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This wonderful book is packed with a range of quick, inexpensive ways to make the main types of puppets using objects that are spare, scrap, recycled or easily accessible. Includes Hand puppets, Rod puppets, Marionettes, Shadow puppets.

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"Making and Manipulating Marionettes" is a comprehensive guide to the design, construction and control of string puppets, a craft and performance art that has fascinated audiences for over two thousand years.

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"Making Stage Props" is a title for anyone involved in prop-making who wishes to explore the wealth of materials and techniques open to them.

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The BAFTA and Academy Award-winning screenplay, a drama of surpassing beauty (Wall Street Journal)

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Celebrate television art with TASCHENs two-volume tribute to Mad Men. The bonanza edition includes a full seven-season sequence of stills as well as a bounty of script excerpts, production ephemera, on-set photographs, notes from the writers room, and candid interviews with the shows superstar ensemble on and off screen, including Matthew...

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Mime the Gap: Techniques in Mime and Movement explores the physicality of movement in storytelling, offering new ideas about acting and performance, whilst encouraging a contemporary resurgence of this traditional performance art.

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"Model Making for the Stage" explains the practical techniques that will promote accurate scale model making for the theatre. It is primarily designed to meet the needs of the student or practising stage designer, but the skills and techniques are transferable to such hobbies as doll's houses and model railways.

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Movement Direction in contemporary theatre production is increasingly recognised and valued as a significant component of the expressive art of bodily communication in live performance.

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The first illustrated monograph on writer, journalist, and director Nora Ephron, the visionary behindWhen Harry Met Sally, Sleepless in Seattle, and You've Got Mail

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Celebrate the iconic female actors and filmmakers of the French New Wave with a compelling new examination of their role as a vital part of cinema history, as well as their influence on attitudes and style in society at large.

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The greatest images of Nureyev's lengendary dance career.

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The intertwining of visual and musical arts at the beginning of the 20th century brought on modernism, abstraction and in music, atonality. This book examines historic productions beginning with Schinkel's iconic stage design for Mozart's Magic Flute, before exploring those of the 20th century with Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes.

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The ultimate visual celebration of 10 Years of the TV sensation which took the world by storm.

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Performance Psychology for Dancers is an accessible and practical guide to talent development, offering dancers and those around them support to navigate the challenges of training and the psychological strategies that underlie success.

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A classic work for actors and students on understanding and playing Shakespeare. In the first half of the book, Barton attempts an objective analysis of how Shakespeare's text actually works; in the second half he concentrates on the more subjective areas such as irony and ambiguity, passion and coolness.

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This title takes you through the process of making shows happen from the viewpoint of the production manager, the person responsible for everything on stage that is not an actor. It describes different types of productions, the role, the working life of backstage teams and theatre administration.

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Thirty years after Derek Jarman's death, we are finally allowed inside the house that encapsulates the filmmaker's vision of the world.

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A practical and instructional guide to the world of prosthetic make-up artistry.