History & Criticism

In this milestone work, prominent China film scholar Yingjin Zhang proposes 'polylocality' as a new conceptual framework for investigating the shifting spaces of contemporary Chinese cinema in the age of globalization. Questioning the national cinema...

Volume 34 of Theatre History Studies revisits the foundations of theatre, explores the boundaries and definitions of theatre, and illuminates how writing about the history of theatre is itself a form of historiography. The five essays are arranged...

In Treating the Public, Rachael Ball presents a comparative history of commercial theater, public opinion, and charitable organizations in eight cities across the Spanish and Anglo-Atlantic worlds during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This...

Paul McPharlin is one of the 20th century's most important contributors to the art of puppetry. Over a period of nine years he created some 20 productions with marionettes, rod puppets, hand puppets and shadow figures. He was also a prolific writer whose...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781015155633Author Elisabethe H CorathielFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Hassell Street PressPublisher Hassell Street PressWeight(grams) 259g

The story of Czech theatre in the 20th century involves generations of mesmerizing players and memorable productions. Beyond these artistic considerations, however, lies a larger story: a theatre that has resonated with the intense concerns of its...

Between 1904 and the Great Depression, Circuit Chautauquas toured the rural United States, reflecting and reinforcing its citizens' ideas, attitudes, and politics every summer through music (the Jubilee Singers, an African American group, were not always...

The essays in volume 23 of Theatre Symposium offer a rich exploration of depictions of youth in works of theatre as well as the role youth play in the creation and performance of drama. The curtain rises on Theatre and Youth, volume 23 of Theatre...

This is a collection of interviews with 15 South African theatre practitioners who have made their mark on the development of anti-apartheid theatre. The project was launched out of curiosity to find out what kept alternative theatre alive and kicking...

Winner of the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism Playwright and critic Albert Bermel examines thirteen modern plays to assess the underpinnings of dramatic conflict. Contradictory Characters inspects the three well-known types of dramatic...

This book is the first major study of the Douglass family from 1848 to 1889 and the institution of the National Standard Theatre. Also detailed are the naturalistic staging techniques developed after 1879 that included railway trains on tracks, ocean...

Off Sites: Contemporary Performance beyond Site-Specific rethinks current definitions of "site-specific performance"-a genre of theatre that adopts spaces outside of traditional theatre buildings and uses the experience of space, place, and situation as...

With the skills of a playwright, the vision of a producer, and the wisdom of an experienced teacher, David Rush offers a fresh and innovative guide to interpreting drama in A Student Guide to Play Analysis, the first undergraduate teaching tool to...

Volume 21 of Theatre Symposium presents essays that explore the intricate and vital relationships between theatre, religion, and ritual. Whether or not theatre arose from ritual and/or religion, from prehistory to the present there have been clear and...

A substantive exploration of theatrical costume. Stage costumes reveal character. They tell audiences who the character is or how a character functions within the world of the play, among other things. Theatrical costuming, however, along with other...

Essays in part one of Theatre History Studies, Vol. 35 address theatrical production in very specific historical contexts, among them German theatre "from the rubble of Berlin" and German nationalist mass spectacles. Essays in part two are...

Occupying the Stage: the Theater of May '68 tells the story of student and worker uprisings in France through the lens of theater history, and the story of French theater through the lens of May '68. Based on detailed archival research and original...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780838757222Author Sharon G. FeldmanFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Bucknell University Press,U.S.Publisher Associated University Presses

Staging Desire gathers critical and biographical essays on notable stage personalities who made their mark before 1969, when the Stonewall riots accelerated the lesbian and gay rights movement in the United States. How they staged their unconventional...

A rich and detailed picture of a particular historical moment that has now passed . . . I found myself immersed in the world of the East Village theatre scene and its connections to the larger world of feminism, theatre, and politics. Davy's...

In this eclectic collection, leading theater critic and cultural commentator David Savran explores the intersections between art and culture, offering smart, compelling interpretations of the economic and social contexts of theatrical texts and practices...

This work investigates the fundamental issues in theater and performance from a wide range philosophical perspectives. The fifteen original essays in ""Staging Philosophy"" make useful connections between the discipline of philosophy and the fields of...

The Ghosts of the Avant-Garde(s) offers a strikingly new perspective on key controversies and debates within avant-garde studies and on contemporary forms of avant-garde expression within a global political economy. At the most basic level, the book...

Pronouncements such as "the avant-garde is dead," argues James M. Harding, have suggested a unified history or theory of the avant-garde. His book examines the diversity and plurality of avant-garde gestures and expressions to suggest...

Artaud and His Doubles is a radical re-thinking of one of the most influential theater figures of the twentieth century. Placing Artaud's writing within the specific context of European political, theatrical, and intellectual history, the book reveals...

The performances of Luis Valdez's El Teatro Campesino, the farmworkers' theater, and Amiri Baraka's (LeRoi Jones's) Black Revolutionary Theater (BRT) during the 1960s and 1970s, offer preeminent examples of social protest theater during a momentous and...

America's Japan and Japan's Performing Arts studies the images andmyths that have shaped the reception of Japan-related theater, music,and dance in the United States since the 1950s. Soon after World WarII, visits by Japanese performing artists to the...

How men communicate with each other on stage when no women are present--and what it tells us about power and genderBook InformationISBN 9780472065721Author Robert VorlickyFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint The University of Michigan PressPublisher The...

This work investigates the fundamental issues in theater and performance from a wide range philosophical perspectives. The fifteen original essays in ""Staging Philosophy"" make useful connections between the discipline of philosophy...

Focusing on both scripts and performance, Mirrors of Our Playing takes a fresh look at modern English-speaking drama, from its Anglo-Irish beginnings to its contemporary cross-fertilizations and international dispersals. It shows how most important...

Restaging the Sixties examines the artistry, politics, and legacies of radical theater groups - the Living Theatre, the Open Theatre, the Performance Group, the San Francisco Mime Troupe, El Teatro Campesino, At the Foot of the Mountain, the Free...

Passionate Amateurs tells a new story about modern theatre: the story of a romantic attachment to theatre's potential to produce surprising experiences of human community. It begins with one of the first great plays of modern European theatre-Chekhov's...

The Avant-Garde and the Popular in China examines avant-garde performance as an important political force shaping popular culture in modern China, focusing on artist and activist Tian Han. This is the first book to analyze Han's art and activism and to...

Esteemed scholar and theater aficionado Marvin Carlson has seen an unsurpassed number of theatrical productions in his long and distinguished career. Ten Thousand Nights is a lively chronicle of a half-century of theatre-going, in which Carlson recalls...

The theater company Mabou Mines has for the past forty years created pathbreaking new theater by combining the latest concepts in music, visual arts, and technology with traditional forms of creative expression: puppetry, text, movement, theater design...

Joan FitzPatrick Dean's Riot and Great Anger suggests that while there was no state censorship, the theatre often evoked heated responses from theatergoers, sometimes resulting in riots and the public denouncement of playwrights and artists. Dean...

In 2005 literary and film critic Edward Turk immersed himself in New York City's ACT FRENCH festival, a bold effort to enhance American contact with the contemporary French stage. This dizzying crash course on numerous aspects of current French theatre...

Born in rural Ohio in 1897, Beryl Halley was educated at a strict Freewill Baptist school. After briefly teaching in a one-room schoolhouse, she joined the navy in 1918 before her unlikely path led her to Broadway, then to the Ziegfeld Follies...

Jan L. Jones' second volume on Fort Worth's theatrical heritage presents for the first time a richly illustrated, comprehensive history of the showmen, performers, theaters, and events that shaped the city's theatrical fortunes in the nineteenth and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780875651996Author Jan JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Texas Christian University Press,U.S.Publisher Texas Christian University Press,U.S...