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• This book investigates performance cultures as diverse cultures of doing, feeling and thinking that enable performance-makers and spectators to continuously (re)generate particular ways of knowing, knowledges and epistemologies. • Would be recommended...

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...

Emerging in the 1850s, elocutionists recited poetry or drama with music to create a new type of performance. The genre--dominated by women--achieved remarkable popularity. Yet the elocutionists and their art fell into total obscurity during the twentieth...

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9781138178717Author Suzanne WaltherFormat HardbackPage Count 116Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 454g

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9789057013812Author John BrenkmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 227g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781558444072Author Ingrid Gould EllenFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Lincoln Institute of Land PolicyPublisher Lincoln Institute of Land...

Theatre, History, Criticism, Soviet Union, Russia, Western countries, Drama, Asian,Book InformationISBN 9781032146959Author Min TianFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Taylor & Francis LtdPublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 156g

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9781138163706Author Ian StuartFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 454g

Representing dancers, scholars, admirers, and critics, I See America Dancing is a diverse collection of primary documents and articles about the place and shape of dance in the United States from colonial times to the present. This volume offers a lively...

In Dance and the Alexander Technique, Rebecca Nettl-Fiol and Luc Vanier utilize their ten years of research on developmental movement and dance training to explore the relationship between a specific movement technique and the basic principles of support...

This book contends that Hollywood films help illuminate the incongruities of various periods in American diplomacy. From the war film Bataan to the Revisionist Western The Wild Bunch, cinema has long reflected US foreign policy's divisiveness both...

First Published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9781138151789Author Cecil A. SmithFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788441440104Author Jose Manuel Fernandez LopezFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint Edaf AntillasPublisher Edaf AntillasWeight(grams) 839g

This book reflects on time, space and culture in the Game of Thrones universe. It analyses both the novels and the TV series from a multidisciplinary perspective ultimately aimed at highlighting the complexity, eclecticism and diversity that...

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9781138985056Author Charles S LiebmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 454g

"Extraordinarily valuable, illuminating, and even entertaining, Forest of Pressure brims with the types of information that only a key insider can get his hands on."-Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto, New York University Ogawa Productions-known in Asia as...

A key figure in British literary circles following the French Revolution, novelist and playwright Thomas Holcroft promoted ideas of reform and equality informed by the philosophy of his close friend William Godwin. Arrested for treason in 1794 and...

A comprehensive survey of research methods in the field of performance studies Edited by leading scholar in the field Craig Gingrich-Philbrook Examines not only types of performance but also theories (e.g. feminist theory, queer theory) as performance...

Analyzing sport through the lens of performance and theorizing performance through the lens of sport, Sport and Performance in the Twenty-First Century offers a field intervention, a series of in-depth performance analyses, and an investigation of the...

Harold Pinter, Shakespeare, Theater, Performance, King LearBook InformationISBN 9781032182636Author Charles MortonFormat HardbackPage Count 168Imprint Taylor & Francis LtdPublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 156g

Best known for his enormously successful independent film The Crying Game, Irish director Neil Jordan has made sixteen feature films since 1982. Even after achieving commercial success and critical acclaim with such films as Interview with the Vampire...

Focuses on cinema in Eastern Europe in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Eastern BlocBook InformationISBN 9781592132652Author Catherine PortugesFormat HardbackPage Count 270Imprint Temple University Press,U.S.Publisher Temple...

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9781138163683Author Christina SchaffneFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 517g

• This book investigates performances as relational “machineries of knowing,” which are situated within—and actively contributing to the dynamic formation of—performance cultures as distinctive yet interconnected “epistemic cultures”.. • Would be...

This book examines the figure of the sleeper agent as part of post-9/11 political, journalistic and fictional discourse. There is a tendency to discuss the terroristic threat after 9/11 as either a faraway enemy to be hunted down by military force or, on...

This book explores Turkey's complicated relationship to modernity and its status within the new global order by tracing the ambivalent ways in which tasra (the provinces) is constituted in contemporary Turkish cinema and literature. Connoting much more...

Since the 1990s, the expropriation of canonical works of cinema has been a fundamental dimension of art-film exploration. Rainer Werner Fassbinder provides an early model of open adaptation of film classics, followed ever more boldly by the Coen...

From hairdressers and caregivers to reproductive workers and power-suited executives, images of women's labor have powered a fascinating new movement within twenty-first-century European cinema. Social realist dramas capture precarious working conditions...

Commanding a cult following among horror fans, Italian film director Dario Argento is best known for his work in two closely related genres, the crime thriller and supernatural horror, as well as his influence on modern horror and slasher movies. In his...

In this timely critical introduction to the representation of Afghanistan in film, Mark Graham examines the often surprising combination of propaganda and poetry in films made in Hollywood and the East. Through the lenses of postcolonial theory and...

This book explores the role film and television stardom has played in establishing, reinforcing, and challenging popular ethnic notions of Latina/os in the United States since the silent film era of the 1920s. In addition to documenting the importance of...

An important modern exponent of Asian dance, Pandit Chitresh Das brought kathak to the United States in 1970. The North Indian classical dance has since become an important art form within the greater Indian diaspora. Yet its adoption outside of India...

If size counts for anything, Michael Bay towers over his contemporaries. His summer-defining event films involve extraordinary production costs and churn enormous box office returns. His ability to mastermind breathtaking spectacles of action, mayhem,...

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9781138165519Author TompsettFormat HardbackPage Count 91Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781760622725Author R. JohnsFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Currency Press Pty LtdPublisher Currency Press Pty Ltd

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor and Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9781138473126Author VariousFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 562g

A collection presenting cutting edge research from music, dance, performance art, fashion and visual arts, written by scholar-practitioners working in Southeast Asia. This eclectic monograph explores multi-disciplinarily performativity through the body...

In this book, each chapter explores significant Irish texts in their literary, cultural, and historical contexts. With an introduction that establishes the multiple critical contexts for Irish cinema, literature, and their adaptive textual worlds, the...

Between 1931 and 2000, India's popular cinema steadily overcame Hollywood domination. Bollywood, the film industry centered in Mumbai, became nothing less than a global cultural juggernaut. But Bollywood is merely one part of the country's prolific,...

From cynical portrayals like The Front Page to the nuanced complexity of All the President's Men, and The Insider, movies about journalists and journalism have been a go-to film genre since the medium's early days. Often depicted as disrespectful,...