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Taylor & Francis Ltd Sewing Techniques for Theatre
Book SynopsisSewing Techniques for Theatre: An Essential Guide for Beginners distills the intimidating art of sewing down into simple, quick, and effective lessons to prepare readers for an entry-level position in a costume shop. The lessons follow an hour-by-hour structure, offering detailed instructions to creating 11 sewing samples, a scrub shirt, and a tote bag. Embedded in the projects' directions are lecture materials on safety, irons, fabric, and patterns. With a wealth of hands-on exercises, review questions, photographs, and step-by-step instructions for compiling a portfolio, this guide teaches aspiring costume technicians about the culture and machinery of the costume shop, and equips them with the necessary skills to begin their career as members of a costume shop team.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Introduction to the Costume Shop, Shop Safety, Fabric, Introduction to the Overlock Sewing Machine, Introduction to the Portfolio 2. Overlock Machine, Sewing Notions, Irons, Right and Wrong Side of Fabric, Hemming Stitches 3. Introduction to Sewing Machines, Maching Stitching Projects, Curved Seams, Dart 4. Introducing the Scrub Shirt, Constructing the Shirt, Finishing the Neck Edge, Pinning and Attaching the Sleeves, Hemming the Sleeves 5. Tote Bag, Portfolio Master Supply List Chapter Review Answers Index
£128.25
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Digital Scenography
Book SynopsisShortlisted for the PQ Best Publication Award in Performance Design & Scenography 2023 This book uses digital media theory to explore contemporary understandings of expanded scenography as spatial practice. It surveys and analyses a selection of ground-breaking, experimental digital media performances that comprise a genealogy spanning the last 30 years, in order to show how the arrival of digital technologies has profoundly transformed performance practice. Performances are selected based on their ability to elicit the unique specificities of digital media in new and original ways, thereby exposing both the richness and shortcomings of digital culture. O''Dwyer argues that contemporary scenography is largely propelled by and dependent on digital technologies and represents a rich, fertile domain, where unbridled creativity can explore new techniques and challenge the limits of knowledge. The 30-year genealogy includes works by Troika Ranch, Stelarc, Klaus Obermaier, Chunky MovTrade ReviewO’Dwyer guides the reader through six chapters of case studies … with amazing dexterity … It is O’Dwyer’s adept and careful analysis of each of the artists/works that makes this volume so compelling. * International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Avant-garde and Invention in Early Digital Scenography: Troika Ranch 2. Scenography of the Cyborg: Stelarc’s Extra Ear 3. Innovations in Motion-Tracking and Projection-Mapping: Klaus Obermaier 4. Responsive Environments and Choreographing Indeterminacy: Chunky Move 5. Architectural Projection-Mapping: OnionLab Beaming on a Grand Scale 6. Ubiquitous Computing, Behavioural Profiling, Big Data and Machine Learning: Blast Theory Conclusion: Towards a Nascent Grammar of Digital Scenography Notes Bibliography Index
£34.49
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC How to Write Everything
Book SynopsisDavid Quantick really has written everything. He is part of the writing team for HBO's multi-award winning show Veep, for which he won the 2015 Emmy Awards for Outstanding Comedy Series and Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series.As a television writer, he has written for The Thick Of It, The Day Today, Brass Eye, TV Burp and many other shows. As a radio writer, he created Radio 4's One and Radio 2's The Blagger's Guide. His novel Sparks was described as excellent by Neil Gaiman and his graphic series Louis Wain (created with Savage Pencil) was published in Alan Moore's Dodgem Logic. As well as a series of music books and the official biography of Eddie Izzard, David wrote the Sunday Times best-seller Grumpy Old Men and has written for over 50 magazines and newspapers, from The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph to NME and Q. With Jane Bussmann, he created the world's first internTrade ReviewClear, kind, funny, and full of good advice. There's nobody better to provide it than David Quantick,who in writing terms is the quintessential jack of all trades and master of - well, all of them actually. * Jonathan Coe *David Quantick has a medical condition whereby he literally cannot be unfunny. * Caitlin Moran *This is the book David Quantick's publishers have been waiting for. * Julie Burchill *He stands astride the world of entertainment, a comedy colossus. If this book is as funny as his excuses for being late to TV Burp meetings it will be a best seller! * Harry Hill *Quantick doesn't just make it look easy to write anything, he makes it look easy to write hilariously about everything. Damn him. * Graeme Garden *David Quantick is a brilliant and hilarious man, who has spent years writing for (and with) everybody, from Armando Iannucci to Harry Hill. This is a warm, thoughtful and incisive guide to all kinds of writing, and especially television and journalism. If you want to write, but aren't sure where to begin, or even which medium would suit you best, he can help. A thoroughly pragmatic and unpretentious guide for the perplexed self-starter. * Natalie Haynes, author of The Amber Fury *‘No chapter on ‘How To Write Quotes For A Book Cover’ but otherwise excellent and very entertaining.’ -- Graeme Garden‘I taught David Quantick everything he knows. Here it is – read it and weep.’ -- Julie Burchill‘Quantick doesn’t just make it look easy to write anything, he makes it look easy to write hilariously about everything. Damn him.’ -- Hadley Freeman‘Clear, kind, funny, and full of good advice. There’s nobody better to provide it than David Quantick, who in writing terms is the quintessential jack of all trades and master of…well, all of them actually.’ -- Jonathan Coe‘He taught the world to laugh … He stands astride the world of entertainment, a comedy colossus.’ -- Harry Hill‘A thoroughly pragmatic and unpretentious guide for the perplexed self-starter.’ -- Natalie Haynes
£18.58
Edinburgh University Press Performance Theatricality and the Us Presidency
Book SynopsisProposes a new perspective on the contemporary rise of mainstreamed populism by exploring features of populist-style politics through the lens of distrustTrade Review"Going beyond well-worn and simple theatrical metaphors to describe political action, Julia Peetz's new book offers a sophisticated and genuinely interdisciplinary - blend of performance and political analysis. Readers will find compelling new approaches to, and arguments about, crucial factors in political life, from legitimacy and representation to distrust, authenticity and populism. The book's in-depth engagement with the past and present of US presidential performance is both illuminating and insightful." -Michael Saward, University of Warwick
£80.75
Rowman & Littlefield Theatre as Human Action: An Introduction to
Book SynopsisTheatre as Human Action is the ideal textbook to introduce students to the various aspects of theatre, especially for those who may have little or no theatergoing experience. Seven diverse plays are described to the reader from the start, and then returned to throughout the book so that students can better understand the concepts being discussed. Both the theoretical and practical aspects of theatre are explored, from the classical definition of theatre to today’s most avant-garde theatre activities. Types of plays, the elements of drama, and theatre criticism are presented, as well as detailed descriptions of the different jobs in theatre, such as actor, playwright, director, designer, producer, choreographer, and more. The book concludes with a look at where and how theatre is evolving in America and the latest changes and innovations today.This fourth edition has been greatly expanded and updated, including: The introduction of four new plays—Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street; Fences; Angels in America; and Hadestown—in addition to Macbeth, You Can’t Take It With You, and Hamilton A discussion of the rise of social media in raising awareness and replacing traditional review outlets An entirely new, enhanced section on diversity and inclusion in theatre An updated selection of playwrights featured, including Terrence McNally, Lynn Nottage, Tony Kushner, and Lin-Manuel Miranda, to better reflect the diversity of those writing for the theatre today. Featuring full-color photographs, updated learning guides, and suggested topics for discussion and research, the fourth edition of Theatre as Human Action is an invaluable resource to introduce students to the world of theatre.
£80.75
Rowman & Littlefield Theatre as Human Action: An Introduction to
Book SynopsisTheatre as Human Action is the ideal textbook to introduce students to the various aspects of theatre, especially for those who may have little or no theatergoing experience. Seven diverse plays are described to the reader from the start, and then returned to throughout the book so that students can better understand the concepts being discussed. Both the theoretical and practical aspects of theatre are explored, from the classical definition of theatre to today’s most avant-garde theatre activities. Types of plays, the elements of drama, and theatre criticism are presented, as well as detailed descriptions of the different jobs in theatre, such as actor, playwright, director, designer, producer, choreographer, and more. The book concludes with a look at where and how theatre is evolving in America and the latest changes and innovations today.This fourth edition has been greatly expanded and updated, including: The introduction of four new plays—Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street; Fences; Angels in America; and Hadestown—in addition to Macbeth, You Can’t Take It With You, and Hamilton A discussion of the rise of social media in raising awareness and replacing traditional review outlets An entirely new, enhanced section on diversity and inclusion in theatre An updated selection of playwrights featured, including Terrence McNally, Lynn Nottage, Tony Kushner, and Lin-Manuel Miranda, to better reflect the diversity of those writing for the theatre today. Featuring full-color photographs, updated learning guides, and suggested topics for discussion and research, the fourth edition of Theatre as Human Action is an invaluable resource to introduce students to the world of theatre.
£39.90
Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S. The Production Notebooks: Volume 2: Theatre in
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£21.24
Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S. Ming Cho Lee: A Life in Design
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£71.25
Taylor & Francis Ltd Crime Prevention Policies in Comparative
Book SynopsisThis book brings together a collection of leading international experts to explore the lessons learnt through implementation and the future directions of crime prevention policies. Through a comparative analysis of developments in crime prevention policies across a number of European countries, contributors address questions such as: How has 'the preventive turn' in crime control policies been implemented in various different countries and what have its implications been? What lessons have been learnt over the ensuing years and what are the major trends influencing the direction of development? What does the future hold for crime prevention and community safety? Contributors explore and assess the different models adopted and the shifting emphasis accorded to differing strategies over time. The book also seeks to compare and contrast different approaches as well as the nature and extent of policy transfer between jurisdictions and the internationalisation of key ideas, strategies and theories of crime prevention and community safety.Trade Review'This book comprises a collection of essays by some of the leading experts in the field of community safety and crime prevention from across Europe (with a contribution from a Canadian academic) and provides an extremely informative and useful comparison of the implementation and future direction of crime prevention policy.' - Donald Urquhart, Retired Police Officer and Chair of the Scottish Community Safety Network in SCOLAG, May 2011'Adam Crawford brings together a collection of readings on models of European crime prevention that is relevant for both policy makers and academics. ... Crawford presents a borad, yet detailed, collection, constructed around themes of convergance and divergance, implementation and the interplay between private and public prevention.Overall, this is an important book for scholars and policy makers of crime prevention in Europe, especially those concerned with the transferance, transformation and implementation of prevention policies in differing political and cultural contexts.' - Amy E. Nivette, PhD Candidate, Institute of Criminology, University of CambridgeTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Preventive Turn in Europe 1. Situating Crime Prevention Policies in Comparative Perspective: Policy Travels, Transfer and Translation 2. The Political Evolution of Situational Crime Prevention in England and Wales 3. The Preventative Turn and the Promotion of Safer Communities in England and Wales: Political Inventiveness and Governmental Instabilities 4. The Development of Community Safety in Scotland: A Different Path? 5. The Evolving Story of Crime Prevention in France 6. Forty Years of Crime Prevention in the Dutch Polder 7. 'Modernisation' of Institutions of Social and Penal Control in Europe: The 'New' Crime Prevention 8. Crime Prevention at the Belgian Federal Level: From a Social Democratic Policy to a Neo-liberal and Authoritarian Policy in a Social Democratic Context 9. Going Around in Circles? Reflections on Crime Prevention Strategies in Germany 10. Crime Prevention in Hungary: Why is it so Hard to Argue for the Necessity of a Community Approach? 11. International Models of Crime Prevention
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Nick Hern Books World Scenography 1990-2005
Book SynopsisWorld Scenography 1990-2005 is the second volume in a series of large-format, lavishly illustrated books documenting for posterity a collection of significant and influential theatrical set, costume, and lighting designs. This volume covers 1990-2005 and presents designs for 409 productions from 55 countries representing the work of hundreds of designers as researched by a group of more than 100 dedicated volunteers from around the globe. Like all performance-based art, stage design is ephemeral. If it is not recorded, it disappears. And if the designs are not contextualized through scholarship, their meanings will become obscure. World Scenography provides an outstanding visual and contextual record of the art of designing for the stage. The World Scenography series is an official project of OISTAT, the International Organization of Scenographers, Theatre Architects and Technicians.
£56.25
Nick Hern Books Russian Avant-Garde Theatre: War, Revolution &
Book SynopsisA sumptuously illustrated survey of the remarkable flowering of radical, visionary and experimental design for performance in Russia in the twenty years between 1913 and 1933. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Russian theatre produced an unprecedented period of creative radicalism and collaborative experimentation. Against the turbulent backdrop of the First World War and the Russian Revolution, the avant-garde movement transformed Russia’s cultural landscape as visionaries from several disciplines generated a vortex of innovative performance and design. The astounding body of work produced by Kazimir Malevich, Alexander Rodchenko, Vladimir Tatlin, Sergei Eisenstein and Liubov Popova, among others, overturned traditions in art, music, literature and theatre. This book explores the importance and influence of a seminal moment in twentieth-century culture – one that still resonates today. Published to accompany a major exhibition at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum in association with the Bakhrushin State Central Theatre Museum in Moscow, this book includes essays by experts from Russia, Britain and America illustrated with over 150 images from leading artists and designers, many of which are previously unpublished. Edited by John E. Bowlt, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Southern California, the result is an astonishing record of a period of creative innovation that redefined not only what was possible in theatre and the avant-garde, but in wider artistic practices too. It will be of interest both to theatregoers and art historians, as well as current and future designers seeking inspiration for their own work.
£999.99
Indiana University Press The Memory Marketplace Witnessing Pain in
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is an important contribution that pushes the existing scholarship further in a number of fields."—Lisa Fitzpatrick, University of Ulster"A brilliant contribution to knowledge and a really enjoyable, accessible, and thought-provoking read."—Anna Reading, King's College"Emilie Pine's The Memory Marketplaceis that remarkable and rare thing: a compelling, rigorously-researched academic book that is also beautifully written. Its analysis of performance modes representing trauma, abuse and violence – from 'docu-verbatim' theatre and autoperformance to site-specific performance – traces complex lines of enquiry about the idea of witnessing, the role of affect, and the types and exchanges of labor in the 'memory marketplace.' This work is a major contribution not only to memory studies and to Irish theatre studies, but also functions as an exemplar of the ways in which transnational literary studies can illuminate broad themes while tending to distinctions across cultures, spaces and times."—Oona Frawley, editor of Memory Ireland series"Emilie Pine's important new book expands our understanding of the public performance of painful stories, suggesting that they exist in a 'memory marketplace' that has to be considered in economic as well as cultural terms. Drawing on examples from Irish and international theatre, the study challenges the reader to fully appreciate the relationship between witnessing and consuming in contemporary performance. In doing so, it offers exciting perspectives on major theatre-makers (including Yael Farber, Samuel Beckett, Anna Deavere Smith, and Ariel Dorfman), important Irish theatre companies (such as Anu Productions, Kabosh, and the Abbey Theatre), and much more. Scholars of Irish drama, documentary theatre, and memory studies will find Pine's work inspiring and provocative in equal measure—just as general readers will be deeply stimulated by its relevance to many contemporary debates, notably the #metoo movement."—Patrick Lonergan, National University of Ireland, GalwayTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Market for Pain1. Tell them that you saw us: Witnessing Docu-Verbatim Memory2. The Witness as Commodity: Autoperforming Memory3. The Commissioned Witness, Theatre and Truth4. The immaterial labour of listening: Presence, absence, failure and the commodification of the witness5. Consumers or witnesses?: site-specific performanceConclusion: Activism in the Marketplace
£62.90
Indiana University Press The Memory Marketplace Witnessing Pain in
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is an important contribution that pushes the existing scholarship further in a number of fields."—Lisa Fitzpatrick, University of Ulster"A brilliant contribution to knowledge and a really enjoyable, accessible, and thought-provoking read."—Anna Reading, King's College"Emilie Pine's The Memory Marketplaceis that remarkable and rare thing: a compelling, rigorously-researched academic book that is also beautifully written. Its analysis of performance modes representing trauma, abuse and violence – from 'docu-verbatim' theatre and autoperformance to site-specific performance – traces complex lines of enquiry about the idea of witnessing, the role of affect, and the types and exchanges of labor in the 'memory marketplace.' This work is a major contribution not only to memory studies and to Irish theatre studies, but also functions as an exemplar of the ways in which transnational literary studies can illuminate broad themes while tending to distinctions across cultures, spaces and times."—Oona Frawley, editor of Memory Ireland series"Emilie Pine's important new book expands our understanding of the public performance of painful stories, suggesting that they exist in a 'memory marketplace' that has to be considered in economic as well as cultural terms. Drawing on examples from Irish and international theatre, the study challenges the reader to fully appreciate the relationship between witnessing and consuming in contemporary performance. In doing so, it offers exciting perspectives on major theatre-makers (including Yael Farber, Samuel Beckett, Anna Deavere Smith, and Ariel Dorfman), important Irish theatre companies (such as Anu Productions, Kabosh, and the Abbey Theatre), and much more. Scholars of Irish drama, documentary theatre, and memory studies will find Pine's work inspiring and provocative in equal measure—just as general readers will be deeply stimulated by its relevance to many contemporary debates, notably the #metoo movement."—Patrick Lonergan, National University of Ireland, GalwayTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Market for Pain1. Tell them that you saw us: Witnessing Docu-Verbatim Memory2. The Witness as Commodity: Autoperforming Memory3. The Commissioned Witness, Theatre and Truth4. The immaterial labour of listening: Presence, absence, failure and the commodification of the witness5. Consumers or witnesses?: site-specific performanceConclusion: Activism in the Marketplace
£26.99
Indiana University Press Albee in Performance
Book SynopsisA premiere playwright, Edward Albee is also a gifted director. This work details Albee's directorial vision and how that vision animates his plays. It reveals how Albee has shaped his plays in performance, the attention he pays to each aspect of theatre, and how his conception of the key plays he has directed has evolved over a five-decade career.Trade ReviewAlbee in Performance is an impressive documentation of Albee's rehearsal practices that, along the way, reveals countless insights into the characters and play worlds of one of our most celebrated living playwrights.Sept 2012 * Theatre Survey *For theatre professionals as well as academics, this book is a quick and useful glimpse into the theatrical practices of Edward Albee as they reveal his own aesthetic principles. * Text & Presentation *Albee in Performance is a fascinating volume. Solomon's writing is lively . . . It is an important contribution to our understanding of Edward Albee as a man of the theatre. * Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism *Albee in Performance provides the most comprehensive analysis to date of Edward Albee's work directing his own plays, a topic which has received far less attention than it deserves. . . . [It] will prove of lasting benefit to literary scholars and theatre professionals as they attempt to capture Albee's original intent and interpretation of his plays. Fall 2010 * Valley Voices: A Literary Review *Rakesh Solomon's insightful study Albee in Performance appeals to a broad spectrum of readers. Scholars, teachers, and Edward Albee fans will want to read it for interpretations of characters and themes in Albee's plays. Directors and deigners will enjoy the book from the standpoint of theatrical production. Theatre students at all levels can learn about their craft from case studies of how Albee himself solved production problems. Vol. 21, No. 1, March 2011 * Theatre Topics *Fully documents Albee's choices and decisions, frequently shedding a corrective light on texts as Albee imagined them. A valuable portrait of Albee as an actor's director, influenced by, but not bound to, the American method-acting tradition. Highly recommended. * Choice *Solomon usefully contextualizes Albee in relation to Beckett, Pinter, and other dramatists for whom such totality of vision is (or was) a significant dimension of their practice. At the same time, though, one of the strengths of this book is in demonstrating just how collaborative a theatre artist Albee is. -- Stephen Bottoms * New Theatre Quarterly *A book of stunning revelations. . . . Solomon's extraordinary thirty year documentation of Albee's plays in production . . . is a major gift to directors, actors, designers, and others. . . . Albee scholars, in particular, would ignore this new study at their peril. . . . It will prove to be an indispensible source and catalyst for future Albee scholarship, and a highly influential creative guide to understanding one of America's greatest and, perhaps, most mysterious playwrights. -- David A. Crespy * Theatre History Studies *Table of ContentsContentsForeword by Edward AlbeeAcknowledgments1. Albee in the Theatre2. Casting Practices and Director's Preparation3. The American Dream4. The Zoo Story5. Fam and Yam and The Sandbox6. Box and Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung7. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?8. Marriage Play9. Three Tall Women10. Albee's Double Authoring11. Albee and His Collaborators on Staging Albee: From The Zoo Story to The Goat, or, Who Is Sylvia? 1. Albee Directs Albee 2. The Lady From Dubuque 3. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 4. Albee Directs Beckett 5. Marriage Play 6. Three Tall Women 7. The Goat, or, Who is Sylvia?NotesWorks CitedIndex
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University of Texas Press Making the Scene
Book SynopsisA lively, beautifully illustrated history of theatrical stage design from ancient Greek times to the present, coauthored by the world’s leading authority, Oscar G. Brockett.
£59.50
University of Texas Press Making Faces Playing God Identity and the Art of
Book SynopsisIn this extensively illustrated book, Thomas Morawetz explores how the creation of transformational makeup for theatre, movies, and television fulfills the fundamental human fantasy of self-transformation and satisfies the human desire to become "the otheTrade Review"This book is entirely unique, very well written, dramatic, and, at the same time, philosophical. It is likely to appeal to a very large audience, including anybody interested in the visual arts, in film, in theater, in philosophical problems of transformation, and in the unconscious generally." -Melvin R. Lansky, M.D., UCLA Medical School and Los Angeles Psychoanalytic InstituteTable of Contents Introduction Part I: The Culture and Art of Transformation 1. The Significance and Invention of Faces 2. The Culture of Transformation 3. The Art of Transformation Part II: The Practice of Transformation 4. The Demonic 5. Aliens 6. Disguise for Its Own Sake 7. Variant Selves 8. Impersonation 9. Beyond Human Afterthoughts Photo Credits
£28.80
University of Washington Press Theatre Backstage from A to Z
Book SynopsisTaking into account technological developments, this edition of a classic guide (last, 1989; first, 1967) to theatrical scenery and lighting practices in the US adds some 200 terms and new equipment illustrations. Lists manufacturers and distributors. Expanded by Boulanger (emeritus, theatre, EasteTrade Review"Arranged alphabetically with more than 300 drawings, diagrams, charts, and photographs, Theatre Backstage from A to Z is a quick source of information on construction, design, lighting, painting, properties, sound, and stage managing." * Newsletter of the International Theatre Institute of the United States *"Because of the wide range of material covered, both student and professional theatre technicians will find this inexpensive, well-designed volume useful." * Choice *Table of ContentsPreface to the Fourth Edition Preface to the Third Edition Introduction: Scenery and Lighting Practices in the United States Theatre Backstage from A to Z Selected List of Manufacturers and Distributors Bibliography
£33.98
LUP - University of Michigan Press Staging Place
Book SynopsisReimagines the content and continuities of theatre history and exposes underlying dialogues between ""home and homelessness, belonging and exile"" - a century-long struggle with the meaning and power of place, which the author terms ""geopathology"".Trade ReviewThis is a book of real originality. Its treatment of space in modern drama is elegant and powerful. . . ." —William B. Worthen, Northwestern University"Staging Place is a powerfully written book, deft in its handling of familiar and unfamiliar plays alike and eclectic in its use of theatrical sources." —Essays in Theatre/ Études théâtrales"This sophisticated and well-written study for graduate students and their teachers explores modern drama's preoccupation with the seemingly irreconcilable discontinuities between the notions of home and homelessness, belonging and exile. . . . The readings of individual plays are fresh and invigorating. . . ." —Choice
£23.70
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 Taking It to the Streets
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£60.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press The Visual Life of Romantic Theater 17801830
Book SynopsisExamines the dynamism and vibrancy of stage spectacle and its impact in an era of momentous social upheaval and aesthetic change. Situating theatrical production as key to understanding visuality ca. 1780-1830, this book reenvisions traditional approaches to artistic and social production.Trade Review“The volume’s thesis, that a substantive investigation of spectacle and the visual elements of Romantic theatre force us to reconsider the primarily textual theses that govern the idea of Romanticism, is both timely and needed. Its transdisciplinary approach, rooted jointly in performance studies and theatre history, promises to reassess the oft-denigrated 6th category of Aristotelian dramatic analysis and unpack spectacle’s aesthetic, political, and cultural significance, both on and off the stage. These are the most important voices in later-eighteenth-century and Romantic theatre studies, and to have them assembled promises readers that this will not just be a collection but a field-defining conversation.” —Misty G. Anderson, James R. Cox Professor of English, University of Tennessee“A field-shaping collection of essays that unveil the lost delights of Romantic-era theatre culture: playbill typography, costume trimming, souvenir fans, toy theatres, stage makeup, mimodrama, and scene maquettes. Through their wide-ranging analyses, the contributors reanimate the stage productions that thrilled Romantic theatre-goers.” —Judith Pascoe, George Mills Harper Professor of English, Florida State UniversityTable of Contents Introduction: Romanticism, Visuality, and the Theater Diane Piccitto and Terry F. Robinson I. Imagined Scenes 1. The 1794 Macbeth and Its Conjuring Effects: Rethinking Romantic-Era Spectatorship Terry F. Robinson 2. “Mind-forg’d Manacles”: The Scenography of the Romantic Prison Joseph Roach 3. Some Versions of Spectacle: Worldmaking and the Regency Toy Theater Daniel O’Quinn 4. Conjuring the Space and the Right to Appear in Obi; or Three-Fingered Jack (1800) Dana Van Kooy II. Spectacular Bodies 5. “I saw Othello’s visage in his mind”: Visualizing Othello in Nineteenth-Century British Theater Atsede Makonnen 6. Playing “Alive”: Performing Sculpture on the Romantic Stage Sophie Thomas 7. “Dresses in Hand”: Mary Rein’s Costume Workshop and the Spectacle of Romantic Theater Susan E. Brown 8. The Singing Cat: British Audiences, Angelica Catalani, and the Threat of Opera Uri Erman III. Performances in Print 9. The Stage in a Page: A Visual Life of Romantic Playbills Michael Gamer 10. Between Media: Harlequinade’s and Melodrama’s Visuality in Print Deven M. Parker 11. Robert Blemmell Schnebbelie, Londina Illustrata, and the Visual Life of Regency Theater Gillian Russell 12. Staging Satire: Gillray and “Caricatura-Sublime” Heather Mcpherson 13. Theatrical Spectatorship in Byron’s Cain and Blake’s The Ghost of Abel: From Oblivion to Redemption Diane Piccitto Afterword: Romanticism is Seeing Ghosts Jonathan Mulrooney Contributors
£69.30
University of California Press Great Directors at Work
Book SynopsisThe four directors-Konstantin Stanislavsky, Bertolt Brecht, Elia Kazan, and Peter Brook - all were monarchs of the profession in their time. Without their work, theatre in the twentieth century - so often called the century of the director - would have a radically different shape and meaning. This deals with the work of the four directors.
£24.30
University of Toronto Press Hans Christian Andersen and the Romantic Theatre
Book SynopsisThe romantic theatre, with all its imaginative vigour and eagerness for experimentation, appeals to those who like total theatre – unabashed, unashamedly spectacular, unforgettably pathetic. Critics who take a purely literary approach the drama often neglect or malign the theatre of the nineteenth century. Yet even in terms of literary, influence it is a hazardous to ignore the debt the exponents of naturalism owed to the drama of the prenaturalistic period. Despite universal critical agreement about the significance of Ibsen and Strindberg as creators of modernism, no attempt has previously been made to describe and delineate the theatrical context from which these major Scandinavian playwrights emerged. Hans Christian Andersen stands squarely astride the romantic period in Scandinavia. His plays, appearing from 1829 to 1865, span the important transition from the actor-dominated theatre to the naturalist theatre controlled by the director. Although recognized as a great
£21.59
University of North Texas Press,U.S. The Performing Set: The Broadway Designs of
Book SynopsisThe large-scale Broadway musical is one of America's great contributions to world theatre. Bill and Jean Eckart were stage designers and producers at the peak of the musical, and their designs revolutionized Broadway productions. At a time when sets were meant to remain simply backdrops that established time and place but not much else, an Eckart set became part of the performance on stage, equal at times to an actor. Anyone who has seen Phantom of the Opera or Les Miserables has seen the innovations that the Eckarts brought to the large Broadway-style musical production. They were best known for their designs for Damn Yankees (1955); Once Upon a Mattress (1959), in which Carol Burnett made her Broadway debut; and Mame (1966) with Angela Lansbury. Andrew B. Harris uses production stills and the Eckarts' sketches from every show they worked on to illustrate the magic behind an Eckart design. This lavishly illustrated book, with more than 500 full-color illustrations, is a fitting tribute to both the great American theatre and the couple who helped make it great.
£23.96
University Press of Mississippi Pedro Almodovar: Interviews
Book SynopsisIn full command of both Hollywood stylistics and camp aesthetics, Spain's Pedro Almodóvar (b. 1951) has become a master of the audacious and the unorthodox, of the permissive and the polemical. Pedro Almodóvar: Interviews documents the 22-year-long cinematic career of the most internationally celebrated Spanish art-film director since Luís Buñuel. Many of these interviews, from French, Italian, and Spanish periodicals, appear for the first time in English. Almodóvar's early cinematic ventures in Super 8 and 16mm in the 1970s marked and memorialized the rise of the Movida, Madrid's underground vanguard artistic movement. Almodóvar's critical success in his native Spain came with What Have I Done to Deserve This? Almodóvar made his mark in the United States with his kitschy, melodramatic comedy and Academy Award nominee Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, and his outlandish and irreverently funny Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! For all its taboo-breaking plots, eccentric characterizations, and explosive palettes, Almodóvar's cinema of excess has matured into one of tender compassion. All About My Mother, winner of the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar and of Best Director at the Cannes Film Festival, and his fourteenth feature to date, Talk to Her, winner of the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay, 2003, cement Almodóvar's commitment to characters on the margins and to social critique. Covering more than two decades, the interviews collected here trace Almodóvar's journey from the small village of Calzada de Calatrava to Madrid, from his humble and Catholic provincial upbringing to his superstar status as Spain's leading postmodern auteur. Originally published in Spain, France, Italy, and the United States, these conversations disclose as much about Almodóvar's personal biography as they do about his thematic universe, his directorial personality, and his maturing style. Paula Willoquet-Maricondi is assistant professor of media arts at Marist College, in Poughkeepsie, New York. She is the co-editor of Peter Greenaway's Postmodern/Poststructuralist Cinema.
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New Village Press Meeting the Moment: Socially Engaged Performance,
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Remaking the Comedia: Spanish Classical Theater
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De Gruyter Instruments in Art and Science: On the Architectonics of Cultural Boundaries in the 17th Century
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