This book examines the rapid growth and rising global visibility of Africa's cultural and creative industries (CCIs) and how they are reshaping debates on economic and cultural development across the continent.
Randai, the popular folk theater tradition of the Minangkabau ethnic group in West Sumatra, has evolved to include influences of martial arts, storytelling, and folk songs.
Mental Health Coordination for Stage and Screen explores and defines the role ofthe mental health coordinator in theatre, film, and television, offering traumainformed,evidence-based frameworks that strengthen safety, connection, andwell-being throughout the creative process.
The attire of the feudal lords and ladies of old Japan, warriors, priest, courtesans, Edo-period dandies geisha, footmen, farmers in fact, the whole array of Kabuki's colorful characters-is discussed in fascinating detail in this Japanese Kabuki book.
The performance art of burlesque, once a faded form, has made a comeback in the twenty-first century, and it has shimmied back to life with a vengeance in Cleveland.
This book explores how virtual reality (VR) can be used to examine perceptual differences in neurodivergent individuals, particularly those with autism and ADHD, by introducing a new methodological framework.
Starting from the assumption that all theater is at least implicitly participatory, Professor Whitaker approaches thirteen plays, from Ibsen's Rosmersholm to Beckett's Endgame and Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.
A pioneer of stage naturalism, David Belasco has come to be universally recognized as one of the first important directors in the history of the American stage.
Besides documenting the predominant presence of privileged patrons in the audience, the author discusses the shape of the privileged life, the place of the privileged in the social structure, the forces that drew so many of them to London, and the factors that made them such avid theatergoers.
This book is a comprehensive study of the customary practices of English players of the period--how they lived and worked and were paid, organized, and cast for parts in the phenomenally popular theaters of England.
Unlike the contrast between the sacred and the taboo, the opposition of "e;comic"e; and "e;tragic"e; is not a way of categorizing experience that we find in cultures all over the world or even at different periods in Western civilization.
This interdisciplinary book of twelve chapters explores not only Shakespeare, but also more than Shakespeare, including the contemporary adaptation of plays and novels represented on screen, stage, and streaming media.
This interdisciplinary book of twelve chapters explores not only Shakespeare, but also more than Shakespeare, including the contemporary adaptation of plays and novels represented on screen, stage, and streaming media.
Teaching Costume Design and Costume Rendering: A Guide for Theatre and Performance Educators clarifies the teaching process for Costume Design and Costume Rendering courses and offers a clear and tested path to success in the classroom.
Teaching Costume Design and Costume Rendering: A Guide for Theatre and Performance Educators clarifies the teaching process for Costume Design and Costume Rendering courses and offers a clear and tested path to success in the classroom.
Non-fiction book from the year 2026 in the subject ThinkShelf: Non-fiction books, , language: English, abstract: "e;An Introduction to Basic Theatre for Schools"e; offers a comprehensive and structured introduction to the fundamental principles of theatre within an educational context.
An extraordinary drama of flight and rescue arising from women's resistance to marriage, The Suppliants is surprising both for its exotic color and for its forceful enactment of the primal struggle between male and female, lust and terror, brutality and cunning.
Elizabeth Belfiore offers a striking new interpretation of Aristotle's Poetics by situating the work within the Aristotelian corpus and in the context of Greek culture in general.
Highbrow/Lowdown explores the twentieth century's first culture war and the forces that permanently transformed American theater into the art form we know today.
Highbrow/Lowdown explores the twentieth century's first culture war and the forces that permanently transformed American theater into the art form we know today.
The new field of theatre studies changed rapidly in the post-World War II, post-Sputnik expansion of higher education, driven by the expressive urgencies of the baby boom and the ferment of the revolutionary 1960s.
The new field of theatre studies changed rapidly in the post-World War II, post-Sputnik expansion of higher education, driven by the expressive urgencies of the baby boom and the ferment of the revolutionary 1960s.
This volume documents the creation of Chocolate Woman Dreams the Milky Way, a play written and performed by Monique Mojica with collaborators from diverse disciplines.
As tourists increasingly moved across the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a surprising number of communities looked to capitalize on the histories of Native American people to create tourist attractions.
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2022 im Fachbereich Theaterwissenschaft, Tanz, Note: 1,3, Freie Universität Berlin (Institut für Deutsche und Niederländische Philologie), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht, inwieweit sich das moderne Jugendtheaterstück "Das Herz eines Boxers" von Lutz Hübner an den Regeln des klassischen Dramas nach Aristoteles orientiert.
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2023 im Fachbereich Theaterwissenschaft, Tanz, Note: 1,0, Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Theaterwissenschaft), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Das „Verhältnis des Subjektes zum Objekt“, welches in dem Machtgefüge, welchem Woyzeck unterworfen ist, entsteht, spielt in den Werken Michel Foucaults eine große Rolle.
Between 1935 and 1939, the United States government paid out-of-work artists to write, act, and stage theatre as part of the Federal Theatre Project (FTP), a New Deal job relief program.
This aint no Dreamgirls, Rhodessa Jones warns participants in the Medea Project, the theater program for incarcerated women that she founded and directs.
Scientific Study from the year 2023 in the subject Theater Studies, Dance, Ibn Tofail University (faculty of languages,literature, and arts), course: theatre studies, language: English, abstract: This article is an attempt to analyze the presence of feminist issues and mechanisms for dismantling male dominance within the theatrical discourse, through the lens of social drama in the work of Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen.
Academic Paper in the subject Theater Studies, Dance, Obafemi Awolowo University (Dramatic Arts), course: Dramatic Arts, language: English, abstract: Theatre has the potential to be more than just entertainment; it can serve as a catalyst for societal change.
Until now, Eugene O'Neills psychological dramas have been analyzed mainly by critics who relied on obvious parallels between O'Neills life, his family, and his plays.
As narrow, nationalist views of patriotic allegiance have become widespread and are routinely invoked to justify everything from flag-waving triumphalism to xenophobic bigotry, the concept of a nonnationalist patriotism has vanished from public conversation.
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2024 im Fachbereich Theaterwissenschaft, Tanz, Note: 1,0, Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Theaterwissenschaft), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Ein offenbar sehr maßgebendes Mittel zur Umsetzung des Bühnentanzes und insbesondere der neuen Ballettform ist die Pantomime.
Preacher-Poets demonstrates that early modern sermons had a larger impact on early modern literary texts and culture than previously assumed, analyzing the role of gender in theological and non-theological texts.
Kabuki A Pocket Guide introduces readers to the foundations of Kabukiits history and its actors, its acting styles and its performance, its color and musicto the sheer beauty and joy of Kabuki.
