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The history of dance theory has never been told. Writers in every age have theorized prescriptively, according to their own needs and ideals, and theorists themselves having continually asserted the lack of any pre-existing dance theory. Dance Theory: Source Readings...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-03-02
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In Sex, Class and the Theatrical Archive: Erotic Economies, Alan Sikes explores the intersection of struggles over sex and class identities in politicized performances during key revolutionary moments in modern European history. The book includes discussions...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-02-29
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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...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-02-27
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Richard Lowenstein’s 1986 masterpiece Dogs in Space was and remains controversial, divisive, compelling and inspirational. Made less than a decade after the events it is based on, using many of the people involved in those events as actors, the film explored Melbourne’s...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-02-25
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When the World Laughs is a book about the intersection of humor, history, and culture. It explores how film comedy, one of the world's most popular movie genres, reflects the values and beliefs of those who enjoy its many forms, its most enduring characters and stories,...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-02-22
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The best of the best from the Comedians' Comedian 2020'If you loved Jeremy Hardy, or if you know anyone who did, this is the most brilliant present because it's got every part of his voice in it' DAWN FRENCH'Well good evening, my name is Jeremy Hardy and I'm a comedian...
Editeur :
John Murray
Parution :
2020-02-20
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Contextualizing the duo’s work within British comedy, Shakespeare criticism, the history of sexuality, and their own historical moment, this book offers the first sustained analysis of the 20th Century’s most successful double-act. Over the course of a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-02-18
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This is the first systematic study of networks of performance collaboration in the contemporary Chinese-speaking world and of their interactions with the artistic communities of the wider East Asian region. It investigates the aesthetics and politics of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-02-17
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Performing Southeast Asia: Performance, Politics and the Contemporary is an important reconsideration of the histories and practices of theatre and performance in a fluid and dynamic region that is also experiencing an overarching politics of complexity, precarity and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-02-14
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This book covers Mai Masri’s three decades documenting iconic moments of Palestinian and Lebanese linked history. Her films, unique for giving agency to her subjects, tell much about the untold, unseen people, namely women and children, who lived these experiences of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2020-02-14
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Die medienkulturgeschichtliche Arbeit ist eine deutsche Kino- und Filmgeschichte von den 1890er Jahren bis 1945 mit Fokus auf queere Männlichkeit. Mit medienwissenschaftlichen Ansätzen zeigt die Studie, wie sich das ‚neue Medium’ Film durch performative...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2020-02-14
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Impossible bequests of the soul; an outlawed younger son who rises to become justice of the king's forests; the artificially-preserved corpse of the heir to an empire; a medieval clerk kept awake at night by fears of falling; a seventeenth-century noblewoman who...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-02-14
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This wide-ranging and ground-breaking book, especially relevant given Brexit and renewed Scottish independence campaigning, provides in-depth analysis of ways Scottishness has been performed and modified over the centuries. Alongside theatre, television, comedy, and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-02-13
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Impossible bequests of the soul; an outlawed younger son who rises to become justice of the king's forests; the artificially-preserved corpse of the heir to an empire; a medieval clerk kept awake at night by fears of falling; a seventeenth-century noblewoman who...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-02-13
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What is the object of comedy?What makes us laugh and why? Is comedy subversive, restorative or reparative?What is at stake politically, socially and metaphysically when it comes to comedic performances? This book investigates not only the object of comedy but also its...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-02-12
Collection :
Performance Philosophy
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Modern Death is written in the form of a symposium, in which a government agency brings together a group of experts to discuss a strategy for dealing with an ageing population.
The speakers take up the thread of the ongoing debates about care for the aged and about...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-02-11
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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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This book presents a compilation of articles on the subject of game studies written over the last ten years. These texts reflect a decade of research in European computer game studies from a theoretical perspective that combines philosophy, cultural studies, visual...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-02-08
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This book explores the ways in which the political and social power structures between filmmaker and protagonist are manifested in the aesthetics of documentary film. Using a synthesis of filmmaking practice and critical theories from the fields of cultural studies and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-02-07
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