Performing Arts

* Guides the professional from basic drawing exercises to the understanding and design of electrical system wiring designs* * Illustrates how to create wiring designs, increase troubleshooting skills, select design components, and expertly read and analyze wiring diagrams *Includes junction boxes an... More

Indelible Shadows investigates some of the profound questions raised by any attempt to create a film based on the Holocaust. How does one make a movie that is both morally just and marketable? Annette Insdorf recognizes the dilemma inherent in dealing with this sensitive and controversial subject. S... More

The New Cambridge Shakespeare presents critical edictions in modern-spelling of Shakespeare's individual plays, of his Sonnets, and of his narrative poems.The series has won a high reputation for its lively new emphases, which are constantly supported by the state-of-the art scholarship and judiciou... More

"The Twentieth Century Performance Reader" provides a pioneering introduction to all types of performance - dance, drama, music, opera and live art. It presents a selection of texts by over thirty practitioners, critics and theorists, which together affirm "performance" as a discipline in its own te... More

"The Media Student's Book" is a comprehensive introduction for students of media studies. It covers all the key topics you will encounter in the area, and provides a detailed, lively and accessible guide to concepts and debates. This fourth edition, now in color, has been thoroughly revised, re-orde... More

This classic biography offers a monumental and powerfully affecting portrait of one of the 20th century's most notable performers, political radicals, and champions of racial equality.Passionate and enormously talented, Paul Robeson lived one of the great lives of the twentieth century, Martin Duber... More

"Linda Montano is the ultimate practitioner of art in life, life in art. These conversations with other artists about four primal aspects of the everyday- sex, food, money, death-uncover the heart, the nerve, and the scar tissue behind some of the late 20th century's edgiest work." --C.Carr, "The Vi... More

"Letters from Linda M. Montano" is an anthology of writings by one of the seminal performance artists of the last century. It provides an autobiographical and historical record of Montano's artistic practice over the last thirty years, collecting together stories, fairytales, letters, interviews, ma... More

This "Companion" illustrates the vitality and diversity of dramatic work between 1660 and 1710. Twenty-five essays by leading scholars in the field bring together the best recent insights into the full range of dramatic practice and innovation at the time. Contributors examine well known genres such... More

How does film censorship work in Britain? In this paperback edition, Jim Robertson looks at the work of the British Board of Film Censors (BBFC) and discusses the structure of censorship and the histories of noteworthy censored feature films from the silent era to the early 1970s. Robertson examine... More

In this second volume of autobiography, Harry Secombe  covers his life after 1951. He tells wonderful behind-the-scenes stories of the legendary Goon Shows, he recalls marvellous anecdotes about his role as Mr Bumble in the film "Oliver ," and  discusses  his family life in Cheam.... More

Customers today expect a very high overall level of service in hospitality, tourism, and leisure. This book highlights concepts and strategies that will improve the delivery of services, and provides clear and simple explanations of theoretical concepts and their practical applications.... More

Beyond Appearances? provides a dynamic fourm for the main exponents of the anthropological turn in studies of South Asian popular visual culture, and will prove an inspiration for a generation of emerging scholars' - "The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute " A striking feature of modern-... More

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