Non-graphic and electronic art forms

The long cultural moment that arose in the wake of 9/11 and the conflict in the Middle East has fostered a global wave of surveillance and counterinsurgency.

This cross-disciplinary book, situated on the periphery of culture, employs humour to better comprehend the arts, the outsider and exclusion, illuminating the ever-changing social landscape, the vagaries of taste and limits of political correctness.

Post-Colonial Drama is the first full-length study to address the ways in which performance has been instrumental in resisting the continuing effects of imperialism.

Through a series of case studies, this book explores the role of live animals on the stage, from the early modern era to the present time.

This book is a case study into the affective history of Holocaust drama offering a new perspective on the impact of The Diary of Anne Frank, the pivotal 1950s play that was a turning point in Holocaust consciousness.

Unlimited action concerns the limits imposed upon art and life, and the means by which artists have exposed, refused, or otherwise reshaped the horizon of aesthetics and of the practice of art, by way of performance art.

La revolución digital ha aumentado este abismo: ¿qué sentido tiene ir al museo cuando podemos ver los cuadros por el ordenador?

Neil LaBute: A Casebook is the first book to examine one of the most successful and controversial contemporary American playwrights and filmmakers.

First published in 1974, Investigating Drama offers a holistic understanding of drama.

La Pocha Nostra: A Handbook for the Rebel Artist in a Post-Democratic Society marks a transformation from its sister book, Exercises for Rebel Artists, into a pedagogical matrix suited for use as a performance handbook and conceptual tool for artists, activists, theorists, pedagogues, and trans-disciplinary border crossers of all stripes.

Monsters are fragmentary, uncertain, frightening creatures.

Originally published in 1993.

This book examines necropolitics and performance art, with a particular focus on the black body and the African diaspora.

This volume is a collection of five Sinhala plays, translated into English, which were written and performed during the most violent phase of modern Sri Lankan history.

Performing Climates features 13 interconnected essays exploring theatre and performance's relationship with more-than-human elements at a time of climate emergency.

Through a close re-examination of Eugene O'Neill's oeuvre, from minor plays to his Pulitzer-winning works, this study proposes that O'Neill's vision of tragedy privileges a particular emotional response over a more "e;rational"e; one among his audience members.

In How to Audition On Camera, Casting Director Sharon Bialy answers the twenty-five questions actors ask most frequently about how to nail an audition.

This is a path-breaking contribution to the study of medieval metalwork and to the broader re-evaluation of medieval art.

First Published in 2000.

Sometimes image, sometimes word, and often both or neither, concrete poetry emerged out of an era of groundbreaking social and technological developments.

Pottery: History, Preparation and Uses opens with a discussion of silicates, the most abundant minerals on the Earth's crust.

Fifty Key Figures in Latinx and Latin American Theatre is a critical introduction to the most influential and innovative theatre practitioners in the Americas, all of whom have been pioneers in changing the field.

This book is about the digital interface and its use in interactive new media art installations.

This book argues that dramaturgy makes things visible and does so in two distinct and interrelating ways: creative processes and formal elements of performance are rendered visible and readable; and performance dramaturgy becomes an expanded practice in which performance is a locus for creating wide-ranging events and activities.

Digital Arts presents an introduction to new media art through key debates and theories.

This collection of essays explores activist performances, all connected to theater or performance training, that have changed the Americas-from Canada to the Southern Cone.

Natur und Kunst: Der Wandel der Gartenkultur in Europa über 10.

Western civilization and world history are often seen as different, or even mutually exclusive, routes into historical studies.

In this book, theatre historian Jason Price looks at the relationships and exchanges that took place between high and low cultural forms in Britain from 1880 to 1940, focusing on the ways in which figures from popular entertainments, such as music hall serio-comics, clowns, and circus acrobats, came to feature in modern works of art.

Theatrical characters' dual existence on stage and in text presents a unique, challenging case for the analytical philosopher.

In this book, Chloe Rae Edmonson analyzes performance sites from throughout U.

Investigating more than 70 key concepts relating to the performing arts in more than six non-European languages, this volume provides a groundbreaking research tool and one-of-a-kind reference source for theatre, performance and dance studies worldwide.

Art forms tend to mirror themselves in each other.

Personal Narrative Performance and Storytelling: A Method of Composition from Action to Text offers a practical method for composing and performing personal narrative stories for artistic and academic purposes.

While eighteenth-century playwright and critic Gotthold Ephraim Lessing made numerous contributions in his lifetime to the theater, the text that best documents his dynamic and shifting views on dramatic theory is also that which continues to resonate with later generations - the Hamburg Dramaturgy (Hamburgische Dramaturgie, 1767-69).

Facsimile edition of the 1972 reissue of Flinders Petrie’s 1914 pioneering typological catalog of Egyptian Shuabtis, one of a number of such catalogs to be reissued in this new series.

Dramaturgies of Interweaving explores present-day dramaturgies that interweave performance cultures in the fields of theater, performance, dance, and other arts.

This study analyzes chamber music from Mozart''s time within its highly social salon-performance context.

Narratology in Practice opens up the well-known theory of narrative to various disciplines in the humanities and social sciences.

This book reveals the most popular instrument in the world as it was in the age of Elizabeth I and Shakespeare.

Published in the year 1981, Reflections of Women in Antiquity is a valuable contribution to the field of Performance.

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance Historiography sets the agenda for inclusive and wide-ranging approaches to writing history, embracing the diverse perspectives of the twenty-first century and Critical Media History.

Konstantin Stanislavski was a Russian director who transformed theatre in the West with his contributions to the birth of Realist theatre and his unprecedented approach to teaching acting.

Ricky s mates come from all over the world, and as far as they re concerned they are all breddas .

Lives in Motion celebrates dance in Thailand, focusing on the diversity of Thailand's dance cultures and their place in today's world.

Facsimile of volume of detailed catalog prepared by Flinders Petrie on artifacts largely collected from his Egyptian explorations of a series of glass stamps of Egyptian manufacture that were used from the Roman to Abbasid period variously as tokens, counters, weights, or attached to glass cups as indications of measure.

This book interrogates the relationship of theatre and the dialectics of centre and the margins.

Time and Performer Training addresses the importance and centrality of time and temporality to the practices, processes and conceptual thinking of performer training.

Originally published in 1981.

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