History of Performing Arts

Often regarded as the first golden era of television, the 1950s was a decade when many classic programs-from I Love Lucy and Gunsmoke to The Honeymooners and Perry Mason, among others-made their debuts.

Pencils down--graphite and eyebrow--and eyes to front of the room for this one-of-a-kind lesson.

"e;Winston tastes good like a cigarette should"e; and "e;You'll wonder where the yellow went when you brush your teeth with Pepsodent"e; are only two of the many slogans associated with advertising on television in the 1950s.

The first authorised biography of eternal legend Elizabeth Taylor.

Das Kleist-Jahrbuch 1998 erscheint erstmals unter neuer Herausgeberschaft: Günter Blamberger zeichnet für den Abhandlungsteil, Sabine Doering und Klaus Müller-Salget sind für den Rezensionsteil verantwortlich.

In the first book-length study of the work and legacy of West End actor-manager George Alexander since the 1930s, George Alexander and the Work of the Actor Manager examines the key part this figure played in presenting new drama by authors including Oscar Wilde and Henry James.

Das aktuelle Jahrbuch dokumentiert die Verleihung des Kleist-Preises 2015 mit den Reden der Preisträgerin Monika Rinck, der Vertrauensperson der Jury Heinrich Detering und des Präsidenten der Heinrich-von-Kleist-Gesellschaft Günter Blamberger.

Kornegay's brilliant and insightful use of James Baldwin's literary genius offers a way forward that promises to overcome the divide between religion and sexuality that is of crucial importance not only for black church and theology but for socio-political-religious and theological discourse generally.

This book investigates how the British theatrical community offered an alternative and oppositional historical narrative to the heritage culture promulgated by the Thatcher and Major Governments in the 1980s and early 1990s.

This is a landmark anthology of international feminist theatre research.

This work is a timely contribution to the debates surrounding feminism, theatre and performance.

Ruth Padel explores Greek conceptions of human innerness and the way in which Greek tragedy shaped European notions of mind and self.

This innovative collection features essays by a range of internationally renowned scholars and reconsiders textual practices in contemporary performance, specifically focusing on the exciting exchange between text, body and technology.

This book explores the performance of Irish collective memories and forgotten histories.

This book recounts the personal and professional life of Thomas Souness Hamblin (1800-1853), Shakespearean actor and Bowery Theatre manager.

Corpuscule Danse est la première compagnie de danse au Québec à avoir intégré des personnes avec et sans handicap, tant visible qu’invisible, dans les cours qu’elle dispense et sur la scène professionnelle.

This volume frames the concept of a national play.

This book provides an overall history of the regional theatre movement in the US, while also utilizing specific accomplishments and failures in addition to crucial administrative and artistic decisions to chart larger developments in American theatre, most notably the craze for new play development, the death of resident companies in professional theatres, the passion to reflect social causes (especially social justice and the #MeToo movement), and the troubling economic state of contemporary regional theatres.

In Performance, Cognitive Theory, and Devotional Culture, Jill Stevenson uses cognitive theory to explore the layperson s physical encounter with live religious performances, and to argue that laypeople s interactions with other devotional media - such as books and art objects - may also have functioned like performance events.

How do the ethical implications of writing theatrical histories complicate the historiographical imperative in our current sociopolitical context?

This introduction to the theatre also attempts to offer a meditation on the theatricality of the Incarnation.

This book is a historical study of the use of Asian theatre for modern Western theatre as practiced by its founding fathers, including Aurelien Lugne-Poe, Adolphe Appia, Gordon Craig, W.

This book explores the fascinating phenomenon of cross-casting and related gender issues in different theatrical genres and different performance contexts during the heyday of French theatre.

This book argues that Shaw was a masterful reader of Ibsen's plays both as texts and as the cornerstone of the modern theatre.

This book explores a heretofore unremarked linkage between Bernard Shaw, the twentieth-century French thinker Paul Ricoeur, and Jesus of Nazareth.

This book reveals how Fields became a character comedian while performing in Broadway's most illustrious revue, the Ziegfeld Follies.

Winner of the TaPRA New Career Research in Theatre/Performance Prize 2016 This is the first scholarly book to focus exclusively on theatre and learning disability as theatre, rather than advocacy or therapy.

Screenwriter, director, producer and comic book author Joss Whedon is best known for his television series and films featuring villainous vampires, angry gods and even bloggers who wish to rule the world.

Providing a unique collection of perspectives on the persistence of documentary as a vital and dynamic media form within a digital world, New Documentary Ecologies traces this form through new opportunities of creating media, new platforms of distribution and new ways for audiences to engage with the real.

During the era often commonly known as McCarthyism, many motion picture and television creators were blacklisted for supposed communist ties.

The French colony of Saint-Domingue (now Haiti) was home to one of the richest public theatre traditions of the colonial-era Caribbean.

In many pop culture texts, "e;monsters"e; can be read as metaphors for marginalized Others in U.

Encounters in Performance Philosophy is a collection of 14 essays by international researchers which demonstrates the vitality of the field of Performance Philosophy.

Defining class broadly as an identity categorization based on status, wealth, family, bloodlines, and occupation, Intersectionalities of Class in Early Modern English Drama e xplores class as a complicated, contingent phenomenon modified by a wider range of social categories apart from those defining terms, including, but not limited to, race, gender, religion, and sexuality.

The Harlem Renaissance was an unprecedented period of vitality in the American Arts.

Theatre and Ghosts brings theatre and performance history into dialogue with the flourishing field of spectrality studies.

This classic study is both an introduction to, and an overview of, the relationship between feminism and theatre.

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This book provides key critical tools to significantly broaden the readers' perception of theatre and performance history: in line with posthuman thought, each chapter engages Actor-Network Theory and similar theories to reveal a comprehensive range of human and non-human agents whose collaborations impact theatre productions but are often overlooked.

As the first collection of essays about Oscar Wilde's comedies, the contributors re-evaluate Oscar Wilde's society plays as 'comedies of manners"e; to see whether this is actually an apt way to read Wilde's most emblematic plays.

Angels in America was one of the most significant pieces of American theatre in the 20th Century.

This book traces blackface types from ancient masks of grinning Africans and phallus-bearing Roman fools through to comedic medieval devils, the pan-European black-masked Titivillus and Harlequin, and racial impersonation via stereotypical 'black speech' explored in the Renaissance by Lope de Vega and Shakespeare.

Acclaimed author of 'Wartime', Juliet Gardiner, brings to life the long neglected decade of the twentieth century - the 1930s.

This book explores an important moment in Italian women's theatre and cultural history: plays written for all-women casts between 1946 and the mid-1960s, authored for the most part by women and performed exclusively by women.

Shakespeare s Widows moves thirty-one characters appearing in twenty plays to center stage.

More than 20 years after it was first broadcast, The X-Files still holds the public imagination.

In this beautifully illustrated book, one of the foremost Shakespeareans of our time explores the ways in which Shakespeare has been imagined from his time to ours.

This expanded second edition traces the development and popularity of the sportscast highlight--the dominant news frame in the crowded medium of electronic sports journalism--as the primary means of communicating about sports and athletes.