Performing Arts

Peter Hutchings's Hammer and beyond remains a landmark work in British film criticism. This new, illustrated edition brings the book back into print for the first time in two decades. Featuring Hutchings's socially charged analyses of genre classics from Dead of Night (1945) and...

Over its five seasons on the air, the televised series Outlander has combined romance, adventure, history, and time travel into a classic saga of love, war, and the ties that bind family together. After surviving the 1746 uprising of the Scottish Highlanders, the intrigue-ridden...

Legendary actress and two-time Academy Award winner Olivia de Havilland (1916-2020) is best known for her role as Melanie Wilkes in Gone with the Wind (1939). She often inhabited characters who were delicate, elegant, and refined. At the same time, she was a survivor...

** THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 5 BESTSELLER** Award-winning comedian Sara Pascoe turns her attention to the things that really matter to humans - sex, power and money. 'Genuinely hilarious.' FRANKIE BOYLE Following her hit book Animal, Sara Pascoe decides to confront her fear of...

The concluding thoughts of one of Britain's greatest film-makers. What a life What a career Harold Pinter Boorman is one of the world's great directors, a master storyteller. Paul Auster John Boorman is one of cinema's authentic visionaries whose travels have taken him from...

Italian giallo films have a peculiar allure. Taking their name from the Italian for "yellow"-- reflecting the covers of pulp crime novels--these genre movies were principally produced between 1960 and the late 1970s. These cinematic hybrids of crime, horror, and detection are characterized by...

In this fully updated second edition, award-winning film director and Slamdance Film Festival co-founder Dan Mirvish gives you soup-to-nuts, cradle-to-grave advice on every aspect of the filmmaking lifestyle and craft. He drops advice on playing the Hollywood game, and shows you how to finance,...

LineStorm Playwrights contributed to and curated this anthology of twenty-five short plays designed to be performed outdoors, written by some of the most well-known playwrights creating ten-minute plays today. These compelling pieces can be performed inside, on a traditional stage, but they can also...

When he retired as the chief security officer of New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art, John Barelli had spent the better part of forty years responsible not only for one of the richest treasure troves on the planet, but the museum's staff, the...

Roots and Wings recounts Virginia Tanner's remarkable career as a dance artist, educator, and founder of the University of Utah's Tanner Dance Program. From her early experiences assisting at Evelyn Davis's dance school in Washington, D.C., to the creation of the Tanner Dance Program...

Publi en anglais sous le titre Caillou: The Big Dance Contest, cette version fran aise est id ale pour tous ceux qui d butent l'apprentissage du fran ais. Dans cette histoire, Caillou veut que Mamie lui apprenne danser lorsqu'il d couvre qu'elle a d...

Swing Island is no longer what it used to be when on one drizzly morning a colony vessel drops off a mysterious fairy called Viola at the pier. Wearing a crown, the new arrival fascinates everyone.The net of lies ensnares Viola in curious encounters...

HIP is a turtle who raps very slowly. HOP is a bunny who raps superfast. Together they are Hip & Hop, the coolest rap duo in Oldskool County. This hilarious collection features two stories that remix the fable of the tortoise and the hare,...

This book is a heartfelt tribute that explores the enduring magic of 'Fame' - originally a 1980 movie musical by Alan Parker with a highly successful soundtrack, later a six-season TV series, and in recent years a show-stopping stage musical around the world. Included...

The long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: a deliriously entertaining, wickedly intelligent cinema book as unique and creative as anything by Quentin Tarantino.In addition to being among the most...

The Nickie and Ricky Rivers Show is broadcasting their talk show on the road and it's a bumpy ride. This show features D list guests including Vegas Lounge singing team of Shecky Scagnetti and Edie Buffet, new age guru: Celeste Ethereal, home economist; Phoebe...

1. Introduction.- 2. David Lynch and the digital.- 3. David Lynch and visual noise.- 4.David Lynch and fear: the uncanny and the sublime.- 5. David Lynch and time: textures of ageing.- 6. David Lynch and the fragment - how not to tell a story.-...

This incisive and thoughtful new title in the Theatre And series confronts the difficult relationship between theatre and cancer. It explores representations of cancer in fictional worlds and autobiographical performances while also highlighting work that reimagines and reinvigorates the genre of 'Cancer Performance'. Challenging...

Kate, Sam and Pete are stuck. The town they live in doesn't have much going on. But they don't really care about that when they've got cheap cider and their whole lives ahead of them. And they're going to break away anyway. Someone's about...

In the run up to Christmas, three families are placed into cramped temporary accommodation. A middle-aged man and his elderly mum, a young family with a baby on the way, a newly arrived woman from Sudan. Strangers. Forced together. No space is personal. In...