Angela's Kitchen
Paul Capsis, Julian Meyrick
Currency Press, PB, 9780868199467
In 1948, Angela left Malta. Having gathered up five children, she sailed out on the Strathnavar, leaving poverty and the war behind. Her destination: Australia. In Surry Hills, she could build a bright new life. Back in Malta, someone else has made a journey. Making his way along Kalkara’s glistening harbourside, a young man with flowing black hair has returned to ... More/Buy
Black Box 149
R Johns
Currency Press, PB, 9780868199436
A ficionalised account of a true incident - the grounding of British Airways Flight 149 at Kuwait International Airport during the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990 - Black Box 149 explores the impact of war and terror on the lives of civilians. Written as an intense psychological and emotional journey, the play explores secrets, betrayal and guilt, and how the ... More/Buy
Boy Girl Wall
Matthew Ryan, Lucas Stibbard
Currency Press, PB, 9780868199559
This is the story of Thom and Alethea. Two neighbours in a West End apartment block, trying desperately to keep their lives from falling apart. But the Wall that stands between them has decided they belong together. Using chalk, sock puppets, a projector and over two-dozen characters, the creators of Attack of the Attacking Attackers! spin a tall tale of whimsy, ... More/Buy
But Beautiful
Geoff Dyer
Canongate, PB, 9780857864024
Lester Young fading away in a hotel room; Charles Mingus storming down the streets of New York on a too-small bicycle; Thelonius Monk creating his own private language on the piano... In eight poetically charged vignettes, Geoff Dyer skilfully evokes the embattled lives of the players who shaped modern jazz. He draws on photos and anecdotes, but music is the driving ... More/Buy
Comedy Rules: From the Cambridge Footlights to Yes, Prime Minister
Jonathan Lynn
Faber, PB, 9780571277964
150 essential rules from the award-winning co-writer of Yes Minster and Yes Prime Minister, Hollywood movie director, producer, novelist and actor. A host of hugely enjoyable examples drawn from Lynn's varied and successful career bring these rules to life, covering everything from inspiration, collaboration and the Seven Deadly Sins to the perils of unmotivated comic business, pitching screenplays in LA, sexist ... More/Buy
Contemporary Erotic Cinema
Douglas Keesey
Kamera Books, PB, 9781842433638
Movies have constantly pushed at the boundaries of sexual representation, outraging censors, transgressing taboos and opening up formerly forbidden realms of sensual pleasure. Whether through an exploration of our dreamiest fantasies or our darkest desires, films have expanded our repertoire of erotic images and challenged who we are as sexual beings. The first book to look at truly contemporary erotic cinema, ... More/Buy
The Craft of Theatre: Seminars and Discussions in Brechtian Theatre
Ekkehard Schall
Bloomsbury, PB, 9781408159897
he Craft of Theatre is a first-hand account by one of the greatest actors and directors of the Berliner Ensemble, whose work with the company spanned over forty years. It offers an unparalled insight to working on Brecht's texts and in some of the great Brechtian roles and will appeal to actors, directors and students of theatre. Ekkehard Schall's life was ... More/Buy
The Documentary Film Maker's Handbook, 2nd Edition
Genevieve Jolliffe
Bloomsbury, PB, 9781441183675
Documentary films have enjoyed a huge resurgence over the last few years, and there's a new generation of filmmakers wanting to get involved. In addition, the digital revolution has made documentaries even more accessible to the general filmmaker. This brand new, fully-updated edition of The Documentary Film Makers Handbook features incisive and helpful interviews with dozens of industry professionals, on subjects ... More/Buy
European Nightmares: Horror Cinema in Europe Since 1945
Patricia Allmer, David Huxley and Emily Brick
Wallflower Press, PB, 9780231162098
This volume is the first edited collection of essays focusing on European horror cinema from 1945 to the present. It features new contributions by distinguished international scholars exploring British, French, Spanish, Italian, German and Northern European and Eastern European horror cinema. The essays employ a variety of current critical methods of analysis, ranging from psychoanalysis and Deleuzean film theory to reception ... More/Buy
Fire and Rain: The Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, James Taylor, CSNY, and the Lost Story of 1970
David Browne
DaCapo Press, PB, 9780306820724
January 1970: Three of the most iconic acts of the 60s are, at last, wrapping up major new releases. The Beatles assemble one more time to put the final touches on Let It Be. Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young finish their highly anticipated Deja vu. Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel finally complete their masterpiece, Bridge Over Troubled Water. Meanwhile, on the ... More/Buy
Footprints on Water / Mr Melancholy
Matt Cameron
Currency Press, PB, 9780868199399
A darkly comic, modern parable of exile, belief, belonging and judgment, Footprints on Water is about Noel, a religious zealot who is building an ark, so that when God destroys his morally corrupt village, Noel as self-appointed chosen one, will start the world again. When the flood comes, Noel finds himself trapped by his faith. His beliefs become his downfall. A ... More/Buy
Goodbye Vaudeville Charlie Mudd / Return to Earth
Lally Katz
Currency Press, PB, 9780868199382
Return to Earth is an imaginative, bittersweet comedy about a young woman who returns home only to find that everything is strange and unfamiliar. She doesn't seem to know if she wants to stay or not. But the pull on her is strong. They want her here. They need her. A best-friend, a man who could be a lover, her Mum ... More/Buy
Manchester: Looking for the Light through the Pouring Rain
Kevin Cummins
Faber, PB, 9780571283385
Manchester, its bands, its fashions, its attitude, has defined pop culture for the best part of four decades. Joy Division, The Fall, Buzzcocks, New Order, The Smiths, Happy Mondays, Stone Roses, Oasis. These were the bands that shaped two generations of teenagers and changed the course of pop music. Manchester: Looking for the Light through the Pouring Rain is a portrait ... More/Buy
Morrissey: Fandom, Representations and Identities
Eoin Devereux, Aileen Dillane and Martin Power
Intellect Ltd, PB, 9781841505961
An influential star of British pop for more than three decades, Morrissey is known for his outspoken and often controversial views on class, ethnicity, and sexuality. Among critics and his many fans, he has long been seen as an anti-establishment figure who continues to provoke devotion, argument, and spirited debate. This is the first collection of academic essays to focus exclusively ... More/Buy
Moth / Home Economics
Declan Greene
Currency Press, PB, 9780868199405
Moth explores themes of friendship, bullying, mental illness, and the hierachy of the schoolyard. Sebastian is a terminally unpopular fifteen-year-old suburban kid, with an overactive imagination and an obsession with anime and death. His only friend, Claryssa, is an emo Wiccan art-freak barely one rung higher than Sebastian on the social ladder. What starts as just another night drinking down at ... More/Buy
Odyssey
Andreas Litras, John Bolton
Currency Press, PB, 9780868199511
Co-written with John Bolton, Odyssey weaves the story of Andreas Litras' migrant family through the legend of Odysseus, hero of Homer's classic text The Odyssey. Using Odysseus' long journey home to counterpoint the modern migrant experience Odyssey explores narratives of dislocation and identity. Journeys and characters cross paths as the performance moves between past and present, Greece and Australia, memory and ... More/Buy
Platform Papers 32: History is made at Night - Live Music in Australia
Clinton Walker
Currency Press, PB, 9780987211415
Popular live-music commentator Clinton Walker mourns the closing of pub rock music venues in our cities and suburbs, outlines the history behinds this, defends the cultural vitality being lost and calls for a change to the policies and state and local council regulations that stand in the way of restoration. New research shows that the venue-based music industry has an annual ... More/Buy
Rising Water
Tim Winton
Currency Press, PB, 9780868199412
Only loosely tethered to shore but never ready to set sail, Col, Baxter and Jackie have made a jumble of boats in a Fremantle marina their barely floating homes. It's Australia Day, and as the city noisily celebrates around them, they just want to hole up and be left in peace. When Dee, a young English backpacker, stumbles upon them with ... More/Buy
The Rolling Stones: 50
The Rolling Stones
Thames & Hudson, HB, 9780500516249
"This is our story of fifty fantastic years. We started out as a blues band playing the clubs and more recently we've filled the largest stadiums in the world with the kind of show that none of us could have imagined all those years ago. Curated by us, it features the very best photographs and ephemera from and beyond our archives." ... More/Buy
The Shadowcatchers: A History of Cinematography in Australia
Martha Ansara
ASC, PB, 9780987225214
This book documents the history of Australia’s national cinema & the industrial practices & role of the cinematographer from the 1890s to 2011. It contains excerpts of oral histories of cinematographers recorded for the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia, discussing the nature of filmmaking under the impact of broader political, social & technological forces throughout Australian cinematic history, as ... More/Buy
So Therefore...: A Practical Guide for Actors
Al Ruscio
Routledge, PB, 9780415516723
When working through a scene with a student, renowned actor and acting teacher Al Ruscio will keep asking them, "So therefore, what?" to encourage them to analyse a character's specific response to a situation, rather than the situation itself. So Therefore ... interweaves tried-and-tested practical exercises with sound advice, and illustrative tales from Ruscioâ's remarkable career, to form a training handbook ... More/Buy
Strange Interlude
Simon Stone
Currency Press, PB, 9780868199306
Three decades before he wrote Long Day's Journey into Night, Eugene O'Neill wrote a sprawling and adventurous masterpiece the likes of which Broadway had never seen. Almost a century later, there is still no other play like Strange Interlude. Twenty-year-old Nina Leeds has lost the love of her life in the war. Overcome with grief, she quits university, falls out with ... More/Buy
Truckstop
Lachlan Philpott
Currency Press, PB, 9780868199450
Sam and Kelly live out west. They spend their lives waiting for texts, for boyfriends and those bitches in Year Ten to leave school so they can have somewhere decent to hang. But the longest wait is till the end of school, and waiting can be deadly. Bored one recess and with double maths looming, the girls escape through the hole ... More/Buy
Video Journalism for the Web: A Practical Introduction to Documentary Storytelling
Kurt Lancaster
Routledge, PB, 9780415892674
As more newspapers and broadcast news outlets transition online, reporters and photojournalists are being asked to provide more and more video for their stories. This book teaches students and professional journalists how to shoot better video and tell better stories on the web. Creating multimedia video journalism requires more than simply adapting traditional broadcast journalism techniques, so Kurt Lancaster provides students ... More/Buy
When Ziggy Played Guitar: David Bowie and Four Minutes that Shook
Dylan Jones
Preface, HB, 9781848093850
And then there was David Bowie, the uber-freak with the mismatched pupils, the low-tech space face from the planet Sparkle. This was Bowie's third appearance on TOTP but this was the one that properly resonated with its audience, the one that would go on to cause a seismic shift in the Zeitgeist. This is the performance that turned Bowie into a ... More/Buy