University Of Michigan Press: 1128 books
Kinesis
The Ancient Depiction of Gesture, Motion, and Emotion
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
Donald Lateiner, in his groundbreaking work The Sardonic Smile, presented the first thorough study of nonverbal behavior in Homeric epics, drawing a significant distinction between ancient and modern gesture and demonstrating the intrinsic relevance of this “silent language” to psychological,...
Social Memory in Athenian Public Discourse
Uses and Meanings of the Past
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2012
Prompted by the abundant historical allusions in Athenian political and diplomatic discourse, Bernd Steinbock analyzes the uses and meanings of the past in fourth-century Athens, using Thebes’ role in Athenian memory as a case study. This examination is based upon the premise that Athenian social...
by Werner Riess, Garrett G. Fagan
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
What soldiers do on the battlefield or boxers do in the ring would be treated as criminal acts if carried out in an everyday setting. Perpetrators of violence in the classical world knew this and chose their venues and targets with care: killing Julius Caesar at a meeting of the Senate was deliberate....
Blood Libel
The Ritual Murder Accusation at the Limit of Jewish History
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2012
The ritual murder accusation is one of a series of myths that fall under the label blood libel, and describes the medieval legend that Jews require Christian blood for obscure religious purposes and are capable of committing murder to obtain it. This malicious myth continues to have an explosive afterlife...
Subversions of the American Century
Filipino Literature in Spanish and the Transpacific Transformation of the United States
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2015
Subversions of the American Century: Filipino Literature in Spanish and the Transpacific Transformation of the United States argues that the moment the United States became an overseas colonial power in 1898, American national identity was redefined across a global matrix. The Philippines, which the...
The Ghosts of the Avant-Garde(s)
Exorcising Experimental Theater and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2013
The Ghosts of the Avant-Garde(s) offers a strikingly new perspective on key controversies and debates within avant-garde studies, arguing for the importance of reopening pivotal controversies and debates in avant-garde studies and challenging pronouncements of the “death of the avant-garde” that...
Waiting for Cancer to Come
Women’s Experiences with Genetic Testing and Medical Decision Making for Breast and Ovarian Cancer
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2014
Waiting for Cancer to Come tells the stories of women who are struggling with their high risk for cancer. Based on interviews and surveys of dozens of women, this book pieces together the diverse yet interlocking experiences of women who have tested positive for the BRCA 1/2 gene mutations, which...
Coloring Whiteness
Acts of Critique in Black Performance
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
Coloring Whiteness pays homage to the ways that African American artists and performers have interrogated tropes and mythologies of whiteness to reveal racial inequalities, focusing on comedy sketches, street theater, visual art, video, TV journalism, and voice-over work since 1964. By investigating...
Spectacular Disappearances
Celebrity and Privacy, 1696-1801
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
How can people in the spotlight control their self-representations when the whole world seems to be watching? The question is familiar, but not new. Julia Fawcett examines the stages, pages, and streets of eighteenth-century London as England's first modern celebrities performed their own strange...
Evita, Inevitably
Performing Argentina's Female Icons Before and After Eva Perón
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Evita, Inevitably sheds new light on the history and culture of Argentina by examining the performances and reception of the country’s most iconic female figures, in particular, Eva Perón, who rose from poverty to become a powerful international figure. The book links the Evita legend to a broader...
Hallyu 2.0
The Korean Wave in the Age of Social Media
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Collectively known as Hallyu, Korean music, television programs, films, online games, and comics enjoy global popularity, thanks to new communication technologies. In recent years, Korean popular culture has also become the subject of academic inquiry. Whereas the Hallyu’s impact on Korea’s national...
Broadway Rhythm
Imaging the City in Song
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Broadway Rhythm is a guide to Manhattan like nothing you've ever read. Author Dominic Symonds calls it a performance cartography, and argues that the city of New York maps its iconicity in the music of the Broadway songbook. A series of walking tours takes the reader through the landscape of Manhattan,...
by Jill Dolan
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Playwright Wendy Wasserstein (1950–2006), author of The Heidi Chronicles, wrote topical, humorous plays addressing relationships among women and their families, taking the temperature of social moments from the 1960s onward to debate women’s rightful place in their professional and personal lives....
Murder Most Queer
The Homicidal Homosexual in the American Theater
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
The “villainous homosexual” has long stalked America’s cultural imagination, most explicitly in the figure of the queer murderer, a character in dozens of plays. But as society’s understanding of homosexuality has changed, so has the significance of these controversial characters, especially...