Entertainment Performing Arts category: 25367 books
by Trilby James
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
THE GOOD AUDITION GUIDES:
Helping you select and perform the audition piece that is best suited to your performing skills
As an actor at any level – whether you are doing theatre studies at school, taking part in youth theatre, preparing for drama-school showcases, or attending professional...
Performing Wales
People, Memory and Place
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2018
Beginning from the premise that culture can be analysed as performance, this study approaches Welsh culture as performative practice and explores four distinct cultural areas – the Museum, Heritage, Festival and Theatre – concentrating on how they contribute to a shared sense of identity among...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2002
This 2002 Companion is designed for readers interested in past and present productions of Shakespeare's plays, both in and beyond Britain. The first six chapters describe aspects of the British performing tradition in chronological sequence, from the early staging of Shakespeare's own time, through...
Performing Femininity
Woman as Performer in Early Russian Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Oriental dancers, ballerinas, actresses and opera singers - the figure of the female performer is ubiquitous in the cinema of pre-Revolutionary Russia. From the first feature film, Romashkov's Stenka Razin (1908), through the sophisticated melodramas of the 1910s, to Viskovsky's The Last Tango (1918),...
Performing Race and Erasure
Cuba, Haiti, and US Culture, 1898–1940
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
In this book, Shannon Rose Riley provides a critically rich investigation of representations of Cuba and Haiti in US culture in order to analyze their significance not only to the emergence of empire but especially to the reconfiguration of US racial structuresalong increasingly biracial lines. Based...
by Trilby James
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
THE GOOD AUDITION GUIDES:
Helping you select and perform the audition piece that is best suited to your performing skills
As an actor at any level – whether you are doing theatre studies at school, taking part in youth theatre, preparing for drama-school showcases, or attending professional...
by Judith Fletcher
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2011
Oaths were ubiquitous rituals in ancient Athenian legal, commercial, civic and international spheres. Their importance is reflected by the fact that much of surviving Greek drama features a formal oath sworn before the audience. This is the first comprehensive study of that phenomenon. The book explores...
Performing Neurology
The Dramaturgy of Dr Jean-Martin Charcot
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2016
This text provides a study of Jean-Martin Charcot, a founding figure in the history of neurology as a discipline and a colleague of Sigmund Freud. It argues that Charcot’s diagnostic and pedagogic models, explaining both how disease is recognized and described and how to teach the act of neurological...
Performing Place, Practising Memories
Aboriginal Australians, Hippies and the State
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
During the 1970s a wave of ‘counter-culture’ people moved into rural communities in many parts of Australia. This study focuses in particular on the town of Kuranda in North Queensland and the relationship between the settlers and the local Aboriginal population, concentrating on a number of linked...
7 Deadly Sins - The Actor Overcomes
Business of Acting Insight By the Founder of the Actors’ Network
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
7 Deadly Sins The Actor Overcomes provides a unique approach to the profession of acting. The profession of acting is a vastly different conversation than the artistic desire to perform. One could argue the business of performance art may be the most difficult relationship you ever have with yourself....
Digital Storytelling, Applied Theatre, & Youth
Performing Possibility
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Digital Storytelling, Applied Theatre, & Youth argues that theatre artists must re-imagine how and why they facilitate performance practices with young people. Rapid globalization and advances in media and technology continue to change the ways that people engage with and understand the...
The Performing Subject in the Space of Technology
Through the Virtual, Towards the Real
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2015
This book reflects on the aftermath of shifts encountered in the maturing of digital culture in areas of critical theory and artistic practices, focusing on the awareness that contemporary subjectivity is one that dwells within both the virtual and the real.
The Digitization of Cinematic Visual Effects
Hollywood's Coming of Age
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
The Digitization of Cinematic Visual Effects: Hollywood’s Coming of Age, by Rama Venkatasawmy, analyzes how the Hollywood cinema industry’s visual effects applications have not only motivated the expansion of filmmaking praxis, they have also influenced the evolution of viewing pleasures and spectatorship...
Things I've Learned from the Audience
Thoughts From an Old Road Dog
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2013
Your hands are a little sweaty, and your stomach is feeling somewhat nauseous. You wanted to be in this, but now. You’re not so sure. All those people will be looking at you,... judging you. You want to show them what you’ve got, but right now, it’s hard to remember what that was. There are so...