Performing arts

This collection is the first to focus on the transgressive and transformative power of American female humorists.

This edited collection makes a unique contribution to analyses of the changing nature and challenges of mediated political communication, through a distinctive comparative discourse analytical approach.

This book explores composed scores and pre-existing music in French cinema from 1985 to 2015 so as to identify critical musical moments.

The Bond movies remain the longest continually running film series in movie history.

Film lovers all over the world are familiar with the masterpieces of Eisenstein and Tarkovsky.

This is a completely revised and expanded second edition of The Broadway Song Companion, the first complete guide and access point to the vast literature of the Broadway musical for the solo performer.

Shooter is avisual portrait of war--the perseverance, heroism, and survival--narrated through stunning photographs and powerful essays from a female combat photographer.

This book deals with film adaptations of literary works created in Communist Czechoslovakia between 1954 and 1969, such as The Fabulous World of Jules Verne (Zeman 1958), Marketa Lazarova (Vlacil 1967), and The Joke (Jires 1969).

The 50-year period from 1880 to 1929 is the richest era for theater in American history, certainly in the great number of plays produced and artists who contributed significantly, but also in the centrality of theater in the lives of Americans.

This book is about how the representations of romantic love in television reflect the change and the dilemma of the dominant values in post-socialist Chinese mainstream culture.

The first comprehensive publication on the subject, this book investigates interactions between racial thinking and the stage in the modern and contemporary world, with 25 essays on case studies that will shed light on areas previously neglected by criticism while providing fresh perspectives on already-investigated contexts.

Since the 1990s, the expropriation of canonical works of cinema has been a fundamental dimension of art-film exploration.

This book is the first ever transnational theatre study of an African region.

In the Anthropocene, icy environments have taken on a new centrality and emotional valency.

This book explores how theatre and performance can change the way we think about dementia and some of the environments in which dementia care takes place.

This book takes Roland Barthes's famous proclamation of 'The Death of the Author' as a starting point to investigate concepts of authorial presence and absence on various levels of text and performance.

This book examines a set of theoretical perspectives that critically engage with the notion of postmodernism, investigating whether this concept is still useful to approach contemporary cinema.

This book examines The Wire's authenticity and its establishment of the series realism.

This book analyzes the relationship between art and politics in two contrasting modern dictatorships.

This book brings together recent Spanish fictions and films that point to individualism as the root problem driving diverse circumstances of social, economic, and psychological suffering in the present and recent past.

Bewegte Bilder begegnen uns heute jederzeit und überall – umso wichtiger ist es, die filmwissenschaftlichen Erkenntnisse auf dem Gebiet der Filmanalyse zu sammeln, zu systematisieren und kritisch zu evaluieren.

This book presents close-readings of seven post-millennial comedic films: Up in the Air, Tropic Thunder, JCVD, Winnebago Man, The Trotsky, Be Kind Rewind, and Hamlet 2.

With reference to traditional film theory and frameworks drawn from fields such as screenwriting studies and anthropology, this book explores the challenges and opportunities for both practitioners and viewers offered by the 360-degree storytelling form.

How do nationalized stereotypes inform the reception and content of the migrant comedian's work?

This book analyzes early twenty-first century film and television's fascination with representing the Anglo-American eighteenth century.

Amputation in Literature and Film: Artificial Limbs, Prosthetic Relations, and the Semiotics of "e;Loss"e; explores the many ways in which literature and film have engaged with the subject of amputation.

'One in four people in Germany today have a so-called migration background, however, the relationship between theatre and migration there has only recently begun to take centre stage.

This book places television in Africa in the digital context.

Although it is a somewhat underrepresented form of literature in popular sensibility, poetry finds relevance in the modern world through its appearance in cinema.

Based on Neil Gaiman's novel of the same name, Stardust (2007) was aninstant hit with fans of fantasy and science-fiction.

John Frankenheimer's career as a professional director began and ended in television.

This book explores how Bakhtin's ideas can illuminate the compelling but uneasy fusion of Shakespeare and cinema.

This book constitutes the first full volume dedicated to an academic analysis of the sport of boxing as depicted in British film.

This book explores the circulation of anger and hostility in contemporary American culture with particular attention to the fantasy of refusal, a dream of rejecting all the structures of the contemporary political and economic system.

This book offers provocative readings of canonical Enlightenment dramas that reflect and shape the period's changing understanding of error.

This book deals with the role of television drama in Europe as enabler of transnational, cultural encounters for audiences and the creative community.

The Female Gaze in Documentary Film - an International Perspective makes a timely contribution to the recent rise in interest in the status, presence, achievements and issues for women in contemporary screen industries.

Feminism, Women's Agency, and Communication in Early Twentieth-Century China focuses on a sensational elopement in the Yangzi Delta in the late 1920s to explore how middle- and lower-class members of society gained access to and appropriated otherwise alien and abstract enlightenment theories and idioms about love, marriage, and family.

This collection of essays illuminates the intersection of queer and adaptation.

Depictions of cross generational relationships have always been present in popular cinema.

This book critically engages with the study of theatre and performance in colonial India, and relates it with colonial (and postcolonial) discussions on experience, freedom, institution-building, modernity, nation/subject not only as concepts but also as philosophical queries.

This book explores the complex interplay of culture and economics in the context of Philippine cinema.

This book looks at the connection between contemporary theatre practices and cosmopolitanism, a philosophical condition of social behaviour based on our responsibility, respect, and healthy curiosity to the other.

Do you have to be an extrovert to succeed as an actor?

This collection examines literature and film studies from the late colonial and early postcolonial periods in Taiwan and Korea, and highlights the similarities and differences of Taiwanese and Korean popular culture by focusing on the representation of gender, genre, state regulation, and spectatorship.

This book offers a descriptive and practical analysis of prosody in dubbed speech, examining the most distinctive traits that typify dubbed dialogue at the prosodic level.

The traditional view of Shakespeare's mastery of the English language is alive and well today.

This book analyzes Walt Disney's impact on entertainment, new media, and consumer culture in terms of a materialist, psychoanalytic approach to fantasy.

This volume is the first to combine textual analysis of food media texts with interviews with media production staff, reality TV contestants, celebrity chefs, and food producers and retailers across the artisan-conventional spectrum.

This book traces how the American freak show has re-emerged in new visual forms in the 21st century.