The Art of Dreamworks The Bad Guys by Iain R. Morris
70.00 AUD
Category: Film
In the new action comedy from DreamWorks Animation, based on the New York Times bestselling book series, The Bad Guys tracks a crackerjack crew of criminal animal outlaws who are about to attempt their most challenging con yet--becoming model citizens. From DreamWorks' visionary filmmakers, artists, and ...Show more
Film In Australia by MORAN Albert VIETH E
54.95 AUD
Category: Film
This groundbreaking book provides a comprehensive analysis of films made since 1970.
Dancing to His Song - The Singular Cinema of Rolf De Heer by Jane Freebury
49.99 AUD
Category: Film
Famed for never repeating himself, de Heer first gained national attention in 1993 with Bad Boy Bubby, then Dancing to My Song and Alexandras Project. Today he is most widely characterised by his 'accidental trilogy' in partnership with the actor David Gulpilil -- The Tracker, Ten Canoes and the recentl ...Show more
Finding Queensland in Australian Cinema by Craven, Allison
42.99 AUD
Category: Film
Finding Queensland in Australian Cinema explores gender, race and place in selected Australian films in various phases of Australian cinema: from Charles Chauvel's Jedda (1955), to the 'period' films of the New Wave in the 1970s, to the Indigenous filmmakers since the 1990s, and the contemporary era of ...Show more
Judith Anderson: Australian Star, First Lady of the American Stage by Desley Deacon
65.00 AUD
Category: Film
Everyone knows Mrs Danvers as a byword for menace in Hitchcock's Rebecca and as a poster girl for lesbians in the movies. But only dedicated fans know her brilliant creator. This book tells Judith Anderson's life story for the first time. It recovers her career as one of the great stars of stage and te ...Show more
What is an Australian Play? Have we failed our ethnic writers? by MEAD CHRIS
16.00 AUD
Category: Theatre
Has our theatre failed our newest writers? Those first- and second-generation immigrants who speak another language at home? Their diversity makes Australia a rich land with a wealth of stories, but how much reaches our stages? Chris Mead traces the growth through the 1980s that saw the overthrow of inh ...Show more
Reviewing The Performance The Design Of The Sydney Opera House by Ken Woolley
60.00 AUD
Category: Theatre
Offering an analysis of the many aspects of Sydney Opera House, this title gives consideration to the hidden problems of the competition brief, notes the difficulties of matching the radical winning design with the restricted site, and records the immense problems encountered during its construction. ...Show more
Making Make-Believe Real - Politics As Theater in Shakespeare's Time by Garry Wills
12.00 AUD
Category: Theatre
A penetrating study of the images, symbols, pageants, and creative performances ambitious Elizabethans used to secure political power Shakespeare's plays abound with kings and leaders who crave a public stage and seize every opportunity to make their lives a performance: Antony, Cleopatra, Richard III, ...Show more
Sheep and the Australian Cinema by Verhoeven, Deb
49.99 AUD
Category: Film
In this highly readable study of Australian cinema, Deb Verhoeven explores the relationship between a series of films produced in different periods of Australian history that are linked by a common thread; the repeated image of sheep. Verhoeven focuses on two key 'sheep films': The Squatter's Daughter ( ...Show more
So You Want to be a Theatre Director? by Stephen Unwin
31.99 AUD
39.95 (19% off)
Category: Theatre
A hands-on guide to directing plays. Stephen Unwin takes a step-by-step approach, covering: choosing the play; casting; design; rehearsal (establishing facts, improvisation, language, character, blocking, using specialists); running the play; putting it on the stage; and opening night.
Darker with the Dawn Nick Cave's Songs of Love and Death by Adam Steiner
49.99 AUD
Category: Music
From his early work with The Birthday Party to the future sounds of Ghosteen, Nick Cave has rewritten the language of rock 'n' roll. Darker with the Dawn uncovers the history and deeper meanings behind Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds' most well-known songs from "Tupelo", "The Mercy Seat", "Red Right Hand", ...Show more
Shakespeare on Theatre by William Shakespeare
24.99 AUD
Category: Theatre
In his plays and poems, Shakespeare returns again and again to theatrical ideas and images. Shakespeare scholar Nick de Somogyi draws together all the set pieces such as 'All the world's a stage', Hamlet's encounters with the Players and Bottom's amateur dramatics along with less well-known but equally ...Show more