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Film & Performance Studies / Theatre & Drama

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Hope in a Collapsing World

Hope in a Collapsing World

Youth, Theatre, and Listening as a Political Alternative

by Kathleen Gallagher

With Andrew Kushnir

Price: $39.95

ISBN: 9781487541200

Pub Date: April 2022

This ethnographic study explores notions of hope and care by examining how theatre-making with young people might cultivate practices, relationships, and values that support them in engaged, creative, and ethical forms of citizenship.

Languages of Trauma

Languages of Trauma

History, Memory, and Media

Edited by Peter Leese, Jason Crouthamel and Julia Barbara Köhne

Price: $95.00

ISBN: 9781487508968

Pub Date: March 2021

Languages of Trauma explores how, and for what purposes, trauma is expressed in historical sources and visual media.

Social Justice in Spanish Golden Age Theatre

Social Justice in Spanish Golden Age Theatre

Edited by Erin Cowling, Tania de Miguel Magro, Mina Garcia Jordán and Glenda Y. Nieto-Cuebas

Price: $34.95

ISBN: 9781487525286

Pub Date: February 2021

This book explores early modern Spanish plays through the lens of social justice, extending its analysis to contemporary adaptations and how they can be used as a tool for achieving social justice today.

Dancing Queen

Dancing Queen

Marie de Médicis' Ballets at the Court of Henri IV

by Melinda Gough

Price: $42.95

ISBN: 9781487526795

Pub Date: November 2020

Dancing Queen takes up court ballet as a window into Marie de Médicis’s use of the performing arts as a vehicle for politically engaged queenship prior to Henri IV’s assassination in 1610.
Theatre of Anger

Theatre of Anger

Radical Transnational Performance in Contemporary Berlin

by Olivia Landry

Price: $79.00

ISBN: 9781487507695

Pub Date: November 2020

Theatre of Anger examines contemporary transnational theatre in Berlin through the political scope of anger, and its trajectory from Aristotle all the way to Audre Lorde and bell hooks.

I Was Never Alone or Oporniki

I Was Never Alone or Oporniki

An Ethnographic Play on Disability in Russia

by Cassandra Hartblay

Price: $28.95

ISBN: 9781487588403

Pub Date: October 2020

This ethnographic play and supporting commentary contribute to the development of disability anthropology, and to a conversation about the use of performance methodologies in anthropology and ethnographic research.

Italian Neorealism

Italian Neorealism

A Cultural History

by Charles L. Leavitt IV

Price: $89.00

ISBN: 9781487507107

Pub Date: July 2020

This book seeks to redefine, recontextualize, and reassess Italian neorealism – an artistic movement characterized by stories set among the poor and working class – through innovative close readings and comparative analysis.

The Dramaturgy of the Spectator

The Dramaturgy of the Spectator

Italian Theatre and the Public Sphere, 1600–1800

by Tatiana Korneeva

Price: $86.00

ISBN: 9781487505356

Pub Date: May 2019

The Dramaturgy of the Spectator describes the development of the modern theatre spectator, the modern playwright, and their complex relationship with sovereignty, power structures, and the emergent public sphere in the seventeenth through the eighteenth century.

Insecurity

Insecurity

Perils and Products of Theatres of the Real

by Jenn Stephenson

Price: $81.00

ISBN: 9781487501853

Pub Date: April 2019

Insecurity: Perils and Products of Theatres of the Real begins with the premise that although the inclusion of real objects and real words on the stage would ostensibly seem to increase the epistemological security and documentary truth-value of the presentation, in fact the opposite is the case.

Science on Stage in Early Modern Spain

Science on Stage in Early Modern Spain

Edited by Enrique Garcia Santo-Tomas

Price: $81.00

ISBN: 9781487504052

Pub Date: March 2019

In this collection, leading scholars tackle subjects and disciplines as diverse as alchemy, optics, astronomy, acoustics, geometry, mechanics, and mathematics to reveal how theatre in early modern Spain could be used to deploy scientific knowledge.

Wooden Os

Wooden Os

Shakespeare’s Theatres and England’s Trees

by Vin Nardizzi

Price: $42.95

ISBN: 9781487522612

Pub Date: December 2017

By considering works including Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay, the revised Spanish Tragedy, and The Tempest, Nardizzi demonstrates how the “trees” within them were used in imaginative ways to mediate England’s resource crisis.

Ambiguous Antidotes

Ambiguous Antidotes

Virtue as Vaccine for Vice in Early Modern Spain

by Hilaire Kallendorf

Price: $98.00

ISBN: 9781487502133

Pub Date: November 2017

In Ambiguous Antidotes, Hilaire Kallendorf explores the receptions of Virtues in the realm of moral philosophy and the artistic production it influenced during the Spanish Gold Age.

The Heresy of Wu Han

The Heresy of Wu Han

His play 'Hai Jui's Dismissal' and its role in China's Cultural Revolution

by Clive Ansley

Price: $24.95

ISBN: 9781487598136

Pub Date: October 2017

This volume presents the first translation of Wu Han's plays and helps to clarify the obscure origins of a national phenomenon that was at once intellectual, social, and political.
National Performance

National Performance

Representing Quebec from Expo 67 to Celine Dion

by Erin Hurley

Price: $37.95

ISBN: 9781487521332

Pub Date: February 2017

Winner of the Northeast Modern Language Association's Book Prize, National Performance is sophisticated yet accessible, seeking to enlarge the parameters of what counts as 'Quebecois' performance, while providing a thorough introduction to changing discourses of nation-ness in Quebec.

In Defence of Theatre

In Defence of Theatre

Aesthetic Practices and Social Interventions

Edited by Kathleen Gallagher and Barry Freeman

Price: $37.95

ISBN: 9781442630802

Pub Date: February 2016

Kathleen Gallagher and Barry Freeman bring together nineteen playwrights, actors, directors, scholars, and educators who discuss the role that theatre can – and must – play in professional, community, and educational venues.

Unruly Women

Unruly Women

Performance, Penitence, and Punishment in Early Modern Spain

by Margaret E. Boyle

Price: $36.95

ISBN: 9781487520267

Pub Date: December 2015

In the first in-depth study of the interconnected relationships among public theatre, custodial institutions, and women in early modern Spain, Margaret E. Boyle explores the contradictory practices of rehabilitation enacted by women both on and off stage.

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