Other performing arts Books
Transcript Verlag The Making of Modern Subjects: Public Discourses
Book SynopsisUnder Japanese colonial rule in the early 20th century, Korean women began to expand their realm from the domestic to the public sphere. Sung Un Gang examines how the women's gaze was reimagined in public discourse as they began attending plays and movies, and investigates the complex negotiation process surrounding women's public presence. As the first extensive study of Korean female spectators of the colonial era, it analyses newspapers, magazines, fictions, and images and argues that public discourse aimed to mold them into a male-driven and top-down modernization project. This study reconceptualizes colonial Korean female spectators as diverse active agents with their own politics.
£39.74
ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Alan Ayckbourn in Chekhov's Footsteps. A Study of
Book SynopsisMustafa Kirca explores the dark sides of Alan Ayckbourn's comedy by comparing the playwright's characters with those of Chekhov's drama and drawing a parallelism in the character portrayal of both artists. The significance of Ayckbourn's plays, following Chekhov's footsteps, particularly lies in his vivid portrayal of characters from everyday life with psychological depth. Kirca shows that the fine mix of comedy and tragedy in Ayckbourn's drama is conveyed through his realistic characterization contrary to the farcical style of his plays. This kind of character portrayal in Ayckbourn's plays brings him very close to Chekhov and establishes the known equilibrium between comedy and tragedy in his theatre. The study covers Ayckbourn's Absent Friends, Just Between Ourselves, Joking Apart, Season's Greetings, Woman in Mind, A Small Family Business, and Henceforward. From Chekhov's drama, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, The Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard are included to define the general Chekhovian character traits. The book is especially interesting for teachers, students, and for general readers who are interested in modern 'human comedies'.
£18.69
Synema Gesellschaft Fur Film u. Medien Olivier Assayas
Book SynopsisOver the past few decades, French filmmaker Olivier Assayas has become a powerful force in contemporary cinema. Between his first feature Désordre (1986) and such major works as L'Eau froide, Irma Vep, Les Destinées Sentimentales, demonlover and, most recently, L'Heure d'été and Carlos, he has charted an exciting path, strongly embracing narrative and character and simultaneously dealing with the 'fragmentary reality' of life in a global economy. He also brought a fresh perspective to the problem of politics after '68, a subject that he revisits in his memoir A Post-May Adolescence (published as a companion book to this volume) and in his most recent film Après-Mai. This first English-language book about Olivier Assayas includes a major essay by Kent Jones, based on his two decades of correspondence and exchanges of ideas with the filmmaker, as well as contributions from Assayas and his most important artistic collaborators. The central part consists of individual essays on each of his works, written by Chris Chang, Larry Gross, Howard Hampton, Kristin M. Jones, B. Kite, Glenn Kenny, Michael Koresky, Alice Lovejoy, Greil Marcus, Geoffrey O'Brien, Jeff Reichert, Richard Suchenski, and Gina Telaroli.Trade ReviewEnthusiastic, personal, and easy to read.... Recommended. * Choice *The book is really beautiful: the layout is terrific, the illustrations fantastic, well-chosen; it’s truly a wonderful package. -- Some Came RunningA thoughtful, personal survey of Assayas's career by American critics edited by Jones and an English translation of Assayas's 2002 memoir 'A Post-May Adolescence: Letter to Alice Debord', both published in handsome volumes by the Austrian Film Museum, expose this tension in Assayas's work: between a desire for risk and a sensitive intelligence resistant to easy solutions; between allegiance to cinema 'degree zero,' a cinema of presence, and a romantic fascination with the passage of time...Jones, who writes four of the essays himself, has been in correspondence with Assayas for two decades, and the richness of the book is due not only to his deep affinity for Assayas's work but from the dialogue that has developed between the two of them on the nature of cinema and art. -- Film CommentTable of ContentsPreface, by Kent JonesWestway to the World, by Glenn KennyBlack Boxes. Désordre, by Jeff ReichertCold Comforts. L'Enfant de l'hiver, by Alice LovejoyWhen You Leave, You Want Time to Stand Still. Paris s'éveille, by Michael KoreskyMoving On. Une nouvelle vie, by Kent JonesRevival. L'Eau froide, by Howard HamptonThe Strange Case of Irma Vep. Irma Vep, by Larry GrossAfter Art Cinema. HHH—Portrait de Hou Hsiao-hsien, by Kristin M. JonesThe Soul in Times of Danger. Fin août, début septembre, by Richard Suchenski"How Futile Work Is." Les Destinées sentimentales, by B. KiteStop Stop Start Again. Demonlover, by Nick PinkertonBetter to Fade Away. Clean, by Chris ChangThe Doctor Is In. Noise, by Gina TelaroliAnywhere and Everywhere. Boarding Gate, by Kent JonesCosmic Pulses. Eldorado, by Geoffrey O'brienThe Secret Life of Objects. L'Heure d'été, by Greil MarcusWhat the Film Wants. Carlos, by Kent JonesLost Companions and Fleeing Ghosts. Après-Mai, by David Phelps, Kent JonesEarly and In-Between. Short Films, by CollaboratorsDenis Lenoir, Éric Gautier, Sylvie Barthet, and Luc Barnier in conversation with Kent Jones, by Olivier AssayasTen FilmsTimelineFilmographyBibliographyContributorsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgments
£21.25
Synema Gesellschaft Fur Film u. Medien A Post–May Adolescence – Letter to Alice Debord
Book SynopsisOlivier Assayas is best known as a filmmaker, yet cinema makes only a late appearance in this volume. A Post-May Adolescence is an account of a personal formation, an initiation into an individual vision of the world. It is, equally, a record of youthful struggle. Assayas' reflective memoir takes the reader from the massive cultural upheaval of France in May 1968 to the mid-1990s, when the artist made his first autobiographical film about his teenage years, L'Eau froide. The movement of thought and creation known as Situationism is the golden thread that connects and, in part, inspires his memoir. This book also includes two essays by Assayas on the aesthetic and political legacy of Guy Debord, who played a decisive role in shaping the author's understanding of the world and his path towards an extremely personal way of making films. A Post-May Adolescence was first published in French in 2005. Its expanded English edition makes a valuable companion to the first English-language monograph on Assayas' body of work, Olivier Assayas, edited by Kent Jones, also published by the Austrian Film Museum.Trade ReviewA thoughtful, personal survey of Assayas's career by American critics edited by Jones and an English translation of Assayas's 2002 memoir A Post-May Adolescence: Letter to Alice Debord, both published in handsome volumes by the Austrian Film Museum, expose this tension in Assayas's work: between a desire for risk and a sensitive intelligence resistant to easy solutions; between allegiance to cinema 'degree zero,' a cinema of presence, and a romantic fascination with the passage of time...The slim memoir, packaged with two additional essays by Assayas on Debord, is a valuable companion to the Jones collection, which is often in explicit dialogue with Assayas's analysis of his own work. -- Film CommentAssayas' voice is clear, urgent, and persuasive. For him the matter at hand, the subject that keeps slipping away, is the story of how he came to know the work of Guy Debord. This is nothing less that the story of his life. -- Film Quarterly
£13.49
Archive Books Body Luggage: Migration of Gestures. Migration
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£19.00
Prodinnova Un chapeau de paille d'Italie
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£11.35
Sandeep Prakashan Documentation of Performing Arts
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£25.49
Shubhi Publications Performing Arts of India: Development and Spread
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£35.62
Ediciones Clownplanet Clown Yourself
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£22.80
Paginas Libros de Magia Curso de Magia Tarbell 1
Book SynopsisWhat started out as a correspondence course in magic ended up becoming a masterpiece of magic literature. Remarkably detailed and clearly explained, this course includes theory, technique, and psychology, along with impactful routines. Eight volumes in all each containing 600 pages complete this set of five books. The most respected course in magic that serves the needs of both beginners and professionals. A must have for every magic library!
£32.25
Paginas Libros de Magia Curso de Magia Tarbell 4
Book SynopsisWhat started out as a correspondence course in magic ended up becoming a masterpiece of magic literature. Remarkably detailed and clearly explained, this course includes theory, technique, and psychology, along with impactful routines. Eight volumes in all each containing 600 pages complete this set of five books. The most respected course in magic that serves the needs of both beginners and professionals. A must have for every magic library!
£35.10
Paginas Libros de Magia Curso de Magia Tarbell 6
Book SynopsisWhat started out as a correspondence course in magic ended up becoming a masterpiece in magic literature. Remarkably detailed and clearly explained, this course includes theory, technique, and psychology, along with impactful routines. Eight volumes in all, each containing 600 pages complete this set of five books. The most respected course in magic that serves the needs of both beginners and professionals. A must-have for every magic library!
£53.78
Paginas Libros de Magia Puro Abracadabra
Book SynopsisUn libro aparentemente inofensivo que te introduce en un tejido, en un universo personal que te atrapa, que mezcla aparentes nimiedades con el sentido del universo, que te asoma a multitud de seres de carne y hueso que han tenido gran influencia en el pensamiento, el arte, la magia y la ciencia del siglo XX… Lo que parece ser el sencillo y frÍo relato de un anciano se convierte enseguida en un tapiz en el que todo encaja y es coherente, y a la vez, en el que cada hebra te invita a tirar de ella y sumergirte en un nombre propio, en un libro, en una imagen... La lectura de Puro Abracadabra. AutobiografÍa de Martin Gardner es solo el fascinante primer paso imprescindible para saborear lo que PÁginas tiene preparado para el aÑo 2018. EdiciÓn facsÍmil de ¡Corta la baraja! Se trata de un librillo antiguo de cartomagia de Martin Gardner, que la ediciÓn original en inglÉs de Martin Gardner Presents reproduce en facsÍmil. Contiene juegos de calidad. Todo un aperitivo que prepararÁ a los lectores para la trilogÍa mÁgica siguiente y una invitaciÓn para atraer hacia la magia a los miles de seguidores de Gardner. TrilogÍa de Gardner: Martin Gardner Presents La Magia de Martin Gardner 1: Matemagia La Magia de Martin Gardner 2: Cartomagia La Magia de Martin Gardner 3: Magia de cerca Con prÓlogos de Max Maven, Stephen Minch y del propio GardnerThis unassuming book may look like the simple story of an old man. However, it soon becomes an immersive experience in a captivating universe populated with figures who defined the thought, art, magic, and science of the twentieth century.
£35.18
Paginas Libros de Magia Corta la baraja
Book SynopsisEdiciÓn limitada de 1940 «ConfÍa en Dios, jovencito, pero corta siempre la baraja». Antiguo proverbio irlandÉs La cartomagia tiene con Martin Gardner una deuda muy superior de lo que la mayorÍa de los magos son conscientes. En Corta la baraja encontrarÁs diecisiete efectos originales y tremendamente prÁcticos; algunos con una construcciÓn exquisita, y muchos con tÉcnicas e ideas muy valiosas. Juegos que han pasado a formar parte de los repertorios habituales de los cartomagos, aunque otros yacen todavÍa escondidos y merecen ser redescubiertos. Jim SteinmeyerWhile some of the card tricks in this book are repertoire standards, some of them have fallen into obscurity. All seventeen of them are original, highly practical, and exquisitely carried out.
£12.30
Ma Non Troppo Guía Práctica de Ilusionismo: Juegos de Mano Que
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£15.32
Ma Non Troppo El Arte de Los Monólogos Cómicos: Stand-Up Comedy
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£22.10
Almuzara Eso No Estaba En Mi Libro de Historia del Circo
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£17.59
Fundamentos Editorial Metodo del Actor's Studio
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£14.79
Paginas Libros de Magia Mnemotecnia Teatral
Book SynopsisThis helpful guide on memory improvement will assist you both in your everyday life as well as when performing magic. It included simple memory systems — resources to help improve and increase your memory — that will help you prepare for exams, remember shopping list and upcoming events, memorize people’s names at a party, and many more. Magic that is related to the mind are highly mysterious and appealing to the audience. Mnemotecnia teatral includes more than 200 pages filled with simple techniques that create spectacular memory demonstrations and tricks. When you start learning and applying memory system techniques, you will even amaze yourself!
£34.12
Paginas Libros de Magia Cartomagia I
Book SynopsisCartomagia I is an essential guide if you want to learn about the style and secrets of the golden age of card magic. Clear descriptions of all classic card magic techniques as well as detailed explanations of 150 tricks that can be done with a deck of cards are included. In its almost 600 pages you will learn shuffles, cuts, counts, transpositions, vanishes, color changes... and a wide repertoire of secret techniques and tricks that will dazzle your family and friends.
£53.02
Museum Tusculanum Press Visions and Revisions: Performance, Memory,
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£36.54
NIAS Press Performing the Arts of Indonesia: Malay Identity
Book SynopsisThe 2,408 islands of Indonesia's Kepri (Kepulauan Riau or Riau Islands) province are said to be `sprinkled like a shake of pepper' across the Straits of Melaka and South China Sea. For two millennia until colonial times, they were part of the `maritime silk road' between China and Southeast, South and West Asia. Kepri's two million inhabitants thus share a seafaring worldview that is reflected in their traditions and daily life, and is expressed most commonly in the performing arts of its largest and smallest population groups, the Kepri Malays and the formerly nomadic Orang Suku Laut (People of the Sea) respectively. In recent decades, Kepri also has become home to large numbers of immigrants from other parts of Indonesia, some of whom practise the Malay as well as their own ethnic arts. Despite its close proximity to Singapore, this is a little-known world, one brought to life in a fascinating and innovative study. Grounded in extensive fieldwork, the volume explores not only the islands' iconic Malay (Melayu) performing arts - music, poetry, dance, martial arts, bardic arts, theatre and ritual - but also issues of space and place, local identity and popular memory. Generously illustrated and with a companion website presenting related audio-visual material, Performing the Arts of Indonesia will be an essential resource for anyone interested in this fascinating region.
£77.00
NIAS Press Performing the Arts of Indonesia: Malay Identity
Book SynopsisThe 2,408 islands of Indonesia's Kepri (Kepulauan Riau or Riau Islands) province are said to be `sprinkled like a shake of pepper' across the Straits of Melaka and South China Sea. For two millennia until colonial times, they were part of the `maritime silk road' between China and Southeast, South and West Asia. Kepri's two million inhabitants thus share a seafaring worldview that is reflected in their traditions and daily life, and is expressed most commonly in the performing arts of its largest and smallest population groups, the Kepri Malays and the formerly nomadic Orang Suku Laut (People of the Sea) respectively. In recent decades, Kepri also has become home to large numbers of immigrants from other parts of Indonesia, some of whom practise the Malay as well as their own ethnic arts. Despite its close proximity to Singapore, this is a little-known world, one brought to life in a fascinating and innovative study. Grounded in extensive fieldwork, the volume explores not only the islands' iconic Malay (Melayu) performing arts - music, poetry, dance, martial arts, bardic arts, theatre and ritual - but also issues of space and place, local identity and popular memory. Generously illustrated and with a companion website presenting related audio-visual material, Performing the Arts of Indonesia will be an essential resource for anyone interested in this fascinating region.Trade ReviewInternationally recognised for her pioneering research into the arts and music of Indonesia, Margaret Kartomi brings together leading scholars of the Malayo-Indonesian world to analyse the relationship between the arts and Malay concepts of identity, place and space. The strategic importance of the islands in the Melaka Straits and the South China Sea is undeniable but this volume is the first in-depth study of how the local peoples express their interpretation of their past and present. The collection is a model of inter-disciplinary research and will be an essential resource for studies of island Southeast Asia. (Virginia Matheson Hooker, Emeritus Professor, Australian National University)
£33.15
Five Continents Editions Multiverse: Art, Dance, Design, Technology.
Book SynopsisFeaturing visionary creators from various fields, from art and contemporary dance to architecture and robotics, this lavishly illustrated book reports from the forefront of the crossdisciplinary synthesis that creates new forms of art. The project was initiated by Diana Vishneva, principal dancer for the American Ballet Theater in New York (2005-2017) and the Mariinsky Ballet in St. Petersburg, and a tireless experimenter known for collaborations that have redefined the future of dance. The book presents interviews with choreographers William Forsythe and Carolyn Carlson; photographer Nick Knight; artists Bill Viola and Olafur Eliasson; architects Toyo Ito and Santiago Calatrava; robotics inventor Raffaello d'Andrea, and other creators who actively stretch the conventional limits of their fields. Included in the volume is a DVD of a film created for this project using state-of-the-art technologies to translate the language of dance into that of cinema.
£37.50
Skira The Magic Nut: A Prologue to the Nutcracker
Book SynopsisMulti-disciplined artist Mihail Chemiakin's exquisitely drawn costume sketches, stage sets and production design come to life in this extraordinary record of the two-act ballet premiered in St. Petersburg's Mariinsky Theater in 2005. Based on "The Story of a Hard Nut" from the Nutcracker and the Mouse King by E.T.A. Hoffmann, "The Magic Nut" is a ballet conceived by artist Mihail Chemiakin as a prologue to "The Nutcracker" in which we learn how the Nutcracker comes to be. Here Chemiakin tells the story of The Nutcracker's origins creating a fairy tale with a cast of bird-people, sea monsters, satyrs, cats, jellyfish, and, of course, a whole society of rats. In this phantasmagorical interpretation of Hoffman's tale the audience discovers the kind and heroic qualities of young Drosselmeyer, fated to be turned into a Nutcracker for his virtuous deeds. The story contains many of the elements of the classic fairy tale but the anticipated happy ending is ultimately postponed - until the story continues in the Tchaikovsky ballet. The book leads the reader through the ballet, scene by scene, with detailed sketches of the sets, costumes, masks and props created for the production. A virtuoso of invention, of expression through color and unexpected interpretation, the work of Chemiakin could not be better fitted to fairytales. Humorous and engaging, the colorful drawings featured here will delight ballet fans, costume designers, students of theater and art lovers alike.
£27.20
Amsterdam University Press The Last Great American Picture Show: New Hollywood Cinema in the 1970s
Book SynopsisThe Last Great American Picture Show brings together essays by scholars and writers who chart the changing evaluations of the American cinema of the 1970s, sometimes referred to as the decade of the lost generation, but now more and more recognized as the first New Hollywood, without which the cinema of Francis Coppola, Steven Spielberg, Robert Zemeckis, Tim Burton or Quentin Tarantino could not have come into existence.Identified with directors such as Sam Peckinpah, Arthur Penn, Peter Bogdanovich, Monte Hellman, Bob Rafelson, Hal Ashby, Robert Altman and James Toback, American cinema of the 1970s is long overdue for this re-evaluation. Many of the films have not only come back from oblivion, as the benchmark for new directorial talents. They have also become cult films in the video shops and the classics of film courses all over the world.Table of ContentsTable of Contents - 6 Part One Introductions - 8 The Impure Cinema: New Hollywood 1967-1976 - 10 ”The Last Good Time We Ever Had”: Remembering the New Hollywood Cinema - 20 American Auteur Cinema: The Last – or First – Great Picture Show - 38 Part Two Histories - 72 The Decade When Movies Mattered - 74 A Walking Contradiction (Partly Truth and Partly Fiction) - 84 The Exploitation Generation. or: How Marginal Movies Came in from the Cold - 108 New Hollywood and the Sixties Melting Pot - 132 Part Three People and Places - 154 Dinosaurs in the Age of the Cinemobile - 156 ”The Cylinders Were Whispering My Name”: The Films of Monte Hellman - 166 Nashville contra Jaws, or “The Imagination of Disaster” Revisited - 196 For Wanda - 224 Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere: The Uneasy Ride of Hollywood and Rock - 250 Auteurism and War-teurism: Terrence Malick’s War Movie - 268 Part Four Critical Debates - 278 The Pathos of Failure: American Films in the 1970s: Notes on the Unmotivated Hero [1975] - 280 Trapped in the Affection Image: Hollywood’s Post-traumatic Cycle (1970-1976) - 294 Grim Fascination: Fingers, James Toback and 1970s American Cinema - 310 Allegories of Post-Fordism in 1970s New Hollywood: Countercultural Combat Films, Conspiracy Thrillers as Genre Recycling - 334 Bibliography - 360 List of Contributors - 372 Pictures (with credits) - 376 Index of Film Titles - 378
£50.21
Roli Books Motherland: Pushpamala N.'s Woman and Nation
Book SynopsisThis interdisciplinary scholarly catalogue examines Motherland, an important series of photo-performances by the acclaimed artist Pushpamala N. on the Indian nation personified as woman, mother, and goddess. The series shows Pushpamala taking on Mother India's myriad personifications: nubile beauty and saintly renunciant; militant goddess wearing a garland of skulls or receiving the ultimate sacrifice of a warrior's head; the mother-surgeon activating the birth of model citizens; and destitute widow, bent from years of abject labour. As she does so, she reveals that nations are invented, as are national embodiments. The artist's burden is to reveal the ingredients of such inventions.
£23.70
Blue Moon Publishing Joys of Parenting
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£10.44
NUS Press Innovation, Style and Spectacle in Wayang: Purbo
Book SynopsisA richly illustrated study of wayang, the traditional puppet theater form of Java, based on unprecedented decades-long participatory research. Wayang, the traditional puppet theater form of Java, fascinates and endures thanks to the many ways it works as a medium—bearing the weight of Javanese culture and tradition as a key component of rites of passage, as a medium of ritual and spiritual practice, as public spectacle, and as entertainment of the broadest sort, performed live, broadcast, or streamed. Over the past forty years, the form has been subject to a great deal of experimentation and innovation, pulled in many directions within an ever-changing media landscape. In this book, Kathryn Anne Emerson outlines both significant contributions by a number of key figures and the social and political influences propelling such innovations. She also describes deeper and more lasting changes in wayang, based on what the art form's most accomplished practitioners have to say about it. At the core of the book is one pivotal figure, Purbo Asmoro of the Indonesian Institute of the Arts in Surakarta, who, Emerson argues, has taken the individual and singular innovations of the era and integrated them into a new system of performance practice, one that has shaped the key Surakarta school of performance. Grounded in an unprecedented, decades-long participatory research project involving hundreds of interlocutors, the book is beautifully illustrated and will be of considerable interest in Indonesian studies.Table of Contents List of Illustrations, Tables, and Charts Acknowledgements Basic Terminology Guide to Illustrative Audio-Video Clips Variant Spellings Map of Java Introduction Part One: Historical Perspective Classical Style Condensed Style Birth of an Idea: All-Night Interpretive Style or Garapan Rise to Fame in the Age of the Entertainment Interlude Part Two: All-Night Interpretive (Garapan) Style A New Vocabulary for Wayang Accompaniment The Prologue Creating Dramatic Hierarchy: a New Level of Intensity Multi-Episode Constructions In the Hands of Other Practitioners Passing on the Art Going Virtual Amid a Pandemic: An Unexpected Third Rail Conclusion Bibliography Index
£26.06
Kite Group Ltd Navigating the Maltese Mediascape
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£27.00
Nova Science Publishers Inc Contemporary Topics in Movement Arts - Theories
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£113.59
Colliver Communications Wink: Transforming Public Speaking with Clown
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£12.88
