Performing arts

This book examines how the fairy tale is currently being redeployed and revised on the contemporary teen screen.

This book approaches the construction of complex and transgressive 'pervert' characters in mainstream (not 'art'), adult-oriented (not pornographic) cinema.

Although it has only been in the last decade that the planet's population balance tipped from a predominantly rural makeup towards an urban one, the field of cinema history has demonstrated a disproportionate skew toward the urban.

This book, a collection of essays by expert film researchers and lecturers, contributes to the growing body of scholarship on cinematic cities by looking at how one city-London-has been represented on film.

This book considers how women's experiences have been treated in films dealing with Nazi persecution.

This book explores Maori indigenous and non-indigenous scholarship corresponding with the term 'animism'.

This book is the first to consider contemporary African dance theatre aesthetics in the context of phenomenology, whiteness, and the gaze.

Diese Monographie erläutert Videospiele als mehrdimensionale und zutiefst wandelsame ​Konzepte als Wechselspiel dreier Dimensionen: Neben den in genretheoretischen Hybridansätzen zwischen Fiktionsgenre und Spielgenre sind es nämlich auch soziale Genrekomplexe, welche die Erfahrung des Spielers, insbesondere in Multiplayerspielen prägen.

This book uses contemporary film to articulate a philosophical account of raising children.

Despite constant hindrance from government interference and control, the Russian theater has produced many memorable playwrights, schools of thought, and plays, whose influence can be seen throughout the world.

Some say that telling the story of the Holocaust is impossible, yet, artists have told the story thousands of time since the end of World War II in novels, dramas, paintings, music, sculpture, and film.

Winning power in Westeros is hard, but holding power is much harder.

This book provides the first comprehensive overview of the global landscape of documentary film festivals.

This book shows how a masterpiece of experimental cinema can be interpreted through hermeneutics of the film world.

Winner of the Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society's 2021 Bevington Award for Best New BookSounds are a vital dimension of transcultural encounters in the early modern period.

Exploring the Spatiality of the City across Cultural Texts: Narrating Spaces, Reading Urbanity explores the narrative formations of urbanity from an interdisciplinary perspective.

This book provides a user-friendly guide to the expanding scope of visual sociology, through a discussion of a broad range of visual material, and reflections on how such material can be studied sociologically.

Digital Theatre is a rich and varied art form evolving between performing bodies gathered together in shared space and the ever-expanding flexible reach of the digital technology that shapes our world.

This erudite volume examines the moral universe of the hit Netflix show Black Mirror.

Performing Music History offers a unique perspective on music history and performance through a series of conversations with women and men intimately associated with music performance, history, and practice: the musicians themselves.

This is the first volume devoted to the topic of dance and quality of life.

This book examines the influence of the early modern period on Antonin Artaud's seminal work The Theatre and Its Double, arguing that Elizabethan and Jacobean drama and their early modern context are an integral part of the Theatre of Cruelty and essential to its very understanding.

This collection of essays by Australian based practitioner-theorists brings together new research on interactive documentary making.

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This book analyses the impact of HIV and AIDS on performance in the twenty-first century from an international perspective.

This book is the first full-length study to focus on the various film adaptations of Patricia Highsmith's novels, which have been a popular source for adaptation since Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train (1952).

In contrast to the main body of current Victorian detective criticism, which tends to concentrate on Conan Doyle's creation and only uses other detectives as a backdrop, the texts gathered in this volume examine various contemporary ways of (re)presenting real and fictional detectives that originated in or are otherwise associated with that era: Inspector Bucket, Sergeant Cuff, Inspector Reid, Tobias Gregson, Flaxman Low, and psychiatrists as detectives.

This book is a study of English conversion narratives between 1580 and 1660.

This book shows how Carnival under British colonial rule became a locus of resistance as well as an exercise and affirmation of power.

This book is an anthology of Mark Edward's creative practice-led projects.

This book analyses the representation of North-East England in film and television.

Japanese Horror and the Transnational Cinema of Sensations undertakes a critical reassessment of Japanese horror cinema by attending to its intermediality and transnational hybridity in relation to world horror cinema.

This book focuses on Shine, a musical performance about how energy, humanity, and climate are interrelated.

Despite the widely publicised prejudice faced by women in Hollywood, since around 1990 a significant minority of female directors have been making commercially and culturally impactful films there across the full range of genres.

This book discusses affective practices in performance through the study of four contemporary performers - Keith Hennessy, Ilya Noe, Caro Novella, and duskin drum - to suggest a tentative rhetoric of performativity generating political affect and permeating attempts at social justice that are often alterior to discourse.

This book explores cinema and film theory through classical Indian theories.

This book locates the philosophy of Ubuntu as the undergirding framework for indigenous dance pedagogies in local communities in Uganda.

This book theorizes auteur Robert Lepage's scenography-based approach to adapting canonical texts.

The Western tradition, with its well-worn tropes, readily identifiable characters, iconic landscapes, and evocative soundtracks, is not limited to the United States.

This book shows that Shakespeare continues to influence contemporary Irish literature, through postcolonial, dramaturgical, epistemological and narratological means.

This book defines theatricality and performativity through metaphors of texture and weaving, drawn mainly from anthropologist Tim Ingold and philosopher Stephen C.

This textbook goes beyond introductory sensory perception by incorporating supplementary electronic materials to demonstrate the parallels between both hearing and seeing.

This book discusses developments and continuities in experimental animation that, since Robert Russet and Cecile Starr's Experimental Animation: Origins of a New Art (1976), has proliferated in the context of expanded cinema, performance and live 'making' and is today exhibited in galleries, public sites and online.

This book discusses slow cinema, a contemporary global production trend that has recently gained momentum in film theory and criticism.

This book explores the space of queer documentary through the modernist optic of Marcel Proust's 'lieu factice' (artificial place), a perspective that problematizes the location of place in a post-postmodern world with a dispersed sense of the real.

Can the stories people tell influence the way they see the world?

This book develops media archaeological approaches to theatre and intermediality.

This pivot considers key transformations within the Chinese film industry since the country opened its doors to the outside world in the late 1970s, and moved from an ideologically-centred censorship system to one of contestation and cooperation between politics, art and market.

This book, the first of its kind, surveys the career of the renowned Australian-German theatre and opera director Barrie Kosky.

This book is a historical study of the use of Asian theatre for modern Western theatre as practiced by its founding fathers, including Aurelien Lugne-Poe, Adolphe Appia, Gordon Craig, W.