Theatre studies Books
Johns Hopkins University Press Nightmare Factories
Book SynopsisHow the insane asylum came to exert such a powerful hold on the American imagination. Madhouse, funny farm, psychiatric hospital, loony bin, nuthouse, mental institution: no matter what you call it, the asylum has a powerful hold on the American imagination. Stark and foreboding, they symbolize mistreatment, fear, and imprisonment, standing as castles of despair and tyranny across the countryside. In the asylum of American fiction and film, treatments are torture, attendants are thugs, and psychiatrists are despots. In Nightmare Factories, Troy Rondinone offers the first history of mental hospitals in American popular culture. Beginning with Edgar Allan Poe's 1845 short story The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether, Rondinone surveys how American novelists, poets, memoirists, reporters, and filmmakers have portrayed the asylum and how those representations reflect larger social trends in the United States. Asylums, he argues, darkly reflect cultural anxieties and the shortcomings of Trade ReviewWill appeal to a broad range of readers, from academics interested in the history of medicine and popular culture, to general readers seeking social history rooted in an imaginative variety of sources.—Library JournalTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 Chapter 1. The Enchanter's Castle Chapter 2: Woman in White, Angel in Black Chapter 3: Monsters of the Asylum Chapter 4: Freudian Rescues Chapter 5: The Dawning Age of Paranoia Chapter 6: They're Coming to Take You Away Chapter 7: The Asylum Next Door Chapter 8: Asylums Don't Work Chapter 9: Breakout Chapter 10: Standardization Chapter 11: Return of the Gothic Epilogue: Real Horrors NotesInde0
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Johns Hopkins University Press Baroque Modernity
Book SynopsisA groundbreaking study on the vital role of baroque theater in shaping modernist philosophy, literature, and performance. Finalist for the Outstanding Book Award by the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, Honorable Mention for the Balakian Prize by the International Comparative Literature Association, Winner of the Helen Tartar Book Subvention Award by the American Comparative Literature Association, Finalist of the MSA First Book Prize by the Modernist Studies AssociationBaroque stylewith its emphasis on ostentation, adornment, and spectaclemight seem incompatible with the dominant forms of art since the Industrial Revolution, but between 1875 and 1935, European and American modernists connected to the theater became fascinated with it. In Baroque Modernity, Joseph Cermatori argues that the memory of seventeenth-century baroque stages helped produce new forms of theater, space, and experience around the turn of the twentieth century. In response, modern theater helped give Table of ContentsIllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsOn "Baroque"Introduction: Toward an Orphic ModernismChapter 1. Overcoming Ascetic Style: Nietzsche and the Transvaluation of the BaroqueChapter 2. The Matter of Spectacle: Mallarmé and the Futures of Theatrical OstentationChapter 3. Landscapes of Melancholy: Benjamin, Trauerspiel, and the Pathways of TraditionChapter 4. The Citability of Baroque Gesture: Unsettling SteinEpilogue: Glancing Back, Reaching ForwardNote on TranslationsNotesBibliography Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press Hold It Real Still
Book SynopsisHow did the American western feature film genre rebrand itself in the late seventies and respond to the fury of global and domestic political affairs?In Hold It Real Still, Lawrence Jackson examines Clint Eastwood's influence on the western film while also exploring how that genre continues to operate into the twenty-first century as an ideological channel for ideas about race and imperialism. Jackson argues that the western genre pivoted from an initial doctrine of racial liberalism, albeit a clumsy one, during the John Wayne years to a motile agenda of substitution, exclusion, and false equivalency during the Clint Eastwood period. The book traces how Eastwood, an actor first associated with the avant-garde, anti-colonialist discourse of spaghetti western cinema, reversed himself in the second half of the 1970s with The Outlaw Josey Walesa film that had at its heart the fantasy of Black erasure from American life. Jackson situates Eastwood's work as a response to massive social and pTable of ContentsIntroductionChapter One. Black Representations in the WesternChapter Two. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and Critique of the Colonial AftermathChapter Three. "That Damn War": The Outlaw Josey Wales and Reframing the Civil WarChapter Four. "Hold It Real Still": Black Containment and Structures of Inequality in The Outlaw Josey WalesChapter Five. "Their Slaves, If Any They Have, Are Hereby Declared Free Men": Ride with the Devil and the Contraband as Decorative AdjunctChapter Six. "I Am That One in Ten Thousand": Django Unchained and the Black Exceptional StateChapter Seven. "Why Don't They Kill Us?" Django Unchained and the Politics of Deadly ForceConclusion. The Return of the NativeAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Madness at the Movies
Book SynopsisA unique exploration of how mental illness is portrayed in classic and contemporary films. The study of classic and contemporary films can provide a powerful avenue to understand the experience of mental illness. In Madness at the Movies, James Charney, MD, a practicing psychiatrist and long-time cinephile, examines films that delve deeply into characters' inner worlds, and he analyzes moments that help define their particular mental illness. Based on the highly popular course that Charney taught at Yale University and the American University of Rome, Madness at the Movies introduces readers to films that may be new to them and encourages them to view these films in an entirely new way. Through films such as Psycho, Taxi Driver, Through a Glass Darkly, Night of the Hunter, A Woman Under the Influence, Ordinary People, and As Good As It Gets, Charney covers an array of disorders, including psychosis, paranoia, psychopathy, depression, bipolar disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, a
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Johns Hopkins University Press Jane Austen and the Price of Happiness
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Hal Leonard Corporation Hollywood Musicals Year by Year Applause Books
Book SynopsisHOLLYWOOD MUSICALS: YEAR BY YEAR UPDATED AND REVISED EDITION
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Hal Leonard Corporation Theatre World
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Hal Leonard Corporation The Entertainment Source Book 2011 The
Book SynopsisENTERTAINMENT SOURCEBOOK 2011-2012
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Hal Leonard Corporation The Broadway Musical Quiz Book
Book SynopsisÊThe Broadway Musical Quiz BookÊ includes nearly 80 quizzes on every aspect of the Broadway musical including sections devoted to the careers of major Broadway stars songwriters directors and producers ranging from Ethel Merman to Stephen Sondheim. It also features thematic quizzes ä such as musicals set in France adaptations from literature food and drink British shows references to sports biographical shows and jukebox musicals ä and quizzes covering each decade from 1900 to the present. With over 700 shows mentioned and over 1200 questions ÊThe Broadway Musical Quiz BookÊ is detailed and thorough: the answer section doesn''t merely list the answers it provides further information on the quizzes'' subjects (and often on wrong answers too!). ÊThe Broadway Musical Quiz BookÊ is more than just a compendium of trivia; it''s a anecdotal history of musical theatre with something for everyone who loves The Great White Way!
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Trafford Publishing Theatre For Living The Art and Science of CommunityBased Dialogue
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Outskirts Press A Survival Guide for Stage Managers A Practical StepByStep Handbook to Stage Management
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Peter Lang Publishing Inc Repressive Regimes Aesthetic States and Arts of
Book SynopsisRepressive Regimes, Aesthetic States, and Arts of Resistance investigates the tensions between politics and aesthetics by exploring the ways in which various arts are mobilized in the service of political repression and human emancipation. Building upon theories of the arts/politics and aesthetics/states relation, the book utilizes illuminating historical case studies to reveal the roles public arts have played in the construction of different types of aesthetic states: in ancient Rome during the transition from Republic to Empire, in modern Europe during the transition from feudalism to capitalism, and in the postmodern United States under the conditions of advanced capitalism. After comparing theories to practices of statecraft, the book goes on to explore contemporary arts of resistance against corrupt corporate practices and repressive political regimes. In light of these examples, it becomes evident there is an ongoing world-historical battle between those who aestheticize
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Peter Lang Publishing Inc Romantic Actors and Bardolatry
Book SynopsisBardolatry, that whimsical term referring to Shakespeare's rise to canonical status as well as to his worshippers' adulation, solidified within the theatrical discourses of the eighteenth century and the British Romantic era. Celestine Woo examines the era's four most celebrated Shakespeare performers in London David Garrick, John Philip Kemble, Sarah Siddons, and Edmund Kean arguing that they broadened and altered the boundaries of Shakespearean discourse in specific ways, offering and modeling novel paradigms by which to apprehend Shakespeare, and thus contributing to the growth of bardolatry as a discursive phenomenon. Using Pierre Bourdieu as a model, Woo traces the development of Shakespearean discourse as a field of cultural production, shaped by these actors. By examining their disparate approaches to performing Shakespeare, she reveals that Shakespeare as an icon became commodified, politicized, gendered, and increasingly appropriated within literary and dramatic discourse asTrade Review«‘Romantic Actors and Bardolatry’ persuasively demonstrates that the best-known actors of the Romantic period not only helped shape the critical discourse on Shakespeare but also produced a body of theory that rivals critics and scholars of the age. By examining the writings of Garrick, Kemble, Siddons, and Kean – and the effects that their interpretations had on a culture increasingly drawn to the celebrity of its actors and its most famous playwright – Celestine Woo broadens our understanding of the history of Romantic criticism and theory. Her book makes the case that the actor as scholar is an important topic of analysis for all theatre historians.» (Catherine Burroughs, Wells College) «‘Romantic Actors and Bardolatry’ joins an impressive body of work on the theatre that has been transforming our understanding of Romantic-period literature and cultural production more broadly. Woo’s distinctive approach here is to consider the decisive and often quite calculated role that the leading Shakespearean performers of the age (Garrick, Kemble, Siddons, and Kean) played in the development of ‘bardolatry’, the treatment of Shakespeare as national icon and cultural commodity. Through close studies that range from stage gesture and elocution to theatre reviews and emerging scholarly analysis, Woo reminds us of just how central Shakespearean performance was to the development of Romantic culture, particularly where character and the passions are concerned. Indeed, the tendency to understand Shakespeare in terms of character, easily treated as a reductive Romantic development, emerges here as an opening on to a rich field of cultural possibilities. Romantic Actors and Bardolatry is particularly astute in its treatment of transactions between stage performance and critical reviewing, so that we witness performers responding to the press, even as familiar theorists of the arts (particularly Hazlitt) are conditioned by styles of contemporary performance.» (Kevin Gilmartin, University of York)
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Peter Lang Publishing Inc Athenas Justice
Book SynopsisAthena is recognized as an allegory or representative of Athens in most Athenian public art except in tragedy. Perhaps this is because tragedy is rarely studied as a public art form or, perhaps, because her character is not static in tragedy. Although Athena's characterization changes to fit the needs of a particular drama, her clear connection with justice remains true throughout and suggests that she is always the representative of the city and its institutions. Athens, the city Athena protected, experienced a dramatic transformation in the fifth century: its political institutions, physical landscape, military power and international prestige underwent dynamic change. Athena, its goddess and its symbol, simultaneously transformed as well, although not always for the better. Athena's Justice follows the question of civic identity and ideology in Athenian tragedy, focusing specifically on the link between tragedy and its influence upon identity creation and promotion durinTrade Review«Rebecca Futo Kennedy’s book is a welcome addition to the political readings of Greek tragedy. Her attempt to tie the representations of Athena in surviving plays to changes in Athenian self-understanding and imperial fortunes is at once provocative and nuanced. The connections she makes between history, politics, and literature will interest scholars of many stripes.» (Geoff Bakewell, Associate Professor of Classics, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska) «This is an adventurous and original study that explores important questions, and proposes some unexpected new answers, concerning the relationship between religion, politics, morality and Athenian self-image in the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. As a model of justice, moderation and wise leadership, the goddess Athena was a powerful symbol to the Athenians of their own city’s claims to cultural and political supremacy, and Rebecca Futo Kennedy shows skillfully how this symbol was deployed – and sometimes qualified and questioned – in their theatrical productions.» (Mark Griffith, Professor of Classics, and of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies, University of California, Berkeley)
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Peter Lang Publishing Inc Buffoonery in Irish Drama
Book SynopsisGenerations of Irish playwrights have tried to assert the reputation of the stage Irish figure as other than comic, but each effort was in its turn assailed as buffoonery. Using post-colonial and performative theory, Buffoonery in Irish Drama demonstrates the ways the Irish struggled to create a sense of identity in a colonial structure, and it explores the distortion and appropriation of that new identity that elicit further calls to eradicate negative stereotypes. Demonstrating the pervasiveness of the reclamation efforts, Buffoonery in Irish Drama covers a wide range of well-known and obscure plays to show the trajectory of twentieth-century drama that brings us into a globalized twenty-first-century Ireland.Trade Review«This eminently readable study illuminates a lively panorama of twentieth-century Irish plays, examining them against the context of Ireland’s rich (and changing) culture and demonstrating the pervasiveness of central concerns. Kathleen Heininge’s thought-provoking approach is sophisticated and sensible. She has a wide-ranging familiarity with key theoretical and dramatic texts, a sharp awareness of audience and performance, and an ability to provide a coherent synthesis helpful for a range of readers. Heininge’s innovative analysis yields new ways of thinking about familiar plays and introduces a variety of less familiar plays about which we should begin to think. Buffoonery in Irish Drama is essential reading as background from which to consider the emergence of twenty-first-century Irish drama.» (Helen Lojek, Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, Boise State University, Idaho)
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Peter Lang Publishing Inc Jane Smiley Jonathan Franzen Don DeLillo
Book SynopsisThe novels of Jane Smiley, Jonathan Franzen, and Don DeLillo propose new readings of justice in contemporary American literature. Jason S. Polley argues that such distinctive writers as Smiley, Franzen, and DeLillo reconfigure what he calls acts of justice in various modalities and spaces. These authors re-conceptualize justice in their portrayals of peripheral groups, such as women, minorities, and outcasts. In lieu of fictionalizing justice in conventional courtrooms, these writers' narratives make a virtue of representing the undetermined and everyday presence of justice. As a result, Smiley, Franzen, and DeLillo succeed in demonstrating the ordinariness of personal concerns with justice. Loosely tracing a legacy of justice in American literature, this book also compares contemporary American narratives to canonized earlier American novels, such as Melville's Moby Dick, James's The Bostonians, and Norris's McTeague. The book likewise examines contemporary writer
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Peter Lang Publishing Inc Immigration and Contemporary British Theater
Book SynopsisImmigration and Contemporary British Theater: Finding a Home on the Stage analyzes how contemporary British theater has responded to post-war immigration to the United Kingdom through its depictions of home and domestic life. Bridging literary analysis, theater history, and migration studies, the book examines the ways that immigration to the United Kingdom has reshaped British theatrical culture and inspired new conceptions of Britishness and of communal belonging. Furthermore, it examines how immigrant theater artists from widely varying backgrounds (geographical, educational, cultural) have worked within and around existing theatrical institutions in Britain.
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Peter Lang Publishing Inc Authentic Blackness Real Blackness
Book SynopsisAuthentic Blackness Real Blackness explores and explains the idea of authenticity, of keeping it real, as it relates to the multi-faceted meanings of blackness in the United States and the world. Including reflections on hip-hop, comedy, literature, intellectual history, and autobiography, the collection gives both a broad overview of and intervenes in the debates concerning blackness. A comprehensive introductory essay outlines the history of the idea of authentic blackness, while other chapters examine the contours of blackness in Canada and Jamaica; the relationship between middle-class status and real blackness; the link between blackness and hip-hop culture; Dave Chappelle's comedy; and the work of James Baldwin, Countee Cullen, Clarence Major, and John Edgar Wideman as it comments on authenticity in relation to race.Table of ContentsContents: Martin Japtok/Rafiki Jenkins: What Does It Mean to Be «Really» Black? A Selective History of Authentic Blackness – Dara N. Byrne/Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The «Defining» Problem of Black Authenticity in Canada: Real Slang and the Grammar of Cultural Hybridity – David M. Jones: Privileging the Popular at What Price? A Discussion of Joan Morgan, Hip Hop, Feminism, and Radical Politics – Antonio T. Tiongson Jr.: Claiming Hip Hop: Authenticity Debates, Filipino DJs, and Contemporary U.S. Racial Formations – Wendy Alexia Rountree: «Faking the Funk»: A Journey Towards Authentic Blackness – Gregory Stephens: Brown Boy Blues…inna Jamaica – Joy Viveros: Black Authenticity, Racial Drag, and the Case of Dave Chappelle – Jonathan Shandell: How Black Do You Want It? Countee Cullen and the Contest for Racial Authenticity on Page and Stage – Monika Gehlawat: Peculiar Irresolution: James Baldwin and Flânerie – Benjamin D. Carson: «Many forces at work»: Clarence Major’s Early Fiction and the Critique of Racial Economy – Ian Reilly: «Isn’t the whole point of writing to escape what people not me think of me»: The Failure of Language and the Search for Authenticity in Philadelphia Fire and God’s Gym.
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Peter Lang Publishing Inc El Criminal Imaginado
Book SynopsisEl criminal imaginado: Estética, ética y política en la ficción latinoamericana (19902010) analiza películas y novelas donde los personajes principales son o se vuelven criminales. El protagonismo del delincuente en la cultura latinoamericana contemporánea desplaza al detective en su rol estelar del clásico policial inglés o estadounidense. Estas ficciones no buscan restablecer la ley y el orden, ya que el criminal imaginado indica el deseo de cambiar su entorno; por ello, transgrede las limitaciones de su género, raza o clase social. Ahora bien, la producción cultural reciente dista de ser uniforme. Por ello, este texto propone un espectro que comienza con objetos culturales sobre el narcotráfico, donde el criminal reúne características del criminal corporativo, el gánster y el noble bandido. En este retrato del narcotraficante, quien manda es el consumo y la circulación de mercancías y capital. La gama de criminales imaginados continúa con ficciones donde los delitos se deben Trade ReviewEl criminal imaginado nos invita a un recorrido critico y urgente por una parte indispensable de la cultura latinoamericana de los ultimos veinte anos. Con pasion y un estilo dialogico que atrapa al lector, con lecturas brillantes de novelas, peliculas y documentales - argentinos, uruguayos y venezolanos - este libro entrega una reflexion innovadora y refrescante sobre las relaciones entre etica, crimen, poder, politica y estetica. Cristina Miguez Cruz pone de cabeza los tiempos que corren, proponiendo una busqueda politica y estetica que rompe con el espectaculo neoliberal reinante. Una notable intervencion estetica y politica en el campo de la cultura latinoamericana, desde lo mejor de los criminales que imaginamos. (Daniel Noemi Voionmaa, Profesor asociado del departamento de lenguas, literaturas y culturas, Universidad Northeastern, Boston)
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Peter Lang Publishing Inc El juramento ante Dios y lealtad contra el amor
Book SynopsisLusitanian playwrights who wrote comedias during and after the Dual Monarchy (15801640), when the Portuguese and Spanish thrones were united under Habsburg rule, continue to be largely unexplored. This edition highlights the contributions of one of this group's most successful and celebrated members, Jacinto Cordeiro. It describes the sparse critical attention that Cordeiro has received as well as his life, literary career, and historical context. Most importantly, it provides a modern critical edition of Cordeiro's most enduring play, El juramento ante Dios, y lealtad contra el amor, based on a collation of the twenty-one extant witnesses that comprise its textual tradition. Additionally, it includes an in-depth account of the transmission of the play with a stemma that documents the genealogical relationships between extant versions. It also provides an analysis of how Juramento may have been performed for seventeenth-century theatergoers, based on stage directio
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Peter Lang Publishing Inc Funciones de genero
Book SynopsisEste libro examina seis obras que representan en escena tanto la sociedad latinoamericana como la peninsular, y dan voz a la desestabilización de los discursos hegemónicos de género, mostrando la arbitrariedad de los mismos. Las autoras elegidas para el análisis son la española Lourdes Ortiz, la mexicana Sabina Berman y la argentina Diana Raznovich. Las dramaturgas estudiadas abordan desde diferentes puntos de vista: el mito, la historia y el arquetipo, los intereses que esconde la ideología dominante, con el propósito común de cuestionar los discursos que dictan el comportamiento genérico e imponen un sistema de desigualdades genéricas y sexuales. Las obras recogidas en este estudio son: Electra-Babel (1992) y Fedra (2013), de Lourdes Ortiz; Águila o sol (1985) y Entre Villa y una mujer desnuda (1995), de Sabina Berman; y Casa matriz (1988) y De atrás para adelante (2000), de Diana Raznovich.
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Peter Lang Publishing Inc Prismatic Reflections on Spanish Golden Age
Book SynopsisThis volume, organized in five major sections, honors the myriad scholarly contributions of Matthew D. Stroud to the field of Early Modern Spanish theater. Building upon Stroud's seminal studies, each section of essays simultaneously claims and wrestles with aspects of the rich legacy generated by his explorations. The essays included in this volume consider the moral, ethical, and legal backdrop of uxoricide, explorations of the meaningful intersections of psychoanalytic theory and the comedia, and engage the topics of women, gender, and identity. They also bridge the gap between dramatist and actors and between page and stage as they consider everything from the physical demands on Early Modern actresses to the twenty-first-century performance possibilities of comedias. Moreover, these essays incorporate studies that transcend temporal, spatial, political, and cultural limits, continuing to push at the edges of traditional scholarship characteristic of Stroud's pioneeriTable of ContentsContents: David J. Hildner: Wife-Murder Deflected: How Stage Husbands’ Prudence and Ingenuity Lead to Differing Outcomes – Susan L. Fischer: «Nada me digas»: Silencing and Silence in Comedia Domestic Relationships – Katrina M. Heil: Mencía as Tragic Hero in Calderón’s El médico de su honra – Ezra Engling: We Too Suffer: Calderón’s Honor Husbands – William R. Blue: El médico de su honra: A Crisis of Interpretation – Manuel Delgado: Incest, Natural Law and Social Order in El castigo sin venganza – Gwyn E. Campbell: Duelling (Dis)Honour in Mira de Amescua’s La adúltera virtuosa – Christopher Weimer: Ovid, Gender, and the Potential for Tragedy in Don Gil de las calzas verdes – Barbara F. Weissberger: The Queen’s Dreams: Lope’s Representation of Queen Isabel I in El mejor mozo de España and El niño inocente de La Guardia – Barbara Simerka: Mirror Neurons and Mirror Metaphors: Cognitive Theory and Privanza in La adversa fortuna de don Alvaro de Luna – Robert M. Johnston - The Calderonian Aesthetic Experience: Plot, Character, Politics, and Primal Emotions in El alcalde de Zalamea (What Neuroscience and US Presidential Campaigns Might Tell Us about the Spanish Comedia) Catherine Connor-Swietlicki: Gendered Gazing: Zayas and Caro Go Back to the Future of the «Artful Brain and Body» – Edward H. Friedman: Of Love and Labyrinths: Feminism and the Comedia – Baltasar Fra-Molinero: Woman, Learning, and Fear: Racial Mixing in Diego Ximénez de Enciso’s Juan Latino – Kathleen Regan : Antona García: A Mujer Varonil for the 21st Century – Susan Paun de García: «Más valéis vos, Antona»: Worthy Wives in Lope, Tirso, and Cañizares – Sharon D. Voros: Tried and True: Leonor de la Cueva y Silva’s Tirso Connection – Barbara Mujica: Actresses as Athletes and Acrobats – Amy R. Williamsen: Stages of Passing: Identity and Performance in the Comedia – Peter E. Thompson: The Spanish Golden Age Entremés in English: Translating the Juan Rana Phenomenon – Maryrica Ortiz Lottman: Three Productions of El condenado por desconfiado: The Devil’s Polymorphism in Our Time – Catherine Larson: Adapting the Spanish Classics for 21st-Century Performance in English: Models for Analysis – Henry W. Sullivan: The Contours of Self-Representation: Why Call Himself Tirso de Molina? – Isaac Benabu: Inquisitorial Pressures: Honour as Metaphor on the Boards – Ronald E. Surtz: Staging the Fall in 16th-Century Spain: The Aucto del peccado de Adán – Kerry Wilks: Baltasar Funes y Villalpando’s El golfo de las sirenas: An Homage to Calderón? – Thomas A. O’Connor: The Transformation of a Baroque Zarzuela into an 18th-Century Opera: The Case of Salazar y Torres’s Los juegos olímpicos – Donald R. Larson: Two Visions of Brotherhood: Calderón and Richard Strauss.
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Peter Lang Publishing Inc The Fantasy of Reality
Book SynopsisWith over twenty different casts, multiple spin-off series, and five international locations, The Real Housewives franchise is a television phenomenon. The women on these shows have reinvented the soap opera diva and in doing so, have offered television viewers a new opportunity to embrace a loved, yet waning, genre. As the popularity and prevalence of the docu-drama genre of reality TV continues to increase, the time is ripe for a collection of this sort. The Fantasy of Reality: Critical Essays on The Real Housewives' explores the series and the women of The Real Housewives through the lens of race, class, gender, sexuality, and place. The contributing authors use an expansive and impressive array of methodological approaches to examine particular aspects of the series, offering rich analysis and insight along the way. This collection takes seriously what some may mock and others adore. Chapters are both fun and informative, lending themselves well to HouseTrade Review«When Betty Friedan diagnosed ‘the problem that has no name,’ housewives were confined to the family home. Today, ‘real-life’ housewives saturate media culture as reality TV performers, microcelebrities, savvy entrepreneurs, and brands. This lively collection analyzes the contemporary gender, race, class, and sexual politics of Bravo’s Real Housewives franchise, and situates the televisual performance of housewifery within debates over commercialization, feminine cultural forms, and the new media landscape of the twenty-first century. Scholars and fans alike will appreciate this book.» (Laurie Ouellette, Associate Professor, University of Minnesota; Co-editor of Reality TV: Remaking Television Culture) «The Fantasy of Reality: Critical Essays on The Real Housewives explores the series and the women of The Real Housewives through the lens of race, class, gender, sexuality, and place. The contributing authors use an expansive and impressive array of methodological approaches to examine particular aspects of the series, offering rich analysis and insight along the way.This collection insightfully and systematically reveals the ways in which The Real Housewives franchise holds up a funhouse mirror to issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality in contemporary America. It sorts through the distortions and reveals both the underlying flaws and the lurking potentials that fascinate fans and critics alike. This is an engaging read and an important contribution to the academic literature on reality TV.» (Mark Andrejevic, Associate Professor, Pomona College; Author of Reality TV: The Work of Being Watched)«When Betty Friedan diagnosed ‘the problem that has no name,’ housewives were confined to the family home. Today, ‘real-life’ housewives saturate media culture as reality TV performers, microcelebrities, savvy entrepreneurs, and brands. This lively collection analyzes the contemporary gender, race, class, and sexual politics of Bravo’s Real Housewives franchise, and situates the televisual performance of housewifery within debates over commercialization, feminine cultural forms, and the new media landscape of the twenty-first century. Scholars and fans alike will appreciate this book.» (Laurie Ouellette, Associate Professor, University of Minnesota; Co-editor of Reality TV: Remaking Television Culture) «The Fantasy of Reality: Critical Essays on The Real Housewives explores the series and the women of The Real Housewives through the lens of race, class, gender, sexuality, and place. The contributing authors use an expansive and impressive array of methodological approaches to examine particular aspects of the series, offering rich analysis and insight along the way.This collection insightfully and systematically reveals the ways in which The Real Housewives franchise holds up a funhouse mirror to issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality in contemporary America. It sorts through the distortions and reveals both the underlying flaws and the lurking potentials that fascinate fans and critics alike. This is an engaging read and an important contribution to the academic literature on reality TV.» (Mark Andrejevic, Associate Professor, Pomona College; Author of Reality TV: The Work of Being Watched)Table of ContentsContents: The Real Housewives: Casts and Seasons ‒ Ragan Fox: Queering «Housewives» ‒ Robin M. Boylorn: «Brains, Booty and All Bizness»: Identity Politics, Ratchet Respectability, and The Real Housewives of Atlanta ‒ Nicole B. Cox: Race (Re)visited: It’s a (Mostly) White World ‒ Erin Ashenhurst: Sunshine Blondes in a City of Glass: On Watching the Real Vancouver ‒ Watching and Selling The Real Housewives ‒ Jacquelyn Arcy: Affective Enterprising: Branding the Self Through Emotional Excess ‒ Peter Bjelskou: The Real Entrepreneurs of New York City: Selling Elegance and Class in the Marketplace ‒ Rachael Liberman: Hate-Watching the Housewives: Gender, Power, and the Pleasure of Judgment ‒ Emily D. Ryalls: Do Mean Girls Grow Up? Watching «Queen Bee» Stassi Schroeder on Reality Television ‒ Judy Battaglia, Ashley Cordes, Kathleen Norris, and Roxanne Bañuelos: Love the Housewives, but Where’s Our Feminism? ‒ David Gudelunas: Every Housewife’s Best Friend: The Sidekick ‒ Without Him, The Real Housewives Wouldn’t Exist ‒ Keith Berry/Tony E. Adams: Notes on Andy Cohen.
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Peter Lang Publishing Inc The Fantasy of Reality
Book SynopsisWith over twenty different casts, multiple spin-off series, and five international locations, The Real Housewives franchise is a television phenomenon. The women on these shows have reinvented the soap opera diva and in doing so, have offered television viewers a new opportunity to embrace a loved, yet waning, genre. As the popularity and prevalence of the docu-drama genre of reality TV continues to increase, the time is ripe for a collection of this sort. The Fantasy of Reality: Critical Essays on The Real Housewives' explores the series and the women of The Real Housewives through the lens of race, class, gender, sexuality, and place. The contributing authors use an expansive and impressive array of methodological approaches to examine particular aspects of the series, offering rich analysis and insight along the way. This collection takes seriously what some may mock and others adore. Chapters are both fun and informative, lending themselves well to HouseTrade Review«When Betty Friedan diagnosed ‘the problem that has no name,’ housewives were confined to the family home. Today, ‘real-life’ housewives saturate media culture as reality TV performers, microcelebrities, savvy entrepreneurs, and brands. This lively collection analyzes the contemporary gender, race, class, and sexual politics of Bravo’s Real Housewives franchise, and situates the televisual performance of housewifery within debates over commercialization, feminine cultural forms, and the new media landscape of the twenty-first century. Scholars and fans alike will appreciate this book.» (Laurie Ouellette, Associate Professor, University of Minnesota; Co-editor of Reality TV: Remaking Television Culture) «The Fantasy of Reality: Critical Essays on The Real Housewives explores the series and the women of The Real Housewives through the lens of race, class, gender, sexuality, and place. The contributing authors use an expansive and impressive array of methodological approaches to examine particular aspects of the series, offering rich analysis and insight along the way.This collection insightfully and systematically reveals the ways in which The Real Housewives franchise holds up a funhouse mirror to issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality in contemporary America. It sorts through the distortions and reveals both the underlying flaws and the lurking potentials that fascinate fans and critics alike. This is an engaging read and an important contribution to the academic literature on reality TV.» (Mark Andrejevic, Associate Professor, Pomona College; Author of Reality TV: The Work of Being Watched)«When Betty Friedan diagnosed ‘the problem that has no name,’ housewives were confined to the family home. Today, ‘real-life’ housewives saturate media culture as reality TV performers, microcelebrities, savvy entrepreneurs, and brands. This lively collection analyzes the contemporary gender, race, class, and sexual politics of Bravo’s Real Housewives franchise, and situates the televisual performance of housewifery within debates over commercialization, feminine cultural forms, and the new media landscape of the twenty-first century. Scholars and fans alike will appreciate this book.» (Laurie Ouellette, Associate Professor, University of Minnesota; Co-editor of Reality TV: Remaking Television Culture) «The Fantasy of Reality: Critical Essays on The Real Housewives explores the series and the women of The Real Housewives through the lens of race, class, gender, sexuality, and place. The contributing authors use an expansive and impressive array of methodological approaches to examine particular aspects of the series, offering rich analysis and insight along the way.This collection insightfully and systematically reveals the ways in which The Real Housewives franchise holds up a funhouse mirror to issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality in contemporary America. It sorts through the distortions and reveals both the underlying flaws and the lurking potentials that fascinate fans and critics alike. This is an engaging read and an important contribution to the academic literature on reality TV.» (Mark Andrejevic, Associate Professor, Pomona College; Author of Reality TV: The Work of Being Watched)Table of ContentsContents: The Real Housewives: Casts and Seasons ‒ Ragan Fox: Queering «Housewives» ‒ Robin M. Boylorn: «Brains, Booty and All Bizness»: Identity Politics, Ratchet Respectability, and The Real Housewives of Atlanta ‒ Nicole B. Cox: Race (Re)visited: It’s a (Mostly) White World ‒ Erin Ashenhurst: Sunshine Blondes in a City of Glass: On Watching the Real Vancouver ‒ Watching and Selling The Real Housewives ‒ Jacquelyn Arcy: Affective Enterprising: Branding the Self Through Emotional Excess ‒ Peter Bjelskou: The Real Entrepreneurs of New York City: Selling Elegance and Class in the Marketplace ‒ Rachael Liberman: Hate-Watching the Housewives: Gender, Power, and the Pleasure of Judgment ‒ Emily D. Ryalls: Do Mean Girls Grow Up? Watching «Queen Bee» Stassi Schroeder on Reality Television ‒ Judy Battaglia, Ashley Cordes, Kathleen Norris, and Roxanne Bañuelos: Love the Housewives, but Where’s Our Feminism? ‒ David Gudelunas: Every Housewife’s Best Friend: The Sidekick ‒ Without Him, The Real Housewives Wouldn’t Exist ‒ Keith Berry/Tony E. Adams: Notes on Andy Cohen.
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Peter Lang Publishing Inc Seven Essays
Book SynopsisIn Seven Essays: Studies in Literature, Drama, and Film, Abdulla Al-Dabbagh's unique approach to literary and cultural issues succeeds in casting new light on these subjects, revealing innovative fields of research and investigation. Expressed in his usual lucid and eloquent style, this collection of essays deals with themes and topics raised in Al-Dabbagh's first two books, Literary Orientalism, Postcolonialism, and Universalism (Lang, 2010) and Shakespeare, the Orient, and the Critics (Lang, 2010). These essays also embrace further exploration in the area of literary criticism and literary theory and venture into the area of film studies. Whether discussing the drama of Shakespeare and Ibsen, Kurdish cinema, or issues of contemporary literary criticism and theory, scholars will find Al-Dabbagh's fresh compilation of literary studies an essential contribution to the field.Table of ContentsContents: Literary Studies Between Theory and Fallacy – Language and Identity in the Renaissance of Kurdish Cinema – The Anti-Romantic Reaction in Modern(ist) Criticism – Race, Gender, and Class in Shakespeare’s Sonnets – Shakespeare and EFL: A Personal Experience – The Achievement of Victorian Orientalism – Ibsen’s Dramatic Art: The Structure of the Social Plays.
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Peter Lang Publishing Inc Teatralidades del conflicto armado en Colombia
Book SynopsisEn momentos de crisis y conflictos políticos nacionales, el teatro se reconfigura como una de las artes que denuncia, devela e ilustra los quiebres sociales de un país. En esos términos, la dramaturgia en Colombia empodera nuevas estéticas en donde el ciudadano deviene protagonista de la escena, defendiendo derechos humanos y civiles que le han sido negados por el Estado. A partir de ese contexto, este libro analiza la producción de cuatro dramaturgos colombianos para descubrir cómo el cuerpo de las víctimas es representado en la escena y cuáles son las estéticas que se proponen en torno a los casos de desaparición forzada, ejecuciones extrajudiciales, desplazamientos, genocidios y masacres. Crímenes que, hasta el 2018, en el marco de un proceso de reparación y restitución a las víctimas, cuentan con más de ocho millones de casos en donde menos del cinco por ciento ha recibido condena por parte del Estado. En este estudio se propone el concepto de cuerpos-no-ausentes para ent
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Peter Lang Publishing Inc La casa que falta
Book SynopsisEnfrentando la censura y el autoritarismo de la época, durante los años 80 Enrique Lihn dejó a un lado su producción poética para desplegar un conjunto de proyectos locos, según la acertada definición de Christopher Travis, dando cuenta con ello de una radicalidad única en el marco de la producción crítica e intelectual de esos años. La casa que falta aborda, por primera vez, el conjunto de esos materiales desde la concepción de un acto social total, según la definición dada por Lévi-Strauss para los actos de lenguaje que exigen una interpretación plena. Parodia, burla, provocación y defensa cerrada de la autonomía del arte transformaron la figura de Lihn en un nuevo tipo de héroe dedicado a desplegar el discurso prohibido de la época, inspirando a las nuevas generaciones que surgirán con el regreso de la democracia a Chile el mismo año de su fallecimiento.
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Peter Lang Publishing Inc Mediating the Windrush Children
Book SynopsisMediating the Windrush Children analyses three plays by St. Kitts-born British playwright Caryl Phillips: Strange Fruit (1981), Where There is Darkness (1982), The Shelter (1984), and a film by Trinidadian-British filmmaker Horace Ové, Pressure (1975), as artistic depictions of the experience of the Windrush generation, a term that refers to the Anglo-Caribbean islanders recruited to help rebuild Britain in the aftermath of World War II. These works are vibrant calls to resist visuality as an authoritarian medium, and tools of resilience. The revival of Caryl Phillips's Strange Fruit at the Bush Theatre, and Get Up, Stand Up Now', the celebration of Black British artists, among whom Horace Ové, took place in London during the summer of 2019. Both events put into perspective the 2018 Windrush scandal that saw members of the Windrush generation denied their rights as British citizens.Mediating the Windrush ChildrenTrade Review“I first met Horace Ové the way he would want me to meet him—through his work. In 1981, I was working as the Writer-in-Residence at The Factory Community Centre in Paddington. One evening there was a screening of Horace Ové’s film Pressure (1975). I was interested, of course, not only because it was a film by Horace Ové, but it featured a script by Sam Selvon. That these ‘older’ guys were attempting to understand ‘my generation’ was a great revelation to me. I was familiar with their take on those who had arrived from the Caribbean—the first generation, if you like—but Ové and Selvon were trying to examine a second-generation disaffection and alienation with which I was only too familiar.”—Caryl Phillips, 2019Table of ContentsIntroduction – Horace Ové’s Pressure (1975) – Strange Fruit (1981) – Where There Is Darkness (1982) – The Shelter (1984) – Writing in Spirals – Notes – References.
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Peter Lang Publishing Inc Playing Shakespeares Monarchs and Madmen
Book SynopsisPlaying Shakespeare's Monarchs and Madmen is the third volume in the Peter Lang series, Playing Shakespeare's Characters. As in the previous volumes, a broad range of contributors (actors, directors, scholars, educators, etc.) analyze the concepts of monarchy, leadership, melancholy and madness with not only references to Elizabethan and Jacobean studies, but also to Trump, Brexit, cross-gender and multi-cultural casting. What does it mean to play the king in the 21st century? What is the role of an all-licensed Fool in the age of spin? Who gets to represent the power dynamics in Shakespeare's plays? This volume looks at the Henrys, Richards, Hamlets, Lears and various other dukes and monarchs and explores the ways in which menand womenapproach these portrayals of power and the lessons they hold for us today.Table of ContentsLouis Fantasia: Introduction: A Mad World, My Masters! – Heather James: The Crack-Up: Modernity and the Mind of Richard II – Chris Anthony: Shakespeare’s Henry IV: Youth and Veterans – Janna Segal: Re-"Claiming from the Female": Shakespeare’s Henry V – Terri Power: Once More into the ‘Breeches’: Female Portrayals of Shakespeare’s Monarchs – Elaine Turner: Measure for Measure – Michael Peter Bolus: Fortune’s Knave: Sex, Politics and Machiavellian Doctrine in Antony & Cleopatra – Jessie Lee Mills: My Poor Fool: A Case for and against Double Casting Cordelia and the Fool in King Lear – Timothy Harris: Through Hamlet’s Eyes – Louis Fantasia: A Hamlet Autopsy – List of Contributors.
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State University Press of New York (SUNY) The Joy of Noh Embodied Learning and Discipline in Urban Japan
Book SynopsisExamines Japanese later life learners involved in Noh theater. Centered on questions of identity formation, selfhood, and the body, this ethnography examines the experiences of later life learners in Japan. The women profiled are amateur practitioners of Noh theater, learning the dance and chant essential to this classic art form. Using a combination of observational, interview, and experiential data, Katrina L. Moore discusses the relevance of these practices to the women's everyday lives. Later life learning activities have been heavily promoted in Japan as a means for an aging population to remain healthy. However, many Noh practitioners experience their practice as a means of self-actualization beyond the goal of healthy aging. Looking at daily experiences of training for and staging theatrical performances, Moore analyzes the way the body becomes the medium through which amateurs explore new states of self. The work provides a view of contemporary Noh that highlights the rarely acknowledged role of amateur performers.
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State University of New York Press Curtains of Light Theatrical Space in Film SUNY
Book SynopsisProvides a new way of thinking about film''s relation to theatre.George Toles''s Curtains of Light explores the ways in which various kinds of theatrical space in film engage with the film reality adjacent to them, and alter our understanding of the cinematic real. Film art is a dialogue between the world created for a film narrative and theatre spaces that confront it across the shadowline. This book provides a new way of thinking about film''s relation to theatre, and challenges old conceptions of how cinema needs to escape the theatrical, or rise above it. Toles offers elegantly written and jargon-free readings of a rich variety of films, spanning the distance from D.W. Griffith''s True Heart Susie up to David Lynch''s Mulholland Dr. and Ang Lee''s Lust, Caution. The methodology is predominantly aesthetic, but informed by Toles''s decades of experience as a professional theatre director. Among the many topics covered are audition scenes, stage deaths on film, the close up and theatrical aloneness in film, eloquent objects, and characters who alternate between directing and playacting for each other, with tragic consequences. Curtains of Light would be an extremely useful introductory text for university students studying the relationship of cinema to theatre.
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State University of New York Press Curtains of Light
Book SynopsisProvides a new way of thinking about film''s relation to theatre.George Toles''s Curtains of Light explores the ways in which various kinds of theatrical space in film engage with the film reality adjacent to them, and alter our understanding of the cinematic real. Film art is a dialogue between the world created for a film narrative and theatre spaces that confront it across the shadowline. This book provides a new way of thinking about film''s relation to theatre, and challenges old conceptions of how cinema needs to escape the theatrical, or rise above it. Toles offers elegantly written and jargon-free readings of a rich variety of films, spanning the distance from D.W. Griffith''s True Heart Susie up to David Lynch''s Mulholland Dr. and Ang Lee''s Lust, Caution. The methodology is predominantly aesthetic, but informed by Toles''s decades of experience as a professional theatre director. Among the many topics covered are audition scenes, stage deaths on film, the close up and theatrical aloneness in film, eloquent objects, and characters who alternate between directing and playacting for each other, with tragic consequences. Curtains of Light would be an extremely useful introductory text for university students studying the relationship of cinema to theatre.
£24.27
State University of New York Press Honeymoon Couples and Jurassic Babies
Book SynopsisContextualizes Sabha Theatre historically, politically, and aesthetically, revealing how it expresses a Tamil Brahmin identity that is at once traditional and modern.Honeymoon Couples and Jurassic Babies is the first in-depth study of Sabha Theater, a type of Tamil-language popular theater that started in Chennai (Madras) in the period following India''s independence, thriving especially between 1965 and 1985. Breaking new ground in the study of stage and performance, this interdisciplinary book presents a complex view of a significant genre, using historical research and ethnographic information obtained through interviews with performers, writers, and audience members, as well as observations of rehearsals, performances, and television and film shootings. This careful coverage not only contextualizes Sabha Theatre historically, politically, and aesthetically within the wider history of the Tamil stage and a performance scene that includes classical dance and mass media but also reveals how its plays express a Tamil Brahmin identity that is at once traditional and modern. Analyzing what particular plays mean to the specific, urban, elite Brahmin community that produces and consumes them, Kristen Rudisill examines humor that reveals a complex Brahmin identity and surveys markers of moral superiority.
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State University of New York Press Honeymoon Couples and Jurassic Babies
Book SynopsisContextualizes Sabha Theatre historically, politically, and aesthetically, revealing how it expresses a Tamil Brahmin identity that is at once traditional and modern.Honeymoon Couples and Jurassic Babies is the first in-depth study of Sabha Theater, a type of Tamil-language popular theater that started in Chennai (Madras) in the period following India''s independence, thriving especially between 1965 and 1985. Breaking new ground in the study of stage and performance, this interdisciplinary book presents a complex view of a significant genre, using historical research and ethnographic information obtained through interviews with performers, writers, and audience members, as well as observations of rehearsals, performances, and television and film shootings. This careful coverage not only contextualizes Sabha Theatre historically, politically, and aesthetically within the wider history of the Tamil stage and a performance scene that includes classical dance and mass media but also reveals how its plays express a Tamil Brahmin identity that is at once traditional and modern. Analyzing what particular plays mean to the specific, urban, elite Brahmin community that produces and consumes them, Kristen Rudisill examines humor that reveals a complex Brahmin identity and surveys markers of moral superiority.
£24.27
State University of New York Press Weber and Fields
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State University of New York Press Weber and Fields
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State University of New York Press Awakening a Living World on a
Book SynopsisExplores the cultural dynamics of this ancient form of Sanskrit theater.Kuiyaam, an ancient form of Sanskrit theater from Kerala, was traditionally performed only in temples by members of two temple assistant castes. Today, however, it has spread to other castes and to venues outside temples. It is a fantastically complex, sophisticated, layered performance, toiling at amassing and perfecting ways of materializing a world where gods, demons, and mythical heroes live, bringing the audience into these other realities. Taking an anthropological approach, Awakening a Living World on a Kuiyaam Stage explores how Kuiyaam uses cultural dynamics, gleaned from temple ritual and theater, to remove the distinctions between mundane reality and the mediaeval plays being performed on stage. The unique features of Kuiyaam-makeup masks, enthralling drumming, delivering words in mudra gestures, a shimmering lamp, male and female actors-all intertwine to animate stories from the great Indian eposes. Analyzing the cultural dynamics at work in Kuiyaam foregrounds a symbolic anthropology in which representation and symbols are shunned, while endless repetitions fill the stage with reverberating somatic intensities of profound depth. Thus, a new kind of living reality emerges that includes the protagonists of the play-gods, demons, humans, animals, and objects-together with the artist, the audience, and beyond.
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State University of New York Press Theatres of Value
Book SynopsisExplores the value of Shakespeare for theatrical businesspeople and audiences in nineteenth-century New York City.Theatres of Value explores the idea that buying and selling are performative acts and offers a paradigm for deeper study of these acts-"the dramaturgy of value." Modeling this multifaceted approach, the book explores six case studies to show how and why Shakespeare had value for nineteenth-century New Yorkers. In considering William Brown''s African Theater, P. T. Barnum''s American Museum and Lecture Hall, Fanny Kemble''s American reading career, the Booth family brand, the memorial statue of Shakespeare in Central Park, and an 1888 benefit performance of Hamlet to theatrical impresario Lester Wallack, Theatres of Value traces a history of audience engagement with Shakespearean cultural capital and the myriad ways this engagement was leveraged by theatrical businesspeople.
£999.99
State University of New York Press Theatres of Value
Book SynopsisExplores the value of Shakespeare for theatrical businesspeople and audiences in nineteenth-century New York City.Theatres of Value explores the idea that buying and selling are performative acts and offers a paradigm for deeper study of these acts-"the dramaturgy of value." Modeling this multifaceted approach, the book explores six case studies to show how and why Shakespeare had value for nineteenth-century New Yorkers. In considering William Brown''s African Theater, P. T. Barnum''s American Museum and Lecture Hall, Fanny Kemble''s American reading career, the Booth family brand, the memorial statue of Shakespeare in Central Park, and an 1888 benefit performance of Hamlet to theatrical impresario Lester Wallack, Theatres of Value traces a history of audience engagement with Shakespearean cultural capital and the myriad ways this engagement was leveraged by theatrical businesspeople.
£72.27
Temple University Press,U.S. All Play and No Work
Book SynopsisMany of the Federal Theatre Project (FTP) plays Paul Gagliardi analyzes in All Play and No Work feature complex portrayals of labor and work relief at a time when access to work was difficult. Gagliardi asks, what does it mean that many plays produced by the FTP celebrated forms of labor like speculation and swindling? All Play and No Work directly contradicts the promoted ideals of work found in American society, culture, and within the broader New Deal itself. Gagliardi shows how comedies of the Great Depression engaged questions of labor, labor history, and labor ethics. He considers the breadth of the FTP's production history, staging plays including Ah, Wilderness!, Help Yourself, and Mississippi Rainbow. Gagliardi examines backstage comedies, middle-class comedies, comedies of chance, and con-artist comedies that employed diverse casts and crew and contained radical economic and labor ideas. He contextualizes these plays within the ideologically complicated New Deal, showing hTrade Review“Drawing connections among American work culture, theater, and history, Paul Gagliardi’s valuable contribution to studies of the Federal Theatre Project focuses on little-studied performances centered on labor. All Play and No Work illuminates federal theatrical contributions to Depression-era American work life and representation, thus highlighting the importance of Federal Theatre’s brief and significant American cultural moment.”—Leslie Frost, Teaching Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and author of Dreaming America: Popular Front Ideals and Aesthetics in Children’s Plays of the Federal Theatre Project“All Play and No Work is an essential study of the Federal Theatre Project, focusing on its long-neglected comedies. Paul Gagliardi demonstrates that comedic productions, from Eugene O’Neill’s Ah, Wilderness! to popular con-artist comedies, were far from being merely light entertainment. Instead, these comedies reveal New Deal-era concerns surrounding the nature of labor and work. Combining cultural history, insightful textual analysis, and production histories, Gagliardi’s interdisciplinary approach contextualizes Federal Theatre Project comedies while bringing them to life in this indispensable book.”—Julie Burrell, Associate Professor of English, Africana Studies, and Women’s and Gender Studies, Cleveland State University, and author of The Civil Rights Theatre Movement in New York, 1939–1966: Staging Freedom
£77.35
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Drama Education with Digital Technology 11 Education and Digital Technology
Book SynopsisMichael Anderson is Professor of Education at the University of Sydney, Australia.David Cameron is Lecturer in Journalism at Charles Sturt University, Australia.Trade ReviewThis volume presents a rich and stimulating set of accounts of the convergence of drama education and new media. -English in EducationTable of ContentsForeword; Introduction; 1. Potential to Reality: Drama, Technology and Education David Cameron and Michael Anderson; 2. When Worlds Collude: Exploring the Relationship Between the Actual, the Dramatic and the Virtual Julie Dunn and John O'Toole; 3. Lip Sync: Performative Placebos in The Digital Age Paul Sutton; 4. Mashup: Digital Media and Drama Conventions David Cameron; 5. Open The Loop Peter O'Connor; 6. Point of View: Linking Applied Drama and Digital Games John Carroll; 7. Audio Drama and Museums: Informal Learning, Drama and Technology Anna Farthing; 8. Digital Storytelling and Drama: Language, Image and Empathy Kirsty McGeoch and John Hughes; 9. 'A blog says i am here: Encouraging Reflection on Performance-Making and Drama Practice Through Blogs Jo Raphael; 10. Interactive drama using cyberspaces Sue Davis; 11. Digital Theatre and Online Narrative Rebecca Wotzko and John Carroll; 12. Enter The Matrix: The Relationship Between Drama and Film Miranda Jefferson and Michael Anderson; 13. Second Life/Simulation: Online Sites for Generative Play Kim Flintoff; Afterword; Index.
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Rowman & Littlefield Historical Dictionary of Japanese Traditional
Book SynopsisHistorical Dictionary of Japanese Traditional Theatre is the only dictionary that offers detailed comprehensive coverage of the most important terms, people, and plays in the four principal traditional Japanese theatrical formsno, kyogen, bunraku, and kabukisupplemented with individual historical essays on each form.This updated edition adds well over 200 plot summaries representing each theatrical form in addition to:a chronology;introductory essay;appendixes;an extensive bibliography;over 1500 cross-referenced entries on important terms;brief biographies of the leading artists and writers;and plot summaries of significant plays. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the Japanese theatre.Trade ReviewThe history, elements, practitioners, and major works of the four major traditional theaters of Japan (nô, kyôgen, kabuki, and bunraku) are thoroughly treated in this exceptional volume. The second edition of an invaluable resource builds upon the excellence of the first, also by the author. As one of the foremost authorities writing on Japanese theater today, Leiter has produced a fine-quality work that will serve multiple disciplines. The entries have been expanded, errors in the first edition corrected, and the chronology of traditional theaters updated, from 1301 to 2013. The volume offers more than 1,500 alphabetical entries; ample cross-references help to aid discovery by those without prior knowledge of the subject. The bibliography is comprehensive, with resources in English suitable for a range of users, from students taking their first drama course to specialists working in the discipline. The volume is readable in every sense—from the quality of writing to the size of the typeface. The writing is aimed at nonspecialists, although scholars also will find much of value here. A greater number of photos to illustrate the entries might have been welcome, but this labor of love should be a part of reference collections in all libraries. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Beginning students and above; general readers and professionals/practitioners. * CHOICE *The Historical Dictionary of Traditional Japanese Theatre is a densely rich resource with an acute focus on the four classical genres of no, kyogen, bunraku, and kabuki. . . .The subject is hard to penetrate and all the more intimidating for a novice to the Japanese language; however, Mr. Leiter does an admirable job of carefully demystifying the evolution of terms and word origins. He has a deft sense for charting the ebb and flow of fashions over time and updated this edition so that it includes modern innovations such as the introduction of female performers and the melding of genres. This dictionary is appropriate for both undergraduate and graduate researchers and would be a solid addition to any reference collection that covers the humanities in general and theatre specifically. * American Reference Books Annual *Table of ContentsEditor’s Foreword Jon Woronoff Preface Chronology Introduction THE DICTIONARY Appendix A: Play Title Translations Appendix B: Simplified Table of Japanese Historical Periods Glossary Bibliography About the Author
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Rowman & Littlefield The Complete Book of 1940s Broadway Musicals
Book SynopsisThe debut of Oklahoma! in 1943 ushered in the modern era of Broadway musicals and was followed by a number of successes that have become beloved classics. Shows produced on Broadway during this decade include Annie Get Your Gun, Brigadoon, Carousel, Finian's Rainbow, Pal Joey, On the Town, and South Pacific. Among the major performers of the decade were Alfred Drake, Gene Kelly, Mary Martin, and Ethel Merman, while other talents who contributed to shows include Irving Berlin, Gower Champion, Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Agnes de Mille, Lorenz Hart, Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe, Cole Porter, Jerome Robbins, Richard Rodgers, and Oscar Hammerstein II. In The Complete Book of 1940s Broadway Musicals, Dan Dietz examines every musical and revue that opened on Broadway during the 1940s. In addition to providing details on every hit and flop, this book includes revivals and one-man and one-woman shows. Each entry contains the following information:Opening and closing datesPlot summaryCast mTrade ReviewDietz continues his excellent series on Broadway musicals with a step back into the Golden Age of musicals. He covers every Broadway show from the 1940s (273 shows altogether), from John Henry (January 1940) through Jule Styne's smash Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (December 1949). As in earlier volumes treating the 1960s and 1950s and complementing the content of Thomas Hischak's Broadway Plays and Musicals, Dietz discusses the ‘book musicals’ (serious drama set to music and song) with new music as well as the revivals, revues, new operas, imports, and other works appearing in New York venues, plus pre-Broadway closings. Each chronologically arranged entry includes opening and closing dates, number of performances, crew, cast (with character names), setting, musical numbers (and performers), two-page plot summaries and critical reception, awards, book availability, and detailed recording history. Names of performers who were billed above the title are italicized for emphasis. Entries are well-written and informative, with ample quotes from the original New York theater critics. Appendixes A–H (including a chronology, discography, and filmography), a bibliography, and a detailed index complete the volume. Any lover of Broadway shows and library collections with strengths in musical theater will want to purchase this volume. Summing Up: Recommended. All students and scholars; general readers; professionals/practitioners. * CHOICE *Deitz (The Complete Book of 1960s Broadway Musicals) shines the spotlight on the decade that many consider the birth of the modern musical, given the Broadway bow of Oklahoma! in 1943. He details the amazing sweep of 273 productions that opened during this period, including Brlgadoon, Pal Joey, and South Pacific. Essay entries are organized by show opening date, with an alphabetical shows index also provided. Entries have header listings of book/lyrics credits, cast members, number of performances, and other information that is sure to please musical fans . . . Eight appendixes (covering discographies, filmographies, and more) conclude the work. VERDICT A rich tour of a landmark decade on the Great White Way. * Library Journal *Musical-theater enthusiasts will enjoy paging through this volume, and students or researchers in the field will find this to be a good starting point. Recommended for medium-sized and large public library reference collections as well as academic libraries supporting performing-arts programs. * Booklist *The entries are well written, concise, interesting and fun to read. Often the author includes obscure details to personalize the production. . . .There is an alphabetical index of all the musicals at the beginning of the volume, which is good, as the organization of the volume is by Broadway season. * s *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction BROADWAY MUSICALS OF THE 1940s 1940 Season 1940–1941 Season 1941–1942 Season 1942–1943 Season 1943–1944 Season 1944–-1945 Season 1945–1946 Season 1946–1947 Season 1947–1948 Season 1948–1949 Season 1949 Season APPENDIXES A Alphabetical List of Shows B Chronology (by Season) C Chronology (by Classification) D Discography E Gilbert and Sullivan Operettas F Filmography G Other Productions H Published Scripts I Theatres Bibliography Index About the Author
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Rowman & Littlefield Entertaining Women
Book SynopsisThis collection of short stories of the women who entertained the West in makeshift theaters and palaces built to showcase the divas who were beloved by emigrants to the “uncivilized” West will feature well-known and lesser known dancers, singers, and actresses and their exploits. Author Chris Enss will bring her comedic timing and long experience writing about the time and culture of the West to this collection. Trade ReviewEntertaining Women—Actresses, Dancers, and Singers in the Old West by Chris Enss is a wonderful book that documents the struggles of strong, independent women of the 1800s. Beautifully organized and researched, the book invites readers into the world of women who defied the odds and broke the mold for future generations. Raised in a male-dominated society, they endured jealous husbands, scandalous divorce trials and shattered reputations to live their dream. From wearing men’s trousers on stage, engaging in lesbian relationships, entertaining inmates in San Quentin Prison, to hunting bear and even sleeping in a coffin every night to prepare for “the final sleep,” the women’s lives are highlighted beautifully by author Chris Enss. —Tracy Beach, author of My Life as a Whore: The Biography of Madam Laura Evans (1871-1953)
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Rowman & Littlefield Historical Dictionary of Russian Theatre
Book SynopsisA latecomer continually hampered by government control and interference, the Russian theatre seems an unlikely source of innovation and creativity. Yet, by the middle of the nineteenth century, it had given rise to a number of outstanding playwrights and actors, and by the start of the twentieth century, it was in the vanguard of progressive thinking in the realms of directing and design. Its influence throughout the world was pervasive: Nikolai Gogol'', Anton Chekhov and Maksim Gor''kii remain staples of repertories in every language, the ideas of Konstantin Stanislavskii, Vsevolod Meierkhol''d and Mikhail Chekhov continue to inspire actors and directors, while designers still draw on the graphics of the World of Art group and the Constructivists. What distinguishes Russian theater from almost any other is the way in which these achievements evolved and survived in ongoing conflict or cooperation with the State.This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Russian Theatre covers theTable of ContentsEditor's Foreword Jon Woronoff Preface Transliteration Acronyms Chronology Introduction THE DICTIONARY Original Titles of Works Cited Bibliography About the Author
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Rowman & Littlefield Historical Dictionary of German Theater
Book SynopsisThe German-language theater is one of the most vibrant and generously endowed of any in the world. It boasts long and honored traditions that include world-renowned plays, playwrights, actors, directors, and designers, and several German theater artists have had an enormous impact on theater practice around the globe. Students continue to study German plays in dozens of languages, and every year scores of German plays are produced in a wide variety of non-German venues.This second edition of Historical Dictionary of German Theater covers its history through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 400 cross-referenced entries on directors, designers, producers, and movements such as Regietheater, post-dramatic approaches to theater production, the freie Szene of independent, non-subsidized groups, the role of increasingly massive government subsidies, and cities whose reputations as centers of innovation and excelleTable of ContentsEditor’s Foreword Jon Woronoff Acknowledgements Reader’s Note Chronology Introduction The Dictionary Bibliography About the Author
£124.20
Rowman & Littlefield 100 Greatest American Plays
Book SynopsisTheatre in America has had a rich historyfrom the first performance of the Lewis Hallam Troupe in September 1752 to the lively shows of modern Broadway. Over the past few centuries, significant works by American playwrights have been produced, including Abie's Irish Rose, Long Day's Journey into Night, A Streetcar Named Desire, Death of a Salesman, A Raisin in the Sun, Fences, and Angels in America.In 100 Greatest American Plays, Thomas S. Hischak provides an engaging discussion of the best stage productions to come out of the United States. Each play is discussed in the context of its original presentation as well as its legacy. Arranged alphabetically, the entries for these plays include:plot detailsproduction historybiography of the playwrightliterary aspects of the dramacritical reaction to the playmajor awardsthe play's influencecast lists of notable stage and film versionsThe plays have been selected not for their popularity but for their importance to American theatre and includTrade ReviewThe best way to experience a play is to see it. If that isn’t possible, reading is always an option. To prepare for either activity, a look at this helpful compilation is highly recommended. In it, Hischak provides concise summaries, brief analyses, cast lists, production histories, and more on 100 American theater works selected in answer to this question: 'Which are the most important nonmusical stage works to come from America since the first colonial-era plays?' The richness of history is displayed in chronologically arranged entries that include seldom-performed antiquities like East Lynne and Ten Nights in a Barroom as well as more recent works like Proof and August: Osage County, and many more in between. All of the major U.S. playwrights are represented, and the production histories also include information about film and television versions. There are a bibliography and one appendix listing the playwrights included along with their represented plays, as well as one listing the winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the New York Drama Critics Circle Awards for American Plays, and the Tony Awards for Best Play. A welcome addition to the literature or performing arts sections of most library collections. * Booklist *
£45.90
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Get the Callback The Art of Auditioning for
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIn this second edition of Get the Callback, Flom not only updates the first edition but shifts the focus from ‘getting the job’ to ‘getting the callback,’ which is something the prepared actor can actually control. A great guide for young actors in high schools and colleges who are embarking on their careers—but also offering good reminders for those already out in the profession—the book covers all aspects of the audition process: preparation, pulling in new material, the actual audition, how to talk to the accompanist, how to interact with the audition panel, the callback. Flom even covers aspects of the process that are often overlooked—how to read audition announcements properly, the best head-shot styles and résumé layouts—and includes an updated list of repertoire styles and genres. Finally, Flom provides sound advice about how to negotiate a job offer. In other words, this one little volume is an invaluable resource for anyone who plans to audition for a musical theater production—whether in high school, college, or professional theater. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates; graduate students; professionals. * CHOICE *
£76.00
