Music, Theatre & Films

World Cinema: A Critical Introduction is a comprehensive yet accessible guide to film industries across the globe. From the 1980s onwards, new tech...

Undergraduate Research in Dance: A Guide for Students supplies tools for scaffolding research skills, alongside examples of undergraduate research ...

Theatrical Violence Design offers the reader a complete education in the theory and practice of designing violence for the theater. From sword fig...

About the Book The Sound System Design Primer is an introduction to the many topics, technologies, and sub-disciplines that make up contemporary so...

What is theatre? What is performance? What connects them and how are they different? How have they been shaped by events, people, companies, practi...

About the Book The Director's Toolkit is a comprehensive guide to the role of the theatrical director. Following the chronology of the directing pr...

This book, with its focus on the dancing body, is the first of its kind within the larger context of dance in India. The Dancing Body is a body tha...

In this updated edition of the industry staple, veteran media executive Jeff Ulin relates business theory and practice across key global market seg...

About the Book Storytelling for Film and Television is a theory and practice book which offers a definitive introduction to the art of storytelling...

Surveying how Performance as a form has evolved as a distinct artistic sector to where it is today, Performance Making: a pedagogy for precarious t...

Opera, a History of the Impossible Genre offers an accessible and chronological survey of opera. Beginning in the 16th century, each chapter hones...

Music Business: The Key Concepts, second edition, is a comprehensive guide to the terminology commonly used in the music business today. This upda...

Music and Science provides an introduction and practical guidance for a scientific and systematic approach to music research. Students with a backg...

About the Book Rock and roll's death has been forecast nearly since its birth; the country song "The Death of Rock and Roll" appeared in September ...

Interpreting Music, Engaging Culture: An Introduction to Music Criticism offers a clear, hands-on guide for emerging music critics that brings toge...

Cinema has been, and is, a powerful tool for social mobilisation. The political importance of cinema was of course always well-known and has contin...

Now in a fully updated second edition, How to Read a Play offers methods for analyzing play scripts from a diverse range of perspectives, giving di...

How the World Listens explores our everyday and professional interactions with sound. The book aims to uncover the human relationship with sound ac...

Hearing Form: Musical Analysis With and Without the Score, Third Edition is a complete course package for undergraduate courses on musical forms, w...

Beyond the principles of reduce, reuse, recycle, this book looks at the way that every department on a production can contribute to reducing waste ...

Foundations of Stage Makeup,?Second Edition is a comprehensive exploration into the creative world of stage makeup. Step-by-step makeup applicatio...

About the Book Folk Music: TheBasics gives a brief introduction to British and American folk music. Drawing upon the most recent and relevant schol...

Finding Your Career in the Modern Audio Industry equips the reader with the skills they need to turn an interest in audio, sound, or music technolo...

Fifty Key Improv Performers highlights the history, development, and impact of improvisational theatre by highlighting not just key performers, but...

Essential Vectorworks Skills for Scenic and Production Designers is an accessible textbook that covers the digital skills of 2D drawing, 3D modelin...

About the Book Classical Concert Studies: A Companion to Contemporary Research and Performance is a landmark publication that maps out a new interd...

About the Book Insects have evolved very unique and interesting tactics using chemical signals to survive. Chemical ecology illustrates the working...

This accessible book outlines the key ideas that define the global phenomenon of applied theatre, examining not only its theoretical underpinning, ...

About the Book An Illustrated History of British Theatre and Performance chronicles the history and development of theatre from the Roman era to th...

On choreography: ‘Choreography is a negotiation with the patterns your body is thinking.’ On rules: ‘Try breaking the rules on a need to break the...

Harold Pinter provides an up-to-date analysis and reappraisal concerning the work of one of the most studied and performed dramatists in the world....

Ed Hooks' essential acting guidebook for animators has been fully revised and updated in this fifth edition, capturing some of the vast changes tha...

Experiencing Speech: A Skills-Based, Panlingual Approach to Actor Training is a beginner’s guide to Knight-Thompson Speechwork®, a method that focu...

A technical guide providing the facets and duties of the first and second camera assistants' jobs. It explains both the practice and theory. It cov...

Game Audio Mixing offers a holistic view of the mixing process for games, from philosophical and psychological considerations to the artistic consi...

Networked Music Performance (NMP) is the essential guide to both playing music online and ensemble music through networks. Offering a range of case...

Making It Happen is a comprehensive guide to navigating the modern music industry, that redefines what ‘making it’ means for musicians, and inspire...

Bringing together a diverse group of world leading professionals across Post-Production Film Sound and Electroacoustic Music, Art of Sound explores...

Film Music: Cognition to Interpretation explores the dynamic counterpoint between a film’s soundtrack, its visuals and narrative, and the audience’...

Theatre Work: Reimagining the Labor of Theatrical Production investigates both the history and current realities of life and work in professional t...

Innovation in Music: Cultures and Contexts is a groundbreaking collection bringing together contributions from instructors, researchers, and profes...

Innovation in Music: Technology and Creativity is a groundbreaking collection bringing together contributions from instructors, researchers, and pr...

Theatre in Practice, third edition, is an accessible and wide-ranging exploration of the central practices and key practitioners covered on the var...

Now in its seventh edition, The Art of Voice Actingcovers all aspects of the craft and business of performing voiceover. Starting with the basics ...

From healing, fertility, and religious rituals, through theatrical entertainment, to death ceremonies and ancestor worship, the updated and revised...

Experiencing Jazz, Third Edition is an integrated textbook, website, and audio anthology for jazz appreciation and history courses. Through reading...

This illuminating book offers a unique view into the art of sound design and the post production audio process. It was written for filmmakers and d...

Earshot: Perspectives on Sound awakens an understanding of the decisive role that sound has played in history and culture. Although beginning with...