Running off the Anger

Anna Śliwińska

• Hardcover | Engels | Interdisciplinary Studies in Performance | nr. 22
• Running off the Anger. British New Wave includes several areas of research that suggest interpreting the cinema of the British New Wave in relation to... Lees meer

The Second Birth of Theatre

Miroslaw Kocur

• Hardcover | Engels | Interdisciplinary Studies in Performance | nr. 8
• This book presents a new approach to early English theatre by exposing a genuine relationship between monastic performances and theatricality. It argu... Lees meer

Tendenzen der zeitgenoessischen Dramatik

• Hardcover | Duits | Interdisciplinary Studies in Performance | nr. 1
• Die Autoren stellen nicht nur Stücke zeitgenössischer Dramatiker vor, sondern bieten auch methodische Neuorientierungen. Die Abhandlungen greifen Pert... Lees meer

The Long Shadow of Don Quixote

Magdalena Barbaruk

• Hardcover | Engels | Interdisciplinary Studies in Performance | nr. 3
• The book argues that Don Quixote and Quixotism are relevant to cultural studies. Changing interpretations of Don Quixote reveal cultural dynamics, and... Lees meer

Dancer - Researcher - Performer

Graziela Rodrigues

• Hardcover | Engels | Interdisciplinary Studies in Performance | nr. 6
• The book deals with the Brazilian method of research and creation in dance and theater, called Bailarino-Pesquisador-Intérprete (Dancer-Researcher-Per... Lees meer

Cinematic Echoes of Covenants Past and Present

Christopher Garbowski

• Hardcover | Engels | Interdisciplinary Studies in Performance | nr. 10
• The author analyzes selected historical films of Steven Spielberg and Andrzej Wajda with respect to historical memory and its impact on national ident... Lees meer

Between Dream and Reality

Iwona Grodź

• Hardcover | Engels | Interdisciplinary Studies in Performance | nr. 15
• The book features a detailed analysis and interpretation of The Saragossa Manuscript (1964) by Wojciech Jerzy Has. The interpretative key is the direc... Lees meer

Shakespeare in 19th-Century Opera

Alina Borkowska-Rychlewska

• Hardcover | Engels | Interdisciplinary Studies in Performance | nr. 19
• The book analyses selected 19th-century operas based on Shakespeare's plays from the perspective of their relations to the literature, aesthetics and ... Lees meer

The Theatre of the Absurd, the Grotesque and Politics

Jadwiga Uchman

• Hardcover | Engels | Interdisciplinary Studies in Performance | nr. 27
• The book discusses the political dramas of Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard regarding their employment of the two critical terms used in... Lees meer

On the Origins of Theater

Miroslaw Kocur

• Hardcover | Engels | Interdisciplinary Studies in Performance | nr. 4
• This book presents an interdisciplinary investigation into the emergence of the actor and theater. Scholarship helps us to realize how we have evolved... Lees meer

The Power of Theater

Miroslaw Kocur

• Hardcover | Engels | Interdisciplinary Studies in Performance | nr. 11
• This book examines performative practices of the ancient Romans, and provides fresh insights into the contexts of the Roman theater. Today the ancient... Lees meer

Performance of Identity of Polish Tatars

Barbara Pawlic-Miskiewicz

• Hardcover | Engels | Interdisciplinary Studies in Performance | nr. 13
• The work presents performances of identity of Polish Tatars who are followers of Islam. Based on research and observations, it provides reconstruction... Lees meer

In the Footsteps of Harlequin and Pulcinella

Ewa Bal

• Hardcover | Engels | Interdisciplinary Studies in Performance | nr. 24
• The author takes readers on a journey in the footsteps of Harlequin and Pulcinella, two well-known commedia dell'arte masks, to show the historically ... Lees meer

The Cinema of Iceland

Sebastian Jakub Konefal

• Hardcover | Engels | Interdisciplinary Studies in Performance | nr. 18
• The book focuses on the history and evolution of the national and transnational cinema from Iceland. The author analyses popular topics and narrative ... Lees meer

Witkacy. Logos and the Elements

• Hardcover | Engels | Interdisciplinary Studies in Performance | nr. 7
• This book focuses on Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz, philosopher and controversial artist. It expresses the opinions of philosophers, museologists and ar... Lees meer

Zur Funktion und Bedeutung des Chors im zeitgenoessischen Drama und Theater

• Hardcover | Duits | Interdisciplinary Studies in Performance | nr. 21
• Die Beiträge des Bandes beleuchten die strukturellen, formalen und inhaltlichen Momente des Chores in Dramen und Theaterarbeiten der Gegenwart. Der Ch... Lees meer

Theater and the Sacred in the Middle Ages

Andrzej Dąbrówka

• Hardcover | Engels | Interdisciplinary Studies in Performance | nr. 20
• The book presents a constructivist theory of relations between artistic forms and religious phenomena ("recapitulatory aesthetics"). The main theoreti... Lees meer

El cuerpo del espectador / el cuerpo del lector (presencias reales del teatro y la literatura)

• Hardcover | Spaans | Interdisciplinary Studies in Performance | nr. 30
• This book studies, from two perspectives, the scenological and the literary, the visions of the spectator and the reader. What relationships and diffe... Lees meer

Truth, Beauty, and the Common Good

Christopher Garbowski

• Hardcover | Engels | Interdisciplinary Studies in Performance | nr. 28
• The examination of the transcendentals of truth, beauty and the good in this work stems from the perspective of Christian humanism, moral psychology a... Lees meer

Intense Bodily Presence

Magdalena Anna Zamorska

• Hardcover | Engels | Interdisciplinary Studies in Performance | nr. 14
• The book discusses the practices of Polish butō dancers. The author produces a generalised account of butō training. She explores various body-mind pr... Lees meer

Raumformen in Der Gegenwartsdramatik

• Hardcover | Duits | Interdisciplinary Studies in Performance | nr. 9
• Ausgehend von dem Gedanken, dass Räumlichkeit im Theater flüchtig und transitorisch ist, diskutieren die Autoren die multiple Struktur pluraler Räume ... Lees meer

The Kinetics of the Invisible

Matteo Bonfitto

• Hardcover | Engels | Interdisciplinary Studies in Performance | nr. 5
• What's the role played by the invisible in our lives? At what level can it be perceived when explored in the theatre? Having as its focus the acting p... Lees meer

Japanese Avant-Garde and Experimental Film

Agnieszka Kiejziewicz

• Hardcover | Engels | Interdisciplinary Studies in Performance | nr. 23
• The book shows the connections between Japanese historical avant-garde movements and new Japanese experimental films. The author provides insight into... Lees meer

Political Music

• Hardcover | Engels | Interdisciplinary Studies in Performance | nr. 26
• The book aims to indicate the legitimizing and contestatory function of music, which - being universally present in the public space - plays a vital r... Lees meer