Born Ready
Born Ready! is packed with powerful, practical tools for actors. Discover cutting-edge techniques to help you access emotion without jeopardizing your mental health. Understand more about essential theatre "dos and don'ts" and safe rehearsal practices. Master a foolproof recipe for scene analysis. Even more importantly, learn how to defeat the anxiety that can hold you back from realizing your full potential. Distilled from many years of working with post-secondary and adult students, Born Ready! is essential reading for actors.Actor, director, and award-winning playwright Cairn A. Moore has been teaching and inspiring first-year performance students at the University of Winnipeg for more than twenty-five years. She is the former Associate Education Director of Prairie Theatre Exchange School, and the founder and proud owner of Actors Studio with Cairn Moore.
A Director's Method for Film and Television
A Director's Method for Film and Television (1992) presents the 'cinematic language' approach to directing for film and television directors. It shows how the viewer perceives the nuances of the various pictures used to tell the story, and how movement within the frame creates drama and development. It outlines the techniques necessary to maximize each and every shot and create professional results.
Folk Horror on Film
What is folk horror and how culturally significant is it? This collection is the first study to address these questions while considering the special importance of British cinema to the genre's development. The book presents political and aesthetic analyses of folk horror's uncanny landscapes and frightful folk. It places canonical films like Witchfinder General (1968), The Blood on Satan's Claw (1971) and The Wicker Man (1973) in a new light and expands the canon to include films like the sci-fi horror Doomwatch (1970-72) and the horror documentary Requiem for a Village (1975) alongside filmmakers Ken Russell and Ben Wheatley. A series of engrossing chapters by established scholars and new writers argue for the uniqueness of folk horror from perspectives that include the fragmented national history of pagan heresies and Celtic cultures, of peasant lifestyles, folkloric rediscoveries and postcolonial decline.
The Birth and Growth of Chinese Drama
This is a book of the history of China's contemporary drama. It provides a panorama of the ups and downs of Chinese drama. It tells how this western art has been adapted to the Chinese context and what it has offered to the world of theatre. It illustrates who the outstanding playwrights are and what great drama they have produced. The book shows how Chinese traditional culture has been blended with this western art form. The book also demonstrates how deeply drama is involve in Chinese politics and daily life.
London Calling Italy
London calling Italy is a book about Radio Londra, as the BBC Italian Service was known in Italy, and the company's development as a global leader in the broadcasting industry, starting from the Second World War. Drawing on unexplored archive material collected in Italy and the United Kingdom, it aims to understand how the BBC programmes engaged with ordinary Italians, while concurrently conducting political warfare against fascist Italy. The book also focuses on the relationship between the BBC Italian anti-fascist broadcasters, the British Foreign Office, and Labour Party. Key sources analysed in the book are, among others, the Foreign Office's records, the programmes broadcast by the BBC Italian Service during the Allied campaign, the memoirs of Italian anti-fascist broadcasters, the BBC surveys on the audience and the letters sent by listeners of the Italian Service.
A New Genre for Television?
In A New Genre for Television?, filmmaker Justin Hardy argues the dramatised history documentaries broadcast by British public service channels in the 2000s constituted a distinct television genre. Offering a vital distinction between docudramas and drama documentaries, Hardy contributes to the field of television history through exclusive interviews with key figures from BBC and Channel 4 - many of whom have never been publicly interviewed before - and envisions a future model for the portrayal of national histories on screen.
Audio Control Handbook
Audio Control Handbook (1989) employs a step-by-step approach to prepare students for audio work in the broadcast industry, covering real-life principles, tools and procedures. It uses clear, nontechnical language to look at the effective use of standard audio equipment, from basic microphones and control boards to digital signal processors and tape recorders.
God and the Angel
A story of romance, fame, glamour and betrayal to rival that of Princess Diana and Prince Charles. The ' undisputed King and Queen of the English stage, ' Sir Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh toured Australia in 1948 as an adored celebrity couple. God and The Angel details the heights of their fame and the beginnings of the end of their ' fairy-tale' love story. This is the first illustrated book on the 1948 Old Vic Tour of Australia and New Zealand, led by Olivier and Leigh. Written from an Australian perspective and utilising never-before published photos from the National Library and author's collection, God and the Angel diarises a theatrical tour amidst a tense postwar context.
Stranger Things: The Complete Scripts, Season 4
Go deeper into the groundbreaking Emmy-winning series with the complete, authorized scripts of Stranger Things: Season Four, including an exclusive introduction from the Duffer Brothers. MONSTER (guttural, very deep): Don't cry, Chrissy. It's time . . . for your suffering . . . to end . . .Chrissy lets out a blood-curdling scream as --The Monster places its mutated left hand over her face and -- INT. EDDIE'S TRAILER - NIGHTBack in the real world, Chrissy suddenly lifts up and slams into the ceiling. Eddie backs away in horror, watching helplessly as -- INT. CHRISSY'S HOUSE - KITCHEN - NIGHT (MINDSCAPE) CLOSE ON: The Monster's long fingers dig into Chrissy's skin and -- INT. EDDIE'S TRAILER - NIGHTWhoom! Chrissy flings upward -- slams into the ceiling -- as her body presses against the ceiling -- pinned -- her bones violently snap -- her eyes pour blood -- then suck inward -- and . . . The gang has split up. Eleven and the Byers family are in California, navigating a new life and dealing with Eleven's struggle to regain her powers. Hopper is in a snowy Russian prison. Max and Lucas have broken up, and Lucas has new friends on the basketball team. Dustin and Mike have joined the Hellfire Club at Hawkins High. And Vecna is making himself known in Hawkins. The Duffer Brothers' critically acclaimed series, Stranger Things, took the world by storm with its 80s nostalgia, dimension-hopping secrets, and charming cast of characters. Season Four brings more backstory for Eleven, Eddie's epic guitar solo, demobats, Vecna's curse, Russian prisoner escapes, and Max's favorite song, "Running Up That Hill" by Kate Bush, along with all the usual teenage angst, bullying, and unrequited love. Our favorite friends are fighting on all fronts but their greatest battle is yet to come. Collected here for the first time, the complete scripts of Stranger Things: Season Four include the scenes, dialogue, and character directions for all nine episodes as well as an exclusive introduction from the creators and showrunners, Matt and Ross Duffer, aka the Duffer Brothers. Season Four's scripts reveal a unique insight into how the Duffers built on the core good-vs-evil story that so captivated viewers and popular culture.
Fortinbras, Prince of Norway
Two Ghosts. Two Kingdoms. Two Many Kings. Madness, Method, Mayhem, Mischief, & Destiny. When the odds and the stage are set, what makes the difference?Could it be perhaps that destiny is in the journey and how we participate in it defines the destination?
The Craft
In recent years, teen witches have become highly visible figures. Fictional adolescent witches have headlined popular television shows like The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018-2021) and American Horror Story: Coven (2013-2014), while their real-life counterparts have become minor celebrities on Instagram and TikTok. As such, now is the ideal time to revisit Andrew Fleming's 1996 supernatural horror film The Craft. A cult favourite, especially amongst young women, The Craft is a story about teen witches that employs the conventions of occult horror to explore themes of power, friendship and responsibility.This entry in the Devil's Advocates series is a deep dive into the history, production and meaning of The Craft. Situating The Craft within the teen horror revival of the 1990s, Miranda Corcoran analyses the film within the context of nineties popular and political culture, while also discussing its treatment of issues such as race, gender, sexuality and class. Delving into the history of witchcraft beliefs and persecutions, this book also investigates how The Craft modifies the archetype of the witch and traces the film's influence on subsequent popular culture.
Telecommunications in Developing Countries
Telecommunications in Developing Countries (1990) stresses the importance of modern, micro electronics-based telecommunications for developing economies in providing a basic communications infrastructure for economic and industrial development and the springboard for new information technology activities. Although progress in telecommunications has so far been concentrated in the most advanced regions of the world, some developing countries can bypass older, less efficient forms of telecommunications and go straight to microelectronic technology. This book is the first to examine the challenges and difficulties facing developing countries in this field. extending existing theories of technology transfer and diffusion, Michael Hobday offers an explanation of the forces for change in the telecommunications industry. He then examines Brazil's experience in telecommunications, from developing the technology and building up a modern infrastructure to controlling multinational suppliers of equipment. Dr Hobday explains why Brazil's efforts in this area have succeeded, and offers lessons for other developing countries.
Daytime Television Programming
Daytime Television Programming (1991) provides a practical understanding of daytime television formats, viewer demographics, and programming strategy. It compares daytime genres to their evening counterparts, discusses the effects of demographics on daytime programming, analyses investment yields, and highlights audience expectations. Discussions of specific daytime shows teach techniques necessary to overcome the enormous creative challenges in building a successful daytime lineup.
Broadcast Transmission Engineering Practice
Broadcast Transmission Engineering Practice (1992) contains a wealth of technical knowledge and practical experience, as well as detailed guidance on how to initiate, supervise and bring transmission engineering projects to fruition.
Western Broadcasting over the Iron Curtain
Western Broadcasting Over the Iron Curtain (1986) examines the development of broadcasting policy by Western democracies, levels of government control of policy, efforts by communist regimes to minimize the effects of western broadcasting, and Soviet and Eastern European audience opinions on such diverse subjects as the success or failure of socialism and the Korean airline disaster.
Broadcast Data Systems
Broadcast Data Systems (1990) looks at the broadcasting technology of data transmission over TV and radio channels - commonly known as teletext and RDS. It describes the development of the technology, together with the data signal format and coding methods used, the networking of teletext data signals and regional services requirements, and the transmission of the data itself.
Telecommunications
Telecommunications: A Systems Approach (1976) uses two extended case studies, of public telephone and television systems, in order to introduce the basic ideas of telecommunication systems. It describes the application of a number of techniques within the context of practical telecommunications systems, and takes into account the needs of the users of these systems and the economic constraints which affect the choice of techniques and the overall system structure.
Winning the Global TV News Game
Winning the Global TV News Game (1995) examines the worldwide TV news revolution of the 1990s, dealing with live TV news as an industry-consumer relationship. It's a marketing approach - focusing on regional markets across the globe, looking at industry players and the hardware they had put in place. Much of this analysis is told by leading news media professionals who describe the latest thinking and newest developments in their own words.
Satellite Technology in Education
Satellite Technology in Education (1991) provides a coherent introduction to the potential of satellite technology in education. It begins with a brief technical history of some of the different systems, making distinctions between remote sensing, telecommunications and amateur radio satellites. It then examines the uses of satellite technology in the teaching of geography and environmental studies, languages, science and information technology. The book goes on to look at the response of different sectors, including schools and teacher education and higher education establishments, and concludes with a discussion of legal issues and an analysis of the resources needed to realize the impact of satellites on education.
A Guide to Commercial Radio Journalism
A Guide to Commercial Radio Journalism (1999) covers every aspect of the profession, from journalistic practice to media law, and gives detailed instruction on the techniques of editing and using equipment and on the basic skills of writing, reporting and producing. There is also a whole chapter dedicated to advice on court reporting.
Television
Television: A Critical Review (1963) is written by Sir Gerald Beadle, once Director of the BBC, and possessing of a long and wide experience of broadcasting as it expanded and grew. He was there at the birth of television, and details this and the subsequent developments over many years into a global phenomenon.
The Power of the Actor, Revised and Updated
In this completely updated edition of her bestselling book, renowned acting coach Ivana Chubbuck shares her cutting-edge technique that has launched some of the most successful and lauded acting careers in Hollywood Let the instructor who taught Halle Berry, Brad Pitt, Charlize Theron, Jim Carrey, Aubrey Plaza, Travis Fimmel, Gal Gadot, Beyonc矇 Knowles, Judith Light, Sylvester Stallone, Eva Mendes, Morris Chestnut, Shia LaBeouf, and Jake Gyllenhaal guide you to dynamic and effective results. With new stories from notable stars she's worked with since the first edition of The Power of the Actor and fresh exercises she's incorporated to upgrade her time-tested 12 step program, this revised edition, is a must-have for anyone looking to hone their craft. The Chubbuck Technique, takes the theories of acting masters such as Stanislavski, Strasberg, and Hagen to the next level by utilizing inner pain and emotions, not as an end in itself, but as a way to empower and fuel one's ability to overcome and win and therefore drive a unique and powerful performance. The Power of the Actor is filled with fascinating and inspiring behind-the-scenes accounts of how actors, writers, and directors have mastered their craft and accomplished success in such a difficult and competitive field.
Communications Systems
Communications Systems (1999) examines various communications systems using satellites, and includes much information on coding and modulation systems such as MOBIC, digital SNG systems, mobile phones, MPEG, MPEG4 capabilities and Hypermedia, the Grand Alliance TV systems, MUSE and how it is used in Japan, the European and North American Digital Video Broadcasting Systems, MMDS and Digital Audio Broadcasting. It explores the rapid convergence occurring between satellite and terrestrial services. It provides a solid base of principles, including mathematics where necessary, to explain the developments which have taken place within these industries.
Broadcast Voice Performance
Broadcast Voice Performance (1989) incorporates the insights and experience of more than 100 successful practising voice performers to succinctly and realistically examine the techniques, equipment and criteria of announcing within the context of major types of radio and television productions and programming formats.
The Politics of Broadcasting
The Politics of Broadcasting (1985) examines the state of broadcasting in a variety of Western democracies from a political viewpoint, written at a time when new telecommunications and information technology revolutionised television and radio. The book describes and analyses the problems faced by politicians and broadcasters in responding to these changing technological and political environments.
Global Television
Global Television (1993) looks at how satellites, fibre optics, compressed digital transmission, and interactive and high-definition television have converged with computer technology to revolutionise TV and film production, TV sets and even the smart home in which TV is viewed. Its provides valuable insight into how new technologies and viewer demands have combined to transform television into a truly global medium.
Media Use in the Information Age
Media Use in the Information Age (1989) analyses new technologies, their impact on mass communications, and their effects on the users of these new systems. It looks at technologies such as videotex, and their successes and failures around the world, and examines the early adoptions of technologies such as home computers.
Colour Television
Colour Television (1968) examines the rapid growth of colour television in the 1960s as technological advances enabled programmes to be effectively transmitted in colour for the first time. It looks at the technologies involved, the differences in programme-making that colour required, the audience response, and the changes in advertising and network systems that colour broadcasting brought about.
Broadcast Writing
Broadcast Writing (1991) looks at the tools necessary for writers to find and develop stories for radio and television. Through the use of numerous original examples, the reader learns to shape ideas into well-developed scripts. It addresses the challenges of documentary and dramatic writing for TV and radio, and provides examples for most of the different writing genres.
Global Broadcasting Systems
Global Broadcasting Systems (1996) provides a comprehensive look at broadcasting throughout the world. It covers every continent, region and almost every country in North and South America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Oceania. Within each geographical area, it presents the history, key issues, trends and status of broadcasting facilities and penetration; the control, regulation and management of networks and stations by government, domestic and foreign industry and the public; the financing of broadcasting systems; programming types and trends, including foreign imports; media freedom and censorship; and external radio and television services from other countries. The book discusses how new technology and political, social and economic factors influence the global media, and shows how increasing privatization has changed patterns of control and access.
Television and the Political Image
Was the 1959 UK General Election the first television election? Could television be used to create a Party 'image'? Television and the Political Image (1961) provides answers to both these questions. It surveys two constituencies, interviewing the same cross-section of electors before and after the election campaign, and analyses and compares the campaigns as conducted by television, radio, the Press, and through the work of the local Parties. Various effects of the political barrage are measured and attributed to their sources; such effects include changes in voting intention during the course of the election campaign, changes in attitudes to Parties and their leaders, and changes in what the voter knows of the parties' policies.
The Lively Audience
The Lively Audience (1986) studies television from the children's own point of view. Contrary to most prevailing opinion, it contends that television has much to teach children, and that their relationship with the medium is not one of passive dependency after all. Research shows that what children gain from television depends very much on the child's age and social experience, and that children 'see' television differently from adults. This book examines this issue, and gives us a different understanding of the child audience and the impact of their television viewing.
Television in the Making
Television in the Making (1956) looks at television in its infancy, with essays by the leaders of the medium at the time, people who were forging new paths as they imagined and actioned the possibilities of television.
Broadcasting and Society 1918-1939
Broadcasting and Society (1983) examines the power of radio broadcasting as a medium of instant communication and entertainment. It is a detailed and critical examination of the social changes brought about by radio broadcasting in the crucial and formative stages between 1918 and 1939 - whether broadcasting was successful in keeping people better informed, in introducing wider interests, and its influence on social behaviour.
Broadcasting in Mexico
Broadcasting in Mexico (1979) traces the birth and growth of Mexico's broadcasting services against the background of its geographical, cultural, demographic, economic and political structure. The development of Mexican radio and television has been characterised by innovation and experiment by both government and private enterprise, and sometimes the country has been the beneficiary of these efforts and sometimes the victim. Up to a certain point, the cultural infrastructure of the country itself dictated the path taken by the media, although there have been temptations to imitate the established structure of other countries.
Broadcasting in Ireland
Broadcasting in Ireland (1978) outlines the historical and sociological background of Ireland to place the progress of its broadcasting service in the context of its post-independence development. It analyses the difficulties of running public service broadcasting financed by both licence fee and advertising, and competing in half its television reception area with two of the premier broadcasting systems in the world. With regular broadcasting beginning with Independence, its development was inevitably bound up with the process of building the political, economic and social framework of the new State, and this book closely examines how the Irish broadcasting system coped with the attending economic, cultural and political difficulties.
Broadcasting in Canada
Broadcasting in Canada (1977) examines the unique challenges to broadcasting in the country: the size of the country, its small, dispersed population, and two official languages make radio and television coverage a difficult and costly enterprise. These conditions and pressures have led Canadians to construct a broadcasting system in which both public and private initiative have roles to play in bringing radio and television services to the community.
