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Sails of the Herring Fleet
Essays on Beckett
Av Herbert Blau
Häftad, 2003
406 kr
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Sails of the Herring Fleet traces esteemed director and theorist Herbert Blau's encounters with the work of Samuel Beckett. Blau directed Beckett's plays when they were still virtually unknown, and for more than four decades has remained one of the leading interpreters of his work. In addition to …
Beckett Canon
Av Ruby Cohn
Häftad, 2005
441 kr
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Samuel Beckett is unique in literature. Born and educated in Ireland, he lived most of his life in Paris. His literary output was rendered in either English or French, and he often translated one to the other, but there is disagreement about the contents of his bilingual corpus. A Beckett Canon by …
Playing Underground
A Critical History of the 1960s Off-Off-Broadway Movement
Häftad, 2006
333 kr
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"Scrupulously researched, critically acute, and written with care, Playing Underground will become a classic account of an era of hard-won free expression."-William Coco"At last---a book documenting the beginnings of Off-Off Broadway theater. Playing Underground is an insightful, illuminating, and …
Artaud and His Doubles
Häftad, 2012
458 kr
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Artaud and His Doubles is a radical re-thinking of one of the most influential theater figures of the twentieth century. Placing Artaud's writing within the specific context of European political, theatrical, and intellectual history, the book reveals Artaud's affinities with a disturbing array of …
Cutting Performances
Collage Events, Feminist Artists, and the American Avant-Garde
Häftad, 2012
441 kr
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"A thoughtful and engaging contribution to the field that will have a sustained and lasting impact on the way feminist performance is defined and understood, as well as on how feminist histories and historiographies continue to challenge and transform the larger field of performance."---Charlotte …
Sarah Siddons Audio Files
Romanticism and the Lost Voice
Häftad, 2013
364 kr
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“The theatre scholar’s daunting but irresistible quest to recover some echoes of performance of the past has never been more engagingly presented than in Pascoe’s account of tracing the long-silenced voice of Sarah Siddons. Her report is a warm, witty, and highly informative exploration of the …
Passionate Amateurs
Theatre, Communism, and Love
Häftad, 2015
395 kr
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Passionate Amateurs tells a new story about modern theater: the story of a romantic attachment to theater’s potential to produce surprising experiences of human community. It begins with one of the first great plays of modern European theater—Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya in Moscow—and then crosses the …
Scenes from Bourgeois Life
Häftad, 2022
395 kr
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Scenes from Bourgeois Life proposes that theatre spectatorship has made a significant contribution to the historical development of a distinctive bourgeois sensibility, characterized by the cultivation of distance. In Nicholas Ridout’s formulation, this distance is produced and maintained at two …
President Electric
Ronald Reagan and the Politics of Performance
Häftad, 2009
395 kr
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"In this illuminating, multi-pronged cultural and performance history of such phenomena as Chautauqua and radio, movies, and electrical technology, Timothy Raphael puts together a compelling and sometimes revelatory narrative of how commandingly Reagan mastered the matrix of performance, …
Embodying Black Experience
Stillness, Critical Memory, and the Black Body
Av Harvey Young
Häftad, 2010
441 kr
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"Young's linkage between critical race theory, historical inquiry, and performance studies is a necessary intersection. Innovative, creative, and provocative."---Davarian Baldwin, Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of American Studies, Trinity CollegeIn 1901, George Ward, a lynching victim, …
No Safe Spaces
Re-casting Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality in American Theater
Häftad, 2010
441 kr
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"No Safe Spaces opens up a conversation beyond narrow polemics . . . Although cross-racial casting has been the topic of heated discussion, little sustained scholarship addresses both the historical precedents and theoretical dimensions. Pao illustrates the tensions and contradictions inherent not …
Problem of the Color[blind]
Racial Transgression and the Politics of Black Performance
Häftad, 2011
395 kr
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Are we a multicultural nation, or a colorblind one? The Problem of the Color[blind] examines this vexed question in American culture by focusing on black performance in theater, film, and television. The practice of colorblind casting---choosing actors without regard to race---assumes a performing …
Paul Robeson and the Cold War Performance Complex
Race, Madness, Activism
Av Tony Perucci
Häftad, 2012
395 kr
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Actor and singer Paul Robeson's performances in Othello, Show Boat, and The Emperor Jones made him famous, but his midcentury appearances in support of causes ranging from labor and civil rights to antilynching and American warmongering made him notorious. When Robeson announced at the 1949 Paris …
Dark Matter
Invisibility in Drama, Theater, and Performance
Av Andrew Sofer
Häftad, 2013
441 kr
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Dark Matter maps the invisible dimension of theater whose effects are felt everywhere in performance. Examining phenomena such as hallucination, offstage character, offstage action, sexuality, masking, technology, and trauma, Andrew Sofer engagingly illuminates the invisible in different periods of …
Acts
Theater, Philosophy, and the Performing Self
Av Tzachi Zamir
Häftad, 2014
472 kr
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Why do people act? Why are other people drawn to watch them? How is acting as a performing art related to role-playing outside the theater? As the first philosophical study devoted to acting, Acts: Theater, Philosophy, and the Performing Self sheds light on some of the more evasive aspects of the …
Simming
Participatory Performance and the Making of Meaning
Häftad, 2014
472 kr
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At an ecopark in Mexico, tourists pretend to be illegal migrants, braving inhospitable terrain and the U.S. Border Patrol as they attempt to cross the border. At a living history museum in Indiana, daytime visitors return after dark to play fugitive slaves on the Underground Railroad. In the Mojave …
Captive Stage
Performance and the Proslavery Imagination of the Antebellum North
Häftad, 2014
475 kr
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In The Captive Stage, Douglas A. Jones, Jr. argues that proslavery ideology remained the dominant mode of racial thought in the antebellum north, even though chattel slavery had virtually disappeared from the region by the turn of the nineteenth century—and that northerners cultivated their …
Coloring Whiteness
Acts of Critique in Black Performance
Häftad, 2014
457 kr
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Coloring Whiteness pays homage to the ways that African American artists and performers have interrogated tropes and mythologies of whiteness to reveal racial inequalities, focusing on comedy sketches, street theater, visual art, video, TV journalism, and voice-over work since 1964. By …
After Live
Possibility, Potentiality, and the Future of Performance
Av Daniel Sack
Häftad, 2015
457 kr
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In the dark of the blackout before the curtain rises, the theater holds its many worlds suspended on the verge of appearance. How can a performance sustain this sense of potentiality that grounds all live production? Or if a stage-world does begin, what kinds of future might appear within its …
Alienation Effects
Performance and Self-Management in Yugoslavia, 1945-91
Häftad, 2016
457 kr
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In the 1970s, Yugoslavia emerged as a dynamic environment for conceptual and performance art. At the same time, it pursued its own form of political economy of socialist self-management. Alienation Effects argues that a deep relationship existed between the democratization of the arts and …
Long Suffering
American Endurance Art as Prophetic Witness
Häftad, 2016
457 kr
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Long Suffering productively links avant-garde performance practices with religious histories in the United States, setting contemporary performances of endurance art within a broader context of prophetic religious discourse in the United States. Its focus is on the work of Ron Athey, Linda Montano, …
Haunted City
Three Centuries of Racial Impersonation in Philadelphia
Häftad, 2017
333 kr
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Haunted City explores the history of racial impersonation in Philadelphia from the late eighteenth century through the present day. The book focuses on select historical moments, such as the advent of the minstrel show and the ban on blackface makeup in the Philadelphia Mummers Parade, when local …
Performing the Intercultural City
Av Ric Knowles
Häftad, 2017
395 kr
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In 1971, Canada became the first country to adopt an official policy of multiculturalism. Performing the Intercultural City explores how Toronto—a representative global city in this multicultural country—stages diversity through its many intercultural theater companies and troupes. The book begins …
Microdramas
Crucibles for Theater and Time
Av John H. Muse
Häftad, 2017
441 kr
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In Microdramas, John H. Muse argues that plays shorter than twenty minutes deserve sustained attention, and that brevity should be considered a distinct mode of theatrical practice. Focusing on artists for whom brevity became both a structural principle and a tool to investigate theater itself …
Gaming the Stage
Playable Media and the Rise of English Commercial Theater
Av Gina Bloom
Häftad, 2018
441 kr
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Rich connections between gaming and theater stretch back to the 16th and 17th centuries, when England's first commercial theaters appeared right next door to gaming houses and blood-sport arenas. In the first book-length exploration of gaming in the early modern period, Gina Bloom shows that …
Performance Constellations
Networks of Protest and Activism in Latin America
Häftad, 2019
333 kr
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Performance Constellations maps transnational protest movements and the dynamics of networked expressive behavior in the streets and online, as people struggle to be heard and effect long-term social justice. Its case studies explore collective political action in Latin America, including the …
Performance and the Afterlives of Injustice
Häftad, 2020
519 kr
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In the aftermath of state-perpetrated injustice, a façade of peace can suddenly give way, and in South Africa and the Democratic Republic of Congo, post-apartheid and postcolonial framings of change have exceeded their limits. Performance and the Afterlives of Injustice reveals how the voices and …
Democracy Moving
Bill T. Jones, Contemporary American Performance, and the Racial Past
Häftad, 2022
519 kr
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Winner of the American Society for Theatre Research Sally Banes Publication PrizeFinalist for the American Society for Theatre Research Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre HistoryOn the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth, renowned choreographer and director Bill T. …
Racing the Great White Way
Black Performance, Eugene O’Neill, and the Transformation of Broadway
Häftad, 2023
519 kr
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Finalist: 2023 Theatre Library Association George Freedley Memorial Award The early drama of Eugene O’Neill, with its emphasis on racial themes and conflicts, opened up extraordinary opportunities for Black performers to challenge racist structures in modern theater and cinema. By adapting …
Chocolate Woman Dreams the Milky Way
Mapping Embodied Indigenous Performance
Av Monique Mojica, Brenda Farnell
Häftad, 2023
457 kr
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This volume documents the creation of Chocolate Woman Dreams the Milky Way, a play written and performed by Monique Mojica with collaborators from diverse disciplines. Inspired by the pictographic writing and mola textiles of the Guna, an indigenous people of Panama and Colombia, the book explores …
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