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Tamil Cinema
The Cultural Politics of India's other Film Industry
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2008
Hitherto, the academic study of Indian cinema has focused primarily on Bollywood, despite the fact that the Tamil film industry, based in southern India, has overtaken Bollywood in terms of annual output. This book examines critically the cultural and cinematic representations in Tamil cinema. It...
A Life in Storytelling
Anecdotes, Stories to Tell, Stories with Movement and Dance, Suggestions for Educators
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
A Life in Storytelling contains the reflections and lessons from one of the most noted storytellers of our times. Fifty years of storytelling has provided Binnie Tate Wilkin with the experiences and insights to form the basis of a text for the storyteller, both for the professional librarian, teacher...
Changing Minds or Changing Channels?
Partisan News in an Age of Choice
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
We live in an age of media saturation, where with a few clicks of the remote—or mouse—we can tune in to programming where the facts fit our ideological predispositions. But what are the political consequences of this vast landscape of media choice? Partisan news has been roundly castigated for...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Compulsive Acts explores the films, plays and personality of prolific playwright, novelist, filmmaker and poet Sky Gilbert through the eyes of a handful of the people who have observed his work closely over the past two decades -- as audience members and arts workers. Actors, academics, performance...
Programme Notes
Case Studies for Locating Experimental Theatre
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Programme Notes is a collection of commissioned essays, case studies and interviews reflecting the exciting and complex relationships between ‘mainstream’ stages and ‘experimental’ theatre practices.
The first edition of Programme Notes, published in 2007, featured contributions by...
by Jim Davis
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
The popularity of the comic performers of late-Georgian and Regency England and their frequent depiction in portraits, caricatures and prints is beyond dispute, yet until now little has been written on the subject. In this unique study Jim Davis considers the representation of English low comic actors,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
The Methuen Drama Dictionary of the Theatre is an essential reference tool and companion for anyone interested in the theatre and theatre-going. Containing over 2500 entries it covers the international spectrum of theatre with particular emphasis on the UK and USA. With biographical information on...
Reality Radio, Second Edition
Telling True Stories in Sound
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2017
This new revised and expanded edition of Reality Radio celebrates today's best audio documentary work by bringing together some of the most influential and innovative practitioners from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia. With a new foreword and five new essays, this book...
Digital Cultures and the Politics of Emotion
Feelings, Affect and Technological Change
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Fifteen thought-provoking essays engage in an innovative dialogue between cultural studies of affect, feelings and emotions, and digital cultures, new media and technology. The volume provides a fascinating dialogue that cuts across disciplines, media platforms and geographic and linguistic boundaries.
Disability Culture and Community Performance
Find a Strange and Twisted Shape
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
Performances in hospices and on beaches; cross-cultural myth making in Wales, New Zealand and the US; communal poetry among mental health system survivors: this book, now in paperback, presents a senior practitioner/critic's exploration of arts-based research processes sustained over more than a decade - a subtle engagement with disability culture.
by Leslie Herrin
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Acting schools are the perfect forum to enhance and embrace people who have what it takes to become an actor/actress. Many acting schools have differing programs that allows the student both choice and flexibility when choosing the class to suit their requirements. Acting Schools can be found in many...
Caro maestro
Semestre di scritture
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Il libro contiene i testi prodotti dai partecipanti al semestre di scritture dedicate a un ideale "Caro maestro", condotto da Laura Franco da gennaio a luglio 2017, presso la Casa delle Traduzioni di Roma, e qui curato insieme a Marco Bisanti.
Intensities and Lines of Flight
Deleuze/Guattari and the Arts
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
The writings of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari offer the most enduring and controversial contributions to the theory and practice of art in post-war Continental thought. However, these writings are both so wide-ranging and so challenging that much of the synoptic work on Deleuzo-Guattarian aesthetics...
The Costume Making Guide
Creating Armor and Props for Cosplay
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
Bring your cosplay dreams to life with your own two hands!
The Best Cosplay Tutorial Guide Ever!
Get ready to impress ordinary mortals with your superhuman costume-making skills. You can do it no matter what your experience level with this, the first full step-by-step technique book...