Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Westworld and Philosophy In Westworld and Philosophy, philosophers of diverse orientations and backgrounds offer their penetrating insights into the questions raised by the popular TV show, Westworld. Is it wrong for Dr. Robert Ford (played by Anthony Hopkins)... RRP: $30.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added David Bowie and Philosophy The philosophically rich David Bowie is an artist of wide and continuing influence. The theatrical antics of Bowie ushered in a new rock aesthetic, but there is much more to Bowie than mere spectacle. The visual belies the increasing depths of his... RRP: $30.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Good Place and Philosophy A humorous and philosophical look at life in Heaven, or is it Hell? The Good Place is a fantasy-comedy TV show about the afterlife. Eleanor dies and finds herself in the Good Place, which she understands must be mistake, since she has been anything but... RRP: $30.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Five Modern Noh Plays As long ago as 1916 William Butler Yeats and Ezra Pound were excitedly discovering Noh plays. In 1922 Aurthur Waley's fine translations appeared in a collection titled The Noh Plays of Japan. Since then, interest has grown steadily in this... RRP: $22.99 $22.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Comedians Jokes change from generation to generation, but the experience of the comedian transcends the ages: the drive, jealousy, heartbreak, and triumph. From the Marx Brothers to Milton Berle to George Carlin to Eddie Murphy to Louis CK-comedy historian Kliph... RRP: $33.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Spoils The hilarious and poignant third play by award-winning actor, playwright, and writer Jesse Eisenberg, The Spoils continues Eisenberg's exploration of the privilege of the young straight white male. Nobody likes Ben. Ben doesn't... RRP: $30.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Revisionist The Revisionist, the second play by the award-winning actor and regular New Yorker contributor Jesse Eisenberg, is a stunning exploration of obsession, secrets, and the nature of family. The play had its world premiere at the Cherry Lane Theatre in New... RRP: $30.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Circus Mania Roll up! Roll up!See the wondrous new face of Circus Mania, 250 years in the making! Full of the remarkable tales of circus life that made it a classic on its first outing. Learn about the origins of the circus from Roman times, to the colourful... RRP: $30.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The three amigos Now available in paperback, this is the first academic book dedicated to the filmmaking of the three-best known Mexican-born directors, Guillermo del Toro, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and Alfonso Cuaron. Deborah Shaw examines the career trajectories of... RRP: $39.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Swedish crime fiction Swedish crime fiction became an international phenomenon in the first decade of the twenty-first century, starting first with novels but then percolating through Swedish-language television serials and films on to English-language BBC productions and... RRP: $37.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Theatres on film Theatres on film is an innovative contribution to the study of both theatre and film history, with its detailed discussion of popular and influential films that have taken the theatre as their subject, informed by a strong sense of the cultural and... RRP: $184.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Entertaining television Entertaining television challenges the idea that the BBC in the 1950s was elitist and 'staid', upholding Reithian values in a paternalistic, even patronising way. By focusing on a number of (often controversial) programme case studies - such as the soap... RRP: $37.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Shakespeare's book This collection of essays is part of a new phase in Shakespeare studies. The traditional view of Shakespeare is that he was a man of the theatre who showed no interest in the printing of his plays, producing works that are only fully realised in... RRP: $37.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Henry VI plays The Henry VI plays are Shakespeare's earliest, most theatrically exciting plays and in their day, they were among his most popular works. In a story which stretches over thirty years, Shakespeare dramatises the fall of the House of Lancaster and creates... RRP: $37.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Genre and performance: film and television Looking at contemporary film and television, this book explores how popular genres frame our understanding of on-screen performance. It brings together ground-breaking and inspiring work on this topic from both renowned and newer academics in the field... RRP: $195.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Taking the long view Taking the Long View is a study of documentary series such as Michael Apted's world-famous Seven Up films that set out to trace the life-journeys of individuals from their earliest schooldays till they are fully grown adults, often with children of their... RRP: $37.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Humphrey Jennings Humphrey Jennings has been described as the only real poet that British cinema has produced. His documentary films are remarkable records of Britain at peace and war, and his range of representational approaches transcended accepted notions of wartime... RRP: $184.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Joss Whedon This book assesses Joss Whedon's contribution to US television and popular culture. Examining everything from his earliest work to his most recent tweets and activist videos, it explores his complex and contradictory roles as both cult outsider and... RRP: $37.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Spanish visual culture This book is the first to explore three visual media in contemporary Spain: cinema, television and the internet. It also examines cultural products in each of these media in terms of three vital themes: emotion, location and nostalgia.The first two... RRP: $37.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added State of play Robin Nelson's State of play up-dates and develops the arguments of his influential TV Drama In Transition (1997). It is equally distinctive in setting analusis of the aesethetics and compositional principles of texts within a broad conceptual framework... RRP: $39.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Treading the bawds Drawing on feminist cultural materialist theories and historiographies, 'Treading the bawds' analyses the collaboration between actresses Elizabeth Barry and Anne Bracegirdle and women playwrights such as Aphra Behn and Mary Pix, and traces a line of... RRP: $39.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Studying the event film Peter Jackson's epic trilogy, the biggest film event of the 21st century, turned the best-selling book of the 20th century into a popular, critical and financial success all over again. This comprehensive collection draws together twenty-five essays on... RRP: $37.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Hollywood romantic comedy This book explores the changing representation of the couple, focusing on themes of marriage, equality and desire. Kathrina Glitre moves beyond the usual screwball territory to consider cycles of production from 1934-65. The central concern with the... RRP: $39.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Trevor Griffiths Trevor Griffiths has been a critical force in British television writing for over three decades. His successes have included the series Bill Brand (1976), his adaptations of Sons and Lovers and The Cherry Orchard (1981) and his television plays, The... RRP: $37.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Alan Bennett Alan Bennett is one of the UK's most well-known and successful writers. His oeuvre is one where populist art forms and intellectually complex arguments co-exist seamlessly, allowing the work to appeal to a wide audience. Bennett's familiar voice combines... RRP: $37.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Lynda La Plante Lynda La Plante is Britain's most successful and well known screenwriter and the first woman to win the prestigious Dennis Potter writer's award. Attracting millions of viewers, the popular and critical success of La Plante's work is central to... RRP: $37.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Popular cinema in Brazil, 19302001 Brazil has one of the most significant and productive film industries in Latin America. This ground-breaking study provides an entertaining insight into the Brazilian films that have most captured the imagination of domestic audiences over the years.The... RRP: $39.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Beginning Shakespeare Beginning Shakespeare introduces students to the study of Shakespeare, and grounds their understanding of his work in theoretical discourses. After an introductory survey of the dominant approaches of the past, seven chapters examine the major current... RRP: $25.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Memory and popular film "Memory and Popular Film" uses memory as a specific framework for the cultural study of film. Taking Hollywood as its focus, the text provides a sustained, interdisciplinary perspective on memory and film, from early cinema to the present. Considering... RRP: $37.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The British working class in postwar film Discussing well-known films and forgotten ones which deserve reassessment, this text uses a sociological model to examine how working class people are portrayed in British feature films from the decade after World War II. It introduces media and film... RRP: $39.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Public issue television Public issue television is a major contribution to understanding the relationship between television, politics and society. Based on full access to the archives, it offers a fascinating historical account of how one television series, Granada's World in... RRP: $39.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added New Soviet Man Cinema has long been recognized as the privileged bridge between Soviet ideologues and their mass public. Recent feminist-oriented work has drawn out the symbolic role of women in Soviet culture, but, not surprisingly, men too were expected to play their... RRP: $39.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added King Lear Through a study of ten modern stage and screen productions of 'King Lear', this book examines the way performance and interpretation are bound together, and shows how different performances have illuminated the contradictions in this play. The updated... RRP: $37.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Playing for time Playing for time explores connections between theatre time, the historical moment and fictional time. Geraldine Cousin persuasively argues that a crucial characteristic of contemporary British theatre is its preoccupation with instability and danger, and... RRP: $37.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added J. Lee Thompson Published on the 50th anniversary of his directorial debut, this is an examination of the work of a man once hailed as the finest film-maker to emerge from the British studio system after World War II. J. Lee Thompson first came to notice as a talented... RRP: $46.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Marguerite Duras The first book in English to deal exclusively with Duras' cinema, including such films as India Song, Le Camion, and Nathalie Granger. Provides a lucid and stimulating introduction to her films, which is accessible to a wide readerhip, both specialist... RRP: $30.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Staging the real This study traces the evolution of the various categories of "factual entertainment" programmes which have come to dominate our screens over the last decade. The book focuses on issues such as the changes in the braodcasting environment which have given... RRP: $30.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Claude Chabrol This study is an analysis of Claude Chabrol and brings into focus a prolific French director. Chabrol has made more than 50 films in a career spanning 40 years. This account traces the development of his film style from the experimental period of the... RRP: $34.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Diane Kurys Carrie Tarr's analysis of the cinema of Diane Kurys is a full-length study of this director, whose delightfully unsentimental reconstructions of the lives of girls and women in post-war France have established her as a distinctive presence in... RRP: $30.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Francois Truffaut After making a strong impact with his first film "Les 400 Coups", a semi-autobiographical narrative shot in the neo-realist style of the emerging "Nouvelle Vague", the French film director Francois Truffaut went on to make 23 films in 26 years. This... RRP: $34.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Approaches to popular film An introduction to popular film and the way in which it is studied, this book brings together the critical approaches and issues that have sought to define popular film from the 1950s to the present day. It inlcudes discussion of mass culture theory and... RRP: $30.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Analysing performance "Analysing Performance" is a wide-ranging collection of essays by contributors of international standing about key aspects of the performing arts. Each essay tackles the theory and practice of contemporary performance work, and enables students and... RRP: $37.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Othello Of all Shakespeare's tragedies, "Othello", with its issues of racism, jealousy and sexual stereotyping seems most immediate to contemporary audiences. This work traces Othello's acting tradition as it has affected the roles of Othello, Desdemona and Iago... RRP: $37.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added A Game at Chess For many years Middleton's "A Game at Chess" was more notorious than read, considered rather a phenomenon of theatrical history than a pre-eminent piece of dramatic writing. "A Game at Chess" was a nine days' wonder, an exceptional play of King James'... RRP: $30.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Underwater Eye A rich history of underwater filmmaking and how it has profoundly influenced the aesthetics of movies and public perception of the oceans.In The Underwater Eye, Margaret Cohen tells the fascinating story of how the development of modern diving equipment... RRP: $59.99 $57.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Magical Mathematics Magical Mathematics reveals the secrets of fun-to-perform card tricks--and the profound mathematical ideas behind them--that will astound even the most accomplished magician. Persi Diaconis and Ron Graham provide easy, step-by-step instructions for each... RRP: $34.99 $34.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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