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In On Stage, Mathilde Roman explores the resonances that fields of theatre – stage, décor, space, gaze and more – have in the practice of video arts. Using these notions of theatre both as points of reference and as a prism through which video installation can be approached, Roman concentrates...

The term ‘theatre laboratory’ has entered the regular lexicon of theatre artists, producers, scholars and critics alike, yet use of the term is far from unified, often operating as an catch-all for a web of intertwining practices, territories, pedagogies and ideologies. Russian theatre, however,...

Dating Your Character: A Sexy Guide to Screenwriting for Film and TV, is based on the principle that interesting characters actually are co-creators in the writing process. It’s organized into some of the standard stages in an evolving, romantic relationship, launched by a couple of chapters that...

Fred is a musician. Holly is a painter.Their couple is getting nowhere. Fred is frustrated and drunk most of the time while Holly is becoming a drug addict.They decide to split up and Fred goes to live with his friend Steve. Steve, a computer programmer, invented a software which links each...

This book of plays has been written keeping in mind an age group of six and above. The children who will be reading this book will be able to apply quite easily the exercises and techniques that the book describes. Some will require facilitation by a trainer, of course, but many can be practiced at...

The self-proclaimed B-Opera “...On-Drag-On-Flies!” is dynamic, cosmic, comical, gritty, phantasmagorical American vanguard musical full with unexpected twists of the plot, carrying one through the present day psyche of sex, aliens, violence obsessed society in search for love and self-coherence...

Frieda Ekotto, Kenneth W. Harrow, and an international group of scholars set forth new understandings of the conditions of contemporary African cultural production in this forward-looking volume. Arguing that it is impossible to understand African cultural productions without knowledge of the structures...

Deflecting the attention from Hollywood, Stars in World Cinema fills an important gap in the study of film by bringing together Star Studies and World Cinema. A team of international scholars here bring their expertise and in-depth knowledge of world cultures and cinema to the study of stars and stardom...

The Fundamentals of Creative Photography offers a comprehensive introduction to the world of applied creative photography. It is concerned with photography in a professional context – images that are to be used in the fulfilment of a brief, rather than those created solely for self-expression. Creativity...

Almost without exception, studies of the avant-garde take for granted the premise that the influential experimental practices associated with the avant-garde began primarily as a European phenomenon that in turn spread around the world. These ten original essays, especially commissioned for Not the...

Suzan-Lori Parks confirmed herself as one of the most exciting and successful playwrights of her generation when her work Topdog/Underdog was awarded the 2002 Pulitzer Prize, making her the only African American woman to win the award. Despite the cultural weight of this achievement, Parks...

Robert Flaherty’s Nanook of the North is one of the best-known documentaries of the silent era and has remained well-known throughout the world ever since its release in 1922. This study takes as its point of departure the changes Nanook underwent from its premiere at the New York Capitol on June...

The 25th Anniversary Woodstock Music and Arts Festival attracted an estimated 400,000 to the Winston Farm in Saugerties, New York. For some, Woodstock represented an opportunity to recapture a unique time in their past, for others it was a new adventure. This is the story of the 25th Woodstock Anniversary...

On his endeavor to pursue a degree in Computer Science, the young introverted WINCOTT discovers that a LAPTOP, which he can't afford, is a necessity. His obsession for martial arts causes him to seek solitude at ABORETUM where he meets a DRUG PEDDLER. Desperation, loneliness and his uncouth behavior...