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Editorial Tenov S.L. Henning Christiansen, Bjørn Nørgaard–MANRESA
Book SynopsisA collection of materials and essays contextualizing a performance by Christiansen and Nørgaard in homage to Joseph Beuys. Joseph Beuys performed one of his most radical pieces, the action Manressa, on December 15, 1966, at the Galerie Schmela in Düsseldorf. He was accompanied by the Danish artists Henning Christiansen and Bjørn Nørgaard, who, in 1994, created Manresa Hauptbahnhof (Manresa, Central Station), a new performance in homage to the original. The performance was carried out in Manresa, the city that both gave the name to the original action and was where Saint Ignatius Loyola had the revelations that led him to write his Spiritual Exercises, which Beuys considered essential reading. This book brings together all the material related to the 1994 performance—including images, scripts, and preparatory drawings—as well as a selection of critical texts that situate the action within its European context. In one essay, Friedhelm Mennekes analyses the action by delving into its spiritual meaning, exploring the symbolism of the objects employed. In another, Pilar Parcerias uses the metaphor of the central station to discover the city of reference and redraw the map of Europe with unexpected connections between Manresa and Copenhagen. In the final essay, Peter van der Meijden contextualizes the two performances, which represented a meeting place for different artistic personalities working on the cutting edge in creating a new form of art. Table of ContentsTABLE OF CONTENTSScores and preparatory drawings Images of the performancesHenning Christiansen – Time Henning Christiansen – Reality Multiplied by Three. Four Epistles on Joseph Beuys’ Working MethodsMENNEKES- I fly to you, Manresa PARCERISAS – A journey and an invocationPeter Van der Meijden -
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Manohar Publishers and Distributors A bibliography of the Sanskrit drama
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Book SynopsisThe Routledge Comedy Studies Reader is a selection of the most outstanding critical analysis featured in the journal Comedy Studies in the decade since its inception in 2010.The Reader illustrates the multiple perspectives that are available when analysing comedy. Wilkie's selections present an array of critical approaches from interdisciplinary scholars, all of whom evaluate comedy from different angles and adopt a range of writing styles to explore the phenomenon. Divided into eight unique parts, the Reader offers both breadth and depth with its wide range of interdisciplinary articles and international perspectives.Of interest to students, scholars, and lovers of comedy alike, The Routledge Comedy Studies Reader offers a contemporary sample of general analyses of comedy as a mode, form, and genre.Trade ReviewPraise for A Comedy Studies Reader, ed. Ian WilkieAn important resource for those bent on taking comedy seriously, this collection gathers disparate studies from the innovative Journal of Comedy Studies and elsewhere to illuminate contemporary performative comedy. It should prove invaluable for students in Comedy Studies and also remind many in Humour Studies about the importance of the relationship between a piece of humour and its mediator, whether professional or or amateur, as a creator of amusement and laughter.Jessica Milner Davis FRSN, University of SydneyTable of ContentsForeword by Ian WilkieAcknowledgementsPart I: Back to Basics: What is Comedy and Where Does It Come From?1. Against Comedy Chris Ritchie2. Thoughts on the current state of humour theory Peter Marteinson3. The origins of comic performance in adult–child interaction Ian Wilkie and Matthew Saxton 4. The science of baby laughter Caspar Addyman and Ishbel Addyman Part II: Old Comedy: Taproots and Tropes 5. The time-travelling miser: Translation and transformation in European comedy Rachel Kirk6. Conflict and slapstick in Commedia dell’Arte – The double act of Pantalone and Arlecchino Louise Peacock7. Clowns do ethnography: an experiment in long-distance comic failure Barnaby King and Richard TalbotPart III: Class, Gender, Race: Reading Comedy’s Issues 8. ‘To what base uses we may return, Horatio!’ – Hamlet, Comedy and Class Struggle Isaac Hui9. No other excuse: Race, class and gender in British Music Hall comedic performance 1914–1949 David Huxley and David James10. 'Women Like Us?' Gilli Bush-BaileyPart IV: Doing Comedy: Giving, Receiving, Causes and Effects11. Pretty funny: Manifesting a normatively sexy female comic body Hannah Ballou12. No greater foe? Rethinking emotion and humour, with particular attention to the relationship between audience members and stand-up comedians Tim Miles13. The roots of alternative comedy? – The alternative story of 20th Century Coyote and Eighties Comedy Lloyd Peters14. Life memory archive translation performance memory archive life: textual self-documentation in stand-up comedy Christopher MolineuxPart V: New Comedy? Interviews with Practitioners15. Not the definitive version: an interview with Ross Noble Oliver Double16. Scenes in the House of Comedy: Interview with Stewart Lee Tony Moon17. Up and down with Barry Cryer: From an interview conducted on 22 July 2011 Tony Moon18. Interview with Charlie Hanson Gary Turk19. ‘Words are my weapons’: Tiffany Stevenson interview Tony Moon20. Russell Kane: Comic chameleon Sam Friedman21. Les Dennis: Man out of time Sam Friedman22. ‘Not a funny place to live’: An interview with Chris Rock Kara Hunt23. A series of ghastly mistakes that turned out right in the end Tony Moon interview with John Lloyd (comedy producer)24. Interview with Kate Fox - stand-up poet Ian Wilkie Part VI: Critical Angles: Essays on a Joan Rivers’ Routine25. From toothpick legs to dropping vaginas: Gender and sexuality in Joan Rivers’ stand-up comedy performance Sharon Lockyer26. Joan Rivers – Reading the meaning Louise Peacock27. ‘A pleasure working with you’: Humour theory and Joan Rivers Brett MillsPart VII: The World of Comedy: Culture and Satire28. Obscenity, dirtiness and licence in Jewish comedy Debra Aarons and Marc Mierowsky29. Satire in a multi-cultural world: a Bakhtinian analysis Grant Julin30. Silly meets serious: discursive integration and the Stewart/Colbert era Amanda Martin, Brbara K. Kaye and Mark D. Harmon31. The comedian, the cat, and the activist: the politics of light seriousness and the (un)serious work of contemporary laughter Ian Reilly32. Borat, Sacha Baron Cohen, and the seriousness of (mock) documentary Cate BloukePart VIII: New Comedy? Emerging Platforms and Forms of Expression 33. A book and a movie walk into a bar Kyle Meikle34. Kidding around: children, comedy, and social media Peter Kunze35. A new economy of jokes?: #Socialmedia #Comedy Rebecca Krefting and Rebecca Baruc36. Comedy meets media: how three new media features have influenced changes in the production of stand-up comedy Jillian M. Belanger37. The animated moving image as political cartoon Lucien Leon38. Is vlogging the new stand-up? A compare/contrast of traditional and online models of comedic content distribution Matthew McKeagueIndex
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Book SynopsisContemporary Farce on the Global Stage provides audiences and practitioners a detailed survey of how the genre of farce has evolved in the 21st century. Often dismissed as frivolous, farce speaks a universal language, with the power to incisively interrogate our world through laughter.Unlike farces of the past, where a successful resolution was a given and we could laugh uproariously at adulterous behaviour, farce no longer guarantees an audience a happy ending where everything works out. Contemporary farce is no longer diverting us' with laughter. It is reflecting the fractured world around us. With a foreword by award-winning playwright Ken Ludwig, the book introduces readers to the Mechanics of Farce, and the Four Ps,' which are key elements for understanding, appreciating, and exploring the form. The Five Doors to Contemporary Farce identify five major categories into which farces fall. Behind each door are a wide selection of plays, modern and contemporary examp
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Book SynopsisPerformance Studies: The Basics offers an overview of the multiple, often overlapping definitions of performance, from performance art, performance as everyday life, and rituals, to the performative dimensions of identity, such as gender, race and sexuality. This book defines the interdisciplinary field of performance studies as it has evolved over the past four decades at the intersection of academic scholarship and artistic and activist practices. It discusses performance as an important means of communicating and of understanding the world, highlighting its intersections with critical theory and arguing for the importance of performance in the study of human behaviour and social practices.Complete with a helpful glossary and bibliography, as well as suggestions for further reading, this book is an ideal starting point for those studying performance studies as well as for general readers with an interest in the subject.Trade Review'If you are looking for rigorous, accessible and bracingly contemporary answers to the "what", "how" and "why" of performance studies, you will find them in Performance Studies: The Basics. This meticulous introduction outlines the field’s complex and contested genealogies, its theoretical infrastructures, and its methodological possibilities. It efficiently and evocatively captures performance studies’ scope, models its ethical commitments, and details its diversity: a "must-read" for students and faculty from high school to grad school.'—Judith Hamera, Princeton University'This book is a necessity and an inspiration to read from the high school classroom to the university seminar, from the dramatic stage to the lecture podium, and from those who are new to performance studies to those who founded the field. The brilliance of the book is its breadth and depth enhanced by its clarity. Micu opens new questions on the intersections of performance theory and everyday life, on performance history and social activism, and on how performance methods can both change and connect us in the ways we make social life and worlds. This book is a treasure. I wish Performance Studies: The Basics was available to me (or one just like it) during my fifty years of teaching theatre and performance studies. I am grateful to learn from it now.'—D. Soyini Madison, Professor Emeritus, Northwestern UniversityTable of Contents1 What Is Performance? 2 Performance Art 3 Performance and Performativity 4 Identity and Lived Experience 5 Performance Activism 6 Performance Research Methods 7 Performance Studies
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Book SynopsisThis book examines folk theatres of North India and discusses their genesis, history and independent trajectory; folk theatre and Sanskrit dramaturgy; cinematic legacy; and theatrical space as performance besides investigating causes, inter-relations within socio-cultural factors, and the performance principles underlying them.Table of ContentsForeword. Acknowledgements. Note on Transliteration. Introduction — Folk Theatre: Genesis, History and Causes 1. Folk Theatre and Sanskrit Dramaturgy 2. Folk Theatre and Western Theatre 3. Folk Theatre: The Cinematic Legacy 4. Folk Theatrical Space as Performance. Conclusion. Glossary. Works Cited. Index
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