Performing Arts category: 25753 books
Performing Antagonism
Theatre, Performance & Radical Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
This book combines performance analysis with contemporary political philosophy to advance new ways of understanding both political performance and the performativity of the politics of the street.
Our times are pre-eminently political times and have drawn radical responses from many theatre...
by Lolita Lark
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
The first issue of our magazine came out in 1985, and we switched to an online edition in 1995. Our reviews have been denounced by the famous and the infamous. Ron Butler wrote "What kind of idiots do you have writing book reviews?" Jim Finkenaur said that our review of a book about West Point was...
Performing Nostalgia
Shifting Shakespeare and the Contemporary Past
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
In this trenchant work, Susan Bennett examines the authority of the past in modern cultural experience and the parameters for the reproduction of the plays. She addresses these issues from both the viewpoints of literary theory and theatre studies, shifting Shakespeare out of straightforward performance...
by Mary P. Caulfield
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
This book explores the performance of Irish collective memories and forgotten histories. It proposes an alternative and more comprehensive criterion of Irish theatre practices. These practices can be defined as the 'rejected', contested and undervalued plays and performativities that are integral to Ireland's political and cultural landscapes.
Performing Kamishibai
An Emerging New Literacy for a Global Audience
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Kamishibai (paper-theater), a Japanese picture-storytelling medium, is gaining global interest as we move from a text-based culture to one that emphasizes multiple semiotic systems and performance. This is the first volume to explore the potential of kamishibai as a dynamic "new" interactive...
Disparate Voices
Spectral Sisters Productions Short Play Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
DISPARATE VOICES (Spectral Sisters Productions Short Play Anthology) contains 25 exiting original short plays (usually in a ten minute format) by local and regional writers from Central Louisiana. Topics range from the sexual orientation of Klu Klux Klan members or Tweedledee and Tweedledum, to steroid...
Community Performance
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
Community Performance: An Introduction is a comprehensive and accessible practice-based primer for students and practitioners of community arts, dance, and theatre, offering reflection on the ethical issues inherent to the field. It is both a classroom-friendly textbook and a handbook for the practitioner,...
Disability Arts and Culture
International Critical Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2019
This collection offers insight into different study approaches to disability art and culture practices, and asks: what does it mean to approach disability-focused cultural production and consumption as generative sites of meaning-making? International scholars and practitioners use ethnographic and...
Performing Character in Modern Irish Drama
Between Art and Society
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2018
This book is about the history of character in modern Irish drama. It traces the changing fortunes of the human self in a variety of major Irish plays across the twentieth century and the beginning of the new millennium. Through the analysis of dramatic protagonists created by such authors as Yeats,...
Performing European Memories
Trauma, Ethics, Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Asking whether a genuinely shared European memory is possible while addressing the dangers of a single, homogenized European memory, Gluhovic examines the contradictions, specificities, continuities and discontinuities in the European shared and unshared pasts as represented in the works of Pinter, Tadeusz Kantor, Heiner Muller and Artur Zmijewski.
by Hengen S
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Foley Grail
The Art of Performing Sound for Film, Games, and Animation
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Master classic and cutting-edge Foley techniques that will allow you to create rich, convincing sound for any medium, be it film, television, radio, podcasts, animation, or games.
In The Foley Grail, Second Edition award-winning Foley artist Vanessa Theme Ament teaches you how Foley is designed,...
20@OMI
Celebrating Twenty Years of Creativity and Community
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
A celebration in words and pictures, 20@OMI offers a vivid portrait of a renowned international, nonprofit arts center in upstate New York. This handsome, lavishly illustrated volume recounts how Art Omi grew from its modest beginnings as an artists’ residency program in a converted barn into a...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Religious life and public life are both passionately performed, but often understood to exclude one another. This book's array of voices investigates the publics hailed by religious performances and the challenges they offer to theories of the democratic public sphere.