R.E.C - History & Criticism 1

Offering a comprehensive examination into the Victoria Theatre in Stoke-on-Trent under its then director Peter Cheeseman, this book provides the first detailed history of a theatre-in-the-round and ……続きを見る

A bold new understanding of montage and French cinematic history Amid the tumult of change that swept through French society in the wake of World War II, a trio of visionary filmmakers sought to mak……続きを見る

This book is an exploration of metropolitan bohemian and counter-cultural movements in theatre, design and popular culture in the Irish Free State. Were there flappers in Ireland? Was there really a……続きを見る

Durante os anos sombrios da ditadura militar, os festivais universitários de música em Alagoas foram muito mais do que eventos culturais ー foram espaços de invenção, afirmação e liberdade. Jovens e……続きを見る

Questo volume raccoglie undici puntate della rubrica “Desaparecinema” dedicate al soft power di Hollywood. Federico Greco ci offre con le sue ricerche una lettura della storia dell’arte cinematograf……続きを見る

Now available in Bloomsbury Revelations series, Brecht on Performance: Messingkauf and Modelbooks presents a selection of Brecht's principal writings about the craft of acting and realising texts fo……続きを見る

In quarant’anni di ininterrotta attività, Silvio d’Amico ha influenzato la scena italiana del Novecento come pochi altri uomini di teatro hanno saputo fare. A partire dai suoi esordi come critico ‘m……続きを見る

This wide-ranging interdisciplinary collectionーthe first of its kindーinvites us to reconsider the politics and scope of the Roots phenomenon of the 1970s. Alex Haley’s 1976 book was a publishing s……続きを見る

About 9,000 Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany settled in Australia between 1933 and 1945, a small fraction of the hundreds of thousands who fled. Although initially greeted with a mixed reception as……続きを見る

The genesis and genius of Bartók’s Concerto was mingled with his love for Stefi Geyer. As Hungarian Tristan pursuing his Isolde, he sounds allusions to Wagner’s paean of unfulfilled love. In transpo……続きを見る

Die biblische Kantate «Abraham and Isaac», ein Werk über die Kraft des Glaubens, handelt von dem alttestamentlichen Vater, der bereit ist, auf göttliche Anweisung hin seinen einzigen Sohn zu opfern.……続きを見る

Das vorliegende Buch bietet die erste umfassende Studie zu Benjamin Brittens 15 Liederzyklen. Entstanden zwischen 1936 und 1975, nehmen sie neben den Opern eine wichtige Stellung in seinem Schaffen ……続きを見る

Die Komplexität der Musik Max Regers ist nicht leicht zu durchdringen. Hans-Peter Retzmann versucht diese schwierige Aufgabe zu lösen, indem er kompositorische und musikästhetische Fragestellungen m……続きを見る

È esaminando alcuni fatti risalenti al XV secolo, fatti che apportarono enormi trasformazioni negli equilibri mondiali facendo cadere antichissime civiltà e sorgere nuovi imperi e che posero in cont……続きを見る

In this compulsively readable, fascinating, and provocative guide to classical music, Norman Lebrecht, one of the world’s most widely read cultural commentators tells the story of the rise of the cl……続きを見る

Gestural Imaginaries: Dance and Cultural Theory in the Early Twentieth Century offers a new interpretation of European modernist dance by addressing it as guiding medium in a vibrant field of gestur……続きを見る

First performed the day after Marie-Antoinette’s beheading, Le Jugement dernier des rois stages the burlesque trial of the remaining kings and queens of Europeーparaded in chains like animals, made ……続きを見る

Against the idea that comedy offers us a relief from the horrors of the real world, the German-Jewish-American filmmaker Ernst Lubitsch defended his masterpiece To Be or Not to Be, a comedy from 194……続きを見る

This book argues that dramaturgy makes things visible and does so in two distinct and interrelating ways: creative processes and formal elements of performance are rendered visible and readable; and……続きを見る

Régulièrement jouée dans des concerts symphoniques partout dans le monde, la musique de la saga Final Fantasy fait partie des plus célèbres et célébrées du jeu vidéo. Pourquoi génère-t-elle autant d……続きを見る

The Year's Work in Showgirls Studies is a fan culture volume that deconstructs how and why Showgirls**, a 1995 drama with a female lead bent on becoming a famous performer in Las Vegas, became a muc……続きを見る

This study of British amateur theatre in the inter-war period examines five different but interwoven examples of the belief, common in theatrical and educational circles at the time, that amateur dr……続きを見る

Offers a bold new reading of Yiddish cinema by exploring the early diasporic cinema's fascination with media and communication. In this book, Jonah Corne and Monika Vrečar offer a conceptually innov……続きを見る

How does the act of performance speak to the concept of commemoration? How and why does commemorative theatre operate as a conceptual, historical and political site from which to interrogate ideas o……続きを見る

Cinematic film, the art form that came into its own in the 20th Century, is not only familiar to all of us, but is likely the form that lodges most clearly in memory. Like music, and the music emplo……続きを見る

The era known as the Thaw (1953-64) was a crucial period in the history of the Soviet Union. It was a time when the legacies of Stalinism began to unravel and when brief moments of liberalisation sa……続きを見る

Alexander Kluge, so die These dieser außergewöhnlichen Studie, befreit die Kritische Theorie aus ihrer diskursiven Verschanzung der letzten Jahrzehnte und verknüpft sie auf ästhetische wie bildungsp……続きを見る

Sin dall’inizio la vita del treno e quella del cinematografo, due splendidi figli dell’800 e del movimento, ai quali il secolo successivo confermerà successo e popolarità, si sono intrecciate. Con q……続きを見る

This collection of essays explores how historians of theatre apply ethical thinking to the attempt to truthfully represent their subject - whether that be the life of a well-known performer, or the ……続きを見る

Hitchcock was a masterful director, popular with audiences of all ages and critically acclaimed both during and after his unusually long career. What may have been sensed by many viewers but not ful……続きを見る