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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789057020254Author Sharon E. FriedlerFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Harwood Academic (Performing Arts)Publisher Gordon and BreachWeight(grams) 454g

Country House, a ''comedy with corpses,'' is a wicked subversion of all those realistic psychological dramas of jealousy, adultery, murder and suicide that ask to be taken seriously. Witkacy's send-up assumes the form of a ghost story full of surprises,...

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9789057010422Author Elena AlexanderFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 408g

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9789056995225Author J. KnowlesFormat HardbackPage Count 504Imprint Gordon & Breach Science Publishers,The NetherlandsPublisher Informa...

First published in 1988. Italy, the birthplace of opera in the late sixteenth century, has in recent decades seen remarkable and vital musical growth, with composers as diverse as Luciano Berio and Nino Rota, Luigi Nono and Sylvano Bussotti, Giacomo...

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9783718658787Author Roger DeanFormat HardbackPage Count 333Imprint Harwood-Academic PublishersPublisher Harwood-Academic...

The political events of "annus mirabilis" 1989 marked a rare turning point in world history, but the significance of the year for German literary history is unique. As the 40-year-old German Democratic Republic ceased to exist, so too did the...

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9783718657780Author Vera GottliebFormat HardbackPage Count 58Imprint Harwood-Academic PublishersPublisher Harwood-Academic...

Death Comes in Yellow" presents the history of one slave labor camp in order to shed light on all aspects of the slave labor camps established in Poland under German occupation. Hasag-Skarzysko was one of hundreds of camps scattered throughout...

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9783718656950Author Jurrien SligterFormat HardbackPage Count 230Imprint Harwood-Academic PublishersPublisher Harwood-Academic Publishers

First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9783718655571Author Isa Partsch-BergsohnFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Harwood-Academic PublishersPublisher Harwood-Academic...

First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9783718655939Author Ruth SolomonFormat HardbackPage Count 332Imprint Harwood-Academic PublishersPublisher Harwood-Academic...

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9783718655847Author Alma LawFormat HardbackPage Count 363Imprint Harwood-Academic PublishersPublisher Harwood-Academic...

This comprehensive, authoritative account of tragedy is the culmination of Hans-Thies Lehmann's groundbreaking contributions to theatre and performance scholarship. It is a major milestone in our understanding of this core foundation of the dramatic arts...

This new edition of Physical Theatres: A Critical Introduction continues to provide an unparalleled overview of non-text-based theatre, from experimental dance to traditional mime. It synthesizes the history, theory and practice of physical theatres for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953863419Author Steven BodePage Count 24Imprint Film & Video UmbrellaPublisher Film & Video Umbrella

A provocative rethinking of national cinema, authorship, and the discipline of film studiesExamining European art films of the 1950s and 1960s, Mark Betz argues that it is time for film analysis to move beyond prevailing New Wave historiography, mired in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789052011783Author Marc MaufortFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint European Interuniversity PressPublisher European Interuniversity PressWeight(grams) 420g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904270058Author Sally O'ReillyFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Film & Video UmbrellaPublisher Film & Video Umbrella

Dance and Light examines the interconnected relationship between movement and design, the fluid partnership that exists between the two disciplines, and the approaches that designers can take to enhance dance performances through lighting design. ...

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:...

This pioneering study is one of the major publications in the increasingly popular and largely undocumented area of circus studies. Through photographs and illustrations, Peta Tait presents an extraordinary survey of 140 years of trapeze acts and...

Studies of "Classic Hollywood" typically treat Hollywood films released from 1930 to 1960 as a single interpretive mass. Veronica Pravadelli complicates this idea. Focusing on dominant tendencies in box office hits and Oscar-recognized classics, she...

Lyric Incarnate examines the plays of Aleksandr Blok, the pre-eminent poet of Russian Symbolism and one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century. Blok's plays have received less attention than his poetry in the West, and this book is the first and...

The second in a series: the master filmmaker's prose scenarios for four of his notable filmsOn the first day of editing Fata Morgana, Werner Herzog recalls, his editor said: "With this kind of material we have to pretend to invent cinema." And this,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060096601Author Legs McNeilFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint ReganBooksPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 940gDimensions(mm) 231mm *...

Small Nation, Global Cinema engages the effects of globalization from the perspective of small nations. Focusing her study on the specific cultural context of the international film market, Mette Hjort argues that the New Danish Cinema presents an...

This volume is one of three companion catalogues to an exhibition taking place simultaneously at three venues in Rome on the large-scale projects of Pier Paolo Pasolini. They explore a theme dear to Pasolini - sacredness - with a multidisciplinary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345470737Author Christopher ReeveFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

An accessible survey of the development of naturalism and its effects on modern-day theatre. Taking into account the philosophical, scientific and aesthetic ideas that constituted the movement during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the book...

Acclaimed as one of the most influential and innovative American directors, Francis Ford Coppola is also lionized as a maverick auteur at war with Hollywood's power structure and an ardent critic of the postindustrial corporate America it reflects. ...

In Caribbean and Atlantic Diaspora Dance: Igniting Citizenship, Yvonne Daniel provides a sweeping cultural and historical examination of diaspora dance genres. In discussing relationships among African, Caribbean, and other diasporic dances, Daniel...

This anthology consists of nine plays by a diverse group of women from throughout the African continent. The plays focus on a wide range of issues, such as cultural differences, AIDS, female circumcision, women's rights to higher education, racial and...

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9789057021428Author Kalina StefanovaFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 159g

Anthropocene Theater and the Shakespearean Stage revises the anthropocentric narrative of early globalization from the perspective of the non-human world in order to demonstrate Nature's agency in determining ecological, economic, and colonial outcomes...

Jan Svankmajer enjoys a curious sort of anti-reputation: he is famous for being obscure. Unapologetically surrealist, Svankmajer draws on the traditions and techniques of stop-motion animation, collage, montage, puppetry, and clay to craft bizarre...

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...

Now in paperback, Anthropology and the Dance is a lively, controversial examination and discussion of theories of dance by the pioneer of the anthropology of human movement. Drid Williams's definitive text is explicitly intended for graduate students in...

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