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Women in Irish Drama
A Century of Authorship and Representation
AvMelissa Sihra,M. Sihra
Inbunden, Engelska, 2007
633 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
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 cultural, political and historical implications of representing 'woman' on the stage. In addition, a number of essays engage with representations of women by a selection of male playwrights in order to re-evaluate familiar contexts and traditions in Irish drama. Features a Foreword by Marina Carr and a useful appendix of Irish women playwrights and their works.
Contesting Performance
Global Sites of Research
AvJ. McKenzie,H. Romsm. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2009
567 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
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 dominant paradigms of performance studies.
Shakespeare in Transition
Political Appropriations in the Postcommunist Czech Republic
AvM. Kostihová
Inbunden, Engelska, 2010
633 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
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 Europe to the European Union.
Performance and the City
AvKim Solga,S. Orr
Inbunden, Engelska, 2009
567 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
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 policy, architecture, and civic history, while also exploring their important place in the memories created in the wake of urban trauma.
Get Real
Documentary Theatre Past and Present
AvA. Forsyth,C. Megson
Inbunden, Engelska, 2009
1 126 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
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' theatre, and applying a range of critical perspectives.
Masculinities and the Contemporary Irish Theatre
AvB. Singleton
Inbunden, Engelska, 2010
567 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
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 all over Ireland.
Avant-Garde Performance and Material Exchange
Vectors of the Radical
AvM. Sell
Inbunden, Engelska, 2010
567 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
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 transnational performance culture of the avant-garde.
Cyborg Theatre
Corporeal/Technological Intersections in Multimedia Performance
AvJ. Parker-Starbuck
Inbunden, Engelska, 2011
1 126 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
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 understanding performance in our changing world.
Refugees, Theatre and Crisis
Performing Global Identities
AvA. Jeffers
Inbunden, Engelska, 2011
1 238 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
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
AvE. Aston,G. Harris
Inbunden, Engelska, 2012
567 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
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 in contemporary theatre and performance.
Performance and the City
AvKim Solga,S. Orr
Häftad, Engelska, 2009
567 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
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 policy, architecture, and civic history, while also exploring their important place in the memories created in the wake of urban trauma.
Visuality in the Theatre
The Locus of Looking
AvM. Bleeker
Häftad, Engelska, 2008
623 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
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 cultural, historical and embodied character of visuality.
Contemporary British Queer Performance
AvS. Greer
Inbunden, Engelska, 2012
1 462 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
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 relationships through which recent works have been presented.
Get Real
Documentary Theatre Past and Present
AvA. Forsyth,C. Megson
Häftad, Engelska, 2009
1 350 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
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' theatre, and applying a range of critical perspectives.
Performance and the Global City
AvD. Hopkins,K. Solga
Inbunden, Engelska, 2013
567 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
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 world where cities are built by globalization and neoliberal capital.
Performing Site-Specific Theatre
Politics, Place, Practice
AvA. Birch,J. Tompkins
Inbunden, Engelska, 2012
1 126 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
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 performance and the ways that performance influences it
Performing Site-Specific Theatre
Politics, Place, Practice
AvA. Birch,J. Tompkins
Häftad, Engelska, 2012
1 238 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
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 performance and the ways that performance influences it
Naming Theatre
Demonstrative Diagnosis in Performance
AvJ. Frieze
Inbunden, Engelska, 2009
633 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
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, anthropology, advertising, military training, and genetics?
Against Theatre
Creative Destructions on the Modernist Stage
AvA. Ackerman,M. Puchner
Häftad, Engelska, 2006
567 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
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 modernist theatre.
Visuality in the Theatre
The Locus of Looking
AvM. Bleeker
Inbunden, Engelska, 2008
567 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
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 cultural, historical and embodied character of visuality.
Performance in the Borderlands
AvR. Rivera-Servera,H. Young
Inbunden, Engelska, 2010
567 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
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 America, including the Caribbean.
Women in Irish Drama
A Century of Authorship and Representation
AvM. Sihra
Häftad, Engelska, 2007
671 kr
Skickas inom 11-20 vardagar
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 cultural, political and historical implications of representing 'woman' on the stage. In addition, a number of essays engage with representations of women by a selection of male playwrights in order to re-evaluate familiar contexts and traditions in Irish drama. Features a Foreword by Marina Carr and a useful appendix of Irish women playwrights and their works.
Contemporary French Theatre and Performance
AvC. Finburgh,C. Lavery
Inbunden, Engelska, 2011
567 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
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 it is currently configured in France.
Contesting Performance
Global Sites of Research
AvJ. McKenzie,H. Romsm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2009
567 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
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 dominant paradigms of performance studies.
Fair Play - Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
AvJ. Harvie
Häftad, Engelska, 2013
567 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
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 how can it help us to understand social welfare?
Fair Play - Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
AvJ. Harvie
Inbunden, Engelska, 2013
567 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
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 how can it help us to understand social welfare?
Cyborg Theatre
Corporeal/Technological Intersections in Multimedia Performance
AvJ. Parker-Starbuck
Häftad, Engelska, 2011
1 126 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
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 understanding performance in our changing world.
Masculinities and the Contemporary Irish Theatre
AvB. Singleton
Häftad, Engelska, 2010
567 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
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 all over Ireland.
Performance and the Global City
AvD. Hopkins,K. Solga
Häftad, Engelska, 2013
603 kr
Skickas
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 world where cities are built by globalization and neoliberal capital.
Shakespeare in Transition
Political Appropriations in the Postcommunist Czech Republic
AvM. Kostihová
Häftad, Engelska, 2010
567 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
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 Europe to the European Union.

Performance Interventions – serie

Women in Irish Drama

Contesting Performance

Shakespeare in Transition

Performance and the City

Get Real

Masculinities and the Contemporary Irish Theatre

Avant-Garde Performance and Material Exchange

Cyborg Theatre

Refugees, Theatre and Crisis

Good Night Out for the Girls

Performance and the City

Visuality in the Theatre

Contemporary British Queer Performance

Get Real

Performance and the Global City

Performing Site-Specific Theatre

Performing Site-Specific Theatre

Naming Theatre

Against Theatre

Visuality in the Theatre

Performance in the Borderlands

Women in Irish Drama

Contemporary French Theatre and Performance

Contesting Performance

Fair Play - Art, Performance and Neoliberalism

Fair Play - Art, Performance and Neoliberalism

Cyborg Theatre

Masculinities and the Contemporary Irish Theatre

Performance and the Global City

Shakespeare in Transition