Performing arts

What are the social functions of art in the age of neoliberal urbanism?

The Mad Max Effect provides an in-depth analysis of the Mad Max series, and how it began as an inventive concoction ofa number of influences from a range of exploitation genres (including the biker movie, the revenge film, and the car chasecinema of the 1970s), to eventually inspiring a fresh cycle of international low budget 'road warrior' movies that appeared on home video in the 1980s.

Everyone has to be responsible for themselves.

Adaptation studies has historically been neglected in both the English and Film Studies curricula.

The commentary at the centre of this Handbook introduces students to the play as it would be experienced in performance.

The horror genre harbors a number of films too bold or bizarre to succeed with mainstream audiences, but offering unique, startling and often groundbreaking qualities that have won them an enduring following.

Uncover the true story behind the Netflix documentaryUntold: Operation Flagrant Foul.

Showcasing the Optimal, Maximal, Incremental, and Threshold (OMIT) and Accelerate The Curve (ATC) models, this book offers a solid understanding of high performance and how to improve it.

There are many books on the technical aspects of film and video editing.

This book demonstrates the political potential of mainstream theatre in the US at the end of the twentieth century, tracing ideological change over time in the reception of US mainstream plays taking HIV/AIDS as their topic from 1985 to 2000.

Ludvig Holberg (1684-1754) is the founding father of the art of theatre in the Nordic countries.

What do famous 20th century thinkers like Hannah Arendt, Guy Debord and Henri Lefebvre have to offer for a critical performance analysis today?

Young Readers Will Understand How Their Actions Affect Others And How Rules Within The Community Keep Everyone Safe.

"e;One of theatre's subtlest, most sophisticated minds"e; (The Times)One spring morning a quiet, shy man in his sixties sets out from Land's End to walk the length of his native land.

If science fiction stages the battle between humans and non-humans, whether alien or machine, who is elected to fight for us?

Justice Provocateur focuses on Prime Suspect, a popular British television film series starring Oscar and Emmy award-winning actress Helen Mirren as fictional London policewoman Jane Tennison.

It's simple: films need to have commercial value for the studios to produce them, distributors to sell them, and theater chains to screen them.

Gothic television is the first full length study of the Gothic released on British and US television.

Constituting the first comprehensive look at Ruth Maleczech's work, Jessica Brater's companion is a landmark study in innovative theatre practice, bringing together biography, critical analysis, and original interviews to establish a portrait of this Obie-award winning theatre artist.

Exploring Film through Bad Cinema offers an overview of the practice of film analysis through a specific focus on the concept of "e;bad"e; cinema within a series of broad cultural and historical contexts.

20 Seasons: Broadway Musicals of the 21st Century catalogues, categorizes, and analyzes the 269 musicals that opened on Broadway from the 2000-2001 season through the 2019-2020 season.

Contemporary Australian Playwriting provides a thorough and accessible overview of the diverse and exciting new directions that Australian Playwriting is taking in the twenty-first century.

'The impressive array of scholars gathered in this collection, all experts in the field, read the plays with nuance and situate them deftly within their cultural and historical contexts.

Drawing on new archival research into Hollywood production history and detailed analysis of individual films, Hollywood and the Invention of England examines the surprising affinity for the English past in Hollywood cinema.

This book assesses the contemporary status of photochemical film practice against a backdrop of technological transition and obsolescence.

Drawing parallels between ancient theatre, the analytic setting, and the workings of psychic life, this book examines the tragedies of Euripides, Sophocles, and Aeschylus through a psychoanalytic lens, with a view of furthering the reader's understanding of primitive mental states.

How did an ancient mythological figure who stole fire from the gods become a face of the modern, lending his name to trailblazing spaceships and radical publishing outfits alike?

A hit television show about a fictitious rock band, The Monkees (1966-1968) earned two Emmys--Outstanding Comedy Series and Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Comedy.

"Arnold: Schwarzenegger and the Movies" is the first comprehensive, in-depth book to examine one of modern cinema's most celebrated and divisive screen presences.

This collection of new essays explores the many ways in which composers have been depicted in film and what audiences have taken away from such depictions.

Kids of today face a different world - and a different set of challenges - then did the children of even 15 years ago.

Inclusive Dance is an ethnography of disability arts, and historiographic overview of the 1980s when many new disability arts groups came to fruition.

Wickedly funny, insightful, often absurd but always true, Clinging to the Iceberg explores the inner workings of the business of writing for hire.

First Published in 1996.

Performance in the Twenty-First Century: Theatres of Engagement addresses the reshaping of theatre and performance after postmodernism.

A collection of essays on the ability of drama and performance to empower communities.

JOY is the story of a family across four generations centered on the girlwho becomes the woman who founds a business dynasty and, in the process,recovers her childhood magic and finds her place in the world.

This book examines the influence of John Marston, typically seen as a minor figure among early modern dramatists, on his colleague Ben Jonson.

The significance of the Zoroastrian religion in the development of the history of thought is often only mentioned in passing, or is completely overlooked.

This volume introduces the key elements and approaches in the study of theatre and performance, covering drama, music theatre and dance.

More than seventy years after its publication in 1936, Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind has never been out of print.

Working with Actors provides the key to unlocking the honest, dynamic performance every actor has within them.

Theatre in London has celebrated a rich and influential history, and in 1976 the first volume of J.

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--known better by his pseudonym, Lewis Carroll--was a 19th century English logician, mathematician, photographer, and novelist.

'Incredibly comprehensive.

Why are so many women still not properly listened to?

For the uninitiated the author has obligingly supplied a definition for the slasher/splatter film: "e;Any motion picture which contains scenes of extreme violence in graphic and grisly detail.