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Lovesick: Modernist Plays of Same-Sex Love, 1894-1925 by Laurence Senelick
RRP: €44.02€38.71This volume makes available an international collection of plays, from Britain, the US, Germany, France and Russia, providing an essential and fascinating resource for anyone interested in the theatre culture of this period.Lovesick brings together six... -
Feminist Theatres in the USA: Staging Women's Experience by Charlotte Canning
RRP: €160.65€139.56Feminist Theaters in the USA is a fresh, informative portrait of a key era in feminist and theater history It is vital reading for feminist students, theater historians and theater practitioners. Their continued movement forward will be challenged and... -
Not in Front of the Audience: Homosexuality On Stage by Nicholas De Jongh
RRP: €160.65€140.04First published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780415033626Author Nicholas De JonghFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 454g -
Teaching Dancing with Ideokinetic Principles by Drid Williams
RRP: €24.98€21.86In examining ideokinesis and its application to the teaching and practice of dancing, Drid Williams introduces readers to the work of Dr. Lulu Sweigard (1895-1974), a pioneer of ideokinetic principles. Drawing on her experiences during private... -
Sally Potter by Catherine Fowler
RRP: €20.22€18.90This survey of Sally Potter's work explores her cinematic development from the feminist reworking of La Boheme in Thriller to the provocative contemplation of romantic relationships after 9/11 in Yes. Catherine Fowler traces a clear trajectory of... -
Classic Hollywood: Lifestyles and Film Styles of American Cinema, 1930-1960 by Veronica Pravadelli
RRP: €122.57€110.29Studies 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... -
William Forsythe by Senta Driver
RRP: €44.02€38.71First Published in 2000. Choreography and Dance: An International Journal is concerned with the composition of ballet and related forms of dance performed on stage. The journal covers the techniques and training of choreographers, and the development of... -
Plautus in Performance: The Theatre of the Mind by Niall W. Slater
RRP: €142.80€93.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789057550379Author Niall W. SlaterFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint Harwood Academic (Performing Arts)Publisher Gordon and BreachWeight(grams) 590g -
Christensen Brothers: An American Dance Epic by Debra Hickenlooper Sowell
RRP: €63.06€55.97First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9789057550294Author Debra Hickenlooper SowellFormat PaperbackPage Count 604Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams)... -
Women, Politics and Performance in South African Theatre Today Vol 3 by Lizbeth Goodman
RRP: €42.83€37.71This title available in eBook format. Click here for more information. Visit our eBookstore at: www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk.Book InformationISBN 9789057550072Author Lizbeth GoodmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor &... -
Musical Style and Genre: History and Modernity by Marina Lobanova
RRP: €160.65€139.56First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9789057550676Author Marina LobanovaFormat HardbackPage Count 220Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 522g -
The Judaic Nature of Israeli Theatre: A Search for Identity by Dan Urian
RRP: €142.80€89.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789057550560Author Dan UrianFormat HardbackPage Count 156Imprint Harwood Academic (Performing Arts)Publisher Gordon and BreachWeight(grams) 454g -
David Rudkin: Sacred Disobedience: An Expository Study of his Drama 1959-1994 by David Ian Rabey
RRP: €160.65€140.04Dr. 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... -
South Asian Dance: The British Experience by Alessandra Iyer
RRP: €47.59€41.72Indian Dance is not what it was. The classical dances of the subcontinent have undergone fission, have been deconstructed and have become part of a contemporary dance idiom. Some of the most innovative work has taken place because of interaction with... -
Alvin Ailey: An American Visionary by Muriel Topaz
RRP: €42.83€37.71During its three and half decades, the Alvin Ailey Company has left lasting markers on the playing field of American Modern Dance. It has established a reputation for precise but spectacular dancing, for depicting an African American ethos with... -
Burnscripts: Dramatic Interpretations of the Life and Art of Robert Burns by John Cairney
RRP: €17.84€13.24This publication compiles actor John Cairney's theatrical interpretations of the poet Robert Burns and his life. Since 1959, he has been involved with Burns as actor, director and writer. Over the years, Cairney has taken the opportunity to investigate... -
Dream Machine: Realism and Fantasy in Hindi Cinema by Samir Dayal
RRP: €32.12€29.12Popular Hindi films offer varied cinematic representations ranging from realistic portraits of patriotic heroes to complex fantasies that go beyond escapism. In Dream Machine, Samir Dayal provides a history of Hindi cinema starting with films made after... -
Boxing and Performance: Memetic Hauntings by Sarah Crews
RRP: €160.65€90.49Boxing and Performance is the first substantial piece of work to place the lived experience of female and male boxers in dialogue with one another.Crews and Lennox critically reflect on their ethnographic experiences of boxing and their reading of the... -
Troubling Traditions: Canonicity, Theatre, and Performance in the US by Lindsey Mantoan
RRP: €38.07€33.71Troubling Traditions takes up a 21st century, field-specific conversation between scholars, educators, and artists from varying generational, geographical, and identity positions that speak to the wide array of debates around dramatic canons. Unlike... -
Practices of Relations in Task-Dance and the Event-Score: A Critique of Performance by Josefine Wikstroem
RRP: €46.40€42.34This book takes a new critical approach to the concept of performance as it operates in performance studies and art theory. It constructs a critical concept of performance by understanding it as autonomous art in the tradition of German aesthetics and... -
Victorian Spectacular Theatre 1850-1910 by Michael R. Booth
RRP: €46.40€40.72Originally published in 1981. This study concentrates on one aspect of Victorian theatre production in the second half of the nineteenth century - the spectacular, which came to dominate certain kinds of production during that period. A remarkably... -
Shakespeare on Theatre: A Critical Look at His Theories and Practices by Robert Cohen
RRP: €160.65€139.56In Shakespeare on Theatre, master acting teacher Robert Cohen brilliantly scrutinises Shakespeare's implicit theories of acting, paying close attention to the plays themselves and providing a wealth of fascinating historical evidence. What he finds... -
Acting Comedy by Christopher J. Olsen
RRP: €44.02€40.27Despite being roundly cited as much harder to perform than its dramatic counterpart, comic acting is traditionally seen as a performance genre that can't be taught. At best it is often described as a skill that can only be learned "on the job" through... -
Your Move: A New Approach to the Study of Movement and Dance: A Teachers Guide by Ann Hutchinson Guest
RRP: €160.65€139.56The author takes a new approach to teaching notation through movement exercises, thus enlarging the scope of the book to teachers of movement and choreography as well as the traditional dance notation students. Updated and enlarged to reflect the most... -
Jose Limon: An Artist Re-viewed by June Dunbar
RRP: €44.02€38.71Jose Limn is universally recognized as one of the most important modern dancers of the 20th century. His technique is still taught at major colleges and dance schools; his dance company continues to revive his works, plus presents new works. His most... -
World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre: Volume 3: Africa by Ousmane Diakhate
RRP: €51.16€45.21Volume Three in this series carries on from the highly acclaimed volumes on Europe and on the Americas. Focusing on non-Arabic Africa, and with contributions from leading experts from the countries featured, the third volume of the World Encyclopedia of... -
So Therefore...: A Practical Guide For Actors by Al Ruscio
RRP: €160.65€139.56`Every scene or action or speech has a so therefore. It is the goal, the ultimate statement of the character. You should know the so therefore as you begin your scene ... The climax and the payoff is the so therefore.' - from Al Ruscio's Preface When... -
World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre: Africa by Ousmane Diakhate
RRP: €101.14€88.36Now available in paperback for the first time this edition of the World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre series examines theatrical developments in Africa since 1945. Entries on thirty-two African countries are featured in this volume, preceded by... -
Strip Show: Performances of Gender and Desire by Katherine Liepe-Levinson
RRP: €160.65€140.04This book offers an account of an unprecedented North American study of contemporary female and male strip shows. It particularly focuses on the contradictory sex roles, cultural positions, and performance practices of 'straight' strip shows during their... -
Dancing Women: Female Bodies Onstage by Sally Banes
RRP: €160.65€140.04Dancing Women: Female Bodies Onstage is a spectacular and timely contribution to dance history, recasting canonical dance since the early nineteenth century in terms of a feminist perspective. Setting the creation of specific dances in socio-political... -
Actresses as Working Women: Their Social Identity in Victorian Culture by Tracy C. Davis
RRP: €148.75€128.83Using historical evidence as well as personal accounts, Tracy C. Davis examines the reality of conditions for `ordinary' actresses, their working environments, employment patterns and the reasons why acting continued to be such a popular, though... -
Dynamic Cartography: Body, Architecture, and Performative Space by Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez
RRP: €160.65€139.56Dynamic Cartography analyses the works of Rudolf Laban, Lawrence Halprin, Anne Bogart, Adolphe Appia, Cedric Price, Joan Littlewood, and Heilio Oiticica. They are practitioners who have worked on different areas of enquiry from the existing relations... -
Todd Solondz by Julian Murphet
RRP: €20.22€18.90Films like Welcome to the Dollhouse and Happiness established Todd Solondz as independent cinema's premier satirist. Blending a trademark black humor into atmospheres of grueling bleakness, Solondz repeatedly takes moviegoers into a bland suburban junk... -
Dancing Revolution: Bodies, Space, and Sound in American Cultural History by Christopher J. Smith
RRP: €26.17€22.84Throughout American history, patterns of political intent and impact have linked the wide range of dance movements performed in public places. Groups diverse in their cultural or political identities, or in both, long ago seized on dancing in our... -
D.A. Pennebaker by Keith Beattie
RRP: €20.22€17.93This volume is the first book-length study of the extensive career and prolific works of D.A. Pennebaker, one of the pioneers of direct cinema, a documentary form that emphasizes observation and a straightforward portrayal of events. With a career... -
Philip Kaufman by Annette Insdorf
RRP: €108.29€93.91American director Philip Kaufman is hard to pin down: a visual stylist who is truly literate, a San Franciscan who often makes European films, he is an accessible storyteller with a sophisticated touch. Celebrated for his vigorous, sexy, and reflective... -
Champagne Charlie and Pretty Jemima: Variety Theater in the Nineteenth Century by Gillian M. Rodger
RRP: €28.55€24.80In this rich, imaginative survey of variety musical theater, Gillian M. Rodger masterfully chronicles the social history and class dynamics of the robust, nineteenth-century American theatrical phenomenon that gave way to twentieth-century entertainment... -
Spanish Theatre 1920-1995: Strategies in Protest and Imagination (1) by Maria M. Delgado
RRP: €44.02€38.71Beginning with a reassessment of the 1920s and 30s, this text looks beyond a consideration of just the most successful Spanish playwrights of the time, and discusses also the work of directors, theorists, actors and designers.Book InformationISBN... -
Augustine (Big Hysteria) by Anna Furse
RRP: €160.65€139.56First Published in 1997. Contemporary Theatre Studies is a book series of special interest to everyone involved in theatre. It consists of monographs on influential figures, studies of movements and ideas in theatre, as well as primary material... -
First We Take Manhattan: Four American Women and the New York School of Dance Criticism by Diana Theodores
RRP: €55.92€48.75First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9783718658862Author Diana TheodoresFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Harwood-Academic PublishersPublisher Harwood-Academic...