Other performing arts Books
Triarchy Press Nine Ways of Seeing a Body
Book SynopsisThis book presents nine lenses through which the body is conventionally viewed. The body as object, the body as subject, the phenomenological body, the contextual body, the interdependent body, the environmental body, the cultural body and, finally, the ecological body. Designed to be a guide and stimulus for teachers, students and practitioners of dance, performance, movement, somatics and the arts therapies - and for anyone troubled by the idea of a brain on legs.Trade ReviewIn this compact and accessible book Sandra Reeve invites the reader to engage with 'the body' through nine different lenses. The ensuing thought provoking journey will be of particular value to psychotherapists, arts therapists, and those interested in new ways of being. Anna Chesner: London Centre for Psychodrama This book is a delightful, readable set of beginning points or lenses through which to constantly consider and reconsider embodied practice - I am already looking forward to the second book. Phillip Zarrilli: Artistic Director, The Llanarth Group
£11.88
Orison Publishers, Inc. Cherished Memories: Tales from Perry County
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£33.25
Hachette Livre - BNF Le Corsaire: Ballet-Pantomime En Trois Actes
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£9.00
Hachette Livre - BNF Observations Tendant À La Suppression Du Droit
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£9.00
HarperCollins Flying Falling Catching
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£12.40
HarperCollins Song So Wild and Blue
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£17.10
The University of Chicago Press Sideshow U.S.A. Freaks and the American Cultural
Book SynopsisA staple of American popular culture during the 19th and early 20th centuries, the freak show seemed to vanish after World War II. However, as this book reveals, images of the freak show, with its combination of the grotesque, horrific and amusing, stubbornly reappeared in literature and the arts.
£27.00
University of Chicago Press Freak Show
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£33.41
The University of Chicago Press Steppin Out New York Nightlife and the
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£28.00
The University of Chicago Press Revel with a Cause Liberal Satire in Postwar
Book SynopsisProvides a comprehensive look at the satiric humor that flourished in the United States during the 1950s and early 1960s. This book reminds us that the postwar era saw varieties of comic expression that were more challenging and nonconformist than we commonly remember.Trade Review"Stephen Kercher's evocative survey of postwar political satire is almost encyclopedic in its range and impeccable for its clear writing and sound scholarship. Many still think of the 1950s as an era of monolithic conformity, yet this irresistible vein of black humor, from Sid Caesar to Lenny Bruce, offered a tremendous outlet for wildly inventive parody and social criticism. This book should delight those who remember the period and enlarge the understanding of those who don't." - Morris Dickstein"
£39.00
The University of Chicago Press Fools Are Everywhere
Book SynopsisTakes us around the world in search of one of the most colorful characters in history - the court jester. This work includes anecdotes, jokes, quotations, epigraphs, and illustrations that shed light on little-known jesters, highlighting their humanizing influence on the head honchos of history.Trade Review"Through anecdotes, historical details, analyses, and commentary, Otto brilliantly delineates the court jester, and quotations and illustrations do much to enhance this eminently readable text." - Library Journal"
£32.00
The University of Chicago Press Clicko The Wild Dancing Bushman
Book SynopsisDuring the 1920s and '30s, Franz Taibosh - whose stage name was Clicko - performed in front of millions as one of the stars of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus. This title presents the story of Taibosh's journey from boyhood on a small farm in South Africa to top billing as one of the travelling World's Fair Freaks.Trade Review"An astonishing story that illuminates the history of a talented person who represented a fragile culture to the world. It entertains and astonishes us - but it also enriches our knowledge of a hardy and resourceful person and a fascinating slice of southern African history." - Alexander McCall Smith, from his Foreword"
£18.00
Columbia University Press Kill the Documentary
Book SynopsisIn Kill the Documentary, the award-winning director Jill Godmilow issues an urgent call for a new kind of nonfiction filmmaking. In place of the conventional documentary, she advocates for a “postrealist” cinema.Trade ReviewKill the Documentary is a brilliant, angry book. An honest book. A brave book. Guggenheim Fellow and award-winning filmmaker Jill Godmilow has written a stirring call to arms. -- Cynthia Close * Documentary Magazine *Creatively curious pages -- Ezra Winton * Cineaste *Jill Godmilow marshals a pantheon of hard-hitting, tough-minded films that refuse to be herded into the realist corral. Godmilow’s letter, or manifesto, like most manifestos, draws a line in the sand. Which side are you on becomes the question. Stay put and miss the point, or step on through to the other side and restore for yourself some of the nuance and subtlety that is foreign to the spirit of a manifesto. -- Bill Nichols, from the ForewordThis provocative and engaging book by acclaimed filmmaker Jill Godmilow raises important questions for anyone concerned about the future of political documentary. She maps out an original approach to “postrealist” documentary that champions moral engagement, social activism, aesthetic daring, historical grounding, and intersectional participation for bold twenty-first-century filmmaking. -- Deirdre Boyle, author of Ferryman of Memories: The Films of Rithy PanhIn her captivating and original Kill the Documentary, filmmaker and critic Jill Godmilow offers a plea—in the form of a letter, which is a manifesto, and forty propositions, and a tool kit—for making postrealist nonfiction, for making film useful and fruitful. In her scathing critique of “great” documentaries, and her offering up of her own counter-canon, she insists that filmmakers and viewers can begin again by refusing the pedigree, pornography, and cultural imperialism of the real, and by supporting postrealist strategies: interventionist and interactive, performative and formal. Honestly, I don’t agree with all she says, or every one of the 144 films she honors, and that’s her urgent book’s point and purpose: I can and should make my own. -- Alexandra Juhasz, Brooklyn College, CUNYKill the Documentary is a provocative manifesto for rethinking the documentary. Godmilow provides a shield against the tear-soaked sentimentality and nostalgia of the Ken Burns style of packaging history. A new tool in the film teacher's kit, this book is useful beyond discussions of documentary. The passion of her prose is infectious—a welcome relief for student reading assignments. -- DeeDee Halleck, professor emerita, University of California, San DiegoThis book will be a gold mine for any instructors putting together an “Introduction to Documentary Filmmaking” syllabus or for cinematic autodidacts hungry to experiment with alternative modes of nonfictional filmmaking. -- Jaimie Baron * Film Quarterly *Herein lies the specificity and refreshing nonconformity of [this] book: it pushes the reader not only to see through the ideological premises of conventional formats, but also to delve into the multiple configurations that generate subversive experiences . . . [Godmilow's] persistent faith in the importance of developing critical awareness and in the agency of art to intervene into reality despite the omnipresent ‘capitalist realism’ in the global neoliberal society radiates a compelling force. -- Stefanie Baumann * Radical Philosophy *Table of ContentsManifestly Radical: A Foreword, by Bill NicholsAcknowledgmentsI Call This Book a LetterIntroduction—a Letter to Filmmakers1. Abandon the Conventional Documentary—Reject Realism as the Only Authentic Nonfiction Form2. Take Action—Make Useful Postrealist Films3. Forty Postrealist Strategies to Learn from and Borrow4. The ToolkitNotes BibliographyIndex
£80.00
Columbia University Press Radio for the Millions
Book SynopsisRadio for the Millions examines Hindi-Urdu radio during the height of its popularity from the 1930s to the 1980s, showing how it created transnational communities of listeners. Isabel Huacuja Alonso argues that despite British, Indian, and Pakistani politicians’ efforts to usurp the medium for state purposes, radio largely escaped their grasp.Trade ReviewRadio for the Millions is a fantastic work of radio history and South Asian historiography. It is meticulously researched, making use of an extensive range of archival collections across India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, as well as oral-historical interviews with radio broadcasters. Focusing on radio as a medium and following radio waves across the national borders of South Asia, this book is an excellent contribution to the project of decolonizing sound studies and the project of denationalizing South Asian history. -- Amanda Weidman, author of Brought to Life by the Voice: Playback Singing and Cultural Politics in South IndiaThis pathbreaking study shows how an attentiveness to the political and cultural potency of radio sounds reframes our understandings of histories in South Asia. Huacuja Alonso illuminates the relationship between aurality and orality, inviting us to lend an ear to voices and sounds on the radio waves that transcend and complicate borders, states, identities, and cultures in South Asia. -- Kama Maclean, University of HeidelbergThis ambitious and wide-ranging book takes seriously radio as a medium and music as a central form of sensorial engagement that defied borders and communal affiliations. Spanning India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka from the colonial to the postcolonial periods, it explains how a subcontinental popular culture endured in spite of multiple partitions. -- Durba Ghosh, Cornell UniversityRadio for the Millions challenges neat historiographies often developed from and/or by state archives. Huacuja Alonso reminds us that the “oral” and “aural” are indeed messy and complicated yet necessary registers for understanding national, political turmoils. Hindi-Urdu broadcast radio has long been a site of both (state) nation-building and (community) place-making by listeners. Radio for the Millions is an exemplary study of why listening is such an integral component of history. -- Dolores Inés Casillas, author of Sounds of Belonging: U.S. Spanish-Language Radio and Public AdvocacyIsabel Alonso provides a captivating history of radio that sits at the intersection of sound studies, cultural history, and the politics of nationalism in modern South Asia. In this virtuosic tale, we read about the policymakers, artists, singers, political figures, and poets who inhabited a broader transnational space in South Asia. . . This book will benefit an expansive community of readers, including academic communities in the disciplines of history and ethnomusicology and specifically readers interested in the cultural history of sound and music -- Pouya Nekouei * Not Even Past *Skillfully and imaginatively highlights the place of [radio] in the broader historiographies of nation-building, language, and the public sphere. -- Faiz Ullah * The Book Review (India) *An original and truly fascinating work. * H-Soz-Kult *A fascinating story of the history of radio in South Asia. -- Mehru Jaffer * The Citizen *The book makes an important contribution, especially in unearthing and resurrecting liminal voices, which make up what I would call a kind of archaeology of Southasian media. * Himal Southasian *Table of ContentsList of FiguresNote on TransliterationIntroduction: Tuning In to a Radio HistoryPart I: Radio News And World War II1. News on the AIR2. Netaji’s “Quisling Radio”Part II: Music And Postindependence Radio3. The “Sound Standards” of a New India4. Radio Ceylon, King of the AirwavesPart III: Dramatic Radio and the 1965 Indo-Pakistan War5. Radio Pakistan’s Seventeen Days of Drama6. The AIR Urdu Service’s Letters of LongingConclusion: Call to Me. Where Are You?AcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
£93.60
Columbia University Press Radio for the Millions
Book SynopsisRadio for the Millions examines Hindi-Urdu radio during the height of its popularity from the 1930s to the 1980s, showing how it created transnational communities of listeners. Isabel Huacuja Alonso argues that despite British, Indian, and Pakistani politicians’ efforts to usurp the medium for state purposes, radio largely escaped their grasp.Trade ReviewRadio for the Millions is a fantastic work of radio history and South Asian historiography. It is meticulously researched, making use of an extensive range of archival collections across India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, as well as oral-historical interviews with radio broadcasters. Focusing on radio as a medium and following radio waves across the national borders of South Asia, this book is an excellent contribution to the project of decolonizing sound studies and the project of denationalizing South Asian history. -- Amanda Weidman, author of Brought to Life by the Voice: Playback Singing and Cultural Politics in South IndiaThis pathbreaking study shows how an attentiveness to the political and cultural potency of radio sounds reframes our understandings of histories in South Asia. Huacuja Alonso illuminates the relationship between aurality and orality, inviting us to lend an ear to voices and sounds on the radio waves that transcend and complicate borders, states, identities, and cultures in South Asia. -- Kama Maclean, University of HeidelbergThis ambitious and wide-ranging book takes seriously radio as a medium and music as a central form of sensorial engagement that defied borders and communal affiliations. Spanning India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka from the colonial to the postcolonial periods, it explains how a subcontinental popular culture endured in spite of multiple partitions. -- Durba Ghosh, Cornell UniversityRadio for the Millions challenges neat historiographies often developed from and/or by state archives. Huacuja Alonso reminds us that the “oral” and “aural” are indeed messy and complicated yet necessary registers for understanding national, political turmoils. Hindi-Urdu broadcast radio has long been a site of both (state) nation-building and (community) place-making by listeners. Radio for the Millions is an exemplary study of why listening is such an integral component of history. -- Dolores Inés Casillas, author of Sounds of Belonging: U.S. Spanish-Language Radio and Public AdvocacyIsabel Alonso provides a captivating history of radio that sits at the intersection of sound studies, cultural history, and the politics of nationalism in modern South Asia. In this virtuosic tale, we read about the policymakers, artists, singers, political figures, and poets who inhabited a broader transnational space in South Asia. . . This book will benefit an expansive community of readers, including academic communities in the disciplines of history and ethnomusicology and specifically readers interested in the cultural history of sound and music -- Pouya Nekouei * Not Even Past *Skillfully and imaginatively highlights the place of [radio] in the broader historiographies of nation-building, language, and the public sphere. -- Faiz Ullah * The Book Review (India) *An original and truly fascinating work. * H-Soz-Kult *A fascinating story of the history of radio in South Asia. -- Mehru Jaffer * The Citizen *The book makes an important contribution, especially in unearthing and resurrecting liminal voices, which make up what I would call a kind of archaeology of Southasian media. * Himal Southasian *Table of ContentsList of FiguresNote on TransliterationIntroduction: Tuning In to a Radio HistoryPart I: Radio News And World War II1. News on the AIR2. Netaji’s “Quisling Radio”Part II: Music And Postindependence Radio3. The “Sound Standards” of a New India4. Radio Ceylon, King of the AirwavesPart III: Dramatic Radio and the 1965 Indo-Pakistan War5. Radio Pakistan’s Seventeen Days of Drama6. The AIR Urdu Service’s Letters of LongingConclusion: Call to Me. Where Are You?AcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
£22.50
Columbia University Press Storythinking
Book SynopsisThis book explains how and why our brains think in stories. Angus Fletcher, an expert in neuroscientific approaches to narrative, identifies this capacity as “storythinking.”Trade ReviewFletcher’s done it again. His polymathic erudition and word-wizardry elegance pull off the equivalent of a Copernican revolution in our understanding of storytelling—in all its resplendent iterations. With Storythinking he invites us on an extraordinary odyssey that enriches understanding of our deep, instinctive impulse to create stories as makers and transformers of our world. Storythinking is nothing less than a cosmological paradigm shift that puts story making and thinking at the center of all that we do. -- Frederick Luis Aldama, award-winning author and Jacob & Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities, UT AustinAngus Fletcher explains why effective narrative prioritizes the unique, shifts viewpoints, and encourages conflict. Not for their own sake. It makes a writer create and clarify more thoughtful ideas and leads readers to intuit and retain the message. Both revelatory and pragmatic, and so gracefully explained. -- Shane Greenstein, author of How the Internet Became Commercial: Innovation, Privatization, and the Birth of a New NetworkStorythinking is absolutely excellent: a much-needed reminder of and expansion on the transformative power of story, story as an enriched form of learning and as a valid epistemology. The book is a lovely, readable addition to academic and public life. I am eager to see the use of story resurrected! -- Lisa Miller, Ph.D., Professor & Founder, Spirituality Mind Body Institute, Teachers College, Columbia UniversityStory is a basic mental operation. Most of our experience, knowledge, and thinking is formed and organized by story: prediction, evaluation, planning, explanation, agents and actors, processes, goals. Story is an indispensable element of creativity. Human beings project from story to story and blend stories to create new concepts, new proposals, new science. How can we push the cognitive science of story forward? Fletcher, in this captivating and inspiring new book, leads the way. -- Mark Turner, author of The Literary Mind: The Origins of Thought and LanguageThe quickest way to elicit a scoff from 'serious thinkers' is to mention 'story'. But as someone who has built a career as a science communicator, who consistently straddles the line between art and science, and whose work is grounded in neuroscience, I know intuitively that storytelling is fundamental to how we think. Finally, Angus Fletcher brings his deep understanding of narrative together with his keen scientific mind to explain why we think in stories, why embracing story structure is the way forward, and how stories provide an architecture to thought as powerful and important as logic. Read this book. -- Indre Viskontas, Cognitive Neuroscientist, University of San Francisco[Storythinking] is a most unusual book, plumbing the depths of history to find where philosophy went off the rails, examining neurobiology for insight into creativity, and festooned with stories about great characters all the way through. I can honestly report I’ve never read anything like it. And that’s a good thing. * The Straight Dope *Table of Contents1. Story2. Story and Thinking3. The Origin of Story4. Why Our Schools Teach Logic, Not Story5. The Limits of Logic—or Why We Still Need Storythinking6. The Brain Machinery of Storythinking7. Improving Storythinking8. Storythinking for Personal Growth9. Storythinking for Social Growth10. Story’s Answer to the Meaning of LifeCoda: Conversations with a StorythinkerNotesIndex
£67.20
Columbia University Press Storythinking
Book SynopsisThis book explains how and why our brains think in stories. Angus Fletcher, an expert in neuroscientific approaches to narrative, identifies this capacity as “storythinking.”Trade ReviewFletcher’s done it again. His polymathic erudition and word-wizardry elegance pull off the equivalent of a Copernican revolution in our understanding of storytelling—in all its resplendent iterations. With Storythinking he invites us on an extraordinary odyssey that enriches understanding of our deep, instinctive impulse to create stories as makers and transformers of our world. Storythinking is nothing less than a cosmological paradigm shift that puts story making and thinking at the center of all that we do. -- Frederick Luis Aldama, award-winning author and Jacob & Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities, UT AustinAngus Fletcher explains why effective narrative prioritizes the unique, shifts viewpoints, and encourages conflict. Not for their own sake. It makes a writer create and clarify more thoughtful ideas and leads readers to intuit and retain the message. Both revelatory and pragmatic, and so gracefully explained. -- Shane Greenstein, author of How the Internet Became Commercial: Innovation, Privatization, and the Birth of a New NetworkStorythinking is absolutely excellent: a much-needed reminder of and expansion on the transformative power of story, story as an enriched form of learning and as a valid epistemology. The book is a lovely, readable addition to academic and public life. I am eager to see the use of story resurrected! -- Lisa Miller, Ph.D., Professor & Founder, Spirituality Mind Body Institute, Teachers College, Columbia UniversityStory is a basic mental operation. Most of our experience, knowledge, and thinking is formed and organized by story: prediction, evaluation, planning, explanation, agents and actors, processes, goals. Story is an indispensable element of creativity. Human beings project from story to story and blend stories to create new concepts, new proposals, new science. How can we push the cognitive science of story forward? Fletcher, in this captivating and inspiring new book, leads the way. -- Mark Turner, author of The Literary Mind: The Origins of Thought and LanguageThe quickest way to elicit a scoff from 'serious thinkers' is to mention 'story'. But as someone who has built a career as a science communicator, who consistently straddles the line between art and science, and whose work is grounded in neuroscience, I know intuitively that storytelling is fundamental to how we think. Finally, Angus Fletcher brings his deep understanding of narrative together with his keen scientific mind to explain why we think in stories, why embracing story structure is the way forward, and how stories provide an architecture to thought as powerful and important as logic. Read this book. -- Indre Viskontas, Cognitive Neuroscientist, University of San Francisco[Storythinking] is a most unusual book, plumbing the depths of history to find where philosophy went off the rails, examining neurobiology for insight into creativity, and festooned with stories about great characters all the way through. I can honestly report I’ve never read anything like it. And that’s a good thing. * The Straight Dope *Table of Contents1. Story2. Story and Thinking3. The Origin of Story4. Why Our Schools Teach Logic, Not Story5. The Limits of Logic—or Why We Still Need Storythinking6. The Brain Machinery of Storythinking7. Improving Storythinking8. Storythinking for Personal Growth9. Storythinking for Social Growth10. Story’s Answer to the Meaning of LifeCoda: Conversations with a StorythinkerNotesIndex
£18.00
University of Illinois Press T.O.B.A. Time
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Clarifies the important role African American entrepreneurs played in promoting entertainment by and for Black people during a transitional period in American show business history. . . .T.O.B.A. Time is an excellent addition to [the University of Illinois Press] catalogue." --NewCity Lit"In clear and precise prose Scott chronicles the coalescence of Black vaudeville and how T.O.B.A. helped establish and nurture the initial flowering of what became the incalculably influential Black entertainment industry. Readers who enjoyed Entertaining Raceby Michael Eric Dyson and Little Devil in America by Hanif Abdurraqib will find Scott’s unique history compelling. " --Booklist"Michelle R. Scott's T.O.B.A. Time: Black Vaudeville and the Theatre Owners' Booking Association in Jazz-Age America is a scholarship of the highest order. It provides an in-depth analysis of an organization that played an important role in providing a space for entrepreneurs and talented individuals to forge an independent role for themselves in segregated America. Scott effortlessly combines the minutiae of a multifaceted activity such as vaudeville with the broader currents which were operating in America in the early decades if the twentieth century." --British Journal of Industrial Relations“Scott’s meticulously researched and exquisitely detailed account reveals the broad impact of the T. O. B. A. circuit and the complexities of its organization and operations. The discussions of individual performers--famous and obscure--and their experiences as they worked the circuit are riveting. This is a benchmark book in theater studies and the definitive account of this fascinating institution.”--Allyson Nadia Field, author of Uplift Cinema: The Emergence of African American Film & The Possibility of Black Modernity Table of ContentsPreface AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: They Called It T.O.B.A. Chapter 1. “Whistling Coons” No More: Race Uplift & the Path to T.O.B.A. Chapter 2. Hebrew, Negro, and American Owners: Black Vaudeville and Interracial ManagementChapter 3. T.O.B.A Forms: The Interracial Business Plan for a New Negro BusinessChapter 4. The Multiple Meanings of T.O.B.A: The Performers’ PerspectiveChapter 5. A Responsibility to Community: Circuit Theaters and Black Regional AudiencesChapter 6. “Trouble in Mind": The End of T.O.B.A. TimeEpilogue: T.O.B.A.’s LegacyAppendixNotesBibliographyIndex
£20.89
Indiana University Press Sketch Comedy
Book SynopsisTrade Review"An excellent study of a long-neglected area in television/media studies and is part of a larger turn toward the centrality of comedy in post-war U.S. culture." Jeffrey Sconce, Northwestern University"—review"A stalwart of television since its earliest days, sketch comedy finally gets the in-depth critical attention it deserves. Nick Marx shows how sketch comedy has fit (and been constrained by) TV's industrial contexts, from live variety shows in its earliest days to movement across media in the era of multiple platforms. These case studies not only chart sketch comedy's past, they provide the theoretical and analytical tools to consider its future."—Ethan Thompson, Texas A&M University Corpus Christi, blurbTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Sketch Comedy and Reflexive Flexibility1. From Radio Voices to Variety Choices: The Colgate Comedy Hour and Sketch Comedy in Early Television2. "and You're Not": Saturday Night Live in the Network Era and Beyond3. Brand X: MTV's The State and Generation X in the Multi-Channel Transition4. Sketch Comedy's Identity (Post-)Politics: Inside Amy Schumer, Key & Peele, and Comedy Central in the Post-Network EraConclusion: Sketch Comedy and Cultural CohesionBibliographyIndex
£56.10
Indiana University Press Sketch Comedy Identity Reflexivity and American
Book SynopsisTrade Review"An excellent study of a long-neglected area in television/media studies and is part of a larger turn toward the centrality of comedy in post-war U.S. culture." Jeffrey Sconce, Northwestern University"—review"A stalwart of television since its earliest days, sketch comedy finally gets the in-depth critical attention it deserves. Nick Marx shows how sketch comedy has fit (and been constrained by) TV's industrial contexts, from live variety shows in its earliest days to movement across media in the era of multiple platforms. These case studies not only chart sketch comedy's past, they provide the theoretical and analytical tools to consider its future."—Ethan Thompson, Texas A&M University Corpus Christi, blurbTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Sketch Comedy and Reflexive Flexibility1. From Radio Voices to Variety Choices: The Colgate Comedy Hour and Sketch Comedy in Early Television2. "and You're Not": Saturday Night Live in the Network Era and Beyond3. Brand X: MTV's The State and Generation X in the Multi-Channel Transition4. Sketch Comedy's Identity (Post-)Politics: Inside Amy Schumer, Key & Peele, and Comedy Central in the Post-Network EraConclusion: Sketch Comedy and Cultural CohesionBibliographyIndex
£18.89
WW Norton & Co The Street Where I Live
Book Synopsis“Lerner will always be remembered as a Broadway light, and one of the brightest.” —Tom Shales, The Washington PostTrade Review"Wonderful…If you haven’t read Lerner’s memoir, order it now. It’s urbane and witty, like the man himself." -- New York Post
£13.99
LUP - University of Michigan Press Queer Nightlife
Book SynopsisFocuses on queer and trans people of colour who apprehend the risky medium of the night to explore, know, and stage their bodies, genders, and sexualities in the face of systemic and social negation.
£31.30
The University of Michigan Press African Performance Arts and Political Acts
Book SynopsisPresents innovative formulations for how African performance and the arts shape the narratives of cultural history and politics. This collection engages with a breadth of African countries and art forms, bringing together speech, hip hop, religious healing, theatre and social justice, opera, radio, protest songs, and migrant workers' dances.Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: “Performance and Politics in Africa: Approaches and Perspectives” The Play of Social and Political Roles in Everyday Life 1. “Performing Political Identities: Senegalese Speakers and Their Audiences” (Senegal) Judy T. Irvine, University of Michigan 2. “The Socio-poetics of Sanakuyaagal: Negotiating Joking Relationships in West Africa” (Senegal) Nikolas Sweet, University of Michigan 3. “Participation beyond Gratitude: ‘Sterling Greetings’ and the Mediation of Social Ties on Nigerian Radio” (Nigeria) Jendele Hungbo, Bowen University (Iwo, Nigeria) Expressions of Identity, Consciousness, and Migration 4. “The Phenomenology of Collapsing Worlds: isiShameni Dance and the Politics of Proximity in Jeppestown, Johannesburg” (South Africa) Thomas M. Pooley, University of South Africa 5. “African Heritage Revealed through Musical Encounters and Political Ideologies in Cameron White’s Ouanga! and Reuben Tholakele Caluza and Herbert Isaac Ernst Dhlomo’s Moshoeshoe” (South Africa) Innocentia Jabulisile Mhlambi, University of the Witwatersrand 6. “Angalia Ni Mimi: A Performance by Marthe Djilo Kamga” (Cameroon) Frieda Ekotto, University of Michigan Gendered Messages of Social Change 7. “Surviving Gender Violence: Activating Community Stories for Social Change” (South Africa) Anita Gonzales, University of Michigan 8. “Gangsters, Masculinity and Ethics: Underground Rapping in Dar es Salaam” (Tanzania) David Kerr, University of Birmingham and University of Johannesburg Songs of Protest and Activist Opera 9. “Seditious Songs: Spirituality as Performance and Political Action in Colonial-era Belgian Congo” (Democratic Republic of the Congo) Yolanda Covington-Ward, University of Pittsburgh 10. “Activist Operatic Spaces Depicting Reality: Puccini’s La BohÈme becomes Breathe Umphefumlo” (South Africa) Naomi AndrÉ, University of Michigan 11. “Intrinsic Power of Songs Sung During Protests at South African Institutions of Higher Learning” (South Africa) Nompumelelo Zondi, University of Pretoria Contributors
£21.80
The University of Michigan Press Bodies in Commotion
Book SynopsisThis groundbreaking collection imagines disabled bodies as ""bodies in commotion"" - bodies that dance across artistic and discursive boundaries, challenging our understanding of both disability and performance.Trade ReviewA testament to the synergy of two evolving fields. From the study of staged performances to examinations of the performing body in everyday life, this book demonstrates the enormous profitability of moving beyond disability as metaphor. . . . It's a lesson that many of our cultural institutions desperately need to learn." —Martin F. Norden, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
£26.55
The University of Michigan Press The Bodies of Others
Book SynopsisExplores the politics of gender in motion. From drag ballerinas to faux queens, and from butoh divas to the club mothers of modern dance, this book delves into four decades of drag dances on American stages, tracing the ways in which bodies can be imagined otherwise.Trade ReviewThe Bodies of Others connects drag performance to multiple dance histories, tracing how choreography and gesture have long been central to how drag performers and scholars of drag performance have reimagined gender. Substantively researched and tightly argued, the book makes a strong contribution to central and exciting conversations in performance studies and dance studies. I look forward to teaching this in my class."" - Clare Croft, University of Michigan
£64.95
Tafelberg Publishers Ltd PieterDirk Uys The echo of a noise
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£15.20
Harvard University Press Modern Enchantments The Cultural Power of
Book SynopsisMagic, During suggests, has helped shape modern culture. Devoted to this deceptively simple proposition, During's work gets at the aesthetic questions at the very heart of the study of culture. How can the most ordinary arts—and by “magic,” During means not the supernatural, but the special effects and conjurings of magic shows—affect people?Trade ReviewSimon During’s book shows deep, wide reading in an awe-inspiring range of disciplines, including urban history, German Romantic philosophy, and modern cultural critiques of consumption… Modern Enchantments is a richly informed, warmly argued addition to the growing number of books in which writers worry at the pervasive blurring of distinctions between act and appearance, organic consciousness and artificial intelligence, imagination and empirical experience, illusion and thought, reality TV and real life, dreams and money. -- Marina Warner * Financial Times *A well-researched and finely paced history of performance magic… During’s history and analysis is certainly thorough and compelling. -- James Flint * The Guardian *The first major academic work on secular magic—magic that makes no claim to the supernatural. The historical research is outstanding, while presented in an entertaining, indeed quite charming, manner. Yet Modern Enchantments is not only a pleasurable account of perhaps forgotten histories… During uses secular magics and their audiences to profoundly problematise assumptions that general culture does not have a plurality of modes of engaging with quite sophisticated nihilisms, materialisms, depths and depthlessnesses of a non-spiritual kind. -- Andrew Murphie * Australian Humanities Review *[This] is the first comprehensive academic history of stage magic, the product of vast research, and rewarding to read. -- Fred Nadis * Technology and Culture *During documents the extent to which magic and magical thinking have pervaded, and continue to pervade, secular life…the author examines 19th- and 20th-century theatrical magic and ‘commercial conjuring’ with great sensitivity to the social and cultural context in the Western world. Equally fascinating is the analysis of magic and early film. -- R. Sugarman * Choice *The erudition behind this book is massive, and as a critical act of sorting and synthesizing so vast a range of materials, it is impressively canny. -- James Chandler, author of England in 1819: the Politics of Literary Culture and the Case of Romantic HistoricismModern Enchantments offers a history of ‘secular,’ or non-supernatural, or entertainment magic as an important but neglected constituent of modern culture… During moves confidently across three centuries of magic (and covers aspects of a few more besides). The sheer wealth of historical detail he provides is impressive, but no less impressive is the subtlety of his argumentation, and the suggestiveness of his claims… This extremely significant piece of work will appeal to literary critics, historians, and not least, devotees of magic. -- Nicholas Daly, author of Modernism, Romance, and the Fin de Siècle: Popular Fiction and British Culture, 1880–1914Modern Enchantments is a magisterial, breathtaking book. Magic is everywhere, During notes, from the simple act of naming to the complicated technologies of the cinema. By connecting performance and religion, he brilliantly shows how older forms of ritual magic find a new and different space in modern culture, reappearing as show business, advertising, and fiction making. This dazzling and stimulating book is sure to rekindle wide interest in spiritualism and magic as makers of modern culture. Modern Enchantments is cultural history at its best. -- Gauri Viswanathan, author of Outside the Fold: Conversion, Modernity, and BeliefTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Magic History: An Introduction 2. Enchantment and Loss: Theorizing Secular Magic 3. Egg-Bag Tricks and Electricity: The Founding of Modern Commercial Conjuring 4. Magic's Moment: The Illusion Business 5. From Magic to Film 6. Magic and Literature 7. Magic Places: The Lyceum and the Great Room, Spring Gardens 8. Spiritualism and the Birth of Optical Technologies Notes Index
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Harvard University Press The Sound of Modern Polish Poetry
Book SynopsisThe Sound of Modern Polish Poetry unearths recordings from Polish poets such as Czesław Miłosz, Wisława Szymborska, and Zbigniew Herbert. Analyzing their singular performance styles, Aleksandra Kremer argues that twentieth-century Polish artists developed new aesthetics of reading and novel concepts of the poetic self.Trade ReviewKremer shows…public poetry readings, especially in times of upheaval, were lofty, almost religious events…It is precisely through those authorial renditions, however, that we can glimpse the intricate relationships between the poet, the poem and the audience. Kremer investigates this rarely researched area using the recordings of several prominent Polish poets born in the first decades of the twentieth century. Her method is an odd but effective combination of machine-assisted, quantitative analysis of the poets’ pitch, stress and intonation with impressionistic digressions about their art, life and sociopolitical involvements…Kremer captures the moment when poetry ceases to be fixed on a page and enters time, with all its ephemerality and contingency. -- Jaroslaw Anders * Times Literary Supplement *Brilliant…The Sound of Modern Polish Poetry is an impressive work of scholarship…Given the dearth of scholarship on Polish literature in English, this is a wonderful addition to knowledge, and one that will delight any reader interested in Polish poetry, culture and history. -- E. M. Stańczyk * Slavonic and East European Review *An impeccably researched, well-argued, and original work of scholarship. It is also an erudite and highly readable history of twentieth-century Polish literature and the individuals who shaped it…The book’s unique approach will doubtless appeal to many readers and open new avenues of research on the intersection between literature, performance, and technology. -- Łukasz Wodzyński * Russian Review *Excellent…Her analyses of the selected recordings create surprising constellations and shed light on the development of Polish poetry, as well as on the historical and cultural changes that affected the writers’ self-awareness and the reception of their recordings. Kremer’s book can therefore serve as a manual on the cultural and intellectual history of postwar Poland. -- Łukasz Tischner * Slavic Review *An exemplary study of poets’ sound recordings, public and private, in postwar Poland. Aleksandra Kremer reads poetic performance styles through history, aesthetics, national culture, ideology, and translation, often using machine-assisted prosodic analysis. Her close listenings reveal the many ways in which poets’ voicings exceed their texts. -- Charles Bernstein, author of Close Listening: Poetry and the Performed WordErudite, lively, and brilliant, this book examines Polish culture through an original point of entry: poetry performance. Exploring the audio practices of canonical modern poets within the context of history, Kremer achieves a true breakthrough in literary and performance studies. -- Irena Grudzińska-Gross, author of Czesław Miłosz and Joseph Brodsky: Fellowship of PoetsListening closely to an audio archive of postwar Polish poets including Miłosz, Herbert, Różewicz, and Szymborska, Aleksandra Kremer shows how each one navigated the cultural and political pressure to embody the Polish people and country. These writers strove to recapture the singularity of everyday speech, wresting their voices from the state and the dramatic stage actors who often performed poetry. The paradox at the center of this rich account is how the strategic downsizing enabled by tape recording ultimately expanded Polish poets’ range of address. -- Lytle Shaw, author of Narrowcast: Poetry and Audio ResearchAleksandra Kremer makes a compelling case for modern Polish culture as a ‘laboratory of poetry performance’ in this original, masterfully researched study. It is a must-read not just for specialists, but for anyone interested in postwar Polish writing or indeed, in new ways of combining the humanities with technology while doing full justice to both. -- Clare Cavanagh, author of Lyric Poetry and Modern Politics: Russia, Poland, and the West
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Harvard University Press Naqqali Trilogy
Book SynopsisWidely regarded as the Shakespeare of Persia, Bahram Beyzaie remains largely unknown to the English-speaking world. Naqqali Trilogy blends traditional Iranian storytelling with contemporary philosophy and technique in a cycle of mythological revisionism. This volume presents a pinnacle of world drama for the first time in English translation.
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Simon & Schuster The Comedy Bible From Standup to Sitcom The
Book SynopsisProvides information for aspiring comedians, discussing how to create a routine and hone ideas, working with a comedy buddy, how to develop and polish material, how to get started in the business, and how to get paid.
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Simon & Schuster Now Playing at the Valencia
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University of Toronto Press Early Stages
Book SynopsisA circus, a production of Shakespeare, an evening of song and ventriloquism, a performance by a ‘learned pig’ – all of these offered an evening’s entertainment to the citizens of early nineteenth-century Upper Canada. Although the population in 1800 was only 90,000, a wide range of entertainers performed in towns across the province: touring companies, variety and animal acts, and theatrical troupes, professional and amateur, some home-grown and based in the garrisons, others from Montreal, New York, and London. By the end of the century, some 250 touring groups were on the road across Ontario, from Ottawa to Rat Portage (now Kenora). The lively theatre tradition of that century would extend into the next, beyond the appointment in 1913 of Ontario’s first official censor, until the outbreak the following year of the First World War. This collection of essays covers a number of facets of the growth of theatre in Ontario. Ann Saddlemyer’
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Wayne State University Press Miami Vice TV Milestones Series
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWhile sometimes derided as superficial by inattentive critics, the truth is that Miami Vice offered visually groundbreaking and philosophically rich crime drama that reflects the legacy of film noir and has been tremendously influential on subsequent television. No one sees that more clearly than Steven Sanders, and no one who reads Sanders's thorough and insightful discussion of this landmark series will ever look at it the same way again.""- Aeon Skoble, co-editor of The Philosophy of TV Noir (with Steven Sanders);""In this slim volume, Steven Sanders offers a penetrating and surprisingly comprehensive examination of the artistic and thematic complexities of one of network television's most popular and critically acclaimed series. Written with both the enthusiasm of the fan and the perspicacity of the scholar, this book is accessible and yet never simplistic, a fitting tribute to Miami Vice itself, which was always entertaining yet thought-provoking. Sanders is especially to be praised for his thorough and careful analysis of production history, which provides a mine of useful information. His graceful, fluent prose is a joy to read.""- R. Barton Palmer, author Hollywood’s Dark Cinema: The American Film Noir and Joel and Ethan Coen
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University of Pittsburgh Press Dance Improvisations
Book SynopsisDance Improvisations is a book for teachers of dance and acting, choreographers, directors, and dance therapists. Methodical, yet inventive, this book offers highly structured techniques for developing dancers' ability to work together.
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SPCK - Monarch Stand Up and Deliver A Nervous Rookie On The
Book SynopsisAndy's first hilarious and hectic year in the world of comedyTrade Review"A great read and highly recommended!" -- Inspire Magazine"Totally unputdownable and our book of the year." -- Sorted Magazine"Meticulously accurate, entertaining, surprisingly moving. Kind projects an accessible, warm, upbeat demeanour that makes for an easily enjoyable read." Chortle.co.uk (Chortle is the major comedy website in the UK) -- Chortle.co.uk
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Canongate Books Only Fools and Horses
Book SynopsisIn the thirty years since viewers first visited Nelson Mandela House, Only Fools and Horses has won countless awards and is still Britain''s most-watched and best-loved sitcom. Del Boy''s overwhelming popularity has even inspired the Oxford English Dictionary to include a selection of his most famous words and phrases, such as ''lovely jubbly'' and ''twonk''. In this fascinating, entertaining and meticulously researched book, acclaimed biographer Graham McCann goes behind the scenes to tell the inside story of Britain''s most enduring comedy. With major contributions from the people who wrote, produced and starred in the programme and with material drawn from the BBC archives, it''s time to take one last trip down Hooky Street . . .Trade ReviewThis is a thoroughly-researched, breezily-written, affectionate and yet never dewy-eyed account of how a great TV series was put together. It stands as a worthy monument to its creator * * Daily Mail * *McCann provides hundreds of interesting details . . . on how the show crept into the British consciousness and captured the British public's imagination with its characters and humour . . . The back stories of the actors and actresses are engrossing and how the theme music came about is a comic tale in itself * * Telegraph * *What is not to love about this book? It is meticulous, exact, intelligent, affectionate and somehow inspirational. McCann, who has written on Cary Grant and Morecombe & Wise, has delivered his best one yet. * * Guardian on Dad’s Army * *McCann's impeccably detailed biography is both a celebration and a lament. * * The Times on Morecambe and Wise * *Never has the sheer awkwardness of the human condition been so comically or beautifully conveyed. * * Daily Mail on Frankie Howerd * *You will laugh, you will learn and you will undoubtedly, start speaking in a silly voice. * * Word Magazine on Spike & Co * *This book also makes one look anew at one's favourite scenes . . . McCann has some nice insights into the production techniques that made this the most frenetic farce to have appeared on television. * * Telegraph on Fawlty Towers * *
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Pluto Press My Song Is My Own 100 Womens Songs
Book SynopsisA powerful and hilarious collection of women's songs from the last five centuries, supplemented with sheet music.Trade Review'An excellent read' -- The GuardianTable of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Love, Courtship and Desire 1. I Long to Have a Man 2. The Unfortunate Lass 3. The Thing is My Own Part II: Marriage 4. Take Your Partners... 5. We've Been Together Now for Forty Years 6. Nothing Between Us Now Part III: Motherhood and Childhood 7. We Must Choose 8. When Suzy Was a Baby Part IV: Work - the Waged and the Unwaged 9. A Woman's Work... 10. The Boss's Darling? 11. Keep That Trouble Stirring Index of Song Titles Index of First Lines Select Bibliography Select Discography Sources and Acknowledgments
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Play Directors Survival Kit A Complete StepbyStep
Book SynopsisThis expansive guide covers the where, when, and how for every step of school play production, including play selection and adaptation, auditions, casting and dealing with disappointed students, budgeting, coaching actors, setting up a production team, rehearsals, publicity, and promotion.Table of ContentsAbout the Authors. PROLOGUE. "Welcome to the Theater". What You Can Expect from This Resource. ACT ONE: PLAY SELECTION. 1. "Magic to Do" Understanding Your Role as Director. 2. "One Brick at a Time" How to Get Started. 3. "Open a New Window" Other Options. 4. "Something Sort of Grandish" How to Select the Right Play ACT TWO: PRE-PRODUCTION CONSIDERATIONS. 5. "A Puzzlement" How to Unravel a Play s Meaning. 6. "Putting It Together" How to Lay Out a Rehearsal Schedule. 7. "Pick-a-little; Talk-a-little" How to Work With a Set Designer. 8. "Pretty Little Picture"What You Need to Know About Stage Properties. 9. "Let the Sunshine In" What You Need to Know About Stage Lighting. 10. "The Sound of Music" What You Need to Know About Sound and Special Effects. 11. "Put in Your Sunday Clothes"What You Need to Know About Costuming. 12. "Put on a Happy Face"What You Need to Know About Makeup. 13. "A Little Brains, A Little Talent" What Your Stage Manager Needs to Know. 14. "I Hope I Get It" How to Conduct Auditions. 15. "Matchmaker, Matchmaker" How to Make Intelligent Casting Decisions ACT THREE: REHEARSALS & PERFORMANCES. 16. "It's a Simple Little System" How to Get the Most Out of Rehearsals. 17. "Every Little Movement" How to Stage, or Block Your Play. 18. "Happy to Make Your Acquaintance" How to Help Actors Develop Characters. 19. "You've Got to Have Heart" How to Work with Actors. 20. "Agony" How to Direct Period Plays. 21. "With a Little Bit of Luck" How to Direct Your First Musical. 22. "Sit Down, You're Rocking the Boat"How to Run a Smooth Production ACT FOUR: AUDIENCE DEVELOPMENT. 23. "Who Will Buy?" What You Need to Know About tickets. 24. "You've Got to Have a Gimmick" What You Need to Know to Sell Your Production. 25. "You've Got to Be Carefully Taught" What You Need to Know About the Media. 26. "Look at Me, I'm Sandra Dee" What You Need to Know About Programs. 27. "Bea-u-ti-ful People of Denver" What You Need to Know About Audiences EPILOGUE: DIRECTORY. 28. "Life on the Wicked Stage" Acting/Directing Terms. 29. "Drop That Name" Odd Names for Technical Things. 30. "There's Gotta Be Something Better Than This" Theater Spaces. 31. "Perpetual Anticipation" Stages of the Production Process. 32. "Try to Remember" A List of Theatrical Forms. 33. "Let Me Entertain You" A List of Contemporary Plays for Beginning Directors. 34. "Losing My Mind" More Terms About Parts of Plays. 35. "The Little Things We Do Together" Players in a commercial Theater Organization. 36. "Who Can I Turn To?" A Selected Reading List for Beginning Directors.
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Costume & Fashion Press/Quite Specific Media Medieval Tailors Assistant Common Garments
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Christian Publishers LLC The Mime Book A Comprehensive Guide to Mime
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Random House USA Inc In Such Good Company
Book SynopsisIn this New York Times bestseller, comedy legend Carol Burnett tells the hilarious behind-the-scenes story of her iconic weekly variety series, The Carol Burnett Show. In In Such Good Company, Carol Burnett pulls back the curtain on the twenty-five-time Emmy-Award winning show that made television history, and she reminisces about the outrageously funny and tender moments that made working on the series as much fun as watching it. Carol delves into little-known stories of the guests, sketches and improvisations that made The Carol Burnett Show legendary, as well as some favorite tales too good not to relive again. While writing this book, Carol rewatched all 276 episodes and screen-grabbed her favorite video stills from the archives to illustrate the chemistry of the actors and the improvisational magic that made the show so successful. Putting the spotlight on everyone from her co
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John Wiley & Sons Raising the Curtain
Book SynopsisLearn how emerging technologies benefit artists and performing arts organizations Raising the Curtain: Technology Success Stories from Performing Arts Leaders and Artists focuses on empowering artists and performing arts organizations in theater, dance, and music to grow audiences and to increase impact through smart and strategic uses of technology. This book will help you effectively increase your artistic and administrative reach in order to expand your outreach to diverse audiences, without breaking the bank. In fact, you'll be more efficient by choosing multi-function technologies that work for you. You'll also see how advanced software can extend your donor reachand ensure that you're contacting donors at the right time. You can also maximize your organization's brand by incorporating social media, AI tools, media streaming platforms, and more. Inside, you'll learn about the most useful tech tools out there, including a wide breadth of technology,
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Hollywood Romantic Comedy
Book SynopsisThe most up-to-date study of the Hollywood romantic comedy film, from the development of sound to the twenty-first century, this book examines the history and conventions of the genre and surveys the controversies arising from the critical responses to these films.Trade Review“Grindon’s contribution to the romantic comedy film bibliography is a valuable addition to the limited number of similar scholarly endeavors, and it seems well-designed for classroom use—not just for teaching the particular films he discusses, but also for teaching methodology. The romantic comedy genre has rarely received the sort of academic recognition it deserves, but students, film scholars, romance scholars, and rom-com enthusiasts all over the world will find The Hollywood Romantic Comedya fine introduction to this culturally and politically significant film genre.” (Journal of Popular Romance Studies, 1 October 2012) "The romantic comedy genre has rarely received the sort of academic recognition it deserves, but students, film scholars, romance scholars, and rom-com enthusiasts all over the world will find The Hollywood Romantic Comedy a fine introduction to this culturally and politically significant film genre." (Journal of Popular Romance Studies, 15 October 2012) "Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals; general readers." (Choice, 1 September 2011)Table of ContentsList of Plates ix Acknowledgements xi 1 Introduction 1 2 History, Cycles, and Society 25 3 Thinking Seriously About Laughter and Romance 67 4 Trouble in Paradise (1932): What is the Trouble in Paradise? 84 5 His Girl Friday (1940): Jailbreak! 96 6 The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (1944): The Home Front Romantic Comedy 106 7 Adam’s Rib (1949): Anatomy Lesson 117 8 Some Like It Hot (1959): Riding Sidesaddle 129 9 The Graduate (1967): Counter-Conventions and Cultural Change 139 10 Annie Hall (1977): The Trials of Partnership 150 11 When Harry Met Sally (1989): Friendship, Sex, and Courtship 160 12 There’s Something About Mary (1998): Parody and the Grotesque 171 13 Waitress (2007): Women’s Ambivalence 181 A Chronology of Prominent Hollywood Romantic Comedies 191 References 195 Index 201
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Philosophy of the Performing Arts
Book SynopsisThe Performing Arts provides an accessible, yet sophisticated, introduction to the philosophical issues concerning the artistic performance.Trade Review“This is a remarkable and remarkably useful book, and for much the same reason … The other result is that professionals in the philosophy of art will have to rise to the challenge. Davies has set the bar very high.” (Oxford Journals Clippings, 4 May 2012) "Philosophy of the Performing Arts is a careful and detailed study in analytic philosophical aesthetics ... Summing Up: Highly recommended. Graduate students through professional/practitioners." (Choice, 1 January 2012)Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments viii Part One Performance and the Classical Paradigm 1 1 The Nature of Artistic Performance 3 1 Introduction 3 2 What is a Performance? 4 3 Institutional Theories of Artistic Performance 7 4 Aesthetic Theories of Artistic Performance 10 5 Artistic Performance and Artistic Regard 14 6 Overview 17 2 The Classical Paradigm I: The Nature of the Performable Work 23 1 Introduction: Berthold and Magda Go to the Symphony 23 2 The Multiple Nature of Performable Works 24 3 Performable Works as Types 29 4 Varieties of Type Theories: Sonicism, Instrumentalism, and Contextualism 32 5 Other Theories of the Performable Work 38 3 The Classical Paradigm II: Appreciating Performable Works in Performance 51 1 Introduction: Talking Appreciatively about Performable Works 51 2 Can Performable Works Share Artistic Properties with Their Performances? 53 3 The Goodman Argument 57 4 Answering the Goodman Argument 62 4 Authenticity in Musical Performance 71 1 Introduction 71 2 Authenticity in the Arts 72 3 Three Notions of Historically Authentic Performance 74 5 Challenges to the Classical Paradigm in Music 87 1 Introduction: The Classical Paradigm in the Performing Arts 87 2 The Scope of the Paradigm in Classical Music 90 3 Jazz, Rock, and the Classical Paradigm 94 4 Non-Western Music and the Classical Paradigm 101 6 The Scope of the Classical Paradigm: Theater, Dance, and Literature 103 1 Introduction: Berthold and Magda Go to the Theater 103 2 Theatrical Performances and Performable Works 105 3 Challenges to the Classical Paradigm in Theater 112 4 Dance and the Classical Paradigm 120 5 The Novel as Performable Work? 128 Part Two Performance as Art 133 7 Performances as Artworks 135 1 Introduction: Spontaneous Performance in the Arts 135 2 The Artistic Status of Performances Outside the Classical Paradigm 138 3 The Artistic Status of Performances Within the Classical Paradigm 143 8 Elements of Performance I: Improvisation and Rehearsal 149 1 Introduction 149 2 The Nature of Improvisation 150 3 Improvisation and Performable Works: Three Models 154 4 Improvisation and Recording 160 5 The Place of Rehearsal in the Performing Arts 164 9 Elements of Performance II: Audience and Embodiment 172 1 Can There Be Artistic Performance Without an Audience? 172 2 Audience Response 181 3 The Embodied Performer and the Mirroring Receiver 189 10 Performance Art and the Performing Arts 200 1 Introduction 200 2 Some Puzzling Cases 201 3 What is Performance Art? 206 4 When Do Works of Performance Art Involve Artistic Performances? 209 5 Performance as Art: A Final Case 216 References 219 Index 226
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Philosophy of the Performing Arts
Book SynopsisThe Performing Arts provides an accessible, yet sophisticated, introduction to the philosophical issues concerning the artistic performance.Trade Review“This is a remarkable and remarkably useful book, and for much the same reason … The other result is that professionals in the philosophy of art will have to rise to the challenge. Davies has set the bar very high.” (Oxford Journals Clippings, 4 May 2012) "Philosophy of the Performing Arts is a careful and detailed study in analytic philosophical aesthetics ... Summing Up: Highly recommended. Graduate students through professional/practitioners." (Choice, 1 January 2012)Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments viii Part One Performance and the Classical Paradigm 1 1 The Nature of Artistic Performance 3 1 Introduction 3 2 What is a Performance? 4 3 Institutional Theories of Artistic Performance 7 4 Aesthetic Theories of Artistic Performance 10 5 Artistic Performance and Artistic Regard 14 6 Overview 17 2 The Classical Paradigm I: The Nature of the Performable Work 23 1 Introduction: Berthold and Magda Go to the Symphony 23 2 The Multiple Nature of Performable Works 24 3 Performable Works as Types 29 4 Varieties of Type Theories: Sonicism, Instrumentalism, and Contextualism 32 5 Other Theories of the Performable Work 38 3 The Classical Paradigm II: Appreciating Performable Works in Performance 51 1 Introduction: Talking Appreciatively about Performable Works 51 2 Can Performable Works Share Artistic Properties with Their Performances? 53 3 The Goodman Argument 57 4 Answering the Goodman Argument 62 4 Authenticity in Musical Performance 71 1 Introduction 71 2 Authenticity in the Arts 72 3 Three Notions of Historically Authentic Performance 74 5 Challenges to the Classical Paradigm in Music 87 1 Introduction: The Classical Paradigm in the Performing Arts 87 2 The Scope of the Paradigm in Classical Music 90 3 Jazz, Rock, and the Classical Paradigm 94 4 Non-Western Music and the Classical Paradigm 101 6 The Scope of the Classical Paradigm: Theater, Dance, and Literature 103 1 Introduction: Berthold and Magda Go to the Theater 103 2 Theatrical Performances and Performable Works 105 3 Challenges to the Classical Paradigm in Theater 112 4 Dance and the Classical Paradigm 120 5 The Novel as Performable Work? 128 Part Two Performance as Art 133 7 Performances as Artworks 135 1 Introduction: Spontaneous Performance in the Arts 135 2 The Artistic Status of Performances Outside the Classical Paradigm 138 3 The Artistic Status of Performances Within the Classical Paradigm 143 8 Elements of Performance I: Improvisation and Rehearsal 149 1 Introduction 149 2 The Nature of Improvisation 150 3 Improvisation and Performable Works: Three Models 154 4 Improvisation and Recording 160 5 The Place of Rehearsal in the Performing Arts 164 9 Elements of Performance II: Audience and Embodiment 172 1 Can There Be Artistic Performance Without an Audience? 172 2 Audience Response 181 3 The Embodied Performer and the Mirroring Receiver 189 10 Performance Art and the Performing Arts 200 1 Introduction 200 2 Some Puzzling Cases 201 3 What is Performance Art? 206 4 When Do Works of Performance Art Involve Artistic Performances? 209 5 Performance as Art: A Final Case 216 References 219 Index 226
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Contemporary Art
Book SynopsisAn engaging account of today's contemporary art world that features original articles by leading international art historians, critics, curators, and artists, introducing varied perspectives on the most important debates and discussions happening around the world. Features a collection of all-new essays, organized around fourteen specific themes, chosen to reflect the latest debates in contemporary art since 1989 Each topic is prefaced by an introduction on current discussions in the field and investigated by three essays, each shedding light on the subject in new and contrasting ways Topics include: globalization, formalism, technology, participation, agency, biennials, activism, fundamentalism, judgment, markets, art schools, and scholarship International in scope, bringing together over forty of the most important voices in the field, including Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy, David Joselit, Michelle Kuo, Raqs Media Collective, and Jan VerwoertTrade Review“Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.” (Choice, 1 August 2013) Table of ContentsContributors ix INTRODUCTION 1 Alexander Dumbadze and Suzanne Hudson 1 THE CONTEMPORARY AND GLOBALIZATION 5 Worlds Apart: Contemporary Art, Globalization, and the Rise of Biennials 7 Tim Griffin “Our” Contemporaneity? 17 Terry Smith The Historicity of the Contemporary is Now! 28 Jean-Philippe Antoine 2 ART AFTER MODERNISM AND POSTMODERNISM 37 Elite Art in an Age of Populism 39 Julian Stallabrass “Of Adversity we Live!” 50 Monica Amor Making it Work: Artists and Contemporary Art in China 60 Pauline J. Yao 3 FORMALISM 70 Form Struggles 72 Jan Verwoert Formalism Redefined 84 Anne Ellegood The World in Plain View: Form in the Service of the Global 95 Joan Kee 4 MEDIUM SPECIFICITY 105 The (Re)Animation of Medium Specificity in Contemporary Art 107 Sabeth Buchmann Medium Aspecificity/Autopoietic Form 117 Irene V. Small Specificity 126 Richard Shiff 5 ART AND TECHNOLOGY 137 Test Sites: Fabrication 139 Michelle Kuo Inhabiting the Technosphere: Art and Technology Beyond Technical Invention 149 Ina Blom Conceptual Art 2.0 159 David Joselit 6 BIENNIALS 169 In Defense of Biennials 171 Massimiliano Gioni Curating in Heterogeneous Worlds 178 Geeta Kapur Biennial Culture and the Aesthetics of Experience 192 Caroline A. Jones 7 PARTICIPATION 202 Participation 204 Liam Gillick and Maria Lind The Ripple Effect: “Participation” as an Expanded Field 214 Johanna Burton Publicity and Complicity in Contemporary Art 224 Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy 8 ACTIVISM 232 Activism 234 Andrea Giunta Knit Dissent 245 Julia Bryan-Wilson Light from a Distant Star: A Meditation on Art, Agency, and Politics 254 Raqs Media Collective 9 AGENCY 265 Participation in Art: 10 Theses 267 Juliane Rebentisch Fusions of Powers: Four Models of Agency in the Field of Contemporary Art, Ranked Unapologetically in Order of Preference 277 Tirdad Zolghadr Life Full of Holes: Contemporary Art and Bare Life 287 T. J. Demos 10 THE RISE OF FUNDAMENTALISM 298 Monotheism à la Mode 300 Sven Lütticken Freedom’s Just Another Word 311 Terri Weissman On the Frontline: The Politics of Terrorism in Contemporary Pakistani Art 322 Atteqa Ali 11 JUDGMENT 331 Judgment’s Troubled Objects 333 João Ribas A Producer’s Journal, or Judgment A Go-Go 346 Frank Smigiel After Criticism 357 Lane Relyea 12 MARKETS 367 Globalization and Commercialization of the Art Market 369 Olav Velthuis Three Perspectives on the Market 379 Mihai Pop, Sylvia Kouvali, and Andrea Rosen Untitled 388 Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri 13 ART SCHOOLS AND THE ACADEMY 406 Lifelong Learning 408 Katy Siegel Art without Institutions 420 Anton Vidokle Will the Academy Become a Monster? 429 Pi Li 14 SCHOLARSHIP 436 Our Literal Speed 438 Our Literal Speed Globalization, Art History, and the Specter of Difference 447 Chika Okeke-Agulu The Academic Condition of Contemporary Art 457 Carrie Lambert-Beatty Index 467
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Contemporary Art
Book SynopsisAn engaging account of today's contemporary art world that features original articles by leading international art historians, critics, curators, and artists, introducing varied perspectives on the most important debates and discussions happening around the world. Features a collection of all-new essays, organized around fourteen specific themes, chosen to reflect the latest debates in contemporary art since 1989 Each topic is prefaced by an introduction on current discussions in the field and investigated by three essays, each shedding light on the subject in new and contrasting ways Topics include: globalization, formalism, technology, participation, agency, biennials, activism, fundamentalism, judgment, markets, art schools, and scholarship International in scope, bringing together over forty of the most important voices in the field, including Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy, David Joselit, Michelle Kuo, Raqs Media Collective, and Jan VerwoertTrade Review“Interesting and pertinent topics [covered] are the globalization of the art world, the expansion of biennial and art fairs as venues, the use of technology as a medium, the theme of social activism, and the relevant education of the studio artist … The essays are consistently well written and include copious notes … Recommended.” Choice (1 August 2013) Table of ContentsContributors ix INTRODUCTION 1 Alexander Dumbadze and Suzanne Hudson 1 THE CONTEMPORARY AND GLOBALIZATION 5 Worlds Apart: Contemporary Art, Globalization, and the Rise of Biennials 7 Tim Griffin “Our” Contemporaneity? 17 Terry Smith The Historicity of the Contemporary is Now! 28 Jean-Philippe Antoine 2 ART AFTER MODERNISM AND POSTMODERNISM 37 Elite Art in an Age of Populism 39 Julian Stallabrass “Of Adversity we Live!” 50 Monica Amor Making it Work: Artists and Contemporary Art in China 60 Pauline J. Yao 3 FORMALISM 70 Form Struggles 72 Jan Verwoert Formalism Redefined 84 Anne Ellegood The World in Plain View: Form in the Service of the Global 95 Joan Kee 4 MEDIUM SPECIFICITY 105 The (Re)Animation of Medium Specificity in Contemporary Art 107 Sabeth Buchmann Medium Aspecificity/Autopoietic Form 117 Irene V. Small Specificity 126 Richard Shiff 5 ART AND TECHNOLOGY 137 Test Sites: Fabrication 139 Michelle Kuo Inhabiting the Technosphere: Art and Technology Beyond Technical Invention 149 Ina Blom Conceptual Art 2.0 159 David Joselit 6 BIENNIALS 169 In Defense of Biennials 171 Massimiliano Gioni Curating in Heterogeneous Worlds 178 Geeta Kapur Biennial Culture and the Aesthetics of Experience 192 Caroline A. Jones 7 PARTICIPATION 202 Participation 204 Liam Gillick and Maria Lind The Ripple Effect: “Participation” as an Expanded Field 214 Johanna Burton Publicity and Complicity in Contemporary Art 224 Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy 8 ACTIVISM 232 Activism 234 Andrea Giunta Knit Dissent 245 Julia Bryan-Wilson Light from a Distant Star: A Meditation on Art, Agency, and Politics 254 Raqs Media Collective 9 AGENCY 265 Participation in Art: 10 Theses 267 Juliane Rebentisch Fusions of Powers: Four Models of Agency in the Field of Contemporary Art, Ranked Unapologetically in Order of Preference 277 Tirdad Zolghadr Life Full of Holes: Contemporary Art and Bare Life 287 T. J. Demos 10 THE RISE OF FUNDAMENTALISM 298 Monotheism à la Mode 300 Sven Lütticken Freedom’s Just Another Word 311 Terri Weissman On the Frontline: The Politics of Terrorism in Contemporary Pakistani Art 322 Atteqa Ali 11 JUDGMENT 331 Judgment’s Troubled Objects 333 João Ribas A Producer’s Journal, or Judgment A Go-Go 346 Frank Smigiel After Criticism 357 Lane Relyea 12 MARKETS 367 Globalization and Commercialization of the Art Market 369 Olav Velthuis Three Perspectives on the Market 379 Mihai Pop, Sylvia Kouvali, and Andrea Rosen Untitled 388 Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri 13 ART SCHOOLS AND THE ACADEMY 406 Lifelong Learning 408 Katy Siegel Art without Institutions 420 Anton Vidokle Will the Academy Become a Monster? 429 Pi Li 14 SCHOLARSHIP 436 Our Literal Speed 438 Our Literal Speed Globalization, Art History, and the Specter of Difference 447 Chika Okeke-Agulu The Academic Condition of Contemporary Art 457 Carrie Lambert-Beatty Index 467
£40.85
Duke University Press Juggling
Book SynopsisIn Juggling, Stewart Lawrence Sinclair explores the four-thousand-year history and practice of juggling as seen through his life as a juggler. Sinclair—who learned to juggle as a child and paid his way through college by busking—shares his experiences of taking up juggling after an episode of suicidal ideation, his time juggling on the streets, and ultimately finding comfort in juggling during the COVID-19 pandemic. In many ways, this is a book about loss and recovery. From his own juggling story to clowns braving military checkpoints in Bosnia and Rwanda to perform in refugee camps to contemporary avant-garde performances, Sinclair shows how the universal language of juggling provides joy as well as a respite from difficulties during hard times.Trade Review"Juggling is a powerful book about the practice of juggling—and about the benefits of perseverance." -- Arianna Rebolini * Foreword Reviews *"Will jugglers find it interesting? They already know the basics. Why go over it again? Because an eloquently written paragraph, featuring your favorite subject is exactly what you do want to read. To hear about your own experience from someone else’s point of view is compelling and entertaining. Especially in the context of the pandemic, a moment unique in world history. . . . A fascinating read for anyone." -- Raphael Harris * e-Juggle *"This book is packed with tips, tricks, and techniques to take your juggling skills to the next level. It's a big deal that Duke University Press is publishing a book about juggling. . . ." -- Martin Kalwill * Flow Juggle *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xi 1. Cirque du Covid 1 2. The Three-Body Problem 9 3. La Strata 19 4. Historical Arcs 31 5. Isla Vista 44 6. 441 60 7. Makeup 65 8. Cascade 74 9. Lodi 90 10. Improvising 100 11. Mardi Gras World 103 12. Light-Hearted Humans 114 13. Cirque du Kabul 124 References 133
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