Reframing Luchino Visconti: Film and Art gives new and unique insights into the roots of the visual vocabulary of one of Italy's most reputed film authors. It meticulously researches Visconti's appropriation of European art in his set and costume design, from pictorial citations and the archaeology of the set to the use of portraits and pictorial references in costume design. Yet it also investigates Visconti's cinematography in combination with his mise-en-scène in terms of staging, framing...

Newly adapted for the Anglophone reader, this is an excellent translation of Hans-Thies Lehmann’s groundbreaking study of the new theatre forms that have developed since the late 1960s, which has become a key reference point in international discussions of contemporary theatre. In looking at the developments since the late 1960s, Lehmann considers them in relation to dramatic theory and theatre history, as an inventive response to the emergence of new technologies, and as an historical...

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 rules basis"A Choreographer's Handbook invites the reader to investigate how and why to make a dance performance. In an inspiring and unusually empowering sequence of stories, ideas and paradoxes, internationally renowned dancer, choreographer and teacher Jonathan Burrows explains how it's possible to navigate a course through this complex process. I...

The official behind-the-scenes guide to what The New Yorker calls “one of the most emotionally ambitious and goofiest series on television.”

With storytelling and collaboration as core principles, industry insiders Adam Leipzig (former President of National Geographic Films), and Barry Weiss (former head of animation at Sony Pictures), with Michael Goldman (prominent journalist and industry expert), guide students through the skills and the craft of video and filmmaking.

The newly revised and updated fifth edition of Grammar of the Shot teaches readers theoretical principles behind successful visual communication in motion media through discussions of shot composition, depth cues, lens choices, lighting, screen direction, camera movement, and shooting for editing. Many general practices are outlined that will help readers create rich, multi-layered visuals. Designed as an easy-to-use reference, this book presents each topic succinctly with clear photographs a...

'Dansende tongen' is een handboek voor schrijvers, over taal en materiaal. Elk hoofdstuk is een combinatie van taaltheorie, persoonlijke notes van schrijvers en schrijfopdrachten. Aan de slag dus.

Hoe schrijf ik een succesvolle roman? Hoe schrijf ik een filmscript and

‘sell it too’? Boeken die leren hoe je literaire teksten kunt schrijven,

zijn ‘in’. De titels buitelen in pretentie over elkaar heen. De een belooft Hét Geheim van Dé Schrijver te onthullen, de andere legt zonder enige

schroom een relatie tussen Zen en de Kunst van het Creatief Schrijven.

Die boeken zadelen schrijvers op met onmogelijke opdrachten: een

beetje schrijver is natuurlijk volstrekt origineel, lijdt vo...