Theatre studies Books
The University of Michigan Press Harold Pinter
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£21.80
The University of Michigan Press Performing Queer Latinidad
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£26.55
The University of Michigan Press Paul Robeson and the Cold War Performance Complex
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£23.70
The University of Michigan Press The Myopia and Other Plays by David Greenspan
Book SynopsisPlaywright and actor David Greenspan has been a leading figure in Manhattan's downtown performance scene for over twenty years. This brings together five of Greenspan's most important works, accompanied by a critical introduction and new interview with the playwright.
£26.55
The University of Michigan Press Page to Stage
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£23.70
LUP - University of Michigan Press Acts
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£28.45
The University of Michigan Press The AvantGarde and the Popular in Modern China
Book SynopsisExamines avant-garde performance as an important political force shaping popular culture in modern China, focusing on artist and activist Tian Han. This is the first book to analyse Han’s art and activism and to explore how an important group of Chinese performing artists invested in politics and the pursuit of the avant-garde came to terms with different ways of being “popular” in modern times.
£30.35
LUP - University of Michigan Press Evita Inevitably
Book SynopsisSheds new light on the history and culture of Argentina by examining the performances and reception of the country’s most iconic female figures, in particular, Eva Perón. The book links the Evita legend to a broader pattern of female iconicity from the mid-19th century onward, reading Evita against the performances of other female icons.
£29.40
LUP - University of Michigan Press Paula Vogel
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£23.70
The University of Michigan Press Latin Numbers
Book SynopsisExamines the way in which Latino actors on the 20th century stage and screen communicated and influenced American ideas about race and ethnicity. Brian Eugenio Herrera looks at how these performances and performers contributed to American popular understanding of Latinos as a distinct racial and ethnic group.
£25.60
The University of Michigan Press Reckoning with Spirit in the Paradigm of
Book SynopsisAsks how the sensibilities of religious experience, which many people call spirituality, shape people's performance. By analysing performances of spirituality and what people experience as “spirit,” this book adds a new dimension to the paradigm of performance. The specific performances presented are meditative dance and shamanic drumming.Trade ReviewIntellectuals have tended to dismiss people’s spiritual experiences by reducing them to public ritual spaces, to forms of cultural theft, to colonial history, to economics and capitalism, to narcissism and dilettantism. These processes are important to analyze, but is that all there is? The author’s answer is a definitive ‘No.’ The basic model here is performance studies, a field that assumes to know anything is to show it, so that others can see it happening. What to do, then, with the invisible, which, by nature, cannot be shown or known in a public way? Through detailed studies of two contemporary meditation practices and their founders, this book reveals how insufficient various materialist methodologies are to understanding the interior, life-changing, and often extreme experiences of the spiritual … Reckoning with Spirit is an especially powerful and effective tour de force.” —Jeffrey Kripal, Rice University
£31.30
LUP - University of Michigan Press Charles Ludlam Lives
Book SynopsisPlaywright, actor and director Charles Ludlam (1943-1987) helped to galvanize the Ridiculous style of theater in New York City starting in the 1960s. Although his Ridiculous Theatrical Company shut its doors, the Ludlamesque Ridiculous has continued to thrive. Sean F. Edgecomb focuses on neo-Ridiculous artists to trace the connections between Ludlam's legacy and their performances.Trade ReviewSean Edgecomb thinks beyond pre- and post-Stonewall definitions of camp (without neglecting their significance) to argue that camp not only persists but remains a relevant tactic of transformational queer performance. Charles Ludlam Lives! is a smart, beautifully written book that will make a lasting contribution to gay and lesbian performance history."" - Shane Vogel, Indiana University""Charles Ludlam would be thrilled—just as he toyed with and overturned the conventions of popular theatre, this book playfully and brilliantly queers performance scholarship in its exploration of Ridiculous legacies. Edgecomb’s research is adventurous, and the writing is lively and compelling. Most importantly, the central figures, Charles Ludlam, Charles Busch, Bradford Louryk, and Taylor Mac, receive the full diva treatment they deserve."" - James Wilson, LaGuardia Community College, CUNY
£19.90
The University of Michigan Press Performing the Intercultural City
Book SynopsisIn 1971, Canada became the first country to adopt an official policy of multiculturalism. Performing the Intercultural City explores how Toronto - a representative global city in this multicultural country - stages diversity through its many intercultural theatre companies and troupes.Trade ReviewReaches beyond the particular context of Toronto to engage the issues of cosmopolitan cultural formations in the 21st century. Artists will be engaged by the case studies that explore unique dramaturgies and aesthetics, and academics by this in-depth study in the performativity of culture and identity formation. The book extends a model for studying intercultural dynamics in new ways."" - Ann Elizabeth Armstrong, Miami University of Ohio""Challenges us to develop a holistic methodology that honors the full complexity of the intercultural. [The book’s] deft integration of contemporary critical approaches with indigenous ontologies and participatory ethnography is a magnificent achievement, one that will impact our field deeply."" - Leo Cabranes-Grant, University of California, Santa Barbara
£23.70
The University of Michigan Press Building Character
Book SynopsisWhat can we learn about how we understand each other and ourselves by examining the casting we find on stage and film - the casting we find perfect and the casting we find wrong? Building Character examines how the process of ""casting"" an actor in a part creates a character and how this can be usefully understood through deploying theories from the cognitive sciences.Trade ReviewHow do we cast characters, sort out loved ones from the surrounding crush of humanity, much less keep track of whether actors are right for a part? Cook nimbly guides us through the cognitive functions that enable us to categorize people, and pulls more than a few rugs out from under our understandings of celebrity, politicking, and the culture wars."" - Scott Magelssen, University of Washington""In a masterpiece that lies at the intersection of the humanities and cognitive science, Cook shows that we form notions of character by casting a specific person in a specific role at a specific time, following complex cognitive patterns. From daily life to imagination, from reverie to reality, it’s casting all the way down."" - Mark Turner, Case Western Reserve University
£19.90
The University of Michigan Press Gaming the Stage
Book SynopsisRich connections between gaming and theatre stretch back to the 16th and 17th centuries. In the first book-length exploration of gaming in the early modern period, Gina Bloom shows that theatres succeeded in London's new entertainment marketplace largely because watching a play and playing a game were similar experiences.Trade Review“A smart, invigorating intervention into early modern theatre history and historiography. Not only specialists in Renaissance Drama, but also cultural historians, game and gaming scholars, and specialists in performance studies will find this book accessible and engaging. Bloom moves masterfully across scholarly registers, showing how theatre remembers and reconstitutes the chanciness of everyday life.”—Ellen MacKay, University of Chicago “Bloom's central argument concerns the ways the strategies of playing different kinds of games are worked into the action of early modern drama, and how the affectual and kinesthetic structure of playing/watching these games provides an index into the plays’ potential theatrical experience . . . a deeply researched, well-conceived, thoroughly engrossing book.”—W. B. Worthen, Barnard College, Columbia University
£23.70
The University of Michigan Press Affect Animals and Autists
Book SynopsisMaps connections across performances that question the borders of the human whose neurodiverse experiences have been shaped by the diagnostic label of autism, and animal-human performance relationships that dispute and blur anthropocentric edges. The book treats a diverse selection of live performance and archival video and analyzes the ways in which they affect their audiences.Trade ReviewProvocative, timely, and well-written, Affect, Animals, and Autists raises challenging questions that will be of interest to affect theorists as well as a broad complement of interdisciplinary scholars working in disability, performance, theatre, and/or animal studies."" -Kirsty Johnston, University of British Columbia""A timely, exciting and important book that is evidently the manifestation of years of in-depth research and reflection. The evaluation of performances is admirably measured, whilst not underestimating the risks of perpetuating conventional paradigms of animals or autism by influential ‘hits’ like War Horse or Curious Incident."" - Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca, University of Surrey
£23.70
The University of Michigan Press Freak Performances
Book SynopsisThrough an analysis of experimental theater, dance theater, performance art, and gallery-based installation art across eight countries, Analola Santana explores the theoretical issues shaped by the encounters and negotiations between different bodies in the current Latin American landscape.Trade ReviewSantana cleverly locates her study in defining and re-defining abject bodies within the heavy weight of colonization that Latin America has suffered from the time of the conquest to today . . . [She] finds how these ‘freak' bodies have encountered, resisted, and hoped for a better present and future."" - Paola Hernández, University of Wisconsin""An important contribution to the scholarly debates around colonialism, coloniality, and neoliberalism through the prism of aesthetics, performance, embodiment, abjection, race, gender, sexuality, and ableisms . . . a theoretically sophisticated and eminently readable analysis of how the ‘freak' comes to embody a broad range of deviant and non-normative positions: the queer, the colonial, the abject, the criminal, the neoliberal."" - Diana Taylor, New York University
£23.70
The University of Michigan Press Ishtyle
Book SynopsisGay nightlife as sociopolitical performance
£27.50
LUP - University of Michigan Press Performance Constellations
Book SynopsisAnalyses uses of space, time, media communication, and corporeality in protests such as virtual sit-ins, flash mobs, scarfazos, and hashtag campaigns, arguing that these protests not only challenge hegemonic power but are also socially transformative.Trade Review “The concept of ‘performance constellations’ lends itself to novel forms of materialist analyses that trace the movements of activist actions as they respond to local and transnational economic and political conditions. Fuentes draws dexterously from current theory in performance and digital media studies as well as recent scholarship on neoliberalism, and her firsthand interviews with art-activists offer new insights into performance actions as powerful forms of interventionist art.” –Natalie Alvarez, Ryerson University|“Timely and important . . . explores how the combination of online and offline activism, in their interdependence, have helped counter many of the most predatory practices of Neoliberalism. Focusing on instances from the 1990s to the present in Argentina, Mexico, and Chile, the book explores the many different ways in which performance—and particularly performance as/is event—frames these interventions.” –Patricia Ybarra, Brown University
£19.90
The University of Michigan Press Translocas
Book SynopsisFocuses on drag and transgender performance and activism in Puerto Rico and its diaspora. Arguing for its political potential, Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes explores the social and cultural disruptions caused by Latin American and Latinx ‘locas’ and the various forms of violence that queer individuals in Puerto Rico and the US are subjected to.
£23.70
The University of Michigan Press Nuyorican Feminist Performance
Book SynopsisRecovers and celebrates the contributions of women artists to the history of this iconic performance venueTrade ReviewGroundbreaking . . . an extremely important and very timely intervention in the fields of Latina/o studies, women's studies, and literary, theater and performance studies. The book engages valuable, understudied and unknown archival materials and offers interesting and relevant analysis." - Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, University of Michigan"A tour-de-force that fills a significant void in the literature of Latina/o/x cultural expression within the context of New York City. It will appeal to scholars of Latina/o/x art, art history, cultural studies, theater and performance studies." - Wilson Valentín-Escobar, University of Massachusetts Lowell
£27.50
LUP - University of Michigan Press In Concert
Book SynopsisMusical performance is a social interaction between musicians and their audiences, appealing as much to the eye as to the ear. In In Concert Philip Auslander addresses not only the visual means by which musicians engage their audiences through costume and physical gesture, but also spectacular aspects of performance such as light shows.Trade ReviewAuslander has earned a primary role in the interpretation of rock performance, especially for his approach to the expression of cultural identities and their mediation in the digital era. Scholars grapple with the myriad and complex parameters that shape musical subjectivities as they are displayed in a range of staged and mediated forms. This book will most certainly bring a larger set of readers into the fold." - Lori Burns, University of Ottawa"An exciting and influential publication in the field of performance studies." - Jacqueline Warwick, Dalhousie University
£31.30
The University of Michigan Press Selected Plays of Stan Lai
Book SynopsisStan Lai (Lai Shengchuan) is one of the most celebrated theatre practitioners working in the Chinese-speaking world. His work over three decades has pioneered the course of modern Chinese language theatre in Taiwan, China, and other Chinese speaking regions. This volume features works from across Lai's career.Table of Contents Introduction to Volume 3 by Raymond Zhou Notes on Staging A Dream Like a Dream Ago On the Contributors
£38.90
The University of Michigan Press Realisms in East Asian Performance
Book SynopsisExamining theatre forms and artists from China, Japan, and Korea, Realisms in East Asian Performance brings together a group of theatre historians to reconsider realism through the performing arts of East Asia.Trade ReviewWhile many studies exist on the classical and contemporary theatres of East Asia, a focus on modern drama and realisms – arguably the most popular forms of theatre with audiences in the region– have been widely overlooked and undertheorized… Well conceptualized, addressing a critical gap in knowledge in the field, and including texts by the leading scholars in the field, Realisms in East Asian Performance poses important questions about theatre and modernity in East Asia." - Peter Eckersall, CUNY Graduate Center"A groundbreaking work on directing theory and practice from a cross-cultural and comparative perspective. Well-articulated and convincing, the book succeeds in offering a more inclusive definition of realism and its varied practice that will be very useful for both Western and non-Western theater scholars." - Xiaomei Chen, University of California, Davis"Too often performance culture is divided into ‘traditional’ theatre (i.e., the indigenous performance traditions of a nation) and ‘modern’ (meaning Western-influenced naturalistic theatre developed after contact with Europe). This volume destroys that artificial bifurcation, offering a far more complex and nuanced reading of ‘traditional’ and modern Asian theatres than is seen in standard textbooks." - Kevin Wetmore, Loyola Marymount UniversityTable of Contents List of Illustrations Note on Transliteration and Names Acknowledgements Introduction: From Realism to Realisms Jessica Nakamura and Katherine Saltzman-Li (University of California at Santa Barbara) Part I: Revealing Realisms 1. Theatrical Realism on the Kabuki Stage: Methods and Theories Katherine Saltzman-Li (University of California at Santa Barbara) 2. Stylized Reality on the Jingju Stage: Revisiting Picking up a Jade Bracelet as a Case Study Xing Fan (University of Toronto) 3. Racing the Real: Korean Realism Theater and Racial Representation in Cha Bumseok’s Yeoldaeeo Soo Ryon Yoon (Lingnan University) and Ji Hyon (Kayla) Yuh (Montclair State University) Part II: Real Life Onstage 4. The Subversion of Everyday Life: Neoliberal South Korea and the Theater of the Everyday in the Plays of Park Kunhyung Kee-Yoon Nahm (Illinois State University) 5. From Realist Drama to Theater of the Real: Postsocialist Realism in Contemporary Chinese Theater Rossella Ferrari (University of Vienna) 6. Three Kingdoms of Pain and Sorrow: Verisimilitude of Warfare Presented in Pansori Jeokbyeokga Min-Hyung Yoo (Korea University) Part III: Technologies 7. Mediated Laugher and the Limits of Realism: Laughing Letter and the Kinodrama Experiment in 1930s Japanese Performance Aragorn Quinn (University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee) 8. Realism, the Real, and Mediated Reality: Hirata Oriza and Beyond M. Cody Poulton (University of Victoria) 9. Realisms in Japan’s Eighteenth-Century Puppet Theater Jyana S. Browne (University of Maryland) 10. Costumes of the Present: Clothing and Realism in Traditional Chinese Theater Guojun Wang (Vanderbilt University) Part IV: Evolving Realisms 11. Colonial Temporality, Diasporic Displacement, and Korean Realism in Yun Baek-nam’s Destiny Miseong Woo (Yonsei University) 12. The “Deep Realism” of Style: From Michel Saint-Denis to Huang Zuolin Siyuan Liu (University of British Columbia) 13. After the Colloquial: Legacies of Realistic Expression in Contemporary Japan Jessica Nakamura (University of California at Santa Barbara) Contributors Index
£31.30
The University of Michigan Press Seriously Mad
Book SynopsisTheatremakers in the United States have long been drawn to madness as a source of dramatic spectacle. This book offers a dynamic account of stage musicals’ engagement with historically significant theories about mental distress, illness, disability, and human variance in the United States.Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Part One. Madness in the Mind. “Make a Date with a Great Psychoanalyst…”: Gazing Inward in the Dual Golden Age “Make up your mind! Make up your mind!”: The Neurotic Interior and the Dynamic Unconscious in the 1940s and Beyond Part Two. Madness in Society “There Are Heroes in the World…”:Psychiatric Activism, Antipsychiatry, and Political Consciousness “To Dream the Impossible Dream…”: Communities of Madness in the Musicals of the Long Sixties “Is That Just Disgusting?”: Filth, Madness, and the City in Sweeney Todd and Other Musicals Part Three. Madness in the Brain “What a Lovely Cure!”: Staging the Interior in the New Age of Diagnostic Psychiatry “Sing a song of forgetting…”: Listening to the Unconscious in Next to Normal Conclusion: Contemporary Visions of Madness as Depth Theatre Bibliography
£31.30
The University of Michigan Press Late Stage
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£31.30
LUP - University of Michigan Press Directing Postmodern Theater
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAn original contribution that aims to show how semiotic theory can be made useful and practical in the staging of plays." —James M. Symons, University of Colorado, Boulder". . . the cumulative effect of Directing Postmodern Theater is . . . an exhilarating sense of the almost unlimited possibilities theatre affords for the production of multileveled, complex, challenging, evocative and provocative performance events. . . . For Whitmore, it would seem, the playwright, and the play, may be dead. Long live the director." —Theatrum Magazine"Whitmore's project is not to throw out conventional Western methods of directorial approach, based around psychological and illusionistic consistencies, but to broaden the base to accommodate the vigorous relativistic and multidisciplinary adventures which have been created by the arrival, during the past thirty years, of a more cross-cultural perception of theatre-making." —Essays in Theatre/Etudes Théâtrales
£21.80
The University of Michigan Press The Stage Life of Props
Book SynopsisFresh and provocative readings of familiar stage objects provide new ways of understanding theater, dramatic literature, and culture
£22.75
The University of Michigan Press Acting Jewish
Book SynopsisExamines how notions of Jewishness have been conveyed in a range of television, stage, and film productions, since the end of World War II. Beginning in 1947, this book draws on a different discipline of performance studies to explore the ever-changing relationship between Jews and mainstream American culture.Trade Review"Fascinating and original...Bial's command of sources is impressive, and his concept of 'double-coding' is convincing... the book should have no trouble finding a large audience." - Barbara W. Grossman, author of Funny Woman: The Life and Times of Fanny Brice"
£19.90
The University of Michigan Press Staging Philosophy
Book SynopsisInvestigates the fundamental issues in theater and performance from a wide range philosophical perspectives. The fifteen original essays in this work make useful connections between the discipline of philosophy and the fields of theater and performance. It provides case studies of various philosophical movements and schools of thought.
£28.45
LUP - University of Michigan Press Building Character The Art and Science of
Book SynopsisWhat can we learn about how we understand each other and ourselves by examining the casting we find on stage and film - the casting we find perfect and the casting we find wrong? Building Character examines how the process of ""casting"" an actor in a part creates a character and how this can be usefully understood through deploying theories from the cognitive sciences.Trade ReviewHow do we cast characters, sort out loved ones from the surrounding crush of humanity, much less keep track of whether actors are right for a part? Cook nimbly guides us through the cognitive functions that enable us to categorize people, and pulls more than a few rugs out from under our understandings of celebrity, politicking, and the culture wars."" - Scott Magelssen, University of Washington""In a masterpiece that lies at the intersection of the humanities and cognitive science, Cook shows that we form notions of character by casting a specific person in a specific role at a specific time, following complex cognitive patterns. From daily life to imagination, from reverie to reality, it’s casting all the way down."" - Mark Turner, Case Western Reserve University
£60.95
The University of Michigan Press Gaming the Stage
Book SynopsisRich connections between gaming and theatre stretch back to the 16th and 17th centuries. In the first book-length exploration of gaming in the early modern period, Gina Bloom shows that theatres succeeded in London's new entertainment marketplace largely because watching a play and playing a game were similar experiences.Trade ReviewA smart, invigorating intervention into early modern theatre history and historiography. Not only specialists in Renaissance Drama, but also cultural historians, game and gaming scholars, and specialists in performance studies will find this book accessible and engaging. Bloom moves masterfully across scholarly registers, showing how theatre remembers and reconstitutes the chanciness of everyday life."" - Ellen MacKay, University of Chicago""Bloom's central argument concerns the ways the strategies of playing different kinds of games are worked into the action of early modern drama, and how the affectual and kinesthetic structure of playing/watching these games provides an index into the plays' potential theatrical experience . . . a deeply researched, well-conceived, thoroughly engrossing book."" - W. B. Worthen, Barnard College, Columbia University
£52.95
The University of Michigan Press Reactivations
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA rich and rewarding book. Reactivations reminds us how to think about performance in a manner that is direct and pragmatic, while still ambitious and fully embedded in both conceptual and historical knowledge of our subject."" - Matthew Reason, York St. John University""Philip Auslander is one of the most penetrating observers and interpreters of performance. He addresses the subtle substance and still radical and difficult form of performance in elegantly articulated, original insights, thought-provoking perspectives, and respectful debates. Reactivations is Auslander at his best."" - Kristine Stiles, Duke University
£52.95
The University of Michigan Press Beyond Text
Book SynopsisTaking up the work of prominent theater and performance artists, Beyond Text reveals the audacity and beauty of avant-garde performance in print. Jennifer Buckley shows how live performance and print aesthetically revived one another during a period in which both were supposed be in a state of terminal cultural decline.Trade ReviewBy delineating the numerous relationships print can assume to performance, Beyond Text opens up new ways of looking at, thinking about, and appreciating familiar performance works and artists as well as some less familiar ones." - Philip Auslander, Georgia Institute of Technology"Well researched, clearly written, engaged in current debates, and compelling in its argumentation, Beyond Text makes an important and overdue contribution to the fields of theatre, literary, performance and cultural studies. It will also speak to art historians and design scholars and anyone interested in the history of the book as a cultural artifact." - James M. Harding, University of Maryland
£64.95
The University of Michigan Press Nuyorican Feminist Performance
Book SynopsisRecovers and celebrates the contributions of women artists to the history of this iconic performance venueTrade ReviewGroundbreaking . . . an extremely important and very timely intervention in the fields of Latina/o studies, women's studies, and literary, theater and performance studies. The book engages valuable, understudied and unknown archival materials and offers interesting and relevant analysis." - Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, University of Michigan"A tour-de-force that fills a significant void in the literature of Latina/o/x cultural expression within the context of New York City. It will appeal to scholars of Latina/o/x art, art history, cultural studies, theater and performance studies." - Wilson Valentín-Escobar, University of Massachusetts Lowell
£73.10
The University of Michigan Press Performing Flight
Book SynopsisSheds new light on moments in the history of US aviation and spaceflight through the lens of performance studies. Performing Flight effectively and imaginatively demonstrates the ways in which performance and flight in the United States have been inextricably linked for more than a century.Trade Review“The case studies that comprise Performing Flight are, without exception, lively in their composition and thought provoking in their argument. . . a well-researched volume and an engaging read.” —Susan Bennett, University of Calgary“An original approach and a novel subject, with as much attention to history as to fieldwork. . . . The breadth of the project and the rigor of the research make for an interesting, convincing, thoughtful and insightful read.”—Sara Brady, Bronx Community College
£60.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press In Concert
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£69.30
The University of Michigan Press Trial by Farce
Book SynopsisPrize-winning theatre historian Jody Enders brings twelve of the funniest legal farces to English-speaking audiences in a refreshingly uncensored but philologically faithful vernacular. This repertoire and its stock characters come vividly to life as they struggle to negotiate the limits of power, politics, class, gender, and, above all, justice.Trade Review“Introduces a new readership to a virtually unknown body of dramatic texts from continental Europe . . . Enders perfectly guides readers through the difficult and arcane world of law and order À la FranÇaise, and her modern rapprochements between the legal world in contemporary America versus Medieval and Renaissance France are simply delightful.”—Mario Longtin, Western UniversityTable of Contents Foreword A Special Note to Actors and Directors Abbreviations and Short Titles List of Illustrations Introduction: Judgment Calls Farce to Farce with the Law On the Boundaries of Humor About This Translation: Le Mot Juste, l’Acte Juste Translational Politics and the Politics of Translation The Language of Farce Legal Players and Legalese Editions and Printed Sources Critical Apparatus, Stage Directions, Composite Editions Money Math Prose, Verse, and Music Brief Plot Summaries The Plays 1. Not Gettin’ Any [La Farce du MariÉ qui ne peult fournir À l’appoinctement de sa femme] (Le Nouveau MariÉ) (RBM, #2) 2. Default Judgment Day, or, In Arrears [Une Femme qui demande les arrÉrages À son mari] (RBM, #8; Rousset, #6) 3. The Washtub: A New Translation [La Farce du Cuvier] (RBM, #4) 4. Basket Case [La Farce de la Femme qui fut desrobÉe À son mari en sa hotte et mise une pierre en son lieu] (RC, #23) 5. Who’s Your Daddy? [Jenin, Filz de Rien] (RBM, #20) 6. Interlude: Beauballs, a Charivari [L’Esbatement de Coillebaut] (Ms. 25, BibliothÈque de Berne) 7. Poor Bastards [Les Batars de Caulx] (RLV, #48) 8. Talking Turkey, or,A Pilgrim’s Progress [La Farce de Colin, filz de ThÉvot le maire, qui vient de Naples et amaine ung Turc prisonnier] (RC, #5; RBM, #47; Rousset, #2) 9. Okay, Cupid [Le ProcÈs d’un jeun moyne et d’un viel gendarme] (RT, #29; Rousset, #7) 10. Witless Protection [La MÈre, la Fille, le Tesmoing, L’Amoureulx, et l’Oficial] (L’Official) (RLV, #22) 11. The Trial of Johnny Slowpoke [Jehan de Lagny] (RLV, #31) 12. Runaway Groom: A Final Number [Le Porteur d’eau] (Paris, 1632) Appendix: Scholarly References to Copyrighted Materials Works Cited
£73.10
The University of Michigan Press Realisms in East Asian Performance
Book SynopsisExamining theatre forms and artists from China, Japan, and Korea, Realisms in East Asian Performance brings together a group of theatre historians to reconsider realism through the performing arts of East Asia.Trade ReviewWhile many studies exist on the classical and contemporary theatres of East Asia, a focus on modern drama and realisms – arguably the most popular forms of theatre with audiences in the region– have been widely overlooked and undertheorized… Well conceptualized, addressing a critical gap in knowledge in the field, and including texts by the leading scholars in the field, Realisms in East Asian Performance poses important questions about theatre and modernity in East Asia." - Peter Eckersall, CUNY Graduate Center"A groundbreaking work on directing theory and practice from a cross-cultural and comparative perspective. Well-articulated and convincing, the book succeeds in offering a more inclusive definition of realism and its varied practice that will be very useful for both Western and non-Western theater scholars." - Xiaomei Chen, University of California, Davis"Too often performance culture is divided into ‘traditional’ theatre (i.e., the indigenous performance traditions of a nation) and ‘modern’ (meaning Western-influenced naturalistic theatre developed after contact with Europe). This volume destroys that artificial bifurcation, offering a far more complex and nuanced reading of ‘traditional’ and modern Asian theatres than is seen in standard textbooks." - Kevin Wetmore, Loyola Marymount UniversityTable of Contents List of Illustrations Note on Transliteration and Names Acknowledgements Introduction: From Realism to Realisms Jessica Nakamura and Katherine Saltzman-Li (University of California at Santa Barbara) Part I: Revealing Realisms 1. Theatrical Realism on the Kabuki Stage: Methods and Theories Katherine Saltzman-Li (University of California at Santa Barbara) 2. Stylized Reality on the Jingju Stage: Revisiting Picking up a Jade Bracelet as a Case Study Xing Fan (University of Toronto) 3. Racing the Real: Korean Realism Theater and Racial Representation in Cha Bumseok’s Yeoldaeeo Soo Ryon Yoon (Lingnan University) and Ji Hyon (Kayla) Yuh (Montclair State University) Part II: Real Life Onstage 4. The Subversion of Everyday Life: Neoliberal South Korea and the Theater of the Everyday in the Plays of Park Kunhyung Kee-Yoon Nahm (Illinois State University) 5. From Realist Drama to Theater of the Real: Postsocialist Realism in Contemporary Chinese Theater Rossella Ferrari (University of Vienna) 6. Three Kingdoms of Pain and Sorrow: Verisimilitude of Warfare Presented in Pansori Jeokbyeokga Min-Hyung Yoo (Korea University) Part III: Technologies 7. Mediated Laugher and the Limits of Realism: Laughing Letter and the Kinodrama Experiment in 1930s Japanese Performance Aragorn Quinn (University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee) 8. Realism, the Real, and Mediated Reality: Hirata Oriza and Beyond M. Cody Poulton (University of Victoria) 9. Realisms in Japan’s Eighteenth-Century Puppet Theater Jyana S. Browne (University of Maryland) 10. Costumes of the Present: Clothing and Realism in Traditional Chinese Theater Guojun Wang (Vanderbilt University) Part IV: Evolving Realisms 11. Colonial Temporality, Diasporic Displacement, and Korean Realism in Yun Baek-nam’s Destiny Miseong Woo (Yonsei University) 12. The “Deep Realism” of Style: From Michel Saint-Denis to Huang Zuolin Siyuan Liu (University of British Columbia) 13. After the Colloquial: Legacies of Realistic Expression in Contemporary Japan Jessica Nakamura (University of California at Santa Barbara) Contributors Index
£73.10
The University of Michigan Press The Dybbuk Century
Book SynopsisPresents essays from an interdisciplinary group of scholars who explore The Dybbuk’s original Yiddish and Hebrew productions and offer critical reflections on the play’s enduring influence. The collection will appeal to scholars, students, and theater practitioners, as well as general readers.Trade ReviewOffers new insights into The Dybbuk and of some of its noteworthy productions and adaptations…The book augments earlier scholarship that situates the play squarely among the great achievements of 20th-century Western theater, astutely probes its complicated and nuanced gender politics, walks us through numerous examples of how it was received in its early years, and takes us on a tour of how it has inspired, and continues to inspire, artists and audiences." - Joel Berkowitz, University of Wisconsin"The essays in this volume, like The Dybbuk and its performers themselves, roam across Europe, the United States, and the Middle East as they examine the play’s origins, incarnations, and the controversies it has raised. The scholarship is not only sound and well-written, but also engaging and often moving." - Barbara Henry, University of Washington
£69.30
The University of Michigan Press Seriously Mad
Book SynopsisTheatremakers in the United States have long been drawn to madness as a source of dramatic spectacle. This book offers a dynamic account of stage musicals’ engagement with historically significant theories about mental distress, illness, disability, and human variance in the United States.Trade Review“An original piece of work that addresses a notable gap in the field . . . Seriously Mad not only brings madness and musicals into dialogue but forges important ground in terms of the serious exploration of musical theater practice . . . Grinenko takes interest in the ways in which psychoanalysis shapes theatrical practice but also the broader cultural atmosphere around ‘broken’ minds.”—Anna Harpin, University of Warwick “Reveals the complicated—and yet often repeated—intersection of musical theater and contemporaneous understandings of mental illness, in examples spanning decades. The research spans numerous fields including musical theater and the history of psychoanalysis, which are brought together in an entirely readable and persuasive way . . . The book will have an enormous impact on multiple fields.”—Jessica Sternfeld, Chapman UniversityTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Part One. Madness in the Mind. “Make a Date with a Great Psychoanalyst…”: Gazing Inward in the Dual Golden Age “Make up your mind! Make up your mind!”: The Neurotic Interior and the Dynamic Unconscious in the 1940s and Beyond Part Two. Madness in Society “There Are Heroes in the World…”:Psychiatric Activism, Antipsychiatry, and Political Consciousness “To Dream the Impossible Dream…”: Communities of Madness in the Musicals of the Long Sixties “Is That Just Disgusting?”: Filth, Madness, and the City in Sweeney Todd and Other Musicals Part Three. Madness in the Brain “What a Lovely Cure!”: Staging the Interior in the New Age of Diagnostic Psychiatry “Sing a song of forgetting…”: Listening to the Unconscious in Next to Normal Conclusion: Contemporary Visions of Madness as Depth Theatre Bibliography
£65.50
LUP - University of Michigan Press Greasepaint Puritan Boston to 42nd Street in the
Book SynopsisDetails the life and work of Bradford Ropes, author of the bawdy 1932 novel 42nd Street, on which the classic film and its stage adaptation are based. Each of Ropes’s long-forgotten novels was inspired by his own experiences as a performer, and focused on the lives of gay men in show business.Table of Contents List of Figures Acknowledgments INTRODUCTION The Enduring Myth of 42nd Street and the “Forgotten Melody” of Bradford Ropes INTERLUDE The Stories of Ropes’s Backstage Trilogy ONE Peering Back at “Proper Boston” TWO Drag Reveals and “Strange Interludes”: Billy Bradford’s Dances on Broadway THREE “This is Not a Book to Give to a Maiden Aunt”: The Influence of Backstage Novels and “Pansy Craze” Novels FOUR “Light-Hearted and Damned”: Anti-Gay Discrimination and Camp Defiance in Ropes’s Backstage Novels FIVE “Your Blood Responds More Eagerly to the Lure of the Theatre”: The Backstage Trilogy, the Puritan Ethos, and the Myth of “The Show Must Go On” SIX Bringing Back Bradford Ropes Notes Bibliography Index
£999.99
The University of Michigan Press Pragmatic Liberation and the Politics of Puerto
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£60.95
The University of Michigan Press Bodies on the Front Lines
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£73.10
The University of Michigan Press Backstaging Modern Chinese Theatre
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£99.70
LUP - University of Michigan Press Who Put the Rainbow in The Wizard of Oz
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£23.70
LUP - University of Michigan Press The Place of the Stage
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA major study, not merely of selected Shakespearean plays but of the very conditions of the possibility of Renaissance drama." —Louis Montrose, University of California, San Diego"Mullaney's rich and engaged reading of the place of Shakespeare's stage represents the texture of early modern life and its cultural productions in the vivid tradition of annales history and brilliantly exemplifies his theoretical call for a poetics of culture." — Shakespeare Quarterly"Mullaney marshals an impressive range of cultural representations which, taken together, will undoubtedly force a reconsideration of the semiotics of the Elizabethan stage." —Times Higher Education Supplement". . . something of a dramatic feat in cultural studies: literary critic Mullaney calls in a cast ranging from Clifford Geertz and Pierre Bourdieu to Raymond Williams, Mary Douglas, and Michel Foucault." —Contemporary Sociology
£19.90
The University of Michigan Press After Brecht
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAfter Brecht represents the best and most detailed engagement with the contemporary British theater scene to date." —Stanton B. Garner, Jr."This fine study . . . confronts issues that are important to all students and practitioners of the theater. Sensitive to the uniqueness of each of the playwrights in her study, Reinelt demonstrates that Brechtian theory can be modified in many ways by those who share the belief that 'politics and aesthetics are inseparably linked.'" —Choice
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