Entertainment Performing Arts category: 25367 books
Art History as Cultural History
Warburg's Projects
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
This book focuses on Aby Warburg (1866-1929), one of the legendary figures of twentieth century cultural history. His collection, which is now housed in the Warburg Institute of the University of London bears witness to his idiosyncratic approach to a psychology of symbolism, and explores the Nachleben...
Interrogating Trauma
Collective Suffering in Global Arts and Media
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
Throughout the past century, traumatic experiences have been re-enacted frequently by evolving media and art forms. Now there is a significant body of theory across academic disciplines focused on the representation of cataclysmic European and US historical events. However, less critical attention...
by Professor Domenico Pietropaolo
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
Analysis of improvisation as a compositional practice in the Commedia dell'Arte and related traditions from the Renaissance to the 21st century. Domenic Pietropaolo takes textual material from the stage traditions of Italy, France, Germany and England, and covers comedic drama, dance, pantomime and...
Anna Halprin
Dance - Process - Form
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2014
Anna Halprin is a world-famous theatre artist and early pioneer in the expressive arts healing movement. This book explores her personal growth as a dancer and choreographer and the development of her therapeutic and pedagogical approach.
The authors, who each trained with Halprin, introduce...
Impure Cinema
Intermedial and Intercultural Approaches to Film
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
André Bazin's famous article, 'Pour un cinéma impur: défense de l'adaptation', was first translated into English simply as 'In Defence of Mixed Cinema', probably to avoid any uncomfortable sexual or racial resonances the word 'impure' might have. Impure Cinema goes back to Bazin's original title...
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...
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,...
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...
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,...
The Producer's Business Handbook
The Roadmap for the Balanced Film Producer
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Gain a comprehensive understanding of the business of entertainment and learn to successfully engage in all aspects of global production with the revised and updated 4th edition of The Producer's Business Handbook. Learn how to cultivate relationships with key industry players including domestic and...
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...
Australian Theatre, Modernism and Patrick White
Governing Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
‘Australian Theatre, Modernism and Patrick White’ details the rejection of two Patrick White plays by the Adelaide Festival of Arts in Australia in the early 1960s. In 1961 the board of governors rejected a proposal to include the world premiere of White’s first major play ‘The Ham Funeral’...
Douglas Fairbanks
The Fourth Musketeer
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Few people have influenced Hollywood history than
Douglas Fairbanks. And who better than his niece and Fairbanks family
historian, Letitia, to relate that story? On-screen and offscreen, he was a
force of nature, progressing in easy leaps and bounds from the Broadway
stage to silent movies when feature-length...
by Ann-Kristin Mehnert
Language: German
Release Date: January 21, 2016
Language: German
Release Date: January 21, 2016
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2014 im Fachbereich Medien / Kommunikation - Film und Fernsehen, Note: 1,7, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Veranstaltung: Psychiatrie im Film, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der vorliegende Essay soll der Frage nachgehen, wie die Institution Psychiatrie, die psychische Erkrankungen...