Entertainment Books
Wayne State University Press Bewitched TV Milestones TV Milestones Series
Book SynopsisThe situation comedy ""Bewitched"" chronicled the everyday lives of Samantha, a witch, and her mortal husband, dramatizing the often-humorous troubles caused by their ""mixed marriage."" Considering the ""Bewitched"" series as a whole, this book demonstrates that the show can look very different depending upon which of its episodes are being examined.
£22.52
Wayne State University Press South Korean Golden Age Melodrama
Book SynopsisImmediately following the Korean War, South Korea's film industry flourished with local production of high-quality films. This text addresses the appeal of particular film modes and aesthetics, especially melodrama. It examines genre in relation to articulation of nation and constructions of gender.
£29.66
Wayne State University Press Sex and the City TV Milestones Series
Book SynopsisWith its bold depiction of four female friends navigating the pitfalls of Manhattan's dating scene, ""Sex and the City"", which aired on HBO from 1998-2004, was a television drama that evolved into a ubiquitous and widely debated cultural phenomenon. This title investigates the program's critical and popular success and its lasting cultural impact.
£22.52
Wayne State University Press There She Goes
Book SynopsisExamines the exchanges within and through feminist film culture to expand critical horizons in film scholarship. This book explores a variety of contextual factors that have shaped women's film making, from the conditions of production and circulation to engagement with various social movements.
£29.66
Wayne State University Press The Films of Hal Ashby Contemporary Approaches to Film and Television Series Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series
Book SynopsisHal Ashby directed eleven feature films over the course of his career and was an important figure in the Hollywood Renaissance of the late 1960s and 1970s. This title analyzes the films and filmmaking career of Hal Ashby, placing his work in the cultural context of filmmaking in the 1970s. It also provides an overview of Ashby's filmmaking career.
£27.50
Wayne State University Press Dark Shadows TV Milestones Series
Book SynopsisWhile supernatural events have become fairly commonplace on daytime television in recent decades, Dark Shadows, which aired on ABC between 1966 and 1971, pioneered this format when it blended the vampires, werewolves, warlocks, and witches of fictional Collinsport, Maine, with standard soap opera fare like alcoholism, jealousy, and tangled love. In this volume, author Harry M. Benshoff examines Dark Shadows, both during its initial run and as an enduring cult phenomenon, to prove that the show was an important precursor-or even progenitor-of today's phenomenally popular gothic and fantasy media franchises like Twilight, Harry Potter, and True Blood. Benshoff demonstrates that viewers of all ages responded to the haunted world of Dark Shadows, making unlikely stars out of the show's iconic characters-reluctant vampire Barnabas Collins, playboy werewolf Quentin Collins, vengeful witch Angelique DuVal, and vampire hunter Dr. Julia Hoffman. Benshoff explores the cultural and industrial cTrade ReviewBenshoff provides a synoptic account of one of the most densely plotted of all daytime dramas, engages with much theoretical writing on the soap opera and Gothic genres, and provides new insights into the intersecting and often conflicting public tastes to which the program appeals. He does so with a deftness of touch that makes even complex ideas entertaining in a volume that could be enjoyed, but by no means exhausted, in a single evening." —Kevin Heffernan associate professor in the Division of Cinema-Television at Southern Methodist University"Harry Benshoff's expert dissection and historically informed analysis of the 1960s cult TV show Dark Shadows balances the ardor of a fan and the sharp insights of a seasoned scholar. A program that played daily to millions of viewers for five years was more than a fluke or oddity and Benshoff gives its popularity long overdue context and illumination. Benshoff deftly describes and applies key theoretical concepts for analysis of the show's many facets, yet the writing remains witty, accessible, and engaging throughout." —Rick Worland professor in the Division of Cinema-Television at Southern Methodist University and author of The Horror Film: An Introduction"Dark Shadows has everything: vampire Barnabas Collinwood as romantic but doomed hero; narrative complexity that almost beats Lost; counter-hegemonic family normativity; and tangled, hyperbolic actor/character relations. Harry Benshoff's intelligent and superbly informed account of this cult favorite teaches much about the gothic genre and the history of television. It is truly an enjoyable monograph." —Janet Staiger William P. Hobby Centennial Professor in Communication and Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Texas and author of Political Emotions
£22.52
Wayne State University Press The Stooges Head On A Journey Through the Michigan Underground Painted Turtle Painted Turtle Books Paperback
£20.85
Wayne State University Press Mc5
Book SynopsisAlong with the Stooges, the Velvet Underground, and the New York Dolls, the MC5 are recognized in music circles as one of the bands that paved the way for punk rock. While the group did not reach the heights of national celebrity or financial success during their seven years together, their musical legacy has never been more celebratedwith recently reissued recordings and documentary footage, as well as an unlikely reunion tour. In MC5: Sonically Speaking, author Brett Callwood delves into the MC5's story from the band's beginnings in 1960s Detroit to its 1972 break-up, the post-MC5 fates of its members, and the eventual reunion that cemented its legacy. Callwood interviews the band's surviving members and close associates to create a compelling firsthand picture of the MC5's history and its music. He introduces readers to the band's original members, Rob Tyner, Wayne Kramer, Fred Sonic Smith, Michael Davis, and Dennis Thompson, and links the power of the MC5 phenomenon to its early d
£18.95
Wayne State University Press Documenting the Documentary Close Readings of
Book Synopsis
£33.26
Wayne State University Press Have GunWill Travel TV Milestones Series
Book SynopsisOne of the most successful series of its time, Have Gun-Will Travel became a cultural phenomenon in the late 1950s and made its star, Richard Boone, a nationwide celebrity. Film scholar Gaylyn Studlar draws on a remarkably wide range of episodes from the series' six seasons to show its sophisticated experimentation with many established conventions of the Western.
£16.15
Wayne State University Press Knots Landing TV Milestones Series
Book SynopsisAiring fourteen seasons, Knots Landing was a spinoff of Dalla , but ultimately ran longer and took a very different tone. In the first scholarly study of Knots Landing, Nick Salvato situates the series in its economic and industrial contexts, addresses its progressive relationship to the American politics of its period, and unpacks the pleasures of the programme's sensuous surfaces.
£22.52
Wayne State University Press Comic Venus
Book SynopsisProvides a better understanding of women's experiences in the early twentieth century, and an appreciation of the unruly and boundary-breaking women who have followed. Comic Venus brings readers to understand comediennes and their impact on silent-era cinema, as well as their lasting influence on later generations of funny women.
£28.45
Wayne State University Press The Berlin School and its Global Context A Transnational Art Cinema Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£28.76
Wayne State University Press Birth of the Binge Serial TV and the End of Leisure Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series
Book SynopsisDescribes serial television and “binge watching”. Dennis Broe looks at this practice of media consumption by suggesting that the history of seriality itself is a continual battleground between a more unified version of truth-telling and a more fractured form of diversion and addiction.
£31.46
Wayne State University Press African American Cinema Through Black Lives Consciousness
Book SynopsisUses critical race theory to discuss American films that embrace contemporary issues of race, sexuality, class, and gender. Its linear history chronicles black-oriented narrative film from post-World War II through the presidential administration of Barack Obama.
£28.45
Wayne State University Press Starring Tom Cruise Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media
Book SynopsisExamines how Tom Cruise's star image moves across genres and forms as a type of commercial product that offers viewers certain pleasures and expectations. Cruise reads as an action hero and romantic lead yet finds himself in homoerotic and homosocial relationships that unsettle and undermine these heterosexual scripts.
£82.80
Wayne State University Press Kolchak The Night Stalker
Book SynopsisBefore Buffy the Vampire Slayer or The X-Files, there was Carl Kolchak, a world-weary Chicago newspaper reporter with a cheap, seersucker suit and a penchant for uncovering monsters lurking in every corner. Kolchak first appeared on American screens in the 1972 ABC television movie The Night Stalker, which was then the most-watched television movie in history. The success of this initial offering led to a sequel, The Night Strangler, and a television series, Kolchak: The Night Stalker
£22.52
Liturgical Press Music in Christian Worship Author Charlotte Y Kroeker Jun2005
Book SynopsisAt the Service of the LiturgyTrade ReviewI recommend this book for your conversations around worship. It will . . . encourage you to think about what you do and to use the best resources that you have. It would be a good book for your Worship and Music Committee to read and discuss.Sanctus. . . those primarily charged with the selection and composition of music in the liturgy will undoubtedly obtain fresh insights and stimulation from encountering what these celebrated authors have to say on the subject of the role of music in the church today.Music and LiturgyMusic in Christian Worship is by far the most helpful volume addressing the current complex of issues surrounding the choice of music for Christian worship to come across this reviewer’s desk.DoxologyReading this book, whether as a musician, a liturgist, a theologian, a pastor, or a person in the pew will move us beyond facile answers to the more challenging process of careful and reflective discernment. The choice to enter this process bespeaks a willingness to be who we profess ourselves to be: a community of disciples gathered for worship, not of ourselves, but of the God who called us into being and who continually calls us to fuller being.DoxologyEditor Charlotte Kroeker’s collection of essays is a marvelous reminder that pastor, congregation, and musicians need to understand and respect one another. . . . [A]ny reader will have plenty to think about, agree with, and take away from this engaging volume.Liturgy, Hymnody, & Pulpit Quarterly Book ReviewThis book, considered chapter by chapter, could well be used as the basis for a series of parish adult education or faith formation discussions.Pastoral MusicThis eminently helpful book aims to aid music ministers to address some of the most difficult questions we encounter in carrying out our ministry.Pastoral Music...this little volume should be on every church musician's reading list.The Hymn
£27.47
New York University Press Drag A History of Female Impersonation in the Performing Arts
Book SynopsisMen have been dressing as women on stage for hundreds of years, dating back to the thirteenth century when the Church forbade the appearance of female actors but condoned that of men and boys disguised as the opposite sex. Forms of travestism can be traced back to the dawn of theatre and are found in all corners of the world, notably in China and Japan. In recent years, of course, drag has witnessed a dramatic and widespread revival. Newsday recently observed, People are talking about all those fabulous heterosexual film idols who now can't seem to wait to get tarted up in drag and do their screen bits as fishnet queens. Drawing on a cinematic tradition popularized by Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon in Some Like it Hot, Dustin Hoffman (Tootsie) and Robin Williams (Mrs. Doubtfire) have each delighted mainstream audiences with their portrayals of women. Even former drag queens have experience newfound fame; witness the recent popularity of the late Divine, renowned for her oddly compelli
£32.66
New York University Press Dreaming of Fred and Ginger Cinema and Cultural Memory
Book SynopsisOne of the leading voices in cultural studies today examines the habits of British cinema audiences in the 1930s to reveal the role that cinema played in shaping their lives.Trade Review"Annette Kuhn explores the significance of memories of 1930s filmgoing to study patterns of remembrance and their potential causes. This is an exceptional example of the value of ethnohistory and psychological theory combined with speculation about the meanings of cinema in lives. It sets important standards in researching memories of movies." -Janet Staiger "The main spine of this book stems from a comprehensive series of interviews with subjects recalling their experiences of 1930s cinemagoing. Your feel the breath of life in these spectators, a rarity in film studies, thanks to the painstaking work contracting the interview subjects and recording and tabulating their testimony." -JUMPCUT
£32.66
New York University Press Feminist Film Theory A Reader A Classical Reader
Book SynopsisFor the last quarter of a century cinema has given expression to feminist debates about culture, representation and identity. This anthology charts the history of those debates, bringing together significant essays in feminist film theory.Trade Review"Feminist Film Theory ...collects many of the most important contributions to feminist debates about film on both sides of the Atlantic into a well-organized anthology ..." -Resources for Feminist Research
£32.66
LUP - University of Georgia Press Screening a Lynching The Leo Frank Case on Film and Television
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£27.50
LUP - University of Georgia Press Emily Bronte and Beethoven Romantic Equilibrium in Fiction and Music
£28.95
University of Georgia Press The Archivability of Television
Book Synopsis
£33.09
Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed Six Steps to Songwriting Success The
Book SynopsisWhat’s the secret to writing a hit song? It’s as simple as 1-2-3-4-5-6! Innovative, practical, and inspiring, Six Steps to Songwriting Success presents a surefire step-by-step approach to mastering the elements consistently found in hit songs. Author Jason Blume, a songwriter with the rare distinction of having had songs on the Country, Pop, and R&B charts simultaneously, has packed this book with such key aids as the three-step lyric writing technique used by the pros; lyric, melody, and demo checklists; and tools for self-evaluation-plus many other exercises that work. Blume’s warm, humorous style features motivational anecdotes and entertaining stories of how hit songs came to be written and recorded. Get Six Steps to Songwriting Success, and get on the charts!
£15.40
Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed Ultimate Scene Monologue Sourcebook The Updated Expanded Edition An Actors Reference to Over 1000 Monologues and Scenes from More Than 300 Contemporary Plays
Book SynopsisAll actors and acting teachers need The Ultimate Scene and Monologue Sourcebook, the invaluable guide to finding just the right piece for every audition. This remarkable book describes the characters, action, and mood for more than 1,000 scenes in over 300 plays. This unique format is ideal for acting teachers who want their students to understand each monologue in context. Using these guidelines, the actor can quickly pinpoint the perfect monologue, then find the text in the Samuel French or Dramatist Play Service edition of the play. Newly revised and expanded, the book also includes the author’s own assessment of each monologue.
£16.80
University of Hawai'i Press Kabuki Theatre East West Center Book
Book SynopsisOffers an authoritative guide to Kabuki. The book explains everything lucidly and painstakingly - the background, the facts, the emotions, both from a Japanese and a Western point of view. If you can keep paying attention you will find at the end that you seem to have been living in Japan.
£29.40
Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation Teach Yourself Bluegrass Mandolin
Book Synopsis
£16.14
AMSCO Music The Wall Guitar Tab Pink Floyd
Book Synopsis
£27.99
AMSCO Music Pachelbel Canon in D Concert Performer
Book Synopsis
£9.49
AMSCO Music The Complete Guitar Player
Book Synopsis
£29.59
Hal Leonard Europe Limited Tom Waits Anthology
Book Synopsis(Music Sales America). Complete piano/vocal arrangements with chord diagrams of over 20 of this poet/songwriter/actor''s greatest hits including: Ol'' 55 * Jersey Girl * Shiver Me Timbers * and more.
£30.00
AMSCO Music Beginning Fingerstyle Blues Guitar Guitar Books
Book Synopsis
£16.10
Music Sales The Best Of ACDC TAB Guitar Tab
Book Synopsis
£23.99
Chester Music The Classic Piano Course
Book Synopsis
£10.44
Music Sales Limited Straight No Chaser The Life and Genius of Thelonious Monk
Book SynopsisBiography of the legendary pianist/composer. Based on scores of interviews with family and friends, the book gives rare insights into the elusive personality of this legendary hero of jazz.
£18.44
Music Sales Bob Marley Lyrical Genius
£16.99
AMSCO Music The Joy of First Classics Book 1 Piano Solo Joy
Book Synopsis
£15.29
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) A History of Spanish Film
Book SynopsisSally Faulkner is Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies and Film at the University of Exeter, UK. She is the author of Literary Adaptations in Spanish Cinema (2004) and A Cinema of Contradiction: Spanish Film of the 1960s (2006) and was awarded a Fellowship from the British Arts and Humanities Research Council for 2011.Trade ReviewA combination of painstaking research, theoretical awareness, critical aperçu and elegant writing. -- Peter Evans, Emeritus Professor of Film, Queen Mary, University of London, UKThere has been nothing quite like Sally Faulkner’s A History of Spanish Film. This lengthy and ambitious volume combines a compelling general account of a vital national cinema with brilliant close analyses of individual titles. Moreover it skillfully places artistic and cultural questions within social and historical contexts. This book is required reading for both those who already know Spanish cinema and those who would like to discover it. -- Paul Julian Smith, Distinguished Professor, Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, USThis beautifully nuanced study gives the reader a series of intriguing new perspectives on the social crossovers produced by a cinema marked by class mobility and by realignments in taste in Spain. It concentrates on the active engagement of middle class culture -- bizarrely under-estimated in most books on Spanish film -- with fictions, markets and institutions. Sally Faulkner's indispensable history reveals a different continuity and disparate set of Spanish images to the ones we might have thought we knew. -- Chris Perriam, Professor of Hispanic Studies, School of Arts, Languages and Cultures, University of Manchester, UKFaulkner's close textual analysis of a diverse array of films complements the books original and stimulating theoretical framework. A History of Spanish Film is a new and exciting contribution to intellectual discourses about class, modernity, and the production and reception of Spanish cinema. Students and scholars alike will find this work indispensable in their teaching and research. -- Tatjana Pavlovic, Associate Professor, 20th-Century Spanish Film and Literature, Tulane University, USSally Faulkner's A History of Spanish Film is a moveable feast. Departing from the tendency to understand history as a rehearsal of grand ideologies and to view--and valorize--Spanish cinema in terms of denunciation and protest, subversion and experimentation, it charts the rise of the middle class and a corresponding 'middlebrow cinema'. Through an interlocking series of close, chronologically ordered readings of representative films in Spanish from before and after the Civil War, Faulkner's study grapples with complex questions of modernization, popular culture, education, entertainment, consumerism, class realignment, and social mobility --'upward,downward and stalled'-- in motion pictures. -- Brad Epps, Professor of Spanish, University of Cambridge, UKThis book uses the concept of Spanish middlebrow cinema to explore the representation of class and social mobility across a century of Spanish cinema... The close textual analysis in combination with a nuanced reading of production, reception and changes in taste in Spain gives new insights into a range of films, including those that have already had acres written about them... A really interesting read. * Nobody Knows Anybody: A Spanish Cinema Blog *This is an attractive and balanced book that throws new insights into research. -- Javier Jurado, Université Paris X/Carlos III Madrid * Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television Vol. 35.1 *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Textual Note Introduction: Cinema and Society 1910-2010 Chapter 1. Questions of Class and Questions of Art in Early Cinema Blood and Sand Chapter 2. Social Mobility and Cinema of the 1940s and 1950s: Consolation and Condemnation Chapter 3. Charting Upward Social Mobility: 1960s Films about the Middle Classes and the Middlebrow Chapter 4. The ‘Third Way’ and the Spanish Middlebrow Film in the 1970s Chapter 5. Miró Films and Middlebrow Cinema in the1980s Chapter 6: Middlebrow Cinema of the 1990s: From Miró to Cine social Chapter 7. From cine social to Heritage Cinema in Films of the 2000s Abbreviations and glossary Bibliography Index
£31.42
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Directed by Steven Spielberg Poetics of the Contemporary Hollywood Blockbuster
Book SynopsisFocusing on Spielberg's blockbusters, this book examines Spielberg's distinct manipulation of film form, and his singular use of stylistic and narrative techniques. It demonstrates the aesthetic options available to Spielberg, and particularly the choices he makes in structuring his blockbusters.Trade Review "Buckland offers...a close examination of the filmic structures of Spielberg's blockbusters-from Jaws to War of the Worlds-with practically a shot-by-shot breakdown of some scenes. In deconstructing these films, Buckland uses his own definition of poetics: the activities and techniques involved in constructing a work of art. [He] is an admirer of Spielberg's and absolves him of the oft-repeated accusation that his production of the ‘first' blockbuster (Jaws) ultimately spelled doom for the ‘little' movie.... highly enlightening." - Library Journal, May 15 "Analyzing a film's style--camerawork, editing, an actor's position in the image, etc.--may seem rather dry at first glance. Also, analyzing Spielberg's most-popular blockbusters from an aesthetic perspective may seem a little unusual. Yet, this is what Dr. Warren Buckland carries out to enlightening success in his latest book, Directed by Steven Spielberg: Poetics of the Contemporary Hollywood Blockbuster." -DVDTown.com (*also features an interview with Buckland) "Buckland's new book release, Directed by Steven Spielberg: Poetics of the Contemporary Hollywood Blockbuster is the most comprehensive manual on Spielberg's style that I have yet found.... [Buckland] examines Spielberg's unique style and manipulation of the camera. He delves into his themes, his use of stylistic and narrative techniques, and the visual style that emerged throughout the course of his career. If you're a casual fan looking for a quick time-passer, you may want to skip to the next book on the aisle. But if you're a serious fan of Spielberg, his work and specific technique, or directing in general, then Buckland's book may be just the ticket." -SpielbergFilms.com *Interview with Buckland on http://www.dreamworksfansite.com/ Reference & Research Book News, August 2006 -- mentionTable of ContentsIntroduction; Chapter 1: An overview of the production, exhibition, financial, and managerial structures predominant in contemporary Hollywood cinema.; Chapter 2: Poetics, aesthetics, formalism and stylistics.; Chapter 3: Night Gallery: Eyes, Columbo: Murder by the Book, Duel.; Chapter 4: Jaws; Chapter 5: Close Encounters of the Third Kind; Chapter 6: Raiders of the Lost Ark. Chapter 7: E. T; Chapter 8: Jurassic Park; Chapter 9: Minority Report; Conclusion.
£36.37
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Noise Music A History
Book SynopsisLooks at the phenomenon of noise in music, from experimental music of the early 20th century to the Japanese noise music and glitch electronica. This work situates different musics in their cultural and historical context, and analyses them in terms of cultural aesthetics.Trade ReviewCan silence be "noisy"? Why do punk banks downplay their musical abilities? What do 37 minutes of ceaseless feedback and squawking birds tell us about the human experience? Calling upon the work of noted cultural critics like Jean Baudrillard, George Bataille and Theodor Adorno, philosophy and visual culture professor Paul Hegarty delves into these questions while tracing the history of "noise" (defined at different times as "intrusive, unwanted," "lacking skill, not being appropriate" and "a threatening emptiness") from the beginnings of the 18th century concert hall music to avant-garde movements like musique concrete and free jazz to Japanese noise rocker Merzbow. Ironically, it is John Cage's notorious 4'33", in which an audience sits through four and a half minutes of "silence," that represents the beginning of noise music proper for Hegarty; the "music" made up entirely of incidental theater sounds (audience members coughing, the A/C's hum), represents perfectly the tension between the "desirable" sound (properly played musical notes) and undesirable "noise" that makes up all noise music, from Satie to punk. Hegarty does an admirable job unpacking diverse genres of music, and his descriptions of the most bizarre pieces can be great fun to read ("clatters and reverbed chickeny sounds...come in over low throbs"). Though his style tends toward the academic (the "dialectic of Enlightenment" and Heidegger appear frequently), Hegarty's wit and knowledge make this an engaging read. * Publishers Weekly *In this rigorously researched deconstruction of noise, Paul Hegarty explains how the concept is entirely contingent upon social norms and how its inevitable emergence into music, which is simply organized noise, unfolded. Hegarty begins by arguing for the concept of noise as a socially undesirable them to the musical elites us. He then leads us on a dense yet speedy tour of pivotal moments in the evolution of noise into a component of music, focusing on salient benchmarks the Italian Futurists, recording technology, Fluxus, John Cage, Merzbow and hip-hop. By the time Hegarty arrives at modern manifestations of noise, genre neophytes will consider themselves experts. But be warned: This is not a pop history. It's an academic survey with a distinct poststructuralist ?avor, an informative read, but not a particularly fun one, unless of course you read Derrida for giggles. -- P * Paste Magazine / July 2007 *An intertwined crash course in outsider music and cultural studies, Paul Hegarty's dense new survey, Noise/Music: A History, traces noise music's avant-garde and experimental roots-from Futurism, Fluxus, and musique concrète to 1970s progressive rock and punk-and examines its more recent incarnations.One noise-engaging genre is jazz, the subject of Hegarty's most compelling chapter, in which he investigates Adorno's infamous dismissal of the form in a 1936 essay...Hegarty also offers a fresh analysis of free jazz's abstractions, tying the subgenre's oscillation between form and content, its 'attack on tonality,' and its 'introduction of non-musical noises' to Bataille's concept of the 'formless.' The book's selected discography..should satisfy both the curious and the "extreme" enthusiast...it's a reminder that there's 'no sound, no noise, no silence,' without our active participation. * Bookforum Sept. 2007 *Fear of music "Noise and its relationship to music - and noise as music - is a suitably chaotic and mercurial subject with much hissing feedback. According to author Paul Hegarty in Noise/Music, A History (Continuum, 232 pages, $22.95), noise is "defined by what it is not" and "a resistance, but also defined by what society resists." In his phenomenal study, he provides a history and a sense of that contradiction. Until now, most investigations into noise and music have been chiefly concerned with chronicling early innovators like John Cage or Karlheinz Stockhausen, but usually at the cost of the last 30 years being framed as aftershocks of modernism and not developments in their own right. Noise, in Hegarty's estimation, has evolved far beyond, as a resource and into an aesthetic philosophy. This could placate all denominations - from bearded improvisers to black-clad nihilists - and feels more correct than any linear conception of successive avant-gardes following one another. Exhaustive without being exhausting, Hegarty lucidly works his way through the last 100 years of music and untangles dogmas and ideologies ranging from Theodor Adorno's immensely flawed approach to jazz to the valorization of ineptitude by punks and composers alike. Hegarty refreshingly places his history around recent noise - as he says "noise itself constantly dissipates ... noise music must also be thought of as constantly failing - failing to stay noise or acceptable practice." This approach is open enough for sudden leaps and insight. For every obsessive exegesis on Merzbow, there's his consideration of Public Enemy as an industrial band or his original take on the minimalist jams of garage and Kraut-rock bands: "the long tracks of proto-punk are a direct erasing of the meandering 'expressions' musicians were doing more and more, live and on album. It is not enough just to reject the long form (as the Ramones would do); it is far more effective to wreck the purpose of it through the form itself." Any disruption, in other words, can be noise - such as Eric Satie's tranquil pianos works - when considered as "a rebellion against the growing complexity of classical music in the late 19th and early 20th century." Noise, as music, is any moment when all structure and notions of beauty are called into question. As a whole we need noise, and any adventurous listener needs Hegarty's book. Wonderfully written, even the footnotes are a treasure trove (like this great working definition of prog: "the narcissism of brilliance signifying itself") and more than just another music theory book, it acts as a secret philosophical treatise on the calamities of the 20th century and the intensities of now. * Eye Weekly *...a personal meditation on how various aesthetic, socio-political and philosophical approaches and ideas can be applied to music and sound. Noise/Music is a brave attempt to grapple with an impossible subject as one could reasonably hope for. There's some brilliant writing linking notions of 'ineptitude' and late 70s punk, and Hegarty if one of very few writers able to get to grips with Merzbow's work without simply dwelling on its sonic extremity. * The Wire *A brave attempt to grapple with an impossible subject as one could reasonably hope for...Some brilliant writing. -- The Wire, October 2007In his book Noise/Music: A History, Irish philosopher and educator Paul Hegarty examines the phenomenon of noise as music. Aimed at anyone interested in the avant-garde (and especially modern music that's dissonant and challenging), this book provides a historical overview that begins with the Italian Futurist movement, touches on composers from Edgard Verese to Pauline Oliveros, and progresses to bands like Throbbing Gristle and Severed Heads. Although Hegart's approach is musically (and geographically) all over the map, it's a fascinating read and offers a wealth of information and perspective on the subject. -- Geary Yelton, Electronic MusicianMention in Today's Books / BookweekThe A-ListPaul Hegarty's Noise/Music is one of the more provocative books I've read this past year. When I first encountered the book, I assumed-like many readers-that it would be a book about a genre that has come to be known as "noise music," which evolved in Japan in the 1990s but has subsequently become a world-wide phenomenon. While "noise music" does in fact get addressed in the latter part of the book, Hegarty's book is actually about something much larger; it is a socio-musicological examination of the ever-changing threshold of tolerance between music and noise in a wide variety of musical genres during the 20th century. * newmusicbox.com *An interesting historical look at the interplay of the two, from the avant-garde compositions of John Cage and Pauline Oliveros to the ear-scraping experiments of Merzbow and the Boredoms, and the technology that empowers and hinders music making. -- Roy Christopher, author of Follow for Now: Interviews with Frieneds and Heroes.Review in Oxford Journal, May 2010. A fascinating read from an exhaustive expert on the subject, Noise/Music is incredibly appealing. * Under the Radar Magazine *Noise/Music is a provocative historiography of noise's contribution/damage to music. -- Adam Green * The Slow Review *There's some brilliant writing... Hegarty is one of the few writers able to get to grips with Merzbrow's work. -- Keith Moline * The Wire *The dad cliche 'that's not music, that's just noise' gets a thorough intellectual going-over in this fascinating book. * Record Collector *The author writes eloquently and with considerable insight about progressive rock, industrial music, power, electronics, Japanese Noise (Merzbow gets an entire chapter), and Public Enemy. Not only does he present an airtight café for that last's inclusion in the noise canon, in lamenting raps' passage from instrument of confrontation to tool of capital, he mirrors the feelings of countless hip-hop heads in their late teens and early twenties...the book works well as an introduction to 20th-century philosophy for noise fiends. -- Rod Smith * Rain Taxi *In his book Noise/Music: A History, Irish philosopher and educator Paul Hegarty examines the phenomenon of noise as music. Aimed at anyone interested in the avant-garde (and especially modern music that's dissonant and challenging), the book provides a historical overview that begins with the Italian Futurist movement, touches on composers from Edgard Varèse to Pauline Oliveros, and progresses to bands like Throbbing Gristle and Severed Heads. Although Hegarty's approach is musically (and geographically) all over the map, it's a fascinating read and offers a wealth of information and perspective on the subject. * Electronic Musician *Table of Contents1. Introduction: Noise in Music; 2. Electricity; 3. Free; 4. Industry; 5. Inept; 6. Power; 7. Japan; 8. Merzbow; 9. Electronic; 10. Quiet; 11. Conclusion.
£32.41
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC People Get Ready
Book SynopsisPeople Get Ready!: A New History of Gospel Music is a passionate, celebratory, and carefully researched chronology of one of America''s greatest treasures. From Africa through the spirituals, from minstrel music through jubilee, and from traditional to contemporary gospel, People Get Ready! shows the links between styles, social patterns, and artists. The emphasis is on the stories behind the songs and musicians. From the nameless slaves of Colonial America to Donnie McClurkin, Yolanda Adams, and Kirk Franklin, People Get Ready! provides, for the first time, an accessible overview of this musical genre. In addition to the more familiar stories of Thomas A. Dorsey and Mahalia Jackson, the book offers intriguing new insights into the often forgotten era between the Civil War and the rise of jubilee-that most intriguing blend of minstrel music, barbershop harmonies, and the spiritual. Also chronicled are the connections between some of gospel''s precursors (Blind Willie Johnson, Arizona DTrade Review"'An impassioned and mostly comprehensive overview' The Observer '...a scholarly yet extremely readable book...' Morning Star "Darden's passion keeps the words flowing through sections on styles and social movements, as well as personal narratives and musical analyses...With a through discography, notes and references, this is an essential read for those faithful to American religion, rhythm, or both." Charleston Post and Courier"Table of ContentsPreface; Chapter 1: Why Gospel Music?; Chapter 2: Gospel's African Roots; Chapter 3: The Rise of Spirituals in North America; Chapter 4: What Spirituals Are, What Spirituals Mean; Chapter 5: The American Civil War; Chapter 6: Reconstruction, The Jubilee Singers, and Minstrelsy; Chapter 7: The Foundations of Gospel: The Black Exodus, Barbershop Quartets, the Pentecostals, and Jack-Leg Preachers; Chapter 8: The Fathers of Gospel: William H. Sherwood, Charles A. Tindley, and Thomas A. Dorsey; Chapter 9: Chicago and the Rise of Gospel Music; Chapter 10: Three Divas: Rosetta Tharpe, Clara Ward, and Mahalia Jackson; Chapter 11: The Great Gospel Groups: Five Unforgettable Voices; Chapter 12: Gospel on the Freedom Highway; Chapter 13: Gospel's Evolution: From Alex Bradford to James Cleveland to Andrae Crouch; Chapter 14: The Last Great Male Quartets; Chapter 15: Contemporary Gospel: Six Defining Voices; Discography; Index.
£40.32
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) 33 13 Greatest Hits Volume 1 v 1
£19.56
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) A Cultural Dictionary of Punk 19741982
Book SynopsisExamines punk as a movement. This book contains descriptions of the sounds, and places those sounds in the context of history. Drawing on many fanzines, magazines, and newspapers, it provides a portrait of the ways in which punk was an expression of defiance. It covers many of the legendary punk bands, as well as the obscure, forgotten ones.Trade Review"Nicholas Rombes answers many of the questions I didn't know I had... It's about time someone wrote a textbook on these things." -The Rumpus"An expansive, erudite, and hugely entertaining guide through the dark alleys and glittering byways of punk-in music, film, literature, politics, fashion-A Cultural Dictionary of Punk is essential reading for anyone fascinated by one of the most influential artistic movements of our time." -Elizabeth Hand, author of Generation LossAt a cursory glance, Rombes's compendium has the form of a dictionary, covering punk bands from the Adolescents to the Zeroes, but scratch the surface and you'll discover a profoundly weird document, where the notion of "punk" expands to include discussions of Angela Carter, Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo and Barry Hannah—although even Rombes admits the last is stretching the point. The tone veers from the academic to the confessional: "How can you hesitate about a song that has saved you more than once from the black depths you are prone to fall into?" Rombes asks in an entry concerning the British band Wire. There are several forays into the fictional, including stories about imagined versions of Patti Smith and Joey Ramone, as well as entries written by "Ephraim P. Noble," who is almost certainly a fictional alter ego. If it were touted as a definitive guide to punk culture, the dictionary's omissions would be glaring—but this is something altogether different: a personal investigation into the significance of punk rock, an attempt to inject critical studies with "a big dose of chaos and anarchy" and thereby create a compelling cultural narrative.-Publishers WeeklyRombes, the author of works on punk musicians and cinema, here examines punk as a cultural movement through A-to-Z entries drawing upon fanzines, magazines, and newspapers to place media and artists in the context of history. In the author's own words, he has "allowed the content of the entries to determine their shape, format and tone." The result is an eclectic examination of the punk movement as well as the cultural and historical issues surrounding it. The book concludes with a postscript analyzing the end of the punk movement in 1982. BOTTOM LINE: The author's love and knowledge of the punk era shines throughout the work. There are several other books on punk, but this one's focus on the general historical and cultural perspective of the movement, as well as its accessible and informal style, makes it a worthy addition to the literature. An excellent overview of the era for any library.-Library Journal"Rombes has assembled a proudly subjective collection of touchstones through which he attempts to discern, if not a definition of "punk," then at least some semblance of its signifiers' import in his own sense of self....Even while assembling texts and quoting from wide and varied sources, what Rombes does more than anything is provide evidence—evidence and validation that this thing punk is as significant to the world at large as it is to him."-The Agit Reader"I take a little notebook wherever I go -- I'm sure some of you do this, too -- so that anytime I hear about a cool film or something I should check out, I can jot it down immediately. A Cultural Dictionary of Punk is like a compilation of everything I've scribbled in little notebooks over the last 15 years. ...Much has been written on the subject, but this well-researched and respectful title is one book that should be appreciated, not rejected, by today's punk scene."-Whitney Matheson, USA Today's PopCandy"After a first read, I now know that A Cultural Dictionary of Punk 1974-1982 will be for me a traveling companion, a friend, for the rest of the way. Author Nicholas Rombes makes the dictionary format yield the urgency, brevity, and speedy darkness of Punk as a musical method, Punk as a cultural necessity. But the book is really a love letter, proud, bitter, flabbergasted, and true. His subjectivity serves him, and the reader, well. Start with his stuff on The Clash, The Ramones, Nirvana (yes: punk), Sixties, punk as a rejection of . . . . Rombes makes you want to write your own dark dictionary.Do it. Do it fast. "-S.X. Rosenstock, a poet and writer for the Huffington Post‘I'm obsessed with Nicholas Rombes' amazing book, A Cultural Dictionary of Punk from Continuum Books, and carry it everywhere.' -- The Huffington PostThe cover is perfect; no one person has a hold on punk, so no one person could ever be the face for it (Sid Vicious be damned!). http://new.flavorwire.com/196081/some-of-our-favorite-punk-book-covers/2 -- Flavorpill"Rombes makes A Cultural Dictionary important by clearly writing about the weird marginal forces that swirled into CREEM-reading, all night donut shop youth haunted Ohio at the end of the Vietnam war era, and editing out a ton of stuff called "punk" in the years since 1982."-KEXP, Seattle"Part guide, part archive (there are many images from the era never before reprinted), part postmodern study... [A Cultural Dictionary of Punk] is far more punk than its academic title lets on."-The Rumpus"Rombes launches arguments and counterarguments...that make the selections of his "dictionary" as provocative as Jon Savage in England's Dreaming. ...A challenging lexicography."Record Collector -- Ian Abrahams"Nearly all the dictionary entries dealing with Cleveland, Ohio and New York City and their denizens (Pere Ubu, The Eels, Peter Laughner, Dead Boys in the former; Ramones, Patti Smith, Richard Hell in the latter) are tremendously evocative..." The Wire, December 2009"Any dictionary which includes entries on X Ray Spex Germ Free Adolescents alongside Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow just has to be worth a read. And it is. And you should. Read it that is." Total Music, January 2010."Excellent" - Jon SavageTable of Contents400 Blows / Adolescents /Adverts / Against Method / Agnew, Spiro / 'Alternative Ulster' / 'Anarchy is Dead' / Angry Young Men / Art and Fear /'Art of Noise,' / futurist manifesto / 'Art Rock' / Ashbery, John / Ask the Dust / Avengers / Bad Brains / Bad Taste in 1974 / Balm, Trixie A. / Bangs, Lester / 'Biafra: 6,591 votes (3%)!!' / Blank1 / Blank2 / Blank3 / Blank Generation / 'Blank Generation' / 'Beat Generation' / The Bloody Chamber / Boredom / Brando, Marlon / British National Front / Buffalo, New York / Callaghan, James: Prime Minister of Great Britain / Carter, Jimmy / Carter, Jimmy—and the new wave / Cassidy and Bangs in 1977 / 'Cindy' / Cities, decay and beauty of / Clash, the / Class / Cleveland, Ohio / compact audio cassette / Cooper, Alice / Cox, Alex / C.P.O. Sharkey / 'Punk Rock Sharkey' / Cramps: Live at Napa State Mental Hospital / Criticism, rock / Dancing / 'Death of Punk' / Dead Boys / Demics, the / Destroy All Monsters / Dhalgren / Dickies / Dictators / Dils / Diodes / Dogs / 'John Rock 'n Roll Sinclair' / John Sinclair / 'Dot Dash' / Down-and-out during the punk era, the fun of being / East Village Eye / Eater / Ejectors / electric eels / entertainment! / 'Experts Propose Study of 'Craze'" / Feelies / Fifties, nostalgia for / The Foreigner / 'Frankie Teardrop' / 'Full Speed Ahead' / Further Temptations / Generation X / Germs / Germ Free Adolescents / Gibson, William / Glass, Philip / 'Going Underground' / Graham, Bill / Gravity's Rainbow / Great Jones Street / Gulcher / 'Gunning for Sex Pistols' / The Gun Rubber / Hannah, Barry / 'Happy Birthday, Stephanie' / Headlines, 1977 / Helen Keller / Herman's Hermits / High-Rise / Hippies, Johnny Rotten comments about / 'Horror Business' / Horses / 'How Could I' / 'I Got You Babe' / The Ice Age / implied velocity / 'I waste hours keeping my soul out of the cauldron' / I'm OK—You're OK / Jarmusch, Jim / Jim Basnight and the Moberlys / Jungle Rot / 'Keep Yours Dreams' / Kentucky Fried Movie / 'L.A. Punk' / Ladies and Gentlemen the Fabulous Stains / La Guardia, Fiorello Henry / Leon, Craig / Lowell, Robert / MTV / Mad Magazine, punk and / Marbles / Meltzer, Richard / 'The Menace and Charm of Punk Rock' / Milk 'n' Cookies' / Minimalism / 'Mistakism' / Mo-dettes / 'the most absurd year in the history of rock 'n' roll' / 'Neat, Neat, Neat' / Nervous Breakdown / Nervus Rex / 'New Dark Ages' / 'New Music, The' / The New Wave / New Wave Theatre / 'New Way' / Nirvana / Nixon, Richard / Nobody's Heroes / Non Compos Mentis / No Policy / No Wave / Normals / Nostalgia / 'Notes on the New American Cinema' / 'not exactly what you would consider melodic' / Nuns / Oblique Strategies / Only Ones / 'Ottawa Today' / Out of Vogue / Outsider, The / Pagans / 'Paint it Black' / Para-Punk Cinema / Patti / Penetrators / Pere Ubu / Pettibon, Raymond / 'Police State' / Punk, alternate meanings of / Punk, as 'honored' / 'punk is inconceivable without the bleak failure of the Sixties' / Punk, its influence on something other than music or fashion / 'Punk rock is a put on' / 'Punk Rock: the arrogant underbelly of Sixties pop' / 'Punk Rock Rises Again!!', Creem headline / 'Punk Root' / 'Question of Degree, A' / Radio On / 'Radio Wunderbar' / Raincoats / Ramones [1974- ] / Ramone, Joey (and Joey Miserable and the Worms) / Ramones, the first album in ten tracks / Ramones, as 'trivial' / as 'great' / Ramones, first lines of songs on first three albums / Reagan, Ronald / 'Read About Seymour' / Real Life / Rebel Without a Cause / 'Receiving End' / Rent Act / Rimbaud, Arthur / Road Warrior, The / Rocket from the Tombs, four sentences about / Rocket from the Tombs, two songs by / Rockwell, John / Rombes, Kori Ann / Saints / Screamers / SCUM Manifesto / Second Extermination Nite / 'See No Evil' / self-referential, punk as / 'Seventeen' / Shirkers / Shivvers / 'short-lived fad, a' / 'Singles reviewed / 'Sister Ray' / Sixties, punk as a rejection of / Sixties, punk as an affirmation of / Six Million Dollar Man, The / Skunks / Sleepers / Slits / 'Slouching Towards Bethlehem' / 'So Cold' / social threat of punk, the / 'Something's happening' / 'Sonic Reducer' / Sonic Youth / Speedies / Spheeris, Penelope / Spock, Benjamin / Starburn: The Story of Jenni Love / Static Disposal / Sterling, Linder / 'still bewildered by the death-machine' / Stooges / 'Strange' / Student Teachers / Suicide / Survival Research Laboratories (SRL) / Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) / Target Video / Teen Idles / 'That's Entertainment' / 'The music is primal, mindless, without climaxes' / 'The ongoing force of me' / Theoretical Girls / theory, punk as a form of / 'There are Only Three Rock Groups in America' / 'There is nothing inherently wonderful about starkness' / 'The World's a Mess; It's In My Kiss' / Troggs / Truth about punk, the / 'TV Babies' / Undertones / Vast Majority / Vertigo / Vibrators / Vietnam War / Viletones / vinyl / Wallace and Ladmo Show, the / Warhol, Andy / Weirdos / 'When You're Young' / Whistle Punk / Who Killed Bambi? / 'Why?' / 'Write Down Your Number' / 'Xerox Days' / Zeros
£31.99
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Me and You and Memento and Fargo How Independent Screenplays Work
Book SynopsisFrom "Stranger than Paradise" (1984) and "Slacker" (1991) to Miranda July's "Me and You and Everyone We Know" (2005), indie cinema has become part of mainstream American culture. But what makes these films independent? This title argues that the American independent feature film since the 1980s has developed a distinct approach to filmmaking.Trade Review"US academic J.J. Murphy argues that the meteoric rise of indie filmmaking in the last 25 years has necessitated a different style of storytelling. His analysis of a variety of indie scripts will chiefly be of interest to aspiring screenwriters." --Empire"Lately, we've all been pondering the same question: Are independent films really independent anymore? Author Murphy asserts that independent films are determined more by their missions than their budgets."--Script Magazine"Me and You and Memento and Fargo is absolutely appealing far beyond just being a typical screenwriting "manual" such those written by Syd Field and his ilk. Murphy is clearly zeroing in on the way these films are written, but even those not interested in writing their own screenplays should find this book totally engrossing....Hopefully it'll give food for thought to a new generation of screenwriters who truly want to push the storytelling envelope again." -Bad Lit: The Journal of Underground Film"With J.J. Murphy's insightful look at American independent screenwriting [in] Me and You and ‘Memento' and ‘Fargo': How Independent Screenplays Work...Murphy focuses on independent cinema in clear, engaging prose, tracking how a series of seminal independent features were developed and written and his case studies include scripts and films by Jim Jarmusch, Hal Hartley, Allison Anders, Miranda July, David Lynch and Gus Van Sant. -- Kathryn Millard, Journal of Screenwriting 1, 2 (May 2010)It has the potential to serve future scriptwriters by validating the desire to digress from traditional paradigms. It makes a nice companion to the more rigid manuals on the market. This text will also be of interest to fans of the various films discussed in these pages. Before reading Murphy’s book, this reviewer had only seen seven of the twelve films discussed. It created a strong desire to watch the other five films, and managed to raise my appreciation for the seven films that I had previously seen. -- Devon Powell * Cinemaliterate *Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The Ambivalent Protagonist - Stranger Than Paradise; 2. The Passive Protagonist - Safe; 3. Shifting Protagonists - Fargo; 4. Multiple Plots and Subplots - Trust; 5. Shifting Goals and Plotlines - Gas Food Lodging; 6. Ensemble Structure - Me and You and Everyone We Know; 7. Flashback Structure - Reservoir Dogs; 8. Temporal Complexity - Elephant; 9. Puzzle Film - Memento; 10. Dream Logic - Mulholland Dr; 11. Free Association - Gummo; 12. Character-based Structure - Slacker; Conclusion.
£36.37
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) How To Write A Screenplay Revised And Expanded Edition
Book SynopsisMark Evan Schwartz is Associate Professor of Screenwriting at Loyola Marymount University, School of Film and Television, in California, USA. He's a former Head of Story Development for Nelson Entertainment, Story Analyst for the David Geffen Company, and Production Assistant to Francis Ford Coppola. A working screenwriter, he has credits on over a dozen produced feature films and television movies.Trade Review"Mark Evan Schwartz's book is 'a good read' and it's also an instructional read that guides a new screenwriter through the maze of writing a good screenplay, much the same way Virgil guided Dante through another potentially hellish experience all those many years ago." -- Barry Brodsky, Director, Screenwriting Certificate Program, Emerson College, Boston MA"An interesting and worthwhile experiment. A fast and informative read... A fun way to learn how to write a script!" Screenwriting magazine"Schwartz delivers a wonderfully unique concept...a great idea and the most entertaining way of learning the process." -Script MagazineMark Evan Schwartz knows screenwriting like Dante knew Hell. Not that screenwriting is hell all of the time, but it is often enough to need a great roadmap, and "How to Write: a SCREENPLAY" does that beautifully, with humor and invention and a thorough respect for both the basics and the sulphorous details. And the notion of writing it in the form of a screenplay, called writing for the hell of it, is just plain inspiration. Writing a screenplay that really works is deceptively difficult. Reading this book and following its wisdom decidedly is not.—Wes Craven -- Wes Craven"The latest edition How to Write a Screenplay appears in its revised, expanded edition to add a chapter on "The Pitch" and features a screenplay-like format which sets it apart from others on the market.... Learn the basics of writing and marketing a screenplay through a format that lends to lively insights: perfect for any public library or school collection catering to aspiring screenwriters."- Bookwatch/ California Bookwatch, July 5, 2007 -- California Bookwatch"As entertaining and engaging as it is informed and informative, How to Write a Screenplay is an impressive, ‘reader friendly', professional, practical, instructive, superbly organized and presented ‘how to' manual that is very strongly recommended reading for any and all aspiring playwrights and novice screenwriters."- James Cox, Library Bookwatch, August 2007 -- Library Bookwatch"This is not a dry read but is rather entertaining. The formatting of a script quickly makes sense and the learning to be had is a wide array. If you want to learn the steps to successfully creating a movie script, this has the technical knowledge you will need." -Darth Weasel Book ReviewsAdult/High School-This is one of the best books available for aspiring screenwriters. What makes it so useful for novices is that it follows the cardinal rule Show, Don't Tell. Instead of explaining how to write a script, the book is one. The characters illustrate the craft through an action-adventure story in which Danny, a young writer, is trying to score a tryst with a sexy actress. Bebe La Rue denies him any action until he writes a hot script for her to star in. Enter Virgil, mystery man and screenwriting guru, who takes Danny to the netherworld, where they encounter ghouls, zombies, and giant slugs while exploring concepts like story structure and dramatic conflict. The book makes it clear that writing movie scripts is much harder, and takes much more strategy and expertise, than most people think. Students with dreams of winning the next Project Greenlight contest will leap ahead of the competition by learning the concepts presented in this volume. If their goal is to sell to Hollywood, this book shows them other items frequently requested by producers and agents during the pitching process: the script logline, synposis, and treatment. There's also information about how to copyright and register finished work.-Lois Kirkpatrick, School Library Journal, Fairfax County Public Library ,VA * School Library Journal *Table of ContentsIntroduction; Log Line; Synopsis; Character Profiles; Beat Outline; Treatment; The Pitch; The Original Screenplay.
£28.46
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Soul of Screenwriting 16 Story Steps
Book SynopsisEven the most gifted screenwriters get lost along the way. Inspired by the work of mythologist Joseph Campbell and psychologist Jean Houston, this title demonstrates how the "screenwriting by numbers" approach that offers templates into which the writer may mechanically drop his or her story idea is fundamentally incomplete.Trade Review"[This book] demonstrates that good screenwriting is more than hitting the big plot points with exciting action" Writers Forum, November 2008"Keith Cunningham's The Soul of Screenwriting: On Writing, Dramatic Truth, and Knowing Yourself...offers an unusual survey inspired by the mythic approach of Joseph Campbell and tinged by the psychology background of Jean Jouston, providing a survey of the act of screenwriting and how the writer's brain and experience juxtaposes to influence technique, character development, scene dynamics and results. It's a scholarly analysis recommended for any film or drama collection." -Midwest Book Review, (The Bookwatch), December 2008"US script-writing guru Keith Cunningham's hefty self-help guide" Total film, 1 May 2009 -- Carmen GrayMention -Book News, November 2008"Writing in a clear, evocative style, screenwriter/consultant Cunningham melds the business side of screenwriting with the craft of screenwriting in an attempt to help writers navigate the often-unwieldy terrain between what an artist needs to create and what the film industry demands as product....In demonstrating the symbiotic relationship between the writer and the world the writer creates, Cunningham offers writers an unique way to view their craft. And he extols the value of truthful writing, as opposed to formulaic writing, and provides a means to remain faithful to one's art while still producing a viable Hollywood product. More than a tool book, this book teaches writers how to persevere as artists. SUMMING UP: Recommended - Choice * Choice *Table of ContentsPart One: The Living Story; Introduction: The Night of the King Coho; Chapter One: Mirrored in the Story; Chapter Two: The Mythic Dimension of Screenwriting; Chapter Three: Need vs. Mode, The Core of Conflict; Chapter Four: The Story Molecule; Chapter Five: Orchestrating Character and Style; Part Two: Plot and the Dynamics of Creation; Chapter Six: The Soul of Screenplay Structure; Chapter Seven: The Journey in Four Movements; Chapter Eight: Act, Sequence, Scene, Beat: The Dramatic Present; Chapter Nine: The Sixteen Story Steps; Chapter Ten: The Creative Journey of Story Development.
£37.99
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Bachs St Matthew Passion A Closer Look Magnum Opus
Book SynopsisJohann Sebastian Bach's the "St Matthew Passion" stands as a singular expression of religious sensibility. Highlighting the inspiration Bach drew from opera, this book illuminates the hybrid forms that comprise the work, thereby clarifying many of the composer's dramatic strategies.Trade Review'I must admit to delighting in the 129 pages of this extremly readable book ... I thoroughly recommend anybody to whom the St. Matthew Passion is a problem to spend £9.99 on this beautifully common sense book.' Musical Opinion, March 2009"Bach's St Matthew Passion is the ultimate depiction of the torture and (attempted) murder of Jesus Christ: the most beautiful, the most harrowing and the most innovative." -Damian Thompson, The Telegraph, April 2009"Victor Lederer's 132-page guide, the first in Continuum's Magnum Opus series, not only puts the music in historical and theological context; it also draws your attention to crucial but easy-to-miss details in the score." -Damian Thompson, The Telegraph, April 2009"One of this book's many virtues is that it unfolds at roughly the same pace as the St Matthew Passion itself." -Damian Thompson, The Telegraph, April 2009"a user-friendly resource for the keen novice, it is also nuanced enough for the more knowledgeable reader." "The book has the added interest of concluding with discussion of the work's performance history and the merits of various recordings. Written in clean , clear prose, this is recommended reading for anyone interested in delving into this great work" Classical Music, 11 April 2009 -- Ruth Garner
£27.47
