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Alan Ball
Conversations
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2013
Alan Ball: Conversations features interviews that span Alan Ball's entire career and include detailed observations and insights into his Academy Award-winning film American Beauty and Emmy Award-winning television shows Six Feet Under and True Blood. Ball began his career as a playwright in New York,...
Teaching Introduction to Theatrical Design
A Process Based Syllabus in Costumes, Scenery, and Lighting
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Teaching Introduction to Theatrical Design is a week-by-week guide that helps instructors who are new to teaching design, teaching outside of their fields of expertise, or looking for better ways to integrate and encourage non-designers in the design classroom. This book provides a syllabus to teach...
Directing Shakespeare
Matthew Dunster on Troilus and Cressida; Natalie Abrahami on A Midsummer Night's Dream
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
Follow acclaimed theatre directors Matthew Dunster and Natalie Abrahami throughout preparation and rehearsals for their respective Shakespeare productions: Dunster’s ‘intelligent production’ (Guardian) of Troilus and Cressida at Shakespeare’s Globe, and Abrahami’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream...
by Gary Thorne
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2015
Technical Drawing for Stage Design explains the importance of drawing in the design process, revealing how the initial two-dimensional drawing is a crucial building block in creating the scale model that in turn will develop into the stage set - that will transport the audience into another world....
The Films of Aki Kaurismäki
Ludic Engagements
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2018
Despite creating an extensive and innovative body of work over the last 30 years, Aki Kaurismäki remains relatively neglected in Anglophone scholarship. This international collection of original essays aims to redress such neglect by assembling diverse critical inquiries into Kaurismäki's oeuvre....
Avengers Assemble!
Critical Perspectives on the Marvel Cinematic Universe
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
We are living in the age of the superhero and we cannot deny it. Avengers Assemble! is a vibrant and theoretically informed interrogation of one of the defining and most financially successful film franchises of the new millennium. In the first single-authored monograph on the topic of the Marvel...
Shakespeare for Readers' Theatre, Volume 1
Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, A Midsummer Night's Dream
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2013
Shakespeare for Readers’ Theatre is a Readers’ Theatre collection of three of Shakespeare’s most beloved plays in abridged form. Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, as well as Midsummer Night’s Dream have been trimmed while keeping Shakespeare’s beautiful language.
Hamlet can run more than...
British Television Animation 1997-2010
Drawing Comic Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
British Television Animation 1997-2010 charts a moment in TV history where UK comic animation graduated from the margins as part of a post-Simpsons broadcast landscape. Shows like Monkey Dust, Modern Toss and Stressed Eric not only reflected the times but they ushered in an era of ambition and belief in British adult animation.
Firefly Revisited
Essays on Joss Whedon's Classic Series
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
According to Joss Whedon, the creator of the short-lived series Firefly (2002), the cult show is about “nine people looking into the blackness of space and seeing nine different things.” The chronicles of crewmembers on a scruffy space freighter, Firefly ran for only four months before its abrupt...
Documentary Media
History, Theory, Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
In a digital moment where both the democratizing and totalitarian possibilities of media are unprecedented, the need for complex, ethical, and imaginative documentary media—for you, the reader of this book to think, question, and create—is vital. Whether you are an aspiring or seasoned practitioner,...
by Sreechinth C
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2018
‘The Master of Suspense’, Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock was one of the greatest directors in the in the history of film industry. In a career that crossed six decades, there are more than fifty films in his accord making him the most influential film maker ever. This skilled artist is famous for...
DVD Authoring and Production
An Authoritative Guide to DVD-Video, DVD-ROM, & WebDVD
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
DVD Authoring and Production is an authoritative and comprehensive guide to publishing content in the DVD-Video, DVD-ROM, and WebDVD formats. Readers learn everything they need to create, produce, and master DVDs - including a firsthand look at professional production techniques employed in the author's...
by Abhijit Naskar
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2017
“A movie is not a movie, it is a potential nuclear furnace of inspiration, courage and conscience.”
Abhijit Naskar, one of twenty-first century’s most influential thinkers, reveals to us the true power of filmmaking. With his sharp insight of the human mind, Naskar shows us the impact...
by Simon Murray
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
This volume offers a concise guide to the teaching and philosophy of one of the most significant figures in twentieth century actor training. Jacques Lecoq's influence on the theatre of the latter half of the twentieth century cannot be overestimated.
Now reissued Jacques Lecoq is the first...