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Dance with Demons: The Life of Jerome Robbins
Penguin Group US 2001; US$ 17.00His legendary shows included Fiddler on the Roof , The King and I , West Side Story , Gypsy , and Funny Girl . His celebrity colleagues included Barbra Streisand, Bette Davis, Stephen Sondheim, Natalie Wood, Ethel Merman, and Montgomery Clift. His private demons included sexual and religious conflicts, scandalous betrayals during the McCarthy... more...
Issues in Curating Contemporary Art and Performance
Intellect 2007; US$ 10.00Explores developments in electronic art, art/science collaboration, nongallery spaces, and 'virtual' fields. This volume examines issues surrounding the curation of art and performance exhibitions. It covers original theories and expanded concepts of curating contemporary art. more...
Writing and Producing Radio Dramas
SAGE India 2004; US$ 38.95Throughout the world, the media is used in various ways to promote social awareness and initiate social development. Of all the available means of communication, radio is still the one with the maximum reach in most developing countries. This book, the first in a three-book series titled Communication for Behavior Change, offers extremely practical... more...
The Tricky Part
Souvenir Press 2011; US$ 18.94At the age of 12 Martin Moran was involved in a sexual relationship with an older man, a counsellor from a Catholic boy's camp. Thirty years later, he set out to find and confront his abuser. The Tricky Part is the story of the man Martin Moran became, and the ambiguous relationship with his abuser that would mark his life. Growing up in an ordinary... more...
Russian Critics on the Cinema of Glasnost
Cambridge University Press 1994; US$ 27.00Essays by Russian commentators of film and culture provide insight into Glasnost and the 1980s. more...
Mise-en-scene
Columbia University Press 2012; US$ 15.99Mise-en-scène: Film Style and Interpretation explores and elucidates constructions of this fundamental concept in thinking about film. In uncovering the history of mise-en-scène within film criticism, and through the detailed exploration of scenes from films as Imitation of Life and Lone Star, John Gibbs makes the case for the importance of a sensitive... more...
Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence
University of Queensland Press 2013; US$ 12.99This is an extraordinary story of courage and faith. It is based on the actual experiences of three girls who fled from the repressive life of Moore River Native Settlement, following along the rabbit-proof fence back to their homelands. Assimilationist policy deemed these girls were taken from their kin and their land in order to be made white. Never... more...
Adaptation and Appropriation
Taylor and Francis 2005; US$ 24.95From the apparently simple adaptation of a text into film, theatre or a new literary work, to the more complex appropriation of style or meaning, it is arguable that all texts are somehow connected to a network of existing texts and art forms. Combining theoretical grounding with the aesthetic pleasure of reading and writing, this book explores: ... more...
Deborah Kerr
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2010; US$ 35.00Blessed with a natural beauty that faded but little over the years, Scotland-born actress Deborah Kerr (1921-2007) provided the cinema with memorable studies of English gentility. A star in British pictures before she was 21 and a Hollywood fixture from 1946, she projected a cool reserve and stoic nobility, often hinting at a passion and insecurity... more...
Hollywood's Hellfire Club
Feral House 2007; US$ 22.95The gorgeously illustrated, uncensored stories of Hollywood's most tormented and talented circle of friends. more...









