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  • HOW TO GET WHAT YOU WANT

    Enriched edition.

    by Wallace D. Wattles, Grant McNeil ...
    In Wallace D. Wattles' book 'How to Get What You Want', the author provides a practical and philosophical guide to achieving success and fulfilling one's desires. Written in a straightforward and accessible style, Wattles explores the power of positive thinking, visualization, and taking decisive action to manifest one's goals. This self-help book is a classic in the genre, emphasizing the ... Read more

    R39,00 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Essentials of Screenwriting

    The Art, Craft, and Business of Film and Television Writing

    by Richard Walter ...
    Hollywood's premier teacher of screenwriting shares the secrets of writing and selling successful screenplays in this perfect gift for aspiring screenwriters.Anyone fortunate enough to win a seat in Professor Richard Walter's legendary class at UCLA film school can be confident their career has just taken a quantum leap forward. His students have written more than ten projects for Steven Spielberg ... Read more

    R166,97

  • Spaghetti Westerns--the Good, the Bad and the Violent

    A Comprehensive, Illustrated Filmography of 558 Eurowesterns and Their Personnel, 1961-1977

    by Thomas Weisser ...
    Spaghetti Westerns--mostly produced in Italy or by Italians but made throughout Europe--were bleaker, rougher, grittier imitations of Hollywood Westerns, focusing on heroes only slightly less evil than the villains. After a main filmography covering 558 Spaghetti Westerns, another section provides filmographies of personnel--actors and actresses, directors, musical composers, scriptwriters, ... Read more

    R487,24

  • Our Films Their Films

    by Satyajit Ray ...
    This book brings together Satyajit Rays major writings and talks on film makers, and presents them in two sections. Our Films is devoted mainly to his own experiences and contains many interesting anecdotes, but also has observations to offer on trends in Indian films. Their Films deals with some films abroad that have become landmarks in the history of cinemafrom the silent era to the present day ... Read more

    R95,37

  • Writing The Romantic Comedy, 20th Anniversary Expanded and Updated Edition

    The Art of Crafting Funny Love Stories for the Screen

    by Billy Mernit ...
    **“Writing the Romantic Comedy is so much fun to read it could pop a champagne cork.”**—Alexa Junge, writer and producer of FriendsRevised and expanded to celebrate a new generation of romantic comedies, Billy Mernit’s insightful look into the mechanics of writing Hollywood’s most enduring genre features case studies that reveal the screenwriting secrets behind classics new and old.**Whether you ... Read more

    R244,02

  • The Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals

    by Dan Dietz ...
    The Broadway musical came of age in the 1950s, a period in which some of the greatest productions made their debuts. Shows produced on Broadway during this decade include such classics as Damn Yankees, Fiorello!, Guys and Dolls, The King and I, Kismet, The Most Happy Fella, My Fair Lady, The Pajama Game, Peter Pan, The Sound of Music, and West Side Story. Among the performers who made their marks ... Read more

    R1 961,54

  • Serial Thrillers:

    The Adventure Serial on British Radio

    by Charles Norton ...
    Following the end of the Second World War, a new form of radio entertainment would explode across Britain – the adventure serial. Whether solving murders, foiling conspiracies or journeying into space, the heroes of these radio serials would be the idols of an entire generation of post-war radio listeners. Dick Barton, Paul Temple, Dan Dare and Jet Morgan were once among the most famous names in ... Read more

    R153,68 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Et Dior créa Victoire

    suivi de Dialogue avec une muse contemporaine, entretien avec Vincent Roy

    by Victoire Doutreleau ...
    La Victoire de DiorElle est inconnue, elle a la grâce insolente des jeunes femmes de Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Il est le maître de la mode. Christian Dior l'observe longuement :" Vous serez mannequin, lui dit-il, et je vous nomme Victoire. "Ainsi commence la carrière de celle qui va devenir le mannequin vedette des années 1950. À travers la plus célèbre maison de couture de Paris – donc du monde, ... Read more

    R243,65

  • Film and Colonialism in the Sixties

    The Anti-Colonialist Turn in the US, Britain, and France

    by Jon Cowans ...
    Series series The Routledge Global 1960s and 1970s Series
    Relations between Western nations and their colonial subjects changed dramatically in the second half of the twentieth century. As nearly all of the West’s colonies gained their independence by 1975, attitudes toward colonialism in the West also changed, and terms such as empire and colonialism, once used with pride, became strongly negative. While colonialism has become discredited, precisely ... Read more

    R1 231,24

  • A Plain Cookery Book for the Working Classes

    by Charles Elmé Francatelli ...
    Series Book 4 - Classic Alchemy Recipes
    This cookbook features 241 recipes suitable for small budgets. From the simple art of boiling potatoes to the more advanced Pumpkin Porridge, each recipe is described in detail to ensure a delicious dish every mealtime. Such as classic British dishes as Toad in the Hole and Bubble and Squeek. ... Read more

    R24,08 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The art of privacy

    “Metaphors on (non-) compliance in the data-driven era”

    by Luca Bolognini ...
    What do Titian and Leonardo da Vinci have to do with privacy and (non-) compliance with rules in the era of digital data and algorithms? What do Canaletto’s and Guardi’s vedute have to do with due diligence, or Pietro Longhi’s rooms with smart working? What connects a 16th Century court artist and a 21st Century Data Protection Officer? Can a painter be entirely artificial and non-human, and can a ... Read more

    R202,39

  • American International Pictures

    A Comprehensive Filmography

    by Rob Craig ...
    American International Pictures was in many ways the "missing link" between big-budget Hollywood studios, "poverty-row" B-movie factories and low-rent exploitation movie distributors. AIP first targeted teen audiences with science fiction, horror and fantasy, but soon grew to encompass many genres and demographics--at times, it was indistinguishable from many of the "major" studios.From Abby to ... Read more

    R747,14

  • Prince bleu de Montmartre

    by Michou ...
    Une vie flamboyante.Né le 18 juin 1931, j'ai devancé l'appel du général de Gaulle, ce qui m'a longtemps valu le surnom de "Belle du 18 juin". En 2016, mon cabaret a fêté ses 60 ans d'existence : l'occasion pour moi de me replonger dans mes souvenirs.J'ai alors eu envie de remettre mes pas dans ceux de mon enfance, de revenir sur mon parcours hors du commun, du jeune homme d'Amiens au "prince bleu ... Read more

    R243,65

  • Chick Flicks

    Theories and Memories of the Feminist Film Movement

    by B. Ruby Rich ...
    If there was a moment during the sixties, seventies, or eighties that changed the history of the women’s film movement, B. Ruby Rich was there. Part journalistic chronicle, part memoir, and 100% pure cultural historical odyssey, Chick Flicks—with its definitive, the-way-it-was collection of essays—captures the birth and growth of feminist film as no other book has done.For over three decades Rich ... Read more

    R610,87

  • Historical Dictionary of Taiwan Cinema

    by Professor Daw-Ming Lee ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts
    Taiwan was able to solidly build and sustain a film industry only after locally-produced Mandarin films secured markets in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia during the 1960s and 1970s. Though only a small island with a limited population, in its heyday, Taiwan was among the top-10 film producing countries/areas in the world, turning out hundreds of martial arts kung fu films and romantic melodramas ... Read more

    R2 631,53

  • Thinking in the Dark

    Cinema, Theory, Practice

    by Murray Pomerance, R. Barton Palmer, Jeremy T. Blatter, Tom Gunning, Steven Woodward, Johannes von Moltke, Colin Williamson, Sarah Keller, Matthew Solomon0, Dominic Lennard1, Nathan Holmes2, William Brown3, William Rothman4, Dudley Andrew5, Will Scheibel6, Daniel Morgan7, Tom Conley8, Steven Rybin9, Alex Clayton0, Gilberto Perez1, Jonah Corne2, Kristen Hatch3 ...
    Today’s film scholars draw from a dizzying range of theoretical perspectives—they’re just as likely to cite philosopher Gilles Deleuze as they are to quote classic film theorist André Bazin. To students first encountering them, these theoretical lenses for viewing film can seem exhilarating, but also overwhelming.Thinking in the Dark introduces readers to twenty-one key theorists whose work has ... Read more

    R519,10

  • Eleonora Duse

    Les Grands Articles d'Universalis

    by Encyclopaedia Universalis ...
    Partez à la découverte d'Eleonora Duse avec ce Grand Article Universalis !Actrice italienne qui trouva ses meilleurs rôles chez deux grands dramaturges européens : l'Italien Gabriele D'Annunzio et le Norvégien Henrik Ibsen. Née à Vigevano, en Lombardie, le 3 octobre 1858, la Duse, issue d'un milieu d'acteurs, fit ses débuts au théâtre à l'âge de quatre ans dans une ...Un ouvrage spécialement conçu ... Read more

    R140,00

  • Le Révizor et L'Inspecteur général (Nicolas Gogol - mises en scène Jean-Louis Benoit et Matthias Langhoff - 1999)

    Les Fiches Spectacle d'Universalis

    by Encyclopaedia Universalis ...
    Une fiche de référence sur Le Révizor et L'Inspecteur général de Nicolas Gogol, des spectacles mis en scène par Jean-Louis Benoit et Matthias Langhoff.Rien de plus comique que le Révizor de Nicolas Gogol (1836), trônant au sommet du patrimoine théâtral russe. Mais aussi, rien de plus politique que cette fable de la corruption, en des temps où les classes dirigeantes doivent soutenir le siège de la ... Read more

    R140,00 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Film Sequels, Series and Remakes

    An Illustrated Filmography, Volume II (1996-2016)

    by Kim R. Holston, Tom Winchester ...
    Science fiction, fantasy and horror movies have spawned more sequels and remakes than any other film genre. Following Volume I, which covered 400 films made 1931-1995, Volume II analyzes 334 releases from 1996 through 2016. The traditional cinematic monsters are represented--Dracula, Frankenstein, the Wolf Man, a new Mummy. A new wave of popular series inspired by comics and video games, as well ... Read more

    R1 461,98

  • The Jerome Kern Encyclopedia

    by Thomas Hischak ...
    Jerome Kern (1885-1945) is considered one of the most versatile and influential of all American theatre and film composers. His pioneer work in developing a truly American musical sound inspired many of the great songwriters of the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, and his songs include dozens of beloved standards still heard today, such as “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes” and “The Way You Look Tonight.”The ... Read more

    R1 492,80

  • The Routledge Dictionary of Performance and Contemporary Theatre

    by Patrice Pavis ...
    The Routledge Dictionary of Contemporary Theatre and Performance provides the first authoritative alphabetical guide to the theatre and performance of the last 30 years.Conceived and written by one of the foremost scholars and critics of theatre in the world, it literally takes us from Activism to Zapping, analysing everything along the way from Body Art and the Flashmob to Multimedia and the ... Read more

    R1 308,21

  • Stanislavski: An Introduction

    by Jean Benedetti ...
    Series series Performance Books
    'A small jewel of a book, a knowleageable introduction to bothStanislavski's personal development and to the content and range of hiswritings' Theatre Journal'...shows the System to be a practical process - drama school students and actors will be grateful for it' Times Eductational Supplement'A carefully documented study of peak interest and value to every serious student of acting theory' ... Read more

    R343,26

  • Property and Finance on the Post-Brexit London Stage

    We Want What You Have

    by Michael Meeuwis ...
    A guide to the contemporary London stage as well as an argument about its future, the book walks readers through the city’s performance spaces following the Brexit vote.Austerity-era London theatre is suffused with the belief that private ownership defines full citizenship, its perspective narrowing to what an affluent audience might find relatable. From pub theatres to the National, Michael ... Read more

    R1 205,58

  • Elle court elle court la nuit

    by Bruce Toussaint, Jean-Michel Gravier, Arnaud Le Guern ...
    De fin 1978 à 1981, dans Le Matin de Paris, Jean-Michel Gravier signe chaque semaine la chronique la plus drôle et la plus classieuse de toute la presse : " Elle court, elle court la nuit ". À la hussarde, d'une plume libre et moqueuse, tel un Jacques Laurent mâtiné de Jacques Chazot, Gravier invente le nightclubbing. Tandis qu'à Libération le dandy punk Alain Pacadis se fait " reporter de l ... Read more

    R292,35