Performing Arts
-
A Cut Below: A Celebration of B Horror Movies, 1950s-1980sHorror films have been around for more than 100 years, and they continue to make a large impact on popular culture as they reflect their contemporary zeitgeist. Between the mid-1950s and mid-1980s, drive-in theaters were at their peak of popularity, and each decade brought...
- CHF 68.63
- CHF 68.63
- Unit price
- per
-
Acts of Activism: Human Rights as Radical PerformanceThis book was first published in 2010. Madison presents the neglected yet compelling and necessary story of local activists in South Saharan Africa who employ modes of performance as tactics of resistance and intervention in their day-to-day struggles for human rights. The dynamic relationship...
- CHF 85.69
- CHF 85.69
- Unit price
- per
-
Abstinence Cinema: Virginity and the Rhetoric of Sexual Purity in Contemporary FilmWinner of the 2016 Diane Hope Book of the Year Award from the Visual Communication Division of the National Communication Association From the perspective of cultural conservatives, Hollywood movies are cesspools of vice, exposing impressionable viewers to pernicious sexually-permissive messages. Offering a groundbreaking study...
- CHF 82.62
- CHF 82.62
- Unit price
- per
-
10-Minute Plays Anthology Presented by Harlem9, Inc.: 48Hours in... (TM) Harlem Volume 2A groundbreaking anthology of inspired ten-minute plays by 12 new and emerging black playwrights, presented by the OBIE Award Winning Harlem9, Inc., presenters of the annual "48Hours in...(TM) Harlem" festival.Author: Inc Harlem9Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublished: 08/06/2017Pages: 172Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.57lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w...
- CHF 25.79
- CHF 25.79
- Unit price
- per
-
Yippee Ki-Yay Motherf*cker!: A Trivia Guide to Die Hard"Come out to the coast, we'll get together, have a few laughs."That line, one of many quotable moments from Die Hard, was an on the spot insertion during filming by actor Bruce Willis and director John McTiernan. That's just one of numerous ad lib...
- CHF 20.61
- CHF 20.61
- Unit price
- per
-
Yes You Can: How to Make a Movie for Almost No MoneyIf you've been trying to sell a spec script, attach a star, raise financing, or even just get someone to return your email, you already know it might take a while. So why not do something while you're waiting for other people to do...
- CHF 34.36
- CHF 34.36
- Unit price
- per
-
YenHench is sixteen, Bobbie is thirteen. They live alone with their dog, Taliban, playing PlayStation, watching porn; surviving. Sometimes their chaotic mum, Maggie, visits; occasionally she passes out on the front lawn. But when Jenny knocks on the door, the boys discover a world...
- CHF 31.07
- CHF 31.07
- Unit price
- per
-
X"McDowall masterfully plants ideas that grow until they explode into extraordinary shapes. Filthy humour breaks down into a cracked algorithm of letters and loss ... a play that will gnaw away at you. It's sci-fi - and theatre - at its best." The StageBillions...
- CHF 23.98
- CHF 23.98
- Unit price
- per
-
Where Snowflakes Dance and Swear: Inside the Land of BalletIn a scuffed-up studio, a veteran dancer transmits the magic of an eighty-year-old ballet to a performer barely past drinking age. In a converted barn, an indomitable teacher creates ballerinas as she has for more than half a century. In a monastic mirrored room,...
- CHF 82.41
- CHF 82.41
- Unit price
- per
-
We Built This CityAward-winning author Cat Patrick returns with a charming tale full of first crushes and new friendships, as one girl learns a little more about who she is and who she wants to be all while on the road trip of lifetime. It's the summer...
- CHF 24.74
- CHF 24.74
- Unit price
- per
-
Victorian Circus Coloring Book for Adults 2: Victorian Coloring Book for Adults Grayscale Victorian Circus Grayscale coloring book Victorian Fashion C★Victorian Circus Grayscale Coloring Book Vol. 2★The second book of the outstanding grayscale coloring book for Victorian era loversThe coloring book includes A4 54 pages blank backsides - no pushing through matte Softcover victorian circus ladies on swings and trapez victorian dresses and circus...
- CHF 14.19
- CHF 14.19
- Unit price
- per
-
The Routledge Anthology of Women's Theatre Theory and Dramatic CriticismThe Routledge Anthology of Women's Theatre Theory and Dramatic Criticism is the first wide-ranging anthology of theatre theory and dramatic criticism by women writers, reproducing key primary documents contextualized by short essays, reframing the field's male-defined and male-dominated traditions.Author: Catherine BurroughsPublisher: RoutledgePublished: 09/29/2023Pages: 652Binding...
- CHF 114.46
- CHF 114.46
- Unit price
- per
-
The Oxford Illustrated History of TheatreThe Oxford Illustrated History of Theatre, an authoritative and lavishly illustrated new history, celebrates the stage's greatest achievements over 4,500 years, from festival performances in ancient Egypt to international, multicultural drama in the late twentieth century, and from Sophocles and Aristophanes to George Gershwin...
- CHF 48.11
- CHF 48.11
- Unit price
- per
-
The Naked Clone: A Nick Nolte MysteryThis hilarious mystery was written serially by the minds behind RiffTrax, with each writer picking up where the last left off. There's trouble in Hollywood.Big surprise, Sheepdip, there's always trouble in Hollywood. But for Yours Truly, Nick Nolte, private dick, actor, entrepreneur, collector of...
- CHF 25.76
- CHF 25.76
- Unit price
- per
-
The Music Teacher Who Couldn't SingHave you ever loved something, but since you don't think you are good enough at it, you stop doing it?That is how Mrs. Beverly, music teacher at Rockhouse Elementary School, feels!Join her as she discovers that when it comes to doing things that you...
- CHF 53.15
- CHF 53.15
- Unit price
- per
-
The Improv Handbook: The Ultimate Guide to Improvising in Comedy, Theatre, and BeyondThe Improv Handbook is the most comprehensive, smart, helpful and inspiring guide to improv available today. Applicable to comedians, actors, public speakers and anyone who needs to think on their toes, it features a range of games, interviews, descriptions and exercises that illuminate and...
- CHF 78.27
- CHF 78.27
- Unit price
- per
-
The Family FortunaLindsay Eagar's dazzling YA debut welcomes us backstage at the Family Fortuna circus, where wonders lie in wait to steal your breath away. You won't believe your eyes! Beaked. Feathered. Monstrous. Avita was born to be a star. Her tent sells out nightly, and...
- CHF 16.48
- CHF 16.48
- Unit price
- per
-
The Biggest Thing in Show Business: Living It Up with Martin & LewisMurray Pomerance is an independent scholar living in Toronto and Adjunct Professor in the School of Media and Communication at the RMIT University, Melbourne. He is the author of many books, including, most recently, A Silence from Hitchcock (also published by SUNY Press) and...
- CHF 204.19
- CHF 204.19
- Unit price
- per
-
Terence DaviesCalled the most important British filmmaker of his generation, Terence Davies made his reputation with modern classics like Distant Voices, Still Lives and The Long Day Closes, personal works exploring his fractured childhood in Liverpool. His idiosyncratic and unorthodox narrative films defy easy categorization,...
- CHF 47.90
- CHF 47.90
- Unit price
- per
-
Sonic Strategies: Performing Mexico's War on Drugs, Mourning, and FeminicideIn Sonic Strategies, author Christina Baker highlights the tactics employed by contemporary performance artists in Mexico in response to the violence surrounding the nation's War on Drugs. The introduction opens with a description of the 2007 reenactment of the Grito, or "cry," of independence,...
- CHF 80.09
- CHF 80.09
- Unit price
- per