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Through seven key case studies from Khan's oeuvre, this book demonstrates how Akram Khan's 'new interculturalism' is a challenge to the 1980s western 'intercultural theatre' project, as a more nuanced and embodied approach to representing Othernesses, from his own...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-05-28
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This book introduces the diverse practices of three non-canonical practitioners: David MacDougall, Desire Machine Collective and Kumar Shahani. It offers analysis of their documentary methods and aesthetics, exploring how their oeuvres constitute a critical and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-05-26
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This unique book investigates the tug-of-war between the free market economy and authoritative state regulation in Chinese culture after 1989. Contextualizing close textual readings of cinematic and television texts, both officially sanctioned and independently made,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-05-20
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Theatre as Voyeurism (re)defines voyeurism as an 'exchange' between performers and audience members, privileging pleasure (erotic and aesthetic) as a crucial factor in contemporary theatre. This intriguing group of essays focuses on artists such as Jan Fabre, Romeo...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-05-16
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The Dancer's World 1920-1945 focuses on modern dancers as they saw themselves. Five chapters describe a narrative arc that encompasses Europe and the USA with a focus between 1920 and 1945. A final chapter considers contemporary relevance for dancers, dance artists,...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2015-05-12
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Theatre and Aural Attention investigates what it is to attend theatre by means of listening. Focusing on four core aural phenomena in theatre – noise, designed sound, silence, and immersion - George Home-Cook concludes that theatrical listening involves paying attention...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-05-10
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Shakespearean Echoes assembles a global cast of established and emerging scholars to explore new connections between Shakespeare and contemporary culture, reflecting the complexities and conflicts of Shakespeare's current international afterlife.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-05-07
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Humor and entertainment were vital to the war effort during World War I. While entertainment provided relief to soldiers in the trenches, it also built up support for the war effort on the home front. This book looks at transnational war culture by examining seemingly...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-05-06
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Die Ballets Suédois, die Schwedischen Ballette, die das Paris der «Années folles» zum Experimentierfeld der Künste machten und die Russischen Ballette für kurze Zeit mit ihren innovativen Tanzprojekten in den Schatten stellten, sind heute immer noch wenig bekannt,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-05-04
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Peter Brook and Ariane Mnouchkine are among the most important directors in recent theatre history. This book focuses on two of their landmark productions, Mahabharata (1985) and Les Atrides (1992–1994) respectively, in order to uncover parallel methodologies in the...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2015-04-30
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How do the ethical implications of writing theatrical histories complicate the historiographical imperative in our current sociopolitical context? This volume investigates a historiography whose function is to be a mode of thinking and exposes the inner contradictions...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-04-23
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Secrets and Lies is the explosive new memoir from Sam Faiers.Sam Faiers has come a long way since she burst on to our screens in The Only Way is Essex, but over the last couple of years, her love life, health and success have pushed her to the limit. InSecrets and Lies,...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2015-04-23
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Using an interdisciplinary approach, Film, History and Memory broadens the focus from 'history', the study of past events, to 'memory', the processes – individual, generational, collective or state-driven – by which meanings are attached to the past.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-04-21
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This book discusses British cinema's representation of the Great War during the 1920s. It argues that popular cinematic representations of the war offered surviving audiences a language through which to interpret their recent experience, and traces the ways in which...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-04-20
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In the age of globalization, digitization, and media convergence, traditional hierarchies between media are breaking down. This book offers new approaches to understanding the politics and their underlying ideologies that are reshaping our global media landscape,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-04-14
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The Musicality of Narrative Film is the first book to examine in depth the film/music analogy. Using comparative analysis, Kulezic-Wilson explores film's musical potential, arguing that film's musicality can be achieved through various cinematic devices, with or without...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-04-14
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Thinking through Digital Media: Transnational Environments and Locative Places speculates on animation, documentary, experimental, interactive, and narrative media that probe human-machine performances, virtual migrations, global warming, structural inequality, and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-04-09
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Performing Animality provides theoretical and creative interventions into the presence of the animal and ideas of animality in performance. Animals have always played a part in human performance practices. Maintaining a crucial role in many communities' cultural...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-04-08
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This book charts new territory both theoretically and methodologically. Drawing on MacDougall’s notion of social aesthetics, it explores the sensory dimensions of privilege through a global ethnography of elite schools. The various contributors to the volume draw on a...
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Springer
Parution :
2015-04-08
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The Fascination of Film Violence is a study of why fictional violence is such an integral part of fiction film. How can something dreadful be a source of art and entertainment? Explanations are sought from the way social and cultural norms and practices have shaped...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-04-07
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