Performing arts

The Oxford Handbook of New Science Fiction Cinemas provides novel insight into the rapidly developing genre of science fiction.

Drawn into the circuit of men cruising for sex in and around a train station, restless adolescent Henri begins a frenzied pursuit of a dangerously charismatic older man, with sometimes violent and ultimately tragic consequences.

The Oxford Handbook of New Science Fiction Cinemas provides novel insight into the rapidly developing genre of science fiction.

Hailed as groundbreaking upon its original release, the Oscar-winning film Boys Don't Cry offered the first mainstream access to transmasculine embodiment in North America, one that many simultaneously celebrated and rejected.

Midnight Cowboy the story of a small-town stud's attempt to make it big as a hustler on the streets of 1960s New York is an indisputably iconic film.

Premiering at Sundance in 2014, Desiree Akhavan's acclaimed debut feature, Appropriate Behavior, introduced the indie film world to the deadpan, irreverent wit that had already won over fans of her trailblazing LGBTQ web series The Slope.

Lavapies - diverse, multicultural, and one of Madrid's most iconic neighbourhoods - has emerged as a locus of resistance movements and of cultural flourishing.

A film that transcends time, Sally Potter's Orlando follows its titular character through nearly four hundred years of British history.

Lavapies - diverse, multicultural, and one of Madrid's most iconic neighbourhoods - has emerged as a locus of resistance movements and of cultural flourishing.

A film that transcends time, Sally Potter's Orlando follows its titular character through nearly four hundred years of British history.

In the past decade, Vancouver dance has received tremendous acclaim nationally and internationally, as witnessed by the success of choreographer Crystal Pite and a rejuvenated Ballet BC.

In Canada, adaptation is a national mode of survival, but it is also a way to create radical change.

From The Lady Eve, to The Big Valley, Barbara Stanwyck played parts that showcased her multidimensional talents but also illustrated the limits imposed on women in film and television.

Dance Research Methodologies: Ethics, Orientations, and Practices captures the breadth of methodological approaches to research in dance in the fine arts, the humanities, the social sciences, and the natural sciences by bringing together researchers from around the world writing about a variety of dance forms and practices.

Faced with a depleted planet and a series of connected crises, socially minded agents and entities within the world of culture and the arts are reacting from within.

Dance Research Methodologies: Ethics, Orientations, and Practices captures the breadth of methodological approaches to research in dance in the fine arts, the humanities, the social sciences, and the natural sciences by bringing together researchers from around the world writing about a variety of dance forms and practices.

The five essays in this book reflect many years of the author's sustained academic engagement with dramatic forms and traditions.

What goes on in the body and mind of an endurance athlete at the limits of performance?

National Theatre Connections 2023 draws together ten new plays for young people to perform, from some of the UK's most exciting and popular playwrights.

'A spicy work of biographical conjecture .

National Theatre Connections 2023 draws together ten new plays for young people to perform, from some of the UK's most exciting and popular playwrights.

How does the act of performance speak to the concept of commemoration?

Through a series of reflections from internationally renowned performance-makers and contextualising essays from leading theatre and performance scholars, this is the first book to map the influence of Roland Barthes on performance.

What goes on in the body and mind of an endurance athlete at the limits of performance?

Through a series of reflections from internationally renowned performance-makers and contextualising essays from leading theatre and performance scholars, this is the first book to map the influence of Roland Barthes on performance.

The WJEC/Eduqas Media Studies for A Level Year 1 & AS Student Book has been revised and updated to reflect the latest amendments to the specification.

An in-depth account of the greatest aviation war film ever made, the first major movie to deal with the aerial conflicts above Britain during 1940.

Blindness, or vision loss, is a major medical concern that has also drawn the attention of artists, writers, musicians, mythologists, filmmakers, religions, philosophers and others.

For observers of the European film scene, Federico Fellini's death in 1993 came to stand for the demise of Italian cinema as a whole.

For observers of the European film scene, Federico Fellini's death in 1993 came to stand for the demise of Italian cinema as a whole.

Spanning several generations-from newcomers to Oscar Award-winning veterans-this volume features a discussion of the movies that shaped the careers of these filmmakers and, in turn, cinema history.

"e;Burning Horizon reminds us how British and American servicemen and women train together, learn together, and, when called upon, fight together to defeat threats to our common values.

Amanda Bucelli is a twenty-something waitress aspiring writer/producer frustrated with having to wait on tables to make a living!

Thanks to his prolific movie career (seventy-eight movies and counting) and endearing real-life persona, Keanu Reeves has become the universal screen saver of pop culture-nobody can go a few days without some reference to Keanu or his movies popping up.

The theater of the 21st century, in many ways, is expanding to require new muscles of its actors, and so should their scene choices.

This book explores the convergence of urban radio with digital media technologies in Africa, focusing on how youth are riding on the rapid (though uneven) internet rollout on the continent to participate and drive the production and consumption of urban radio.

"Wusch, wusch, wusch, rums .

Figuren des Akrobatischen sind in der Literatur der Moderne omnipräsent.

"Das Lächerlichste auf der Welt: Hörer abheben, Nummer wählen, warten, bis sich am anderen Ende der Leitung eine Stimme meldet.

Es una síntesis de las actividades básicas e imprescindibles para la realización de piezas audiovisuales documentales o de ficción.

Hailed as groundbreaking upon its original release, the Oscar-winning film Boys Don't Cry offered the first mainstream access to transmasculine embodiment in North America, one that many simultaneously celebrated and rejected.

This collection provides a comprehensive overview of the Oberammergau Passion play and its history from the 19th century onwards.

Burridge and Svendler Nielsen bring together many perspectives from around the world on dancing experiences through life of senior artists and educators, whether as professionals working with community dance groups, in education or for recreation and well-being.

This collection provides a comprehensive overview of the Oberammergau Passion play and its history from the 19th century onwards.

Burridge and Svendler Nielsen bring together many perspectives from around the world on dancing experiences through life of senior artists and educators, whether as professionals working with community dance groups, in education or for recreation and well-being.

This is a history and critical appreciation of an unusually fertile period for the production of great or near-great silent films: late 1927 through early 1929, in the midst of the tumult and upheaval of Hollywood's transition from silent to sound.

Animation in Context is an illustrated introduction to cultural theory, contextual research and critical analysis.

This work is a straightforward approach to the creative process of actor training.

For the first 70 years of television, broadcasters dictated the terms of the viewing experience, deciding not only when but how much of a program an audience could watch.