Performing arts

Anna Halprin pioneered what became known as "e;postmodern dance,"e; creating work that was key to unlocking the door to experimentation in theater, music, Happenings, and performance art.

The curtain rises on Theatre and Youth, volume 23 of Theatre Symposium with keynote reflections by Suzan Zeder, the distinguished playwright of theatre for youth, and presents eleven original essays about theatre's reflections of youth and the role of young people in making and performing theatre.

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In this deeply researched and vividly written volume, Melvyn Stokes illuminates the origins, production, reception and continuing history of this ground-breaking, aesthetically brilliant, and yet highly controversial movie.

Documentary productions encompass remarkable representations of surprising realities.

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).

- ¿Taxi Driver muestra el auténtico Nueva York de la época?

Sensuous Cinema: The Body in Contemporary Maghrebi Film examines a cluster of recent films that feature Maghrebi(-French) people and position corporeality as a site through which subjectivity and self-other relations are constituted and experienced.

In People with Dementia Speak Out, twenty-three people from diverse backgrounds share their experiences of living with dementia.

The one and only book on successfully staging amateur productions.

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A comprehensive treatment of the Classical World in film and television, A Companion to Ancient Greece and Rome on Screen closely examines the films and TV shows centered on Greek and Roman cultures and explores the tension between pagan and Christian worlds.

A popular phenomenon since antiquity, the image of the haunted house is one that has translated elegantly into the modern medium of film.

One of the few studies that cover both Broadway and Hollywood musicals, this book explores a majority of the most famous musicals over the past two centuries plus a select number of overlooked gems.

Cultural expressions of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region have a rich tradition, communal narratives, and spiritual connectivity.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

With the increase in computing speed and due to the high quality of the optical effects it achieves, ray tracing is becoming a popular choice for interactive and animated rendering.

Pre-World War II Hollywood musicals weren't only about Astaire and Rogers, Mickey and Judy, Busby Berkeley, Bing Crosby, or Shirley Temple.

Star Wars begins with its famous title sequence, setting the story in the ancient past of a remote galaxy.

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The 1960s was famously the decade of sex, drugs and rock'n'roll.

Taking its cues from the cinematic innovations of the controversial Austrian-born director Michael Haneke, Funny Frames explores how a political thinking manifests itself in his work.

Recent technological and scientific developments have demonstrated a condition that has already long been upon us.

Daniel Calparsoro, a director who has provided a crucial contribution to the contemporary scene in Spanish and Basque cinema, has provoked strong reactions from the critics.

Why do we watch movies?

"e;An engaging primer on film history"e; examining the rise of movies, their influence, and the technology that conveys them (New York Times Book Review).

Surveying the life, work and accolades of Irish playwright Brian Friel, this literary companion investigates his personal and professional relationships and his literary topics and themes, such as belonging, violence, patriarchy and hypocrisy.

A fifty-year-old Bridge game provides an unexpected way to cross the generational divide between a daughter and her mother.

This volume addresses three things many people do not discuss candidly with strangers or mere acquaintances: God, sex, and politics.

This book re-examines early modern musical culture to suggest how music shapes meaning in plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries.

Created as a companion volume to a major history of colour in British Cinema (also by Sarah Street), British Colour Cinema is a book based on a series of unique interviews conducted by Sarah Street and Elizabeth I Watkins with practitioners who worked in the UK with Technicolor and/or Eastmancolor during the 1930s-1950s.

The witch as a cultural archetype has existed in some form since the beginning of recorded history.

This book is a concise, practical guide to writing and making a successful short film.

The "e;Gothic"e; style was a key trend in Italian cinema of the 1950s and 1960s because of its peculiar, often strikingly original approach to the horror genre.

The legacy of emigres in the British film industry, from the silent film era until after the Second World War, has been largely neglected in the scholarly literature.

Jazz stories have been entwined with cinema since the inception of jazz film genre in the 1920s, giving us origin tales and biopics, spectacles and low-budget quickies, comedies, musicals, and dramas, and stories of improvisers and composers at work.

'You never knew what you were going to be confronted with when you went on Later.

This book is for working film/TV professionals and students alike.

WIEDERENTDECKUNG EINER FASZINIERENDEN UND FAST VERGESSENEN KÜNSTLERINRahel Blindermann, ein jüdisches Mädchen von der Schwarzmeerküste, macht sich zu Beginn des 20.

Walt Disney, best known as a filmmaker, had perhaps a greater skill as a reader.

Federico Fellini s script for perhaps the most famous unmade film in Italian cinema, The Journey of G.

This accessible book explores the nature and importance of kinaesthesia, considering how action, agency and movement intertwine and are fundamental in feeling embodied in the world.

Twelve novels and nine short stories define one of the most extraordinary fictional characters of all time, creating the basis for the most successful movie series in cinematographic history, watched by more than half the world's population.