Contemporary Performance InterActions – serie
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41 produkter
Theatre's Heterotopias
Performance and the Cultural Politics of Space
Av J. Tompkins
Inbunden, 2014
569 kr
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Theatre's Heterotopias analyses performance space, using the concept of heterotopia: a location that, when apparent in performance, refers to the actual world, thus activating performance in its culture. Case studies cover site-specific and multimedia performance, and selected productions from the …
Contemporary Japanese Women’s Theatre and Visual Arts
Performing Girls’ Aesthetics
Av Nobuko Anan
Inbunden, 2015
1355 kr
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This book traces the history of 'girls' aesthetics,' where adult Japanese women create art works about 'girls' that resist motherhood, from the modern to the contemporary period and their manifestation in Japanese women's theatrical and dance performance and visual arts including manga, film, and …
Queer Dramaturgies
International Perspectives on Where Performance Leads Queer
Av Alyson Campbell, Stephen Farrier
Inbunden, 2015
1018 kr
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This international collection of essays forms a vibrant picture of the scope and diversity of contemporary queer performance. Ranging across cabaret, performance art, the performativity of film, drag and script-based theatre it unravels the dynamic relationship performance has with queerness as it …
Post-Conflict Performance, Film and Visual Arts
Cities of Memory
Inbunden, 2016
1355 kr
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Drawing on a range of cities and conflicts from Europe, Africa and the Middle East, the collection explores the post-conflict condition as it is lived and expressed in modern cities such as Berlin, Belfast, Bilbao, Beirut, Derry, Skopje, Sarajevo, Tunis, Johannesburg and Harare. Post-Conflict …
Staging Queer Feminisms
Sexuality and Gender in Australian Performance, 2005-2015
Av Sarah French
Inbunden, 2017
1243 kr
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This book examines sexuality, gender and race in Australia’s vibrant independent theatre and performance culture. It analyses selected feminist and queer performances that interrogate the cultural construction of sexuality and gender, challenge the normative trends of mainstream Australian society …
Migration and Performance in Contemporary Ireland
Towards a New Interculturalism
Inbunden, 2016
1425 kr
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This book investigates Ireland’s translation of interculturalism as social policy into aesthetic practice and situates the wider implications of this ‘new interculturalism’ for theatre and performance studies at large.Offering the first full-length, post-1990s study of the effect of large-scale …
Performing the Secular
Religion, Representation, and Politics
Av Milija Gluhovic, Jisha Menon
Inbunden, 2017
1130 kr
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With a foreword from Rustom Bharucha, this book is a timely anthology which aims to unsettle our habituated modes of thinking about the place of the secular in cultural productions. The last decade alone has witnessed many religious protests against cultural productions, which have led, in some …
Queer Performance and Contemporary Ireland
Dissent and Disorientation
Av Fintan Walsh
Inbunden, 2015
569 kr
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This book examines the surge of queer performance produced across Ireland since the first stirrings of the Celtic Tiger in the mid-1990s, up to the passing of the Marriage Equality referendum in the Republic in 2015.
Staging Trauma
Bodies in Shadow
Inbunden, 2018
1392 kr
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This book investigates contemporary British and Irish performances that stage traumatic narratives, histories, acts and encounters. It includes a range of case studies that consider the performative, cultural and political contexts for the staging and reception of sexual violence, terminal illness, …
English Theatre and Social Abjection
A Divided Nation
Inbunden, 2020
569 kr
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Focusing on contemporary English theatre, this book asks a series of questions: How has theatre contributed to understandings of the North-South divide? What have theatrical treatments of riots offered to wider debates about their causes and consequences? Has theatre been able to intervene in the …
Performance, Feminism and Affect in Neoliberal Times
Av Elin Diamond, Denise Varney m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
1467 kr
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This book is a provocative new study of global feminist activism that opposes neoliberal regimes across several sites including Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe, Latin America and the United States. The feminist performative acts featured in the book contest the aggressive unravelling of …
Theatre's Heterotopias
Performance and the Cultural Politics of Space
Av J. Tompkins
Häftad, 2014
351 kr
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Theatre's Heterotopias analyses performance space, using the concept of heterotopia: a location that, when apparent in performance, refers to the actual world, thus activating performance in its culture. Case studies cover site-specific and multimedia performance, and selected productions from the …
Queer Dramaturgies
International Perspectives on Where Performance Leads Queer
Av Alyson Campbell, Stephen Farrier
Häftad, 2017
502 kr
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This international collection of essays forms a vibrant picture of the scope and diversity of contemporary queer performance. Ranging across cabaret, performance art, the performativity of film, drag and script-based theatre it unravels the dynamic relationship performance has with queerness as it …
Queer Performance and Contemporary Ireland
Dissent and Disorientation
Av Fintan Walsh
Häftad, 2017
569 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book examines the surge of queer performance produced across Ireland since the first stirrings of the Celtic Tiger in the mid-1990s, up to the passing of the Marriage Equality referendum in the Republic in 2015.
Staging Queer Feminisms
Sexuality and Gender in Australian Performance, 2005-2015
Av Sarah French
Häftad, 2019
569 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book examines sexuality, gender and race in Australia’s vibrant independent theatre and performance culture. It analyses selected feminist and queer performances that interrogate the cultural construction of sexuality and gender, challenge the normative trends of mainstream Australian society …
Performing the Secular
Religion, Representation, and Politics
Av Milija Gluhovic, Jisha Menon
Häftad, 2020
1130 kr
Lägg i varukorg
With a foreword from Rustom Bharucha, this book is a timely anthology which aims to unsettle our habituated modes of thinking about the place of the secular in cultural productions. The last decade alone has witnessed many religious protests against cultural productions, which have led, in some …
Performance, Feminism and Affect in Neoliberal Times
Av Elin Diamond, Denise Varney m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
1467 kr
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This book is a provocative new study of global feminist activism that opposes neoliberal regimes across several sites including Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe, Latin America and the United States. The feminist performative acts featured in the book contest the aggressive unravelling of …
Applied Theatre and Sexual Health Communication
Apertures of Possibility
Inbunden, 2020
569 kr
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This book analyses the partnership between applied theatre and sexual health communication in a theatre-making project in Nyanga, a township in South Africa. By examining the bridges and schisms between the two fields as they come together in the project, an alternative way of approaching sexual …
Applied Theatre and Sexual Health Communication
Apertures of Possibility
Häftad, 2021
569 kr
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This book analyses the partnership between applied theatre and sexual health communication in a theatre-making project in Nyanga, a township in South Africa. By examining the bridges and schisms between the two fields as they come together in the project, an alternative way of approaching sexual …
Interculturalism and Performance Now
New Directions?
Av Charlotte McIvor, Jason King
Inbunden, 2019
1580 kr
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This book is the first edited collection to respond to an undeniable resurgence of critical activity around the controversial theoretical term ‘interculturalism’ in theatre and performance studies. Long one of the field’s most vigorously debated concepts, intercultural performance has typically …
Performing Remembering
Women's Memories of War in Vietnam
Häftad, 2019
1359 kr
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This book explores the performances and politics of memory among a group of women war veterans in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Through ethnographic, oral history-based research, it connects the veterans’ wartime histories, memory politics, performance practices, recollections of imprisonment and …
Sustainable Tools for Precarious Times
Performance Actions in the Americas
Av Natalie Alvarez, Claudette Lauzon m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
1243 kr
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This collection promises to be a cornerstone in the field of performance studies and human rights activism. By mixing scholarly chapters with artists’ manifestos or “interruptions” it promotes the idea of the collective work between academia and social movements. Not only is it very timely, …
Performing Southeast Asia
Performance, Politics and the Contemporary
Av Marcus Cheng Chye Tan, Charlene Rajendran
Inbunden, 2020
1246 kr
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Performing Southeast Asia: Performance, Politics and the Contemporary is an important reconsideration of the histories and practices of theatre and performance in a fluid and dynamic region that is also experiencing an overarching politics of complexity, precarity and populist authoritarian …
Performing Southeast Asia
Performance, Politics and the Contemporary
Av Marcus Cheng Chye Tan, Charlene Rajendran
Häftad, 2021
1248 kr
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Performing Southeast Asia: Performance, Politics and the Contemporary is an important reconsideration of the histories and practices of theatre and performance in a fluid and dynamic region that is also experiencing an overarching politics of complexity, precarity and populist authoritarian …
Migration and Stereotypes in Performance and Culture
Av Yana Meerzon, David Dean m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
1243 kr
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This book is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that delves beneath the media headlines about the “migration crisis”, Brexit, Trump and similar events and spectacles that have been linked to the intensification and proliferation of stereotypes about migrants since 2015. Topics include the …
Migration and Stereotypes in Performance and Culture
Av Yana Meerzon, David Dean m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
1243 kr
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This book is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that delves beneath the media headlines about the “migration crisis”, Brexit, Trump and similar events and spectacles that have been linked to the intensification and proliferation of stereotypes about migrants since 2015. Topics include the …
Performing Welfare
Applied Theatre, Unemployment, and Economies of Participation
Inbunden, 2020
571 kr
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This book explores what happens to socially committed performance when state systems of social security are dismantled. Since 2010, a punishing programme of economic austerity and a seismic overhaul of the Welfare State in the United Kingdom has been accompanied by an ideological assault on …
Performing Welfare
Applied Theatre, Unemployment, and Economies of Participation
Häftad, 2021
571 kr
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This book explores what happens to socially committed performance when state systems of social security are dismantled. Since 2010, a punishing programme of economic austerity and a seismic overhaul of the Welfare State in the United Kingdom has been accompanied by an ideological assault on …
Stage Business and the Neoliberal Theatre of London
Av Alex Ferrone
Inbunden, 2021
1135 kr
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This book examines contemporary English drama and its relation to the neoliberal consensus that has dominated British policy since 1979. The London stage has emerged as a key site in Britain’s reckoning with neoliberalism. On one hand, many playwrights have denounced the acquisitive values of …
Stage Business and the Neoliberal Theatre of London
Av Alex Ferrone
Häftad, 2022
1135 kr
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This book examines contemporary English drama and its relation to the neoliberal consensus that has dominated British policy since 1979. The London stage has emerged as a key site in Britain’s reckoning with neoliberalism. On one hand, many playwrights have denounced the acquisitive values of …
