Performing Arts category: 25753 books
Applied Theatre: Resettlement
Drama, Refugees and Resilience
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
The book offers a compelling combination of analyis and detailed description of aesthetic projects with young refugee arrivals in Australia. In it the authors present a framework that contextualises the intersections of refugee studies, resilience and trauma, and theatre and arts-based practice, setting...
by Jeremy Tunstall
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
This book considers British television from the point of view of executive producers: the people who employ the workforce and are in charge of making all television series. The focus of the book is twenty-one separate genres, at least seven of which are in significant decline – namely current affairs,...
The Party and the Arty in China
The New Politics of Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2004
In this original exploration of the dynamic and potent interface between Chinese culture and politics, Richard Kraus examines the impact of the market on the once-comprehensive system of state patronage of the arts in the PRC. The author uses all genres of art to explore the changing nature of politics,...
Context Provider
Conditions of Meaning in Media Arts
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Blurring boundaries between many disciplines, Context Providers supplies a context and a rationale for discussing how technological change has affected the function of art, the role of the artist, and the way artistic productions are disseminated. It also explores how technologically networked environments...
The Queer Film Festival
Popcorn and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2017
This book examines the queer film festival and opens the discussion on social enterprises and sustainable lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) organisations. With over 220 events worldwide and some of the bigger budgets exceeding $1 million, the queer film festival has grown to...
Empire
The Unauthorized Untold Story
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
An unofficial guide to EMPIRE, the runaway hit of the 2014-15 television season.
Empire is the breakout, network television hit of 2015—from its opening night, viewers were riveted by the story of record company magnate Lucious Lyon and his family, and the struggle for control over Empire...
Envisioning Asia
On Location, Travel, and the Cinematic Geography of U.S. Orientalism
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010
"Whereas some other scholars read selected films mainly to illustrate political arguments, Roan never loses sight of the particularities of film as a distinctive cultural form and practice. Her drive to see 'cinema as a mechanism of American orientalism' results in not just a textual analysis...
by Robert Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
“Robert Cohen’s Falling Into Theatre is a must-read for all lovers of theatre. Personal and engaging, Dr. Cohen’s reflections on his life as both artist and educator provide the reader with a special journey, a virtual history tour of the American theatre for the past fifty years....
Development through Culture
Cultural Policy and Arts Management in the German Development Cooperation
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Master's Thesis from the year 2012 in the subject Art - Arts Management, grade: 10.0 out of 10.0, University of València (DCADHA), course: Gestión Cultural, language: English, abstract: For at least three decades the topic of culture has been one of the central elements of development cooperation...
Disability and Theatre
A Practical Manual for Inclusion in the Arts
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Disability and Theatre: A Practical Manual for Inclusion in the Arts is a step-by step manual on how to create inclusive theatre, including how and where to find actors, how to publicize productions, run rehearsals, act intricate scenes like fights and battles, work with unions, contracts, and agents,...
Drama and Education
Performance Methodologies for Teaching and Learning
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
Drama and Education provides a practical, comprehensive guide to drama as a tool for teaching and learning. It is among the first practical drama and performance textbooks that address brain-based, neuroscientific research, making the argument that creativity is necessary in our lives, that embodied...
Zimbabwe's Cinematic Arts
Language, Power, Identity
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
This timely book reflects on discourses of identity that pervade local talk and texts in Zimbabwe, a nation beset by political and economic crisis. As she explores questions of culture that play out in broadly accessible local and foreign film and television, Katrina Daly Thompson shows how viewers...
Surrealism in Film
Beyond the Realist Sensibility
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
The arts were created from an appeal to freedom. There can be no general aesthetic that defines how that freedom must express itself. Movies offer a seductive example. Of all the major arts, cinema is the only one that was invented during the lifetime of some who are now living. From this perspective,...
Who Art in Heaven?
Exploring the Divine Symmetry of Arts and Academics
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
We have all asked ourselves, Does anyone care that I am here? Do I serve a purpose of value? Do I matter at all to anyone? The answer is a resounding yes!
Who Art in Heaven is a delightful, personal, and inspiring perspective on establishing an understanding of your value and contribution to...