Entertainment Performing Arts category: 25367 books
by Namrata Pathak
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
It is the very nature of representation to be theatrical and self-referential. This book undercuts the fact that all representational knowledge is autonomous and sovereign. At times, theatrical representations can misguide and mislead. Representation can also ineluctably project ones own preferences...
by E. J. H. Greene
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1965
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1965
The last thirty years have seen a renewed interest in the novels, plays, and essays of Marivaux. Each year more of his work is made available to the public in partial editions. More and better studies have appeared, superseding the old and, in the last thirty years, almost all of his plays have been...
Devenir spectateur ?
Invention et mutation du public culturel
Language: French
Release Date: September 6, 2017
Qu’est-ce qu’un spectateur ? Naît-on spectateur ? Quel spectateur devient-on face à une œuvre d’art ou un spectacle ? Catégorisé dans les études, sollicité par les publicitaires, compté par les subventionneurs, le spectateur est resté trop longtemps un objet de pensée secondaire.
Auteur...
Reader in Comedy
An Anthology of Theory and Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
This unique anthology presents a selection of over seventy of the most important historical essays on comedy, ranging from antiquity to the present, divided into historical periods and arranged chronologically. Across its span it traces the development of comic theory, highlighting the relationships...
Classic Movie Fight Scenes
75 Years of Bare Knuckle Brawls, 1914-1989
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
Both brawls and elaborate martial arts have kept movie audiences on the edges of their seats since cinema began. But the filming of fight scenes has changed significantly through the years—mainly for the safety of the combatants—from improvised scuffles in the Silent Era to exquisitely choreographed...
Docudrama on European Television
A Selective Survey
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
This book explores docudrama as a creative response to troubled times. With generic characteristics formed via traditions in theatre as well as film, and with claims to fact underscored by investigative journalism, television docudrama examines key events and personalities in unfolding national histories. Post-Fall...
The Art of Anti-Exclusion
A Collection of Writings by Asian Artists Working with Communities
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
The Art of Anti-Exclusion: A collection of writings by Asian artists working with communities, brings together the writings of 8 artists and one researcher who document various arts forms carried out with communities in Asia. Written in collaboration with June Goh, Syed Ibrahim, Alecia Neo, Akemi...
Raccontarla giusta
Domande e risposte sulla scrittura
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 28, 2017
"Ok, ho deciso. Sono qui, davanti a questa pagina bianca, che fa paura a tanta gente (o così dicono). Voglio scrivere. Voglio raccontare. E non posso fare a meno di chiedermi da dove partire".
Inizia così Raccontarla giusta. Domande e risposte sulla scrittura il manuale pensato per chi...
by James McRae, Renee Kohler-Ryan, Sydney Palmer
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
Ang Lee (b. 1954) has emerged as one of cinema's most versatile, critically acclaimed, and popular directors. Known for his ability to transcend cultural and stylistic boundaries, Lee has built a diverse oeuvre that includes films about culture clashes and globalization ( Eat Drink Man Woman, 1994,...
Midnight at the Crossroads
Has belly dance sold its soul?
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2017
Belly dance and its music arise from an Eastern ethos of feeling, improvisation, and joy. However, it's hard for Western dancers to discover these principles--and even harder to embody them, steeped as we are in an aesthetic of appearance, choreography, and perfectionism.
All arts grow and...
Performance Studies in Motion
International Perspectives and Practices in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
Performance Studies in Motion offers multiple perspectives on the current field of performance studies and suggests its future directions. Featuring new essays by pioneers Richard Schechner and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, and by international scholars and practitioners, it shows how performance...
Media Edge
Media Logic and Social Reality
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
This book challenges social science to address the most important social change since the industrial revolution: the mediated communication order. More of our everyday lives and social institutions reflect the compelling media logic that resonates through conversation, interaction, marketing, as well...
Performance
Practical examinations in speech and drama
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
The author looks in detail at the grade examinations and diplomas offered by private boards, and considers the new GCSE examinations in oral communication and Drama and Theatre Arts.
Social Housing in Performance
The English Council Estate on and off Stage
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
This book explores the ways that council estates have been represented in England across a range of performance forms. Drawing on examples from mainstream, site-specific and resident-led performance works, it considers the political potential of contemporary performance practices concerned with the...