Performing Arts category: 25753 books
Performing Bodies
Female Illness in Italian Literature and Cinema (1860–1920)
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2017
Performing Bodies: Female Illness in Italian Literature and Cinema (1860-1920) explores the variations in the portrayal of female illness in Italian fin de siècle literature and early cinema. Catherine Ramsey-Portolano begins her study with an overview of nineteenth-century theories on female inferiority...
by Bill Cassara
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2019
EDGAR KENNEDY appeared in over 400 Hollywood films spanning four decades. An original Keystone Kop for Mack Sennett, he went on to support such film luminaries as Charlie Chaplin, Laurel & Hardy, the Marx Bros. John Wayne, Lucille Ball and Doris Day. Billed as "The Average Man," Edgar...
Days of Twilight, Nights of Frenzy
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
Werner Schroeter was a leading figure of New German Cinema. In more than forty films made between 1967 and 2008, including features, documentaries, and shorts, he ignored conventional narrative, creating instead dense, evocative collages of image and sound. For years, his work was eclipsed by contemporaries...
Learning Through Theatre
The Changing Face of Theatre in Education
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
In the two decades since the publication of the second edition, Learning Through Theatre has further established itself as an indispensable resource for scholars, practitioners and educators interested in the complex interrelations between teaching and learning, the performing arts, and society at...
Digital Echoes
Spaces for Intangible and Performance-based Cultural Heritage
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2018
This book explores the interplay between performing arts, intangible cultural heritage and digital environments through a compendium of essays on emerging practices and case studies, as well as critical, historical and theoretical perspectives. It features essays that engage with varied forms of intangible...
Shifting Corporealities in Contemporary Performance
Danger, Im/mobility and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
This book investigates how contemporary artistic practices engage with the body and its intersection with political, technological, and ethical issues. Departing from the relationship between corporeality and performing arts (such as theater, dance, and performance), it turns to a pluriversal understanding...
Performing Violence
Literary and Theatrical Experiments of New Russian Drama
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
New Russian Drama began its rise at the end of the twentieth century, following a decline in dramatic writing in Russia that stemmed back to the 1980s. Authors Beumers and Lipovetsky examine the representation of violence in these new dramatic works penned by young Russian playwrights. Performing...
by Ric Knowles
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
In 1971, Canada became the first country to adopt an official policy of multiculturalism. Performing the Intercultural City explores how Toronto—a representative global city in this multicultural country—stages diversity through its many intercultural theater companies and troupes. The book begins...
Performing Whitely in the Postcolony
Afrikaners in South African Theatrical and Public Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
What does it mean to perform whiteness in the postcolonial era? To answer this question—crucial for understanding the changing meanings of race in the twenty-first century—Megan Lewis examines the ways that members of South Africa’s Afrikaner minority have performed themselves into, around,...
by James Grady, John J. Donohue, Christopher Bates
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2016
Most learn about martial arts through movies and print publications, primarily fictional. “Fiction is drama, the blood of drama is conflict, and martial arts are rooted in conflict,” writes James Grady in chapter one. Good fiction uses martial arts well, while...
Performing Exile, Performing Self
Drama, Theatre, Film
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
This book examines the life and art of those contemporary artists who by force or by choice find themselves on other shores. It argues that the exilic challenge enables the émigré artist to (re)establish new artistic devices, new laws and a new language of communication in both his everyday life and his artistic work.
Culture, Democracy and the Right to Make Art
The British Community Arts Movement
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Based on the words and experiences of the people involved, this book tells the story of the community arts movement in the UK, and, through a series of essays, assesses its influence on present day participatory arts practices. Part I offers the first comprehensive account of the movement, its history,...
Performing Unification
History and Nation in German Theater after 1989
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
Since the moment after the fall of the Berlin Wall, important German theater artists have created plays and productions about unification. Some have challenged how German history is written, while others opposed the very act of storytelling. Performing Unification examines how directors, playwrights,...
Performing Consumers
Global Capital and its Theatrical Seductions
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2006
Performing Consumers is an exploration of the way in which brands insinuate themselves into the lives of ordinary people who encounter them at branded superstores.
Looking at our performative desire to ‘try on’ otherness, Maurya Wickstrom employs five American brandscapes to serve as case...