Performance Interventions – serie
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47 produkter
Women in Irish Drama
A Century of Authorship and Representation
Inbunden, 2007
634 kr
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Featuring original essays by leading scholars in the field, this book explores the immense legacy of women playwrights in Irish theatre since the beginning of theTwentieth century. Chapters consider the intersecting contexts of gender, sexuality and the body in order to investigate the broader …
Contesting Performance
Global Sites of Research
Av J. McKenzie, H. Roms m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
568 kr
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Contesting Performance is a collection of essays by international scholars that addresses the global development of performance research in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The collection functions as a critical reader on diverse approaches to studying performance that contest …
Shakespeare in Transition
Political Appropriations in the Postcommunist Czech Republic
Av M. Kostihová
Inbunden, 2010
634 kr
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Using themed performance reviews and extensive interviews with theatre professionals, this book explores how Shakespeare's 'cultural capital' has been evoked in the reinvention of a post-communist nation against a backdrop of political tensions surrounding the ascendance of Central and Eastern …
Performance and the City
Inbunden, 2009
568 kr
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Winner of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education Excellence in Editing Award 2016 Urban studies has long understood the city as a 'text'. What would it mean now to use performance to rethink that metaphor? Performance and the City queries the role theatre and performance play in urban …
Get Real
Documentary Theatre Past and Present
Av A. Forsyth, C. Megson
Inbunden, 2009
1128 kr
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Over the past two decades, theatre practitioners across the West have turned to documentary modes of performance-making to confront new socio-political realities. The essays in this book place this work in context, exploring historical and contemporary examples of documentary and 'verbatim' …
Masculinities and the Contemporary Irish Theatre
Av B. Singleton
Inbunden, 2010
568 kr
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Irish theatre and its histories appear to be dominated by men and their actions. This book's socially and culturally contextualized analysis of performance over the last two decades, however reveals masculinities that are anything but hegemonic, played out in theatres and other arenas of …
Avant-Garde Performance and Material Exchange
Vectors of the Radical
Av M. Sell
Inbunden, 2010
568 kr
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Assembling a remarkable group of scholars, these essays explore how the circulation and exchange of 'vectors of the radical' shape the avant-garde. Mapping the movement of scripts, theatre activists, performances, and other material entities, they provide unprecedented perspectives on the …
Cyborg Theatre
Corporeal/Technological Intersections in Multimedia Performance
Inbunden, 2011
1128 kr
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This book articulates the first theoretical context for a 'cyborg theatre', metaphorically integrating on-stage bodies with the technologized, digitized, or mediatized, to re-imagine subjectivity for a post-human age. It covers a variety of examples, to propose new theoretical tools for …
Refugees, Theatre and Crisis
Performing Global Identities
Av A. Jeffers
Inbunden, 2011
1240 kr
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Using examples of refugee arts and theatrical activity since the 1990s, this book examines how the 'refugee crisis' has conditioned all arts and cultural activity with refugees in a world where globalization and migration go hand in hand.
Good Night Out for the Girls
Popular Feminisms in Contemporary Theatre and Performance
Inbunden, 2012
568 kr
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Moving across the boundaries of mainstream and experimental circuits, from the affective pleasures of commercially successful shows such as Calendar Girls and Mamma Mia! to the feminist possibilities of new burlesque and stand-up, this book offers a lucid and accessible account of popular feminisms …
Performance and the City
Häftad, 2009
568 kr
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Winner of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education Excellence in Editing Award 2016 Urban studies has long understood the city as a 'text'. What would it mean now to use performance to rethink that metaphor? Performance and the City queries the role theatre and performance play in urban …
Visuality in the Theatre
The Locus of Looking
Av M. Bleeker
Häftad, 2008
624 kr
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This book presents an exploration of the under-explored terrain of visuality, demonstrating the use of new theoretical insights into vision for the analysis of theatre and performance and simultaneously shows theatre and performance to be an excellent 'theoretical object' for exploring the …
Contemporary British Queer Performance
Av S. Greer
Inbunden, 2012
1464 kr
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This book examines queer performance in Britain since the early 1990s, arguing for the significance of emerging collaborative modes of practice. Using queer theory and the history of early lesbian and gay theatre to examine claims to representation among other things, it interrogates the …
Get Real
Documentary Theatre Past and Present
Av A. Forsyth, C. Megson
Häftad, 2009
1352 kr
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Over the past two decades, theatre practitioners across the West have turned to documentary modes of performance-making to confront new socio-political realities. The essays in this book place this work in context, exploring historical and contemporary examples of documentary and 'verbatim' …
Performance and the Global City
Av D. Hopkins, K. Solga
Inbunden, 2013
568 kr
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Winner of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education Excellence in Editing Award 2016 Following the ground-breaking Performance and the City, this new volume explores what it means to create and experience urban performance – as both an aesthetic and a political practice – in the burgeoning …
Performing Site-Specific Theatre
Politics, Place, Practice
Av A. Birch, J. Tompkins
Inbunden, 2012
1128 kr
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This book investigates the expanding parameters for site-specific performance to account for the form's increasing popularity in the twenty-first century. Leading practitioners and theorists interrogate issues of performance and site to broaden our understanding of the role that place plays in …
Performing Site-Specific Theatre
Politics, Place, Practice
Av A. Birch, J. Tompkins
Häftad, 2012
1240 kr
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This book investigates the expanding parameters for site-specific performance to account for the form's increasing popularity in the twenty-first century. Leading practitioners and theorists interrogate issues of performance and site to broaden our understanding of the role that place plays in …
Naming Theatre
Demonstrative Diagnosis in Performance
Av J. Frieze
Inbunden, 2009
634 kr
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Reading a range of work from the US and UK over the last two decades, this is an innovative study of theatre's growing obsession with technologies and effects of naming. How does theatre reflect, and intervene in, naming practices across domains such as philosophy, computing, journalism, …
Against Theatre
Creative Destructions on the Modernist Stage
Häftad, 2006
568 kr
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Against Theatre shows that the most prominent writers of modern drama shared a radical rejection of the theatre as they knew it. Together with designers, composers and film makers, they plotted to destroy all existing theatres. But from their destruction emerged the most astonishing innovations of …
Visuality in the Theatre
The Locus of Looking
Av M. Bleeker
Inbunden, 2008
568 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book presents an exploration of the under-explored terrain of visuality, demonstrating the use of new theoretical insights into vision for the analysis of theatre and performance and simultaneously shows theatre and performance to be an excellent 'theoretical object' for exploring the …
Performance in the Borderlands
Av R. Rivera-Servera, H. Young
Inbunden, 2010
568 kr
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A border is a force of containment that inspires dreams of being overcome and crossed; motivates bodies to climb over; and threatens physical harm. This book critically examines a range of cultural performances produced in relation to the tensions and movements of/about the borders dividing North …
Women in Irish Drama
A Century of Authorship and Representation
Av M. Sihra
Häftad, 2007
693 kr
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Featuring original essays by leading scholars in the field, this book explores the immense legacy of women playwrights in Irish theatre since the beginning of theTwentieth century. Chapters consider the intersecting contexts of gender, sexuality and the body in order to investigate the broader …
Contemporary French Theatre and Performance
Av C. Finburgh, C. Lavery
Inbunden, 2011
568 kr
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This is the first book to explore the relationship between experimental theatre and performance making in France. Reflecting the recent return to aesthetics and politics in French theory, it focuses on how a variety of theatre and performance practitioners use their art work to contest reality as …
Contesting Performance
Global Sites of Research
Av J. McKenzie, H. Roms m. fl.
Häftad, 2009
568 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Contesting Performance is a collection of essays by international scholars that addresses the global development of performance research in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The collection functions as a critical reader on diverse approaches to studying performance that contest …
Fair Play - Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
Av J. Harvie
Häftad, 2013
568 kr
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This book asks what is the quality of participation in contemporary art and performance? Has it been damaged by cultural policies which have 'entrepreneurialized' artists, cut arts funding and cultivated corporate philanthropy? Has it been fortified by crowdfunding, pop-ups and craftsmanship? And …
Fair Play - Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
Av J. Harvie
Inbunden, 2013
568 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book asks what is the quality of participation in contemporary art and performance? Has it been damaged by cultural policies which have 'entrepreneurialized' artists, cut arts funding and cultivated corporate philanthropy? Has it been fortified by crowdfunding, pop-ups and craftsmanship? And …
Cyborg Theatre
Corporeal/Technological Intersections in Multimedia Performance
Häftad, 2011
1128 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book articulates the first theoretical context for a 'cyborg theatre', metaphorically integrating on-stage bodies with the technologized, digitized, or mediatized, to re-imagine subjectivity for a post-human age. It covers a variety of examples, to propose new theoretical tools for …
Masculinities and the Contemporary Irish Theatre
Av B. Singleton
Häftad, 2010
568 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Irish theatre and its histories appear to be dominated by men and their actions. This book's socially and culturally contextualized analysis of performance over the last two decades, however reveals masculinities that are anything but hegemonic, played out in theatres and other arenas of …
Performance and the Global City
Av D. Hopkins, K. Solga
Häftad, 2013
621 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Winner of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education Excellence in Editing Award 2016 Following the ground-breaking Performance and the City, this new volume explores what it means to create and experience urban performance – as both an aesthetic and a political practice – in the burgeoning …
Shakespeare in Transition
Political Appropriations in the Postcommunist Czech Republic
Av M. Kostihová
Häftad, 2010
568 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Using themed performance reviews and extensive interviews with theatre professionals, this book explores how Shakespeare's 'cultural capital' has been evoked in the reinvention of a post-communist nation against a backdrop of political tensions surrounding the ascendance of Central and Eastern …
