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

Staging Resistance

• Paperback | Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
• Fresh perspectives on political theater and its essential contribution to contemporary culture Lees meer

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

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

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

After Live

Daniel Sack

• Paperback | Engels | Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
• In the dark of the blackout before the curtain rises, the theater holds its many worlds suspended on the verge of appearance. How can a performance su... 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

Taking It to the Streets

Harry Justin Elam

• Paperback | Engels | Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
• The performances of Luis Valdez's El Teatro Campesino, the farmworkers' theater, and Amiri Baraka's (LeRoi Jones's) Black Revolutionary Theater (BRT) ... Lees meer

The Painted Word

Lois Oppenheim

• Hardcover | Engels | Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
• The Painted Word examines Samuel Beckett's relationship with the visual arts, in an effort to shed new light on the author's work and on his thinking ... Lees meer

Immersions in Cultural Difference

Natalie Alvarez

• Hardcover | Engels | Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
• In a time of intensifying xenophobia and anti-immigration measures, this book examines the impulse to acquire a deeper understanding of cultural other... Lees meer

The Sarah Siddons Audio Files

Judith Pascoe

• Paperback | Engels | Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
• English actress Sarah Siddons (1755-1831) was an international celebrity widely acclaimed for her performances of tragic heroines.We know what Siddons... Lees meer

The Captive Stage

Douglas A Jones

• Paperback | Engels | Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
• In The Captive Stage , Douglas A. Jones, Jr. argues that proslavery ideology remained the dominant mode of racial thought in the antebellum north, eve... Lees meer

Passionate Amateurs

Nicholas Ridout

• Paperback | Engels | Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
• Passionate Amateurs tells a new story about modern theater: the story of a romantic attachment to theater's potential to produce surprising experience... 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

Agitated States

Anthony James Kubiak

• Paperback | Engels | Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
• From the earliest Puritan displays of piety and rectitude to the present-day epidemic of staged school massacres, the history of America has been char... Lees meer

No Safe Spaces

Angela C Pao

• Paperback | Engels | Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
• " No Safe Spaces opens up a conversation beyond narrow polemics . . . Although cross-racial casting has been the topic of heated discussion, little 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