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The Art of Clowning is the first book on clowning technique and offers a step-by-step process for actors and other theatrical enthusiasts to discover their 'inner clown.' This fun and accessible guide expands on theories and exercises to help students and beginners...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-08-03
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Through an examination of plays, actors, reviews, and audience response of the period, this study traces the development of Broadway as a source of 'mature' American drama, and the simultaneous development of Professional-Managerial Class consciousness and habitus.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-07-20
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This book highlights the ruin's prolific resurgence in Latin American cultural life at the turn of the millennium and sharply reveals a stirring creative drive by artists and intellectuals toward ethical reflection and change in the midst of ruinous devastation.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-07-20
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Although the sciences have long understood the value of practice-based research, the arts and humanities have tended to structure a gap between practice and analysis. This book examines differences and similarities between Performance as Research practices in various...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-07-16
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What world has been constructed for dancing through the use of the term 'world dance'?What kinds of worlds do we as scholars create for a given dance when we undertake to describe and analyze it? This book endeavours to make new epistemological space for the analysis of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-06-10
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This collection brings together leading international scholars and filmmakers focusing on Latin American cinema. Themes discussed include subjectivity, history, memory, representations of reality, cinema's relation to the public sphere, and issues of production,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-06-08
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Martin Flanagan uses Bakhtin's notions of dialogism, chronotope and polyphony to address fundamental questions about film form and reception, focussing particularly on the way cinematic narrative utilises time and space in its very construction.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-05-29
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Theatre and Religion on Krishna s Stage examines the history and form of India's râs lila folk theatre, and discusses how this theatre functions as a mechanism of worship and spirituality among Krishna devotees in India. From analyses of performances and conversations...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-05-25
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In this collection of essays, a range of scholars from different disciplines look through the prism of technology at the much-debated notion of cultural memory, analysing how the past is shaped or unsettled by cultural texts including visual art, literature, cinema,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-05-14
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Mendel's Theatre offers a new way of thinking about early twentieth-century American drama by uncovering the rich convergence of heredity theory, the American eugenics movement, and innovative modern drama from the 1890s to 1930.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-05-11
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“Grace has theorized the religious film as elegantly as she has written it history. And what a history! From early, simple stories to Mel Gibson’s grily Passion of the Crist.” KRIN GABBARD, AUTHOR OF PSYCHIATRY AND THE CINEMA Lush, vaguely liturgical music floods the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-05-11
Collection :
New Approaches to Film Genre
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Food, Inc. is guaranteed to shake up our perceptions of what we eat. This powerful documentary deconstructing the corporate food industry in America was hailed by Entertainment Weekly as "more than a terrific movie -- it's an important movie." Aided by expert...
Editeur :
PublicAffairs
Parution :
2009-05-05
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At the age of 44, renowned comedian Richard Lewis found himself on a gurney in the ER, toxic with alcohol, and hallucinating from excess cocaine use. The same neuroses and dysfunctions that had been the basis for his successful stage persona and inspired his best...
Editeur :
PublicAffairs
Parution :
2009-04-29
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Since its famed introduction of the “boiled bunny,” Fatal Attraction (1987) established itself as one of American cinema’s most controversial films. This insightful new book surveys the film's formal features and its ideological impact, paying special attention to the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-04-29
Collection :
Wiley-Blackwell Series in Film and Television
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Since its famed introduction of the “boiled bunny,” Fatal Attraction (1987) established itself as one of American cinema’s most controversial films. This insightful new book surveys the film's formal features and its ideological impact, paying special attention to the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-04-29
Collection :
Wiley-Blackwell Series in Film and Television
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A timely book that identifies the practice of '(syn)aesthetics' in artistic style and audience response, which helps to articulate the power of experiential practice in the arts. This exciting new approach includes interviews with leading practitioners in of theatre,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-04-28
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Performance Affects explores performance projects in disaster and war zones to argue that joy, beauty and celebration should be the inspiration for the politics of community-based or participatory performance practice, seeking to realign the field of Applied Theatre...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-04-28
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The founder and director of the Yale Repertory Theater, as well as Harvard's American Repertory Theater, and the drama critic forThe New Republic for going on thirty years, Robert Brustein is a living legend in theatrical circles. In Letters to a Young Actor, he not...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2009-04-28
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This dazzling little book explores the role of US media in foreign policy, not only at the present moment, but with an eye to the future. Written by a veteran Hollywood film executive and an internationally known columnist in foreign affairs Explains how American...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-04-27
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This dazzling little book explores the role of US media in foreign policy, not only at the present moment, but with an eye to the future. Written by a veteran Hollywood film executive and an internationally known columnist in foreign affairs Explains how American...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-04-27
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