An improved, larger-format edition of the Cambridge School Shakespeare plays, extensively rewritten, expanded and produced in an attractive new design. An active approach to classroom Shakespeare enables students to inhabit Shakespeare's imaginative world in accessible and creative ways. Students are encouraged to share Shakespeare's love of language, interest in character and sense of theatre.Substantially revised and extended in full colour, classroom activities are thematically organised i...

Dit boek biedt de basiskennis die een lichttechnicus nodig heeft om zijn vak uit te kunnen oefenen. In dit boek komen de basisbegrippen binnen de lichttechniek, videotechniek en rigging aan bod, als ook de nieuwste ontwikkelingen op bijvoorbeeld het gebied van aansturingsprotocollen. Aan de ene kant is dit boek geschikt voor de beginnende technicus, aan de andere kant is dit boek ook geschikt voor technici die al een tijdje werkzaam zijn in dit vak en hun kennis aan willen scherpen of verdiep...

Of je nu een filmfanaat bent of een gamer, de kans is groot dat je je hebt afgevraagd wat deze visuele verhalen zo krachtig maakt. In een tijd waarin technologie het maken van films en games toegankelijker maakt dan ooit, rijst de vraag: wat maakt een beeldverhaal echt waardevol? En hoe goed begrijpen we de taal van beelden?

Dit boek ontrafelt de geheimen van meesterlijke vertellers die met beelden spreken. Ontdek hoe zij je een venster bieden op hun innerlijke wereld en hun unieke kijk op de...

George Bernard Shaw's witty comedy of manners, Pygmalion includes an introduction by Nicholas Grene in Penguin Classics. Pygmalion both delighted and scandalized its first audiences in 1914. A brilliantly witty reworking of the classical tale of the sculptor Pygmalion, who falls in love with his perfect female statue, it is also a barbed attack on the British class system and a statement of Shaw's feminist views.

Structured Computer Organization, specifically written for undergraduate students, is a best-selling guide that provides an accessible introduction to computer hardware and architecture. This text will also serve as a useful resource for all computer professionals and engineers who need an overview or introduction to computer architecture. This book takes a modern structured, layered approach to understanding computer systems.

Its highly accessible - and its been thoroughly updated to reflec...

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.

A classic bestseller by one of the most important theatre practitioners of the 20th and early 21st centuries. This handbook has sold over 90,000 copies to students, teachers and theatre makers, giving them a broad range of theatre exercises to use in classrooms, rehearsals and community projects. Makes social and community theatre fun, engaging and easily accessible for a broad audience.

No other book sets out all of Boal's methods in one place, not least in such a clear, practical manner.

A successful screenplay starts with an understanding of the fundamentals of dramatic story structure. In this practical introduction, Edward J. Fink condenses centuries of writing about dramatic theory into ten concise and readable chapters, providing the tools for building an engaging narrative and turning it into an agent-ready script.

Fink devotes chapters to expanding on the six basic elements of drama from Aristotle’s Poetics (plot, character, theme, dialogue, sound, and spectacle...

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...