Actors and the Art of Performance: Under Exposure combines the author's two main biographical paths: her professional…

The Art of Clowning is the first book on clowning technique and offers a step-by-step process for actors and other…

The boom in interest in theatre studies at school and in further and higher education signals a new interest in the…

Tracing the rise of extreme art cinema across films from Lars von Trier's The Idiots to Michael Haneke's CachĂ©, Asbjrn…

A critical survey of Hollywood film musicals from the 1960s to the present. This book examines how, in the post-studio…

Referentiality and the Films of Woody Allen is a scholarly collection that provides expansive exploration of the auteur's…

Ranging from conceptual theater to visual poetry the New York School explored the possibilities of collaboration like no…

Using the four tissue types (connective, epithelial, nervous, and muscular), Dudenhoeffer expands and complicates the…

• Rok vydání 2016

Includes interviews with: Neil Austin - Lucy Carter - Jon Clark - Natasha Chivers - Paule Constable - James Farncombe - Rick…

Proposing a comprehensive account of the global fashion industry this book aims to present fashion as a social and cultural…

• Rok vydání 2025

Although the dramatic dimension to Joseph Conrad\'s fiction is frequently acknowledged, his own experiments in drama have…

How do we conceptualize the relationship between suffering, art, and aesthetics from within the broader framework of social,…

This book analyses the animal images used in William Hogarth's art, demonstrating how animals were variously depicted as…

French comedy films occupy a specific cultural space and are influenced by national traditions and shared cultural…

3D Cinema: Optical Illusions and Tactile Experiences questions the common frameworks used for discussing 3D cinema, realism…

The Cleveland Play House has mirrored the achievements and struggles of both the city of Cleveland and the American theatre…

If the city is the theatre of urban life, how does architecture act in its many performances? This book reconstructs the…

This collection charts the terrain of contemporary Japanese animation, one of the most explosive forms of visual culture to…

The Theatre of War surveys more than two hundred plays about the First World War written, published and/or performed in…

This book investigates how the Children of Paul\'s (1599-1606) and the Children of the Queen\'s Revels (1600-13) defined…

This title examines the representation of the body in Irish theatre alongside the specific circumstances within which Irish…

• Rok vydání 2012

\nAn investigation of the many ways that Shakespeare uses the defiant voice of the shrew. Kamaralli explores how modern…

Popular Spanish Film Under Franco is the first book of its kind to analyze cinematic comedy during the initial two decades…

The \'in-yer-face\' plays of the mid-1990s announced a new generation shaped by Thatcherism and defined by antipathy to…

New Deal Theater recovers a much ignored model of political theater for cultural criticism.While considered to be less…

In Beckett, Literature and the Ethics of Alterity Weller argues through an analysis of the interrelated topics of…

As an initial attempt to understand innovation in fashion, this volume focuses on product innovations, realizing that this…

Shakespeare s Widows moves thirty-one characters appearing in twenty plays to center stage. Through nuanced analyses,…

Sister stories are rare compared with images of celebrity sisters and 'sisterhood'. Sisters talk passionately about how…

Coates presents the face in film as a place where transformations begin, reflecting both the experience of modernity and…

Ranging from classical hermaphrodites, Bruegel's blind faces and Weimar transgender surgery, via Gentlemen Prefer Blondes ,…

Salamensky investigates Oscar Wilde, his contemporaries, and the public frenzy over his work and life as illustrating the…

In this stunning reinterpretation of Shakespeare s works, Jonathan Hart explores key topics such as love, lust, time,…

Part of Palgrave's Modernism and ... series, Modernism and Zionism explores the relationship between modernism and the…

Art for art's sake addresses the relationship between art and life. Although it has long been argued that aestheticism aims…

• Rok vydání 2012

Using examples of refugee arts and theatrical activity since the 1990s, this book examines how the \'refugee crisis\' has…

The author is known for his extremely clear, finely crafted text, and the book offers a wealth of excellent worked…

A cinema without cameras, without actors, without screen frames and without narratives almost seems like an antithetical…

Cinema After Fascism considers how postwar European films glance ambivalently backward from the postwar period to the…

This first full-length scholarly study about animal horror cinema defines the popular subgenre and describes its origin and…