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  • Voices of Women from Afghanistan

    Five Plays and the Stories that Inspired Them

    Edited by Lesley Ferris, Jenny Morgan ...
    Series series Methuen Drama Play Collections
    Five female playwrights explore the lives of Afghan girls and women in the uncertain years before the Taliban retook Kabul.When The Huffington Post began to publish the work of Afghan female journalists in English (through a programme called Sahar Speaks), director and scholar Lesley Ferris saw the potential for turning their stories into pieces of drama. This ground-breaking book is the result of ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Plays by Women

    The Early Twenty-First Century

    by Penny Farfan, Lesley Ferris ...
    This book foregrounds some of the ways in which women playwrights from across a range of contexts and working in a variety of forms and styles are illuminating the contemporary world while also contributing to its reshaping as they reflect, rethink, and reimagine it through their work for the stage. The book is framed by a substantial introduction that sets forth the critical vision and structure ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Contemporary Women Playwrights

    Into the 21st Century

    by Penny Farfan, Lesley Ferris ...
    Breaking new ground in this century, this wide-ranging collection of essays is the first of its kind to address the work of contemporary international women playwrights. The book considers the work of established playwrights such as Caryl Churchill, Marie Clements, Lara Foot-Newton, Maria Irene Fornes, Sarah Kane, Lisa Kron, Young Jean Lee, Lynn Nottage, Suzan-Lori Parks, Djanet Sears, Caridad ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

  • Crossing the Stage

    Controversies on Cross-Dressing

    Edited by Lesley Ferris ...
    Crossing the Stage brings together for the first time essays which explore cross-dressing in theatre, cabaret, opera and dance. The volume contains seminal pieces which have become standard texts in the field, as well as new work especially commissioned from leading writers on performance.Crossing the Stage is an indispensable sourcebook on theatrical cross-dressing. It will be essential reading ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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    1989 to the Present

    Edited by Alexander Dumbadze, Suzanne Hudson ...
    An engaging account of today’s contemporary art world that features original articles by leading international art historians, critics, curators, and artists, introducing varied perspectives on the most important debates and discussions happening around the world.Features a collection of all-new essays, organized around fourteen specific themes, chosen to reflect the latest debates in contemporary ... Read more

    $48.00 USD

  • Hold It Against Me

    Difficulty and Emotion in Contemporary Art

    by Jennifer Doyle ...
    In Hold It Against Me, Jennifer Doyle explores the relationship between difficulty and emotion in contemporary art, treating emotion as an artist's medium. She encourages readers to examine the ways in which works of art challenge how we experience not only the artist's feelings, but our own. Discussing performance art, painting, and photography, Doyle provides new perspectives on artists ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Utopia in Performance

    Finding Hope at the Theater

    by Jill Dolan ...
    "Jill Dolan is the theatre's most astute critic, and this new book is perhaps her most important. Utopia in Performance argues with eloquence and insight how theatre makes a difference, and in the process demonstrates that scholarship matters, too. It is a book that readers will cherish and hold close as a personal favorite, and that scholars will cite for years to come."---David Román, University ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Screening Motherhood in Contemporary World Cinema

    by Asma Sayed ...
    Using a variety of critical and theoretical approaches, the contributing scholars to this collection analyze culturally specific and globally held attitudes about mothers and mothering, as represented in world cinema. Examining films from a range of countries including Afghanistan, India, Iran, Eastern Europe, Canada, and the United States, the various chapters contextualize the socio-cultural ... Read more

    $29.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Ethnicity

    Edited by Anthony Shay, Barbara Sellers-Young ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Dance intersects with ethnicity in a powerful variety of ways and at a broad set of venues. Dance practices and attitudes about ethnicity have sometimes been the source of outright discord, as when African Americans were - and sometimes still are - told that their bodies are 'not right' for ballet, when Anglo Americans painted their faces black to perform in minstrel shows, when 19th century ... Read more

    $140.39 USD

  • Performing the Intercultural City

    by Ric Knowles ...
    Series series Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
    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 with a theoretical introduction to theatrical interculturalism. Subsequent chapters outline the ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Political Animals

    The New Feminist Cinema

    by So Mayer ...
    Feminist filmmakers are hitting the headlines. The last decade has witnessed: the first Best Director Academy Award won by a woman; female filmmakers reviving, or starting, careers via analogue and digital television; women filmmakers emerging from Saudi Arabia, Palestine, Pakistan, South Korea, Paraguay, Peru, Burkina Faso, Kenya and The Cree Nation; a bold emergent trans cinema; feminist porn ... Read more

    $26.49 USD

  • Theatre History Studies 2016, Vol. 35

    by Sara Freeman, Jennifer Douglas, Karen Bamford, Ann Haugo, Chandra Owenby Hopkins, Rhona Justice-Malloy, Jozefina Komporaly, Karin Maresh, Irma Mayorga0, Sheila Rabillard1, Rebecca Rovit2, Margaret Savilonis3, Arden Elizabeth Thomas4, Steve Tillis5, Scott Venters6, Jennifer Worth7, Jay Ball8, Amanda Boyle9, Alex Cahill0, Rachel Price Cooper1, Danny Devlin2, Jennifer Goff3, Stuart J. Hecht4, Scott C. Knowles5, Patrick M. Konesko6, Felicia Hardison Londré7, Duygu Erdogan Monson8, Patrick J. Murray9, Wes D. Pearce0, Kate Roark1, Emily A. Rollie2, Michelle Salerno3, Claire Syler4, Brian E. G. Cook5 ...
    Series Book 35 - Theatre History Studies
    Essays in part one of Theatre History Studies, Vol. 35 address theatrical production in very specific historical contexts, among them German theatre “from the rubble of Berlin” and German nationalist mass spectacles. Essays in part two are devoted to the theme of “Rethinking the Maternal” in contemporary and historical theatre. Also included is the Robert A. Schanke Award-winning essay “Whispers ... Read more

    $25.19 USD