Performing arts

This book explores the notion that the emergent language of contemporary theatre, and more generally of modern culture, has links to much earlier forms of storytelling and an ancient worldview.

This book examines the recent trend in global cinema to feature infectious disease.

Witch Fulfillment: Adaptation Dramaturgy and Casting the Witch for Stage and Screen addresses the Witch as a theatrical type on twenty-first-century-North American stages and screens, seen through the lenses of casting, design, and adaptation, with attention paid to why these patterns persist, and what wishes they fulfil.

Music Schools in Changing Societies addresses the need to understand instrumental and vocal pedagogy beyond the individual sphere of teacher-student interactions and psychological phenomena, focusing instead on the wider sociocultural, spatial, and institutional contexts of music education.

Invisible Digital helps us makes sense of something we cannot see by presenting an innovative approach to digital images and digital culture.

With the research of German-language children's and youth literature and its media associations in the period from 1900 to 1945 as well as the recording of all data in an online portal for research and visual analysis, an innovative contribution to the historiography of children's and youth literature is available.

Legends have a way of working themselves into our lives.

In Theses on Feuerbach, Marx writes, The philosophers have only interpreted the world differently; the point is to change it.

Explore the magical, mysterious world of Korean cinema, in this new book from the authors of Ghibliotheque.

Depuis 1795, cette maisonnette située à la croisée de la rue des Saules et de la rue Saint-Vincent aura accueilli en ses murs le Tout-Paris, celui des petites gens, des malfrats, des filles de joie, comme celui des rupins et des bourgeois.

This book is my humble attempt to shine a light on the work of the best and wisest I have ever known.

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In this book, dramaturg Tom Bryant shares with readers and writers his insights into the process of historical adaptation.

Offering an accessible introduction to the study of film genres and genre films, this book examines the use of genre in cinema from its beginnings to the present day.

This collection gathers a set of provocative essays that sketch innovative and interdisciplinary approaches to Genre Theory in the 21st century.

In this book, Lea Gerhards traces connections between three recent vampire romance series; the Twilight film series (2008-2012), The Vampire Diaries (2009-2017) and True Blood (2008-2014), exploring their tremendous discursive and ideological power in order to understand the cultural politics of these extremely popular texts.

Alejandro Jodorowsky is a force of nature.

Life in the United States is always changing.

This book responds to a growing interest in death, dying and the dead within and beyond the field of death studies.

In the vibrant and cosmopolitan city of Hong Kong, the rich and complex cultural scene thrives under the guidance and stewardship of visionary leaders.

Patterns for the coziest and cutest cushions, seating cubes, and pillows from the established designer and bestselling author of The Knitter's Bible.

Eleanor Roosevelt recognized the power of film and television, especially as educational tools to reach young people.

18th Century Male Tailoring: Theatrical and Historical Tailoring c1680-1790 introduces the reader to English eighteenth century tailoring and covers the drafting of patterns, cutting out in cloth and construction techniques in sequence for the tailoring of waistcoats, breeches and coats.

Eleanor Roosevelt recognized the power of film and television, especially as educational tools to reach young people.

Who Helped Map The World?

With the research of German-language children's and youth literature and its media associations in the period from 1900 to 1945 as well as the recording of all data in an online portal for research and visual analysis, an innovative contribution to the historiography of children's and youth literature is available.

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 book responds to a growing interest in death, dying and the dead within and beyond the field of death studies.

Stitch up fashionable and fabulous bags with patterns from the established designer and bestselling author of The Knitter's Bible.

What do Euphoria, Normal People, Atlanta, Ramy, Vida, I May Destroy You, Stranger Things, and Lovecraft Country have in common?

What do Euphoria, Normal People, Atlanta, Ramy, Vida, I May Destroy You, Stranger Things, and Lovecraft Country have in common?

The Art of Movement: Rudolf Laban's Unpublished Writings offers new perspectives on the thinking and practice of Rudolf Laban - one of the pioneers of modern European dance and movement analysis.

Two scripts were created in 2017 from the same source materials: preserved song lyrics from a performance created in 1943 in the Terezin Ghetto called Prince Bettliegend (the Bedridden Prince), the popular 1930s jazz melodies to which those lyrics were set, and fragments of testimony by survivors who performed in or witnessed that production.

Joaquin Phoenix is one of the most fascinating and controversial actors working in film, and ever since his Oscar-nominated performance as Johnny Cash in Walk the Line, is one of the most sought-after actors in Hollywood.

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.

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.

Discover the life of Nelson Mandela-a story about uniting a country for kids ages 6 to 9Nelson Mandela was the first Black president of South Africa, and he dedicated his life to fighting for equal rights for all South Africans.

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