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25 produkter
Re-imagining Independence in Contemporary Greek Theatre and Performance
Av Philip Hager
Häftad, 2024
317 kr
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This Element examines practices that occurred since the beginning of the Greek crisis and revisits the mnemonic canon of the Greek War of Independence. By focusing on the institution of the mnemonic canon of independence, and subsequently on its contemporary re-imaginings, this Element interrogates …
Utpal Dutt and Political Theatre in Postcolonial India
Häftad, 2024
317 kr
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Among the most significant playwrights and theatre-makers of postcolonial India, Utpal Dutt (1929-1993), was an early exponent of rethinking colonial history through political theatre. Dutt envisaged political theatre as part of the larger Marxist project, and his incorporation of new developments …
Decolonising African Theatre
Häftad, 2024
354 kr
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Decolonisation can be pursued in different ways. After many years of developing a critical language to engage coloniality, the most urgent need in African theatre is to develop new theories and methods in our manufactories. This Element uses Afroscenology as a theory to read and comment on African …
Theatre Revivals for the Anthropocene
Häftad, 2023
418 kr
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This Element argues that the climate emergency requires a new approach to the study of theatre history - a suggestion that is developed through an analysis of the practice of theatrical revival during the Anthropocene era. Staging old plays in new ways can make visible ecological or environmental …
The Festival of India
Development and Diplomacy at the End of the Cold War
Häftad, 2024
317 kr
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An in-depth study of the Festival of India (1985-1986) in the United States, one of the biggest events ever mounted to promote goodwill between two countries. Comprising more than seven hundred programs of music, dance, drama, film shows, art exhibitions, and workshops sponsored by over two hundred …
Staging Class Conflict in the UK
Av Liz Tomlin
Häftad, 2025
317 kr
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This Element focuses on the frequent staging of the most precarious fraction of the working class in the context of a theatre industry, academy and audiences that are dominated by the cultural fraction of the middle class. It interrogates the staging of an abjectified figure as a means of …
Theatres of Autofiction
Av Lianna Mark
Häftad, 2025
327 kr
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This Element is the first monograph to focus on the presence and popularity of autofiction in contemporary theatre, a mode characterised by its mixture of autobiographical and fictional materials and generally associated with the cutting edge of literary fiction. To do so, it brings frameworks from …
Performing Urban Ecologies
Häftad, 2025
291 kr
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With the majority of the global population living in cities, urbanisation and climate crisis have become urgent planetary issues. This Element examines 'urban eco-performance', exploring how theatre and performance intersect with urbanisation and ecological crises to reimagine equitable urban …
Performing Nationalism in Russia
Av Yana Meerzon
Inbunden, 2024
938 kr
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Following Homi Bhabha's prompt on reading nationalism as a set of discursive and performative practices, this Element focuses on the cultural geography of today's Russia and examines a range of performative strategies used by the Russian state to uphold its nationalist project. Simultaneously, it …
Performing Nationalism in Russia
Av Yana Meerzon
Häftad, 2024
317 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Following Homi Bhabha's prompt on reading nationalism as a set of discursive and performative practices, this Element focuses on the cultural geography of today's Russia and examines a range of performative strategies used by the Russian state to uphold its nationalist project. Simultaneously, it …
Empire, Extraction and Power in the Festivals of Britain of 1951 and 2022
Inbunden, 2026
938 kr
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This Element compares the 1951 Festival of Britain with the 2022 Unboxed Festival to explore both continuities and shifts in the British state's relationship to empire, power and extraction as expressed in celebrations of national culture. The ideological projects underpinning these governments, …
Empire, Extraction and Power in the Festivals of Britain of 1951 and 2022
Häftad, 2026
317 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This Element compares the 1951 Festival of Britain with the 2022 Unboxed Festival to explore both continuities and shifts in the British state's relationship to empire, power and extraction as expressed in celebrations of national culture. The ideological projects underpinning these governments, …
Re-imagining Independence in Contemporary Greek Theatre and Performance
Av Philip Hager
Inbunden, 2024
938 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This Element examines practices that occurred since the beginning of the Greek crisis and revisits the mnemonic canon of the Greek War of Independence. By focusing on the institution of the mnemonic canon of independence, and subsequently on its contemporary re-imaginings, this Element interrogates …
The Festival of India
Development and Diplomacy at the End of the Cold War
Inbunden, 2024
938 kr
Lägg i varukorg
An in-depth study of the Festival of India (1985-1986) in the United States, one of the biggest events ever mounted to promote goodwill between two countries. Comprising more than seven hundred programs of music, dance, drama, film shows, art exhibitions, and workshops sponsored by over two hundred …
Utpal Dutt and Political Theatre in Postcolonial India
Inbunden, 2024
938 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Among the most significant playwrights and theatre-makers of postcolonial India, Utpal Dutt (1929-1993), was an early exponent of rethinking colonial history through political theatre. Dutt envisaged political theatre as part of the larger Marxist project, and his incorporation of new developments …
Decolonising African Theatre
Inbunden, 2024
1048 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Decolonisation can be pursued in different ways. After many years of developing a critical language to engage coloniality, the most urgent need in African theatre is to develop new theories and methods in our manufactories. This Element uses Afroscenology as a theory to read and comment on African …
Performance and Postsocialism in Postmillennial China
Inbunden, 2025
918 kr
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This Element examines performance in postmillennial China through the lens of postsocialism. The fragmented ontology of Chinese postsocialism captures the structural contradictions of a political system that supports a neoliberal economy while continuing to promote socialist values. This study …
Performance and Postsocialism in Postmillennial China
Häftad, 2025
317 kr
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This Element examines performance in postmillennial China through the lens of postsocialism. The fragmented ontology of Chinese postsocialism captures the structural contradictions of a political system that supports a neoliberal economy while continuing to promote socialist values. This study …
Crisis Theatre and The Living Newspaper
Av Sarah Jane Mullan, Sarah Bartley
Inbunden, 2024
918 kr
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Crisis Theatre and The Living Newspapers traces a history of the living newspaper as a theatre of crisis from Soviet Russia (1910s), through the Federal Theatre Project of the Great Depression in America (1930s), to Augusto Boal's teatro jornal in Brazil (1970s), and its resonance with documentary …
Crisis Theatre and The Living Newspaper
Av Sarah Jane Mullan, Sarah Bartley
Häftad, 2024
317 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Crisis Theatre and The Living Newspapers traces a history of the living newspaper as a theatre of crisis from Soviet Russia (1910s), through the Federal Theatre Project of the Great Depression in America (1930s), to Augusto Boal's teatro jornal in Brazil (1970s), and its resonance with documentary …
Participatory Creation within French Public Theatre
Häftad, 2026
318 kr
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Within French subsidised performing arts institutions, productions involving non-professional contributors have been gaining traction over the last decade. The trend is spearheaded both by artists, seeking to increase their interactions with society, and by public authorities, preoccupied with …
Participatory Creation within French Public Theatre
Inbunden, 2026
1048 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Within French subsidised performing arts institutions, productions involving non-professional contributors have been gaining traction over the last decade. The trend is spearheaded both by artists, seeking to increase their interactions with society, and by public authorities, preoccupied with …
Theatres of Autofiction
Av Lianna Mark
Inbunden, 2025
967 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This Element is the first monograph to focus on the presence and popularity of autofiction in contemporary theatre, a mode characterised by its mixture of autobiographical and fictional materials and generally associated with the cutting edge of literary fiction. To do so, it brings frameworks from …
Performing Urban Ecologies
Inbunden, 2025
938 kr
Lägg i varukorg
With the majority of the global population living in cities, urbanisation and climate crisis have become urgent planetary issues. This Element examines 'urban eco-performance', exploring how theatre and performance intersect with urbanisation and ecological crises to reimagine equitable urban …
Staging Class Conflict in the UK
Av Liz Tomlin
Inbunden, 2025
938 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This Element focuses on the frequent staging of the most precarious fraction of the working class in the context of a theatre industry, academy and audiences that are dominated by the cultural fraction of the middle class. It interrogates the staging of an abjectified figure as a means of …
