor left off, Life After… was the all-new series t……続きを見る

Celebrity Bodyguard... The words conjure up an image of Kevin Costner running through the crowd saving the distressed starlet or perhaps the 7-foot-tall bus sized guy walking with the rapper in tow.……続きを見る

Music: Pursuing the Horizon is a book about the inner life of the musician. It provides guidance, inspiration and a fascinating glimpse into the world of musical development. How many times have the……続きを見る

Steve Winwood has been creating his own form of R&B genres for over 50 years, and is an international star. His music includes blues, folk, rock, funk, pop and most recently Latin rhythms. His immed……続きを見る

A follow-up to the bestselling "An Evolution of Bond" comes Collection Editions James Bond. For the first time every 007 fan can see the entire history of the world's most famous spy. From Ian Flemi……続きを見る

Stanislavsky in Focus brilliantly examines the history and actual premises of Stanislavsky’s 'System', separating myth from fact with forensic skill. The first edition of this now classic study show……続きを見る

The long-awaited third volume of Robert McKee’s trilogy on the art of fiction. Following up his perennially bestselling writers' guide Story and his inspiring exploration of the art of verbal action……続きを見る

This book explores how theatre and performance can change the way we think about dementia and some of the environments in which dementia care takes place. Drawing on the author’s creative practice a……続きを見る

Act as a Feminist maps a female genealogy of UK actor training practices from 1970 to 2020 as an alternative to traditional male lineages. It re-orientates thinking about acting through its intersec……続きを見る

«Nessuno è brillante e coinvolgente come Nick Hornby nel ritrarre i sentimenti e i problemi di ognuno.» Bookseller «Lo scrittore migliore della sua generazione.» The Sunday Times «Hornby è uno scrit……続きを見る

The renaissance flute, with its rich history, stunning repertoire, and mellow tone, has attracted a significant following among flutists, whether they specialize in modern flute or historical instru……続きを見る

The five essays in this book reflect many years of the author's sustained academic engagement with dramatic forms and traditions. The opening essay traces the historical trajectory of modern drama i……続きを見る

A Poetics of Third Theatre offers an in-depth, critical analysis of Third Theatre, a transnational community of theatre groups and artists united by a shared set of values and a laboratory attitude.……続きを見る

Irish Author and Poet, Greg McVicker, brings us on three, true life adventures from his childhood while growing up in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. These hilarious, heartwarming stories will have……続きを見る

De la comédie au drame, en passant par le fantastique, le policier ou le film catastrophe, voici tout ce qu'il faut savoir avant de se lancer dans l'écriture d'un scénario pour le cinéma. Un bon scé……続きを見る

How East German artists made their country’s experimental art scene a form of (counter) public life. Experimental artists in the final years of the German Democratic Republic did not practice their ……続きを見る

A dreamlike, evocative reckoning with a lost epoch in popular cultureーand with old, weird America. At the heart of American Vaudeville is one strange, unsettling fact: for nearly fifty years, from ……続きを見る

Physical Abuse, Confusion, Rehabilitation, and Personal Struggles - every day, musicians from around the world begin their journey of musical expression. Discover WHY a director from Australia went ……続きを見る

David Fincher's Mank recreates 1930s Hollywood through the eyes of scathing wit and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish Citizen Kane. Starring Gary Oldman as Mankiewicz……続きを見る

Celebrity Across the Channel, 1750-1850 is the first book to study and compare the concept of celebrity in France and Britain from 1750 to 1850 as the two countries transformed into the states we re……続きを見る

Very Special Episodes examines how the quintessential “very special episode” format became a primary way in which the television industry responded to and shaped social change, cultural traumas, and……続きを見る