Studies Theatre Hist & Culture – serie
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12 produkter
Modern Czech Theatre
Reflector and Conscience of a Nation
Häftad, 2000
263 kr
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The story of Czech theatre in the 20th century involves generations of mesmerizing players and memorable productions. Beyond these artistic considerations, however, lies a larger story: a theatre that has resonated with the intense concerns of its audiences acquires a significance and a force …
Performing History
Theatrical Representations of the Past in Contemporary Theatre
Häftad, 2007
227 kr
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Collective identities grow from a sense of the past, and the theatre very forcefully participates in the ongoing representations of and debates about the past, sometimes by contesting them and sometimes by reinforcing them. In his examination of the ways in which the theatre after World War II has …
Collusions of Fact and Fiction
Performing Slavery in the Works of Suzan-Lori Parks and Kara Walker
Av Ilka Saal
Häftad, 2021
893 kr
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Collusions of Fact and Fiction traces a generational shift in late twentieth-century African American cultural engagements with the history and legacies of transatlantic slavery. With a focus on works by playwright Suzan-Lori Parks and visual artist Kara Walker, the book explores how, in comparison …
Southern Stages
Space and Memory in US Performance
Häftad, 2025
844 kr
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Each day, countless southerners pass symbols and monuments dedicated to white supremacy and the “Old South”: statues, cemeteries, plantations, downtown squares, and even regional theatre stages. Some may only glance at them, ignorant to their history, while others recall the physical and …
Theatre of Iraq Under Occupation, 2003-2011
Lamentation, Homeland, Identity
Av James Al-Shamma, Amir Al-Azraki
Häftad, 2025
844 kr
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From its inception in the northern city of Mosul in the late nineteenth century, Iraqi theatre leaned toward the utopian. Iraqis saw themselves as inheritors of the ancient culture of Mesopotamia, and dramatists frequently referred to the region’s rich history as they imagined the future.However, …
Blue Roses
Tennessee Williams, Memory, and the Queer Archive
Av Daniel Ciba
Häftad, 2026
942 kr
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Blue Roses documents a queer response to one of the most popular American playwrights of the twentieth century: Tennessee Williams. Referencing Williams’s symbolic nickname for Laura in The Glass Menagerie, Daniel Ciba arranges archival memories that provoke, resist, and reimagine Williams’s …
Recurrence of Fate
Theatre and Memory in Twentieth-century Russia
Av Golub
Häftad, 1994
263 kr
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Theatrical Event
Dynamics of Performance and Perception
Häftad, 2000
271 kr
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The Theatrical Event discusses the objectives of theatre studies by focusing on the communicative encounter between performer and spectator—the theatrical event. A theatrical event includes the presentation of a performance and the attention of an audience; in this sense, every performance—on stage …
Most American Thing in America
Circuit Chautauqua as Performance
Häftad, 2007
210 kr
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The Most American Thing in America is the winner of the 2006 Barnard Hewitt Award for Excellence in Theatre History.
French Theatre Today
The View from New York, Paris and Avignon
Häftad, 2011
315 kr
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Provides a seamless mix of critical analysis with lively description, theoretical considerations with reflexive remarks by the theatremakers, and matters of current French and American cultural politics.
Kitchen Sink Realisms
Domestic Labor, Dining, and Drama in American Theatre
Häftad, 2015
492 kr
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From 1918’s Tickless Time through Waiting for Lefty, Death of a Salesman,A Streetcar Named Desire, A Raisin in the Sun, and The Prisoner ofSecond Avenue to 2005’s The Clean House, domestic labor has figuredlargely on American stages. No dramatic genre has done morethan the one often dismissively …
American Negro Theatre and the Long Civil Rights Era
Häftad, 2018
624 kr
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Jonathan Shandell provides the first in-depth study of the historic American Negro Theatre (ANT) and its lasting influence on American popular culture. Founded in 1940 in Harlem, the ANT successfully balanced expressions of African American consciousness with efforts to gain white support for the …
