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Marnix Gijsens eerste toneelstuk: de thema’s vader en zoon ‘Welke zoon begrijpt zijn vader? Mensen die al twintig jaar in leeftijd verschillen zijn vijanden. De enige vaste regel van het leven is da……続きを見る

La apasionante historia de un joven morisco en los convulsos días del ocaso del reino nazarí de Granada. Said, un joven morisco hijo de un cristiano renegado y una musulmana, es el protagonista de e……続きを見る

The Theater is a creative collaboration between poetry verse and screenplay acts that tells the story of Daniel. Born to the street life by parents who don't care how and if he lived, Daniel faced l……続きを見る

Completing a trilogy of works by Jan Cohen-Cruz, Remapping Performance focuses on the work of artists and experts who collaborate across fields to address social issues. The book explores work of a ……続きを見る

Brazilian Bodies, and their Choreographies of Identification retraces the presence of a particular way of swaying the body that, in Brazil, is commonly known as ginga . Cristina Rosa its presence ac……続きを見る

Dramaturgy and Architecture approaches modern and postmodern theatre's contribution to the way we think about the buildings and spaces we inhabit. It discusses in detail ways in which theatre and pe……続きを見る

How did Caribbean rituals helped form new currents in the performing and visual arts of the United States? This book answers this question through an examination of the Caribbean-inspired dance crea……続きを見る

Ten international dramaturg-scholars advance proposals that reset notions of agency in contemporary dance creation. Dramaturgy becomes driven by artistic inquiry, distributed among collaborating art……続きを見る

This book is a thought-provoking study that expands on film scholarship on noir and feminist scholarship on postfeminism, subjectivity, and representation to provide an inclusive, sophisticated, and……続きを見る

By concentrating on Sam Shepard's visual aesthetics, Emma Creedon argues that a consideration of Shepard's plays in the context of visual and theoretical Surrealism illuminates our understanding of ……続きを見る

This book posits adaptations as 'hideous progeny,' Mary Shelley's term for her novel, Frankenstein . Like Shelley's novel and her fictional Creature, adaptations that may first be seen as monstrous ……続きを見る

British Theatre and the Great War examines how theatre in its various forms adapted itself to the new conditions of 1914-1918. Contributors discuss the roles played by the theatre industry. They dra……続きを見る

An interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring the complex and conflicted topic of beauty in cultural, arts and medicine, looking back through the long cultural history of beauty, and asking wh……続きを見る

A study of the 30-year collaboration between playwright Samuel Beckett and director Alan Schneider, Bianchini reconstructs their shared American productions between 1956 and 1984. By examining how B……続きを見る

Discussing crises through diverse examples, including the UK's National Theatre, public art installations, Occupy LSX, repatriation ceremonies and performances of the everyday, this book asks how pe……続きを見る

Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, The Visual Music Film explores the concept and expression of musicality in the visual music film, in which visual presentations are given musical attributes s……続きを見る

Performance has become a paradigm for analyzing contemporary culture, a pattern that structures a particular view of human interaction and experience. Performance is also widely used to better under……続きを見る

Now, more than 20 years since its initial release, John Fiske’s classic text Media Matters remains both timely and insightful as an empirically rich examination of how the fierce battle over cultura……続きを見る

As the first collection of essays about Oscar Wilde's comedies, the contributors re-evaluate Oscar Wilde's society plays as 'comedies of manners" to see whether this is actually an apt way to read W……続きを見る

Until the middle of the last century, London's social calendar was dominated by 'the Season', a round of social events and parties during which the daughters of the upper classes made their 'debuts'……続きを見る

Here is a collection of sketches in the vein of Saturday Night Live, Mad TV, or SCTV. This is not to claim that they are as great as some of those sketches are, but they are an attempt to share the ……続きを見る

Duke and the gang finally make it to what appears to be the temple of Aphrodite, but now there is a new problem. How are they going to get inside? As both the Mistress and Duke set out to unlock the……続きを見る

“one of the most important plays of our time” --Howard Taubman, The New York Times In Vichy France in 1942, eight men and a boy are seized by the collaborationist authorities and made to wait in a b……続きを見る

This book brings together various theoretical approaches to Horror that have received consistent academic attention since the 1990s – abjection, disgust, cognition, phenomenology, pain studies – to ……続きを見る

A truly comprehensive overview of the craft of writing for contemporary film and video, by a multi-award winning screenwriter. The 21st-Century Screenplay is the long-awaited, much-expanded successo……続きを見る

December. Sisters Anna and Sarah arrived at their friend's to celebrate the holidays and meet the magic of the city which ' never sleeps ' . Is that why they are convicted to the brutality of a snea……続きを見る

Can a bout of laziness or a digressive spell actually open up paths to creativity and unexpected insights? In Obstruction Nick Salvato suggests that for those engaged in scholarly pursuits laziness,……続きを見る

This book offers compelling new perspectives on the revolutionary potential of improvisation pedagogy. Bringing together contributions from leading musicians, scholars, and teachers from around the ……続きを見る

For every woman who ever loved a Vampire. "What is your passion?" Vladimir asked Laina. "White," she replied without hesitation. "I eat cottage cheese and pot cheese, farmer's cheese, ricotta, mozza……続きを見る

Les teories de la comunicació analitzen el fenomen de la comunicació des d'una perspectiva científica. En aquesta obra, presentem una ordenació d'aquest saber acumulat des del segle passat fins a l'……続きを見る