Performing arts

In the three decades since the first SF film produced for television--1968's Shadow on the Land--nearly 600 films initially released to television have had science fiction, fantasy, or horror themes.

Celebrate the Dude with an abiding look at the philosophy behind The Big Lebowski Is the Dude a bowling-loving stoner or a philosophical genius living the good life?

When the earliest filmgoers watched The Great Train Robbery in 1903, many of them shrieked in terror at the very last clip when one of the outlaws turns directly toward the camera and fires a gun, seemingly, directly at the audience.

The Oxford Handbook of Screendance Studies offers a full overview of the histories, practices, and critical and theoretical foundations of the rapidly changing landscape of screendance.

Art Into Theatre investigates the processes of hybrid forms of performance developed between 1952 and 1994 through a series of interviews with key practitioners and over 80 pieces of documentation, many previously unpublished, of the works under discussion.

Radio Goes to War is the first comprehensive and in-depth look at the role of domestic radio in the United States during the Second World War.

This book provides an overview of the inception, development and achievements of British socialist and workers theatre - a feat which has not been attempted before.

Of interest to historians, classicists, media and digital theorists, literary scholars, museologists, and archivists, Media, Memory, and the First World War is a comparative study that shows how the dominant mode of communication in a popular culture - from oral traditions to digital media - shapes the structure of memory within that culture.

Unlock your creativity with this part-color guide to VR projects in Unity, crafting immersive games, refining VR experiences, and leading XR developmentKey FeaturesUnderstand the fundamentals and build a solid foundation in XR developmentDevelop technical skills for building VR experiences in Unity, including assets, GameObjects, scripts, and componentsCreate engaging and innovative virtual reality projects using the Unity game enginePurchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBookBook DescriptionVirtual reality (VR) has emerged as one of the most transformative mediums of the 21st century, finding applications in various industries, including gaming, entertainment, and education.

Werner Herzog has produced some of the most powerful, haunting, and memorable images ever captured on film.

The Oxford Handbook of Cinematic Listening explores the place of cinema in the history of listening.

This book explores the impact of digital technology on the essay film in the early 21st century, arguing that the cinematic essay has been associated with technological evolution throughout its history.

The 21st century is awash with ever more mixed and remixed images, writing, layout, sound, gesture, speech, and 3D objects.

Theatre and Performance in East Africa looks at indigenous performances to unearth the aesthetic principles, sensibilities and critical framework that underpin African performance and theatre.

Arms And The Man' is a three-act play written by Bernard Shaw in 1920.

Killing the Indian Maiden examines the fascinating and often disturbing portrayal of Native American women in film.

This book offers a new, dynamic and ecological perspective to analyse the process of performance art, namely, what occurs during the unfolding of a piece, exploring the essence of its happening through the forces at play.

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.

This book showcases current research on language in new media, the performing arts and music in Africa, emphasising the role that youth play in language change and development.

The Handbook takes as its subject the complex phenomenon of Christian monasticism.

Nickelodeon's Avatar: The Last Airbender (2005-08) and its sequel The Legend of Korra (2012-14) are among the most acclaimed and influential U.

This book expands the understanding of conditions defining the creation and circulation of contemporary dance that differ across Europe.

Winner of the MRDS 2013 David Bevington Award for Best New Book in Early Drama Studies!

Yoshi Oida is completely unique.

Justin Jesty's Art and Engagement in Early Postwar Japan reframes the history of art and its politics in Japan post-1945.

The follow-up to the 2000 Golden Pen Award-winning Structural Design for the Stage, this second edition provides the theater technician with a foundation in structural design, allowing an intuitive understanding of "e;why sets stand up.

This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.

Since the 1990s, the knowledge, culture, and entertainment industries have found themselves experimenting, not altogether voluntarily, with communicating complex information across multiple media platforms.

Between the beginning of the tenth and the end of the sixteenth centuries, in all parts of Great Britain from Aberdeen to Cornwall, performances of liturgical and mystery plays are on record.

Fur diesen Band wurden Texte von Daniel Buren ausgewahlt, die seine kunstlerische wie theoretische Arbeit seit 1967 besonders anschaulich dokumentieren.

Screen plays is a ground-breaking collection that chronicles the rich and surprising history of stage plays produced for the small screen between 1930 and the present.

Challenging the conventional understandings of literary naturalism defined primarily through its male writers, Donna M.

Secrets of Screen Directing: The Tricks of the Trade is a practical guide which bridges the gap between classroom learning and the realities of being on a set.

Invoking key concepts from the philosophical writings of Gilles Deleuze and Giorgio Agamben, The Dark Interval examines a subtle but distinct iconography of passivity, stillness and profound self-affection that recurs across noir films of every era.

A comprehensive step-by-step guide to deconstructing screenplay fundamentals, this book will allow readers to understand the elements, functions, and anatomy of a screenplay.

Within qualitative research in the social sciences, the last decade has witnessed a growing interest in the use of visual methods.

With its laser-focus on the verbal and visual infrastructure of narrative, The Metanarrative Hall of Mirrors is the first sustained comparative study of how image patterns are tracked in prose and cinema.

Creating Special Effects for TV and Video is a concise and practical introduction to the techniques used in television production.

Most film buffs know that Citizen Kane was based on the life of publisher William Randolph Hearst.

Beginning with the era of synchronized sound in the 1920s, music has been an integral part of motion pictures.

Emphasizing the resilience of theatre arts in the midst of significant political change, Theatre After Empire spotlights the emergence of new performance styles in the wake of collapsed political systems.

Author John Staines here argues that sixteenth- and seventeenth-century writers in England, Scotland, and France wrote tragedies of the Queen of Scots - royal heroine or tyrant, martyr or whore - in order to move their audiences towards political action by shaping and directing the passions generated by the spectacle of her fall.

King Kong and The Thing from Another World are among the most popular horror and science fiction films of all time and both were made by RKO Radio Pictures.

A number of books and articles have been written ranking the best situation comedies of all time.

Der Regisseur Karl Fruchtmann (1915-2003) wurde als Jude verfolgt und war zeitweilig in den Konzentrationslagern Sachsenburg und Dachau inhaftiert.

This is the first book to explore the broad political significance of Genet's performance practice by focusing on his radical experiments, polemical subjects and formal innovations in theatre, film and dance.