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This book uses a database of over 1,800 vessels to identify patterns in Paestan red-figure pottery. By analysing vessel shapes, popular scenes, and consumer preferences, it provides new insights into how ancient populations of South-West Italy commemorated the dead.
This book uses a database of over 1,800 vessels to identify patterns in Paestan red-figure pottery. By analysing vessel shapes, popular scenes, and consumer preferences, it provides new insights into how ancient populations of South-West Italy commemorated the dead.
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Peeping Through the Holes
Twenty-First Century Essays on Psycho
These essays on Psycho, the novel and the film, invite you to that peculiar house on the hill. Leave all hope behind and enter at your own risk. The Bates’ terrifying rollercoaster welcomes you. Nothing is over here… at least not until it overcomes you.
These essays on Psycho, the novel and the film, invite you to that peculiar house on the hill. Leave all hope behind and enter at your own risk. The Bates’ terrifying rollercoaster welcomes you. Nothing is over here… at least not until it overcomes you.
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Performance and Ethnography
Dance, Drama, Music
This volume explores the intersection of performance and ethnography across dance, drama, and music. It champions an embodied, sensory ethnography that privileges encounters between researchers and participants to understand performance amid migration and commodification.
This volume explores the intersection of performance and ethnography across dance, drama, and music. It champions an embodied, sensory ethnography that privileges encounters between researchers and participants to understand performance amid migration and commodification.
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Performance Trends in Postliberation Zimbabwe
Practices, Projections and Trajectories
This collection theorises the dynamic ways Zimbabwean and African artists perform. It examines an interactive movement that fuses performer and spectator, while challenging the dominant Anglocentrism in critical performance pedagogies.
This collection theorises the dynamic ways Zimbabwean and African artists perform. It examines an interactive movement that fuses performer and spectator, while challenging the dominant Anglocentrism in critical performance pedagogies.
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Exploring the body's role in cultural memory, these essays consider how the body is a canvas for cultural meaning and a mnemonic for a shared past. Required reading for those interested in how bodies, both on stage and in everyday life, 'perform' meaning.
Exploring the body’s role in cultural memory, these essays consider how the body is a canvas for cultural meaning and a mnemonic for a shared past. Required reading for those interested in how bodies, both on stage and in everyday life, ‘perform’ meaning.
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Performative Inter-Actions in African Theatre 1
Diaspora Representations and the Interweaving of Cultures
This book explores how plays of the African diaspora acknowledge home cultures while interacting with host cultures. Contributions attest that the diaspora is not solely outside the continent, but can be found in performances within Africa that engage with the world.
This book explores how plays of the African diaspora acknowledge home cultures while interacting with host cultures. Contributions attest that the diaspora is not solely outside the continent, but can be found in performances within Africa that engage with the world.
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This book set is a comprehensive exploration of African theatre on the continent and in the diaspora. Essays demonstrate how practitioners tackle colonial legacies and globalization, forging a thriving and distinctively African aesthetic.
This book set is a comprehensive exploration of African theatre on the continent and in the diaspora. Essays demonstrate how practitioners tackle colonial legacies and globalization, forging a thriving and distinctively African aesthetic.
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Performative Inter-Actions in African Theatre 2
Innovation, Creativity and Social Change
This collection explores how African theatre instigates social change. Contributions demonstrate the ingenuity of practitioners who adapt indigenous forms to engage with contemporary realities, creating an aesthetic that is identifiably African.
This collection explores how African theatre instigates social change. Contributions demonstrate the ingenuity of practitioners who adapt indigenous forms to engage with contemporary realities, creating an aesthetic that is identifiably African.
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Performative Inter-Actions in African Theatre 3
Making Space, Rethinking Drama and Theatre in Africa
This collection demonstrates the advances adopted by African theatre practitioners in tackling challenges like colonialism and globalisation. The essays re-conceptualise notions of drama and theatre, exploring space and challenging orthodoxy in evolving contexts.
This collection demonstrates the advances adopted by African theatre practitioners in tackling challenges like colonialism and globalisation. The essays re-conceptualise notions of drama and theatre, exploring space and challenging orthodoxy in evolving contexts.
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Performing Adaptations
Essays and Conversations on the Theory and Practice of Adaptation
This collection of essays and interviews assesses adaptation from the under-explored perspective of live performance. Gutsy scholars and artists demonstrate how adaptation can test and speak back to dominant models of creation, production, and analysis.
This collection of essays and interviews assesses adaptation from the under-explored perspective of live performance. Gutsy scholars and artists demonstrate how adaptation can test and speak back to dominant models of creation, production, and analysis.
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These essays explore theatre as a spiritual practice rooted in action and breathing. Performance can shift consciousness for both performer and audience, with healing effects that engage deeper levels of imagination where dualities disappear.
These essays explore theatre as a spiritual practice rooted in action and breathing. Performance can shift consciousness for both performer and audience, with healing effects that engage deeper levels of imagination where dualities disappear.
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Performing Crisis
Interdisciplinary Insights on Identity and Existence
This book re-examines crisis and its presentation in theatre from diverse scholarly perspectives. It explores how artists use performance to negotiate identity, reimagine crisis, and facilitate survival, offering a theoretical and artistic inquiry into how we confront our times.
This book re-examines crisis and its presentation in theatre from diverse scholarly perspectives. It explores how artists use performance to negotiate identity, reimagine crisis, and facilitate survival, offering a theoretical and artistic inquiry into how we confront our times.
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This volume investigates the myriad ways in which performance and gender are inextricably bound to identity. It shows how gender, performance and identity play themselves out, in order to illumine the very instability and fluidity of identity as a static category.
This volume investigates the myriad ways in which performance and gender are inextricably bound to identity. It shows how gender, performance and identity play themselves out, in order to illumine the very instability and fluidity of identity as a static category.
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Performing Memories
Media, Creation, Anthropology, and Remembrance
Why is the contemporary world haunted by memory? This collection of essays explores the cultural and artistic tensions in representing the past. Scholars analyze how memory is elaborated, contested, and shared through literature, film, technology, and myth.
Why is the contemporary world haunted by memory? This collection of essays explores the cultural and artistic tensions in representing the past. Scholars analyze how memory is elaborated, contested, and shared through literature, film, technology, and myth.
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Paravano investigates the issue of multilingualism in the Caroline age through the lens of Richard Brome’s theatre. She analyses Brome’s multilingual representation of early modern London between 1625 and 1642, a multilingual and cosmopolitan city.
Paravano investigates the issue of multilingualism in the Caroline age through the lens of Richard Brome’s theatre. She analyses Brome’s multilingual representation of early modern London between 1625 and 1642, a multilingual and cosmopolitan city.
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Performing the Interview
Embodied Reflections and Data-Dramas
This book articulates a new method for the research interview, transforming it into a living performance space. Theatrically framed sites invite participants to co-create "Data-Dramas," capturing rich, embodied knowledge with relevance far beyond the arts.
This book articulates a new method for the research interview, transforming it into a living performance space. Theatrically framed sites invite participants to co-create “Data-Dramas,” capturing rich, embodied knowledge with relevance far beyond the arts.
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Performing, Teaching and Writing Theatre
Exploring Play
Drawing on 35 years of experience, this book explores a Delhi theatre group’s practice within the frame of international activist theatre movements. It identifies theatre as a force for changing society, examining a variety of forms from proscenium to street theatre.
Drawing on 35 years of experience, this book explores a Delhi theatre group’s practice within the frame of international activist theatre movements. It identifies theatre as a force for changing society, examining a variety of forms from proscenium to street theatre.
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Perspectives on Creativity
Volume 2
This unique interdisciplinary volume examines creativity from multiple viewpoints. Contributions from writers, therapists, artists, and scholars explore the creative process, the psychology of artists, creativity in therapy, and its link to mood and perception.
This unique interdisciplinary volume examines creativity from multiple viewpoints. Contributions from writers, therapists, artists, and scholars explore the creative process, the psychology of artists, creativity in therapy, and its link to mood and perception.
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This collection of philosophical essays analyses the Italian artist Ugo Nespolo’s poetics from different theoretical perspectives, focused in particular on his artworks and films.
This collection of philosophical essays analyses the Italian artist Ugo Nespolo’s poetics from different theoretical perspectives, focused in particular on his artworks and films.
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Photographing Papua
Representation, Colonial Encounters and Imaging in the Public Domain
This innovative study argues that Papua was created as a place through mass-produced photographs. It switches attention from rare prints to thousands of images in early media, exploring colonialism, representation, and the birth of photo-journalism.
This innovative study argues that Papua was created as a place through mass-produced photographs. It switches attention from rare prints to thousands of images in early media, exploring colonialism, representation, and the birth of photo-journalism.
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