Performing Arts category: 25753 books
Performing Authorship
Self-Inscription and Corporeality in the Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
The figure of the auteur continues to haunt the study of film, resisting both the poststructuralist charges that pointed to its absence and the histories of production that have described its pitfalls. In an era defined by the instability of identities and the recycling of works, Performing Authorship...
Performing Animals
History, Agency, Theater
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
From bears on the Renaissance stage to the equine pageantry of the nineteenth-century hunt, animals have been used in human-orchestrated entertainments throughout history. The essays in this volume present an array of case studies that inspire new ways of interpreting animal performance and the role...
Performing Hamlet
Actors in the Modern Age
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2018
Hamlet is arguably the most famous play on the planet, and the greatest of all Shakespeare's works. Its rich story and complex leading role have provoked intense debate and myriad interpretations.
To play such a uniquely multi-faceted character as Hamlet represents the supreme challenge for...
by Ayanna Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Performing Race and Torture on the Early Modern Stage provides the first sustained reading of Restoration plays through a performance theory lens. This approach shows that an analysis of the conjoined performances of torture and race not only reveals the early modern interest in the nature of racial...
Performing Interdisciplinarity
Working Across Disciplinary Boundaries Through an Active Aesthetic
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
Performing Interdisciplinarity proposes new ways of engaging with performance as it crosses, collides with, integrates and/or disturbs other disciplinary concerns. From Activism and Political Philosophy to Cognitive Science and Forensics, each chapter explores the relationships between performance...
Performing Femininity
Rewriting Gender Identity
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2004
A personal, revealing, and sometimes humorous exploration of female experience, Performing Femininity challenges traditional and feminist perspectives on gender roles. Using ethnographic method, Lesa Lockford transforms herself into an image-obsessed weight watcher, an exotic dancer, and a theatrical...
Performing Endurance
Art and Politics since 1960
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
In Performing Endurance, Lara Shalson offers a new way of understanding acts of endurance in art and political contexts. Examining a range of performances from the 1960s to the present, including influential performance art works by Marina Abramović, Chris Burden, Tehching Hsieh, Linda Montano, Yoko...
by Max Stafford-Clark
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
A truthful, personal and insightful exploration of the state of arts funding and carrying on in the face of adversity, by the renowned founder of Out of Joint.
One March morning, out of the blue, Max Stafford-Clark learned that the Arts Council had drastically cut their grant to his theatre...
by Michael DeMarco, Kirstin Pauka, Chris Parker
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Many Indo-Malay martial arts are kept private, taught in secluded areas away from the public. These are arts of the older tradition, developed when combative knowledge was valued for its use in protecting the sanctity of life. This two-volume anthology brings together a great...
by James Nisbet
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
The history of theatre arts can be dated back to as early as the period of ancient Greek. Since then the various eras witnessed changes in the types of theatre stages, which affected the actors and also gave rise to different forms of acting. The theatre arts are one of the most famous and renown...
by Connor Syrewicz
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
For many high school graduates, college is a way to get ahead, but going to college is not the only way for young adults to succeed. Many people choose to enter the workforce after high school to start earning money and gaining experience right away. These motivated young workers can have rewarding...
Invitation to the Party
Building Bridges to the Arts, Culture and Community
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005
Presented workshops or space at following venues: Arts and Business Council; Professional Women’s Exchange of NY; League of American Theatres and Producers; National Guild of Community Schools for the Arts; National Endowment for the Arts; Walker Arts Center; Boys and Girls Club of America; Yale...
Theatre, Exhibition, and Curation
Displayed & Performed
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
Examining the artistic, intellectual, and social life of performance, this book interrogates Theatre and Performance Studies through the lens of display and modern visual art. Moving beyond the exhibition of immaterial art and its documents, as well as re-enactment in gallery contexts, Guy's book...
Sheldon Cheney's Theatre Arts Magazine
Promoting a Modern American Theatre, 1916-1921
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2009
In the early decades of the 20th century, Sheldon Cheney was the American theatre's zealous missionary for modernism. In 1916, Cheney founded Theatre Arts Magazine in Detroit with the intent to foster and support a 'renaissance' in America. Through this publication, Cheney gave voice to scores of...