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  • On the Performance Front

    US Theatre and Internationalism

    de C. Canning ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book argues that US theatre in the 20th century embraced the theories and practices of internationalism as a way to realize a better world and as part of the strategic reform of the theatre into a national expression. Live performance, theatre internationalists argued, could represent and reflect the nation like no other endeavour. ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

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  • Fosse

    de Sam Wasson ...
    From "a smart and savvy reporter," a biography of the award-winning performer and director that "abounds with colorful firsthand tales" (Janet Maslin, New York Times).Now the FX limited series Fosse/Verdon starring Sam Rockwell and Michelle Williams with Lin-Manuel Miranda executive producing.The only person ever to win Oscar, Emmy, and Tony awards in the same year, Bob Fosse revolutionized nearly ... Leer más

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  • No Applause—Just Throw Money

    The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous

    de S. D. Trav ...
    This chronicle of vaudeville is "an essential (and very funny) history of American popular entertainment" (Greg Kotis, creator of Urinetown ).When Groucho Marx and Charlie Chaplin were born, variety entertainment had been going on for decades in America, and like Harry Houdini, Milton Berle, Mae West, and countless others, these performers got their start on the vaudeville stage. From 1881 to ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Theatre of Movement and Gesture

    Published in France in 1987, this is the book in which Lecoq first set out his philosophy of human movement, and the way it takes expressive form in a wide range of different performance traditions. He traces the history of pantomime, sets out his definition of the components of the art of mime, and discusses the explosion of physical theatre in the second half of the twentieth century. Interviews ... Leer más

    $55.99 USD

  • Broadway North

    The Dream of a Canadian Musical Theatre

    de Mel Atkey ...
    Did you know that the idea behind the Radio City Music Hall Rockettes was first tried out in Toronto? That Canada produced the world’s longest-running annual revue? Few people realize the Canadian influences that are at the heart of American and British culture.Author Mel Atkey’s research for Broadway North included interviews with Norman and Elaine Campbell and Don Harron, creators of Anne of ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Chicago Death Trap

    The Iroquois Theatre Fire of 1903

    de Nat Brandt ...
    On the afternoon of December 30, 1903, during a sold-out matinee performance, a fire broke out in Chicago’s Iroquois Theatre. In the short span of twenty minutes, more than six hundred people were asphyxiated, burned, or trampled to death in a panicked mob’s failed attempt to escape. In Chicago Death Trap: The Iroquois Theatre Fire of 1903, Nat Brandt provides a detailed chronicle of this horrific ... Leer más

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  • In Defence of Theatre

    Aesthetic Practices and Social Interventions

    Why theatre now? Reflecting on the mix of challenges and opportunities that face theatre in communities that are necessarily becoming global in scope and technologically driven, In Defence of Theatre offers a range of passionate reflections on this important question.Kathleen Gallagher and Barry Freeman bring together nineteen playwrights, actors, directors, scholars, and educators who discuss the ... Leer más

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  • Staging Modern American Life

    Popular Culture in the Experimental Theatre of Millay, Cummings, and Dos Passos

    de T. Fahy ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Thomas Fahy examines the integration of and challenges to popular culture found in the theatrical works of Millay, Cummings, and Dos Passos, which have largely been marginalized in discussions of theatre history and literary studies, despite offering a hybrid theatre that integrates popular with formal, and mainstream with experimental ... Leer más

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  • So Much Wasted

    Hunger, Performance, and the Morbidity of Resistance

    Series series Perverse Modernities
    In So Much Wasted, Patrick Anderson analyzes self-starvation as a significant mode of staging political arguments across the institutional domains of the clinic, the gallery, and the prison. Homing in on those who starve themselves for various reasons and the cultural and political contexts in which they do so, he examines the diagnostic history of anorexia nervosa, fasts staged by artists ... Leer más

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  • Performance, Politics and Activism

    Edición de P. Lichtenfels, J. Rouse ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Considering both making political performance and making performance politically, this collection explores engagements of political resistance, public practice and performance media, on various scales of production within structures of neoliberal and liberal government and power. ... Leer más

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  • Shakespeare, Revenge Tragedy and Early Modern Law

    Vindictive Justice

    de Derek Dunne ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book, the first to trace revenge tragedy's evolving dialogue with early modern law, draws on changing laws of evidence, food riots, piracy, and debates over royal prerogative. By taking the genre's legal potential seriously, it opens up the radical critique embedded in the revenge tragedies of Kyd, Shakespeare, Marston, Chettle and Middleton. ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • Tragic Seneca

    An Essay in the Theatrical Tradition

    Edición de A. J. Boyle ...
    Tragic Seneca undertakes a radical re-evaluation of Seneca's plays, their relationship to Roman imperial culture and their instrumental role in the evolution of the European theatrical tradition.Following an introduction on the history of the Roman theatre, the book provides a dramatic and cultural critique of the whole of Seneca's corpus, analysing the declamatory form of the plays, their ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD