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

• Author(s): Richard Sennett • Publisher: Yale University Press • Publisher Imprint: Yale University Press • BISAC: GeneralAn acclaimed sociologist's exploration of the connections among performances in life, art, and politics "A thought-provoki...

• Author(s): David Thomson • Publisher: Yale University Press • Publisher Imprint: Yale University Press • BISAC: Acting & AuditioningA provocative, highly engaging essay on the art of pretending on the stage, on screen, and in daily life Do...

• Author(s): Robert Brustein • Publisher: Yale University Press • Publisher Imprint: Yale University Press • BISAC: Theater - History & CriticismA major figure in the world of theater as critic, playwright, scholar, teacher, director, actor, ...

• Author(s): Anne Cattaneo • Publisher: Yale University Press • Publisher Imprint: Yale University Press • BISAC: Theater - PlaywritingAn introduction to the mysterious theater role of a dramaturg by a legend in the field "This book is marvelous....

• Author(s): Bert Cardullo • Publisher: Yale University Press • Publisher Imprint: Yale University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismOver the last century, film actors from Charlie Chaplin and Lillian Gish to Meryl Streep and Jeff Dani...

• Author(s): Edwin Denby | Robert Cornfield • Publisher: Yale University Press • Publisher Imprint: Yale University Press • BISAC: Dance - GeneralEdwin Denby, who died in 1983, was the most important and influential American dance critic of this ...

• Author(s): Gordon Rogoff • Publisher: Yale University Press • Publisher Imprint: Yale University Press • BISAC: Theater - History & CriticismIn this outstanding collection of critical writings, some published here for the first time, Gordon...

• Author(s): Janice Ross | Lynn Garafola • Publisher: Yale University Press • Publisher Imprint: Yale University Press • BISAC: Dance - Classical & BalletThe powerfully moving story of the Russian Jewish choreographer who used dance to challe...

• Author(s): Laurence Senelick | Sergei Ostrovsky • Publisher: Yale University Press • Publisher Imprint: Yale University Press • BISAC: Theater - History & CriticismIn this monumental work, Laurence Senelick and Sergei Ostrovsky offer a pano...

• Author(s): Richard Beacham • Publisher: Yale University Press • Publisher Imprint: Yale University Press • BISAC: Theater - History & CriticismThe presentations in the theater, gladiatorial combats, chariot races in the circus, animal hunts...

• Author(s): Mindy Aloff • Publisher: Yale University Press • Publisher Imprint: Yale University Press • BISAC: Dance - History & CriticismA passionate and moving tribute to the captivating power of dance, not just as an art form but as a lan...

• Author(s): Marcus Banks | Howard Morphy • Publisher: Yale University Press • Publisher Imprint: Yale University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismFor many years the field of visual anthropology has been dominated by a focus on the pr...

• Author(s): Noël Carroll • Publisher: Yale University Press • Publisher Imprint: Yale University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismNoël Carroll, a brilliant and provocative philosopher of film, has gathered in this book eighteen of hi...