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Agitator: The Cinema Of Takashi Miikeby Tom MesISBN 1903254418 (1-903254-41-8)
Softcover, Fab Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Agitator: The Cinema of Takashi Miike'Book summary:Fully-revised and updated edition of the best-selling guide to Japans most prolific and successful film director. This second edition of Agitator features * a new and expanded 16-page color section * completely updated DVD information * several brand-new reviews of Takashi Miike films including Audition, Dead or Alive, Ichi the Killer, and Visitor Q * Takashi Miikes own diary on the making of his controversial film Ichi the Killer, published in English for the first time ever * a career-spanning interview * ground-breaking, exhaustive and fully endorsed by Takashi Miike himself These films have amazed, stunned, delighted and shocked audiences the world over, garnering critical acclaim for their director. This is the definitive word on the most talked-about filmmaker of the decade.
An essential purchase for anyone wanting to know where cinema is heading in the 21st century. -- Pete Tombs, Mondo Macabro.
An impeccably-researched and exhaustive look at one of the most vital forces in international cinema right now. -- Aint It Cool News.
An extensively researched, cinematically literate, highly welcome addition to the slim shelf of books on contemporary Japanese films. -- Cinemaya [via]
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Anne Bogart: Viewpointsby Joel A. Smith, Michael Bigelow DixonISBN 1880399806 (1-880399-80-6)
Softcover, Smith & Kraus Pub Inc
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Backwards and Forwards: A Technical Manual for Reading Playsby David BallISBN 0809311100 (0-8093-1110-0)
Softcover, Southern Illinois Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Backwards and Forwards: A Technical Manual for Reading Plays'Book summary:This guide to playreading for students and practitioners of both theater and literature complements, rather then contradicts or repeats, traditional methods of literary analysis of scripts.
Ball developed his method during his work as Literary Director at the Guthrie Theater, building his guide on the crafts playwrights of every period and style use to make their plays stageworthy. The text is full of tools for students and practitioners to use as they investigate plot, character, theme, exposition, imagery, motivation/obstacle/conflict, theatricality, and the other crucial parts of the superstructure of a play. He includes guides for discovering what the playwright considers the play's most important elements, thus permitting interpretation based on the foundation of the play rather than its details.
Using Hamlet as illustration, Ball assures a familiar base for illustrating script-reading techniques as well as examples of the kinds of misinterpretation readers can fall prey to by ignoring the craft of the playwright. Of immense utility to those who want to put plays on the stage (actors, directors, designers, production specialists) Backwards and Forwards is also a fine playwriting manual because the structures it describes are the primary tools of the playwright.
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Between Two Silences: Talking With Peter Brookby Peter Brook, Dale MoffittISBN 0870744437 (0-87074-443-7)
Hardcover, Texas A & M Univ Pr
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Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aestheticby Bertolt BrechtISBN 0809005425 (0-8090-0542-5)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Cinematic Motion: Film Directing A Workshop for Staging Scenesby S. D. KatzISBN 0941188906 (0-941188-90-6)
Softcover, Michael Wiese Productions
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Directing a Playby Michael McCafferyISBN 0714825131 (0-7148-2513-1)
Softcover, Phaidon Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Directing a Play'Book summary:One part of a five-part series designed to help the amateur and student to develop their theatre skills. The author looks at drama as it is now and offers imaginative approaches to classical and less conventional theatre - mime, spectacle, musicals, outdoor shows and productions in unusual settings.. He stresses the importance of teamwork and planning and shows how with a creative use of resources outstanding results can be achieved. [via]
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Directing Actors: Creating Memorable Performances for Film and Televisionby Judith WestonISBN 0941188248 (0-941188-24-8)
Softcover, Ingram Pub Services
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Directing: Film Techniques and Aestheticsby Michael RabigerISBN 0240805178 (0-240-80517-8)
Softcover, Focal Pr
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Directing for the Stage: A Workshop Guide of 42 Creative Training Exercises and Projectsby Terry John ConverseISBN 1566080142 (1-56608-014-2)
Softcover, Meriwether Pub
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Directing Playsby Don TaylorISBN 0878300651 (0-87830-065-1)
Softcover, Routledge
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Directing the Action: Acting and Directing in the Contemporary Theatreby Charles MarowitzISBN 155783072X (1-55783-072-X)
Softcover, Applause Theatre & Cinema Books
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Directing the Documentaryby Michael RabigerISBN 0240806085 (0-240-80608-5)
Softcover, Focal Pr
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Directing the Film: Film Directors on Their Artby Eric ShermanISBN 0918226155 (0-918226-15-5)
Softcover, Acrobat Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Directing the Film: Film Directors on Their Art'Book summary:Film-making wisdom and a fascinating mine of film lore make this a priceless resource for students, aspiring film professionals, and film fans. [via]
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The Director at Workby Robert L. BenedettiISBN 0132149095 (0-13-214909-5)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Director at Work'Book summary:First printing. Glossy hardcover. No DJ. 5 3/4 x 9 1/4. 240 pages. Illustrated in black & white. [via]
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A Director Prepares: Seven Essays on Art and Theatreby Anne BogartISBN 0415238323 (0-415-23832-3)
Softcover, Routledge
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The Director's Eye: A Comprehensive Textbook for Directors and Actorsby John AhartISBN 1566080711 (1-56608-071-1)
Softcover, Meriwether Pub
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The Director's Vision: A Concise Guide to the Art of 250 Great Filmakersby Geoff AndrewISBN 1556523661 (1-55652-366-1)
Softcover, Chicago Review Pr
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The Director's Voice: Twenty-One Interviewsby Arthur BartowISBN 0930452747 (0-930452-74-7)
Softcover, Theatre Communications Group
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Directors in Rehearsal: A Hidden Worldby Susan Letzler ColeISBN 0878300198 (0-87830-019-8)
Softcover, Routledge
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Directors on Directing: A Source Book to the Modern Theaterby Toby Cole, Helen Krich ChinoyISBN 0023233001 (0-02-323300-1)
Softcover, Allyn & Bacon
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The Empty Spaceby Peter BrookISBN 0684829576 (0-684-82957-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Empty Space'Book summary:Peter Brook's career, beginning in the 1940s with radical productions of Shakespeare with a modern experimental sensibility and continuing to his recent work in the worlds of opera and epic theater, makes him perhaps the most influential director of the 20th century. Cofounder of the Royal Shakespeare Company and director of the International Center for Theater Research in Paris, perhaps Brook's greatest legacy will be The Empty Space. His 1968 book divides the theatrical landscape, as Brook saw it, into four different types: the Deadly Theater (the conventional theater, formulaic and unsatisfying), the Holy Theater (which seeks to rediscover ritual and drama's spiritual dimension, best expressed by the writings of Artaud and the work of director Jerzy Grotowski), the Rough Theater (a theater of the people, against pretension and full of noise and action, best typified by the Elizabethan theater), and the Immediate Theater, which Brook identifies his own career with, an attempt to discover a fluid and ever-changing style that emphasizes the joy of the theatrical experience. What differentiates Brook's writing from so many other theatrical gurus is its extraordinary clarity. His gentle illumination of the four types of theater is conversational, even chatty, and though passionately felt, it's entirely lacking in the sort of didactic bombast that flaws many similar texts. --John Longenbaugh [via]
Entrances: An American Director's Journeyby Alan SchneiderISBN 0879100672 (0-87910-067-2)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
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Fight Direction: For Stage and Screenby William HobbsISBN 0713640227 (0-7136-4022-7)
Hardcover, Motorbooks Intl
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Film Directing Fundamentals: See Your Film Before Shootingby NICHOLAS PROFERESISBN 0240805623 (0-240-80562-3)
Softcover, Focal Pr
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Film Directing Shot by Shot: Visualizing from Concept to Screenby Steven KatzISBN 0941188108 (0-941188-10-8)
Softcover, Michael Wiese Productions
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Film Directing Shot by Shot: Visualizing from Concept to Screen'Book summary:Film Directing Shot by Shot offers a good introduction to the rudiments of film production. Steven D. Katz walks his readers through the various stages of moviemaking, advising them at every turn to visualize the films they wish to produce. Katz believes that one of the chief tasks of filmmaking is to negotiate between our three-dimensional reality and the two-dimensionality of the screen. He covers the number of technical options filmmakers can use to create a satisfying flow of shots, a continuity that will make sense to viewers and aptly tell the film's story. Katz provides in-depth coverage of production design, storyboarding, spatial connections, editing, scene staging, depth of frame, camera angles, point of view, and the various types of stable compositions and moving camera shots. [via]
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The Film Director's Intuition: Script Analysis and Rehearsal Techniquesby Judith WestonISBN 0941188787 (0-941188-78-7)
Softcover, Ingram Pub Services
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The Five C's of Cinematography: Motion Picture Filming Techniquesby Joseph V. MascelliISBN 187950541X (1-879505-41-X)
Softcover, Silman-James Pr
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Fundamentals of Play Directingby Alexander Dean, Lawrence CarraISBN 003014843X (0-03-014843-X)
Hardcover, Wadsworth Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fundamentals of Play Directing'Book summary:This thorough, detailed introduction to modern stage directing focuses on fundamentals, with an emphasis on the director's interaction with actors. The material is organized in a clear, step-by-step teaching format, from explanations to demonstrations and exercises [via]
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High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Placesby David BreashearsISBN 184195005X (1-84195-005-X)
Softcover, Canongate Books Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places'Book summary:David Breashears has climbed Mt. Everest four times. For this, he is known as a world-class mountaineer. A lengthy career in documentary filmmaking--including the Imax film, Everest--has earned him wide acclaim and four Emmy awards. For this, he is known as one of the elite cinematographers in his field. But his new autobiography, High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Other High Places, proves he is more than a climber and a filmmaker; he is also an able writer.
Breashears has no lack of good material. We follow him through the stunning backdrops of Yosemite, Europe, Nepal, and Tibet, brushing up against triumphs and tragedies along the way. And while the nuts and bolts of his adventures are entertainment enough, his knack for building suspense and employing understated drama makes his autobiography read like a novel: "The morning was sunny and calm, and Rob looked as though he'd lain down on his side and fallen asleep. Around him the undisturbed snow sparkled in the sun. I stared at his bare left hand ... I wondered what a mountaineer with Rob's experience was doing without a glove."
Breashears also likes to remind his audience of humble beginnings surmounted: his early climbing days when he was known as "the kid," and a winter he spent sleeping under a sheet of plywood during the Wyoming oil boom when he was called "the worm." But mostly he documents his filmmaking career and climbing passion, both of which he approaches with an obsessive fervor. Readers interested in either pursuit will find High Exposure a fascinating traverse across the spine of the world. --Ben Tiffany [via]
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Hitchcock's Notebooks: An Authorized and Illustrated Look Inside the Creative Mind of Alfred Hitchcockby Dan AuilerISBN 0380799456 (0-380-79945-6)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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Humana Festival 2002: The Complete Playsby Tanya PalmerISBN 1575253178 (1-57525-317-8)
Softcover, Smith & Kraus Pub Inc
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Improvisation for the Theater: A Handbook of Teaching and Directing Techniquesby Viola Spolin, Paul SillsISBN 081014008X (0-8101-4008-X)
Softcover, Northwestern Univ Pr
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In Contact With the Gods?: Directors Talk Theatreby Maria M. Delgado, Paul HeritageISBN 0719047633 (0-7190-4763-3)
Softcover, Manchester Univ Pr
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In Other Words: Women Directors Speakby Helen ManfullISBN 1575251027 (1-57525-102-7)
Softcover, Smith & Kraus Pub Inc
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La Belle Et La Beteby Jean CocteauISBN 0814733573 (0-8147-3357-3)
Hardcover, New York University Press
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Letters to Georgeby Max Stafford-ClarkISBN 185459317X (1-85459-317-X)
Softcover, Theatre Communications Group
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A Life in the Theatreby Tyrone GuthrieISBN 0879100486 (0-87910-048-6)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
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Make Your Own Damn Movie: Secrets of a Renegade Directorby Lloyd Kaufman, Haaga. Trent, Adam JahnkeISBN 0312288646 (0-312-28864-6)
Softcover, LA Weekly Books
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Making Moviesby Sidney LumetISBN 0679756604 (0-679-75660-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Making Movies'Book summary:It's well known that a vast number of people work on any given movie in roles as varied as writing scripts, choosing locations, dressing sets, costuming the players, lighting scenes, manipulating the camera, directing actors, editing film, working on sound, advertising the finished product, and screening it to an audience. Have you ever thought about how these components are collated? Or why the director is most often considered the author of a film? Wonder no more, because Sidney Lumet's Making Movies is a terrific journey through each stage of filmmaking that is overseen by the director. Lumet, the veteran director of Twelve Angry Men, The Pawnbroker, Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon, Network, The Verdict, and many other fine movies, knows the ins and outs of American filmmaking as well as anyone. In this excellent, personable account, Lumet tells what he's learned about making movies in the course of the last 40 years. He shows why fine directors need to have strong imaginations, extraordinary adaptability, and skill in many different fields. His enthusiasm for his life's work, particularly his love of actors, is evident on every page of this book. As Herculean as the labors of film directing are, Lumet takes great pleasure in his work, almost guiltily admitting that the film director's job is "the best in the world." [via]
Martin Scorsese: A Journeyby Mary Pat KellyISBN 1560250445 (1-56025-044-5)
Softcover, Pub Group West
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Meyerhold on Theatreby Vsevolod çEmilöEvich MeæIerkholöDISBN 0809069253 (0-8090-6925-3)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Mis-Directing the Play: An Argument Against Contemporary Theatreby Terry McCabeISBN 1566633532 (1-56663-353-2)
Hardcover, Ivan R Dee
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mis-Directing the Play: An Argument Against Contemporary Theatre'Book summary:Arguing for a radical reorganization of the stage director's view of his role, Terry McCabe challenges the notion that a play is the director's vehicle for self-expression. The idea of the director as centerpiece of the theatre, he declares, distorts plays and oppresses the actors. Mr. McCabe explores what it means to direct a play when directing is properly understood as a process of self-effacement and faithfulness to the playwright's vision. An eminently sensible polemic delivered with cogent examples and equally cogent arguments. Nicholas Rudall. A call to responsibility anddare I say it?adulthood. It is also the fuel for what could be some constructive arguments among colleagues. Jeffrey Sweet [via]
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National Service: Diary of a Decadeby Richard EyreISBN 0747565899 (0-7475-6589-9)
Hardcover, Bloomsbury
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On Directingby Harold H. ClurmanISBN 0684826224 (0-684-82622-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On Directing'Book summary:In his writings as a teacher, director, and theater critic, Harold Clurman often comes across as the most approachable of the formidable talents associated with the Group Theater and the many versions of "the Method," the American version of Stanislavsky's teaching. Written towards the end of his long career as one of the American theater's most successful directors, On Directing is a highly readable yet deeply insightful look at the job of a theatrical director.
Clurman's writing is supremely informative and rarely didactic. He is refreshingly honest about his own stylistic shortcomings, questioning, for example, whether his analytic methods are of any use whatsoever directing the plays of Shakespeare or other non-naturalistic playwrights. His most useful contribution to a director's toolbox is his designation of a "spine" to a play and all its characters, a short phrase always stated as an action. The third part of the book is devoted to Clurman's own notes, from first impression to detailed character analysis, of 10 scripts that he brought to the stage, including plays by Clifford Odets, Lillian Hellman, Arthur Miller, Eugene O'Neill, and Carson McCullers's own adaptation of The Member of the Wedding. On Directing reveals not only the author's breadth of knowledge and literary intelligence but also his common sense and warm sense of humor. --John Longenbaugh [via]
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On Directing Filmby David MametISBN 0140127224 (0-14-012722-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On Directing Film'Book summary:According to David Mamet, a film director must, above all things, think visually. Most of this instructive and funny book is written in dialogue form and based on film classes Mamet taught at Columbia University. He encourages his students to tell their stories not with words, but through the juxtaposition of uninflected images. The best films, Mamet argues, are composed of simple shots. The great filmmaker understands that the burden of cinematic storytelling lies less in the individual shot than in the collective meaning that shots convey when they are edited together. Mamet borrows many of his ideas about directing, writing, and acting from Russian masters such as Konstantin Stanislavsky, Sergei M. Eisenstein, and Vsevelod Pudovkin, but he presents his material in so delightful and lively a fashion that he revitalizes it for the contemporary reader. [via]
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On the Art of the Theatreby Edward Gordon CraigISBN 087830570X (0-87830-570-X)
Softcover, Routledge
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The Open Door: Thoughts on Acting and Theatreby Peter BrookISBN 1400077877 (1-4000-7787-7)
Softcover, Anchor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Open Door: Thoughts on Acting and Theatre'Book summary:From King Lear to the Tragedy of Carmen, from Marat/Sade to the epic Mahabharata, Peter Brook has reinvented modern theatre, not once but again and again. In The Open Door the visionary director and theorist offers a lucid, comprehensive exposition of the philosophy that underlies his work.
It is a philosophy of paradoxes: We come to the theatre to find life, but that life must be different from the life we find outside. Actors have to prepare painstakingly yet be willing to sacrifice the results of their preparation. The directors most reliable tool may be his capacity to be bored. Brook illustrates these principles with anecdotes that span his entire career and that demonstrate his familiarity with Shakespeare, Chekhov, and the indigenous theatres of India and Iran. The result is an unparalleled look at what happens both onstage and behind the scenes, fresh in its insights and elegant in its prose.
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Picture This: Perception & Compositionby Molly BangISBN 0821218557 (0-8212-1855-7)
Softcover, Bulfinch Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Picture This: Perception & Composition'Book summary:This book is designed to widen the reader's perception of the world through the basic principles of design. In our increasingly visual world, it is vital that we be able to distinguish and identify shapes in space. It begins with the story of Little Red Riding Hood, using triangles and rectangles and circles to tell the tale, and then guides the reader through a basic vocabulary of perception and composition, ending with simple exercises that will inspire the reader's creativity. [via]
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Play Directing: Analysis, Communication, And Styleby Francis Hodge, Michael McLainISBN 0205419232 (0-205-41923-2)
Hardcover, Allyn & Bacon
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- Play Directing: Analysis, Communication, And Style: ISBN 0135011078 (0-13-501107-8)
Hardcover, Prentice Hall - Play Directing: Analysis, Communication, And Style: ISBN 0136828159 (0-13-682815-9)
Hardcover, Prentice-Hall - Play Directing: Analysis, Communication, And Style: ISBN 013682823X (0-13-682823-X)
Hardcover, Prentice-Hall - Play Directing: Analysis, Communication, And Style: ISBN 0205295614 (0-205-29561-4)
Hardcover, Prentice Hall - Play Directing: Analysis, Communication, And Style: ISBN 0205419232 (0-205-41923-2)
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- Play Directing: Analysis, Communication, And Style: ISBN 0135011078 (0-13-501107-8)
Rebel Without a Crew: Or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker With $7,000 Became a Hollywood Playerby Robert RodriguezISBN 0452271878 (0-452-27187-8)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Rehearsal Handbook for Actors and Directors : A Practical Guideby John PerryISBN 1861264437 (1-86126-443-7)
Softcover, Crowood Press, Limited, The
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Rehearsal Management for Directorsby David AlbertsISBN 0435086650 (0-435-08665-0)
Softcover, Heinemann Drama
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Scriptwork: A Director's Approach to New Play Developmentby David Kahn, Donna BreedISBN 0809317591 (0-8093-1759-1)
Softcover, Southern Illinois Univ Pr
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A Sense of Directionby William GaskillISBN 0879101342 (0-87910-134-2)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
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Sense of Direction: Some Observations on the Art of Directingby William BallISBN 0896760820 (0-89676-082-0)
Softcover, Quite Specific Media Group Ltd
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Shakespeare Our Contemporaryby J KottISBN 0393007367 (0-393-00736-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shakespeare Our Contemporary'Book summary:This book is a provocative, original study of the major plays of Shakespeare; more than that, however, it is one of the few critical works to have strongly influenced theatrical productions.
Peter Brook and Charles Marowitz are among the many directors who have acknowledged their debt to Jan Kott, finding in his analogies between Shakespearean situations and those in modern life and drama the seeds of vital new stage-conceptions. Readers all over the worldShakespeare Our Contemporary has been translated into nineteen languages since it appeared in 1961have similarly found their responses to Shakespeare broadened and enriched. Mary McCarthy called the work "the best, the most alive, radical book about Shakespeare in at least a generation." [via]More editions of Shakespeare Our Contemporary:
The Shifting Point: 1946-1987by Peter BrookISBN 155936081X (1-55936-081-X)
Softcover, Theatre Communications Group
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Spike, Mike, Slackers & Dykes: A Guided Tour Across a Decade of American Independent Cinemaby Kevin Smith, John Pierson, David CashionISBN 0786882220 (0-7868-8222-0)
Softcover, Miramax
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Theater Games for Rehearsal: A Director's Handbookby Viola SpolinISBN 0810140020 (0-8101-4002-0)
Softcover, Northwestern Univ Pr
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Theatre and Its Doubleby Antonin Artaud, Victor CortiISBN 0714542342 (0-7145-4234-2)
Softcover, Calder Publications Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Theatre and Its Double'Book summary:Since its first publication in 1938, The Theater and Its Double by the French artist and philosopher Antonin Artaud has continued to provoke, inspire, enrage, enliven, challenge, and goad any number of theatrical debates in its call for a "Theater of Cruelty." A trio of theatrical manifestos, the book is an aggressive attack on many of the most treasured beliefs of both theater and Western culture. According to Artaud, the theater's "double" is similar to its Jungian "shadow," the unacknowledged, unconscious element that completes it but is in many ways its opposite. As "culture" inexorably draws the artistic impulse into safe channels, the repressed irrational urges of theater, based on dreams, religion, and emotion, are increasingly necessary to "purge" the sickness of society. Artaud identifies language itself as one of the major cultural culprits, and his attacks on it occasionally makes his text rough going. But his challenge to restore relevance to the heart of the theatrical experience remains fundamental to the vitality of theater, and his insistence on the sensory experience of drama as opposed to the literary (and such innovative ideas as the use of unconventional "found spaces") continues to be the clarion call of the theatrical avant-garde. --John Longenbaugh [via]
Thinking Like a Director: A Practical Handbookby Michael BloomISBN 0571199941 (0-571-19994-1)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Tim Burton: An Unauthorized Biography of the Filmmakerby Ken HankeISBN 1580631622 (1-58063-162-2)
Softcover, St. Martin's Press
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Tim Burton: Interviewsby Tim Burton, Kristian FragaISBN 1578067596 (1-57806-759-6)
Softcover, Univ Pr of Mississippi
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Tips: Ideas for Directorsby Jon JoryISBN 1575252414 (1-57525-241-4)
Softcover, Smith & Kraus Pub Inc
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True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actorby David MametISBN 0679772642 (0-679-77264-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Viewpoints Book: A Practical Guide to Viewpoints and Compositionby Anne Bogart, Tina LandauISBN 1559362413 (1-55936-241-3)
Softcover, Theatre Communications Group
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Women Stage Directors Speak: Exploring the Influence of Gender on Their Workby Rebecca DanielsISBN 0786402350 (0-7864-0235-0)
Hardcover, McFarland & Co Inc Pub
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El Teatro Y Su Doble/the Theater And It's Doubleby Antonin ArtaudISBN 9685960216 (968-5960-21-6)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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Das Filmische Universum Von Joel Und Ethan Coenby Annette Kilzer, Stefan RogallISBN 3894723068 (3-89472-306-8)
Hardcover, Schuren
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