Non-graphic and electronic art forms

Martin Iddon discusses one of the twentieth century''s most provocative musical collaborations: between composer John Cage and pianist David Tudor.

At the intersection of sport, entertainment and performance, wrestling occupies a unique position in British popular culture.

This is the first collection of plays by award-winning playwright Oladipo Agboluaje, a significant force in Black British drama.

This book argues that ideas first take shape in the human body, appearing on stage in new styles of performance.

Preaching the Blues: Black Feminist Performance in Lynching Plays examines several lynching plays to foreground black women's performances as non-normative subjects who challenge white supremacist ideology.

Ritual today can be encountered in the midst of catastrophic and transforming events.

From advertising to health education campaigns, sex and sexual imagery now permeate every aspect of culture.

Performance and Professional Wrestling is the first edited volume to consider professional wrestling explicitly from the vantage point of theatre and performance studies.

Originally published in 1982.

In this book, Claire Reddleman introduces her theoretical innovation "e;cartographic abstraction"e; - a material modality of thought and experience that is produced through cartographic techniques of depiction.

How is madness experienced, treated, and represented?

One of the original members of Jerzy Grotowski's acting company, Zygmunt Molik's Voice and Body Work explores the unique development of voice and body exercises throughout his career in actor training.

Filmed images dominate our time, from the movies and TV that entertain us to the news and documentary that inform us and shape our cultural vocabulary.

The Art of Knife Fighting for Stage and Screen: An Actor's and Director's Guide to Staged Violence provides detailed information for the safe use of knives and daggers in a theatrical setting and an in-depth understanding of safe theatrical weapons.

This book is the first of its kind offering a materialistic semiotic analysis of a non-Western theatre culture: Bengali group theatre.

World Theories of Theatre expands the horizons of theatrical theory beyond the West, providing the tools essential for a truly global approach to theatre.

This book takes a novel, data-driven approach to the cemeteries of Paris, analyzing a largely text-based body of archival material as proxy evidence for visual material that has been lost due to systematic, and legally sanctioned, acts of erasure.

This book is a ground-breaking collection on contemporary Arab theatre.

First published in France in 1936 as a journal article, The Transcendence of the Ego was one of Jean-Paul Sartre's earliest philosophical publications.

This book is a compendium of resources largely by and for artists and scholars interested in engaging in conversations of justice, diversity, and historiography in the fields of theatre and performance studies.

Theatre and Internationalization examines how internationalization affects the processes and aesthetics of theatre, and how this art form responds dramatically and thematically to internationalization beyond the stage.

This book offers the first look at corporate theatre, a global management trend that uses dramatic techniques in workplace learning.

This anthology of essays, a companion to Puppet and Spirit: Ritual, Religion, and Performing Objects, Volume I, aims to explore the many types of relationships that exist between puppets, broadly speaking, and the immaterial world.

Improvisation the Michael Chekhov Way: Active Exploration of Acting Techniques provides readers with dozens of improvisational exercises based on the acting techniques of Michael Chekhov.

Autorinnen wie Virginia Woolf, Marlen Haushofer, Ingeborg Bachmann und Elfriede Jelinek sowie Künstlerinnen wie Birgit Jürgenssen, Francesca Woodman, Monica Bonvicini, Veruschka von Lehndorff, Orshi Drozdik und Gabriele Stötzer haben sich in ihren Texten, Fotografien und (Video-)Installationen auffallend häufig mit dem vieldeutigen Motiv der Wand auseinandergesetzt, indem sie ihr eigenes Verschwinden in Szene gesetzt, sich an Wänden abgearbeitet oder sie zu Projektions- oder Schreibflächen erklärt haben.

Insightful perspectives on the use of the computer as a tool for artists.

Staging Voice is a unique approach to the aesthetics of voice and its staging in performance.

This book investigates audience experience through the lens of sensory engagement in immersive, one-to-one performance.

Friendships grow in the most unlikely of places.

Who are the important artists of the 1980s?

Today, teachers and performers of Turkish classical music intentionally cultivate melancholies, despite these affects being typically dismissed as remnants of the Ottoman Empire.

This book contextualizes the complexity of sexual violence within its broader context - from war to the resolution of interpersonal disputes - and covers a wide span including sexual harassment, bullying, rape and murder as well as domestic violence.

In this volume, Soe Marlar Lwin proposes a contextualized multimodal framework that brings together storytelling practitioners' and academic researchers' conceptions of storytelling.

Originally published in 1978.

The Self-Centred Art is a study of the plays of Ben Jonson and the actors who first performed in them.

David Cline provides a detailed analysis of Morton Feldman''s graph works and how they changed the course of post-war music.

Contemporary theatre is going through a period of unparalleled excitement and challenge.

This collection provides a comprehensive overview of the Oberammergau Passion play and its history from the 19th century onwards.

Dramaturgy of Form examines verse in twenty-first-century theatre practice across different languages, cultures, and media.

Consent in Shakespeare's Classical Mediterranean fills a gap in knowledge about how female-identified, gender-fluid, and non-binary characters made choices about intimacy, engagement, and marriage in Shakespeare's classical Mediterranean plays.

Originally published in 1988.

Based on two international conferences held at Cornell University and the Freie Universitat of Berlin in 2010 and 2015, this volume is the first ever to explicitly address the destruction of plaster cast collections of ancient Mediterranean and Western sculpture.

This book traces Dadakuada's history and artistic vision and discusses its vibrancy as the most popular traditional Yoruba oral art form in Islamic Africa.

Highly respected by her peers and hugely influential on the subsequent generation of artists, the British artist Helen Chadwick produced a wideranging body of work in a variety of media, which shifted from early institutional and architectural critique to operatic installations, and to photographic projects and sculptures.

In the wake of Ireland s recent economic rise, fall, and associated social crises, theatre and performance have played vital roles in reflecting on the past, engaging the present, and imagining possible futures.

Featuring dozens of Japanese netsuke masterpieces and insightful commentary, this Japanese art book is a classic collectors item.

The Split Britches theatre company have led the way in innovative and challenging lesbian performance for the last decade.

During the 1820s and 30s nautical melodramas "e;reigned supreme"e; on London stages, entertaining the mariners and maritime workers who comprised a large part of the audience for small theatres with the same sentimental moments and comic interludes of domestic melodrama mixed with patriotic images that communicated and reinforced imperial themes.