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John Leo and Dana Heller Award for Best Single Work, Anthology, Multi-Authored or Edited Book in LGBTQ Studies, Popular Culture Association (PCA), 2020 In Queer Timing, Susan Potter offers a counter-history that reorients accepted views of lesbian...

The three playwrights presented together in this volume On the Road to Ourselves), Elena Gremina (Behind the Mirror) and Olga Mikhailova (Russian Dream). The selected plays contain many elements which will appeal to Western directors and audiences:...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789057551086Author Dele LayiwolaFormat HardbackPage Count 153Imprint Harwood Academic (Performing Arts)Publisher Gordon and BreachWeight(grams) 408g

First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9783718657278Author Ronald L. NettlerFormat HardbackPage Count 203Imprint Harwood-Academic PublishersPublisher Harwood-Academic...

This book describes how deprived urban children and their families and communities try to cope with scarcity, neglect and discrimination. It communicates the smell, the sweat, the agonies and the occasional triumphs of the poor in their day-to-day...

What is Israeli theatre? Is it only a Hebrew theatre staged in Israel? Are performances by Arab Israelis working in an Arabic theatre framework not part of the repertoire of Israeli theatre? Do they perhaps belong to the Palestinian theatre? What are the...

This book is a collection of essays that cover the related areas of aesthetics and politics, both in the field of theatre and in everyday life. Each contributor illustrates how drama subverts the foundations of the accepted models of perception and how...

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9783718657049Author Vladimir BarskyFormat HardbackPage Count 211Imprint Harwood-Academic PublishersPublisher Harwood-Academic...

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9783718657810Author Daniil GinkFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Harwood-Academic PublishersPublisher Harwood-Academic...

This study investigates the controversial motion pictures written and directed by the independent filmmaker Kim Ki-duk, one of the most acclaimed Korean auteurs in the English-speaking world. Propelled by underdog protagonists who can only communicate...

Blaxploitation action narratives as well as politically radical films like Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song typically portrayed black women as trifling "bitches" compared to the supermacho black male heroes. But starting in 1973, the emergence of "baad...

The changing face of feminist discourse as reflected by the career of one of its preeminent scholarsFigures of Resistance brings together the unpublished lectures and little-seen essays of internationally renowned theorist Teresa de Lauretis, spanning...

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9783718657155Author David GriffithsFormat HardbackPage Count 100Imprint Harwood-Academic PublishersPublisher Harwood-Academic...

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9783718652693Author Malcolm KnightFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Harwood-Academic PublishersPublisher Harwood-Academic...

What is happening today in the world of world television? With intense commercialization and more open national markets, along with technological convergence and greater concentration of ownership, the international TV landscape is changing at a...

Well known for his slapstick comedic style, Jerry Lewis has also delighted worldwide movie audiences with a directing career spanning five decades. One of American cinema's great innovators, Lewis made unmistakably personal films that often focused on an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789057550546Author Kalina StefanovaFormat HardbackPage Count 282Imprint Harwood Academic (Performing Arts)Publisher Gordon and BreachWeight(grams) 680g

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9789057550331Author Karen Bell-KannerFormat HardbackPage Count 228Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 522g

A pioneer choreographer in modern American dance, Anna Sokolow has led a bewildering, active international life. Her meticulous biographer Larry Warren once looked up Anna Sokolow in a few reference books and found that she was born in three different...

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9789057020537Author Erika BlockFormat PaperbackPage Count 113Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 204g

Focusing on Commedia Dell'Arte, this work provides a historical and critical commentary of the Commedia. It highlights common factors between this genre and that of the Japanese Noh theatre. The author proposes six similarities: characters familiar to...

First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9783718655045Author Edward BondFormat PaperbackPage Count 169Imprint Harwood-Academic PublishersPublisher Harwood-Academic...

East Meets West in Dance chronicles this development in the words of many of its best known and most active exponents. This collection of articles provides a theoretical discussion of the promises and pitfalls inherent in transplanting art forms from...

First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9783718655724Author Simon EmmersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 239Imprint Harwood-Academic PublishersPublisher Harwood-Academic Publishers

Andy Warhol remains one of the world's most influential artists, and his reputation has only grown since his death in 1987. He first picked up a film camera in 1963. Within the space of five years, he made around 650 films. These are now recognised as a...

In honour of Doris Humphrey's centennial, which was celebrated worldwide in 1995, this issue explores her legacy to the world of dance and her place in history. The varied aspects of her work are covered including choreography, teaching approach,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573707544Author Karen ZacariasFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Samuel French, Inc.Publisher Samuel French, Inc.Weight(grams) 127g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789057550522Author Daniel GerouldFormat HardbackPage Count 100Imprint Harwood Academic (Performing Arts)Publisher Gordon and BreachWeight(grams) 249g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789057551031Author Vassily AksyonovFormat HardbackPage Count 74Imprint Harwood Academic (Medical, Reference and Social ScPublisher Gordon and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789057550812Author Sergei KokovkinFormat HardbackPage Count 52Imprint Harwood Academic (Performing Arts)Publisher Gordon and BreachWeight(grams) 318g

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9789057010828Author Elena AlexanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 295g

A study of Yury Lyubimov's tempestuous career and his style of theatre during his thirty years at the Taganka Theatre. This work traces the development of his ideas, from his arrival at the theatre in 1964 through to his explusion in 1984, and his period...

Sets out the debates that define television and examines how they can be applied to the study of particular programmes. By asking how production, consumption, technology and social change are changing our experience of TV, students are encouraged to...

This text presents the work of cultural theorists and philosophers of new media, together with the perspectives of artists experimenting with different interactive models critically examining their own practice. The book proposes the use of new critical...

First Published in 1998. Performing Arts International provides a forum for a wide range of writing concerning theory and practice of time-based arts around the world. This is Volume 1, Part 2 and includes a collection of articles and papers from the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789057551161Author Kalina StefanovaFormat HardbackPage Count 230Imprint Harwood Academic (Medical, Reference and Social ScPublisher Gordon and...

"The most consistent of all series in terms of language control, length, and quality of story." David R. Hill, Director of the Edinburgh Project on Extensive Reading.Witches are dangerous. They can kill you with a look, or a word...

No study of modern theater is complete without a thorough understanding of the enormous influence of visionary genius Edward Gordon Craig. Born in England in 1872, Craig went on to become famous world-wide as an actor, manager, director, playwright,...

Catherine the Great (1729-1796) wrote over two dozen plays and operettas, but not until this edition has a complete translation of any of them been available to an English- speaking readership. Oh, These Times (1772) is a satirical attack on many vices...

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9789057550010Author Raymond FearnFormat HardbackPage Count 260Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 748g