Sightlines

Helen Gilbert

• Hardcover | Engels | Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
• Sightlines: Race, Gender, and Nation in Contemporary Australian Theatre asserts the centrality of theater to the ongoing negotiations of the Australia... Lees meer

Moving Islands

Diana Looser

• Hardcover | Engels | Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
• Moving Islands reveals the international and intercultural connections within contemporary performance from Oceania, focusing on theater, performance ... Lees meer

Performance Constellations

Marcela A Fuentes

• Hardcover | Engels | Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
• Performance Constellations maps transnational protest movements and the dynamics of networked expressive behavior in the streets and online, as people... Lees meer

Contours of the Theatrical Avant-Garde

• Hardcover | Engels | Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
• This collection of essays explores the development of avant-garde theater and its relation to questions of textuality, authority, and the academy. Alt... Lees meer

Scenes from Bourgeois Life

Nicholas Ridout

• Paperback | Engels | Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
• Scenes from Bourgeois Life proposes that theatre spectatorship has made a significant contribution to the historical development of a distinctive bour... Lees meer

The Player's Passion

Joseph Roach

• Paperback | Engels | Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
• Explores the historical and cultural evolution of the theoretical language of the stage Lees meer

The Purpose of Playing

Robert Gordon

• Paperback | Engels | Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
• The Purpose of Playing provides the first in-depth introduction to modern critical acting, enabling students, teachers, and professionals to comprehen... Lees meer

Staging Philosophy

• Hardcover | Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
• Investigates the fundamental issues in theater and performance from a wide range philosophical perspectives. The fifteen original essays in this work ... Lees meer

Acts

Tzachi Zamir

• Paperback | Engels | Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
• Why do people act? Why are other people drawn to watch them? How is acting as a performing art related to role-playing outside the theater? As the fir... Lees meer

The Problem of the Color[blind]

Brandi Wilkins Catanese

• Paperback | Engels | Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
• "Catanese's beautifully written and cogently argued book addresses one of the most persistent sociopolitical questions in contemporary culture. She su... Lees meer

The Haunted Stage

Marvin Carlson

• Paperback | Engels | Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
• Throughout theatrical history, almost every element in stage production has been recycled. Indeed any regular theatergoer is familiar with the experie... Lees meer

The President Electric

Timothy Raphael

• Hardcover | Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
• Reveals how the systematic employment of the techniques and technologies of mass-media performance contributed to Ronald Reagan's rise to power and de... Lees meer

Looking Into the Abyss

Arnold Aronson

• Hardcover | Engels | Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
• Theater is, first and foremost, a visual art; Looking Into the Abyss examines the ways in which the visual theater affects our understanding of the dr... Lees meer

Not the Other Avant-Garde

• Hardcover | Engels | Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
• Almost without exception, studies of the avant-garde take for granted the premise that the influential experimental practices associated with the avan... Lees meer

Playing Underground

Stephen J Scott-Bottoms

• Paperback | Engels | Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
• "Scrupulously researched, critically acute, and written with care, Playing Underground will become a classic account of an era of hard-won free expres... Lees meer

Artaud and His Doubles

Kimberly Jannarone

• Hardcover | Engels | Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
• Artaud and His Doubles is a radical re-thinking of one of the most influential theater figures of the twentieth century. Placing Artaud's writing with... Lees meer

Contours of the Theatrical Avant-Garde

• Paperback | Engels | Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
• This collection of essays explores the development of avant-garde theater and its relation to questions of textuality, authority, and the academy. Alt... Lees meer

After Brecht

Janelle G Reinelt

• Paperback | Engels | Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
• After Brecht: British Epic Theater is the first book to fully explore contemporary British drama in the light of the influence of German playwright Be... Lees meer

A Beckett Canon

Ruby Cohn

• Paperback | Engels | Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
• Samuel Beckett is unique in literature. Born and educated in Ireland, he lived most of his life in Paris. His literary output was rendered in either E... Lees meer

Coloring Whiteness

Faedra Chatard Carpenter

• Paperback | Engels | Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
• Coloring Whiteness pays homage to the ways that African American artists and performers have interrogated tropes and mythologies of whiteness to revea... Lees meer

Staging Consciousness

William W Demastes

• Hardcover | Engels | Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
• Staging Consciousness argues that theater is a living invalidation of the Western dualism of mind and body, activating human consciousness through its... Lees meer

To Act, to Do, to Perform

Alice Rayner

• Hardcover | Engels | Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
• A philosophical inquiry into how action is constituted by language, materiality, and performance Lees meer

Haunted City

Christian Ducomb

• Paperback | Engels | Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
• Haunted City explores the history of racial impersonation in Philadelphia from the late eighteenth century through the present day. The book focuses o... Lees meer

Embodying Black Experience

Harvey Young

• Hardcover | Engels | Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
• Young's linkage between critical race theory, historical inquiry, and performance studies is a necessary intersection. Innovative, creative, and provo... Lees meer