Interdisciplinary Studies in Performance – serie
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33 produkter
Theater and the Sacred in the Middle Ages
Inbunden, 2019
884 kr
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The book presents a theory of relationships between the forms of devotion and early drama genres. The historical background is the circumstances of the Church becoming independent of the Empire. A theological and philosophical aspect of the transformation of piety at the time was the specification …
Tendenzen der zeitgenoessischen Dramatik
Av Paul Martin Langner, Agata Mirecka
Inbunden, 2015
763 kr
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Die Autoren stellen nicht nur Stücke zeitgenössischer Dramatiker vor, sondern bieten auch methodische Neuorientierungen. Die Abhandlungen greifen Pertubation, Performativität, aber auch wichtige Diskussionen über die Bedingungen und Definitionen des Individuellen in der Moderne auf.
Kinetics of the Invisible
Acting Processes in Peter Brook's Theatre
Inbunden, 2016
926 kr
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What’s the role played by the invisible in our lives? At what level can it be perceived when explored in theatre-making? Having as its focus the acting processes carried out by Peter Brook and his actors, this book examines many aspects of their practical work – from actor training seen as …
Long Shadow of Don Quixote
Inbunden, 2015
924 kr
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The author traces the resurgence of Don Quixote in the contemporary humanities. In the aftermath of World War II, the figure underwent the most radical re-interpretation since Romanticism. These changes speak volumes about our culture. Drawing on the theoretical framework of the specifically Polish …
Witkacy. Logos and the Elements
Inbunden, 2017
926 kr
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This book focuses on Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, philosopher and controversial artist. It expresses the opinions of philosophers, museologists and artists, for whom Stanisław Ignacy Witkacy’s 130th birthday anniversary became an opportunity to view his works from the perspective of postmodernity. …
Performance of Identity of Polish Tatars
From Religious Holidays to Everyday Rituals
Av Barbara Pawlic-Miskiewicz, Miroslaw Kocur
Inbunden, 2018
682 kr
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The book presents the Tatar community in a new perspective, with its rituals and strategies that allow it to maintain the identity and distinguish itself, using categories of performance and performativity which – despite problems with normative definitions – have permanently entered a dictionary …
Dancer – Researcher – Performer: A Learning Process
Av Graziela Rodrigues, Miroslaw Kocur
Inbunden, 2017
906 kr
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The author presents the method of research and creation in dance and theater in Brazil, called Bailarino-Pesquisador-Intérprete (Dancer-Researcher-Performer, BPI), which was created by the author herself. Through field research of ritual and Brazilian popular manifestations the author formulates a …
Second Birth of Theatre
Performances of Anglo-Saxon Monks
Av Mirosław Kocur, Miroslaw Kocur
Inbunden, 2017
709 kr
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This book presents a new approach to early English theatre by exposing a genuine relationship between monastic performances and theatricality. It argues that modern theatre was reinvented in Anglo-Saxon monasteries by monks who were required to transform themselves by disciplining their bodies and …
Cinematic Echoes of Covenants Past and Present
National Identity in the Historical Films of Steven Spielberg and Andrzej Wajda
Av Christopher Garbowski, Miroslaw Kocur
Inbunden, 2018
653 kr
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The author analyzes appropriately selected historical films of Steven Spielberg and Andrzej Wajda with respect to historical memory in relation to film. Cultural and moral foundations of national identity are also taken into account. Spielberg films particularly valuable for this comparative …
Raumformen in Der Gegenwartsdramatik
Av Miroslaw Kocur, Paul Martin Langner m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
646 kr
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Ausgehend von dem Gedanken, dass Räumlichkeit im Theater «flüchtig und transitorisch» ist, diskutieren die Autoren die multiple Struktur pluraler Räume in Regiearbeiten und Dramatik der Gegenwart. Neben der klassischen Bipolarität von Bühnen- und Zuschauerraum untersucht das Buch unter anderem …
Conflict and Controversy in Small Cinemas
Av Janina Falkowska, Krzysztof Loska
Inbunden, 2018
855 kr
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This book examines small cinemas and their presentation of society in times of crisis and conflict from an interdisciplinary and intercultural point of view. The authors concentrate on economic, social and political challenges and point to new phenomena which have been exposed by film directors. …
Between Dream and Reality: «The Saragossa Manuscript»
An Analysis of Wojciech Jerzy Has’s Movie
Av Iwona Grodź, Miroslaw Kocur
Inbunden, 2018
594 kr
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The book features a detailed analysis and interpretation of «The Saragossa Manuscript» (1964) by Wojciech Jerzy Has. The interpretative key is the director’s reference to the aesthetics of various art trends, starting with baroque, through romanticism, symbolism, surrealism and the culture of …
Intense Bodily Presence
Practices of Polish Butō Dancers
Av Magdalena Anna Zamorska, Miroslaw Kocur
Inbunden, 2018
846 kr
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The author explores the practices of Polish butō dancers. Underlining the transcultural potential of the genre, she discusses in particular their individual body-mind practices and so-called butō techniques in order to produce a generalised account of butō training. Her argument is underpinned by …
American Political Opera in the Twentieth Century
Av Joanna Miklaszewska, Miroslaw Kocur
Inbunden, 2019
690 kr
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The author analyses the substantial contribution made by American composers to the development of twentieth-century opera. The methodological approach employed in this book is influenced by Mieczyslaw Tomaszewski’s method of integral interpretation. The operas analyzed in this monograph, written …
Grotowski in Iran
Av Masoud Najafi Ardabili, Miroslaw Kocur
Inbunden, 2019
548 kr
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Jerzy Grotowski and the «Laboratory Theatre» presented his famous performance «The Constant Prince» to Iranian audiences in 1970 during the Shiraz Art Festival and in Teheran. Jerzy Grotowski travelled to Iran four times and his fifth journey, which was supposed to include «Apocalypsis Cum Figuris» …
Zur Funktion Und Bedeutung Des Chors Im Zeitgenoessischen Drama Und Theater
Inbunden, 2019
734 kr
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Die Rückkehr des Chores in die Theaterstücke und Inszenierungen der Gegenwart macht erkennbar, eine wie hohe Aktualität dieses seit der Antike bekannte Strukturelement des Dramas hat. Dabei werden die antiken Formen für die Bedingungen der Gegenwart überarbeitet und wirkungsvoll weiterentwickelt. …
Shakespeare in 19th-Century Opera
Av Alina Borkowska-Rychlewska, Miroslaw Kocur
Inbunden, 2019
832 kr
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The author of the book analyses selected 19th-century operas based on Shakespeare’s plays from the perspective of their relations to the literature, aesthetics and philosophy of the Romantic period. The texts discussed here include Verdi’s Macbeth, Otello and Falstaff, Rossini’s Otello, Halévy’s …
Cinema of Iceland
Between Tradition and Liquid Modernity
Av Sebastian Jakub Konefał, Miroslaw Kocur
Inbunden, 2019
839 kr
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The last decade was an exceptional period for the Icelandic cinema. The films produced during this time have won many prestigious awards at international festivals. Cinematic images of Iceland eclectically interlace myths, stereotypes and postmodern means of expression. At first glance, the local …
Running off the Anger: British New Wave
Av Anna Śliwińska, Miroslaw Kocur
Inbunden, 2019
690 kr
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Running off the Anger. British New Wave includes several areas of research that suggest interpreting the cinema of the British New Wave in relation to social realism, the construction of the main characters, popular culture and the way New Wave played with film-making. Thanks to an in-depth …
Japanese Avant-Garde and Experimental Film
Av Agnieszka Kiejziewicz, Miroslaw Kocur
Inbunden, 2019
711 kr
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The book shows the connections between Japanese historical avant-garde movements and new Japanese experimental films. The author provides insight into the development of Japanese avant-garde visual culture and experimental aesthetics, also featuring the expanded cinema after 2000. The author …
In the Footsteps of Harlequin and Pulcinella
Cultural Mobility and Localness of Theatre
Av Ewa Bal, Jan Burzyński
Inbunden, 2020
792 kr
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The author takes readers on a journey in the footsteps of Harlequin and Pulcinella, two well-known commedia dell’arte masks, to show the historically fluctuating way in which they participated in building “Italianness” in the eyes of foreign theatre audiences (the history of the Harlequin mask in …
Political Music
Communication and Mobilization
Av Anna Szwed-Walczak, Tomasz Bichta
Inbunden, 2021
623 kr
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The volume explores the influence that music exerts on emotions and on social and electoral mobilization. Music shapes social moods, which is crucial both in times of political stabilization and crisis. As corroborated by the presented research results, music enhances group solidarity, loyalty …
Political Music
Legitimization and Contestation
Av Tomasz Bichta, Anna Szwed-Walczak
Inbunden, 2021
491 kr
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In the 12 chapters of this book the authors argue for the universal presence of music in public space and social relations. The examples of American, British, Hungarian, Polish and Russian music serve to elucidate two functions of political music, that of legitimizing and contesting political …
Theatre of the Absurd, the Grotesque and Politics
A Study of Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard
Av Jadwiga Uchman, Miroslaw Kocur
Inbunden, 2021
677 kr
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The monograph deals with chosen aspects of modern drama based on the output of three playwrights. It discusses the works of Beckett, Pinter and Stoppard in reference to their employment of the grotesque and the theatre of the absurd. Elements of the grotesque appear in political dramas of all three …
Truth, Beauty, and the Common Good
The Search for Meaning through Culture, Community and Life
Av Christopher Garbowski, Miroslaw Kocur
Inbunden, 2021
507 kr
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The examination of the transcendentals of truth, beauty and the good in this book stems from the perspective of Christian humanism, transcending ourselves in moral psychology, and perfecting ourselves to attain the good life. These critical approaches are each pertinent to the search for meaning in …
Cuerpo del Espectador / El Cuerpo del Lector (Presencias Reales del Teatro Y La Literatura)
Inbunden, 2022
657 kr
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This book studies, from two perspectives, the scenological and the literary, the visions of the spectator and the reader. What relationships and differences are stablished in the dynamic so spectators and readers? Is the spectator a real body? Is the reader an invisible body, not real?
Wanda Jakubowska Revisited
Inbunden, 2022
599 kr
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The book by Monika Talarczyk is devoted to the life and work of Wanda Jakubowska (1907–1998), author of The Last Stage (1948), an icon of women’s cinema, said to be the Mother of All Holocaust Films. The author discovers previously unknown facts in Jakubowska’s biography from the period of her …
Kantor: Non/Presence
Av Katarzyna Fazan, Miroslaw Kocur
Inbunden, 2024
808 kr
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Kantor: Non/Presence is a unique work in theatre studies by a single author. The book far exceeds the framework set by its eponymous protagonist. Fazan reveals where following Tadeusz Kantor can lead and how radically the discourse of theater studies should be transformed in contact with his vast, …
Communication and Reception of Polish Theatre in China
Av Guofeng Teng, Miroslaw Kocur
Inbunden, 2024
561 kr
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This study combines a literature review from a macro perspective and case studies from a micro perspective to reveal the communication and reception of Polish theatre in China, starting from the reception-end to explore the factors that influence the communication of Polish theatre. The literature …
Theatricality and Anti-theatricality
Spaces of Reflection in Drama and Theatre
Av Carlos Dimeo, Aneta Głowacka
Inbunden, 2026
601 kr
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This book explores the dynamic relationship between theatre, dramatic literature, and its audience, highlighting the audience's essential role in shaping the theatrical experience. It examines how the concepts of theatricality and anti-theatricality manifest in contemporary theatre. Through …
