Non-graphic and electronic art forms

In this book, Erika Fischer-Lichte traces the emergence of performance as 'an art event' in its own right.

Highlighting the challenges faced by a nascent national cinema with limited resources, Passion of the Reel provides an in-depth analysis of the output of the Cameroonian film industry.

Eine "illegitime Kunst" nennen Bourdieu und seine Mitarbeiter die Fotografie.

This is the first book-length study of Australian theatre productions by internationally-renowned director, Barrie Kosky.

This book examines the relations between Western religion, secularism, and modern theater and performance.

What is performance?

For courses in Environmental studies, Environmental Sociology, Environmental geography and Development studies; Women's studies and Women's issues options on a wide variety of degree courses.

The English Theatrical Avant-Garde, 1900-1925 unearths an extensive range of hitherto forgotten or ignored theatre practices.

What is a moving image, and how does it move us?

In this challening book, Firdous Azim, provides a feminist critique of orthodox accounts of the `rise of the novel' and exposes the underlying orientalist assumptions of the early English novel.

Desi Divas: Political Activism in South Asian American Cultural Performances is the product of five years of field research with progressive activists associated with the School for Indian Languages and Cultures (SILC), South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT), the feminist dance collective Post Natyam, and the grassroots feminist political organization South Asian Sisters.

From Acting to Performance collects for the first time major essays by performance theorist and critic Philip Auslander.

Seismic shifts in the theatrical meanings of The Merry Wives of Windsor have taken place across the centuries as Shakespeare's frequently performed play has relocated to Windsor across the world, journeying along the production/adaptation/appropriation continuum.

Originally published in 1978.

This book explores a fresh and insightful interpretation of Hamlet's Gertrude as a prominent and powerful figure in the play.

This study of the Piscatorbuhne season of 1927-1928 uncovers a vital, previously neglected current of radical experiment in modern theater, a ghost in the machine of contemporary performance practices.

Artists especially from dance and performance art as well as opera are involved to an increasing degree in the transfer between different media, not only in their productions but also the events, materials, and documents that surround them.

An examination of the complex and subtle world on display in Rodney Graham''s film of an LSD-inflected bicycle ride.

Offering historical and theoretical positions from a variety of art historians, artists, curators, and writers, this groundbreaking collection is the first substantive sourcebook on abstraction in moving-image media.

This book offers a groundbreaking investigation into issues of gender, power and the representation of sovereignty in French Baroque court ballet and in today's performances that recall them.

This is a comprehensive overview of contemporary European theatre and performance as it enters the third decade of the twenty-first century.

According to prevailing media histories, film long ago ought to have rendered the novel obsolete.

Die Kunst der Mosaiken ist ein Fenster in die Vergangenheit, das die Geschichten, Ästhetik und Techniken antiker Kulturen auf faszinierende Weise enthüllt.

The Routledge Companion to Puppetry and Material Performance offers a wide-rangingperspective on how scholars and artists are currently re-evaluating the theoretical, historical,and theatrical significance of performance that embraces the agency of inanimate objects.

This book provides a critical study of how China was represented on the historical London stage in selected examples from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth century-which corresponds with the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), China's last monarchy.

Becoming commercially available in the mid 1960s, video quickly became integral to the intense experimentalism of New York City's music and art scenes.

Bien que la sculpture soit née avant la peinture, elle a longtemps été considérée comme un simple complément de l'architecture, le plus ancien des trois arts majeurs.

In Hitler in the Movies: Finding Der Fuhrer on Film, a Shakespearean and a sociologist explore the fascination our popular culture has with Adolf Hitler.

Anna Halprin traces the life's work of this radical dance-maker, documenting her early career as a modern dancer in the 1940s through to the development of her groundbreaking approach to dance as an accessible and life-enhancing art form.

Doing Performative Social Science: Creativity in Doing Research and Reaching Communities focuses, as the title suggests, on the actual act of doing research and creating research outputs through a number of creative and arts-led approaches.

Filming Forster focuses upon the challenges of producing film adaptations of five of E.

Performance in Popular Culture reveals the intricate relationship between performance and popular culture by exploring how theatrical conventions and dramaturgical tropes have informed the way the social is constructed for popular consumption.

Western culture has a long and fraught history of cultural appropriation, a history that has particular resonance within performance practice.

Satire & The State focuses on performance-based satire, most often seen in sketch comedy, from 1960 to the present, and explores how sketch comedy has shaped the way Americans view the president and themselves.

The Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is the most expansive and widely viewed fictional narrative in the history of cinema.

This book, first published in 1985, explores the consciousness and the experience of Shakespeare's audience.

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

This book explores histories which have only recently been rediscovered by artists and researchers.

Zanzibar, an island off the East African coast, with its Muslim and Swahili population, offers rich material for this study of identity, religion, and multiculturalism.

Pleasure and desire have been important components of the vision for sexuality education for over 20 years.

First published in 1967, this title considers the idea of the 'well-made play' in the context of how and why it has been devalued and how far, in allowing it to be devalued, we have lost sight of certain important elements of the theatre.

This book offers an exhaustive approach to all forms of staged violence and an in-depth analysis of their emergence and repercussions (dramaturgically and physically).

Jacobean Public Theatre recovers for the modern reader the acting, production and performance values of the public theatre of Jacobean London.

This book advances knowledge about the implementation of peace and non-violence strategies in education that counter violence.

Figuren sind für Spielfilme und das Erleben der Zuschauer von zentraler Bedeutung.

Greek Sculpture presents a chronological overview of the plastic and glyptic art forms in the ancient Greek world from the emergence of life-sized marble statuary at the end of the seventh century BC to the appropriation of Greek sculptural traditions by Rome in the first two centuries AD.