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Uncle Tom's Cabin on the American Stage and Screen by J. Frick 9780230114074
RRP: £44.99£34.16No play in the history of the American stage has been as ubiquitous and as widely viewed as Uncle Tom's Cabin. This book traces the major dramatizations of Stowe's classic from its inception in 1852 through modern versions on film. Frick introduces the... -
Russian Culture and Theatrical Performance in America, 1891-1933 by Valleri J. Hohman 9780230113688
RRP: £44.99£33.33Examining the work of impresarios, financiers, and the press as well as the artists themselves, Hohman demonstrates how a variety of Russian theatrical styles were introduced and incorporated into American theatre and dance during the beginning of the... -
The Regal Theater and Black Culture by Clovis E. Semmes 9780230113152
RRP: £44.99£33.42Chronicling over forty years of changes in African-American popular culture, the Regal Theatre (1928-1968) was the largest movie-stage-show venue ever constructed for a Black community. Semmes reveals the political, economic and business realities of... -
Theatre, Communication, Critical Realism by Tobin Nellhaus 9780230623637
RRP: £44.99£35.49From oral culture, through the advent of literacy, to the introduction of printing, to the development of electronic media, communication structures have radically altered culture in profound ways. As the first book to take a critical realist approach to... -
Beyond the Golden Door: Jewish American Drama and Jewish American Experience by Julius Novick 9780230619661
RRP: £44.99£32.85Beyond the Golden Door is the first book devoted to showing how Jewish playwrights of the twentieth century have dramatized the Jewish encounter with America. Questions dealt within this study include - How do you balance old world heritage with new... -
Interrogating America through Theatre and Performance by Iris Smith Fischer 9780230619012
RRP: £44.99£33.72This collection of essays dissects American plays, movies and other performance types that examine America and its history and culture. From Amerindian stage performances to AIDS and post-9/11 America, it displays the various and important ways theatre... -
Loss and Cultural Remains in Performance: The Ghosts of the Franklin Expedition by Heather Davis-Fisch 9780230340329
RRP: £44.99£33.42Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Oberammergau Passion Play: Essays on the 2010 Performance and the Centuries-Long Tradition by Kevin J. Wetmore 9780786496037
RRP: £28.99£23.38Every ten years since 1634 the German village of Oberammergau has performed the world's most famous Passion Play, recounting the last days in the life of Jesus. In 2010 the village presented the play for the forty-first time, breaking with tradition in a... -
Minority Stages: Sino-Indonesian Performance and Public Display by Josh Stenberg 9780824892456
RRP: £27.95£22.58Minority Stages: Sino-Indonesian Performance and Public Display offers intriguing new perspectives on historical and contemporary Sino-Indonesian performance. For the first time in a major study, this community's diverse performance practices are brought... -
Theatre Symposium, Volume 28: Theatre and Citizenship by Andrew Gibb 9780817370152
RRP: £29.95£24.13Peer-reviewed journal of theater history and scholarship published annually by the Southeastern Theatre Conference (SETC)Book InformationISBN 9780817370152Author Andrew GibbFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The University of Alabama PressPublisher... -
The Performing Set: The Broadway Designs of William and Jean Eckart by Andrew B. Harris 9781574416381
RRP: £29.95£25.13The large-scale Broadway musical is one of America's great contributions to world theatre. Bill and Jean Eckart were stage designers and producers at the peak of the musical, and their designs revolutionized Broadway productions. At a time when sets were... -
Catholic Theatre and Drama: Critical Essays by Kevin J. Wetmore 9780786447411
RRP: £39.99£32.77The relationship between the Catholic Church and theatre has a long and complicated history. This collection of fourteen critical essays seeks to demystify the ties--both practical and ideological--that have long bound Catholicism to theatrical... -
The Theater of Lee Blessing: A Critical Study of 44 Plays by Philip Zwerling 9780786471102
RRP: £28.99£24.05Nominated for Pulitzer, Tony and Obie awards, among others, Lee Blessing has shaped American theater over the last 40 years. Tackling subjects like child abuse, racism, sexism and war, as well as baseball, love and religion, Blessing has dedicated... -
Women in American Musical Theatre: Essays on Composers, Lyricists, Librettists, Arrangers, Choreographers, Designers, Directors, Producers and Performance Artists by Bud Coleman 9780786433827
RRP: £24.99£20.90Throughout the twentieth century women have made significant contributions to the creation of American musical theatre. Directing, choreographing, writing, arranging, producing and designing musicals in a variety of venues throughout America, women... -
Kitchen Sink Realisms: Domestic Labor, Dining, and Drama in American Theatre by Dorothy Chansky 9781609383756
RRP: £46.95£38.30From 1918's Tickless Time through Waiting for Lefty, Death of a Salesman,A Streetcar Named Desire, A Raisin in the Sun, and The Prisoner ofSecond Avenue to 2005's The Clean House, domestic labor has figuredlargely on American stages. No dramatic genre... -
Subjects of Affection: Rights of Resistance on the Early Modern French Stage by Anna Rosensweig 9780810144453
RRP: £34.95£28.78Subjects of Affection offers an alternative to the modern model of human rights in an unexpected archive: the monarchist tragedies that shaped Louis XIV's absolutist France. Pairing political theory with performance studies, Anna Rosensweig argues that... -
The Videofag Book by Jordan Tannahill 9781771663625
RRP: £17.95£13.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771663625Author Jordan TannahillFormat PaperbackImprint Book ThugPublisher Book ThugWeight(grams) 299g -
From Red-Baiting to Blacklisting: The Labor Plays of Manny Fried by Barry B Witham 9780809337750
RRP: £48.95£39.88Author Barry B. Witham reclaims the work of Manny Fried, an essential American playwright so thoroughly blacklisted after he defied the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1954, and again in 1964, that his work all but completely disappeared... -
Staging Process: The Aesthetic Politics of Collective Performance by Rachel Anderson-Rabern 9780810141452
RRP: £34.95£28.78Staging Process examines contemporary collective creation practices, with particular focus on the work of four "third wave" American performance ensembles: Goat Island, Elevator Repair Service, Nature Theater of Oklahoma, and the TEAM. The book... -
The St.Petersburg Imperial Theaters: Stage and State in Revolutionary Russia, 1900-1920 by Murray Frame 9780786443307
RRP: £28.99£23.38The opulent St. Petersburg Imperial Theaters were subsidized and administered by the Russian court from the eighteenth century until the collapse of the tsarist order in 1917. This close association raises many questions about the uses of these... -
Performing Identities on the Restoration Stage by Cynthia J. Lowenthal 9780809324620
RRP: £48.95£39.88In Performing Identities on the Restoration Stage, Cynthia Lowenthal explores identity-especially masculinity and femininity, English and "foreign," middle-class and aristocratic-as it is enacted, idealized, deployed, and redefined on the... -
Drama in Performance by Raymond Williams 9781013548659
RRP: £30.95£25.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013548659Author Raymond WilliamsFormat HardbackPage Count 136Imprint Hassell Street PressPublisher Hassell Street PressWeight(grams) 372g -
Performing America: Cultural Nationalism in American Theater by Jeffrey D. Mason 9780472087921
RRP: £33.95£27.99Performing America provides fresh perspectives on the development of visions of both America and "America"--that is, the actual community and the constructed concept--on a variety of theatrical stages. It explores the role of theater in the... -
Citizenship on Catfish Row: Race and Nation in American Popular Culture by Geoffrey Galt Harpham 9781643363271
RRP: £77.00£62.88Citizenship on Catfish Row focuses on three seminal works in the history of American culture: the first full-length narrative film, D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation; the first integrated musical, Oscar Hammerstein and Jerome Kern's Showboat; and... -
The Theater of Narration: From the Peripheries of History to the Main Stages of Italy by Juliet Guzzetta 9780810143876
RRP: £99.00£80.47This book examines the theater of narration, an Italian performance genre and aesthetic that revisits historical events of national importance from local perspectives, drawing on the rich relationship between personal experiences and historical accounts... -
Staging Lives in Latin American Theater: Bodies, Objects, Archives by Paola Hernández 9780810143371
RRP: £99.00£80.47Staging Lives in Latin American Theater: Bodies, Objects, Archives examines twenty-first-century documentary theater in Latin America, focusing on important plays by the Argentine director Vivi Tellas, the Argentine playwright and director Lola Arias,... -
Ancient Greek Costume: An Annotated Bibliography, 1784-2005 by Linda Jones Roccos 9780786427741
RRP: £35.99£30.36Costume production distinguishes early civilization from the Paleolithic era as much as architectural production. Costume transcends boundaries, as it first unites and then divides mankind. The mode of dress differentiates friend from foe and peasant... -
Poverty and Charity in Early Modern Theatre and Performance by Robert Henke 9781609383619
RRP: £46.95£38.30Whereas previous studies of poverty and early modern theatre have concentrated on England and the criminal rogue,Poverty and Charity in Early Modern Theatre and Performance takes atransnational approach, which reveals a greater range of attitudesand... -
Theatre History Studies 2011: Volume 31 by Rhona Justice-Malloy 9780817356842
RRP: £29.95£24.13'Theatre History Studies' is a peer-reviewed journal of theatre history and scholarship published annually since 1981 by the Mid-American Theatre Conference (MATC), a regional body devoted to theatre scholarship and practice. The conference encompasses... -
George F. Walker: Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English, Volume 5 by Harry Lane 9780887548000
£22.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780887548000Author Harry LaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Theatre Communications Group - Playwrights Canada PressPublisher Theatre Communications... -
Comic Theaters: Studies in Performance and Audience Response by William E. Gruber 9780820338514
£24.37In Comic Theaters, William E. Gruber draws dramatic criticism beyond its traditional emphasis on the play's text toward a theory of theater that more fully incorporates performance. The bare text is clothed in the cultural norms and conceptions of both... -
Sharon Pollock: First Woman of Canadian Theatre by Donna Coates 9781552387894
RRP: £29.95£24.13As playwright, actor, director, teacher, mentor, theatre administrator, and critic, Sharon Pollock has played an integral role in the shaping of Canada's national theatre tradition, and she continues to produce new works and to contribute to Canadian... -
Creating the Self in the Contemporary American Theatre by Robert J. Andreach 9780809321780
RRP: £44.95£36.71Combining his skills as both a professional reviewer of theatre and a literary critic, Robert J. Andreach finds himself in a position to provide coherence to what most observers perceive as an unrelated welter of contemporary theatrical experiecnes... -
Theaters of the Everyday: Aesthetic Democracy on the American Stage by Jacob Gallagher-Ross 9780810136663
RRP: £34.95£28.78Theaters of the Everyday: Aesthetic Democracy on the American Stage reveals a vital but little-recognized current in American theatrical history: the dramatic representation of the quotidian and mundane. Jacob Gallagher-Ross shows how twentieth-century... -
A People's Theatre Comes of Age: A Study of Icelandic Theatre, 1860-1920 by Sveinn Einarsson 9789979547280
RRP: £30.00£24.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789979547280Author Sveinn EinarssonFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint HaskolautgafanPublisher Haskolautgafan -
Performing the Progressive Era: Immigration, Urban Life, and Nationalism on Stage by Max Shulman 9781609386474
RRP: £77.00£62.88The American Progressive Era, which spanned from the 1880s to the 1920s, is generally regarded as a dynamic period of political reform and social activism. In Performing the Progressive Era, editors Max Shulman and Chris Westgate bring together top... -
The Most American Thing in America: Circuit Chautauqua as Performance by Charlotte M. Canning 9781587295850
RRP: £19.95£16.40The Most American Thing in America is the winner of the 2006 Barnard Hewitt Award for Excellence in Theatre History.Book InformationISBN 9781587295850Author Charlotte M. CanningFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint University of Iowa PressPublisher... -
Tent Show: Arthur Names and His ""Famous"" Players by W. Kenneth Waters 9780890969540
RRP: £29.95£24.13Before movie screens filled the country and television screens filled our homes, entertainment had to travel to the people. The traveling tent show was a popular form of melodrama and variety entertainment through much of the nineteenth and into the... -
Barangay to Broadway: Filipino American Theater History by Walter Ang 9780999686515
RRP: £19.00£14.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999686515Author Walter AngFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Walter AngPublisher Walter AngWeight(grams) 272g -
Barangay to Broadway: Filipino American Theater History by Walter Ang 9780999686508
RRP: £35.00£24.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999686508Author Walter AngFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Walter AngPublisher Walter AngWeight(grams) 152g