Search results for “[Subject: performing-arts]”

• Author(s): Diana Taylor • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Theater - History & Criticism"Performance" has multiple and often overlapping meanings that signify a wide variety of social beha...

• Author(s): Diana Taylor • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Theater - History & CriticismIn Negotiating Performance, major scholars and practitioners of the theatrical arts consider the div...

• Author(s): E. Patrick Johnson • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Theater - GeneralStaging an important new conversation between performers and critics, Blacktino Queer Performance approaches t...

• Author(s): E. Patrick Johnson • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Theater - GeneralStaging an important new conversation between performers and critics, Blacktino Queer Performance approaches t...

• Author(s): Lauren Steimer • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismAction movie stars ranging from Jackie Chan to lesser-known stunt women and men like Zoë Bell and Ch...

• Author(s): Jane C. Desmond • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Dance - GeneralDance, whether considered as an art form or embodied social practice, as product or process, is a prime subject for...

• Author(s): Daphne A. Brooks • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Theater - History & CriticismIn Bodies in Dissent Daphne A. Brooks argues that from the mid-nineteenth century to the early t...

• Author(s): Soyica Diggs Colbert • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Theater - History & CriticismThe contributors to Race and Performance after Repetition explore how theater and performanc...

• Author(s): Arthur Knight • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismFrom the earliest sound films to the present, American cinema has represented African Americans as dec...

• Author(s): Lauren Steimer • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismAction movie stars ranging from Jackie Chan to lesser-known stunt women and men like Zoë Bell and Cha...

• Author(s): Marilyn G. Miller • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Dance - GeneralFrom its earliest manifestations on the street corners of nineteenth-century Buenos Aires to its ascendancy as a ...

• Author(s): Hershini Bhana Young • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Theater - History & CriticismIn Illegible Will Hershini Bhana Young engages with the archive of South African and black d...

• Author(s): Patrick Anderson • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Theater - History & CriticismIn So Much Wasted, Patrick Anderson analyzes self-starvation as a significant mode of staging po...

• Author(s): Jean Ma • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismFrom the beginning of the sound cinema era, singing actresses captivated Chinese audiences. In Sounding the ...

• Author(s): Derek P. McCormack • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Theater - GeneralIn Refrains for Moving Bodies, Derek P. McCormack explores the kinds of experiments with experience that can t...

• Author(s): Roger Hallas • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismIn Reframing Bodies, Roger Hallas illuminates the capacities of film and video to bear witness to the c...

• Author(s): Karen Redrobe • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismIn Still Moving noted artists, filmmakers, art historians, and film scholars explore the boundary betw...

• Author(s): John Limon • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: ComedyStand-Up Comedy in Theory, or, Abjection in America is the first study of stand-up comedy as a form of art. John Limon appreciate...

• Author(s): Ellen Graff • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Dance - ModernStepping Left simultaneously unveils the radical roots of modern dance and recalls the excitement and energy of New York...

• Author(s): Clare Croft • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Dance - History & CriticismPerformer, activist, and writer Jill Johnston was a major queer presence in the history of dance and 19...

• Author(s): Hershini Bhana Young • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Theater - History & CriticismIn Illegible Will Hershini Bhana Young engages with the archive of South African and black d...

• Author(s): Derek P. McCormack • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Theater - History & CriticismIn Refrains for Moving Bodies, Derek P. McCormack explores the kinds of experiments with exper...

• Author(s): Jean Ma • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismFrom the beginning of the sound cinema era, singing actresses captivated Chinese audiences. In Sounding the ...

• Author(s): Charles R. Acland • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismBy exploring the use of film in mid-twentieth-century institutions, including libraries, museums, ...

• Author(s): Clare Croft • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Dance - History & CriticismPerformer, activist, and writer Jill Johnston was a major queer presence in the history of dance and 19...

• Author(s): Yuriko Furuhata • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismDuring the 1960s and early 1970s, Japanese avant-garde filmmakers intensely explored the shifting ro...

• Author(s): Pooja Rangan • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismEndangered life is often used to justify humanitarian media intervention, but what if suffering humanit...

• Author(s): Katherine Brewer Ball • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Theater - History & CriticismIn The Only Way Out, Katherine Brewer Ball explores the American fascination with the escap...

• Author(s): Michael Berry • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismJia Zhangke on Jia Zhangke is an extended dialogue between film scholar Michael Berry and the internat...

• Author(s): Katherine Brewer Ball • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Theater - History & CriticismIn The Only Way Out, Katherine Brewer Ball explores the American fascination with the escap...

• Author(s): Michael Berry • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismJia Zhangke on Jia Zhangke is an extended dialogue between film scholar Michael Berry and the internat...

• Author(s): David A. Gerstner • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismIn this innovative analysis of the interconnections between nation and aesthetics in the United St...

• Author(s): Jennifer C. Nash • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismIn The Black Body in Ecstasy, Jennifer C. Nash rewrites black feminism's theory of representation. ...

• Author(s): Lee Grieveson | Haidee Wasson • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismInventing Film Studies offers original and provocative insights into the institutional...

• Author(s): Mila Zuo • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismIn Vulgar Beauty Mila Zuo offers a new theorization of cinematic feminine beauty by showing how mediated en...

• Author(s): Jack Halberstam • Publisher: MixGD • Publisher Imprint: MixGD • Subject: Music, Theatre & Films • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismIn this examination of the monster as cultural object, Judith Halberstam offers a rereading of...