Creator: Lynda Hart
Publication date: 1999-03
Dewey code: 812.54
List Price: $89.95
Price: $55.04
Review Of All the Nerve: Deb Margolin Solo (Critical Performances) / Cassell:The "Critical Performance" series pairs a performance artist or playwright with a critical theorist in a dialogue aimed to elucidate both disciplines. This volume focuses on Deb Margolin, one of the three founding members of the American performance troupe Split Britches.
Creator: David Crane
Publication date: 1996-01-26
Dewey code: 822.6
List Price: $99.00
Price: $95.00
Review Sheridan Studies / Cambridge University Press:This is the first systematic attempt to establish Sheridan as a major figure in the history of English comedy. Leading scholars address Sheridan's role not only as an outstanding playwright, but also as the manager of Drury Lane Theatre, and his subsequent career in politics. This volume undertakes an important reevaluation of Sheridan's achievements as a master of rhetoric in both the theatrical and political worlds, and provides a much needed contemporary assessment of his importance in the history of comedy.
Edition: illustrated edition
Publication date: 2001-01-25
Dewey code: 791
List Price: $79.00
Price: $50.95
Review Metropolis: A Cinematic Laboratory for Modern Architecture / Edition Axel Menges:The film that Fritz Lang made in the Babelsberg studios near Berlin in 1925 includes one of the first 20th-century city fantasies.
Publication date: 2009-04-30
Dewey code: 820.935847
List Price: $55.00
Price: $49.42
Review Early Modern Drama and the Eastern European Elsewhere: Representations of Liminal Locality in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries / Fairleigh Dickinson University Press:This study explores how Eastern European spaces and meanings are constituted in specific cultural contexts in early modern English drama. Focusing on the ways in which these texts integrate the articulation of Eastern European space and geography into a variety of interpretative conventions, the book develops ways of thinking critically and reflexively about the production of knowledge and identity in Shakespeare and his contemporaries through representations of space in drama.
Publication date: 2007-11-13
Dewey code: 808
List Price: $50.99
Price: $50.99
Review Boris Godunov (A Drama in Verse) / IndyPublish:Alexander Pushkin's dramatic work displays a scintillating variety of forms, from the historical to the metaphysical and folkloric. After Boris Godunov, they evolved into Pushkin's own unique, condensed transformations of Western European themes and traditions. The fearful amorality of A Scene from Faust is followed by the four Little Tragedies, which confront greed, envy, lust, and blasphemy, while Rusalka is a tragedy of a different kind-a lyric fairytale of despair and transformation. Here, James E. Falen's verse translations are accompanied by a first-rate introduction from Caryl Emerson, an equally distinguished Russianist, which emphasizes the cosmopolitan nature of Pushkin's drama, the position of Russian culture on the European stage, together with excellent analyses of the individual works in the volume. Falen's translations of Pushkin are widely admired and his OWC translation of Eugene Onegin is considered the best available. This collection is sure to interest both casual readers and students of Russian literature.
Authors
- Martin Shingler
- Cindy Wieringa
Dewey code: 791.4409
List Price: $120.00
Price: $108.00
Review On Air: Methods and Meanings of Radio / A Hodder Arnold Publication:Superseded by television as the primary source of entertainment and information, radio still has a unique place in the mass media spectrum. At once powerfully pervasive and totally invisible, it's a fascinating subject for study. On Air adopts a wide-ranging theoretical and critical approach to provide an in-depth examination of radio's codes (speech, music, noise, and silence), the conventions of using these codes, and the dominant modes of reception. The text offers a vocabulary and methodology for analyzing radio programs, drawing on work by both media theorists and professional broadcasters in Britain, Australia, and North America. Written by an academic and a practitioner, On Air provides a critical overview of radio for media students, as well as suggestions for practical activities, a time-line of major events in the history of radio, and a glossary of key terms.
Publication date: 2004-09-30
Dewey code: 792
List Price: $50.95
Price: $50.95
Review Panoramica Del Teatro Espanol Y Latinoamericano Del Siglo XX: Con La Colaboracion Redaccional De Araceli Marin Presno (Fask - Publikationen Des Fachbereichs ... Mainz in Germersheim) (Spanish Edition) / Peter Lang Publishing:
Publication date: 1997-02
Dewey code: 792
List Price: $55.00
Price: $51.00
Review The Ballet of the Enlightenment: The Establishment of the Ballet D'Action in France, 1770-1793 / Princeton Book Company Publishers:
Creator: John Phillips
Publication date: 2004-11-01
Dewey code: 791.5094109034
List Price: $51.00
Price: $51.00
Review The Victorian Marionette Theatre (Studies Theatre Hist & Culture) / University Of Iowa Press:In this fascinating and colorful book, researcher and performer John McCormick focuses on the marionette world of Victorian Britain between its heyday after 1860 and its waning years from 1895 to 1914. Situating the rich and diverse puppet theatre in the context of entertainment culture, he explores both the aesthetics of these dancing dolls and their sociocultural significance in their life and time. The history of marionette performances is interwoven with live-actor performances and with the entire gamut of annual fairs, portable and permanent theatres, music halls, magic lantern shows, waxworks, panoramas, and sideshows. McCormick has drawn upon advertisements in the Era, an entertainment paper, between the 1860s and World War I, and articles in the World’s Fair, a paper for showpeople, in the first fifty years of the twentieth century, as well as interviews with descendants of the marionette showpeople and close examinations of many of the surviving puppets. McCormick begins his study with an exploration of the Victorian marionette theatre in the context of other theatrical events of the day, with proprietors and puppeteers, and with the venues where they performed. He further examines the marionette’s position as an actor not quite human but imitating humans closely enough to be considered empathetic; the ways that physical attributes were created with wood, paint, and cloth; and the dramas and melodramas that the dolls performed. A discussion of the trick figures and specialized acts that each company possessed, as well as an exploration of the theatre’s staging, lighting, and costuming, follows in later chapters. McCormick concludes with a description of the last days of marionette theatre in the wake of changing audience expectations and the increasing popularity of moving pictures. This highly enjoyable and readable study, often illuminated by intriguing anecdotes such as that of the Armenian photographer who fell in love with and abducted the Holden company’s Cinderella marionette in 1881, will appeal to everyone fascinated by the magic of nineteenth-century theatre, many of whom will discover how much the marionette could contribute to that magic.
Creator: Tony Grajeda
Publication date: 2008-08-28
Dewey code: 778.5344
List Price: $60.00
Price: $59.97
Review Lowering the Boom: Critical Studies in Film Sound / University of Illinois Press:As the first collection of new work on sound and cinema in over a decade, Lowering the Boom addresses the expanding field of film sound theory and its significance in rethinking historical models of film analysis. The contributors consider the ways in which musical expression, scoring, voice-over narration, and ambient noise affect identity formation and subjectivity. Lowering the Boom also analyzes how shifting modulation of the spoken word in cinema results in variations in audience interpretation. Introducing new methods of thinking about the interaction of sound and music in films, this volume also details avant-garde film sound, which is characterized by a distinct break from the narratively based sound practices of mainstream cinema. This interdisciplinary, global approach to the theory and history of film sound opens the eyes and ears of film scholars, practitioners, and students to film's true audio-visual nature.
Publication date: 1995-04-27
Dewey code: 792.09416
List Price: $188.00
Price: $180.32
Review Acting between the Lines: The Field Day Theatre Company and Irish Cultural Politics, 1980-1984 (Oxford English Monographs) / Oxford University Press, USA:Since its creation in 1980 by actor Stephen Rea (The Crying Game) and playwright Brian Friel (Translation, Dancing at Lughnasa), Northern Ireland's Field Day Theatre Company has brought challenging drama to the entire island, "from Coleraine to Kerry. " With the addition to the board of directors of poets and critics such as Tom Paulin, Seamus Heaney, and Seamus Deane, Field Day ventured into the realm of the more explicitly political with a controversial pamphlet series. Acting Between the Lines is a fascinating study of one of the most important developments in contemporary Irish culture.
Publication date: 2008-02
Dewey code: 791.43615
List Price: $74.95
Price: $51.02
Review Sith, Slayers, Stargates, + Cyborgs: Modern Mythology in the New Millennium / Peter Lang Publishing:The beginning of the twenty-first century has already seen its fair share of modern myths with heroes such as Spider-Man, Superman, and Harry Potter. The authors in this volume deconstruct, discuss, engage, and interrogate the mythologies of the new millennium in science fiction fantasy texts. Using literary and rhetorical criticism—paired with philosophy, cultural studies, media arts, psychology, and communication studies—they illustrate the function, value, and role of new mythologies, and show that the universal appeal of these texts is their mythic power, drawing upon archetypes of the past which resonate with individuals and throughout culture. In this way they demonstrate how mythology is timeless and eternal.
Publication date: 2004-10
Dewey code: 820.9
List Price: $54.95
Price: $50.96
Review Premodern Places: Calais to Surinam, Chaucer to Aphra Behn / Blackwell Publishers:This book recovers places in the mental mapping of medieval and Renaissance writers, from Chaucer to Aphra Behn. Beginning with Calais, peopled by the English from 1347 to 1558, and ending with Surinam, traded away for Manhattan in 1667, this well-illustrated book recreates the distinctive cultural life of a range of locations: from Flanders, which led the world in technological innovation; to Somerset, which provided a fitting home for Dante; to the Canaries (the Fortunate Islands), which formed the limits of western dreaming. The book's exploration of premodern places features fascinating vignettes, such as an English merchant learning love songs in Calais, coupled with insights into broader economic narratives of political, technological, religious, and economic change. In particular, it provides long geneaologies of blackness and whiteness, race and slavery, in the premodern world.
Authors
- Uwe Böker; Ines Detmers; Anna-Christina Giovanopoulos (Eds.)
Dewey code: 809
List Price: $91.00
Price: $91.00
Review John Gay's 'The Beggar s Opera' 1728-2004: Adaptations and Re-Writings (Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ... Und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft) / Editions Rodopi BV:When Richard Steele remarked that "the greatest Evils in human Society are such as no Law can come at", he was not able to forsee the spectacular success of John Gay's satire of society, the administration of law and crime, politics, the Italian opera and other topics. Gay's 'The Beggar's Opera', with its mixture of witty dialogue and popular songs, was imitated by 18th century writers, criticized by those on the seats of power, but remained a favourite of the English theatre public ever since. With N. Playfair's 1920 revival and B. Brecht's and K. Weill's 1928 'Dreigroschenoper', Gay's play has been a starting-point for dramatists such as V. Havel ('Zebrácká opera', 1975), W. Soyinka ('Opera Wonyosi', 1977), Ch. Buarque ('Ópera do Malandro', 1978), D. Fo ('L'opera dello sghignazzo', 1981), A. [+]Ayckbourn ('A Chorus of Disapproval', 1984), as well as others such as Latouche, Hacks, Fassbinder, Dear, Wasserman, and Lepage. Apart from contributions by international scholars analysing the above-named plays, the editors' introduction covers other dramatists that have payed hommage to Gay. This interdisciplinary collection of essays is of particular interest for scholars working in the field of drama/theatre studies, the eighteenth century, contemporary drama, postcolonial studies, and politics and the stage.
Publication date: 2000-12
Dewey code: 791.4372
List Price: $50.95
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Review Edgar Reitz's Heimat: Histories, Traditions, Fictions (British and Irish Studies in German Language and Literature) / Peter Lang Publishing:
Edition: illustrated edition
Publication date: 2000-01-28
Dewey code: 872.01
List Price: $99.00
Price: $67.75
Review Anglo-Saxon Gestures and the Roman Stage (Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England) / Cambridge University Press:This book is concerned with the pictorial language of gesture revealed in Anglo-Saxon art, and its debt to classical Rome. The late Reginald Dodwell, an eminent art historian, notes a striking similarity of both form and meaning between Anglo-Saxon gestures and those in illustrated manuscripts of the plays of Terence, which, he argues, reflect actual Roman stage conventions. The extensively illustrated volume illuminates our understanding of the vigor of late Anglo-Saxon art and its ability to absorb and transpose continental influence.
Creator: C. Edward Wall
Publication date: 2001-06
Dewey code: 031
List Price: $295.00
Price: $295.00
Review Media Review Digest 2001: The Only Complete Guide to Reviews of Non-Print Media / Pierian Press:
Publication date: 2007-05-14
List Price: $50.99
Price: $50.99
Review The Bicyclers and Three Other Farces / IndyPublish:
Publication date: 2003-12-22
Dewey code: 848.91409
List Price: $88.00
Price: $72.38
Review Beckett and Aesthetics / Cambridge University Press:As a young man, Samuel Beckett (1906-89) hoped that writing could provide psychic authenticity and true representation of the physical world. Instead, he found himself immersed in artificialities and self-enclosed word games. Daniel Albright argues that Beckett sought escape through allegories of artistic frustration and the art of non-representation and estrangement. Albright depicts Beckett experimenting with the concept that an artistic medium might be made to speak. Engaging with radio, film, television, prose and drama, Albright's Beckett becomes a sophisticated theorist of the very notion of the aesthetic.
Creator: Leslie Kane
Publication date: 2001-07-31
Dewey code: 812.54
List Price: $60.00
Price: $60.00
Review David Mamet in Conversation (Theater: Theory/Text/Performance) / University of Michigan Press:Contemporary playwright David Mamet's thought-provoking plays and screenplays such as Wag the Dog, Glengarry Glen Ross (for which he won the Pulitzer Prize), and Oleanna have enjoyed popular and critical success in the past two decades. Among the most prolific and provocative of writers, Mamet frequently draws emotional responses from both audiences and critics. Mamet in Conversation collects interviews with the playwright that offer readers insight into his life in the theater, his artistic vision, and the evolution of his craft. The interviews help followers of his work better understand the sensibilities that have informed his work in drama, film, and prose over a twenty-five-year career. The conversations collected here-several of which appear in print for the first time-allow a glimpse inside Mamet's creative process, and to the recurring motifs that drive his work. The range of topics is impressive and includes the celebratory purpose of theater, the responsibility of the playwright, writing for Hollywood, the seduction of fame, the search for truth and the merchandising of it, and the decay of culture. The interviews shed light on the personal as well: Mamet's return to Judaism, his appreciation of Midwestern virtues, his love of rural Vermont, the problems of embattled virtue, and the challenge of aging. The book includes transcripts of Mamet's engagingly candid broadcast interviews with Jim Lehrer and Charlie Rose of PBS, published here for the first time. Leslie Kane is Professor of English, Westfield State College. She is the author of three previous books and is President of the David Mamet Society of the Modern Language Association.
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Of All the Nerve: Deb Margolin Solo (Critical Performances), Sheridan Studies, Metropolis: A Cinematic Laboratory for Modern Architecture, Early Modern Drama and the Eastern European Elsewhere: Representations of Liminal Locality in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries, Boris Godunov (A Drama in Verse), On Air: Methods and Meanings of Radio, Panoramica Del Teatro Espanol Y Latinoamericano Del Siglo XX: Con La Colaboracion Redaccional De Araceli Marin Presno (Fask - Publikationen Des Fachbereichs ... Mainz in Germersheim) (Spanish Edition), The Ballet of the Enlightenment: The Establishment of the Ballet D'Action in France, 1770-1793, The Victorian Marionette Theatre (Studies Theatre Hist & Culture), Lowering the Boom: Critical Studies in Film Sound, Acting between the Lines: The Field Day Theatre Company and Irish Cultural Politics, 1980-1984 (Oxford English Monographs), Sith, Slayers, Stargates, + Cyborgs: Modern Mythology in the New Millennium, Premodern Places: Calais to Surinam, Chaucer to Aphra Behn, John Gay's 'The Beggar s Opera' 1728-2004: Adaptations and Re-Writings (Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ... Und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft), Edgar Reitz's Heimat: Histories, Traditions, Fictions (British and Irish Studies in German Language and Literature), Anglo-Saxon Gestures and the Roman Stage (Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England), Media Review Digest 2001: The Only Complete Guide to Reviews of Non-Print Media, The Bicyclers and Three Other Farces, Beckett and Aesthetics, David Mamet in Conversation (Theater: Theory/Text/Performance)Top headlines: Honduras says won't restore president: Honduras' Supreme Court rebuffed a personal appeal from the Americas' top international diplomat Friday, refusing to restore ousted President Manuel Zelaya before a Saturday deadline. ›03:14 EPA: Spilled coal ash can be dumped in Ala.: The nation's largest utility can dump millions of tons of coal ash from a Tennessee spill into an Alabama landfill, federal regulators said Thursday, despite criticism that the plan is unfair to one of Alabama's poorest counties. ›19:40 2 Jul, Thu Take the kids off the tourist track in NYC: Certainly visitors to New York have their pick of world-class and iconic sites the Museum of Natural History, the Empire State Building and Central Park but there is a lot more to New York than the tourist track. ›21:46 2 Jul, Thu 'Dire' report on Earth's biodiversity: Governments are failing to stem a rapid decline threatening almost half the world's coral reef species, a third of amphibians and a quarter of mammals, a conservation watchdog warns. ›00:15 2 Jul, Thu Fact file: What is Diprivan?: Diprivan, a powerful sedative reportedly found at Michael Jackson's home, is generally used as an anesthesia during surgeries. 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