Performing arts

Considered one of the finest performers in world cinema, Japanese actor Takashi Shimura (1905-1982) appeared in more than 300 stage, film and television roles during his five-decade career.

In this book, David MacDougall, one of the leading ethnographic filmmakers and film scholars of his generation, builds upon the ideas from his widely praised Transcultural Cinema and argues for a new conception of how visual images create human knowledge in a world in which the value of seeing has often been eclipsed by words.

Documentary has never attracted such audiences, never been produced with such ease from so many corners of the globe, never embraced such variety of expression.

For more than twenty years, Writing Screenplays That Sell has been hailed as the most complete guide available on the art, craft, and business of writing for movies and television.

From the beginning, both Robert Kirkman's comics and AMC's series of The Walking Dead have brought controversy in their presentations of race, gender and sexuality.

Acting for the Screen is a collection of essays written by and interviews with working actors, producers, directors, casting directors, and acting professors, exploring the business side of screen acting.

The work of Sam Peckinpah represents a high point in American cinema.

'Mackrell's enthralling biography restores Lydia Lopokova to her rightful position centre-stage' DAILY MAIL'Superb .

The organization of Shakespeare's plays has challenged, even baffled audiences and critics since the 17th century.

This groundbreaking collection by the most distinguished musicologists and film scholars in their fields gives long overdue recognition to music as equal to the image in shaping the experience of film.

This diverse book brings together theoretical and practical viewpoints on objects in performance, how they can be part of theatre scenery, equal partners in performance, or autonomous things.

The violinist Jascha Heifetz (1901-1987) is considered among the most influential performers in history and still maintains a strong following among violinists around the world.

Driven by exacting methods and hard data, this volume reveals gender dynamics within the dance world in the twenty-first century.

With importance for geopolitical cultural economy, anthropology, and media studies, John Hutnyk brings South Asian circuits of scholarship to attention where, alongside critical Marxist and poststructuralist authors, a new take on film and television is on offer.

Flamenco dance and bullfighting are parallel arts with shared traditions, performance conventions and vocabularies of movement.

Politics as Public Art presents a keystone collection that pursues new frameworks for a critical understanding of the relationship between public art and protest movements through the utilization of socially engaged and choreopolitical approaches.

This volume explores how and why we deny, or manipulate, or convert, or enhance reality.

Draws on musicals, plays and experimental performances to show what theatre is made of and how we experience it.

Engaging account of theatregoing in the later eighteenth century that explores how audiences responded emotionally to the performances.

Ausgehend von den Dokumentarfilmen »Havarie« (Philip Scheffner, 2016) und »Purple Sea« (Amel Alzakout mit Khaled Abdulwahed, 2020) sowie journalistischem und literarischem Material protokolliert die Autorin Formen der Wassergewalt und entwickelt ein Denken des Flüssigen entlang des EUropäischen Grenzregimes.

Since its first publication in 2004, The Performance Studies Reader has become the leading anthology of key writings on performance studies.

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A minute-by-minute analysis of Gus Van Sant film, Gerry (2002).

This second volume of A History of East African Theatre focuses on central East Africa; on Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda.

Combining art and design principles with creative storytelling and professional savvy, this book covers everything a serious motion designer needs to make their artistic visions a reality and confidently produce compositions for clients.

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.

First published in 1999, 'Women, Politics and Performance in South African Theatre Today' is an important contribution to Performance.

Multimedia Quality of Experience (QoE) Current Status and Future Requirements Multimedia Quality of Experience (QoE): Current Status and Future Requirements discusses the current status of QoE (Quality of Experience) research, providing guidelines on QoE assessment and management practice.

From Weimar Germany to Hollywood to East Berlin, Brecht on Film and Radio gathers together a selection of Bertolt Brecht's own writings on the new film and broadcast media that revolutionised arts and communication in the twentieth century.

Sound Teaching explores the ways in which music psychology and education can meet to inspire developments in the teaching and learning of music performance.

Gaia-Ästhetiken entwerfen Figurationen der Erde und ihrer Lebensformen, welche die Menschen dezentrieren und den Fokus auf die Verbindungen zwischen Lebewesen untereinander und dem Unbelebten richten.

The stigmatization of mental illness in film has been well documented in literature.

***'A wonderful document of the last great gathering of the pre-internet age.

Taking as its point of departure the three recurrent themes of nostalgia, memory and local histories, this book is an attempt to map out a new poetics - the 'post-nostalgic imagination' - in Hong Kong cinema in the first decade of Chinese rule.

An analysis of reality and 'the real' as presented in contemporary artistic creation, Practising the Real on the Contemporary Stage examines the responses given by performing arts to the importance placed on reality beyond representation.

The writings of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari offer the most enduring and controversial contributions to the theory and practice of art in post-war Continental thought.

This volume focuses on three artists who embrace media and technology as essential elements of their theatrical expression: Elizabeth LeCompte, Ping Chong, and Robert Lepage.

What is the history of devised theatre?

A collection of autobiographical nonfiction, including the memoir The Invention of Solitude, by the Booker Prize finalist and “literary original” (The Wall Street Journal).

This seminal text, now in its thirteenth edition, provides a comprehensive and accessible overview of the operations underlying video production.

The Art of Dying: 21st Century Depictions of Death and Dying examines how contemporary media platforms are used to produce creative accounts, responses and reflections on the course of dying, death and grief.

It was a very hot day dazzling sunshine!

What did it mean to be a spectator during the lifetime of Shakespeare or of Aphra Behn?

With 25 essays that embrace a wide spectrum of topics and perspectives including intertextuality, transnationality, gender representation, repetition, the use of music, color, and sound, depiction of time and space in human affairs, and Wong s highly original portrayal of violence, A Companion to Wong Kar-Wai is a singular examination of the prestigious filmmaker known around the world for the innovation, beauty, and passion he brings to filmmaking.

This book explores ways in which diverse regional cultures in Indonesia and their histories have been expressed in film since the early 1950s.

Food for the Soul is a work of theology that sheds light on the history of Catholicism while discussing important issues facing the Church and our society today.

A Companion to Luis Bu uel presents a collection of critical readings by many of the foremost film scholars that examines and reassesses myriad facets of world-renowned filmmaker Luis Bu uel s life, works, and cinematic themes.