Télécharger le livre :  Danj?r?'s Girls
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies
Danjuro ' s Girls is a fascinating history of Japan's female kabuki troupes, offering a penetrating investigation into three generations of kabuki actresses associated with the renowned IchikawaDanjuro acting dynasty. Contextually grounding early female precedents in...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2009-02-02
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
PDF

52,74
Télécharger le livre :  Memory in Play
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies
This innovative study examines the role of memory in the history of theatre and drama. Favorini analyzes issues of memory in self-construction, collective memory, the clash of memory and history and even explores what the work of cognitive scientists can teach us about...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2008-12-08
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
PDF

52,74
Télécharger le livre :  Performing Magic on the Western Stage
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies
Performing Magic on the Western Stage examines magic as a performing art and as a meaningful social practice, linking magic to cultural arenas such as religion, finance, gender, and nationality and profiling magicians from Robert-Houdin to Pen& Teller.

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2008-12-08
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
PDF

94,94
Télécharger le livre :  On the Uses of the Fantastic in Modern Theatre
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies
The book reveals how the fantastic is used in modern theatre as a manipulative device to encode the unspeakable and control audience response, challenging conventional readings of all authors who use the fantastic.

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2008-11-24
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
PDF

52,74
Télécharger le livre :  Directors and the New Musical Drama
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies
This is one of the first books to offer a rigorous analysis of the enormous changes in the musical theatre during the 1980s and 90s.  In addition, it focuses on the contribution of well-known, serious theatre directors to the mainstream Musical Theatre and it is the...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2008-04-14
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
PDF

52,74
Télécharger le livre :  Representation and Identity from Versailles to the Present
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies
Sikes traces the shifting role of performance in the fashioning of subjectivity from the Modern to the Postmodern eras. The book joins history and historiography and is grounded in a body of research about varied performance subjects from court dance, ballet, opera,...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2007-08-06
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
PDF

52,74
Télécharger le livre :  Plays in American Periodicals, 1890-1918
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies
This book examines over 125 American, English, Irish and Anglo-Indian plays by 70 dramatists which were published in 14 American general interest periodicals aimed at the middle-class reader and consumer.

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2007-07-09
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
PDF

19,71
Télécharger le livre :  Performance and Femininity in Eighteenth-Century German Women's Writing
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies
In this book, Wendy Arons examines how women writers used theater and performance to investigate the problem of female subjectivity and to intervene in the dominant discourse about ideal femininity. Arons shows how contemporary demands for sincerity and authenticity...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2006-10-03
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
PDF

52,74
Télécharger le livre :  Moscow Theatres for Young People: A Cultural History of Ideological Coercion and Artistic Innovation, 1917–2000
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies
This book shows how the totalitarian ideology of the Soviet period shaped the practices of Soviet theatre for youth. It weaves together politics, pedagogy and aesthetics to reveal the complex intersections between theatre and its socio-historical conditions. It paints a...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2006-04-15
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
PDF

52,74
Télécharger le livre :  Ghosts of Theatre and Cinema in the Brain
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies
Pizzato focuses on the staging of Self and Other as phantom characters inside the brain (in the 'mind's eye', as Hamlet says). He explores the brain's anatomical evolution from animal drives to human consciousness to divine aspirations, through distinctive cultural...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2006-03-15
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
PDF

52,74
<< < 123