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How can the afterlives of anticapitalist and antidictatorship resistance enliven contemporary imaginaries of social justice? Where can the legacies of authoritarianism be spatially located and challenged? And what roles can film play in reckoning with these spectral...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2022-02-01
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This book examines a series of contemporary plays where writers put theatre itself on stage. The texts examined variously dramatize how theatre falls short in response to the demands of violence, expose its implication in structures of violence—including racism and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-11-08
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This second volume of A History of East African Theatre focuses on central East Africa; on Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. The first chapter is concerned with francophone theatres, comparatively studying work coming out of Burundi and Rwanda alongside a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-11-02
Collection :
Transnational Theatre Histories
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Bullying is a social phenomenon that defines the contemporary workplace with much of the emphasis on psychosocial rather than physical suffering. In France, workplace bullying has emerged as a subject of intense interest and controversy among scholars, policy makers and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-10-04
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This book considers the representation of madness in contemporary British
theatre, examining the rich relationship between performance and mental health,
and questioning how theatre can potentially challenge dominant understandings
of mental health. Carefully, it...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-08-30
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In the latter part of the twentieth century, against the backdrop of the Sharpeville Massacre and the Soweto Uprising, theatre became a central means of artistic resistance in apartheid South Africa. One of the most significant plays from this time was Woza Albert!,...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-08-30
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2021 Bram Stoker Awards(R) Nominee for Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction
From the short story «The Lottery» to the masterworks The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Shirley Jackson’s popular, often bestselling works experimented with...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-06-21
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The perfect gift for all musical fans, this beautiful book gives readers an extraordinary inside look at In the Heights, Lin-Manuel Miranda's breakout Broadway debut, written with Quiara Alegría Hudes, now a Hollywood blockbuster.'This book is a collective diary looking...
Editeur :
Headline
Parution :
2021-06-15
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Dramatism and Musical Theater: Experiments in Rhetorical Performance is an innovative workbook for both students and teachers in advanced communication performance. Meeting at the nexus of English composition, advanced rhetoric, theater, music, and drama, this book...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-04-13
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This book explores the various manifestations of affects in British theatre of the 21st century. The introduction gives a concise survey of existing and emerging theoretical and research trends and argues in favour of a capacious understanding of affects that mediates...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-04-09
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Depicting the literary, erotic, political and clinical trajectory of the Swabian Frühromantiker Friedrich Hölderlin (1770–1843), Solomon’s shapeshifting study presents an audacious English «remix» of Stephan Hermlin’s 1970 radio drama Scardanelli, amplifying the complex...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-03-24
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How does the moving, dancing body engage with the materials, textures, atmospheres, and affects of the sites through which we move and in which we live, work and play?How might embodied movement practice explore some of these relations and bring us closer...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-02-05
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Within the work of both Jacques Derrida and Walter Benjamin there is a buried theatricality, a theatre to-come. And in the last fifteen years there has been a growing awareness of this theatricality. To date, though, there has not been a published stage play about...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-01-25
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Viennese-born actor Adolf Wohlbrück enjoyed huge success on both stage and screen in Germany during the 1920s and 1930s, becoming one of the first truly international stars. After leaving Nazi Germany for Hollywood in 1936, he changed his name to Anton Walbrook and then...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-01-21
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This book is the first ever transnational theatre study of an African region. Covering nine nations in two volumes, the project covers a hundred years of theatre making across Burundi, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, Tanzania, and Uganda.This volume...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-10-29
Collection :
Transnational Theatre Histories
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