Brechtian Theatre of Contradictions
Providing Moral Strength under Conditions of Dictatorship
An opponent of the GDR's totalitarian regime, director Heinz-Uwe Haus used theatre to provide moral strength and survive dictatorship. This book collects his work to alert the present about a past too easily misrepresented, hushed up, and forgotten.
An opponent of the GDR’s totalitarian regime, director Heinz-Uwe Haus used theatre to provide moral strength and survive dictatorship. This book collects his work to alert the present about a past too easily misrepresented, hushed up, and forgotten.
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Highlighting the growing interest in consciousness studies, these essays explore the relationship between human consciousness and the arts, including theatre, literary studies, film, fine arts and music.
Highlighting the growing interest in consciousness studies, these essays explore the relationship between human consciousness and the arts, including theatre, literary studies, film, fine arts and music.
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This provocative collection of essays traces the conflicted history of Bertolt Brecht's encounters with Broadway. It explores how his epic theater has been co-opted by commercialism and what this suggests for the future of political theater in the U.S.
This provocative collection of essays traces the conflicted history of Bertolt Brecht’s encounters with Broadway. It explores how his epic theater has been co-opted by commercialism and what this suggests for the future of political theater in the U.S.
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Alternatives within the Mainstream II
Queer Theatres in post-war Britain
This introduction to queer sexualities on the post-war British stage charts a history from a climate of sexual repressiveness and criminalisation to a period of legal acceptance, covering gay, lesbian, trans and queer British theatres.
This introduction to queer sexualities on the post-war British stage charts a history from a climate of sexual repressiveness and criminalisation to a period of legal acceptance, covering gay, lesbian, trans and queer British theatres.
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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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France at the Flicks
Trends in Contemporary French Popular Cinema
Explore the recent revitalisation of French popular cinema as it challenges Hollywood's dominance. This book discusses blockbuster successes—both international hits and domestic favourites—and explores their production, distribution, and reception.
Explore the recent revitalisation of French popular cinema as it challenges Hollywood’s dominance. This book discusses blockbuster successes—both international hits and domestic favourites—and explores their production, distribution, and reception.
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Theatres of Thought
Theatre, Performance and Philosophy
Theatre and philosophy both make things appear. These essays articulate the fact that they have never been truly apart, exploring theatre’s fascination with transforming thought into spectacle from wide-ranging perspectives and approaches.
Theatre and philosophy both make things appear. These essays articulate the fact that they have never been truly apart, exploring theatre’s fascination with transforming thought into spectacle from wide-ranging perspectives and approaches.
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Women Willing to Fight
The Fighting Woman in Film
This collection of essays explores the fighting woman in Hollywood cinema. Authors examine her changing role and the emergence of the physically empowered woman whose body is a weapon. It considers how and why mortal women fight and what they are fighting for.
This collection of essays explores the fighting woman in Hollywood cinema. Authors examine her changing role and the emergence of the physically empowered woman whose body is a weapon. It considers how and why mortal women fight and what they are fighting for.
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Hunting the Collectors
Pacific Collections in Australian Museums, Art Galleries and Archives
This volume investigates Pacific collections in Australian museums and the diverse 19th- and 20th-century collectors responsible. Essays reveal the motivations that led to the preservation of a remarkable archive of Pacific Island art, objects, and documents.
This volume investigates Pacific collections in Australian museums and the diverse 19th- and 20th-century collectors responsible. Essays reveal the motivations that led to the preservation of a remarkable archive of Pacific Island art, objects, and documents.
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A century later, the Marx Brothers are cultural icons who have permeated our culture. Most scholarly work on them is biographical; this collection of eleven essays suggests other approaches, examining their work from a number of critical perspectives.
A century later, the Marx Brothers are cultural icons who have permeated our culture. Most scholarly work on them is biographical; this collection of eleven essays suggests other approaches, examining their work from a number of critical perspectives.
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Views, Positions, Legacies
Interviews with German and British Theatre Artists, 1985-2007
This book collects 24 interviews with German and British theatre artists over 20 years. Actors, directors, and dramatists discuss boulevard comedy, Brecht’s legacy, and seminal productions like Sir Richard Eyre’s account of his Hamlet at the Royal Court.
This book collects 24 interviews with German and British theatre artists over 20 years. Actors, directors, and dramatists discuss boulevard comedy, Brecht’s legacy, and seminal productions like Sir Richard Eyre’s account of his Hamlet at the Royal Court.
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Filmmaker Billy Wilder considered himself a writer. This book offers academic yet accessible literary readings of nine of his most significant films, informed by literary criticism, Gender Studies, and Film Studies. For film students, English students and Wilder fans alike.
Filmmaker Billy Wilder considered himself a writer. This book offers academic yet accessible literary readings of nine of his most significant films, informed by literary criticism, Gender Studies, and Film Studies. For film students, English students and Wilder fans alike.
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Out of the Stream
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Mural Painting
This book reveals the vitality of Medieval & Renaissance murals from Europe's periphery, focusing on the link between image, audience, and daily life. From Denmark to Portugal, these studies offer new perspectives on art from Giotto to anonymous painters.
This book reveals the vitality of Medieval & Renaissance murals from Europe’s periphery, focusing on the link between image, audience, and daily life. From Denmark to Portugal, these studies offer new perspectives on art from Giotto to anonymous painters.
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Film scholars, drawing upon psychology, analyze the connections between stylistic patterns and aesthetic effects. This selection of essays focuses on elements of filmic narration to gain tangible insight into the ancient mystery of the link between art and experience.
Film scholars, drawing upon psychology, analyze the connections between stylistic patterns and aesthetic effects. This selection of essays focuses on elements of filmic narration to gain tangible insight into the ancient mystery of the link between art and experience.
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As terms like race and ethnicity become problematic in our “post-multicultural” world, this volume offers new approaches to difference in theatre history. Essays examine topics from race, gender, and sexuality to nationalism and class with new theories.
As terms like race and ethnicity become problematic in our “post-multicultural” world, this volume offers new approaches to difference in theatre history. Essays examine topics from race, gender, and sexuality to nationalism and class with new theories.
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Movie Time studies temporal mythmaking in American movies. It explores how films make sense of our world by reconstructing pasts like the 1950s, defining the present through the rise of conservatism, and foreseeing alternative futures.
Movie Time studies temporal mythmaking in American movies. It explores how films make sense of our world by reconstructing pasts like the 1950s, defining the present through the rise of conservatism, and foreseeing alternative futures.
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Searching for America
Essays on Art and Architecture
These essays explore American paintings, prints, sculpture, and architecture from diverse, multidisciplinary points of view. From traditional analysis to post-modernist deconstruction, these critical works represent the multicultural identities of America.
These essays explore American paintings, prints, sculpture, and architecture from diverse, multidisciplinary points of view. From traditional analysis to post-modernist deconstruction, these critical works represent the multicultural identities of America.
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While Marcel Duchamp judged eroticism a vital dynamic in his creation, his work has never been viewed through that spy hole. Researchers from all over the world now "lift the veil" on DADA, Surrealism, and more. The eye, designed to admire, can never really open wide enough.
While Marcel Duchamp judged eroticism a vital dynamic in his creation, his work has never been viewed through that spy hole. Researchers from all over the world now “lift the veil” on DADA, Surrealism, and more. The eye, designed to admire, can never really open wide enough.
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Zoom In, Zoom Out
Crossing Borders in Contemporary European Cinema
European films are a vital space where borders and identity are renegotiated. This collection explores how filmmakers question the continent by crossing geographic, cultural, and aesthetic boundaries, framing European cinema as a work-in-progress.
European films are a vital space where borders and identity are renegotiated. This collection explores how filmmakers question the continent by crossing geographic, cultural, and aesthetic boundaries, framing European cinema as a work-in-progress.
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Realities and Remediations
The Limits of Representation in Film
This volume of new essays examines how representations are put into place through mise-en-scene, editing and technology. In a hyper-visual era, these essays challenge commonplaces, problematising our relationship to a perceived reality.
This volume of new essays examines how representations are put into place through mise-en-scene, editing and technology. In a hyper-visual era, these essays challenge commonplaces, problematising our relationship to a perceived reality.
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