Performing arts

The pianist, composer, and bandleader Randy Weston is one of the world's most influential jazz musicians and a remarkable storyteller whose career has spanned five continents and more than six decades.

Task centred social work is one of the best known and most strongly supported approaches to social work practice.

'Social Shakespeare is a thoughtful and frequently incisive book wabout an important and complex topic.

Josephine Baker and Katherine Dunham were the two most acclaimed and commercially successful African American dancers of their era and among the first black women to enjoy international screen careers.

The chapters in this book constitute a timely response to an important moment for early modern cultural studies: the academy has been called to attend to questions of social justice.

Of all the elements that combine to make movies, music sometimes seems the forgotten stepchild.

Though development researchers have proven that the participation of women is necessary for effective sustainable development, development practitioners still largely lack culturally appropriate, gender-sensitive tools for including women, especially women living in poverty.

What is a live performance?

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Featuring ordinary people, celebrities, game shows, hidden cameras, everyday situations, and humorous or dramatic situations, reality TV is one of the fastest growing and important popular culture trends of the past decade, with roots reaching back to the days of radio.

Cicely Berry, Voice Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, is world-famous for her voice teaching.

The Art of Experience provides an interdisciplinary analysis of selected plays from Ireland's premier female playwright, Marina Carr.

This 2004 book describes the transformation of politics from a territorial voting behavior to one of national homogeneity.

For both producers and consumers of theatre in the early modern era, art was viewed as a social rather than an individual activity.

The year was 1896, the woman was Alice Guy-Blache, and the film was The Cabbage Fairy.

A wonderful anthology of eight stories addressing children's rights and sustainable development, written by child authors from all around the world and produced in conjunction with UNESCO's Voices of Future Generations initiative.

Born in Missouri at the end of the nineteenth century, Thomas Hart Benton would become the most notorious and celebrated painter America had ever seen.

In this groundbreaking work, author David Scott Diffrient explores largely understudied facets of cinematic horror, from the various odors permeating classic and contemporary films to the wetness, sliminess, and stickiness of these productions, which, he argues, practically scream out for a tactile mode of textural analysis as much as they call for more traditional forms of textual analysis.

Beginning with Casino Royale (2006) and ending with No Time to Die (2021), the Daniel Craig era of James Bond films coincides with the rise of various justice movements challenging deeply entrenched systems of inequality and oppression, ranging from sexism, racism, and immigration to 2SLGBTQIA+ rights, reproductive justice and climate change.

The child has existed in cinema since the Lumiere Brothers filmed their babies having messy meals in Lyons, but it is only quite recently that scholars have paid serious attention to her/his presence on screen.

Between Beats: The Jazz Tradition and Black Vernacular Dance offers a new look at the complex intersections between jazz music and popular dance over the last hundred-plus years.

How do we approach a figure like Mario Bava, a once obscure figure promoted to cult status?

Albert Brooks: Interviews brings together fourteen profiles of and conversations with Brooks (b.

Black and Asian Theatre in Britain is an unprecedented study tracing the history of 'the Other' through the ages in British theatre.

First published in 1990.

The opening decades of the twentieth century witnessed a profound transformation in the history of modern sound media, with workers in U.

Combining thematic analysis and stimulating close readings, The Collar is a wide-ranging study of the many ways--heroic or comic, shrewd or dastardly--Christian ministers have been represented in literature and film.

Between the end of the Civil War (1949) and the colonels' military coup (1967) Greece underwent tremendous political, economic, and social transformations which influenced gender identities and relations.

This book explores the links between crime, deviance and popular culture in our highly-mediatised era, offering an insight into the cultural processes through which particular practices acquire a criminal or deviant status, and come to be seen as social problems.

Provides an overview and analysis of developments in the organization and practices of American theatre since the end of World War II.

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The aesthetic exception theorises anew the relation between art and politics.

Ridley Scott, zuletzt mit "The Last Duel" und "House of Gucci" im Kino überaus präsent, gilt als einer der renommiertesten und vielfältigsten kommerziellen Filmemacher seiner Generation.

Creating Reality in Factual Television analyzes the uneasy interaction between economics, culture, and professional ethics in reality and documentary television storytelling.

I'm not afraid, Tom.

In the early part of the twentieth century, migrants made their way from rural homes to cities in record numbers and many traveled west.

Dance on Screen is a comprehensive introduction to the rich diversity of screen dance genres.

For well over a decade, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne have produced highly original and ethically charged films that immerse their audiences in an intense and embodied viewing experience.

Master Adobe Photoshop CS4Filled with full-color examples, this hands-on guide explains how to use the latest release of the industry standard program for graphics professionals.

Shakespeare wrote more than fifty parts for children, amounting to the first comprehensive portrait of childhood in the English theatre.

This broad-based collection of essays is an introduction both to the concerns of contemporary folklore scholarship and to the variety of forms that folk performance has taken throughout English history.

For each day of the calendar, this unique work details events that have significantly affected American network radio since the mid-1920s.

This book draws upon genre fiction studies, forensic linguistics, and media studies to investigate the overlap between crime fiction conventions and the writing of missing persons appeals to the public.

A timely consideration of both the history and the current challenges facing practice-based film training, Educating Film-Makers is the first book to examine the history, impact and significance of film education in Britain, Europe and the United States.

The captivity narrative, the earliest genre of American popular literature, continues to be of cultural significance in late 20th-century Hollywood.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Second International Conference on Arts and Technology, ArtsIT 2011, which was held in December 2011 in Esbjerg, Denmark.