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Research into and around women's participation in cinematic history has enjoyed dynamic growth over the past decade. A broadening of scope and interests encompasses not only different kinds of filmmaking--mainstream fiction, experimental, and...

Kelly Reichardt's 1994 debut River of Grass established her gift for a slow-paced realism that emphasizes the ongoing, everyday nature of emergency. Her work since then has communed with--yet remained apart from--postwar European realisms, the American...

Establishing a new vision for film history, Film and Attraction: From Kinematography to Cinema urges readers to consider the importance of complex social and cultural forces in early film. Andr/u00e9 Gaudreault argues that Edison and the Lumi/u00e8res...

In this book, Peter Brunette analyzes the theatrical releases of Austrian film director Michael Haneke, including The White Ribbon, winner of the 2009 Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Perhaps best known to U.S. audiences for Cache, The Piano...

This classic study is both an introduction to, and an overview of, the relationship between feminism and theatre.Book InformationISBN 9781138138858Author Sue-Ellen CaseFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis...

First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9781138140332Author Susan ColeFormat HardbackPage Count 298Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 454g

First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780415488433Author Glynne WickhamFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 408g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789057551215Author June DunbarFormat HardbackPage Count 168Imprint Harwood Academic (Performing Arts)Publisher Gordon and BreachWeight(grams) 544g

First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9781138165182Author Susan BassnettFormat HardbackPage Count 236Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 454g

In the mid 1990's Deborah Hay's work took a new turn. From her early experiments with untrained dancers, and after a decade of focusing on solo work, the choreographer began to explore new grounds of choreographic notation and transmission by working...

The daily life of Bonnie Bird, as an American modern dancer in the 1930s, is uniquely revealed in this book. Karen Bell-Kanner shares with the reader her fascinating interviews with Bonnie Bird and the intimate letters that Bonnie Bird wrote to her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789057551512Author Ian WatsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Harwood Academic (Performing Arts)Publisher Gordon and BreachWeight(grams) 470g

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9789057021763Author Lotte GoslarFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 567g

Dr. Rabey's profound critical study of David Rudkin's drama constitutes an in-depth evaluation of this unique dramatist, re-assessed in the light of his bi-sexuality and Anglo-Irish origins. This key study includes insights from noted performers of...

In 1977, the Gardzienice Theatre Association, an experimental theatre company was founded in a tiny Polish village. By 1992 The Observer was hailing "Brilliant Gardzienice...and orgy of joy, anguish, prayer and lamentation performed in candlelight...

This is the first volume in English to be devoted entirely to Polish Romantic drama. It contains translations of three major plays: Forefathers; Eve, Part III, by Adam Mickiewics; The Un-Divine Comedy by Zygmunt Krasinski; and Fantazy by Juliusz Slowacki...

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9789057020476Author Konrad BoehmerFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 544g

It is impossible to contain Henry Cowell within the boundaries of the consistencies of forms, styles, ensembles, and genres of Western art music. John Cage once described Cowell as the open sesame for new music in America. Of the thousand or so works...

This engaging and accessible book examines the world of seven contemporary, popular American women writers and their individual use of wit as a subtle and effective strategy to engage, or "control", the reader. A chapter is devoted to each of...

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9789056995393Author Shannon HengenFormat HardbackPage Count 306Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 544g

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9789057005497Author Tom GordonFormat HardbackPage Count 454Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 907g

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9789057021961Author Ronald L. NettlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 386g

In the years 1917 to 1991, despite unfavorable prevailing conditions, there were outstanding achievements in the music created for the cinema in the Soviet Union. Perhaps in no other country was film music associated with so many distinguished composers:...

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9783718658763Author Diana TheodoresFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Harwood-Academic PublishersPublisher Harwood-Academic...

First Published in 1996. The Russian Theatre Archive makes available in English the best avantgarde plays, from the pre-Revolutionary period to the present day. It features monographs on major playwrights and theatre directors, introductions to...

First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9783718653102Author Eva Palmer-SikelianosFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Harwood-Academic PublishersPublisher Harwood-Academic...

Musical practices in the 20th century pose new and complex problems in the study of the fundamental principles of pitch organization. The analysis of basic harmonic categories, one of which is chromaticism, acquires particular importance as a means of...

This book, a collection of essays by expert film researchers and lecturers, contributes to the growing body of scholarship on cinematic cities by looking at how one city-London-has been represented on film. In particular, the collection examines how...

This book engages with the relationship between ruins, dilapidation, and abandonment and cultural events performed within such spaces. Following the author's fieldwork in the UK, Bosnia Herzegovina, Poland, Germany, Greece, and Sicily, chapters describe,...

These essays all-in various ways-address the relationship between adaptation, "true events," and cultural memory. They ask (and frequently answer) the question: how do we script stories about real events that are often still fresh in our...

First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9782884491174Author Hans LennebergFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 386g

In Dancing the Fairy Tale, Laura Katz Rizzo claims that The Sleeping Beauty is both a metaphor for ballet itself, and a powerful case study for examining ballet and its production and performance. Using Marius Petipa and Pyotr Tchaikovsky's classical...

This book provides an accessible yet sophisticated introduction to the significant philosophical issues concerning the performing arts. * Presents the significant philosophical issues concerning the performing arts in an accessible style, assuming no...

This book focuses on the role of La MaMa Experimental Theatre within Avant-garde theater during the 1960s and 1970s.This study investigates the involvement of the Off-Off Broadway circuit in the Avant-garde experimentations both in the United States (New...

This ethnographic research project examines the generation of post-tariqa Tasavvuf (Sufism: a spiritual practice and philosophy recognised as the inner dimension of Islam) in a variety of private, semi-public, public, secular and sacred urban spaces in...

This third volume in the 4x45 series addresses some of the most current and urgent performance work in contemporary theatre practice. As people from all backgrounds and cultures criss-cross the globe with an ever-growing series of pushes and pulls...

This third volume in the 4x45 series addresses some of the most current and urgent performance work in contemporary theatre practice. As people from all backgrounds and cultures criss-cross the globe with an ever-growing series of pushes and pulls...

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9781138995673Author Linda Ginter-BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 490g

Human movement influences an individual's perceptions and ability to interact with the world. Through exercises, illustrations, and detailed anatomical drawings, this remarkable book guides the reader toward total body integration. An experimental...

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9781138988675Author Toby Silverman ZinmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 390g