Creator: Enrique Fernandez Rivera
Publication date: 2002-06-30
Dewey code: 809
Price: $79.95
Review Celestina Comentada/ Commented Celestina (Textos Recuperados/ Recovered Texts):
Creator: Gerard Murphy
Publication date: 1956-06
Dewey code: 291
Price: $29.00
Review Early Irish Lyrics: 8th to 12th Century / Oxford Univ Pr (Txt):
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2005-03-24
Dewey code: 950
List Price: $250.00
Price: $214.59
Review Manga Discourse On Japan Theatre (Japanese Studies Series) / Taylor and Francis:During the Japanese "bubble" economy of the 1980s, the youth of Japan began to exert unprecedented influence on Japanese culture through their spirited patronage of certain art forms previously deemed subcultural or avant-garde. Among these were manga (Japanese comics or animation) and shogekijo (Japanese little theater). These art forms, while very unlike in the manner in which they were produced and disseminated, can be shown to exhibit a common language: manga discourse. This discourse presents the ludic, image-oriented, and seemingly infantile but simultaneously transhistorical language. The range and meaning of these discursive forms as they are related to changes in the forms of shogekijo in Japan between the 1960s and the 1980s are explored here, using the work of Noda Hideki and his troupe Yume no Yuminsha as example. Founded in the early 70s in the dark recesses of the University of Tokyo, Noda's troupe blossomed into a major component of the theater boom of the bright leisure-oriented 80s. The question which Noda's theater raises for those who seek to define Japan's modernization in the arts is how something defined as instinctively "little" could become so big? In line with its predecessors in the avant-garde movements of the 1960s and 70s, the 1980s shogekijo borrowed from popular theater of the pre-modern period, in reaction to the western- and script-oriented shingeki, and from modern comedy in early twentieth century Japan. But unlike its avant-garde predecessors, it eschewed direct political confrontation with the power holders and consciously sought to expand its audiences through capitalistic means. Japanese youth born in the postwar generation could be led to appreciate the anti-shingeki message of shogekkijo, Noda predicted, only if it could be put in the playful and fantastic language of manga discourse. In some ways, this counterintuitive movement to youth subculture fulfilled shogekijo's mission to return theater to its Japanese roots and thereby complete the process of a truly Japanese modernization in the arts.
Publication date: 2000-04-28
Dewey code: 792.0938
Price: $100.00
Review The Athenian Institution of the Khoregia: The Chorus, the City and the Stage / Cambridge University Press:This book is the first major study of the means by which the classical Athenians organised and funded their many festival choruses. It explores the mechanics of the institution by which a minority of rich citizens were required to arrange and pay for a festival chorus, including choruses for tragic and comic drama, and situates this duty within the range of occasions for elite leadership in Athens' elaborate festival calendar. Peter Wilson goes on to show the importance of the khoregia to our understanding of the workings of Athenian democracy itself, and to demonstrate the degree to which the institution was itself a highly performative occasion, an opportunity for elite display in the democratic environment. The post-classical history of the khoregia and its appearance in a wide range of other Greek communities are also examined.
Creator: Hans-Peter Bayerdorfer
Publication date: 1996-03
Review Theatralia Judaica: After the Shoah - Israeli-German Theatre Relations Since 1949 v. 2 (Theatron) / Max Niemeyer Verlag GmbH & Co KG:
Publication date: 1993
Review Der Krieg der Bilder: Ausgewahlte Dokumentarfilme zum Zweiten Weltkrieg und zum Vietnamkrieg (Crossroads) / Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier:
Edition: 2
Publication date: 1998-01-14
Dewey code: 371.3990941
List Price: $220.00
Price: $211.82
Review Education and Dramatic Art / Routledge:In this edition of his classic critique of drama education in schools, David Hornbrook brings the argument up-to-date and locates his proposals for a curriculum based on the making, performing and appraisal of dramas securely in the evolving culture of schools. Education and Dramatic Art critiques the often-muddy idealism that pervades drama productions in schools and the teaching of dramatic texts. In its paradoxical neglect of the customs and practices of the theatre, he argues, this aesthetically impoverished vision has kept, from the students it professed to empower, the very knowledge and understanding which would have allowed them to take command of their subject. In its place, Hornbrook offers a clear and definitive pedagogy of drama that promises to put the study of dramatic art back at the center of literary training.
Publication date: 2003-10
Dewey code: 381.4579
List Price: $99.95
Price: $247.48
Review Joe Leblang's Cut-Rate Ticket Empire and the Broadway Theatre, 1894-1931 (Studies in Theatre Arts, 23) / Edwin Mellen Press:This is a study of a ticket agent, his business methods and his contributions to the Broadway theatre. It contains elements of biography, economic history of the American stage and insights into the relationship between Broadway producers and the people who sold the tickets to their attractions. The book recounts a number of then-famous battles between powerful producers and the ticket agencies. It set the scene for readers not familiar with the period by giving ample background and then traces the growth and development of Joe Leblang's agency. This agency exerted so potent a force on the Broadway theatre that the period would not have been the same had his agency not existed.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1997-06-01
Dewey code: 812.5409896073
Price: $110.00
Review Contemporary African American Theater: Afrocentricity in the Works of Larry Neal, Amiri Baraka, and Charles Fuller (Studies in African American History and Culture) / Routledge:The Black Arts Movement was sparked by the Civil Rights movement and the urge to produce and revitalize functional, realistic, and holistic symbols to express African American creativity. When Larry Neal began his quest for a new dramatic form to epitomize African American self-determination he laid the foundation upon which his friends and compatriots-Amiri Baraka and Charles Fuller-would build. Expressing their individual protests through their writings, these artists soon united in their attack against Eurocentrism, which traditionally minimized or neglected the roles played by Africans and African Americans on the world stage. Their writings signaled a radical change in the form and content of African American writing, particularly drama. In this insightful examination of African American cultural history, the author explores the heart of the dramatic imagination of African Americans during the turbulent years of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements. The analysis of the works of these three important dramatists reveals the roots of an Afrocentric approach to the theater, and introduces a new methodology for exploring Afrocentrism that is particularly suited to classes in African American drama and literature.
Publication date: 1996
Review Atelier Farani: Pasolini, il costume del film (Gli archivi della moda) / Skira:
Publication date: 1991
Review Theatre arts 2 student handbook: On stage and off stage roles : fitting the pieces together / Alpen & Jeffries Publishers:
Publication date: 1976-01-12
Review All Above Board / W.H. Allen / Virgin Books:
Publication date: 1987
Dewey code: 791.43'621732
Review Cites-cines / Ramsay:
Publication date: 1996
Review Spektakel der Moderne: Bausteine zu einer Kulturgeschichte der Medien und des darstellenden Verhaltens (Berliner Theaterwissenschaft) / Vistas:
Publication date: 1986
Dewey code: 791.43'0945
Review Le Cinema italien de La prise de Rome (1905) a Rome ville ouverte (1945) (Cinema/pluriel) / Centre Georges Pompidou:
Edition: 1re ed
Publication date: 1990
Dewey code: 792.8
Review 1929, danse d'aujourd'hui (L'Art de la danse) / Actes sud:
Creator: Richard Jackson
Publication date: 1994-03
Dewey code: 782.14
List Price: $125.00
Price: $210.95
Review Early Burlesque in America: Evangeline (1877) / Garland Publishing:
Creator: Rui Nogueira
Publication date: 1971-11-08
Price: $213.47
Review Melville on Melville (Cinema One) / Secker & Warburg:
Publication date: 1989-07
Dewey code: 822.33
Price: $39.95
Review The Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare in Performance) / Manchester University Press:
Publication date: 1972
Review Theatre in a tent,: The development of a provincial entertainment / Bowling Green University Popular Press:
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Celestina Comentada/ Commented Celestina (Textos Recuperados/ Recovered Texts), Early Irish Lyrics: 8th to 12th Century, Manga Discourse On Japan Theatre (Japanese Studies Series), The Athenian Institution of the Khoregia: The Chorus, the City and the Stage, Theatralia Judaica: After the Shoah - Israeli-German Theatre Relations Since 1949 v. 2 (Theatron), Der Krieg der Bilder: Ausgewahlte Dokumentarfilme zum Zweiten Weltkrieg und zum Vietnamkrieg (Crossroads), Education and Dramatic Art, Joe Leblang's Cut-Rate Ticket Empire and the Broadway Theatre, 1894-1931 (Studies in Theatre Arts, 23), Contemporary African American Theater: Afrocentricity in the Works of Larry Neal, Amiri Baraka, and Charles Fuller (Studies in African American History and Culture), Atelier Farani: Pasolini, il costume del film (Gli archivi della moda), Theatre arts 2 student handbook: On stage and off stage roles : fitting the pieces together, All Above Board, Cites-cines, Spektakel der Moderne: Bausteine zu einer Kulturgeschichte der Medien und des darstellenden Verhaltens (Berliner Theaterwissenschaft), Le Cinema italien de La prise de Rome (1905) a Rome ville ouverte (1945) (Cinema/pluriel), 1929, danse d'aujourd'hui (L'Art de la danse), Early Burlesque in America: Evangeline (1877), Melville on Melville (Cinema One), The Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare in Performance), Theatre in a tent,: The development of a provincial entertainmentTop headlines: Rescued pilot whales join larger pod: A group of whales rescued from an Australian beach have joined a larger pod in deep waters a sign they are doing fine after their ordeal, an official said Monday. ›16:23 24 Nov, Mon SportsBiz: Golf industry gets hit hard: The economic meltdown is hitting the golf industry hard. 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