Theatre and Performance Theory – serie
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27 produkter
Theatricality
Av Tracy C. Davis, Thomas Postlewait
Häftad, 2004
705 kr
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This collection of specially-commissioned, accessible, essays explores that element of performance theory known as theatricality. Six case studies, each written by a specialist in the field, use historically specific circumstances to illustrate how and why the concept of theatricality was and is …
Acts of Activism
Human Rights as Radical Performance
Inbunden, 2010
1677 kr
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This book was first published in 2010. Madison presents the neglected yet compelling and necessary story of local activists in South Saharan Africa who employ modes of performance as tactics of resistance and intervention in their day-to-day struggles for human rights. The dynamic relationship …
Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems
Häftad, 2006
720 kr
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Why do actors get stage fright? What is so embarrassing about joining in? Why not work with animals and children, and why is it so hard not to collapse into helpless laughter when things go wrong? In trying to answer these questions - usually ignored by theatre scholarship but of enduring interest …
Reading the Material Theatre
Av Ric Knowles
Inbunden, 2004
1526 kr
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Reading the Material Theatre develops and demonstrates a method of theatrical performance analysis that takes into account the entire theatre experience, from production to reception. Beginning with semiotic and cultural materialist theory, Knowles quickly moves into detailed politicized analysis …
Reading the Material Theatre
Av Ric Knowles, Tracy C. Davis
Häftad, 2004
687 kr
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Reading the Material Theatre develops and demonstrates a method of theatrical performance analysis that takes into account the entire theatre experience, from production to reception. Beginning with semiotic and cultural materialist theory, Knowles quickly moves into detailed politicized analysis …
Professing Performance
Theatre in the Academy from Philology to Performativity
Inbunden, 2004
1677 kr
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Today's academic discourse is filled with the word 'perform'. Nestled amongst a variety of prefixes and suffixes (re-, post-, -ance, -ivity?), the term functions as a vehicle for a host of contemporary inquiries. For students, artists, and scholars of performance and theatre, this development is …
Professing Performance
Theatre in the Academy from Philology to Performativity
Av Shannon Jackson, Tracy C. Davis
Häftad, 2004
672 kr
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Today's academic discourse is filled with the word 'perform'. Nestled amongst a variety of prefixes and suffixes (re-, post-, -ance, -ivity?), the term functions as a vehicle for a host of contemporary inquiries. For students, artists, and scholars of performance and theatre, this development is …
New Readings in Theatre History
Inbunden, 2003
1017 kr
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Over the last two hundred years some important ways of understanding theatre history have been undervalued or ignored by scholars. Leading theatre historian Jacky Bratton employs new approaches to examine and challenge this development and to discover how theatre history has been chronicled and how …
New Readings in Theatre History
Häftad, 2003
687 kr
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Over the last two hundred years some important ways of understanding theatre history have been undervalued or ignored by scholars. Leading theatre historian Jacky Bratton employs new approaches to examine and challenge this development and to discover how theatre history has been chronicled and how …
Theatricality
Av Tracy C. Davis, Thomas Postlewait
Inbunden, 2004
1677 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This collection of specially-commissioned, accessible, essays explores that element of performance theory known as theatricality. Six case studies, each written by a specialist in the field, use historically specific circumstances to illustrate how and why the concept of theatricality was and is …
Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems
Inbunden, 2006
1391 kr
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Why do actors get stage fright? What is so embarrassing about joining in? Why not work with animals and children, and why is it so hard not to collapse into helpless laughter when things go wrong? In trying to answer these questions - usually ignored by theatre scholarship but of enduring interest …
International Theatre Festivals and Twenty-First-Century Interculturalism
Av Ric Knowles
Häftad, 2023
482 kr
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Ric Knowles' study is a politically urgent, erudite intervention into the ecology of theatre and performance festivals in an international context. Since the 1990s there has been an exponential increase in the number and type of festivals taking place around the world. Events that used merely to be …
Performance and Translation in a Global Age
Av Avishek Ganguly, Kélina Gotman
Inbunden, 2023
1831 kr
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This global overview of how translation is understood as a performative practice across genres, media and disciplines illuminates the broad impact of the 'performance turn' in the arts and humanities. Combining key concepts in comparative literature, performance studies and translation theory, the …
State of the Arts
An Ethnography of German Theatre and Migration
Av Jonas Tinius
Inbunden, 2023
1640 kr
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This is a bold and wide-ranging account of the unique German public theatre system through the prism of a migrant artistic institution in the western post-industrial Ruhr region. State of the Arts analyses how artistic traditions have responded to social change, racism, and cosmopolitan anxieties …
State of the Arts
An Ethnography of German Theatre and Migration
Av Jonas Tinius
Häftad, 2025
369 kr
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This is a bold and wide-ranging account of the unique German public theatre system through the prism of a migrant artistic institution in the western post-industrial Ruhr region. State of the Arts analyses how artistic traditions have responded to social change, racism, and cosmopolitan anxieties …
Theatre in Market Economies
Häftad, 2023
435 kr
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Theatre in Market Economies explores the complex relationship between theatre and the market economy since the 1990s. Bringing together research from the arts and social sciences, the book proposes that theatre has increasingly taken up the mission of the 'mixed economy' by seeking to combine …
American Performance in 1976
The Evolution of an Avant-Garde
Häftad, 2026
579 kr
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1976 was a febrile, transitional year in cultural history, coming after Watergate and Vietnam and before the AIDS epidemic and the rise of the Conservative movement. Bicentennial triumphalism sounded dissonant against a violent past and uncertain future. Marc Robinson here explores how innovative …
American Performance in 1976
The Evolution of an Avant-Garde
Inbunden, 2025
1759 kr
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1976 was a febrile, transitional year in cultural history, coming after Watergate and Vietnam and before the AIDS epidemic and the rise of the Conservative movement. Bicentennial triumphalism sounded dissonant against a violent past and uncertain future. Marc Robinson here explores how innovative …
Deadpan and the Nineteenth-Century Emergence of a Comic Style
Av Sarah Balkin
Inbunden, 2027
2069 kr
Kommande
When the term 'deadpan' first appeared during the early twentieth century, it meant 'expressionless face. Sarah Balkin upends received wisdom in this original study of deadpan's emergence, which takes the vaudeville era as an endpoint rather than a beginning. Drawing on examples from Britain, the …
Deadpan and the Nineteenth-Century Emergence of a Comic Style
Av Sarah Balkin
Häftad, 2027
758 kr
Kommande
When the term 'deadpan' first appeared during the early twentieth century, it meant 'expressionless face. Sarah Balkin upends received wisdom in this original study of deadpan's emergence, which takes the vaudeville era as an endpoint rather than a beginning. Drawing on examples from Britain, the …
Theatre in Market Economies
Inbunden, 2021
1641 kr
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Theatre in Market Economies explores the complex relationship between theatre and the market economy since the 1990s. Bringing together research from the arts and social sciences, the book proposes that theatre has increasingly taken up the mission of the 'mixed economy' by seeking to combine …
Real Theatre
Essays in Experience
Av Paul Rae
Inbunden, 2018
1660 kr
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Theatre is often said to offer unique insights into the nature of reality, but this obscures the reality of theatre itself. In Real Theatre, Paul Rae takes a joined-up approach to the realities of theatre to explain why performances take the forms they do, and what effects they have. Drawing on …
Acts of Activism
Human Rights as Radical Performance
Häftad, 2012
636 kr
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This book was first published in 2010. Madison presents the neglected yet compelling and necessary story of local activists in South Saharan Africa who employ modes of performance as tactics of resistance and intervention in their day-to-day struggles for human rights. The dynamic relationship …
Copyright and the Value of Performance, 1770-1911
Av Derek Miller
Inbunden, 2018
1704 kr
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In the nineteenth century, copyright law expanded to include performances of theatrical and musical works. These laws transformed how people made and consumed performances. Exploring precedent-setting litigation on both sides of the Atlantic, this book traces how courts developed definitions of …
Copyright and the Value of Performance, 1770-1911
Av Derek Miller
Häftad, 2020
586 kr
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In the nineteenth century, copyright law expanded to include performances of theatrical and musical works. These laws transformed how people made and consumed performances. Exploring precedent-setting litigation on both sides of the Atlantic, this book traces how courts developed definitions of …
International Theatre Festivals and Twenty-First-Century Interculturalism
Av Ric Knowles
Inbunden, 2021
1391 kr
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Ric Knowles' study is a politically urgent, erudite intervention into the ecology of theatre and performance festivals in an international context. Since the 1990s there has been an exponential increase in the number and type of festivals taking place around the world. Events that used merely to be …
Real Theatre
Essays in Experience
Av Paul Rae
Häftad, 2020
586 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Theatre is often said to offer unique insights into the nature of reality, but this obscures the reality of theatre itself. In Real Theatre, Paul Rae takes a joined-up approach to the realities of theatre to explain why performances take the forms they do, and what effects they have. Drawing on …
