Stage and Screen Studies – serie
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Performance
Recasting the Political in Theatre and Beyond
Av Stephen Chinna, Kenneth Richards
Häftad, 2003
866 kr
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This book is an analysis and study of postmodernism, political theatre, and the politics of representation. Traversing a wide span of twentieth-century political theatre and performance practices in the West, the author analyses and questions the performance practices of the historical and …
Many Lives of Galileo
Brecht, Theatre and Translation’s Political Unconscious
Häftad, 2005
672 kr
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The Many Lives of Galileo is a Marxist study of the development of Bertolt Brecht’s great play Galileo on the English stage. Tracing various translations of Brecht’s original, and the historical and political moments surrounding these translations, Dougal McNeill examines how, across the distances …
Hollywood Through Private Eyes
The Screen Adaptation of the ‘Hard-Boiled’ Private Detective Novel in the Studio Era
Häftad, 2006
1081 kr
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The private detective novels of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler and Mickey Spillane have provided the source for some of Hollywood’s most successful, controversial and baffling films. Spanning almost the whole of the studio era, the private eye mini-genre boasted stars like William Powell, …
Ibsen’s Theatre of Ritualistic Visions
An Interdisciplinary Study of Ten Plays
Häftad, 2008
753 kr
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This book examines the ritualistic and mythological features derived from various religious traditions depicted in ten Ibsen plays. The worshipping of the Great Mother, the Mysteries of Eleusis, the Hebrew Passover Meal and Yom Kippur, alongside with the most sacred feasts of Christianity, are …
Applied Theatre
Bewilderment and Beyond
Av James Thompson, Kenneth Richards
Häftad, 2012
297 kr
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Applied Theatre: Bewilderment and Beyond explores the practice of theatre in communities and social institutions with marginalised groups. It shifts between contexts and countries to examine different ways that theatre has been applied to a wide range of social issues. Theatre projects in Brazil, …
Changing Performance
Culture and Performance in the British Theatre since 1945
Av David Keith Peacock, Kenneth Richards
Häftad, 2007
631 kr
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This book examines changes in performance practice in mainstream British theatre since 1945 which focus on the attempt by directors and companies to replace the realism of inter-war theatre with more physically and vocally expressive acting and ensemble approach to production processes. The aim was …
Chivalric Festivals at the Ferrarese Court of Alfonso II d’Este
Av Alessandro Marcigliano, Kenneth Richards
Häftad, 2003
521 kr
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In the age of Alfonso II D’Este (1533-1597), the tournois à thème developed into a more complex performance, the cavalleria, which involved stage-setting, acting, music, dancing, machinery and firework displays. One of its most accomplished examples was the cavalleria L’Isola Beata (1569), which is …
Stanislavsky and Meyerhold
Av Robert Leach, Kenneth Richards
Häftad, 2003
621 kr
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This book traces the parallel careers of the two greatest twentieth-century theatre practitioners, the Russian masters Konstantin Stanislavsky and Vsevolod Meyerhold. It is particularly concerned with the simultaneous development of their two contradictory – but perhaps also complementary – acting …
