Entertainment Performing Arts category: 25367 books
Radio Journalism in America
Telling the News in the Golden Age and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2013
This history of radio news reporting recounts and assesses the contributions of radio toward keeping America informed since the 1920s. It identifies distinct periods and milestones in broadcast journalism and includes a biographical dictionary of important figures who brought news to the airwaves....
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...
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...
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.
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...
Poetics of Dance
Body, Image, and Space in the Historical Avant-Gardes
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
When it was first published in Germany in 1995, Poetics of Dance was already seen as a path-breaking publication, the first to explore the relationships between the birth of modern dance, new developments in the visual arts, and the renewal of literature and drama in the form of avant-garde theatrical...
Egyptian Belly Dance in Transition
The Raqs Sharqi Revolution, 1890-1930
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2018
Raqs sharqi, the Egyptian dance form also known as belly dance, has for generations captured imaginations around the globe. Yet its origins have been obscured by misinformation and conjecture, rooted in Orientalist attitudes about the Middle East—a widely accepted narrative suggests the dance was...
Performing the Nation in Global Korea
Transnational Theatre
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
This book illustrates how local awareness of Western cultural hegemonic entities such as Broadway and Shakespeare have been implemented within South Korean theatre in the global era. With a focus on performances that targeted global audiences, Lee explores the ways in which Korea's nationalistic desires for global visibility are projected on stage.
Digital Bodies
Creativity and Technology in the Arts and Humanities
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
This book explores technologies related to bodily interaction and creativity from a multi-disciplinary perspective. By taking such an approach, the collection offers a comprehensive view of digital technology research that both extends our notions of the body and creativity through a digital lens,...