Fairleigh Dickinson University Press: 249 books
Cruelty and Desire in the Modern Theater
Antonin Artaud, Sarah Kane, and Samuel Beckett
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011
Departing from a refreshing look at the ideas of Antonin Artaud, this book provides a thorough analysis of how both Sarah Kane and Samuel Beckett are indebted to his legacy. In juxtaposing these playwrights, De Vos minutely points out how both in their own way struggle with coming to terms with Artaud....
by Kurt Korneski
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a host of journalists, ministers, medical doctors, businessmen, lawyers, labor leaders, politicians, and others called for an assault on poverty, slums, disreputable boarding houses, alcoholism, prostitution, sweatshop conditions, inadequate...
by Jacqueline O’Connor
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Gender and cultural studies readings of Tennessee Williams’s work have provided diverse perspectives on his complex representations of sexuality, whether of himself as an openly gay man, or of his characters, many of whom narrate or dramatize sexual attitudes or behavior that cross heteronormative...
Clyde Fitch and the American Theatre
An Olive in the Cocktail
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
Clyde Fitch (1865-1909) was the most successful and prolific dramatist of his time, producing nearly sixty plays in a twenty-year career. He wrote witty comedies, chaotic farces, homespun dramas, star vehicles, historical works, stark melodramas, and adaptations of European successes, but he was best...
Comics as History, Comics as Literature
Roles of the Comic Book in Scholarship, Society, and Entertainment
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
This anthology hosts a collection of essays examining the role of comics as portals for historical and academic content, while keeping the approach on an international market versus the American one. Few resources currently exist showing the cross-disciplinary aspects of comics. Some of the chapters...
Stage Matters
Props, Bodies, and Space in Shakespearean Performance
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
The collection, edited by Annalisa Castaldo and Rhonda Knight, features essays by scholars interested in exploring how the material culture of sixteenth and early seventeenth English theatrical culture influenced the creation and presentation of drama and how understanding this culture can enrich...
Place, Setting, Perspective
Narrative Space in the Films of Nanni Moretti
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014
Place, Setting, Perspective examines the films of the Italian filmmaker, Nanni Moretti, from a fresh viewpoint, employing the increasingly significant research area of space within a filmic text. The book is conceived with the awareness that space cannot be studied only in aesthetic or narrative terms:...
Great War Modernism
Artistic Response in the Context of War, 1914-1918
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
New Modernist Studies, while reviving and revitalizing modernist studies through lively, scholarly debate about historicity, aesthetics, politics, and genres, is struggling with important questions concerning the delineation that makes discussion fruitful and possible. This volume aims to explore...
Cinematography in the Weimar Republic
Lola Lola, Dirty Singles, and the Men Who Shot Them
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
In film history, director-cinematographer collaborations were on a labor spectrum, with the model of the contracted camera operator in the silent era and that of the cinematographer in the sound era. But in Weimar era German filmmaking, 1919-33, a short period of intense artistic activity and political...
The Horse in Early Modern English Culture
Bridled, Curbed, and Tamed
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
Kevin De Ornellas argues that in Renaissance England the relationship between horse and rider works as an unambiguous symbol of domination by the strong over the weak. There was little sentimental concern for animal welfare, leading to the routine abuse of the material animal. This unproblematic,...
Elsa Morante's Politics of Writing
Rethinking Subjectivity, History, and the Power of Art
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Elsa Morante’s Politics of Writing is a collected volume of twenty-one essays written by Morante specialists and international scholars. Essays gather attention on four broad critical topics, namely the relationship Morante entertained with the arts, cinema, theatre, and the visual arts; new critical...
Italian Prisoners of War in Pennsylvania
Allies on the Home Front, 1944–1945
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
During World War II 51,000 Italian prisoners of war were detained in the United States. When Italy signed an armistice with the Allies in September 1943, most of these soldiers agreed to swear allegiance to the United States and to collaborate in the fight against Germany. At the Letterkenny Army...
Model Citizens of the State
The Jews of Turkey during the Multi-Party Period
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
Model Citizens of the State: The Jews of Turkey during the Multi-Party Period is about the history of the Turkish Jews from 1950 to present. By using unpublished primary sources as well as secondary sources, the book describes the struggle of Turkish Jews for the application of their constitutional...
New Jersey Governor Brendan Byrne
The Man Who Couldn’t Be Bought
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2014
Known by mobsters as “the man who couldn’t be bought,” Brendan Byrne led New Jersey into a new era when he won the state’s gubernatorial election by a landslide in the wake of political corruption scandals. A former prosecutor and judge, Byrne was soon condemned as “one-term Byrne,” the...