This edited collection of essays details a wide-ranging selection of some of the most sensationally successful theatre productions of the long Victorian era, the real "e;blockbusters"e; of the age.
The author's starting point is the interweaving of forgiveness and resentment in the works of Jewish writers after the Holocaust, most especially Hannah Arendt and Jean Amery, to make sense of the catastrophe and to point to a way forward for both victims and perpetrators.
Critical Acting Pedagogy: Intersectional Approaches invites readers to think about pedagogy in actor training as a research field in its own right: to sit with the complex challenges, risks, and rewards of the acting studio; to recognise the shared vulnerability, courage, and love that defines our field and underpins our practices.
Shortlisted for the 2024 TaPRA Edited Collection PrizeThis is a guide to contemporary debates and theatre practices at a time when gender paradigms are both in flux and at the centre of explosive political battlegrounds.
In 101+ Tips and Tricks Every Prop Maker Should Know, Utah Shakespeare Festival's Properties Director Ben Hohman explains tricks of the trade generally not taught in schools, but essential for prop makers working on the job.
Lessons from our Students: Meditations on Performance Pedagogy is a collection of thirty short personal case studies about pedagogical issues that arise in theater classrooms and rehearsals.
Shakespeare's Forgotten Allegory posits three startling points: that we have today forgotten a cultural icon that helped to bring about the Renaissance; that this character, used to distil classical wisdom regarding how to raise children to become moral adults, consistently appeared in plays performed between 1350 and 1650; and that the character was often utilised by the likes of Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, and therefore adds a long-forgotten allegorical narrative to their works.
Higher Education and the Carceral State: Transforming Together explores the diversity of ways in which university faculty and students are intervening in the system of mass incarceration through the development of transformative arts and educational programs for students in correctional institutions.
In der Zeit des wirtschaftlichen Aufschwungs Deutschlands nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg waren die Wochenschauen im Vorprogramm jeder Kinovorstellung eine bedeutende Informationsquelle.
Conceptual Performance explores how the radical visual art that challenged material aesthetics in the 1960s and 1970s tested and extended the limits, character and concept of performance.
Recorded Music in Creative Practices: Mediation, Performance, Education brings new critical perspectives on recorded music research, artistic practice, and education into an active dialogue.
Theaters worldwide have exhibited a bewildering array of form, style, tone and subject in the late 20th- and the early 21st centuries, and this range of work has been determined largely by its directors.
This book offers an approach which unites choreographic and spectatorial perspectives, and argues for dance itself-its materials, its structures-as a medium of emotional communication.
Seit Menschen über sich und die Bedingungen ihrer Existenz nachdenken und diesem oft leidvollen Prozess auf schöpferische Weise Ausdruck geben – sei es philosophisch, literarisch, bildhaft, musikalisch oder auf der Bühne eines Theaters –, waren ihre künstlerischen Werke immer zugleich Spiegel ihrer seelischen Prozesse und Zeugnisse der Sehnsucht, auf diese Weise eine wahrhaftige, emotional berührende und Nähe ermöglichende Verbundenheit unter den Menschen zu schaffen.
Wie das Leben mit seinen Höhen und Tiefen, so versetzt auch die Erfahrung von Verlust den Menschen ungewollt und meist sehr schmerzlich in Bewegung – oder aus der Bewegung heraus in die Erstarrung.
The Routledge Companion to the Anthropology of Performance provides a cutting-edge, comprehensive overview of the foundations, epistemologies, methodologies, key topics and current debates, and future directions in the field.
Learn how emerging technologies benefit artists and performing arts organizations Raising the Curtain: Technology Success Stories from Performing Arts Leaders and Artists focuses on empowering artists and performing arts organizations in theater, dance, and music to grow audiences and to increase impact through smart and strategic uses of technology.
Stitching La Mode: Patterns and Dressmaking from Fashion Plates of 1785-1795 brings to life women's unique and extravagant fashions of 1785-1795 in a beautifully illustrated and accessible way.
Building on the work of star studies scholars, this collection provides contextual analyses of off-screen representation, as well as close textual analyses of films and star personas, thereby offering an in-depth study of the Arab star as text and context of Arab cinema.
Punchdrunk on the Classics: Experiencing Immersion in The Burnt City and Beyond draws attention to Punchdrunk's use of ancient Greek literature in their creation of immersive theatre.
Von der Ankunft des Cinématographe der Gebrüder Lumière in Wien über die Entfaltung des Kinos in Österreich bis zum Niedergang durch den Aufstieg des Fernsehens spannt sich der weite Bogen der vorliegenden Kinogeschichte.
Sus orígenes bañolenses, el sentido lúdico del arte, la vida como una fiesta diaria, Barcelona, Cannes, Locarno, París, Nueva York… Este brindis reaviva el discurso que Albert Serra improvisó como pregonero de las fiestas de San Martiriano: un lúcido recorrido por sus años de formación y un generoso homenaje a todas las personas que lo han ayudado a conformar su particular concepción del cine, el arte y la vida.
In der Zeit des wirtschaftlichen Aufschwungs Deutschlands nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg waren die Wochenschauen im Vorprogramm jeder Kinovorstellung eine bedeutende Informationsquelle.
