Performing arts

In Movies with Stanley Cavell in Mind, some of the scholars who have become essential for our understanding of Stanley Cavell's writing on film gather to use his landmark contributions to help us read new films-from Hollywood and elsewhere-that exist beyond his immediate reach and reading.

Potent and empowering voice exercises by the master teachers who devised them!

Knockout: The Boxer and Boxing in American Cinema is the first book-length study of the Hollywood boxing film, a popular movie entertainment since the 1930s, that includes such classics as Million Dollar Baby, Rocky, and Raging Bull.

This is the first book of its kind to provide an in-depth examination of how the greatest playwright in the English language employed not only psychological brutality but also physical violence throughout his works.

Dancing with Merce Cunningham is a buoyant, captivating memoir of a talented dancer's lifelong friendship with one of the choreographic geniuses of our time.

International in scope and more comprehensive than existing collections, A Companion to Reality Television presents a complete guide to the study of reality, factual and nonfiction television entertainment, encompassing a wide range of formats and incorporating cutting-edge work in critical, social and political theory.

Disability and Contemporary Performance presents a remarkable challenge to existing assumptions about disability and artistic practice.

In the 1920s and 1930s, Edwina "e;Salt"e; Evelyn and Jewel "e;Pepper"e; Welch learned to tap dance on street corners in New York and Philadelphia.

Lighting for Televised Live Events unlocks the science, art, philosophies, and language of creating lighting for live entertainment and presentations that work for the television camera as well as for the live audience.

Anita Berber (1899–1928) war Filmstar, Tänzerin, Modeikone und Skandalfigur zugleich.

Filming the City brings together the work of filmmakers, architects, designers, video artists and media specialists to provide three distinct prisms through which to examine the medium of film in the context of the city.

How and why did humans get to be so clever and thoughtful?

This book examines the representation of Muslim identity in Hindi films by focusing on different aspects of Muslim identity - historical, cultural, and linguistic - and their realisation in cinematic form.

The documentation of practice is one of the principle concerns of performance studies.

Die Film-Branche sieht sich gegenwärtig mit einem tief greifenden Wandel konfrontiert.

We are witnessing a revolution in storytelling.

Since its economic boom in the late 1950s, Italy has grappled with the environmental legacy of rapid industrial growth and haphazard urban planning.

This is a book about Palestinians elsewhere and Palestinian elsewheres.

An ';incredible' (Alex Cooper, Call Her Daddy), ';riveting' (People) New York Times bestselling memoir by One Tree Hill star Bethany Joy Lenz about her decade in a cult and her quest to break free.

Cyprus, the idyllic "e;island of Aphrodite,"e; is better known as a site of conflict and division between Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots, rather than for its film production.

The long-running popular TV series Doctor Who is, Piers Britton argues, a 'uniquely design intensive text': its time-and-space-travel premise requires that designers be tirelessly imaginative in devising new worlds and entities and recreating past civilizations.

The first ever companion to theatre and science brings together research on key topics, performances, and new areas of interest.

On the night of 14-15 April 1912 during her maiden voyage "e;Titanic"e; struck an iceberg and sank, losing most of her passengers and crew.

In A Vulgar Art, Ian Brodie uses a folkloristic approach to stand-up comedy, engaging the discipline's central method of studying interpersonal, artistic communication and performance.

Young Readers Will Explore Responsibilities At Home, School, And In The Community.

Tracing the international consumption, distribution, and cultural importance of silent film serials in the 1910s and 1920s, Canjels provides an exciting new understanding of the cultural dimension and the cultural transformation and circulation of media forms.

This book offers a comprehensive guide to teaching acting exercises that will unleash the inner creativity of students aged 8-18.

The only comprehensive guide to the plays of one of the world's greatest yet most puzzling contemporary dramatists, The Pinter Ethic penetrates the mystery of Harold Pinter's work with compelling and authoritative insights that locate and disclose the primal power of his drama in his characters' powerplay for dominance.

Eine besondere Spielart von Doku-Soaps sind historische Rollenspiele im Fernsehen, die nicht konkrete Ereignisse nach-spielen (also keine Reenactments), sondern den konkreten Alltag vergangener Zeit nach-leben wollen.

Astrid Ebner-Zarl unterzieht in ihrer Arbeit die These der „Entgrenzung von Kindheit“ einer eingehenden Untersuchung.

This vintage book contains a step-by-step guide to ventriloquism, and includes instructions on topics ranging from vocal exercises, to designing and constructing a doll.

This book studies the intimate tensions between affect and emotions as terrains of sociopolitical significance in the cinema of Lucrecia Martel, Albertina Carri, and Lucia Puenzo.

This book provides a comprehensive examination of the contemporary English-language theatre field in Singapore.

James Bond the the 60s Spy Craze will explore James Bond films and the number of movies and television shows of the 1960s inspired by Ian Fleming's character.

Nye presents a detailed and fascinating study of the influential eighteenth-century European theatrical form, the ''ballet d''action''.

Battista Guarini's pastoral tragicomedy Il pastor fido (1589) began its life as a play, but soon was transformed through numerous musical settings by prominent composers of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.

Written by international experts from a range of disciplines, these essays examine the uniquely British contribution to science fiction film and television.

This accessible Introduction provides an in-depth overview of absurdism and its key figures in theatre and literature.

Whether you're fighting alongside Zeus in the war against the Titans or witnessing the sabotage of Artemis's love for the mortal Orion, this Greek mythology book for kids 8 to12-year-olds will thrill with extraordinary stories from Greek legend!

First Published in 1996.

In this updated edition of the industry staple, veteran media executive Jeff Ulin relates business theory and practice across key global market segments-film, television, and online/digital-providing you with an insider's perspective that can't be found anywhere else.

Written by the lead authors of the C3 Framework, Inquiry-Based Practice in Social Studies Education: Understanding the Inquiry Design Model presents a conceptual base for shaping the classroom experience through inquiry-based teaching and learning.

During the Second World War, the popularity and importance of the cinema in Britain was at its peak.

In this never-before-published memoir from the files of The Walt Disney Archives, Disney Legend Jimmy Johnson (1917-1976) takes you from his beginnings as a studio gofer during the days of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to the opening of Walt Disney World Resort.

Greek Tragedy (1928) is an attempt to cover the whole field of Greek tragedy.

In Malicious Deceivers, Ioana B.