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The Drama of Social Life Jeffrey C. Alexander (University of California, Los Angeles) 9781509518135
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.34In this book Jeffrey Alexander develops the view that cultural sociology and "cultural pragmatics" are vital for understanding the structural turbulence and political possibilities of contemporary... -
Emerging Perspectives in the Study of Folklore and Performance Solimar Otero 9780253072740
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61Just over half a century ago, the rise in what became known as the "performance turn" in folklore studies led to the diffusion of performance as both a lens and a key concept across a wide range of... -
Emerging Perspectives in the Study of Folklore and Performance Solimar Otero 9780253072733
RRP: £76.00Booksplease Price: £62.07Just over half a century ago, the rise in what became known as the "performance turn" in folklore studies led to the diffusion of performance as both a lens and a key concept across a wide range of... -
Contemporary Adaptations of Greek Tragedy: Auteurship and Directorial Visions by George Rodosthenous 9781472591524
Booksplease Price: £29.88Contemporary Adaptations of Greek Tragedy: Auteurship and Directorial Visions provides a wide-ranging analysis of the role of the director in shaping adaptations for the stage today. Through its... -
From Metaphor to Direct Speech: Contemporary Russophone Drama and Performance Theory by E Susanna Weygandt 9780299351403
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £58.64New Drama-a collection of actors, directors, and playwrights in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus-is one of the most active and vibrant artistic movements in the Russophone world today yet remains... -
From Mimesis to Interculturalism: Readings of Theatrical Theory Before and After 'Modernism' by Graham Ley 9780859896405
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £62.27From Mimesis to Interculturalism offers a series of critical readings of key texts in the history of European and American theatrical and performance theory. It answers the need for a detailed... -
Dionysus after Nietzsche: The Birth of Tragedy in Twentieth-Century Literature and Thought by Adam Lecznar 9781108710671
Booksplease Price: £23.27Dionysus after Nietzsche examines the way that The Birth of Tragedy (1872) by Friedrich Nietzsche irrevocably influenced twentieth-century literature and thought. Adam Lecznar argues that Nietzsche's... -
Theatre and Performance Design: A Reader in Scenography by Jane Collins
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £41.24Theatre and Performance Design: A Reader in Scenography is an essential resource for those interested in the visual composition of performance and related scenographic practices. Theatre and... -
Games for Actors and Non-Actors by Augusto Boal
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.66Games for Actors and Non-Actors is the classic and bestselling book by the founder of Theatre of the Oppressed, Augusto Boal.It sets out the principles and practice of Boal's revolutionary method,... -
Placeness and the Performative Production of Space Aleksandar Sasha Dundjerovic 9781350349858
Booksplease Price: £30.54How can performance create and transform places of urban renewal and regeneration? What does performance contribute to the creation of community? These are some of the questions addressed in this... -
Dionysus after Nietzsche: The Birth of Tragedy in Twentieth-Century Literature and Thought by Adam Lecznar
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £89.69Dionysus after Nietzsche examines the way that The Birth of Tragedy (1872) by Friedrich Nietzsche irrevocably influenced twentieth-century literature and thought. Adam Lecznar argues that Nietzsche's... -
Haptic Allegories: Kinship and Performance in the Black and Green Atlantic Kathleen Gough 9781138494992
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £45.63Kinship and Performance in the Black and Green Atlantic advances an innovative and compelling approach to writing comparative studies of performance in transnational, intercultural relation to one... -
The Semiotics of Performances: An Introduction to the Analysis, Interpretation, and Theory of the Performing Arts Professor Emeritus Paul Bouissac 9781350372665
Booksplease Price: £75.81What is a live performance? And why is semiotics the best approach for the analysis and interpretation of the performing arts?Drawing on semiotic developments of the past five decades, this book... -
The Very Thought of Herbert Blau by Clark Lunberry 9780472130924
Booksplease Price: £70.57Herbert Blau (1926-2013) was the most influential theater theorist, practitioner, and educator of his generation. He was the leading American interpreter of the works of Samuel Beckett and as a... -
Professional Music-Making in London: Ethnography and Experience Stephen Cottrell 9780754608899
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94Professional Music-Making in London is an engaging yet innovative study which examines the lives and work of Western art musicians from an ethnographic perspective. Drawing in part on his own... -
Stages of Emergency: Cold War Nuclear Civil Defense by Tracy C. Davis
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.91In an era defined by the threat of nuclear annihilation, Western nations attempted to prepare civilian populations for atomic attack through staged drills, evacuations, and field exercises. In Stages... -
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Stages of Emergency: Cold War Nuclear Civil Defense by Tracy C. Davis 9780822339595 [USED COPY]
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £15.00In an era defined by the threat of nuclear annihilation, Western nations attempted to prepare civilian populations for atomic attack through staged drills, evacuations, and field exercises. In Stages... -
Archaeology of Performance: Theaters of Power, Community, and Politics by Takeshi Inomata 9780759108776
Booksplease Price: £56.66Performances in the premodern communities shaped identities, created meanings, generated and maintained political control. But unlike other social scientists, archaeologists have not worked much with... -
The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas by Diana Taylor
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £21.80In The Archive and the Repertoire preeminent performance studies scholar Diana Taylor provides a new understanding of the vital role of performance in the Americas. From plays to official events to... -
DreamWork: A Training for Directors by David Zinder 9781032612454
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.14DreamWork: A Training for Directors provides a theoretical basis and a highly detailed, practical, step-by-step blueprint for developing a directorial concept for a play.Directing is a complex,... -
Ethnodramatherapy: Integrating Research, Therapy, Theatre and Social Activism into One Method by Stephen Snow
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £33.53Ethnodramatherapy explores the integration of the performance ethnography method, known as ethnodrama, with the principles and practices of drama therapy to establish a sound theoretical formulation...