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        Film & Performance Studies / Theatre & Drama

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        Opera, Tragedy, and Neighbouring Forms from Corneille to Calzabigi

        Opera, Tragedy, and Neighbouring Forms from Corneille to Calzabigi

        Edited by Blair Hoxby

        Price:

        $95.00

        ISBN: 9781487503512

        Pub Date: February 2024

        This book explores the tense relationship between opera and tragedy – often described as antithetical forms of theatre – from the 1630s to the 1780s.

        The Crimean War and Cultural Memory

        The Crimean War and Cultural Memory

        The War France Won and Forgot

        by Sima Godfrey

        Price:

        $70.00

        ISBN: 9781487547776

        Pub Date: November 2023

        Exploring the Crimean War through literature, theatre, spectacle, and visual arts, this book reveals how and why a major war was forgotten.

        A Stage for Debate

        A Stage for Debate

        The Political Significance of Vienna’s Burgtheater, 1814–1867

        by Martin Wagner

        Price:

        $70.00

        ISBN: 9781487509552

        Pub Date: June 2023

        This book examines Vienna’s Burgtheater, the most prestigious German-language stage in the nineteenth century.

        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:

        $100.00

        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:

        $37.95

        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:

        $45.95

        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:

        $83.00

        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:

        $30.95

        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:

        $93.00

        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:

        $90.00

        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:

        $85.00

        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:

        $85.00

        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:

        $45.95

        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:

        $103.00

        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:

        $26.95

        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.
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