Performing arts

Dance plays an important role in many religious traditions, in rites of passage, processions, healing rituals or festivals.

Die Verbindung von Buddhismus und Psychoanalyse/Psychotherapie stößt in der westlichen Welt im Sinne eines interkulturellen Dialogs auf immer größere Beachtung.

An in-depth exploration of the stardom and authorship of Stephen Chow Sing-chi, one of Hong Kong cinema's most enduringly popular stars and among its most commercially successful directors.

Die Verbindung von Buddhismus und Psychoanalyse/Psychotherapie stößt in der westlichen Welt im Sinne eines interkulturellen Dialogs auf immer größere Beachtung.

The first comprehensive work in English on the three major regional styles of Uzbek women's dance Ferghana, Khiva and Bukhara and their broader Silk Road cultural connections, from folklore rootsto contemporary stage dance.

This book explores how avant-garde directors in French theatre play on their audiences' frustration to generate an encounter with the real.

La sociedad ha cambiado a una velocidad de vértigo en los últimos veinte años.

At once strange and familiar, bearer of a narrative and initiator of a relationship, the theatrical object has a status in its own right within the performance, and constantly encourages the actor to reassess the quality of his relationship with his immediate environment.

'All art is propaganda,' wrote George Orwell, 'but not all propaganda is art.

Creative Concert Production and Entrepreneurship: Concert Dramaturgy and Project Development for the Performing Arts offers a conceptual and applied introduction to the musical and dramaturgical challenges involved in developing and producing concerts.

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.

This book surveys the many ways of telling stories with digital technology, including blogging, gaming, social media, podcasts, and Web video.

Creative Concert Production and Entrepreneurship: Concert Dramaturgy and Project Development for the Performing Arts offers a conceptual and applied introduction to the musical and dramaturgical challenges involved in developing and producing concerts.

The Waistcoat Workbook: Historical, Modern, and Genre Drafting of Waistcoats for Men and Women 1837-Present Day provides comprehensive coverage of the design, construction, and role of waistcoats from the reign of Queen Victoria to the present day in the United Kingdom.

This book is devoted to tracing the variety of ways that theatre, theatricality, and performance are embedded in Hollywood cinema as screened stages.

This book is an engaging and comprehensive exploration that delves into the possibility of artificial intelligence developing self-awareness, the conditions under which it may occur, and the potential behaviours it may exhibit once self-aware.

If you mention the word 'superhero' these days, everyone and their mum can tell you a potted history of it all, because they've sat through numerous phases, extended TV series, and animated side-specials of expansive character-development, culminating in extraordinary final chapters, with the screen literally stacked full of characters battling one another while your eyes bleed with excitement and spectacle.

This Handbook offers new and previously unexplored  comparative approaches to the field of New Cinema History.

In 1932, The Mummy, starring Boris Karloff, introduced another icon to the classic monster pantheon, beginning a journey down the cinematic Nile that has yet to reach its end.

This edited volume explores the singularity of embodiment and somatic approaches in the healing of trauma from a dramatherapy, theatre and performance perspective.

History has been fodder for cinema from the silent era to the blockbuster present, a fact that has seldom pleased historians themselves.

History has been fodder for cinema from the silent era to the blockbuster present, a fact that has seldom pleased historians themselves.

Der Tote vom EisbachVerdeckt durch die dichte Brustbehaarung glänzten in den Körper eng an eng hineingetriebene Reißnägel mit goldenen Köpfen.

Rundfunkgeschichte gehört seit Längerem zu den zeitgeschichtlichen Forschungsfeldern, hat sich als musikhistorisches Thema aber erst in jüngerer Zeit etabliert.

Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau (1888–1931) zählt zweifellos zu den bekanntesten Namen der Filmgeschichte, seine herausragende Bedeutung für die Geschichte des deutschen und internationalen Films ist unumstritten.

How can political campaigns fight back against disinformation?

In this book, Robert K.

Exploring Character Through Structural Metaphor will help performers discover new and valuable insights into the characters they play.

Opening up a new window to see Shakespeare's words in a different light and gathering his intentions in a simple, clear way, this book presents the Cue Scripts from the Tragedies in Shakespeare's First Folio.

This edited collection examines a new phase in the creation of transnational high-end drama in television's current multiplatform era.

Klaus Kreimeier ist einer der profiliertesten Filmkritiker in Deutschland.

The Intimacy Coordinator's Guidebook: Specialties for Stage and Screen explores the role of the intimacy choreographer with an in-depth look at specializations that exist within the profession.

A riotous poetry collection from the Poet Laureate of Punk and the Bard of Salford, Dr John Cooper Clarke.

The 1931 Universal Pictures film adaptation of Frankenstein directed by James Whale and starring Boris Karloff as the now iconic Monster claims in its credits to be 'Adapted from the play by Peggy Webling'.

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

An ambitious study of the ways opera has sought to ensure its popularity by keeping pace with changes in media technology.

Prepping songs for Musical Theatre auditions can be more stressful and confusing than a bad production of Sweeney Todd.

What links the popular songs "e;You'll Never Walk Alone"e;, "e;Send in the Clowns"e;, "e;Memory"e; and "e;I Am What I Am"e;?

Der vorliegende Doppelband VI der Reihe Topographie und Repertoire des Theaters bietet ein Verzeichnis der Abbildungen von Personen, Rollenportraits, Szenenbildern, Theatergebäuden und Sitzplänen in den universalen Theater-Almanachen und lokalen Theater-Journalen, die in den Bibliographien der Journale (Band I) und der Almanache (Band IV) verzeichnet sind.

Wieso reden wir weniger über Kunst, aber so viel mehr über Strukturen?

This book investigates the role that cinemas in Brazil, Chile and Argentina have played in reconstructing memories of the most recent military dictatorships.