Other performing arts Books
Taylor & Francis Ltd Science and the Stanislavsky Tradition of Acting
Book SynopsisProviding new insight into the well-known tradition of acting, Science and the Stanislavsky Tradition of Acting is the first book to contextualise the Stanislavsky tradition with reference to parallel developments in science. Rooted in practice, it presents an alternative perspective based on philosophy, physics, romantic science and theories of industrial management.Working from historical and archive material, as well as practical sources, Jonathan Pitches traces an evolutionary journey of actor training from the roots of the Russian tradition, Konstantin Stanislavsky, to the contemporary Muscovite director, Anatoly Vasiliev. The book explores two key developments that emerge from Stanislavsky's system one linear, rational and empirical, while the other is fluid,organic and intuitive. The otherwise highly contrasting acting theories of Vsevolod Meyerhold (biomechanics) and Lee Strasberg (the Method) are dealt with under the banner of the rational or Newtonian paraTable of ContentsIntroduction: Science and the Stanislavsky Tradition of Acting Part 1. 1. A System for the World? Newtonianism in Stanislavsky’s Science of Acting Part 2. 2. The Theatricality Reflex: The Place of Pavlov and Taylor in Meyerhold’s Biomechanics 3. The System, Psychology and the US: Richard Boleslavsky and Lee Strasberg Part 3. 4. A Delicate Empiricism: Romantic Science and the Michael Chekhov Technique 5. The Laboratory as Sanctuary: The Theatre of Anatoly Vasiliev Epilogue: Genetic Modification and the Backbone of Tradition Bibliography. Index
£135.00
Taylor & Francis Ltd Circus Bodies
Book SynopsisThis pioneering study is one of the major publications in the increasingly popular and largely undocumented area of circus studies.Through photographs and illustrations, Peta Tait presents an extraordinary survey of 140 years of trapeze acts and the socially changing ideas of muscular action in relation to our understanding of gender and sexuality. She questions how spectators see and enjoy aerial actions, and what cultural identities are presented by bodies in fast, physical aerial movement.Adeptly locating aerial performance within the wider cultural history of bodies and their identities, Circus Bodies explores this subject through a range of films such as Trapeze (1956) and Wings of Desire (1987) and Tait also examines live performances including:* the first trapeze performers: Léotard and the Hanlon Brothers* female celebrities; Azella, Sanyeah, black French aerialist LaLa, the infamous Leona Dare, and theTable of ContentsIntroduction: Aerial Bodies Chapter 1: Graceful Manliness, Unfeminine Maidens and Erotic Gods Chapter 2: Unnatural Acts, Female Strongmen Chapter 3: Cross-Dressing and Female Muscular Drag Chapter 4: Gender Competition, Camp Spectacles and Impossible Machismo Chapter 5: Androgyny to Queer Violence: Cirque du Soleil, Archaos and Circus Oz Chapter 6: Ecstasy and Visceral Flesh in Motion Glossary References Index
£36.99
Taylor & Francis Ltd The Politics of New Media Theatre
Book SynopsisThe first book in the field to explore the links between theories of globalization and surveillance, bipower and biopolitics, performance and theatre, computer arts and politics, The Politics of New Media Theatre is an investigation into the political role played by the new media theatre. Gabriella Giannachi explores how new media arts constitute themselves as a radical political movement, and presents an analysis of both the role of virtuality in radical performance and politics in virtual and mixed reality practices. This outstanding new work offers an analysis of leading political, philosophical and artistic texts and artworks, and represents a milestone for anyone interested in new technologies, theatre and politics.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Global 2. City 3. Body 4. Animals and Plants 5. Cell
£111.89
Taylor & Francis EthnoTechno Writings on Performance Activism and Pedagogy
Book SynopsisFamous performance activist Gómez-Peña explores the political and philosophical parameters of what's left for artists to do in a post-9/11 repressive culture and offers groundbreaking insight into his methods of production, development and teaching.Trade Review'This document will be of great value for teachers not just in performance but in all the fields Gómez-Peña admits to his workshops: the arts, literature, cultural studies, visual culture and so on.' – Nick Mirzoeff, SUNY at Stony Brook'A fascinating and important collection of texts.' – Jon McKenzie, author of Perform or Else'Gómez-Peña's work and insight continue to be so very important ... a much needed book in these days and times.' – Rebecca Schneider, Brown University'A publication of international significance and one that will appeal to students, artists and activists engaged with art and politics in a social context across the world' – Lois Keidan, Live Art Development Agency'This collection offers an unprotected fluid exchange of ideas and cross-contamination of methodologies ... a great book ... It might even change your life.' – Contemporary Theatre Review'This document will be of great value for teachers not just in performance but in all the fields Gómez-Peña admits to his workshops: the arts, literature, cultural studies, visual culture and so on.' – Nick Mirzoeff, SUNY at Stony Brook'A fascinating and important collection of texts.' – Jon McKenzie, author of Perform or Else'Gómez-Peña's work and insight continue to be so very important... a much needed book in these days and times.' – Rebecca Schneider, Brown University'A publication of international significance and one that will appeal to students, artists and activists engaged with art and politics in a social context across the world' – Lois Keidan, Live Art Development Agency'This collection offers an unprotected fluid exchange of ideas and cross-contamination of methodologies ... a great book ... It might even change your life.' – Contemporary Theatre ReviewTable of ContentsInterventions in the Mainstream Bizarre Track 1: Introductory Essays and Chronicles Track 2: Pedagogy ( a useful guide to the Pocha Methode) Track 3: Performance Radio Track 4: Performance Literature (for the stage and cyber-space) Track 5: Conversations with Theorists
£135.00
Taylor & Francis Ltd Small Acts of Repair
Book SynopsisGoat Island are one of the world's leading contemporary performance ensembles. Their intimate, low-tech, intensely physical performances represent a unique hybrid of strategies and techniques drawn from live art, experimental theatre and postmodern dance. Small Acts of Repair: Performance, Ecology and Goat Island, is the first book to document and critique the company's performances, processes, politics, aesthetics, and philosophies. It reflects on the company's work through the critical lens of ecology an emerging and urgent concern in performance studies and elsewhere.This collage text combines and juxtaposes writing by company members and arts commentators, to look in detail at Goat Island's distinctive collaborative processes and the reception of their work in performance. The book includes a section of practical workshop exercises and thoughts on teaching drawn from the company's extensive experience, providing an invaluable classroom resource.By documenTrade Review'This book includes practical workshop exercises and thoughts on teaching drawn from the company's extensive experience... a valuable classroom resource... a good introduction to Goat Island.' - Total Theatre'It is a treasure trove of insight for any theatre practitioner engaged in collaborative devised work, as well as anyone interested in the meeting point between aesthetics and ethics of contemporary performance' - Theatre Research InternationalTable of ContentsA. Introduction(s) B1. Performance B1.1 Environment B1.2 Response B1.3 Body B1.4 Time B2. Process: B2.1 Environment B2.2 Response B2.3 Body B2.4 Time C. Teaching Epilogue. Goat Island Timeline. Bibliography and References. Notes on Contributors
£135.00
Taylor & Francis Ltd Small Acts of Repair
Book SynopsisGoat Island are one of the world's leading contemporary performance ensembles. Their intimate, low-tech, intensely physical performances represent a unique hybrid of strategies and techniques drawn from live art, experimental theatre and postmodern dance. Small Acts of Repair: Performance, Ecology and Goat Island, is the first book to document and critique the company's performances, processes, politics, aesthetics, and philosophies. It reflects on the company's work through the critical lens of ecology an emerging and urgent concern in performance studies and elsewhere.This collage text combines and juxtaposes writing by company members and arts commentators, to look in detail at Goat Island's distinctive collaborative processes and the reception of their work in performance. The book includes a section of practical workshop exercises and thoughts on teaching drawn from the company's extensive experience, providing an invaluable classroom resource.By documenTrade Review'This book includes practical workshop exercises and thoughts on teaching drawn from the company's extensive experience... a valuable classroom resource... a good introduction to Goat Island.' - Total Theatre'It is a treasure trove of insight for any theatre practitioner engaged in collaborative devised work, as well as anyone interested in the meeting point between aesthetics and ethics of contemporary performance' - Theatre Research InternationalTable of ContentsA. Introduction(s) B1. Performance B1.1 Environment B1.2 Response B1.3 Body B1.4 Time B2. Process: B2.1 Environment B2.2 Response B2.3 Body B2.4 Time C. Teaching Epilogue. Goat Island Timeline. Bibliography and References. Notes on Contributors
£38.99
Taylor & Francis Ltd Diasporas and Interculturalism in Asian Performing Arts Translating Traditions RoutledgecurzonIias Asian Studies
Book SynopsisIn an age of globalization, performance is increasingly drawn from intercultural creativity and located in multicultural settings. This volume is the first to focus on the performing arts of Asian diasporas in the context of modernity and multiculturalism. The essays locate the contemporary performing arts as a discursive field in which the boundaries between tradition and translation, and authenticity and hybridity are redefined and negotiated to create a multitude of meaning and aesthetics in global and local contexts.With contributions from scholars of Asian studies, theatre studies, anthropology, cultural studies, dance ethnology and musicology, this truly interdisciplinary work covers every aspect of the sociology of performance of the Asian diasporas.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction Part 1: Asian Diasporas and Performing Arts 1. Power, Identity, Modernity and the Performing Arts among Diasporas: Background Ideas from the Chinese Case 2. Morphing Chineseness: The Changing Image of Chinese Music Clubs in Singapore 3. Community, Identity and Performing Arts: The Korean Diaspora in China and the former Soviet Union 4. Dancing in the Tomb of Samba: Japanese-Brazilian Presence/Absence in São Paulo Carnival 5. Noisy Intersection: Ethnicity, Authenticity and Ownership in Asian American Taiko 6. Arangetrams and Manufacturing Identity: The Changing Role of a Bharata Natyam Dancer's Solo Debut in the Context of the Diaspora 7. South Asian Music in Britain 8. Idealization and Changes in the Music of the Cambodian Diaspora 9. Nagi Music and Community: Belonging and Displacement in Larantuka, Eastern Indonesia Part 2: InterculturalPerformances and Transnational Audiences 10. Jingju (Beijing/Peking Opera) as International Art and as Transnational Root of Cultural Identification: Process of Creation and Reception in Shanghai, Nanjing and Honolulu 11. 'Mirrors' of West and 'Mirrors' of East: Elements of Gagaku in Post-War Art Music 12. Theatrical Collaboration in the Age of Globalization: The Gekidan Kaitaisha-NYID Intercultural Collaboration Project Afterword Index
£53.99
Taylor & Francis Ltd Performing Science and the Virtual
Book SynopsisThis impressive new book from Sue-Ellen Case looks at how science has been performed throughout history, tracing a line from nineteenth century alchemy to the twenty-first century virtual avatar.In this bold and wide-ranging book that is written using a crossbreed of styles, we encounter a glance of Edison in his laboratory, enter the soundscape of John Cage and raid tombs with Lara Croft. Case looks at the intersection of science and performance, the academic treatment of classical plays and internet-like bytes on contemporary issues and experiments where the array of performances include: electronic music Sun Ra, the jazz musician the recursive play of tape from Samuel Beckett to Pauline Oliveros Performing Science and the Virtual reviews how well these performances borrow from spiritualist notions of transcendence, as well as the social codes of race, gender and economic exchange. This book will appeal to acTable of ContentsList of Illustrations. Introduction. Prologue: Theater's Rebirth. Act One: Alchemy Entr'acte: The Price of Admission. Act Two: Grassroots Performances of Science. Act Three: A Century of Science. Act Four: The Avatar. Bibliography. Index.
£36.99
Taylor & Francis Ltd Performing Science and the Virtual
Book SynopsisThis impressive new book from Sue-Ellen Case looks at how science has been performed throughout history, tracing a line from nineteenth century alchemy to the twenty-first century virtual avatar.In this bold and wide-ranging book that is written using a crossbreed of styles, we encounter a glance of Edison in his laboratory, enter the soundscape of John Cage and raid tombs with Lara Croft. Case looks at the intersection of science and performance, the academic treatment of classical plays and internet-like bytes on contemporary issues and experiments where the array of performances include: electronic music Sun Ra, the jazz musician the recursive play of tape from Samuel Beckett to Pauline Oliveros Performing Science and the Virtual reviews how well these performances borrow from spiritualist notions of transcendence, as well as the social codes of race, gender and economic exchange. This book will appeal to acTable of ContentsList of Illustrations. Introduction. Prologue: Theater's Rebirth. Act One: Alchemy Entr'acte: The Price of Admission. Act Two: Grassroots Performances of Science. Act Three: A Century of Science. Act Four: The Avatar. Bibliography. Index.
£135.00
Taylor & Francis Ltd Science and the Stanislavsky Tradition of Acting
Book SynopsisProviding new insight into the well-known tradition of acting, Science and the Stanislavsky Tradition of Acting is the first book to contextualise the Stanislavsky tradition with reference to parallel developments in science. Rooted in practice, it presents an alternative perspective based on philosophy, physics, romantic science and theories of industrial management.Working from historical and archive material, as well as practical sources, Jonathan Pitches traces an evolutionary journey of actor training from the roots of the Russian tradition, Konstantin Stanislavsky, to the contemporary Muscovite director, Anatoly Vasiliev. The book explores two key developments that emerge from Stanislavsky's system one linear, rational and empirical, while the other is fluid,organic and intuitive. The otherwise highly contrasting acting theories of Vsevolod Meyerhold (biomechanics) and Lee Strasberg (the Method) are dealt with under the banner of the rational or Newtonian paraTable of ContentsIntroduction: Science and the Stanislavsky Tradition of Acting Part 1. 1. A System for the World? Newtonianism in Stanislavsky’s Science of Acting Part 2. 2. The Theatricality Reflex: The Place of Pavlov and Taylor in Meyerhold’s Biomechanics 3. The System, Psychology and the US: Richard Boleslavsky and Lee Strasberg Part 3. 4. A Delicate Empiricism: Romantic Science and the Michael Chekhov Technique 5. The Laboratory as Sanctuary: The Theatre of Anatoly Vasiliev Epilogue: Genetic Modification and the Backbone of Tradition Bibliography. Index
£51.99
Taylor & Francis Ltd The Politics of New Media Theatre
Book SynopsisThe first book in the field to explore the links between theories of globalization and surveillance, bipower and biopolitics, performance and theatre, computer arts and politics, The Politics of New Media Theatre is an investigation into the political role played by the new media theatre. Gabriella Giannachi explores how new media arts constitute themselves as a radical political movement, and presents an analysis of both the role of virtuality in radical performance and politics in virtual and mixed reality practices. This outstanding new work offers an analysis of leading political, philosophical and artistic texts and artworks, and represents a milestone for anyone interested in new technologies, theatre and politics.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Global 2. City 3. Body 4. Animals and Plants 5. Cell
£35.09
Taylor & Francis Ltd Invisible Connections Dance Choreography and Internet Communities Innovations in Art and Design
Book SynopsisThe first and only book to focus on dance on the Internet, Sita Popat's fascinating Invisible Connections examines how Internet and communication technologies offer dance and theatre new platforms for creating and performing work, and how opportunities for remote interaction and collaboration are available on a scale never before imaginable.Drawing upon the work of practioners and theorists in the arts, communications and technology theorists and , Invisible Connections makes special reference to Popat's series of Internet-based choreography projects from with online communities around the globe, and explores:* methods by which such technologies can facilitate creative collaborations between performers and viewers* how sharing creative processes between online communities can enrich the artistic palette and provide arts-based learning* how the Cartesian duality of the mind-body split is challenged by the physicality of danciTable of ContentsIntroduction: Invisible Connections: Beyond the Proscenium Arch Section 1: Creativity and Interactivity for Online Collaborations Chapter 1. Creativity and Devising Chapter 2. Interacting Online Chapter 3. Choreography with Internet Communities Section 2: Three Online Choreography Projects Chapter 4. Three Online Choreography Projects Chapter 5. Three Projects: Choreographic Processes Chapter 6. Three Projects: Bridging the Cartesian Divide Section 3:Future Directions Chapter 7. Applications in Theatre and Performance Chapter 8. Future Directions Appendix A: Technical Issues Kris Popat Bibliography
£60.47
Taylor & Francis Dance Studies The Basics
Book SynopsisA concise introduction to the study of dance ranging from the practical aspects such as technique and choreography to more theoretical considerations such as aesthetic appreciation and the place of dance in different cultures. This book answers questions such as: Exactly how do we define dance? What kinds of people dance and what kind of training is necessary? How are dances made? What do we know about dance history? Featuring a glossary, chronology of dance history and list of useful websites, this book is the ideal starting point for anyone interested in the study of dance.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Training for Dance 2. Making Dances 3. Dance Theatre History 4. Performing Dances 5. Appreciating Dance 6. Applied Dance Studies First steps in Studying Dance. Glossary
£111.89
Taylor & Francis The Piscator Notebook
Book Synopsis'Theater legend Malina has written one of the most interesting studies of the avant-garde theatrical movement published in the last several years.' â CHOICEJudith Malina and The Living Theatre have been icons of political theatre for over six decades. What few realise is that she originally studied under one of the giants of twentieth century culture, Erwin Piscator, in his Dramatic Workshop at The New School in New York. Piscator founded the Workshop after emigrating to New York, having collaborated with Brecht to create epic theatre in Germany.The Piscator Notebook documents Malinaâs intensive and idiosyncratic training at Piscatorâs school. Part diary, part theatrical treatise, this unique and inspiring volume combines: complete transcriptions of Malinaâs diaries from her time as a student at the Dramatic Workshop, as well as reproductions of various of Piscatorâs syllabi and teaching materials; notes on Malinaâs teachers, fellow students â including Marlon Brando and Tennessee Williams â and New School productions; studies of Piscatorâs process and influence, along with a new essay on the relationship between his teaching, Malinaâs work with the Living Theatre and The Ongoing Epic; an introduction by performance pioneer, Richard Schechner. The Piscator Notebook is a compelling record of the genealogy of political theatre practice in the early 20th Century, from Europe to the US. But it is also a stunningly personal reflection on the pleasures and challenges of learning about theatre, charged with essential insights for the student and teacher, actor and director.'Piscator is the greatest theatre man of our time.' â Bertolt BrechtTrade Review'Theater legend Malina has written one of the most interesting studies of the avant-garde theatrical movement published in the last several years. Highly recommended.' M.D. Whitlatch, CHOICE magazineTable of ContentsForeword: by Richard SchechnerPart 1: Weimar to The Dramatic WorkshopPersonal History Erwin Piscator: Germany to New York CityThe Founding of The Dramatic Workshop, 1940The Studio TheatreThe Teachers of Piscator’s SchoolMargrit WylerReiken Ben-AriChouteau DyerLeo KerzPaul ZuckerGloria MontemuroAlexander InceHans SondheimerHenry WendrinerThe StudentsGeorge BartenieffAnna BergerSylvia MilesMarlon BrandoBea ArthurHoward FriedmanPiscator’s StudentsMy Personal Struggle to Enter The Dramatic WorkshopValeska GertLunar Bowels: an Audition PiecePart 2: The NotebookPart 3: The Ongoing EpicEnd of the Notebook and First Workshop Plays Julian BeckBy Any Other Name and Maurice Schwartz’s Yiddish Art TheatrePiscator’s Basic Question: The Role of the AudienceBecoming a Director: A ConfessionThe Inspiration of Joseph Urban’s ArchitectureEleanor FitzgeraldThe ClassesThe March of DramaTheatre ResearchTheatre Research CritiqueThe PlaysThe Sheepwell (Fuente Ovejuna)Franklin Roosevelt’s DeathLysistrataThe Spook SonataHannele’s Way to HeavenThe AristocratsAgamemnonThe Circle of ChalkThe Flies Tonight We Improvise – Pirandello: Breaking into the AudienceKandinsky’s Great InsightPiscator and the AudienceObjective ActingBetween Two WorldsPiscator: Success and FailurePiscator’s Return to Germany – and to BerlinEric BentleyPiscator’s InfluencePiscator’s Influence: The Work of The Living TheatreAfterword: Political Theatre, Theatrical Politics: Epic Theatre in the 21st Century
£135.00
Taylor & Francis Ltd Gigs Jazz and the Cabaret Laws in New York City Routledge Studies in Law Society and Popular Culture
Book SynopsisGigs provides a fascinating account of a unique victory for musicians against repressive entertainment licensing laws. It provides a much-needed study of the social, political, cultural and legal conditions surrounding a change in law and public attitudes toward vernacular music in New York City. This second edition includes a new preface by Hamish Birchall and an introduction by the series editors, Guy Osborn and Steve Greenfield, as well as an afterword by the author, and it will be essential reading for all those interested in the history of social attitudes toward the popular arts and the use of constitutional litigation for social change.Table of ContentsPreface Hamish Birchall Series Editors Introduction 1. Prelude 2. The Musicians Union 3. The Music in the Clubs 4. Regulation as Denigration 5. The Campaign to Change the Law: Lost in the Labyrinth 6. The Campaign to Change the Law: Free Expression 7. The Process of Change 8. The Lives of Musicians 9. Conclusion: Politics, Law and Music Afterword
£43.99
Taylor & Francis Ltd British Comedy Cinema
Book SynopsisBritish comedy cinema has been a mainstay of domestic production since the beginning of the last Century and arguably the most popular and important genre in British film history. This edited volume will offer the first comprehensive account of the rich and popular history of British comedy cinema from silent slapstick and satire to contemporary romantic comedy. Using a loosely chronological approach, essays cover successive decades of the 20th and 21st Century with a combination of case studies on key personalities, production cycles and studio output along with fresh approaches to issues of class and gender representation. It will present new research on familiar comedy cycles such as the Ealing Comedies and Carry On films as well as the largely undocumented silent period along with the rise of television spin offs from the 1970s and the development of animated comedy from 1915 to the present. Films covered includTable of Contents1. British comedy cinema: sex, class and very naughty boys 2. British silent comedy: from slapstick to satire 3. No limit: British class and comedy of the 1930s 4. ‘Northern films for Northern people’ – the story of the Mancunian Film Company 5. Ealing Comedies 1947–1957: ‘The bizarre British, faced with yet another extraordinary situation’ 6. ‘From adolescence into maturity’: the film comedy of the Boulting Brothers 7. Margaret Rutherford and comic performance 8. A short history of the Carry On films 9. Gird your armour on: the genteel subversion of the St. Trinian’s films 10. Norman Wisdom: Rank Studios and the rise of the Super Chump 11. From telly laughs to belly laughs: the rise and fall of the sitcom spin-off 12. From window cleaner to potato man: confessions of a working class stereotype 13. Making Ben-Hur look like an epic: Monty Python at the movies 14. Travels in Curtisland: Richard Curtis and British comedy cinema 15. ‘The sight of 40 year old genitalia too disgusting, is it?: wit, whimsy and wishful thinking in British animation 1900 – present
£135.00
Taylor & Francis Ltd British Comedy Cinema
Book SynopsisBritish comedy cinema has been a mainstay of domestic production since the beginning of the last Century and arguably the most popular and important genre in British film history. This edited volume will offer the first comprehensive account of the rich and popular history of British comedy cinema from silent slapstick and satire to contemporary romantic comedy. Using a loosely chronological approach, essays cover successive decades of the 20th and 21st Century with a combination of case studies on key personalities, production cycles and studio output along with fresh approaches to issues of class and gender representation. It will present new research on familiar comedy cycles such as the Ealing Comedies and Carry On films as well as the largely undocumented silent period along with the rise of television spin offs from the 1970s and the development of animated comedy from 1915 to the present. Films covered includTable of Contents1. British comedy cinema: sex, class and very naughty boys 2. British silent comedy: from slapstick to satire 3. No limit: British class and comedy of the 1930s 4. ‘Northern films for Northern people’ – the story of the Mancunian Film Company 5. Ealing Comedies 1947–1957: ‘The bizarre British, faced with yet another extraordinary situation’ 6. ‘From adolescence into maturity’: the film comedy of the Boulting Brothers 7. Margaret Rutherford and comic performance 8. A short history of the Carry On films 9. Gird your armour on: the genteel subversion of the St. Trinian’s films 10. Norman Wisdom: Rank Studios and the rise of the Super Chump 11. From telly laughs to belly laughs: the rise and fall of the sitcom spin-off 12. From window cleaner to potato man: confessions of a working class stereotype 13. Making Ben-Hur look like an epic: Monty Python at the movies 14. Travels in Curtisland: Richard Curtis and British comedy cinema 15. ‘The sight of 40 year old genitalia too disgusting, is it?: wit, whimsy and wishful thinking in British animation 1900 – present
£39.99
Taylor & Francis The Films of Werner Herzog
Book SynopsisGiven Herzog's own pronouncement that film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates,' it is not surprising that his work has aroused ambivalent and contradictory responses. Visually and philosophically ambitious and at the same time provocatively eccentric, Herzog's films have been greeted equally by extreme adulation and extreme condemnation.Even as Herzog's rebellious images have gained him a reputation as a master of the German New Wave, he has been attacked for indulging in a romantic naiveté and wilful self-absorption. To his hardest critics, Herzog's films appear as little more than Hollywood fantasies disguised as high seriousness. This book is an attempt to illuminate these contradictions. It gathers essays that focus from a variety of angles on Herzog and his work. The contributors move beyond the myths of Herzog to investigate the merits of his work and its place in film history. A challenging range of films is covered, from Fata Morgana and Aguirre,Table of ContentsPart 1: Introduction 1. Producing Herzog: From a Body of Images Part 2: Promotion as Self-Portrait 2. W.H. or the Mysteries of Walking on Ice Part 3: Readings 3. On Seeing a Mirage 4. Last Words: Observations on a New Language 5. Blindness as Insight: Visions of the Unseen in Land of Silence and Darkness 6. The Cosmos and its Discontents 7. Literature and Writing in the Films of Werner Herzog 8. Herzog, Murnau and the Vampire 9. An Anthropologist’s Eye: Where the Green Ants Dream Part 4: Arguments 10. The Politics of Vision: Herzog’s Heart of Glass 11. Comprehending Appearances: Werner Herzog’s Ironic Sublime Part 5: Documenting Herzog: A Filmography and Selected Bibliography
£135.00
Taylor & Francis Materialist Film Routledge Library Editions Cinema
Book SynopsisA polemical introduction to the avant-garde and experimental in film (including making and viewing), Materialist Film is a highly original, thought-provoking book.Thirty-seven short chapters work through a series of concepts which will enable the reader to deal imaginatively with the contradictory issues produced by experimental film. Each concept is explored in conjunction with specific films by Andy Warhol, Malcolm LeGrice, Lis Rhodes, Jean-Luc Goddard, Rose Lowder, Kurt Kren, and others.Peter Gidal draws on important politico-aesthetic writings, and uses some of his own previously published essays from Undercut, Screen, October, and Millennium Film Journal to undertake this concrete process of working through abstract concepts. Originally published in 1989.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The One to One Relation between Viewer and Viewed 2. The Concept of Arbitrariness 3. Implicating Materialism with Physicality 4. Presence 5. Content 6. The Subject 7. Film as Film 8. Perception Versus Knowledge 9. Fetishization of Process 10. Deconstruction 11. Deconstruction and Sexuality 12. Denial of Semioticity 13. Andy Warhol’s Kitchen (1965) 14. The Stare and Voyeurism 15. Lis Rhodes’ Light Reading (1978) 16. Questions around Structural/Materialist Film 17. Meaning and Illusion 18. The Close-Up 19. Context 20. History 21. The Literal 22. Artistic Subject/Aesthetic Subject 23. Duration 24. Splice 25. Filmmakers’ Statements 26. Performance 27. Film as Material 28. Cinema Verite 29. Audience Numbers and Sex 30. Rose Lowder’s Composed Recurrence (1981) 31. Kurt Kren’s TV (1966) 32. The London Filmmakers Co-Operative 33. Repetition 34. Humanism and Anti-humanism 35. Socialism/Optimism/Pessimism 36. A Little Polemic on Production 37. Autonomy and Anonymity
£135.00
Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge Companion to Commedia dellArte
Book SynopsisFrom Commedia dell'Arte came archetypal characters that are still with us today, such as Harlequin and Pantalone, and the rediscovered craft of writing comic dramas and masked theatre. From it came the forces that helped create and influence Opera, Ballet, Pantomime, Shakespeare, Moliere, Lopes de Vega, Goldoni, Meyerhold, and even the glove puppet, Mr Punch.The Routledge Companion to Commedia dell'Arte is a wide-ranging volume written by over 50 experts, that traces the history, characteristics, and development of this fascinating yet elusive theatre form. In synthesizing the elements of Commedia, this book introduces the history of the Sartori mask studio; presents a comparison between Gozzi and Goldoni's complicated and adversarial approaches to theatre; invites discussions on Commedia's relevance to Shakespeare, and illuminates re-interpretations of Commedia in modern times. The authors are drawn from actors, mask-makers, pedagogues, directors, trainers and acadeTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part 1 The Defining Features; Actors; Chapter 1 The Pre-Eminence of the Actor in Renaissance Context, Scott McGehee; Scenarios; Chapter 2 Form and Freedom, Robert Henke; Chapter 3 Parallel Processing, Tim Fitzpatrick; Troupes; Chapter 4 The Commedia dell’Arte Acting Companies, Kenneth Richards; Stock Characters; Chapter 5 You Must have Heard of Harlequin…, Michele Bottini, Samuel Angus McGehee, Michael J. Grady; Chapter 6 Pantalone and Il Dottore, Peter Jordan; Chapter 7 The Young Lovers, Richard Stockton Rand; Chapter 8 Reading and Interpreting the Capitano’s Multiple Mask-Shapes, Mace Perlman; Chapter 9 Le Servette in Commedia dell’Arte, Julie Goell; Chapter 10 Carnival, Comedy and the Commedia, Stephen P. J. Knapper; Chapter 11 Official Recognition of Pulcinella, Antonio Fava, Mace Perlman; Chapter 12 The Many Faces of Brighella, Artemis Preeshl; Masks; Chapter 13 A Mask Maker’s Journey, Stefano Perocco di Meduna, Brenda O’Donohue; Chapter 14 Mask Performance for a Contemporary Commedia dell’Arte, Carlos García Estévez; Chapter 15 New Roles for the Mask in Twentieth Century Theatre, Donato Sartori, Peter Jordan; Language; Chapter 16 Grommelot, John Rudlin; Lazzi; Chapter 17 Lazzi, Mel Gordon; Chapter 18 Principles of Comedy for Commedia dell’Arte, Brian Foley; Chapter 19 Slapstick and Comic Violence in Commedia dell’Arte, Dr Louise Peacock; Part 2 Historical Context; Chapter 20 Aristocratic Archeology, Paul Monaghan; Chapter 21 The Rise of Commedia dell’Arte in Italy, Kate Meehan; Chapter 22 The Great Ruzante, Linda L. Carroll; Chapter 23 The Coming Together, Olly Crick; Chapter 24 Stages and Staging Practices in Early Commedia dell’Arte, Franklin J. Hildy, Matthew R. Wilson; Chapter 25 Commedia dell’Arte and the Spanish Golden Age Theatre, Nancy L. D’Antuono; Chapter 26 Celestial Sirens of the Commedia dell’Arte Stage, Anne E. MacNeil; Chapter 27 Incidental Music in Commedia dell’Arte Performances, Thomas F. Heck; Chapter 28 Meetings on Naxos, Roger Savage; Chapter 29 Classical Ballet and the Commedia dell’Arte, Barry Grantham; Chapter 30 Images of the Commedia dell’Arte, M. A. Katritzky; Chapter 31 The Old Man’s Spectacles, Andrew Grewar; Chapter 32 Shakespeare’s Clown Connection, Sara Romersberger; Chapter 33 Writing for the Elite, Elizabeth C. Goldsmith; Chapter 34 Goldoni and Gozzi, Mike Griffin; Chapter 35 Commedia dell’Arte as Grotesque Dance, Domenico Pietropaolo; Chapter 36 The Myth of Pierrot, Mark Evans; Chapter 37 Speechless Spectacles, Matthew R. Wilson; Chapter 38 From Meyerhold to Eisenstein, J. Douglas Clayton; Chapter 39 Giorgio Strehler’s Arte, Mace Perlman; Chapter 40 Giovanni Poli, Giulia Filacanapa, Eileen Cottis; Chapter 41 Arlecchino Appleseed, Joan Schirle; Part 3 Alive and Well and Living in…; Chapter 42 Despite Everything, Commedia dell’Arte is Alive in Italy, Fabio Mangolini; Chapter 43 Dario Fo and the Commedia dell’Arte, Antonio Scuderi; Chapter 44 Carlo Boso, Anna Cottis; Chapter 45 Antonio Fava, John Rudlin; Chapter 46 Happy Bedfellows, Claudia Orenstein; Chapter 47 Commedia in Gloucestershire, Olly Crick; Chapter 48 I Sebastiani, Judith Chaffee; Chapter 49 Commedia Women on Stage—and in the Wings, Joan Schirle; Chapter 50 Commedia CounterPart s, Kathy Foley; Chapter 51 Commedia for the Contemporary Theatre Maker, Davis Robinson; Chapter 52 Roots and Routes, Didi Hopkins; Chapter 53 Commedia in a New World Context, Katrien van Beurden; Part 4 Commedia dell’Arte Bibliography; Chapter 54 Bibliography of Generally Accepted Commedia dell’Arte Literature;
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Vaudeville Old and New
Book SynopsisThis is a one-of-a-kind reference work to the history of vaudeville, performance art, burlesque, revue, and comic opera. Most of these artists are not profiled in other reference books and the author has done deep research, including archival work and personal interviews, to uncover the rich history of this American artform. This will be a must-have for students of theater history and performance art, but it is also essential for anyone insterested in the cultural history of America.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Art of Crime
Book SynopsisThis collection of 15 original essays, assembled by renowned Mamet and Pinter scholar Leslie Kane, examines the pervasiveness of crime and criminality in the plays and screenplays of two of the most influential contemporary dramatists. The contributors generally focus on one or more works by a single writer, while a few take a comparative approach. Often the works studied are lesser-known or infrequently discussed works, thereby making this volume a valuable addition to current scholarship. In addition, this volume complements other works on Mamet and Pinter on our backlist, including Kane''s earlier edited volumes on Mamet which both received solid sales and accolades from Choice. Assembled by a Garland/Routledge author with a proven sales record and impressive critical reception, this collection should be an easy sell to academic and theater libraries, as well as Pinter and Mamet specialists.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements Introduction 1. A Poetics for Thugs Varun Begley 2. You'll Never Be Without a Police Siren: Pinter and the Subject of Law Marc Silverstein 3. Harold Pinter Before the Law Steven Price 4. Harold Pinter's Ashes to Ashes: Violation, Empathy, and Historical Remembrance Charles Grimes 5. Comedy and Crime: Pinter's Primal Power and Celebration Penelope Prentice 6. Lost in the Funhouse: Pinter's Screenplay of Kafka's The Trial Ann C. Hall 7. Lie Detectors: Pinter/Mamet and the Victorian Concept of Crime Ira Nadel 8. Gradations of Criminality in the Plays of David Mamet Kimball King 9. Melville's The Confidence Man and his Descendants in David Mamet's Work Barry Goldensohn 10. Fantasy Crimes/Fictional Lives: Lakeboat Anne M. Dean 11. David Mamet's House of Games: Performance and the Already Played Elizabeth Klaver 12. More Uses of the Knife as Signifier in The Cryptogram, The Old Religion, and The Edge Thomas P. Adler 13. Mamet's The Edge as a Figura of Otherness Claire Magaha 14. Suckered Again: The Perfect Patsy and The Spanish Prisoner Leslie Kane
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Judson Dance Theater Performative Traces
Book SynopsisThe Judson Dance Theatre explores the work and legacy of one of the most influential of all dance companies, which first performed at the Judson Memorial Church in downtown Manhattan in the early 1960s. There, a group of choreographers and dancers--including future well-known artists Twyla Tharp, Carolee Schneemann, Robert Morris, Trisha Brown, Yvonne Rainier, and others--created what came to be known as postmodern dance. Taking their cues from the experiments of Merce Cunningham, they took movements from everyday life--walking, running, gymnastics--to create dances that influenced not only future dance work but also minimalism in music and art, as well as the wedding of dance and speech in solo performance pieces.Judson''s legacy has been explored primarily in the work of dance critic Sally Banes, in a book published in the 1980s. Although the dancers from the so-called Judson School continue to perform and create new works--and their influence continues to grow from the US to EuTable of ContentsList of illustrations, Acknowledgements, 1 Introduction: transatlantic crossings, 2 Cunningham, Judson, and the historical avant-garde, 3 Minimalism, theory, and the dancing body, 4 Allegories of the ordinary and particular, 5 Before and after 1968: dance, politics, and the avant-garde, 6 Repetition: Brown, Bausch, and De Keersmaeker, 7 Traces of intimacy and relationless relations, 8 The Judson tradition at the start of a new century, Notes, Bibliography, Index
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Cambridge University Press Sources of Dramatic Theory
Book SynopsisThe second volume in Sources of Dramatic Theory includes the major theoretical writing on drama and theatre from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Many of the texts have been freshly translated for this volume and all have been newly annotated and introduced. Recurrent topics and allusions are traced by a system of cross-references.Trade Review"...Sidnell has drawn material together in an interesting and useful way." Douglas H. White, Letters In CanadaTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; Note on the texts; List of abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. Sir Richard Steele; 3. Voltaire; 4. Pietro Metastasio; 5. Denis Diderot; 6. Carlo Goldoni; 7. Samuel Johnson; 8. David Hume; 9. Mlle Dumesnil from memoirs; 10. Carlo Gozzi; 11. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing; 12. Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais; 13. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; 14. Friedrich von Schiller; 15. Decrees and documents from the French Revolution; 16. Joanna Baillie; 17. Mme de Staël; 18. August Wilhelm von Schlegel; 19. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel; 20. Samuel Taylor Coleridge; 21. Heinrich von Kleist; 22. William Hazlitt; 23. Stendhal; 24. Victor-Marie Hugo; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Theatre of Robert Wilson Directors in Perspective
Book SynopsisRobert Wilson, the leading American avant-garde theatre director, revolutionised the stage by making visual communication more important than words. His productions cut across the boundaries that traditionally have defined theatre, dance, opera and the visual arts to create a total work of art. This book, the first comprehensive study of Wilson, traces the evolution of the director's astonishing career as well as his complex relationship to language and his visual rhetoric. It explains how he renovated the stage and describes in detail major productions such as: Deafman Glance, Einstein on the Beach, and the Civil Wars. Arthur Holmberg's numerous personal interviews and first-hand observations of Wilson's creative process, provide an intimate, behind-the-scenes view of one of our most original directors. Photographs and sketches from Wilson's private collection are included, along with a chronology of his work.Trade Review'Holmberg's special achievement lies in his acute attention not only to the aesthetic components of Wilson's work, but also to its aesthetic principles … The book is organised according to clusters of ideas which with what feels like the help of a good editor, pulls together the prodigious amount of material Wilson has generated. Above all, it shows anyone who wishes to discover or rediscover Wilson just how marvellous he really is.' New Theatre QuarterlyTable of Contents1. Contextualising Wilson: from semiotics to semantics; 2. The cracked kettle; 3. Alchemy of the eye; 4. The deep surface; 5. The dream work 6. The valley of the shadow: trauma and transcendence; 7. The revolution continues.
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Cambridge University Press Acts of Activism
Book SynopsisThis 2010 book presents the neglected yet compelling and necessary story of local activists in South Saharan Africa who employ modes of performance as tactics of resistance and intervention in their day-to-day struggles for human rights. The dynamic relationship between performance and activism are illustrated in three case studies.Trade Review'Soyini Madison engages in a rich discussion of the complexities of gender and human rights in Ghana … powerful exploration of the role of performance in shaping a certain type of social dialog that is bottom-up, an instrument for the community to understand and come to terms with injustices within … An important contribution to the scholarship about gender wrongs and rights, Acts of Activism crosses disciplines and links performance art to sociology and cultural anthropology, expands the scope of discussion about how to right wrongs, and the imperative of debate within communities rather than imposition of Western values and norms.' Human Rights ReviewTable of ContentsList of illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Act I. Is it a human being or a girl?; Act II. Water rites/rights; Act III. Acts of activism; Epilogue; Appendices: Scripts: Appendix 1. Is it a human being or a girl?; Appendix 2. Water rites; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press A History of African American Theatre Cambridge Studies in American Theatre and Drama Series Number 18
Book SynopsisThis is the first definitive history of African-American theatre. The text embraces a wide geography investigating companies from coast to coast as well as the anglophone Caribbean and African-American companies touring Europe, Australia, and Africa. This history represents a catholicity of styles - from African ritual born out of slavery to European forms, from amateur to professional. It covers nearly two and a half centuries of black performance and production with issues of gender, class, and race ever in attendance. The volume encompasses aspects of performance such as minstrel, vaudeville, cabaret acts, musicals and opera. Shows by white playwrights that used black casts, particularly in music and dance, are included, as are productions of western classics and a host of Shakespeare plays. The breadth and vitality of black theatre history, from the individual performance to large-scale company productions, from political nationalism to integration, is conveyed in this volume.Trade Review'The complete historical reference for the African American theatre lover.' Family Digest Magazine'Though many mourn the recent loss of Errol Hill, he and Hatch leave a lasting legacy with his valuable and comprehensive history … Both Hill and Hatch have already been instrumental in providing extensive scholarship and criticism of African American theater and drama, and this volume broadens that investigation … The book clarifies the reality that African American contributions to theater can no longer be ignored or relegated to 'token paragraphs.' Essential.' Choice'Impressive in scope, this magesterial history of the hardships and achievements of black creators of theatre in America takes the reader from the early 1400s origins of the African slave trade to events-in-progress at certain theatres in the spring of 2001, includes theatrical forms like minstrelsy and vaudeville, and looks at African American theatre in cities all across the United States as well as in the Caribbean … A History of African American Theatre surely takes its place as our definitive work on the subject.' Theatre History Studies'Now is the time for this book. … To read A History of African American Theatre is exhilarating and exhausting; its scope encompasses everything that avows even a peripheral connection to the theatre, ranging from African ritual to European forms, from playwrights to critics. … Hatch and Hill approach the historical material, regardless if it covers the background to slavery, the Great Depression, or educational theatre, with enthusiasm.' N. Graham Nesmith'… they have done a fantastic job of documenting the information in an accessible study that offers insights into contributors to black theatre movements from slavery to the thirdmillennium … I could really do no justice by listing what is included here, the coverage is so vast … a worthy contribution to academic knowledge and an invaluable resource.' Journal of New Theatre QuarterlyTable of ContentsList of illustrations; Foreword Lloyd G. Richards; Preface James V. Hatch; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Introduction Errol G. Hill; 1. Slavery and conquest: background to black theatre Errol G. Hill; 2. The African Theatre to Uncle Tom's Cabin Erroll G. Hill; 3. The Civil War to The Creole Show Errol G. Hill; 4. The American minstrelsy in black and white James V. Hatch; 5. New vistas: plays, spectacles, musicals, and opera Errol G. Hill; 6. The struggle continues Errol G. Hill and James V. Hatch; 7. The Harlem Renaissance James V. Hatch; 8. Educational theatre James V. Hatch and Errol G. Hill; 9. The Caribbean connection Errol G. Hill; 10. The Great Depression and Federal Theatre James V. Hatch; 11. Creeping toward integration James V. Hatch; 12. From Hansberry to Shange James V. Hatch; 13. The Millennium James V. Hatch; Appendix: Theatre scholarship at the year 2002; Bibliography; Index.
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