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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Shakespeare and Costume in Practice
Book SynopsisWhat is the role of costume in Shakespeare production? Shakespeare and Costume in Practice argues that costume design choices are central not only to the creation of period setting and the actor’s work on character, but to the cultural, political, and psychological meanings that the theatre makes of Shakespeare. The book explores questions about what the first Hamlet looked like in his mourning cloak; how costumes for a Shakespeare comedy can reflect or critique the collective nostalgias a culture has for its past; how costume and casting work together to ask new questions about Shakespeare and race. Using production case studies of Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, and The Tempest, the book demonstrates that costume design can be a site of experimentation, playfulness, and transgression in the theatre – and that it can provoke audiences to think again about what power, race, and gender look like on the Shakespearean stage. Table of Contents1. Chapter One: Introduction.- 2. Chapter Two: Hamlet, Mourning and the Disappearing Costume: Inky Cloaks and Solemn Black.- 3. Chapter Three: Much Ado About Nothing, Restorative Nostalgia and the Costume Drama: Tires and Rebatoes, Corsets and Lace.- 4. Chapter Four: The Post-Colonial Tempest: Costume and Race.- 5. Chapter Five: Conclusion: Practitioner Interviews.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Communities, Performance and Practice: Enacting
Book SynopsisThis book examines how a predominantly negative view of community has presented a challenge to critical analysis of community performance practice. The concept of community as a form of class-based solidarity has been hollowed out by postmodernism’s questioning of grand narratives and poststructuralism’s celebration of difference. Alongside the critique of a notion of community has been a critical re-signification of community, following the thinking of philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy who conceives of community not as common being but as being-in-common. The concept of community as being-in-common generates questions that have been taken up by feminist geographers, J.K. Gibson-Graham, in theorising a post-capitalist approach to community-based development. These questions and approaches guide the analyses in researched case studies of community performance practice. The book revises theoretical debates that have defined the field of community theatre and performance. It asks how the critical re-signification of community aligns with these debates and, at the same time, opens new modes of critical analysis of community theatre and performance practice.Table of Contents 1. Preface – Enacting Community 2. Historical and theoretical perspectives on community-based theatre and performance practice 3. acta Community Theatre, the ‘cycle of engagement’ and a ‘community of [community theatre] practice’ 4. Yijala Yala – Creative Producing Cultural Livelihoods in the Pilbara 5. The Crossings (part of the Islands of Milwaukee): the agency of older bodies enacting pedestrian crossings 6. Articulating a community-engagement methodology in an authoritarian communitarian democracy - Drama Box’s IgnorLAND Of Its Time performing the ‘HDB nation’ at Bukit Ho Swee. 7. Epilogue
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Auseinandersetzung mit Brecht: Theater machen im
Book SynopsisDieses Buch ist ein Plädoyer für Bertolt Brechts anhaltende Bedeutung in einer Zeit, in der die Ereignisse des 21. Jahrhunderts nach einer studierten Art und Weise schreien, Theater für den sozialen Wandel zu produzieren. Hier wird ein einzigartiger Schritt-für-Schritt-Prozess für die Umsetzung von Brechts Arbeitsweisen auf der Bühne vorgestellt, wobei die 2015 an der Texas Tech University entstandene Produktion von Brechts "Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder" als Modell für die Erkundung dient. Besondere Brecht-Konzepte - das Epos, die Verfremdung, die Fabel, der Gestus, die Historisierung, die Literarisierung, das "Nicht...aber", das Arrangement und die Trennung der Elemente - werden erläutert und auf Szenen und Stücke angewendet. Brechts komplizierte Beziehung zu Konstantin Stanislawski wird auch in Bezug auf ihre unterschiedlichen Ansichten über das Schauspiel erforscht. Für Theaterpraktiker und -pädagogen ist dieser Band eine Aufzeichnung des pädagogischen Engagements, eine empirische Studie von Brechts Werk in der Aufführung an einer höheren Bildungseinrichtung mit Studenten und Absolventen.Dieses Buch ist eine Übersetzung einer englischen Originalausgabe. Die Übersetzung wurde mit Hilfe von künstlicher Intelligenz erstellt. Eine anschließende menschliche Überarbeitung erfolgte vor allem in Bezug auf den Inhalt, so dass sich das Buch stilistisch anders liest als eine herkömmliche Übersetzung.Table of Contents1. Warum sich mit Brecht beschäftigen?2. Fünf Inszenierungen von Mutter Courage: 1941, 1949, 1950, 1951 und 2015.3. Kollaborative Analyse.4. das Design-Team, Meta-Theatralität und Literarisierung.5. Erste Probe: Werkzeuge für Schauspieler, Status und Haltung.6. Proben der Schauspieler I: Arrangement.7. Die Schauspieler proben II: Von Augenblick zu Augenblick.8. Die Schauspieler proben III: Das Spielen der Ereignisse.9. Die Dokumentation der Arbeit: Das Modellbuch.10. Antworten und zukünftige Arbeit..
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Springer International Publishing AG Staging Deaf and Hearing Theatre Productions
Book SynopsisThis book explores an unacknowledged gap in theatre study and praxis, and establishes an inceptive model for transforming a playscript into a theatrical production involving deaf and hearing artists.
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Staging Thought: Essays on Irish Theatre,
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays showcases the rich diversity of current writing about Irish theatre. The volume includes perspectives from experts in scenography, physical theatre, dramaturgy and stand-up comedy, as well as academic contributions drawing from anthropology, psychology, sociology, gender studies and performance studies. Exploring plays, events, exhibitions, performances, and rehearsal and realization processes, the essays provide a stimulating analysis of the languages and procedures of theatre in Ireland. The book demonstrates that performance studies and practices are continuing to expand, suggesting that Ireland’s text-centric theatre has begun to cast its net further afield and pointing to the rich possibilities within Irish theatre, scholarship and practice, now and for the future.Table of ContentsContents: Thomas Kilroy: Foreword – Rhona Trench: Introduction - Staging Thought: Essays on Irish Theatre, Scholarship and Practice – Frank Conway: The Sound of One Hand Clapping – Rhona Trench: A Blend of Irish and European Theatre Process and Practice: Blue Raincoat Theatre Company’s Production of W.B. Yeats’s The Cat and the Moon (1926) – Carmen Szabo: Place and Non-Place: Discussing Physicality and Story in Barabbas Theatre Company’s Circus (2007) – Agnes Pallai: Cultural Differences in Staging Brian Friel’s Translations in Romania – Enrica Cerquoni: Ways of Seeing and the Womb-Theatre: Theatrical Space and Scenic Presentation in Marina Carr’s Ariel – Virginie Privas-Bréauté: The Actor’s Body as a Heterotopic Language in Bill Morrison’s The Marriage – Caoileann Thompson: Irish Theatre Studies in the Performance Age: The Case of Stewart Parker – Eamonn Jordan: ‘It Would Never Happen On The Waltons’: Enda Walsh’s The Walworth Farce – Eric Weitz: Sleight of Frame: Exploitations of Comic Feeling by Two Irish Playwrights – Suzanne Colleary: ‘God’s Comic’: Narratives of Performed Identity of Irish Stand-Up Comedian Tommy Tiernan – Fiona Fearon: Decoding the Audience: Enda Walsh’s Chatroom (2008) – Mary Caulfield: Fashion Advice: Constance Markievicz’s ‘Unmarked’, ‘Mismarked’ and ‘Remarkable’ Women – Michael Jaros: Broken Narratives, Performing Ruins: Yeats, Beckett and the Dramatic Landscape of Catastrophe – Christopher Collins: J.M. Synge, W.B. Yeats and The Changeling of the Western World – Shonagh Hill: Female Self-Authorship and Reperformance of the ‘Good Death’ in Marina Carr’s Woman and Scarecrow – Aoife McGrath: ‘The Less You Bump, The Faster You Go’?: Staged Scenes of Dissensus in CoisCéim’s Dodgems – Steve Wilmer: Theatre and Nation: Performing Statelessness in Ireland and Abroad – Holly Maples: Performing Cultural Trauma: The 1980 ‘A Sense of Ireland’ Festival.
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften The Cinema of the Swimming Pool
Book SynopsisThe swimming pool frequently appears in film not merely as a setting but as a dynamic site where social, political, cultural and aesthetic forces converge. What is it about this space that has so fascinated filmmakers and what kinds of cinematic investigations does it encourage? This collection features essays by an eclectic, international range of film researchers. Amongst the works analysed are classics such as The Cameraman (1928), The Philadelphia Story (1940) and La Piscine (1969); cult hits such as The Swimmer (1968) and Deep End (1970); and more recent representations of the pool in Water Lilies (2007), Sea Point Days (2009) and Ausente (2011). The pool is considered as a realm where artifice meets nature, where public meets private, where sexualities morph and blend; and as a space that reconfigures the relationship between architecture and narrative, in which themes of pollution, spectacle and reflexivity find unique expression. Approaching the swimming pool from a wide range of methodological perspectives, the essays in this collection stake a claim for the enduring significance of this exciting cinematic space.Table of ContentsContents: Christopher Brown/Pam Hirsch: Introduction: The Cinema of the Swimming Pool – Chris O’Rourke: The Municipal Plunge: Silent Cinema and the Social Life of Swimming Pools – Sheri Chinen Biesen: Cinematic Comedy and the Swimming Pool: Gender, Class, Coming of Age and Sexual Identity from The Philadelphia Story (1940) to Legally Blonde (2001) – Alex Naylor: ‘The Anatomy of Atavism’: American Urban Modernity, Gothic Trauma and Haunted Spaces in Cat People (1942) – Edward Saunders: From Stadium to Street: Generations and Gentrification in Berlin Pool Scenes – Axel Andersson: The Artifice of Modernity: Alienation by the Pool Side in the Cinema of Michelangelo Antonioni – Christopher Brown: The Pools of The Swimmer (1968): Exurbia, Topography, Decay – François Penz: Atmosphère d’Eau Sauvage: Reflections on La Piscine (1969) – Pam Hirsch: A Dangerous Age: Deep End (1970) – Rose Hepworth: Staging Embarrassment in The Last Picture Show (1971) and Morvern Callar (2002) – Monika Keska: Filming the Splash: David Hockney’s Swimming Pools on Film – Clara Garavelli: The Swimming Pool as a Site of Subversion during the Spanish Transition: The Case of Pepito piscina (1978) – Matilda Mroz: The Aesthetics of Overflow: Andrei Tarkovsky’s Nostalghia (1983) in Duration – Micah Trippe: Urban Guerilla Playfare, or Skating through Empty Cinematic Pools in Dogtown and Z Boys (2001) – Sophie Mayer: Gutta cavat lapidem: The Sonorous Politics of Lucrecia Martel’s Swimming Pools – Emma Wilson: ‘The sea nymphs tested this miracle’: Water Lilies (2007) and the Origin of Coral – Piotr Cieplak: Swimming in Post-apartheid Cape Town: Sea Point Days (2009) – Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns: Cartographies of Desire: Swimming Pools and the Queer Gaze.
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Bernard Shaw in Brazil: The Reception of
Book SynopsisIn 1927, the first production of Pygmalion was staged in Brazil. At the time, over 65 per cent of the adult Brazilian population was illiterate, which makes it all the more surprising that directors and producers dared to stage such a controversial playwright – a writer who had often been rejected by the more sophisticated theatregoer in England. This book analyses the reception of almost a century of Brazilian productions of Pygmalion, My Fair Lady, Arms and the Man, Candida and Mrs Warren’s Profession, setting that analysis in the context of the political, economic and cultural climate at the time of each production. What emerges is a faithful portrait of a country where theatre and theatre criticism are precariously established, and the theatregoer with no knowledge of English cannot be certain that the translation or adaptation they are watching bears anything more than a passing resemblance to the original. Nonetheless, Brazil has also witnessed a number of fine productions, presented by highly skilled actors and directors and reviewed by well-informed and articulate critics. As well as supplying fascinating detail on the wide range of Shaw productions staged in Brazil over the last ninety years, this volume also generates valuable insights into the complexities of twentieth-century Brazilian society.Table of ContentsContents: Pygmalion – My Fair Lady – Arms and the Man – Candida – Mrs Warren’s Profession.
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Diaphanes AG Nikolaj Evreinov – The Storming of the Winter
Book SynopsisIn 1920, on the third anniversary of the October Revolution, dramatist Nikolai Evreinov directed a cast of 10,000 actors, dancers, and circus performers as well as a convoy of armored cars and tanks in The Storming of the Winter Palace. The mass spectacle, presented in and around the real Winter Palace in Petrograd, was intended to recall the storming as the beginning of the October Revolution. But it was a deceptive reenactment because, in producing the events it sought to reenact, it created a new kind of theater, agit-drama, promulgating political propaganda and deliberately breaking down the distinction between performers and spectators.Nikolaj Evreinov: "The Storming of the Winter Palace" tells the fascinating story of this production. Taking readers through the relevant history, the authors describe the role of The Storming of the Winter Palace in commemorating Soviet power. With a wealth of illustrations, they also show how photographs of Evreinov's theatrical storming eventually became historical documents of the October Revolution themselves.
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Verlag Peter Lang Roger Blin: Collaborations and Methodologies
Book SynopsisRoger Blin's career in the Arts was woven inextricably into the fabric of the Twentieth-Century French Avant-Garde. First appearing in the films of Abel Gance, Marcel Carné and Jean Cocteau, his acting career led him to a close friendship and association with Antonin Artaud, for whom he performed the function of assistant director. He championed Samuel Beckett's En attendant Godot, otherwise rejected unanimously by the French theatrical establishment, was Jean Genet's director of choice and was long associated with artists and practitioners as diverse as Arthur Adamov, Jean-Louis Barrault and Jacques Prévert. Marxist in outlook, Blin also sought to apply rigorous humanist principles to his art and delighted in the opportunities he enjoyed to disrupt and upturn the attitudes and complacencies of certain of his audiences. This book surveys all aspects of Blin's artistic output to consider and clarify his motivations, his ambitions and his aesthetic preferences. In doing so, the author hopes to offer perspectives on the methodologies that Blin employed and define the influence his work and his legacy has exerted on the French and World stage.
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Das Theater der Elektrizität: Technologie und
Book SynopsisDas Theater der Moderne gründet sich auf ästhetische Energien. Seit den 1880er Jahren aber sind es elektrische Energien, aus fossilen Brennstoffen in Kraftwerken erzeugt, die im Theater zu zirkulieren beginnen. Installiert wird eine mysteriöse Entität, die noch als Lebenskraft gehandelt wird und schon für Fortschritt durch Technik steht. Mit der Elektrifizierung des Theaters wird Elektroindustrie respektabel und Bühnenkunst modernistisch. Entsorgt werden die Kulissen, die im Scheinwerferlicht nur noch verstaubt erscheinen, und aus der Bildermaschine wird Raumkunst. Doch wichtiger sind die institutionellen Transformationen, die sich in bislang unbeachteten Koalitionen, Kontinuitäten und Konkurrenzen von technischen und ästhetischen Dingen abspielen. Ingenieurswissen, Kontrolltechniken und Versorgungssysteme ändern, wie Theater und Gesellschaft verschaltet sind. Der Interaktionsraum (zwischen-)menschlicher Leiblichkeit des 20. Jahrhunderts entpuppt sich als eine technische Konstellation. Table of ContentsEinleitung.- 1. Inkandeszenz: Elektrische Einrichtungen und ihre hygienische Legitimation.- 2. Oxydation: Materielle Kultur und industrialisiertes Theater.- 3. Regulatoren: Kontrolltechniken und elektroästhetische Heilserwartungen.- 4. Fabrikation: Atmosphären und ihre technischen Grundlagen.- 5. Attraktionen: Elektrizitätsausstellungen und ihre Inszenierung.- 6. Kommunikation: Elektrische Medien und telegraphisches Welttheater.- 7. Industriepoesie: Getanzter Fortschritt und Zivilisation als Kaleidoskop.- 8. Leuchtkörper: Figurationen der Technik und begehrliche Projektionen.- 10. Kraftfelder: Wissenschaftstheater und die Räume der Elektrotechnik.- 11. Fazit: Ästhetik der Elektrizität.- Literaturverzeichnis.- Abbildungsverzeichnis.
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Eine Theaterlandschaft für Belgrad:
Book SynopsisIn the 19th century, Belgrade developed from an Ottoman-influenced provincial town to the capital of a nation-state. In this cultural history of the Belgrade theater landscape of the 19th and early 20th centuries, Marija Đokić shows that Serbian and European theater practices entered into a productive exchange and contributed to the formation of a national identity, the Europeanization of the Western Balkans and the emergence of the Yugoslav idea. The innovative study is based on a broad concept of theater, which not only focuses on the Serbian national theater, but also on music theater, variety shows or the circus. Đokić also explores the transnational interdependencies of the Belgrade theater world and the importance of the microcosm of theater for the cultural history of the young Balkan state. In this way, she manages to paint a fundamentally new picture of the Belgrade theater landscape and Serbian society between 1841 and 1914.
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Peter Lang AG The Path of a Character: Michael Chekhov's
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Peter Lang AG Theorie Und Praxis Des Chors in Der Moderne
Book SynopsisDie neueren Zeiten kennen den Chor kaum mehr als Bestandteil der Festkultur, deswegen ist seine Umsetzung im Theater ein großes Problem. Für Regisseure und Schauspieler wie auch für die Zuschauer war der Chor der fremdartigste Teil. Allerdings haben seit der deutschen Klassik Theatermacher dem Chor intensive Aufmerksamkeit geschenkt. Der Chor ist dabei nicht nur ein dramaturgisches Mittel, um eine Distanz zwischen Bühne und Zuschauer zu wahren, sondern auch ein wichtiges Mittel zur Herstellung einer neuen Theater- und Zuschauerkunst. Der Rekurs auf das antike Vorbild zielt somit nicht auf die Wiederbelebung dieses Vorbilds um seiner selbst willen, sondern auf die Eröffnung neuer Möglichkeiten für das moderne Theater im Ringen um ein neues Theaterkonzept. Unter diesem Gesichtspunkt analysiert die vorliegende Studie die höchst differenzierten Chorkonzepte der Moderne.
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Peter Lang AG Handbuch Angewandter Dramaturgie: Vom Geheimnis
Book SynopsisDramaturgie hat eine lange Tradition, auch im Bereich von Film und Fernsehen. In diesem Buch wird ein Überblick über dramaturgische Grundlagen und die Besonderheiten der Filmdramaturgie gegeben. Darüber hinaus wird auf Aspekte der Gestaltung von Games verwiesen. Kenntnisse der Filmdramaturgie ermöglichen es, einem Film, einer TV-Serie oder auch einem narrativen Game zu seiner bestmöglichen Entfaltung zu verhelfen, ohne diesem standardisierte Grenzen einer Formatvorlage aufzuerlegen. Ebenso kann eine Kenntnis der Filmdramaturgie die Analyse von audio-visuellen Werken unterstützen, um die künstlerische Prozesse erkennen, verstehen und gestalten zu können, die dessen Erfolg beeinflussen. Es werden Traditionen und Modelle der Filmdramaturgie an bekannten Beispielen sowie aus der Praxiserfahrung heraus und für diese anwendbar diskutiert.
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Peter Lang AG The Kinetics of the Invisible: Acting Processes
Book SynopsisWhat’s the role played by the invisible in our lives? At what level can it be perceived when explored in theatre-making? Having as its focus the acting processes carried out by Peter Brook and his actors, this book examines many aspects of their practical work – from actor training seen as "poiesis" to the production of the "present moment" – and in doing so, it tries to recognize the nuances and subtle qualities generated by the invisible produced by them. However, the core of this investigation is that of trying to capture the invisible not as a vague sensation but in its dynamic and powerful manifestation.Table of ContentsInvisible – Acting – Theatre – Experience – Liminarity – Peter Brook
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Peter Lang AG Modernizing Practice Paradigms for New Music:
Book SynopsisThe author examines how new music scores with extended playing techniques call for new practice structures. YouTube access to basic instructional videos and the streaming of sound files allows musicians today to learn easily and independently. Yet, the trailblazers in new music tackled new scores without these aids; they used imagination, experimentation and tenacity. Conscious use of both learning modalities can augment ideas of practice and performance preparation; expanding new music’s reach while preserving its fire. Practice is differentiated between the quick learning for an upcoming performance and the transformative learning that new music offers. Periodization theory from sport science provides a pedagogical framework for building both mental and physical stamina leading to peak performance.Table of ContentsContents: Using extended techniques to diagnose and reframe technical issues and to promote flow – A work ethic against mediocrity – Mental preparation – Physical preparation – Building stamina through extended techniques – Periodization of Heinz Holliger’s (t)air(e) – A periodized daily studies program.
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Peter Lang AG The Second Birth of Theatre: Performances of
Book SynopsisThis book presents a new approach to early English theatre by exposing a genuine relationship between monastic performances and theatricality. It argues that modern theatre was reinvented in Anglo-Saxon monasteries by monks who were required to transform themselves by disciplining their bodies and performing complex religious acts. After extensively surveying the monastic and liturgical sources of theatre the author reconstructs the XII-century staging of the Anglo-Norman «Ordo representacionis Ade» and demonstrates the fundamental incongruity between the ancient and Christian performativity. On a more personal note he concludes with comments on references to the monastic rule in «Performer», a programmatic text by Jerzy Grotowski.Trade Review«[...] dem Autor [ist] ein inspirierendes, reich bebildertes Buch gelungen, dessen Übersetzung sich gelohnt hat und das von einem breiten Wissen des Verfassers zeugt.» (Jörg Sonntag, H-Soz-Kult Nov. 2017)BR> Vollständige Rezension hier lesenTable of ContentsCaedmon – Monk as performer – Anglo-Saxon liturgy – Regularis Concordia – Monasticism – Body performances – Church and theatre – Medieval theatre – Transubstantiation – Mass – Christian performing arts – Performativity – Quem quaeritis – Ordo Representacionis Ade – Jerzy Grotowski
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Peter Lang AG Entrevistas con creadoras del cine español
Book SynopsisEste libro recoge una serie de entrevistas y encuentros con mujeres cineastas del siglo XXI cuyas voces están redibujando la cinematografía nacional, a menudo, desde los márgenes de la industria. La introducción perfila el contexto de esta emergencia y las principales líneas discursivas, subrayando el surgimiento de redes más o menos formales que permiten pensarse de manera colectiva. Las entrevistas, realizadas por especialistas en cine español y acompañadas de retratos ex profeso, exploran sus trayectorias laborales y vitales, sus aportaciones artísticas y las particularidades del quehacer fílmico en clave de género. Las experiencias de creadoras diversas cuya obra se adscribe a la ficción, el documental y la animación ofrecen una mirada poliédrica y descentrada al cine contemporáneo.
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Peter Lang AG Cine de Mujeres Y Cine Queer: Cartografías del
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Peter Lang AG El detective mutante: Las adaptaciones
Book SynopsisPepe Carvalho, el singular detective creado por Manuel Vâazquez Montalbâan, ha sido el personaje literario mâas adaptado por los medios audiovisuales espaänoles desde la reinstauraciâon de la democracia. Durante el periodo 1976-2005 ha sido objeto de tres pelâiculas, una serie de televisiâon y once telefilmes. Fuertemente connotado ideolâogicamente por su autor, su vida literaria, pero tambiâen la audiovisual, se entrecruza con los cambios de la sociedad espaänola. Este libro propone, a travâes del exhaustivo estudio de las diferentes adaptaciones de Carvalho, un anâalisis de câomo el cine y la televisiâon han recogido e intervenido en dichos cambios, basâandose en tres ejes: el polâitico, el cultural y el espacial.
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Peter Lang AG Diferentes. Estrellas queer transnacionales Y
Book SynopsisDesde finales de los años cuarenta, fue configurándose un cine clásico compartido entre España y Latinoamérica repleto de coproducciones, intercambios de profesionales e intensos diálogos entre culturas nacionales. Nacieron así muchas películas musicales que explotaron la popularidad transnacional de diversas estrellas y formas musicales. Este libro estudia las dimensiones queer y transnacionales de cuatro destacadas estrellas, Luis Mariano, Miguel de Molina, Pedrito Rico y Alfredo Alaria, que desarrollaron sus carreras en España, pero también en otros países, prestando especial atención a sus complicadas relaciones con la dictadura franquista, con cuyo restrictivo y homófobo marco discursivo negociaron la visibilidad de lo queer, abriendo brechas para la expresión no heteronormativa.
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Peter Lang AG Medien Und Wirklichkeit Im Kino François Ozons
Book SynopsisUm das Jahr 2000 ist vielfach von einer medial bedingten Entwirklichung' des Realen die Rede, als deren Auslöser der digitale Medienumbruch gilt. Regine Leitenstern untersucht, wie sich die Filme zweier der profiliertesten Vertreter des europäischen Autorenkinos innerhalb dieses Diskurses positionieren: François Ozon und Pedro Almodóvar. Anders als die Mehrzahl angelsächsischer Produktionen, die sich diesem Thema widmen, nehmen die Werke Ozons und Almodóvars nicht auf neue digitale, sondern auf deutlich ältere Medien Bezug. Mittels intermedialer Referenzen auf Literatur, Theater und den Film selbst verhandeln sie ein bestimmtes Verhältnis von Realität, Inszenierung und Fiktion, das Aufschluss darüber gibt, wie sie sich innerhalb der Diskussion um ein Verschwinden' von Wirklichkeit verorten lassen.
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Peter Lang AG Actuación y neurociencias: Nuevas perspectivas
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Books on Demand Du kannst singen!: Wie improvisierte Lieder
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Books on Demand Kulturdenkmäler und Kunstwerke im öffentlichen
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Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig Rimini Protokoll
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Books on Demand Unheimliche Fakten über Drachenlord: Von Vampiren
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Books on Demand Hochspezielle Fakten über Jens Knossalla: Von
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Books on Demand Pride Month Love is Love: LBGTQ Notizbuch 4mm
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Books on Demand In Noahs Arche
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Hatje Cantz Reza Abdoh
Book SynopsisOver a brief, twelve-year career, the Iranian director and playwright Reza Abdoh broke all of the conventions of American theater, pushing actors and audiences past their limits to create hallucinatory, at times nightmarish, dreamscapes shot through with humor, song, and an unlikely spirituality. His productions addressed the bitter political realities of his time— the systemic devaluation of black life, governmental indifference to the AIDS crisis, sexual repression, genocide in Europe, and war in the Middle East—with harrowing eloquence. Just before his death he ordered that his plays should never be performed again. Profusely illustrated, the catalogue contains new essays on the influence and reception of Abdoh’s works in theater, film, and video, published and unpublished interviews with the director, and conversations with his friends and colleagues, as well as scripts of his plays and contemporary reviews.
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Transcript Verlag Inheriting Dance: An Invitation from Pina
Book Synopsis"Inheriting Dance. An Invitation from Pina" sets out at the historical moment we found ourselves in after the passing of Pina Bausch. The Pina Bausch Foundation started their work of carrying the artistic heritage of dancer and choreographer Pina Bausch into the future. This book reflects discussions and questions aroused by her work: How to archive dance? How to deal with the performative heritage at the outset of the 21st century? How to describe the performativity of remembering? And finally, what is the task of an archive for tomorrow, an archive to serve as a workshop for the future? Furthermore, "Inheriting Dance" provides profound insight into the practical work of the Pina Bausch Foundation, on a local, national and global level, aiming at an archive as a place of transformation, exchange, creative production, and artistic practice, similar to an abundantly growing garden. A place for future generations of dancers, artists, non-professionals, and scholars. Contributions by Salomon Bausch, Stephan Brinkmann, Royd Climenhaga, Katharina Kelter, Gabriele Klein, Sharon Lehner, Keziah Claudine Nanevie, Linda Seljimi, Bernhard Thull, Michelle Urban and Marc Wagenbach.
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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon The Marowitz Compendium
Book SynopsisCharles Marowitz was the first American to direct at the Royal Shakespeare Company and the first American to direct at the Czech National Theatre (while collaborating with Vaclav Havel). Known as a maverick playwright, director, and critic, he nurtured numerous figures who have come to shape contemporary theatre and larger society. Without Marowitz the theories and ideas of Antonin Artaud would remain obscure. The entire trajectory and ecology of theatre and performance since the 1960s have been considerably influenced by this alone. The present-day popularity of immersive theatre was a mode of performance introduced to the British theatre by Charles Marowitz and Allan Kaprow in the famous Happening at the 1963 Edinburgh Drama Conference. In 1968 Marowitz started the Open Space Theatre on Tottenham Court Road in collaboration with Thelma Holt. There is a gap in our collective understanding of this important figure and a gap in currently available literature about him. The Marowitz Compendium seeks to spark a revaluation. The audience for this book includes students, postgraduates, specialists and general readers interested in drama and the history of contemporary theatre.
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Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial El maleficio de la mariposa / The Butterfly's Evil Spell
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Speaking Tiger Publishing Private Limited The Scenes We Made: An Oral History of
Book SynopsisThis book, the first to document the significant work carried out in these places, transports us back to a time of fearless experimentation in theatre.
£16.62
The American University in Cairo Press Alif 39: Transnational Drama: Theater and
Book SynopsisThis issue of Alif explores drama in its many manifestations-—textual plays, performances, folk drama, choreographed story-telling, staged poetry recitals, and protest songs—as well as presenting modes of directing and production, comparative dramaturgy, specialized theater journals, experimental and independent troupes, testimonies and interviews. The issue covers dramatic works from eighteenth-century France to twenty-first century Britain and covers geographically Senegal to Lebanon, the US to China, while highlighting major dramatists from Egypt, Syria, and Morocco. The translations in this issue cover manifestos towards a new Arab Theater and an introduction to the recently published plays of Frantz Fanon.
£67.50
NUS Press Tall Tree, Nest of the Wind: The Javanese
Book SynopsisJavanese shadow puppetry is a sophisticated dramatic form, often felt to be at the heart of Javanese culture, drawing on classic texts but with important contemporary resonance in fields like religion and politics. How to make sense of the shadow-play as a form of world-making? In Tall Tree, Nest of the Wind, Bernard Arps explores this question by considering an all-night performance of Dewa Ruci, a key play in the repertoire. Thrilling and profound, Dewa Ruci describes the mighty Bratasena’s quest for the ultimate mystical insight.The book presents the Dewa Ruci as rendered by the distinguished master puppeteer Ki Anom Soeroto in Amsterdam in 1987. The book’s unusual design presents the performance texts together with descriptions of the sounds and images that would remain obscure in conventional formats of presentation. Copious annotations probe beneath the surface and provide an understanding of the performance as a highly sophisticated and multi-layered creation. These annotations explain the meanings of puppet action, music, and shifts in language; how the puppeteer wove together into the drama the circumstances of the performance in Amsterdam, Islamic and other religious ideas, and references to contemporary Indonesian politics. Also revealed is the performance’s historical multilayering and the picture it paints of the Javanese past. Tall Tree, Nest of the Wind not only presents an unrivalled insight into the artistic depth of wayang kulit, it exemplifies a new field of study, the philology of performance.Trade Review"This voluminous and meticulously crafted book is different from the currently 'normal' books in the Indonesian Studies that are often revised versions of PhD theses. Rather, it represents the result of almost thirty years of work [...] Annotations and appendices make up the remaining roughly 200 pages. It is these annotations, together with the Introduction, that make the book so valuable, as they contain in-depth explanations and references to the rich body of scholarly knowledge of Javanese philology. [...] In other words, Tall Tree, Nest of the Wind might represent an example of a sub-field of Indonesian studies that is increasingly rare. — Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft (ZDMG)
£44.66
Midsea Books Manoel Theatre Maltas National Theatre
Book SynopsisTeatru Manoel is a historical monument of global importance and a living temple of the performing arts. Built in 1731 by order of Grand Master Antonio Manoel de Vilhena, whose name it still bears, it remains today one of the finest examples of theatre architecture in Europe. Named as one of the 15 most beautiful theatres by CNN in May 2014, the Manoel is also one of the oldest working' theatres in the world and is Malta's national theatre. As incumbent custodians of this priceless gem, it is our responsibility not only to preserve and enhance it but also to sustain its relevance for the present and above all, the future. This book aims to present the many other facets that make up the institution that is the Manoel. First and foremost there is the theatre's role in the cultural environment of Malta as well as Europe. Secondly, there is the rich and chequered history of this 283-year-old building which has survived plagues, invasions, blockades, stiff competition, wars and economic dow
£32.00
