Performing arts

What happened to Greek tragedy after the death of Euripides?

Stanislavski in Practice is an unparalleled step-by-step guide to Stanislavski's system.

Despite its unabated popularity with audiences, slapstick has received rather little scholarly attention, mostly by scholars concentrating on the US theater and cinema traditions.

Framing the Nation: Documentary Film in Interwar France argues that, between World Wars I and II, documentary film made a substantial contribution to the rewriting of the French national narrative to include rural France and the colonies.

Leftist thought and activism stands as a defining force in the articulation of political culture and policy in modern Japan.

A work of startling originality when it debuted in 1938, Thornton Wilder's Our Town evolved to be seen by some as a vintage slice of early 20th Century Americana, rather than being fully appreciated for its complex and eternal themes and its deceptively simple form.

Until recently, discussion of Hollywood film has dominated much of the contemporary dialogue on ecocriticism and the cinema.

This fascinating text offers the first in-depth exploration of acting processes in British television.

Online television streaming has radically changed the ways in which programs are produced, disseminated and watched.

Best known for The Piano, Jane Campion is an author/director whose films explore the relationship between literature and cinema.

Originally arriving in Hollywood to pursue an acting career, James Bridges went on to write and direct such popular films as The Paper Chase, The China Syndrome and Urban Cowboy.

Documentary students and fans revel in stories about filmmakers conquering extraordinary challenges trying to bring their work to the screen.

Set in 'a world before Elvis, in a Liverpool before the Beatles', Terence Davies' film 'Distant Voices, Still Lives' is an elegiac and intensely autobiographical meditation on a post-war working-class childhood.

Discover the complete history of Godzilla in this definitive, official guide to the King of the Monsters.

An insider's view of the world of contemporary Japanese women.

Bringing together leading international writers on cricket and society, this important new book places cricket in the postcolonial life of the major Test-playing countries.

This book presents the recent positions, theories, and methods of artistic research in jazz, inviting readers to critically engage in and establish a sustained discourse regarding theoretical, methodological, and analytic perspectives.

Lawrence of Arabia is widely considered one of the ten greatest films ever made - though more often by film-goers and film-makers than by critics.

Forty years after Roe v.

This book offers a critical look at celebrity and celebrities throughout history, emphasizing the development of celebrity as a concept, its relevance to individuals, and the role of the public and celebrities in popular culture.

Rites of Realism shifts the discussion of cinematic realism away from the usual focus on verisimilitude and faithfulness of record toward a notion of "e;performative realism,"e; a realism that does not simply represent a given reality but enacts actual social tensions.

A practical guide to the principles of teaching and learning movement, this book instructs the actor on how to train the body to become a medium of expression.

The Art and Science of Dance/Movement Therapy offers both a broad understanding and an in-depth view of how and where dance therapy can be used to produce change.

This book examines the circulation and viewership of Bollywood films and filmi modernity in Bangladesh.

The rules of physical contact can be tricky to grasp and children with special needs are at a heightened risk of abuse.

When Steven Soderbergh exploded onto movie screens with sex, lies, and videotape in 1989, it represented more than the arrival of an important new director--it heralded the arrival of an entire generation of important new directors.

This collection charts the terrain of contemporary Japanese animation, one of the most explosive forms of visual culture to emerge at the crossroads of transnational cultural production in the last twenty-five years.

Humans have engaged in artistic and aesthetic activities since the appearance of our species.

If today students of social theory read Jurgen Habermas, Michael Foucault and Anthony Giddens, then proper regard to the question of culture means that they should also read Raymond Williams, Julia Kristeva and Slavoj Zizek.

A major new edition of this much studied play offering the standard, depth and range associated with all Arden editions.

Decline and Reimagination in Cinematic New York examines the cinematic representation of New York from the mid-1960s through the mid-1980s, placing the dominant discourse of urban decline in dialogue with marginal perspectives that reimagine the city along alternative paths as a resilient, adaptive, and endlessly inspiring place.

This book is a collection of essays on neglected aspects of the Great War.

In this collection of essays, performance studies scholar and artist Richard Schechner brings his unique perspective to bear upon some of the key themes of society in the 21st century.

The French New Wave is an essential anthology of writings by and about the critics and filmmakers of this revolutionary cinematic movement, which has had a radical impact on film practice and the way we think and write about film.

This revealing portrait of the real Paris Hilton gets underneath the hype and hate, the glamour and greed.

Stanislavsky and Pedagogy explores current thinking around the pedagogical implications of Stanislavsky's work.

Almost every day of the year a film festival takes place somewhere in the world--from sub-Saharan Africa to the Land of the Midnight Sun.

A comprehensive survey of the work of one of America''s greatest living playwrights, Edward Albee.

Wechselseitige Beziehungen, Befragungen und Beeinflussungen von Philosophie und Theater bzw.

The form is so elemental, so basic, that we have difficulty imagining a time before it existed: a single set, fixed cameras, canned laughter, zany sidekicks, quirky family antics.

For 100 years, Hollywood has provided both the majority and the most popular of films shown on British screens.

The World at War is the most successful history series ever produced by British television.

Driven by such diverse advances as the Human Genome Project and the explosion of the World Wide Web, and also by the threat of human-inspired disasters such as global warming, the field of science and literature studies is currently undergoing an unprecedented expansion.

Investigations into the "e;realities"e; of staging dramatic performances, of a variety of kinds, in the middle ages.

A Critical Companion to Steven Spielberg offers a comprehensive, detailed study of the works of Steven Spielberg.

2017 Freedley Award Finalist, Theatre Library Association2016 Best Circus Book of the Year, Stuart Thayer Prize, Circus Historical SocietyThe 1960s American hippie-clown boom fostered many creative impulses, including neo-vaudeville and Ringling's Clown College.