Non-graphic and electronic art forms

This book introduces an archaeological approach to the study of media - one that sifts through the evidence to learn how media were written about, used, designed, preserved, and sometimes discarded.

Sculpture has been a central aspect of almost every art culture, contemporary or historical.

This book examines the performance strategies used by contemporary Iranian artists and activists to reimagine "e;Iranian-ness"e; in the context of Iran's local, regional, and global position.

Throwing the Body into the Fight is the first English-language publication dedicated to the German choreographer Raimund Hoghe.

First Published in 1992.

The Invisible City explores urban spaces from the perspective of a traveller, writer, and creator of theatre to illuminate how cities offer travellers and residents theatrical visions while also remaining mostly invisible, beyond the limits of attention.

`Happenings' is the term coined by 1960s avantgarde artists for their own unique type of performance event.

Black British Drama: A Transnational Story looks afresh at the ways black theatre in Britain is connected to and informed by the spaces of Africa, the Caribbean and the USA.

Challenging Authoritarianism in Southeast Asia is one of the first substantial comparative studies of contemporary Indonesia and Malaysia, homes to the world's largest Muslim population.

The politics of Broadway musicals matter a great deal more to U.

The Routledge Anthology of Early Modern Drama is the first new collection of the drama of Shakespeare's contemporaries in over a century.

This carefully constructed and thorough collection of theoretical engagements with Augusto Boal's work is the first to look 'beyond Boal' and critically assesses the Theatre of the Opressed (TO) movement in context.

Portraits in Early Modern English Drama studies the complex web of interconnections that grows out of the presentation of portraits as props in early modern English drama.

Site-Specific Art charts the development of an experimental art form in an experimental way.

Surround sound is often mistaken as a relatively new phenomenon in cinemas, one that emerged in the 1970s with the arrival of Dolby.

This is the first book to deploy the methods and ensemble of questions from Afro-pessimism to engage and interrogate the methods of Early Modern English studies.

Elizabeth I was one of the most powerful women rulers in European history.

Facsimile edition of the 1974 reissue of Flinders Petrie’s 1917 pioneering typological catalog of Egyptian metal, wooden and composite tools and weapons, one of a number of such catalogs to be reissued in this new series.

Monsters in Performance boasts an impressive range of contemporary essays that delve into topical themes such as race, gender, and disability, to explore what constitutes monstrosity within the performing arts.

Devising Critically Engaged Theatre with Youth: The Performing Justice Project offers accessible frameworks for devising original theatre, developing critical understandings of racial and gender justice, and supporting youth to imagine, create, and perform possibilities for a more just and equitable society.

JARMAN (all this maddening beauty) and Other Plays is a collection of three radically poetic works for live performance by OBIE award-winning playwright Caridad Svich.

The first full-length book of its kind to offer an investigation of the interface between theatre, performance and digital arts, Virtual Theatres presents the theatre of the twenty-first century in which everything - even the viewer - can be simulated.

This book explores the ways in which the early modern hobby-horse featured in different productions of popular culture between the 1580s and 1630s.

What is the secret DNA of theater?

The ultimate illustrated guide to the sculpture parks and trails of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales.

Cape Town's Magnet Theatre has been a force in South African theatre for three decades, a crucial space for theatre, education, performance and community throughout a turbulent period in South African history.

Jewelry Lab uses brevity to ignite a passion for working the metals processes and learning about all the ways metal can be used.

An art-historical perspective on interactive media art that provides theoretical and methodological tools for understanding and analyzing digital art.

This volume seeks to instigate a discussion about dementia in theatre.

WORLDBUILDING: Videospiele und Kunst im digitalen Zeitalter untersucht die Beziehung zwischen Gaming und zeitbasierter Medienkunst.

For over fifty years, the American Film Institute has flourished as one of America's great cultural entities.

In the 21st century, actors face radical changes in plays and performance styles, as they move from stage to screen and grapple with new technologies that present their art to ever-expanding audiences.

Theatrocracy is a book about the power of the theatre, how it can affect the people who experience it, and the societies within which it is embedded.

Jerzy Grotowski's Journeys to the East is an unusual collection of facts, quotations, and commentaries documenting the real and metaphorical journeys of the Polish theatre director and 'teacher of performers' into a geographical and cultural dimension which we used to and still call the Orient.

This is a bold and controversial feminist, philosophical critique of postmodernism.

For a concise edition of his legendary arts dictionary of information and opinion, the distinguished critic and arts historian Richard Kostelanetz selects entries from the 2018 third edition.

The original research in this book analyzes the artistic activity of Santi Gucci (1533- c.

Since its first publication in 2004, The Performance Studies Reader has become the leading anthology of key writings on performance studies.

In this dynamic collection a team of experts map the development of Live Art culturally, thematically and historically.

This book investigates Jimmie Durham's community-building process of making and display in four of his projects in Europe: Something .

Alan Read asserts that there is no split between the practice and theory of theatre, but a divide between the written and the unwritten.

Including a foreword by Simon Callow, a dedicated admirer of the Maly, Dodin and the Maly Drama Theatre provides both a valuable methodological model for actor training and a unique insight into the journeys taken from studio to stage.

'ASHE: Ritual Poetics in African Diasporic Expressivity' is a collection of interdisciplinary essays contributed by international scholars and practitioners.

Wafaa Bilal's childhood in Iraq was defined by the horrific rule of Saddam Hussein, two wars, a bloody uprising and time spent interned in chaotic refugee camps in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.

Monsters are fragmentary, uncertain, frightening creatures.

This collection of original essays honors the groundbreaking scholarship of Jean E.

"e;All I ever wanted was a man who wouldn't ask me questions"e;Across the foyer of a crowded theatre, a handsome young man catches sight of the most expensive prostitute in town.

The 20th century was a dynamic period for the theatrical arts in China.