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The «Korean Wave», or Hallyu phenomenon, has brought South Korean popular culture to the global population. Studies on Korean visual culture have therefore often focused on this aspect, leaving North Korea sidelined and often considered in a negative light because of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-12-29
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Aus Anlass des 175. Todestages von Karl Leberecht Immermann am 25. August 2015 veranstalteten die Immermann-Gesellschaft, die Heinrich-Heine-Gesellschaft und das Heinrich-Heine-Institut in Düsseldorf eine interdisziplinäre wissenschaftliche Tagung mit dem Thema...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-12-29
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The Star Trek franchise reflects, conveys, and comments upon the key philosophical tensions of the modern era. This book details the manner in which these tensions and controversies are manifested in Star Trek across its iterations, arguing that Star Trek offers an...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-12-27
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This edited collection brings together a team of internationally prominent academics and delivers cutting-edge discourse on the strongly emerging tradition of experimentation in contemporary British theatre - redefining what the dramatic stands for today. Each chapter...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-12-25
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Here, essays use the latest theories in postcolonialism, globalization, and post-nationalism to explore how world cinema and theater respond to Bollywood's representation of Shakespeare. In this collection, Shakespeare is both part of an elite Western tradition and a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-12-17
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This book looks at modes of performance and forms of theatre in Nineteenth-century Britain and Ireland. On subjects as varied as the vogue for fairy plays to the representation of economics to the work of a parliamentary committee in regulating theatres, the authors...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-12-17
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Oddey questions the role of the spectator and director, and the nature of art works and performance. She provocatively demonstrates the spectator as centre of the artistic experience, a new kind of making theatre-art, revealing its spirit and nature; searching for space...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-12-17
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Over the last decade a number of prison theatre programs have developed to rehabilitate inmates by having them perform Shakespearean adaptations. This book focuses on how prison theatre today reveals certain elements of the early modern theatre that were themselves...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2015-12-11
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This book explores the role of emotion and affect in recent Latin American cinema (1990s-2000s) in the context of larger public debates about past traumas and current anxieties. To address this topic, it examines some of the most significant trends in contemporary Latin...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-12-11
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This collection examines two recent phenomena: the return of realist tendencies and practices in world cinema and television, and the 'rehabilitation' of realism in film and media theory. The contributors investigate these two phenomena in detail, querying their...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-12-11
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Theatre is a uniquely powerful site for the kind of thinking called for by the crises of climate change. Encompassing academic research, theatre work-shopping, playwriting, dramaturgy, and theoretical writing, this book offers a practical, theoretical, and critical...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2015-12-05
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These essays by leading figures from academia, architecture and the arts consider how cultures of memory are constructed for and in contemporary cities. They take Berlin as a key case of a historically burdened metropolis, but also extend to other global cities:...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-12-04
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Hegemony and Fantasy in Irish Drama, 1899-1949 offers a theoretically innovative reconsideration of drama produced in the Irish Renaissance, as well as an engagement with non-canonical drama in the under-researched period 1926-1949.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-12-04
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In One-Man Band, the third volume in his epic survey of Orson Welles’ life and work, Simon Callow again probes in comprehensive and penetrating detail into one of the most complex artists of the twentieth century, looking closely at the triumphs and failures of an...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2015-11-26
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Like generations of little girls, Lauren Kessler fell in love with ballet the first time she saw The Nutcracker, and from that day, at age five, she dreamed of becoming a ballerina. But when she was twelve, her very famous ballet instructor crushed those dreams -- along...
Editeur :
Da Capo
Parution :
2015-11-24
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Disruptive Feminisms provides a revolutionary new approach to feminism as a disruptive force. By examining various films and filmmakers who are not so obviously read as feminist or Marxist, Gwendolyn Foster showcases their ability to disrupt and effectively challenge...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-11-19
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This book is open access under a CC-BY licence. Part of the AHRC/British Library Academic Book of the Future Project, this book interrogates current and emerging contexts of academic books from the perspectives of thirteen expert voices from the connected communities of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-11-13
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She is Cuba: A Genealogy of the Mulata Body traces the history of the Cuban mulata and her association with hips, sensuality and popular dance. It examines how the mulata choreographs her racialised identity through her hips and enacts an embodied theory called...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-11-11
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Since the moment we first entered Downton Abbey in 1912, we have been swept away by Julian Fellowes' evocative world of romance, intrigue, drama and tradition. Now, in 1925, as Downton Abbey prepares to close its doors for the final time, Jessica Fellowes leads us...
Editeur :
Headline
Parution :
2015-11-10
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Antonfrancesco Grazzini, known as Il Lasca (The Roach), was born and lived in Florence at the height of the Renaissance. He wrote prolifically in most genres, including novelle, burlesque poetry, and comedies. As a playwright he was, in his time, more popular than even...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2015-11-06
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