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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Devising in Process
Book SynopsisALEX MERMIKIDES is Senior Lecturer in Drama at Kingston University, UK,where she leads the MA Making Plays: Writing and Devising for the Stage and teaches on the BA Drama course, specialising in devising and writing for performance. She is a member of the Lightwork Theatre Company. JACKIE SMART is Principal Lecturer in Dramaat Kingston University, UK,where she teaches devising, acting and physical theatre at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. She has devised and directed many professional productions.Trade Review"This accessible and concise collection of essays, edited by Alex Mermikides and Jackie Smart, presents valuable insights into the vibrancy of alternative British theatre. These insights derive in part from the fact that the book's contributors were embedded within their focus companies to observe their devising of specific performance projects. This unusual access to the unique, often long and idiosyncratic process of devising performance brings immediacy to an obscure and sometimes misunderstood subject." - Thomas Riccio, Theatre Journal, Volume 64, Number 2, May 2012 "Devising in Process contributes to a growing number of books on the process of theatre making that analyse approaches to contemporary performance and provide models of creative practice for students and theatre practitioners...Contributors to the volume were given access, to a greater or lesser extent, to the rehearsals of these companies, and this intimate engagement enables them to present perceptive insights into the devising strategies, processes, and methods deployed to develop innovative and challenging performances." - Lib Taylor, Contemporary Theatre Review, Volume 22, Issue 1, 2012Table of ContentsIntroduction People Show in Rehearsal: People Show #118 The Birthday Tour; S. Behrndt Station House Opera; J. Kelly The Making of Faulty Optic's Dead Wedding: Inertia, Chaos and Adaptation; T. Moss Devising and Advocacy: The Red Room's Unstated; G. White The Distance Covered: Third Angel's 9 Billion Miles from Home; P. Stainer Delirium: in rehearsal with theatre O; H. Freshwater Clash and Consensus in Shunt's 'big shows' and the Lounge; A. Mermikides Sculpting the Territory: Gecko's The Arab and The Jew in Process; J. Smart.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Theatre Education and Performance
Book SynopsisHELEN NICHOLSONProfessor of Drama and Theatre at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. She is the author of Applied Drama: The Gift of Theatre (Palgrave, 2005), Theatre & Education (Palgrave 2009) and co-editor of Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance (Routledge).
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Theatre and Interculturalism
Book SynopsisRIC KNOWLESis Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph, Canada. He is editor of Canadian Theatre Review, and former editor of Modern Drama. He is the author of The Theatre of Form, Shakespeare and Canada, and Reading the Material Theatre. He is general editor of the series Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) SiteSpecific Performance
Book SynopsisMIKE PEARSONis Professor of Performance Studies at Aberystwyth University, UK. Formerlyan Artistic Director of Cardiff Laboratory Theatre (1973-80) and Brith Gof (1981-97). He continues to make performance with Pearson/Brookes (1997-present). He is co-author of Theatre/Archaeology (Routledge: 2001) and In Comes I: Performance, Memory and Landscape (Exeter University Press: 2006).
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Palgrave MacMillan Us Cinema Anime Critical Engagements with Japanese Animation
Book SynopsisThis collection charts the terrain of contemporary Japanese animation, one of the most explosive forms of visual culture to emerge at the crossroads of transnational cultural production in the last twenty-five years.Trade Review"Both cinema and animation have served simultaneously as transnational cultural forms as well as national forums, formed by specific discourses on nationalism and modernization. In fact, in the 1910s-20s Japan, animation was not defined as distinct from cinema in terms of social regulations or production concerns. Animation, together with cinema, came under the scrutiny of public educators, censors and national ideologues. The point of intersection for these diverse concerns was the construction of national cinema for international dissemination. The attempt of Cinema Anime to dismantle the distinction between cinema and animation, national cinema and transnational visual culture, is genuinely challenging, but definitely necessary in the tension-ridden period of media globalization." -Daisuke Miyao, University of Oregon, USA 'Cinema Anime is an important and thought-provoking collection of essays by a number of the leading figures in the field. It includes some of the first scholarly work on several challenging and noteworthy anime that have not received enough academic attention up to now. With chapters that range from cross-cultural overviews to ambitious critical interventions, this volume will be of interest to a wide audience, from students to experienced scholars. Indeed, Cinema Anime should be required reading for anyone committed to anime criticism.' -Christopher Bolton, Senior Editorial Board, Mechademia "The brain is the screen," as quoted in the introduction, is an apt expression of Cinema Anime's aim to keep thinking in new ways about anime even as it gains its mindshare, to take new positions towards it even as it finds its place. Its academics know where to look within LAIN, the one show that best learned the liberating message of EVANGELION; Satoshi Kon, the most important anime director to emerge in the past decade and without, showing how film technology itself informs the narrative of anime and how contemporary installation artists draw it forth from flatland to examine our real space. Cinema Anime rephrases the question: where anime is, rather than what it is to be defined. -Carl Gustav Horn, author of Strange Colors: The Power of Japanese Animation 'This is a worthy addition to any Anime fans' library or for those who want to study the media in more depth.' - Phil Jones, SF CrowsnestTable of ContentsScreening Anime - S.T. Brown Part I: Towards a Cultural Politics of Anime "Excuse Me, Who Are You?": Performance, the Gaze, and the Female in the Works of Kon Satoshi - S.Napier The Americanization of Anime and Manga: Negotiating Popular Culture - A.Levi The Advent of Meguro Empress: Decoding the Avant-Pop Anime TAMALA 2010 - T.Takayuki Part II: Post-Human Bodies in the Animated Imaginary Frankenstein and the Cyborg Metropolis - S.Orbaugh Animated Bodies and Cybernetic Selves: The Animatrix and the Question of Post-Humanity - C.Silvio The Robots from Takkun's Head: Cyborg Adolescence in FLCL - B.Ruh Part III: Anime and the Limits of Cinema The First Time as Farce: Digital Animation and the Repetition of Cinema - T.Lamarre "Such is the Contrivance of the Cinematograph" Dur(anim)ation, Modernity, and Edo Culture in Tabaimo's Animated Installations - L.Monnet
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Pan Macmillan Going to Extremes
Book SynopsisIn Going to Extremes writer, presenter and Oxford geography don Nick Middleton visits Oymyakon in Siberia, where the average winter temperature is -47 degrees and 40% of the population have lost their fingers to frostbite while changing the car wheel. Next he travels to Arica Chile where there have been fourteen consecutive years without a drop of rain and so fog is people's only source of water. Going from the driest to the wettest, he visits Mawsynram in India which annually competes for the title with its neighbour Cherrapunji. However, Nick discovers even here, that during the dry season, there is water shortage and one entrepreneur has started selling it bottled.Finally his journey takes him to Dalol in Ethiopia known as the 'hell hole of creation' where the temperature remains at 94 degrees year round. Here Nick will join miners who work all day with no shade, limited water and no protective clothing.The book and series consider how a
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Pan Macmillan The Beatles Shadow Stuart Sutcliffe His Lonely Hearts Club
Book SynopsisThe poignant memoir of forgotten Beatle Stuart Sutcliffe, and a remarkable chronicle of the early days of the world's most influential pop group.
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Penguin Books Ltd Pandoras Box
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA binge-worthy book * Economist *Thoroughly entertaining… Pandora’s Box is essential viewing -- Rebecca Nicholson * Guardian *Biskind is the perfect person to chronicle how we got here … The writers and showrunners are compelling figures, and Biskind’s story is larded with stories of their triumphs, creative crises, neuroses and episodes of appalling behaviour * Financial Times *Pandora’s Box explains, in punchy, propulsive prose, how we went from Tony Soprano to Ted Lasso … Biskind is skilled at the quick character sketch … [and] lays out a sprawling, amoral ecosystem with the dispassion of an omniscient narrator * New Yorker *Peter Biskind's Pandora's Box is not only a richly detailed and colorful account of how TV has defiantly superseded the cinema in the last thirty years, but also an important historic document. Biskind brilliantly maneuvers his way through a panoply of cinematic and television endeavor with the precision of a surgeon's scalpel. A gripping and compulsive read -- Brian CoxPeter Biskind has always been the most rigorous and amusing Hollywood historian we have, taking on the great men of the past--and now with his trademark cheeky intelligence he takes on the giants of the present age of television-as-cinema. Despite my having lived much of the book's arc, Biskind offers a fresh perspective on the new Wild West of home entertainment -- Lena DunhamThis brisk, blistering overview of how streaming has changed where we put our eyeballs is classic binge-worthy reading. I had no idea the people who created culture-altering shows are as entertaining as the shows themselves, but Peter Biskind did, and you'll never look at them same way again -- Steven SoderberghPeter Biskind takes on a wild, whirlwind tour of the birth, life, death, and rebirth of cable and streaming services, introducing us to the people behind them who turn out to be as ferociously nutty as the characters they put on the screen -- David Nasaw, author of The Last Million: Europe’s Displaced Persons from World War to Cold WarPeter Biskind catalogs real-life misbehavior by the principals responsible for an array of lauded series with the same unsparing eye that he detailed the excesses of New Hollywood in Easy Riders, Raging Bulls -- Fall 2023 Must-Reads * Entertainment Weekly *This gossip-filled overview of the past 40 years of television will keep readers glued to their seats * Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW *Biskind is known as much for his outspoken opinions as his insightful commentary, and Pandora’s Box is Biskind at his most candid. For readers interested in what goes on behind the scenes in the world of television, a must-read * Booklist *- - Praise for Peter Biskind -- -Who else can explicate the hidden politics of movies and make you laugh out loud at the same time? -- Barbara Ehrenreich on The Sky is FallingInsanely readable -- Slavoj Žižek on The Sky is FallingYou'll never look at your favourite movies and TV shows the same way again. And you shouldn't -- Steven Soderbergh on The Sky is FallingThoughtful, entertaining and occasionally profound * Spectator on The Sky is Falling *Spot on * Irish Times on The Sky is Falling *Dishy, teeming, superbly reported...packed with lively inside anecdotes...[a] juicy and fascinating exposé * Entertainment Weekly on Down and Dirty Pictures *Sensationally entertaining * Los Angeles Times on Down and Dirty Pictures *Peter Biskind's great, scathing, news-packed history...is one hell of an elixir-salty with flavorsome gossip, sour with the aftertaste of misspent careers, intoxicating with one revelation after another...an A * Entertainment Weekly on Easy Riders, Raging Bulls *Biskind's devourable book is that rarity, a Hollywood exposé that you can read mouth agape, slurping up scandal and titillation so fast you're in danger of choking-without feeling ashamed of yourself * Washington Post Book World on Easy Riders, Raging Bulls *Biskind is a magician at prying revealing yarns and juicy quotes out of his subjects. And the resulting scenarios are deliciously tawdry...moments of real intelligence and grace * San Francisco Chronicle on Easy Riders, Raging Bulls *
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