Performing Arts category: 25753 books
Studying Disability Arts and Culture
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
In this practical introduction to the study of Disability Arts and Culture, Petra Kuppers draws on a wide range of examples, exercises and activities to introduce the key artists and theoretical concepts in this diverse field. Comprehensive and accessible, this is an essential handbook for anyone interested in the disabled body in performance.
Flamenco and Bullfighting
Movement, Passion and Risk in Two Spanish Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
Flamenco dance and bullfighting are parallel arts with shared traditions, performance conventions and vocabularies of movement. This volume introduces readers to an ongoing discussion in Spanish scholarship about the links between these two quintessentially Spanish arts. The author—a dancer and...
Staging and Performing Translation
Text and Theatre Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
This exploration of the territory between theory and practice in contemporary theatre features essays by academics from theatre and translation studies, and delineates a new space for the discussion of translation in the theatre that is international, critical and scholarly, while rooted in experience and understanding of theatre practices.
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Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
In the years before the First World War, showmen, entrepreneurs, educators, and scientists used magic lanterns and cinematographs in many contexts and many venues. To employ these silent screen technologies to deliver diverse and complex programs usually demanded audio accompaniment, creating a performance...
Performing National Identities
International Perspectives on Contemporary Canadian Theatre
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
A collection of eighteen original essays on contemporary Canadian theatre by scholars and drama specialists in Canada, Great Britain, Europe, Australia, Hungary, and Japan. The international scope of the volume, reflected in its co-editors (Sherrill Grace from Canada, Albert-Reiner Glaap from Germany), confirms the new importance of Canadian plays on the world stage.
by S. Liu
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
In Shanghai in the early twentieth century, a hybrid theatrical form, wenmingxi, emerged that was based on Western spoken theatre, classical Chinese theatre, and a Japanese hybrid form known as shinpa. This book places it in the context of its hybridized literary and performance elements, giving it a definitive place in modern Chinese theatre.
by David Currell
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Puppets & Puppet Theatre is essential reading for everyone interested in making and performing with puppets. It concentrates on designing, making and performing with the main types of puppet, and is extensively illustrated in full colour throughout.Topics covered include: nature and heritage of...
by Marlis Schweitzer, Joanne Zerdy
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
This book rethinks historical and contemporary theatre, performance, and cultural events by scrutinizing and theorizing the objects and things that activate stages, venues, environments, and archives.
by Amanda Adams
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Expanding our understanding of what it meant to be a nineteenth-century author, Amanda Adams takes up the concept of performative, embodied authorship in relationship to the transatlantic lecture tour. Adams argues that these tours were a central aspect of nineteenth-century authorship, at a time...
Manly Arts
Masculinity and Nation in Early American Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2006
In this innovative analysis of the interconnections between nation and aesthetics in the United States during the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth, David A. Gerstner reveals the crucial role of early cinema in consolidating a masculine ideal under American capitalism. Gerstner describes...
Must-Read Theater Arts Handbook
This Amazing Handbook Will Definitely Teach You Theater Types And Information Which Include The History Of Opera, Various Dance Forms, Kabuki Theater, Shakespear Plays And A Whole Lot More!
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
Writers, directors and producers play a vital role in the building of the storyline of a play. The script modeled by them encompasses various kinds of arts to be taken into consideration to bring out the true essence of the story. The various factors considered helps to classify the genre of theater...
Cinematography in the Weimar Republic
Lola Lola, Dirty Singles, and the Men Who Shot Them
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
In film history, director-cinematographer collaborations were on a labor spectrum, with the model of the contracted camera operator in the silent era and that of the cinematographer in the sound era. But in Weimar era German filmmaking, 1919-33, a short period of intense artistic activity and political...
by Beccy Cole
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Beccy Cole's inspirational memoir from the heart of Australian country music.
Beccy Cole has country music in her blood. Daughter of a country music star, Carole Sturtzel, she is one of the most popular country singer-songwriters in Australia today. This is the story of her life - in her own...
Performing Gender Violence
Plays by Contemporary American Women Dramatists
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2012
Violence against women in plays bywomen has earned little mention. This revolutionary collection fills that gap, focusing on plays by American women dramatists, written in the last thirty years, that deal with different forms of gender violence. Each author discusses specific manifestations of violence...