Entertainment Performing Arts category: 25367 books
Media and Participation
A site of ideological-democratic struggle
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Participation has become fashionable again, but at the same time it has always played a crucial role in our contemporary societies, and it has been omnipresent in a surprisingly large number of societal fields. In the case of the media sphere, the present-day media conjuncture is now considered to be...
Sword Fighting in the Star Wars Universe
Historical Origins, Style and Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Unlike most makers of modern or futuristic films, George Lucas turned away from the standard special operatives or secret agents when he created the heroes for his epic Star Wars saga. Part knight, part monk, the Jedi Knights were an order of swordsmen that helped rule the universe in accordance with...
Wild Surmise
A Dissident View
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
This collection of thoughts, feelings, surmises, rants and rhapsodies explores the world of art and cinema Nilsson has watched and experienced over the last 40 years. To him post modern developments in the gallery and museum Arts are largely fatuous and have resulted in market oriented novelties which...
Taiwan Film Directors
A Treasure Island
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2005
Focusing on the work of four contemporary filmmakers—Ang Lee, Edward Yang, Hou Hsiao-hsien, and Tsai Ming-liang—the authors explore how these filmmakers broke from tradition, creating a cinema that is both personal and insistent on examining Taiwan's complex history. Featuring stills, anecdotes,...
by Thomas Kulka
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 1996
What is kitsch? What is behind its appeal? More important, what is wrong with kitsch? Though central to our modern and postmodern culture, kitsch has not been seriously and comprehensively analyzed; its aesthetic worthlessness has been generally assumed but seldom explained. Kitsch and Art seeks to...
The Bipolar Express
Manic Depression and the Movies
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
In the past few decades, awareness of bipolar disorder has significantly increased, but understanding of the condition remains vague for most of the general public. Though the term itself is relatively recent, the condition has affected individuals for centuries—and no more profoundly than in the...
by W. Jane Bancroft
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2005
First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by Ilaria Caprioglio
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 7, 2014
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 7, 2014
Un libro che racconta come prosegue la vita di una modella quando si spengono i riflettori sull'ennesimo concorso di bellezza. Una testimonianza sul mondo della moda con le sue luci e le sue ombre. I viaggi, le sfilate, le feste, i set fotografici ma anche la solitudine, i disturbi del comportamento...
ORLAN
A Hybrid Body of Artworks
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2010
ORLAN: A Hybrid Body of Artworks is an in-depth academic account of ORLAN's pioneering art in its entirety. The book covers her career in performance and a range of other art forms. This single accessible overview of ORLAN's practices describes and analyses her various innovative uses of the body...
Negotiating Performance
Gender, Sexuality, and Theatricality in Latin/o America
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 1994
In Negotiating Performance, major scholars and practitioners of the theatrical arts consider the diversity of Latin American and U. S. Latino performance: indigenous theater, performance art, living installations, carnival, public demonstrations, and gender acts such as transvestism. By redefining...
Super Bitches and Action Babes: The Female Hero in Popular Cinema, 1970-2006
The Female Hero in Popular Cinema, 1970-2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2007
With actress Pam Grier's breakthrough in Coffy and Foxy Brown, women entered action, science fiction, war, westerns and martial arts films--genres that had previously been considered the domain of male protagonists. This ground-breaking cinema, however, was--and still is--viewed with ambivalence....
Sound Advice
Voiceover from an Audio Engineer's Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2010
I've written this book to give you a sound engineer's perspective on your career as a voiceover talent.
In this book I've tried to provide you with basic information about audio and equipment that is taught in recording schools. Hopefully, this information will provide a foundation for you...
by Jed Alger, Travis Knight
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2012
From LAIKA, the studio behind the hit film Coraline, comes another marvel of stop-motion animation and creative storytelling. For ParaNorman, LAIKA's team of artists and animators built and brought to life a miniature town, a horde of zombies, and a quirky cast of characters to tell a tale of a boy...
by Erika Fischer-Lichte
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Erika Fischer-Lichte's introduction to the discipline of Theatre and Performance Studies is a strikingly authoritative and wide ranging guide to the study of theatre in all of its forms. Its three-part structure moves from the first steps in starting to think about performance, through to the diverse...