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Spinning Yarns: Locating, Learning and Listening in the Social World of Popular Hindi Film Costume Production - \u003cb\u003eClare M. Wilkinson \u003c\/b\u003e(Washington State University, USA) \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSnapshots\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e 3.3.  Hollywood Costume: A Journey to Curation - \u003cb\u003eDeborah Nadoolman Landis \u003c\/b\u003e(UCLA David C. Copley Center for Costume Design, USA) 3.4.  ‘The Getting of Wisdom’: Learning from Anna Senior - \u003cb\u003eJennifer Gall \u003c\/b\u003e(National Film and Sound Archive of Australia) 3.5.  Design for TV: Costume and Contemporary Clothing - \u003cb\u003eChrisi Karvonides-Dushenko \u003c\/b\u003e(costume designer in theatre, film and television, USA)  \u003cb\u003eSection 4: Costume and the Body\u003c\/b\u003e  4.1.  The Body as the Matter of Costume: a Phenomenological Practice - \u003cb\u003eDonatella Barbieri \u003c\/b\u003e(London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London, UK) 4.2.  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Cross Cultural Costume Research: Beijing Opera Costumes - \u003cb\u003eAlexandra B. Bonds \u003c\/b\u003e(University of Oregon, USA) 1.5.  Reading Maltese Carnival Costumes - \u003cb\u003eVicki Ann Cremona \u003c\/b\u003e(University of Malta) 1.6.  Curating Costume – Reflection - \u003cb\u003eAoife Monks \u003c\/b\u003e(Queen Mary, University of London, UK)  \u003cb\u003eSection 2: Personalities in Costume\u003c\/b\u003e  2.1.  Costume Centre Stage: Re-Membering Ellen Terry (1847-1928) - \u003cb\u003eVeronica Isaac \u003c\/b\u003e(university lecturer and freelance consultant, UK) 2.2.   ‘On and Off the Stage’: Costume, Dress, and Locating the Actor-Manager’s Identity, 1870-1900 - \u003cb\u003eHelen Margaret Walter \u003c\/b\u003e(Plymouth University and the University for the Creative Arts, Epsom, UK) 2.3.  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But within the shadowy realms of theatres, galleries, ‘found’ spaces and nocturnal outdoor sites, it is employed as a transformational aesthetic medium by artists of technical alchemy attentive to the subtleties and intensities of its ‘appearing’.  This timely anthology critically celebrates light as a performative medium and an event in itself. Meditating on processes, practices and projects its contributors confront the politics of perception and constructions of visuality to challenge conventional hierarchies and assumptions not only in the world of theatre but within the world as theatre. 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His plays sweep a wide arc – they have dealt with generational angst, the dark goings-on at a monastery in 8th century, the trauma of wasted childhood, the politics of food, and the heart of extremist violence. But at their core, they always talk of humanism and its fight against tyranny and greed. * Scroll Magazine *\u003cbr\u003eAbhishek Majumdar’s book is a thrilling read, crossing continents, entering conflicts, and always informed by a questing fusion of art and politics. 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A Journey about a Journey   OTHER GEOGRAPHIES  Lessons in Pausing: From a theatre in West Africa to a Monastery in the Himalayas  On Censorship  The Pandemic and the Theatre Bibliography","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48738603401559,"sku":"9781350195288","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350195288.jpg?v=1720049621"},{"product_id":"staging-shakespeare-9781350201026","title":"Staging Shakespeare","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book begins with a phone call. You answer it and learn that you got the job. Several months from now you're going to stage a Shakespeare play. Now  w\u003ci\u003ehat do you do? \u003c\/i\u003eI mean, what do you do after that initial burst of adrenalin has passed through your body and you realize you haven't a clue as to what the play is really about, or what you might want to do with it? How exactly do you prepare for such an equally wonderful and daunting task? This is the central question of this book. It grows out of decades of preparing for Shakespeare productions and watching others do the same. It will save you some of the panic, wasted time, and fruitless paths experienced. 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He writes from the perspective of an accomplished theater director who is also able to lucidly share his discoveries, his palpable curiosity and the vast pleasure in artistic engagement with the plays. His insights are assembled from a lifetime of scholarship and practice and are informed by his personal relationships with the cognoscenti of the contemporary theater world. * Anne Bogart *\u003cbr\u003eBrian Kulick's \u003ci\u003eStaging Shakespeare \u003c\/i\u003eis wonderfully  comprehensive, deeply  informative, and like its author, so damn smart. * George C. Wolfe *\u003cbr\u003eThis book is a kind of miracle. Kulick's extraordinary learning and experience are fused with a loving clarity, a detailed precision, and marvelous imaginative breadth. Any director of Shakespeare, novice or master, will find much to inspire and appreciate here. 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