The Singing Detective
10 best books like The Singing Detective (Dennis Potter): Four Histories ("Richard II", "Henry IV Part One", "Henry IV Part Two", "Henry V"), What Good Are the Arts?, The Genius of the System: Hollywood Filmmaking in the Studio Era, Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings, Let's Put the Future Behind Us, The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark A Study with the Text of the Folio of 1623, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Orestes and Other Plays, My Dinner With André, Leonard Maltin's Classic Movie Guide
| Author | William Shakespeare |
All the lapidary dialogue that you would expect from Shakespeare, dosed with a surprising amount of early modern ethnic humor (those Welsh and their leeks, ha ha!) I also found the scenes with Falstaff and his fellow tavern denizens to be more grim then funny - on the page, Sir John comes across more like...
Hailed as "exhilarating and suggestive" (Spectator), "thought-provoking and entertaining" (David Lodge, Sunday Times), and "incisive and inspirational" (Guardian), What Good are the Arts? offers a delightfully skeptical look at the nature of art. John Carey--one of Britain's most respected...
| Author | Thomas Schatz |
| ISBN | 0805046666 |
At a time when the studio is making a stunning comeback, film historian Thomas Schatz provides an indispensable account of Hollywood's tradional blend of business and art. This book lays to rest the persistent myth that businesspeople and producers stifle artistic talent and reveals instead the...
Manny Farber (1917–2008) was a unique figure among American movie critics. Champion of what he called "termite art" (focused, often eccentric virtuosity as opposed to "white elephant" monumentality), master of a one-of-a-kind prose style whose jazz-like phrasing and incandescent twists and...
Former bureaucrat Max Borodin is one of Moscow's most successful businessmen. He strolls through the wreckage of today's Russia with ease - convincing people to do his bidding, providing its citizens (both friends and clients) with the luxury goods they covet, and generally leading a prosperous...
George MacDonald was a Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister.
He was educated at Aberdeen University and after a short and stormy career as a minister at Arundel, where his unorthodox views led to his dismissal, he turned to fiction as a means of earning a living. He wrote over 50 books.
Known...
| Author | Christopher Hampton |
| ISBN | 0571137245 |
Over the years I have seen many theatre productions of Pierre Choderlos de Laclos' master work, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, read more than one full translation of the novel, and seen both Steven Frears' film version, which uses Christopher Hampton's script, and Milos Forman's film version.
None...
| Author | Euripides |
| ISBN | 0192832603 |
Orestes and Other Plays provides new translations of Ion, Orestes, The Phoenician Women and The Suppliant Women, plays that all explore ethical and political themes. Ion vividly portrays the role of chance in human life and the dynamics of family relationships.
In Orestes, the most popular of...
| Author | Wallace Shawn |
| ISBN | 0802130631 |
"My Dinner with Andre" is a passionate, volatile, and humorous encounter between two friends who have not seen each other for a long time, and decide to catch up on each others' lives over dinner. Andre Gregory is an intense, highly experimental theater director and playwright in search of life's meanings...
| Author | Leonard Maltin |
| ISBN | 0452286204 |
From Leonard Maltin, author of the bestselling annual Movie Guide, comes this guide to classic movies. Leonard Maltin’s Classic Movie Guide includes more than 7,000 capsule reviews of classic movies, including: The Birth of a Nation (1915), Gone With the Wind (1939), The Philadelphia Story (1940),...
| Author | Ephraim Katz |
| ISBN | 0060742143 |
A completely revised and udpated edition of the classic film reference which has sold nearly 150,000 copies in its previous editions.
Ephraim Katz's The Film Encyclopedia is the most comprehensive one-volume encyclopedia on film and is considered the undisputed Bible of the movie industry....
Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad
| Author | Arthur Kopit |
| ISBN | 0573613338 |
Full Length, Black Comedy / Casting: 4m, 2f, extras / Scenery: 2 int. Wealthy, overbearing Madame Rosepettle with her stuttering, awkward son Jonathan at her heels, arrives at a posh hotel with a man-eating tropical plant, pirahna fish and coffin in tow. Rosalie, a voluptuous babysitter from the couple...
| Author | F.R. Leavis |
| ISBN | 0140214879 |
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references,...
| Author | Roland Barthes |
| ISBN | 0374521441 |
A Barthes Reader gives one the image of Barthes as one of the great public teachers of our time, someone who thought out, argued for, and made available several steps in a penetrating reflection on language sign systems, texts- and what they have to tell us about the concept of being human. Susan Sontag's...
The Mind's New Science: A History Of The Cognitive Revolution
| Author | Howard Gardner |
| ISBN | 0465046355 |
Probably the best and most extensive history of cognitive science and it's evolution out of mid-20th century developments in computer science, engineering, linguistics, philosophy, social science, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and psychology. Gardner follows the story in detailed...
| Author | Bertolt Brecht |
| ISBN | 0809005425 |
This volume offers a major selection of Bertolt Brecht's groundbreaking critical writing. Here, arranged in chronological order, are essays from 1918 to 1956, in which Brecht explores his definition of the Epic Theatre and his theory of alienation-effects in directing, acting, and writing, and...
| Author | Ira A. Robbins |
| ISBN | 0020363613 |
Note: Despite several name changes, these are several editions of the same book.
1st Ed. (1983) published as The Trouser Press Guide to New Wave Records.
2nd Ed. (1985) published as The New Trouser Press Record Guide.
3rd Ed. (1989) published as The New Trouser Press Record Guide (Revised...
| Author | François Truffaut |
| ISBN | 0306805995 |
François Truffaut (1932-1984), perhaps the most respected member of the New Wave group of French moviemakers, left a legacy of beloved and influential films that include The 400 Blows, Jules and Jim, Stolen Kisses, Day for Night and The Story of Adele H. Equally fascinating is the very large body of...
| Author | Rosalind E. Krauss |
| ISBN | 0262610469 |
Co-founder and co-editor of October magazine, a veteran of Artforum of the 1960s and early 1970s, Rosalind Krauss has presided over and shared in the major formulation of the theory of postmodernism.
In this challenging collection of fifteen essays, most of which originally appeared in...
| Author | Michel Foucault |
| ISBN | 1854378457 |
In this encounter between one of the 20th century's greatest minds and an artist fundamental to the development of modern art, French philosopher Michel Foucault explores Edouard Manet's importance in the overthrow of traditional values in painting.
Originally delivered in Tunis in 1971...
This captivating Mediterranean novel was written by Lawrence Durrell immediately after finishing his exquisite vignette about Corfu, Prospero's Cell, and a decade before Justine. The story is set on Crete just after the War, as an odd assortment of English travellers come ashore from a cruise ship...
Monty Python's Flying Circus: Just The Words - Volumes 1 & 2
| Author | Graham Chapman |
| ISBN | 0749302267 |
Although I have almost memorized the entire length of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, I was never that conversant with the original series. Hark! Look here. What’s this? All the Words: The Complete Monty Python’s Flying Circus (Pantheon, 1989). Danger, danger, Will Robinson. Now I can...
| Author | Tom Stoppard |
| ISBN | 0571145698 |
The Incredible Radical Liberal Jumpers are a team of acrobatic professors of philosophy, whose absurd gymnastic displays reflect a bewildering world where logic has confounded belief in moral absolutes. In this dark, exuberant comedy, Stoppard brilliantly parodies the philosophy lecture, the...
