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Werner Herzog's protean imagination has produced a filmography that is nothing less than a sustained meditation on the modern human condition. Though Herzog takes his topics from around the world, the Americas have provided the setting and subject matter...

Slapstick comedy landed like a pie in the face of twentieth-century culture. Pratfalls percolated alongside literary modernism throughout the 1920s and 1930s before slapstick found explosive expression in postwar literature, experimental film, and...

Consider the usual view of film noir: endless rainy nights populated by down-at-the-heel boxers, writers, and private eyes stumbling toward inescapable doom while stalked by crooked cops and cheating wives in a neon-lit urban jungle. But a new generation...

A Hollywood director who blends substance with the mainstream Steven Soderbergh's feature films present a diverse range of subject matter and formal styles: from the self-absorption of his breakthrough hit Sex, Lies, and Videotape to populist social...

This remarkable collection uses genre as a fresh way to analyze the issues of gender representation in film theory, film production, spectatorship, and the contexts of reception. With a uniquely global perspective, these essays examine the intersection...

This book explores Mexican popular and traditional dance practices on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border, addressing questions of authenticity, aesthetics, identity, interpretation, and research methodologies in dance performance. Contributors include...

The minstrel show and striptease played an indelible role in early mass culture and influenced the popular culture that followed. Peter Stanfield focuses on Hollywood to explore this phenomenon. The movies used blackface minstrelsy to represent an...

Called the most important British filmmaker of his generation, Terence Davies made his reputation with modern classics like Distant Voices, Still Lives and The Long Day Closes, personal works exploring his fractured childhood in Liverpool. His...

Scandinavia's foremost living auteur and the catalyst of the Dogme95 movement, Lars von Trier is arguably world cinema's most confrontational and polarizing figure. Willfully devastating audiences, he takes risks few filmmakers would conceive, mounting...

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9789057024801Author Christina SchaffnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 499g

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 9789057020469Author Konrad BoehmerFormat HardbackPage Count 242Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 680g

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9789057021527Author Johan CallensFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 204g

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9783718657490Author Edward BondFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Harwood-Academic PublishersPublisher Harwood-Academic...

First Published in 1997. This is Volume 3, Part 2 in the Choreography and Dance journal and looks at the dance and the theatre of Kurt Jooss, in context of his times of birth, his evolution of as an artist, Jooss as a teacher and his ballets.Book...

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9783718654406Author Natalia KuziakinaFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Harwood-Academic PublishersPublisher Harwood-Academic...

First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9783718653768Author Susan BassnettFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Harwood-Academic PublishersPublisher Harwood-Academic...

The African dancer requires complete technical mastery and must respect the precise rules handed down by the society of the Masques de Sagesse. Alphonse Tirou is from the Ouenon people of the Ivory Coast. His major study is the first written record of...

First published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9782881242526Author Carol-Lynne MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 91g

In this groundbreaking exploration of in-flight cinema, Stephen Groening traces the history of this transnational cinematic practice. At once a history of exhibition and an inquiry into changing forms of media and spectatorship, this interdisciplinary...

One impression that stands out from this collection is the extent to which improvisation was an important factor in all of the arts. As each of the authors assembles a case by ferreting out bits and pieces of information having to do with a single art,...

Is this the right book for me?Wherever your theatre interests lies, this is an essential book for you. It covers a wide range of key issues, from tips on coping with first night nerves, to a full section on health and safety, to funding and taxation...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781319013189Author Adam LeipzigFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Bedford/Saint Martin'sPublisher Macmillan Learning

"This is a terrific and instructive book, and an essential reminder of how inspiring and empowering a good drama teacher can be. I hope it's read widely and that new generations of pupils and teachers benefit from its wisdom and its verve." Nick Hytner ...

Involuntary Motion contributes to the study of refugee flight by using movement as a lens to explore problems in refugee performance and understand the experience of bodies in motion.Drawing from somatics, movement analysis, and dance praxis, the...

Minstrel Traditions: Mediated Blackface in the Jazz Age offers a series of interlocking case studies which surveys racial and racist inscriptions of the 1920s and 1930s in the United States.Book InformationISBN 9781032237695Author Kevin James ByrneFormat...

This book uses in-depth case studies to explore the significance of the design of the home on screen. The chapters draw widely upon the production designer's professional perspective and particular creative point of view. The case studies employ a...

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9781138992412Author Roger DeanFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 862g

Originally published in 1961, this book is a study of the ways actors since the time of Shakespeare have portrayed the character of Shylock. A pioneering work in the study of performance history as well as in the portrayal of Jews in English literature...

Originally published in 1978. Between 1830 and 1890 the English theatre became recognisably modern. Standards of acting and presentation improved immeasurably, new playwrights emerged, theatres became more comfortable and more intimate and playgoing...

How might the organic link between theatre-making and political action be revitalised? And how might a spontaneous vision of a theatre of and for ordinary people be reignited? Since his political exile from Argentina in 1977, theatre director and...

First published in 1997Reviews"A good addition for all academic and large public libraries." -- ChoiceBook InformationISBN 9781138870512Author William KerwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 362g

For British playwright, John Osborne, there are no brave causes; only people who muddle through life, who hurt, and are often hurt in return. This study deals with Osborne's complete oeuvre and critically examines its form and technique; the function of...

Beginning with Richard Drew's controversial photograph of a man falling from the North Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, Learning How to Fall investigates the changing relationship between world events and their subsequent documentation,...

Alan Read asserts that there is no split between the practice and theory of theatre, but a divide between the written and the unwritten. In this revealing book, he sets out to retrieve the theatre of spontaneity and tactics, which grows out of the...

Michael Le Grice, a pioneer of "structural film" in the 1970s and whose first video and computer works were exhibited in the late 1960s, provides a collection of his most notable essays. The essays shed light on the work of other artists and...

This text examines the complex forces pushing and constraining technological developments in cinema. It contests the view that technological advance is simply the result of scientific progress. Rather, the author argues that social forces control the...

While writers, dramatists and film-makers have already found inspiration in Orton's colourful life story, this Casebook comprises the first collection of scholarly criticism to investigate the works, life and legacy of the controversial playwright.Book...

New Vampire Cinema lifts the coffin lid on forty contemporary vampire films, from 1992 to the present day, charting the evolution of a genre that is, rather like its subject, at once exhausted and vibrant, inauthentic and 'original', insubstantial and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781760622701Author Hilary BellFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Currency Press Pty LtdPublisher Currency Press Pty LtdWeight(grams) 111g