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  • Ideal Illusions

    How the U.S. Government Co-opted Human Rights

    by James Peck ...
    Series series American Empire Project
    From a noted historian and foreign-policy analyst, a groundbreaking critique of the troubling symbiosis between Washington and the human rights movementThe United States has long been hailed as a powerful force for global human rights. Now, drawing on thousands of documents from the CIA, the National Security Council, the Pentagon, and development agencies, James Peck shows in blunt detail how ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Chomsky Reader

    by Noam Chomsky ...
    The Chomsky Reader brings together for the first time the political thought of American's leading dissident intellectual—“arguably the most important intellectual alive” (The New York Times).At the center of practically every major debate over America's role in the world, one finds Noam Chomsky's ideas—sometimes attacked, sometimes studiously ignored, but always a powerful presence.Drawing from ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Great North American Stage Directors Volume 3

    Elia Kazan, Jerome Robbins, Lloyd Richards

    by Professor James Peck ...
    Series series Great Stage Directors
    This volume chronicles the lives and artistry of Elia Kazan, Jerome Robbins, and Lloyd Richards. Their commitment to staging new works, which often focused on the experiences of immigrant and working-class families, significantly expanded the scope and possibilities of American theatre across the 20th century. It illuminates too their collaborations with a range of innovative theatre artists, ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Great North American Stage Directors Volume 4

    George Abbott, Vinnette Carroll, Harold Prince

    by Professor James Peck ...
    Series series Great Stage Directors
    George Abbott, Vinnette Carroll, and Harold (Hal) Prince were trailblazing figures who helped shape and define the Broadway musical over the course of the 20th century. Their careers expanded the boundaries of the genre, highlighting the critical role of the director in the creation of a new musical. As theatre history, the essays in this volume help to complicate and deepen the reader's ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Great North American Stage Directors Volume 7

    Elizabeth LeCompte, Ping Chong, Robert Lepage

    by Professor James Peck ...
    Series series Great Stage Directors
    This volume focuses on three artists who embrace media and technology as essential elements of their theatrical expression: Elizabeth LeCompte, Ping Chong, and Robert Lepage. Diverse in their aesthetic interests, they nevertheless share an approach to directing that includes technological media on stage as central to a rigorously crafted production concept. Technological elements live alongside ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Great North American Stage Directors Volume 2

    Harold Clurman, Orson Welles, Margo Jones

    by Professor James Peck ...
    Series series Great Stage Directors
    This volume assesses the accomplishments of three mid-20th century, North American stage directors: Harold Clurman, Orson Welles, and Margo Jones. Though their theatre-making endeavours were distinct, each produced work that challenged preconceived notions of theatre-making, all while working within the structure of a company. As directors drawn to the potential rewards of collaboration, all also ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Great North American Stage Directors Volume 8

    Jesusa Rodriguez, Peter Sellars, Reza Abdoh

    by Professor James Peck ...
    Series series Great Stage Directors
    The three directors gathered in this volume all approach theatre-making in part as an act of citizenship. Jesusa Rodríguez, Peter Sellars, and Reza Abdoh differ markedly in many important respects, but they all come to the theatre as an intervention in the public sphere. Rodríguez, Sellars, and Abdoh blend a spirit of social critique with acts of democratic community building. These essays examine ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Great North American Stage Directors Volume 6

    Meredith Monk, Richard Foreman, Robert Wilson

    by Professor James Peck ...
    Series series Great Stage Directors
    This volume assesses the work of Meredith Monk, Richard Foreman, and Robert Wilson, three artists who have revolutionized the craft of directing and the art of theatre in both related and unique ways. Though their early artistic backgrounds differ, ranging from architecture, music and dance to writing, they are similar in that none of them began their career as a director per se or received formal ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Great North American Stage Directors Volume 5

    Richard Schechner, Lee Breuer, Anne Bogart

    by Professor James Peck ...
    Series series Great Stage Directors
    Richard Schechner, Lee Breuer, and Anne Bogart share a spirit of profound adventure and that adventure is the redefinition of theatre itself. They are rare hybrids; the confluence of their theatrical roles as directors, scholars, theorists and teachers has placed them among the most influential thinker/practitioners of their generation. This book reveals the ways in which their consistent inquiry ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Great North American Stage Directors Volume 1

    David Belasco, Arthur Hopkins, Margaret Webster

    by Professor James Peck ...
    Series series Great Stage Directors
    This volume assesses the contributions of David Belasco, Arthur Hopkins, and Margaret Webster, whose careers shaped the artistic and specialist identity of the Broadway director. Their work spans almost a century and captures the rapidly changing social and cultural landscape of 20th-century America. While their aesthetic styles differed greatly, they were united in their mastery of theatre craft ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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  • Art Theory

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Cynthia Freeland ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    In today's art world many strange, even shocking, things qualify as art. In this Very Short Introduction Cynthia Freeland explains why innovation and controversy are valued in the arts, weaving together philosophy and art theory with many fascinating examples. She discusses blood, beauty, culture, money, museums, sex, and politics, clarifying contemporary and historical accounts of the nature, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Theater

    Edited by Nadine George-Graves ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Theater collects a critical mass of border-crossing scholarship on the intersections of dance and theatre. Taking corporeality as an idea that unites the work of dance and theater scholars and artists, and embodiment as a negotiation of power dynamics with important stakes, these essays focus on the politics and poetics of the moving body in performance both on and ... Read more

    $52.99 USD