Tragic Resistance analyzes playwrights, directors, and performers who shatter gender norms to gain agency within the patriarchal institutions restricting them.
Slags on Stage weaves cultural analysis with poetry and art criticism to explore the concept of the 'slag' and its place in contemporary British culture.
This comprehensive text traces a cultural history of acting practice in Aotearoa/New Zealand, whose Indigenous Maori practitioners have made a significant impact on acting processes, principles and values in this postcolonial nation.
In this collection of essays Mary Cyr explores some of the written and unwritten performance conventions that applied to French and English music of the 17th and early 18th centuries.
The formation and communication of vision is one of the primary responsibilities of a director, before ever getting to the nuts and bolts of the process.
In Being and Time, Martin Heidegger developed a way of considering human existence as 'being there', a process of interrelationships with aspects of the environment in which the very process itself constitutes the essence of human being.
Posthumanist Collaborations in Performance presents a novel approach for readers to engage with new materialist performance as a method of qualitative inquiry and as a means of combating the anthropocentric loneliness of modern life.
In Being and Time, Martin Heidegger developed a way of considering human existence as 'being there', a process of interrelationships with aspects of the environment in which the very process itself constitutes the essence of human being.
Drawing from author Tim Palmer's 30 years of experience working as a cinematographer for award-winning drama series including Killing Eve, Bad Sisters, and Line of Duty, this book is the go-to guide on how to light just about any scene a cinematographer may face when shooting a TV show.
Tragic Resistance analyzes playwrights, directors, and performers who shatter gender norms to gain agency within the patriarchal institutions restricting them.
This book investigates the aesthetic and political dialectics of East Berlin to argue how its theater and opera stages incited artists to act out, fuel, and resist the troubled construction of political legitimacy.
Originally published in 1937 and reprinted as a fourth edition in paperback in 1979, this is a history of dress in England from the Norman Conquest to the mid-20th century.
This collection of original essays presents new scholarship on nearly three dozen feature-length films, including silent films, animated films, films in black and white, and films in technicolor, along with other, shorter examples of cinematic medievalism.
This collection of original essays presents new scholarship on nearly three dozen feature-length films, including silent films, animated films, films in black and white, and films in technicolor, along with other, shorter examples of cinematic medievalism.
Offering a lively, international, and interdisciplinary introduction to research on arts programmes in prisons, Arts in Criminal Justice and Corrections is the first volume to bring together leading figures from the USA, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and Belgium to explore key methodological approaches and issues through the lens of the researchers themselves.
Este libro es un estudio del proceso de ensayos del eminente director afro americano Lloyd Richards, junto con sus colegas artísticos, Lorraine Hansberry, August Wilson, James Earl Jones, Mary Alice, Charles Dutton, entre otros numerosos artistas que estuvieron en el aula de ensayo con esta legendaria figura.
This book is the first definitive publication to consider the intersections of applied theatre and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) - a series of goals which have shaped development and social justice initiatives from 2015 to 2030.
Originally published in 1973, this book investigates the power and the pressures behind English theatre in the late 20th Century, analysing its structure and systems, and the way that money and motives flow through it.
