Search results for “[Subject: performance]”

• Author(s): Bruce G. Shapiro • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Acting & AuditioningDramatic performance involves an intricate process of rehearsal based upon imagery inherent in the dramatic text. A playwright first ...

• Author(s): Brenda D. Gottschild • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Dance - FolkThis ground-breaking work brings dance into current discussions of the African presence in American culture. Dixon Gottschild argues that the...

• Author(s): Brenda Gottschild • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Dance - FolkFrom the Back CoverThis ground-breaking work brings dance into current discussions of the African presence in American culture. Dixon Gottschild...

• Author(s): Sidney Berger • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Theater - History & CriticismGiving equal space to the sanctity of script and the artistic freedom of directors, this book addresses the difficulties encoun...

• Author(s): Leigh Woods • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Theater - GeneralThis compendium opens the stagedoor for those with little or no practical experience in acting. For actors and other theatre specialists grapplin...

• Author(s): Richard Hudson Palmer • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Theater - History & CriticismPalmer clearly states that his purpose is to explain 1the ways of critics to theatre practitioners, the ways of theatre...

• Author(s): Marilyn Plotkins • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Theater - History & CriticismFounded at Yale University by Robert Brustein, the American Repertory Theatre (A.R.T.) became one of America's most progress...

• Author(s): Starra Andrews • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Acting & AuditioningWhat is it like to pursue a career in acting? Forty working actors comment on auditions, day jobs, agents, rejection, and what drives t...

• Author(s): Daniel Friedman • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Theater - Stagecraft & ScenographyThis collection of essays defines and explores American theatres that consciously appealed primarily to workers. The sco...

• Author(s): Jo A. Tanner • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Theater - GeneralFew theatre aficionados, even theatre historians, could come up with the names of many actresses known for serious dramatic roles before the 195...

• Author(s): Nancy Kindelan • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Theater - Stagecraft & ScenographyThis insightful work fills a gap in theatre studies, illuminating how modernism influences theatrical interpretations and...

• Author(s): Mark S. Weinberg • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Theater - History & CriticismCollective theatres are collectively organized and run performing groups, usually socially conscious and politically oriente...

• Author(s): Mance Williams • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Theater - GeneralProviding a comprehensive overview of the most daring and aggressive period in the history of Afro-American theatre, this study goes beyond an...

• Author(s): Jane K. Curry • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Theater - Stagecraft & ScenographyMany women held positions of great responsibility and power in the United States during the 19th century as theatre manage...

• Author(s): David Leonard • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Television - GeneralA comprehensive look at the history of African Americans on television that discusses major trends in black TV and examines the broader soci...

• Author(s): Glen Gadberry • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Theater - History & CriticismThis volume considers prewar theatre in Hitler's Germany, a previously neglected subject in theatre history. An extended introd...

• Author(s): Georganne Scheiner • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Film - GeneralMotion pictures have been one of the forces that have both shaped and reproduced adolescent femininity. Films not only reflect culture--they ...

• Author(s): Steve Derne • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismMen in India are attracted to Hindi films partly because of their attraction to depictions of modern lifestyles. Dern D'e argues tha...

• Author(s): Marsha McCreadie • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Film - GeneralThis collection of film reviews and essays focuses on the role of women in films during the 1970s and 1980s. The author, a widely published fil...

• Author(s): Jerome H. Delamater • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Television - History & CriticismThe detective, as a preeminent figure in all forms of American popular culture, has become the subject of a variety of...

• Author(s): James C. Holte • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Film - GeneralOne hundred years after his creation by Bram Stoker, Dracula is still fascinating us. This study traces the changing nature of film representatio...

• Author(s): Phillip Gianos • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismFilms have been a part of U.S. society for a century--a source of great enjoyment for the audience and of great profit to filmmak...

• Author(s): Neil Martin Blackadder • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Theater - GeneralModern theater history is punctuated by instances of scandalized audience members disrupting and in some cases suspending the first pr...