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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 responds to, reflects, and re-examines the experience of crisis and its presentation in theatre by bringing together a diversified range of scholarly perspectives. The volume rests on interdisciplinary frameworks that include Performance Studies, Trauma Studies, Memory Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Existential Philosophy, and many more. Through an in-depth study, this volume explores how playwrights, artists, and performance practitioners have analyzed theatrical forms to negotiate identity and reimagine crisis to facilitate survival and transformation.
This volume will be of interest to academicians, young scholars, and students of Theatre Studies, Performance Studies, Cultural Studies, Performing Arts, the Humanities, and the Social Sciences, as well as artists and practitioners committed to understanding the radical potential of performance in times of crisis. Overall, this volume is both a theoretical examination and an artistic inquiry into how the performing arts enable us to confront, survive, and interrogate the crises of our time.
This pioneering book introduces the “feminine,” a dimension of film not reducible to women’s experience. Exploring this Jungian concept through movies spanning seven decades, it enhances the appreciation of film as a depth psychological medium.
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Millais exposes the myths that surround Le Corbusier, detailing the endless failures of his proposals and his projects and arguing that his influence on architecture was disastrous, as traditional buildings were destroyed and replaced by featureless boxes of varying sizes.
Redwood undertakes a close formal analysis of Tarkovsky’s later films. Charting the stylistic and narrative innovations in Mirror, Stalker, Nostalghia and The Sacrifice, he succeeds in shedding new light on these celebrated, but often misunderstood, masterpieces.
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