The shortest runs can have the longest legacies: for too long, scholarship surrounding British musical theatre has coalesced around the biggest names, ignoring important works that have not had the critical engagement they deserve.
New Approaches to Decolonizing Fashion History and Period Styles: Re-Fashioning Pedagogies offers a wide array of inclusive, global, practical approaches for teaching costume and fashion history.
Inclusive Shakespeares: Identity, Pedagogy, Performance responds to the growing concern to make Shakespeare Studies inclusive of prospective students, teachers, performers, and audiences who have occupied a historically marginalized position in relation to Shakespeare's poetry and plays.
This handbook provides an extensive overview of traditional and emerging research areas within the field of intermediality studies, understood broadly as the study of interrelations among all forms of communicative media types, including transmedial phenomena.
Attention Spans' chronological review of Garrett Stewart's critical approach tracks and maps the evolution of intersecting disciplines from late New Criticism through structuralism, deconstruction, narrative theory (by way of narratography), poetics, and media studies, in which Stewart's has been so persistent and so eloquent a voice.
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!
À partir de quatre exemples remarquables (Chantons sous la pluie, L’Opéra de quat’ sous, Les Parapluies de Cherbourg, et West Side Story), ce dossier retrace l’histoire du genre, au théâtre et au cinéma.
"Wenn man die Geschichte unseres Landes nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg schreiben wird, kann man getrost auf die Tonnen bedruckten Papiers der Sozialforscher verzichten und sich Loriots gesammelten Werken zuwenden: Das sind wir, in Glanz und Elend", konstatiert Christoph Stölzl im Nachwort zu Loriots Gesammelter Prosa.
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.
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.
Discover the life of Ruth Bader Ginsburg-A story about fighting for justice, for kids ages 6 to 9Ruth Bader Ginsburg was the second woman ever to serve as a judge on the Supreme Court of the United States.
This handbook provides an extensive overview of traditional and emerging research areas within the field of intermediality studies, understood broadly as the study of interrelations among all forms of communicative media types, including transmedial phenomena.
Sid 'One-Punch' Luft, amateur-boxer, producer and Judy Garland's third husband was the one man in her life who stuck around, helping her achieve a meteoric comeback in the 1960s.
Essential Vectorworks Skills for Scenic and Production Designers is an accessible textbook that covers the digital skills of 2D drawing, 3D modeling, rendering, drafting, and design presentation, providing aspiring designers with an invaluable toolkit to quickly and efficiently hone their craft.
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 brings together research from medical and film archives to illustrate the cultural impact of film and literature in its relationship to the discourse of plastic surgery in the 1920s.
Since the release of Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins in 2005, there has been a pronounced surge in alternative uses of the computer term 'reboot,' a surge that has witnessed the term deployed in new contexts and new signifying practices, involving politics, fashion, sex, nature, sport, business, and media.
Anglo-American Stage and Screen Drama analyses and discusses the contemporary role of stage and screen drama as a critical forum for progressive thinking in an increasingly polarised geopolitical world.
Els seus orígens banyolins, el sentit lúdic de l'art, la vida com a festa diària, Barcelona, Canes, Locarno, París, Nova York… Aquest brindis reviscola el discurs que Albert Serra va improvisar com a pregoner de les festes de Sant Martirià: un viu recorregut pels seus anys de formació i un generós homenatge a totes les persones que l'han ajudat a conformar la seva particular concepció del cinema, de l'art i de la vida.
When Carole Lombard was tragically killed in a plane crash on January 16, 1942, she was 33 years old and had been a film actress for almost 20 years, yet her best work probably still lay ahead.
