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Theatre Criticism
Changing Landscapes
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
The world of theatre criticism is rapidly changing in its form, function and modes of operation in the twenty-first century.
The dominance of the internet has led to a growing trend of selfappointed theatre critics and bloggers who are changing the focus and purpose of the discussion around...
Style, Mediation, and Change
Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Talking Media
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Technologically mediated talk is organized around familiar styles-styles of person, relationship and genre. But media also consistently remake and re-style these familiar patterns. This book brings together original research on media styling in different national contexts and languages, written by...
by Verdiana Grace Masanja
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Results of all Research Projects in 2007 to 2010 under NUR-SIDA Collaboration University of Rwanda (UR) through its Research Directorate has been funding its staff to carry out research projects in many areas. This book contains 24 research projects under the Research Commission research grants scheme....
Homemade Academic Circus
Idiosyncratically Embodied Explorations Into Artistic Research And Circus Performance
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2016
This book takes its starting point in a rare experiment, that of an academic researcher attempting to learn to do circus. What happens to the knowledge of the performance theoretician when physically engaging with the circus arts? One of the (im)material outcomes of this experiment is what the author...
by Professor of Theatre for Development Tim Prentki, Dr Sheila Preston, Prof Michael Balfour
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
At once both guide book and provocation, this is an indispensable companion for students and practitioners of applied theatre. It addresses all key aspects: principles, origins, politics and aesthetics in a concise and accessible style designed to appeal both to those who have recently discovered...
The Theatre and the State in Singapore
Orthodoxy and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
This book provides a comprehensive examination of the contemporary English-language theatre field in Singapore. It describes Singapore theatre as a politically dynamic field that is often a site for struggle and resistance against state orthodoxy, and how the cultural policies of the ruling People’s...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
The Oxford Handbook of Greek Drama in the Americas is the first edited collection to discuss the performance of Greek drama across the continents and archipelagos of the Americas from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present. The study and interpretation of the classics have never been...
Maestro & Vainman
36 años de historias de la televisión que todos vimos
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Jorge Maestro y Sergio Vainman, dupla autoral única en la historia de la TV, hacen un balance de 36 años de carrera y desde su experiencia en el medio revelan entretelones desconocidos de la televisión argentina y los secretos de su arte.
Jorge Maestro y Sergio Vainman, dupla única en la...
Digital Platforms and Feminist Film Discourse
Women’s Cinema 2.0
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
This project offers a critical overview of how online activities and platforms are becoming an important source for the production and promotion of women’s films. Inspired by a transnational feminist framework, Maule examines blogs, websites, online services and projects related to women’s filmmaking...
The Difficulty of Difference
Psychoanalysis, Sexual Difference and Film Theory
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
This book argues that serious misreadings of Freud and Lacan on sexual difference have characterized prevailing models of psychoanalytic film criticism. In critiquing theories of identification and female spectatorship, the author maintains that early film theorists and feminist critics are equally...
Television Brandcasting
The Return of the Content-Promotion Hybrid
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Television Brandcasting examines U. S. television’s utility as a medium for branded storytelling. It investigates the current and historical role that television content, promotion, and hybrids of the two have played in disseminating brand messaging and influencing consumer decision-making. Juxtaposing...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
Comment l’espace médiatique (presse, télé, web) façonne-t-il la définition et l’attribution de valeurs pour des entités de toutes sortes ? Au moment où abondent les instruments d’évaluation fondés sur la quantification – des indicateurs aux classements, des hit-parades aux baromètres,...
Dramaturgy and Dramatic Character
A Long View
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Dramatic character is among the most long-standing and familiar of artistic phenomena. From the theatre of Dionysus in ancient Greece to the modern stage, William Storm's book delivers a wide-ranging view of how characters have been conceived at pivotal moments in history. Storm reaffirms dramatic...
Values and Choices in Television Discourse
A View from Both Sides of the Screen
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
The high-pressured, fast-paced environment of television production leaves little time for producers to reflect on how the potentialities of texts and images will be interpreted outside of the immediate broadcast imperatives. This volume brings together the producers and analysts of television in a formal and productive way.