CK - Performing Arts 8

This revised and refreshed edition guides the contemporary screenwriter through a variety of creative and critical approaches to a deeper understanding of how to tell stories for the screen. With a ……続きを見る

Best known for The Piano, Jane Campion is an author/director whose films explore the relationship between literature and cinema. This book examines Campion's films as adaptations, mixing cultural an……続きを見る

Heather is struggling with her faith. She has had more loss than one woman can handle and cannot see God anywhere. As her faith takes a dive, she meets a girl who changes her entire outlook on life,……続きを見る

Making Hip Hop Theatre is the essential, practical guide to making hip-hop theatre. It features detailed techniques and exercises that can guide creatives from workshops through to staging a perform……続きを見る

Listen in as professional storyteller Phyllis Blackstone shares stories about her family, career, musings and life. These heartwarming tales provide a breath of fresh air that offers comfort and sti……続きを見る

Mistakes are easy to make, but often difficult to undo. The greater the knowledge and experience a filmmaker has, the fewer mistakes are made by them. This introductory-level guide to filmmaking tea……続きを見る

This screenplay is based on a true story and memoir, When Angels Fly, and it will take you to the depths of hell and back to barely breathing. It is a gallant saga of two little boys and their mothe……続きを見る

The Art of Knife Fighting for Stage and Screen: An Actor’s and Director’s Guide to Staged Violence provides detailed information for the safe use of knives and daggers in a theatrical setting and an……続きを見る

Mysticism in the Theater introduces theater makers to the power and possibility of using historical mystical ideas to influence all aspects of a production. Historical mysticism represents ideas dev……続きを見る

With humane irony, Jack Davis gives a painful insight into the process of colonisation and the transformation of his people. The Dreamers is the story of a country-town family and old Uncle Worru, w……続きを見る

One man journey from difficult beginnings to evolving from the debts of nothingness that came about through reading - discovering my creative voice through poetry followed acting in keeping alive th……続きを見る

The largest collection of Mickle Maher’s plays to date, which have been performed by theater companies across the country and abroad, ranging from “living-room” shows to small non-profits, schools,……続きを見る

One of the strangest, most obscure, and intriguing stories from the last century of American music is that of Emmett Miller. He helped define the popular music of the last 75 years, and for the most……続きを見る

The New York Times bestseller based on the Oscar nominated documentary film In June 1979, the writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin embarked on a project to tell the story of America throug……続きを見る

Remember Sergio Aguero's late goal to win the title for Man City? Or, best of all, Geoff Hurst's hat-trick wining the World Cup for England in 1966? Over half a century, Match of the Day has witness……続きを見る

How one company created the dominant aesthetic of digital realism. Just about every major film now comes to us with an assist from digital effects. The results are obvious in superhero fantasies, ye……続きを見る

Poetry is increasingly democratic in its use of different formats, but it can be difficult to know how to navigate the range of options available. In a competitive field, this information is not alw……続きを見る

In The Story Is True, folklorist, filmmaker, and professor of English Bruce Jackson explores the ways we use the stories that become a central part of our public and private lives. Describing and ex……続きを見る

Simon, an American exchange student, discovers a rare records shop in Leipzig, Germany. The eccenric store owner, Max, shares with Simon a record that has impossible properties. Max challenges Simon……続きを見る

1-3 Minute Monologues Volume A is a book of completely new and original audition monologues. They are mostly suitable for everyone, no matter your age, gender, or cultural background, with a mix of ……続きを見る

Rick Mitchell is an award-winning dramatist of over twenty plays, Rick Mitchell teaches playwriting, performance studies and literature at California State University, Northridge, where he is profes……続きを見る

In this insightful study of Hollywood cinema since 1969, film historian Nick Smedley traces the cultural and intellectual heritage of American films, showing how the more thoughtful recent cinema ow……続きを見る

Few contemporary television shows have been subjected to the critical scrutiny that has been brought to bear on David Lynch and Mark Frost's Twin Peaks since its debut in 1990. Yet the series, and t……続きを見る

This volume brings together performance texts from nine productions by the experimental theatre company Lightwork and one playtext from Lightwork’s precursor company Academy Productions, presented b……続きを見る

The Brazilian Portuguese idea of saudade is often translated as a powerful relative of nostalgia, which brings together love and grief, a melancholia and a longing focused on a memory, an absence. S……続きを見る

Live performance continues to be created every time it is performed. This book explores the dynamic relationship between creative process, presentation and spectator response to provide students and……続きを見る

Charles Urban was a renowned figure in his time, and he has remained a name in film history chiefly for his development of Kinemacolor, the world’s first successful natural colour moving picture sys……続きを見る

Every award-winning short film begins life with a clever idea, a good story and a screenplay. Patrick Nash analyses the process of writing short film screenplays and gives advice on: Story and str……続きを見る

True, the city's many summer festivals each maintain their own identities. And yet 'The Festival' has stuck as a shorthand which captures the truly eclectic experience of 'doing Edinburgh' which has……続きを見る

Secrets of Screen Acting, Fourth Edition, is a step-by-step guide to the elements of successful screen acting. When it was first published in 1993, Secrets of Screen Acting broke new ground in expla……続きを見る