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Arthur Miller for the Twenty-First Century: Contemporary Views of His Writings and Ideas brings together both established Miller experts and emerging commentators to investigate the sources of his ongoing resonance with audiences and his place in world...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-02-27
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The lively, informative and incisive collection of essays sheds fascinating new light on the literary interrelations between Ireland, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Czech Republic. It charts a hitherto under-explored history of the reception of modern Irish culture...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-02-11
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With such plays as The Beauty Queen (1996), The cripple of Irishman (1997), The Lonesome West (1997), A skull in Connemara (1997), The Lieutenant of Irishmore (2001), and The Pillowman (2003) Martin McDonagh has made a huge reputation for himself internationally,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2019-12-05
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Zeitgenössisches Musiktheater für junges Publikum hat sich weit über den deutschsprachigen Raum hinaus zu einem wichtigen Genre im aktuellen Theaterbetrieb entwickelt. Dieses Handbuch gibt aus theaterpraktischer, künstlerischer und wissenschaftlicher Perspektive einen...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2019-11-18
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This book offers a wide-ranging examination of acts of ‘virtual embodiment’ in performance/gaming/applied contexts that abstract an immersant’s sense of physical selfhood by instating a virtual body, body-part or computer-generated avatar. Emergent ‘immersive’ practices...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-15
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The book presents a theory of relationships between the forms of devotion and early drama genres.The historical background is the circumstances of the Church becoming independent of the Empire. A theological and philosophical aspect of the transformation of piety at the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2019-07-18
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Die Besetzung von Laien im Kinospielfilm hat eine lange Geschichte und ist bis heute verbreitet. Anna Luise Kiss analysiert Laiendarstellerinnen und Laiendarsteller erstmals als diskursive Phänomene, die auf der Basis filmischer und paratextueller Informationen durch...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2019-03-23
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This book asks what, if any, public role drama might play under Project Austerity – an intensification phase of contemporary liberal political economy. It investigates the erosion of public life in liberal democracies, and critiques the attention economy of deficit...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-02-26
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This book traces the history of noh and kyogen, the first major Japanese theatrical arts. Going beyond P. G. O'Neill's Early No Drama of 1958, it covers the full period of noh's medieval development and includes a chapter dedicated to the comic art of kyogen, which has...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-02-21
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This open access book discusses how citizenship is performed today, mostly through the optic of the arts, in particular the performing arts, but also from the perspective of a wide range of academic disciplines such as urbanism and media studies, cultural education and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-02-05
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This anthology explores how theatre and performance use home as the prism through which we reconcile shifts in national, cultural, and personal identity. Whether examining parlor dramas and kitchen sink realism, site-specific theatre, travelling tent shows, domestic...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-01-22
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This book locates the theatre of Marina Carr within a female genealogy that revises the patriarchal origins of modern Irish drama. The creative vision of Lady Augusta Gregory underpins the analysis of Carr’s dramatic vision throughout the volume in order to re-situate...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-11-19
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This book locates and critically theorises an emerging field of twenty-first century theatre practice concerned, either thematically, methodologically, or formally, with acts of commemoration and the commemorative. With notions of memorial, celebration, temporality and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-11-11
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This book is about the Wildean aesthetic in contemporary Irish drama. Through elucidating a discernible Wildean strand in the plays of Brian Friel, Tom Murphy, Thomas Kilroy, Marina Carr and Frank McGuinness, it demonstrates that Oscar Wilde's importance to...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-10-23
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The urban theatre which emerged under Anglo-European and local influences in colonial metropolises such as Calcutta and Bombay around the mid-nineteenth century marked the beginning of the ‘modern period’ in Indian theatre, distinct from classical, postclassical, and...
Editeur :
OUP India
Parution :
2018-10-16
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This book investigates how contemporary artistic practices engage with the body and its intersection with political, technological, and ethical issues. Departing from the relationship between corporeality and performing arts (such as theater, dance, and performance), it...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-10-03
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This book is about the centrality of movement, movement perception, and kinesthetic experience to theatrical spectatorship. Drawing upon phenomenological accounts of movement experience and the insights of cognitive science, neuroscience, acting theory, dance theory,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-09-21
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This book examines the intersection between sound and modernity in dramatic and musical performance in Manila and the Asia-Pacific between 1869 and 1948. During this period, tolerant political regimes resulted in the globalization of capitalist relations and the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-07-20
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Beckett’s Intuitive Spectator: Me to Play investigates how audience discomfort, instead of a side effect of a Beckett pedagogy, is a key spectatorial experience which arises from an everyman intuition of loss. With reference to selected works by Henri Bergson, Immanuel...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-07-16
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This book theorizes auteur Robert Lepage’s scenography-based approach to adapting canonical texts. Lepage’s technique is defined here as ‘scenographic dramaturgy’, a process and product that de-privileges dramatic text and relies instead on evocative, visual...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-07-10
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