Performing arts

A blend of This Is Spinal Tap and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, the cult classic confessions of a debauched rock ’n’ roller and his adventures in excess on the ’80s hair-metal nostalgia tour through Middle America, now in a revised and updated edition.

Winner of the Vern Williamsen Comedia Book Prize, Association for Hispanic Classical Theater, 2023 Winner of the Nancy Staub Award, UNIMA-USA (Union Internationale de la Marionnette), 2023 In its exploration of puppetry and animation as the performative media of choice for mastering the art of illusion, To Embody the Marvelous engages with early modern notions of wonder in religious, artistic, and social contexts.

The Burlesque Handbook is the essential manual to understanding and performing both classic and neo-burlesque.

Film noir is by definition dark, but not, this book argues, desperate.

Life is hard in Barrow, Alaska.

The 400th anniversaries of Don Quixote in 2005 and 2015 sparked worldwide celebrations that brought to the fore its ongoing cultural and ideological relevance.

You can never go home again.

Au-delà du récit tendre et émouvant d’une impresario japonaise sur son idole et amie qu’elle a fait tourner seize fois au Japon, Keiko Nakamura nous entraîne dans l’exploration étonnante des circuits, pour l’essentiel privés, d’organisation et d’accueil des grandes manifestations artistiques étrangères au pays du Soleil Levant.

From Santa Claus to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, from Uncle Sam to Uncle Tom, here is a compelling, eye-opening, and endlessly entertaining compendium of fictional trendsetters and world-shakers who have helped shape our culture and our lives.

This innovative book is about the place of world cinema in the cultural imaginary.

For many people, the only form of entertainment they are exposed to is television and radio.

Though science fiction is often thought of as a Western phenomenon, the genre has long had a foothold in countries as diverse as India and Mexico.

Excédée par les regards lubriques et les propositions grossières des hommes dans la rue, une femme décide de s'en prendre au prochain dragueur.

Sam est un personnage que l'on croise régulièrement, on l'a déjà vu sur sa mobylette trimballer sa profonde solitude.

Harry Potter, A Fish Called Wanda, Inspector Morse, Downton Abbey and X Men are just a few of the films that have become synonymous with the world renowned University City of Oxford.

In recent years, the film industry in the People's Republic of China has found itself among the top three most prolific in the world.

S'intéressant aux liens de la danse avec des thématiques existentielles fondamentales telles que la mémoire, la mort, la spiritualité et la folie, ces propos s'articulent autour des différentes œuvres chorégraphiques, en faisant le lien avec des éléments de l'histoire de la danse et le parcours de l'auteur, elle-même danseuse.