Palgrave imprint: 15119 books
Jack the Ripper in Film and Culture
Top Hat, Gladstone Bag and Fog
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
In 1888 the name Jack the Ripper entered public consciousness with the brutal murders of women in the East End of London. The murderer was never caught, yet film and television depicts a killer with a recognisable costume, motive and persona. This book examines the origins of the screen presentation...
J.R.R. Tolkien's Double Worlds and Creative Process
Language and Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2011
A close colleague of Tolkein for many years, Zettersten offers here a personally informed analysis of his fiction. In light of his unusual life experience and enthusiasm for the study of languages, Zettersten finds in Tolkein's fiction the same animating passions that drove that great author as a youth, a soldier, a linguist, and an Oxford Don.
Government Transparency
Impacts and Unintended Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
Transparency has become a global concept of responsible government. This book argues that the transnational discourse of transparency promotes potentially contradictory policy ideas that can lead to unintended consequences. It critically examines whether or not increased transparency really leads to increased democratic accountability.
Brian Friel
Theatre and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2011
Friel is recognised as Ireland's leading playwright and due to the ability of plays like Translations and Dancing at Lughnasa to translate into other cultures he has made a major impact on world theatre. This study draws on the Friel Archive to deepen our understanding of how his plays were developed.
Staging the Screen
The Use of Film and Video in Theatre
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2007
The use of film and video is widespread in contemporary theatre. Staging the Screen explores a variety of productions, ranging from Piscator to Forced Entertainment, charting the impact of developing technologies on practices in dramaturgy and performance. Giesekam addresses critical issues raised by multi-media work and inter-media work
Practice as Research in the Arts
Principles, Protocols, Pedagogies, Resistances
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2013
At the performance turn, this book takes a fresh 'how to' approach to Practice as Research, arguing that old prejudices should be abandoned and a PaR methodology fully accepted in the academy. Nelson and his contributors address the questions students, professional practitioner-researchers, regulators and examiners have posed in this domain.
3D Cinema
Optical Illusions and Tactile Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
3D Cinema: Optical Illusions and Tactile Experiences questions the common frameworks used for discussing 3D cinema, realism and spectacle, in order to fully understand the embodied and sensory dimensions of 3D cinema's unique visuality.
Tennessee Williams
A Literary Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
This Literary Life draws extensively from the playwright's correspondences, notebooks, and archival papers to offer an original angle to the discussion of Williams's life and work, and the times and circumstances that helped produce it.
The Dancer's World, 1920 - 1945
Modern Dancers and their Practices Reconsidered
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
The Dancer's World 1920-1945 focuses on modern dancers as they saw themselves. Five chapters describe a narrative arc that encompasses Europe and the USA with a focus between 1920 and 1945. A final chapter considers contemporary relevance for dancers, dance artists, choreographers, dance students and scholars alike.
Choreographic Dwellings
Practising Place
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
Choreographic Dwellings: Practising Place offers new readings of the kinaesthetic experiences of site-specific and nomadic performance, parkour, installation and walking practices. It extends the remit of the choreographic by reframing the kinaesthetic qualities of place as action.
Boys, Bass and Bother
Popular Dance and Identity in UK Drum ’n’ Bass Club Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2018
This book uses ethnographic research to examine the role of dance in the construction of identity in the distinctly British electronic dance music club culture of drum ’n’ bass. Dancing is revealed as the central way in which drum ’n’ bass clubbers construct and perform their identities, which...
William Corder and the Red Barn Murder
Journeys of the Criminal Body
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014
This study reassesses the criminal body from sentencing to execution and afterlife, using the nineteenth-century Red Barn murder as a case study. Positioned within the burgeoning field of medical humanities, it places culture and power at the centre of debates surrounding criminal justice and public punishment.
Performativity and Event in 1960s Japan
City, Body, Memory
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Performativity and Event in 1960s Japan considers the artists and events in 1960s Japan. In response to the social upheavals of the 1960s, it shows how art interacted with society in unique and transformational ways, nterweaving arguments about the critical role of performance as an artistic medium and as a social dramaturgy.
by James N. Loehlin
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
This introductory guide to one of Marlowe's most widely-studied plays offers a scene-by-scene theatrically aware commentary, a brief history of the text and first performances, case studies of key performances and productions, a survey of screen adaptations, and a wide sampling of critical opinion and further reading.