Originally published in 1969, this was the first book of its kind: an attempt to describe the different approaches that the actor needs to make to different media - theatre, film and television - and to show how the art of acting, which never stops evolving had entered into a new phase of growth in the sixties.
This book examines the reception of Graeco-Roman sculptures of Venus and their role in the construction of the body aesthetics of the fit American woman in the decades around the turn of the 20th century.
Performing Climates features 13 interconnected essays exploring theatre and performance's relationship with more-than-human elements at a time of climate emergency.
Based on theatrical research of unusual depth and enterprise, Theatre as a Weapon (1986) shows how the workers' theatre of the 1920s and 1930s transformed the social function of theatre.
Bringing together contributors from dance, theatre, visual studies and art history, Perform, Repeat, Record addresses the conundrum of how live art is positioned within history.
This book presents an original study of the work of Pritzker Prize-winning Portuguese architect Alvaro Siza from the perspective of architecture as an interpretation of human life.
The Human Touch is a book focused on the creative processes at work in British contemporary improvisational theatre and how these processes draw on the humanity of the participants: their cognitive abilities, their lives, and their relationships to each other.
Immersive Storytelling and Spectatorship in Theatre, Museums, and Video Games is the first volume to explore immersion as it is experienced in all three of these storytelling forms: the theatre, museums and historic sites, and video games.
Estética y neuroestética intermedial: semióticas interartísticas muestra que la intermedialidad no se limita a la interacción entre medios y la variabilidad de soportes, ya sean biológicos (como los mecanismos físicos para emitir sonidos y lenguaje) o tecnológicos.
This book offers an existential understanding of the process of stuckness, exploring how we can soften stuckness and become more fluid in our work and world.
Showcasing the Optimal, Maximal, Incremental, and Threshold (OMIT) and Accelerate The Curve (ATC) models, this book offers a solid understanding of high performance and how to improve it.
This book explores historical, socio-political, and metatheatrical readings of a whole host of dying bodies and risen corpses, each part of a long tradition of living death on stage.
Ein informatives und inspirierendes, reich illustriertes Buch über die zeitgenössische Kunst des Bewegtbilds: Sie tritt an, mit neuesten Technologien die universell verständliche Sprache der Massenmedien kurzzuschließen und Kunst wieder zu einem kritischen Spiegel ihrer Epoche zu machen.
This is the first collection of original essays, articles, and images from authors, activists, artists, and scholars that grapple with the explicit body and the staging of sex across multiple spaces from burlesque to drag, to sex work, to traditional theatre.
Lee provides a comprehensive insight into important topics within modern Korean theatre and conducts an in-depth evaluation of the major discourses that shaped Korean theatre during the 20th century.
Based on theatrical research of unusual depth and enterprise, Theatre as a Weapon (1986) shows how the workers' theatre of the 1920s and 1930s transformed the social function of theatre.
