Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernism, Drama and Performance – serie
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22 produkter
Speech-Gesture Complex
Modernism, Theatre, Cinema
Inbunden, 2013
1531 kr
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Places the performative gesture at the point of intersection between literature, theatre and cinemaThis new study examines the representation of gesture in modernist writing, performance and cinema. Deploying a new theoretical term, ‘the speech-gesture complex’, Anthony Paraskeva identifies a …
Greek Tragedy and Modernist Performance
Hellenism as Theatricality
Av Olga Taxidou
Häftad, 2023
594 kr
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Examines the centrality of Greek tragedy for modernist performanceExamines the centrality of Greek tragedy for modernist performanceAnalyses how Hellenism becomes a mode of theatricalityLooks at the interface between theatricality and performativityRevises the fraught relationships between …
Russian Futurist Theatre
Theory and Practice
Av Robert Leach
Inbunden, 2018
1607 kr
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A study of a key modernist form, its theory, practice and legacyWhat do we know today about the theatrical ferment caused by the scandalous group of Russian writers, artists, musicians and theatre makers who called themselves 'Futurists'? What can we learn from their iconoclastic and exciting …
Greek Tragedy and Modernist Performance
Hellenism as Theatricality
Av Olga Taxidou
Inbunden, 2021
1498 kr
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This book examines the ways the encounters between modernist theatre makers and Greek tragedy were constitutive in the modernist experiments in performance. Through a series of events / instances / poses that engage visual, literary and performing arts, the modernist love/hate relationship with …
Modernism and the Theatre of the Baroque
Av Kate Armond
Inbunden, 2017
2270 kr
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Modernism and the Theatre of the Baroque fashions an independent aesthetic for modernist writers and texts that challenges many high modernist qualities promoted by James Joyce and T. S. Eliot.
Beckett's Breath
Anti-Theatricality and the Visual Arts
Inbunden, 2018
1531 kr
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Examines the intersection of Samuel Beckett's thirty-second playlet Breath with the visual artsSamuel Beckett, one of the most prominent playwrights of the twentieth century, wrote a thirty-second playlet for the stage that does not include actors, text, characters or drama but only stage …
Irish Drama and the Other Revolutions
Playwrights, Sexual Politics and the International Left, 1892-1964
Av Susan Cannon Harris, Susan Cannon Harris
Inbunden, 2017
1572 kr
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Reveals the untold story of Irish drama’s engagement with modernity’s sexual and social revolutionsThe first modern Irish playwrights emerged in London in the 1890s, at the intersection of a rising international socialist movement and a new campaign for gender equality and sexual freedom. Irish …
Multicultural Governance in a Mobile World
Av Anna Triandafyllidou, Anna Triandafyllidou
Inbunden, 2017
2605 kr
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Through both theoretical contributions and empirically-orientated analyses, this book provides insights into how theories and practices of multicultural citizenship and migrant integration are adapting and might adapt to the new, more dynamic but also more fluid patterns of international migration …
Rethinking Whitehead’s Symbolism
Thought, Language, Culture
Av Roland Faber, Jeffrey A. Bell m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
1898 kr
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This collection of 11 essays form a new examination of Whitehead’s Barbour-Page lectures, which were published as the book Symbolism: Its Meaning and Effect in 1927. Leading Whitehead scholars give you exciting insights into the contemporary implications of Whitehead's symbolism in an era of new …
Pina Bausch's Dance Theatre
Tracing the Evolution of Tanztheater
Av Lucy Weir
Inbunden, 2018
2099 kr
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First full-scale thematic analysis of Pina Bausch's 'Tanztheater', critically evaluating the impact of modernist theatre on her choreographic methodThis book presents a new reading of Pina Bausch's dance theatre, orienting it within an international legacy of performance practice. The discussion …
Pina Bausch's Dance Theatre
Tracing the Evolution of Tanztheater
Av Lucy Weir
Häftad, 2019
697 kr
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First full-scale thematic analysis of Pina Bausch’s Tanztheater, critically evaluating the impact of modernist theatre on her choreographic methodThis book presents a new reading of Pina Bausch’s dance theatre, orienting it within an international legacy of performance practice. The discussion …
Federal Theatre Project, 1935–1939
Engagement and Experimentation
Inbunden, 2020
1414 kr
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Investigates the explosive phenomenon of the Federal Theatre Project (FTP) from a transatlantic perspectiveOffers the first comparative study of the history, performances and politics of the FTP in a book form Contributes significantly to the study of Hallie Flanagan as the bridge between the FTP …
Federal Theatre Project, 1935–1939
Engagement and Experimentation
Häftad, 2022
573 kr
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Engaging and informative, this book presents a comparative study of the history, performances and politics of the FTP by drawing and exposing further links between American modernism and its European counterparts. It concentrates predominantly on the New York division and its following units: the …
Irish Drama and the Other Revolutions
Playwrights, Sexual Politics and the International Left, 1892-1964
Häftad, 2019
762 kr
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Reveals the untold story of Irish drama’s engagement with modernity’s sexual and social revolutionsThe first modern Irish playwrights emerged in London in the 1890s, at the intersection of a rising international socialist movement and a new campaign for gender equality and sexual freedom. Irish …
Modernism and the Theatre of the Baroque
Av Kate Armond
Häftad, 2019
661 kr
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First comparative study to address the rediscovery of baroque aesthetic in modernismDid you know that seventeenth-century philosophy influenced dance theory and evolutionary science during the modernist period? Or that in England, Italy and Germany the term ‘baroque’ was used almost exclusively as …
Beckett's Breath
Anti-Theatricality and the Visual Arts
Häftad, 2019
392 kr
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Examines the intersection of Samuel Beckett’s thirty-second playlet Breath with the visual artsSamuel Beckett, one of the most prominent playwrights of the twentieth century, wrote a thirty-second playlet for the stage that does not include actors, text, characters or drama but only stage …
Russian Futurist Theatre
Theory and Practice
Av Robert Leach
Häftad, 2019
558 kr
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A study of a key modernist form, its theory, practice and legacyWhat do we know today about the theatrical ferment caused by the scandalous group of Russian writers, artists, musicians and theatre makers who called themselves ‘Futurists’? What can we learn from their iconoclastic and exciting …
Modernist Disguise
Masquerade in Modern Performance and Visual Culture
Inbunden, 2021
2270 kr
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Analyses the expansion of head and body masking from nineteenth-century Paris to its international maturity in contemporary cultureLooks at the presence and development of masquerade in the modernist era - via performance history - with parallel references to theatricality and performativity in …
Modernist Disguise
Masquerade in Modern Performance and Visual Culture
Häftad, 2023
711 kr
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Analyses the expansion of head and body masking from nineteenth-century Paris to its international maturity in contemporary cultureLooks at the presence and development of masquerade in the modernist era - via performance history - with parallel references to theatricality and performativity in …
Modernism and the Choreographic Imagination
Salome’s Dance after 1890
Inbunden, 2021
1371 kr
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This book explores Salome’s quintessential veiled dance through readings of fictional and poetic texts, dramatic productions, dance performances and silent films, arguing for the central place of this dancer – and her many interpreters – to the wider formal and aesthetic contours of modernism.Loïe …
Modernism and the Choreographic Imagination
Salome’s Dance after 1890
Häftad, 2023
711 kr
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An account of Salome's dance and its centrality within modernist performanceOffers a new account of the Salome myth that underlines its centrality to modernist performance across different genres and forms, including drama, dance, and silent filmDraws on interdisciplinary methodologies from …
Speech-Gesture Complex
Modernism, Theatre, Cinema
Häftad, 2020
324 kr
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Places the performative gesture at the point of intersection between literature, theatre and cinemaThis new study examines the representation of gesture in modernist writing, performance and cinema. Deploying a new theoretical term, ‘the speech-gesture complex’, Anthony Paraskeva identifies a …
