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This essay collection builds on the latest research on the topic of theatre audiences in early modern England. In broad terms, the project answers the question, 'How do we define the relationships b……続きを見る

More than chronological coincidence brings together Ty Cobb and Ernest Hemingway, who never met, in this play set in late autumn 1960. Cobb was dying of cancer and other ailments but still driving h……続きを見る

Empathy has provoked equal measures of excitement and controversy in recent years. For some, empathy is crucial to understanding others, helping us bridge social and cultural differences. For others……続きを見る

This accessible and compelling collection of faculty reflections examines the tensions between the arts and academics and offers interdisciplinary alternatives for higher education. With an eye to t……続きを見る

This text provides a study of Jean-Martin Charcot, a founding figure in the history of neurology as a discipline and a colleague of Sigmund Freud. It argues that Charcot’s diagnostic and pedagogic m……続きを見る

This book is the first to examine age across the modern and contemporary dramatic canon, from Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams to Paula Vogel and Doug Wright. All ages across the life course are……続きを見る

This book deals with one of the most important sources of the Stanislavsky System - Yoga, its practice and philosophy. Sergei Tcherkasski carefully collects records on Yoga in Stanislavsky's writing……続きを見る

A Masterclass in Dramatic Writing addresses all three genres of dramatic writing - for theatre, film and TV - in a comprehensive, one-semester, 14-week masterclass for the dramatic writer. This book……続きを見る

In 2010, The Walking Dead premiered on AMC and has since become the most watched scripted program in the history of basic cable. Based on the graphic novel series by Robert Kirkman, The Walking Dead……続きを見る

Militant Visions examines how, from the 1940s to the 1970s, the cinematic figure of the black soldier helped change the ways American moviegoers saw black men, for the first time presenting African ……続きを見る

Quirky and extraordinary Tiggy Upland, the Wild Deuce, shares the best of her Ask Tiggy advice column for and about bisexuals. She guides people from all walks of life, in various stages of living a……続きを見る

Come “sono fatte” e come “funzionano” le storie dei film e delle serie americane? Quali strutture narrative le sorreggono e come si sono evolute negli anni? Quali sono i temi, i valori e i profili d……続きを見る

As a parent, it is important that you be aware of the online games that benefit your children. This book lists the online games that children aged 5 and up, regardless of geographic location, play. ……続きを見る

As festas dão um monte de trabalho e podem ser caras. Encontrar um lugar para realizar seu evento, levar as pessoas a participar, fazendo-a funcionar sem problemas, organizar e terminar pode exigir ……続きを見る

Drawing on a range of cities and conflicts from Europe, Africa and the Middle East, the collection explores the post-conflict condition as it is lived and expressed in modern cities such as Berlin, ……続きを見る

Winner, Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2017 Americans are living longer and reinventing both work and retirement, but Hollywood movies barely hint at this reality of contemporary society. In man……続きを見る

As part of its effort to forge a new secular Jewish nation, the nascent Israeli state tried to limit Jewish religiosity. However, with the steady growth of the ultraorthodox community and the expans……続きを見る

Recent critically and commercially acclaimed Latin American films such as XXY, Contracorriente, and Plan B create an affective and bodily connection with viewers that elicits in them an emotive and ……続きを見る

“On Story is film school in a box, a lifetime’s worth of filmmaking knowledge squeezed into half-hour packages.” ーKenneth Turan, film critic for the Los Angeles Times Austin Film Festival (AFF) is ……続きを見る

Une fiche de référence sur Le vent se lève, un chef-d'oeuvre de Miyazaki Hayao. « Le vent se lève ! il faut tenter de vivre ! » Ce vers du Cimetière marin de Paul Valéry est cité à plusieurs reprise……続きを見る

In The Problem Body, editors Sally Chivers and Nicole Markotic bring together the work of eleven of the best disability scholars from the U.S., the U.K., Canada, and South Korea to explore a new app……続きを見る

What does it mean to study Shakespeare within a multicultural society? And who has the power to transform Shakespeare? The Diverse Bard explores how Shakespeare has been adapted by artists born on t……続きを見る

Morton Feldman is widely regarded as one of America's greatest composers. His music is famously idiosyncratic, but, in many cases, the way he presented it is also unusual because, in the 1950s and 1……続きを見る

A series of interviews with some of the foremost dancers in twentieth-century ballet, Never Far from Dancing reflects on the paths that their careers have taken since they retired from the stage. Ba……続きを見る

How does thinking affect doing? There is a widely held view--both in academia and in the popular press--that thinking about what you are doing, as you are doing it, hinders performance. Once you hav……続きを見る

Performance and Professional Wrestling is the first edited volume to consider professional wrestling explicitly from the vantage point of theatre and performance studies. Moving beyond simply noting……続きを見る

Jana Sanskriti is internationally recognised as the most iconic post-Boalian Theatre of the Oppressed operation in the world today. This fully illustrated book by the Bengali company's founder and a……続きを見る

Nigeria’s Nollywood has rapidly grown into one of the world’s largest film industries, radically altering media environments across Africa and in the diaspora; it has also become one of African cult……続きを見る

For ten years Jack Nicholson toiled in low-budget films and guest spots in such television shows as Dr. Kildare and The Andy Griffith Show before his breakout performance in Easy Rider. Despite “ret……続きを見る

At one time every station in Chicagoーa maximum of five, until 1964–produced or aired some programming for children. From the late 1940’s through the early 1970’s, local television stations created ……続きを見る