Search results for “[Subject: performance]”

• Author(s): Anne Duncan • Publisher: Cambridge UP • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge • Subject: History • BISAC: Theater - History & CriticismActors in the classical world were often viewed as frauds and impostors, capable of deliberately fabric...

• Author(s): David Raeburn • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Blackwell • Subject: History • BISAC: Ancient & ClassicalAbout the Book This is a unique introduction to Greek tragedy that explores the plays as dramatic artifacts intended f...

• Author(s): PanditMimasha • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralThis book serves as the corridor to one’s ‘self’. It began as a humble attempt to interrogate the performance histo...

• Author(s): OberlinHeiki; ShulmanDavid(Eds.) • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Social HistoryAbout the Book Kutiyattam, India's only living traditional Sanskrit theatre, has been continually perfor...

• Author(s): Meiling Cheng • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: History • BISAC: GeneralAbout the Book From cannibalism to light-calligraphy, from self-harming to animal sacrifice, from meat entwined with sex t...

• Author(s): Aniket De • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: HistoriographyCombining archival research with ethnographic fieldwork, The Boundary of Laughter explores how spaces of popular performance ha...

• Author(s): Kyle Frackman • Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Boydell & Brewer Ltd • BISAC: Performing ArtsThe first scholarly collection in English or German to fully address the treatment of gender and sexuality in t...

• Author(s): Butsch • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: History • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismAbout the Book In this expansive historical synthesis, Richard Butsch integrates social, economic, and political histo...

• Author(s): Donny Gluckstein • Publisher: Pluto • Publisher Imprint: Pluto • Subject: History • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - GeneralThis history reclaims the Second World War as a global fight 'from below'. The vast majority of h...

• Author(s): Lucy Morgan Edwards • Publisher: Pluto • Publisher Imprint: Pluto • Subject: Politics and Current AffairsOctober 7, 2011 marked the tenth anniversary of the start of the Afghan war, and this explosive book exposes how the West lost i...

• Author(s): MATHIEU • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: History • BISAC: Europe - GeneralAbout the Book Stretching 1,200 kilometres across six countries, the colossal mountains of the Alps dominate Europe, geographically...

• Author(s): J.P. Mittal • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: HistoryThe present book, New History of Ancient India, is an attempt to present the Indian history in the light of recent discoveries and excavations made in ...

• Author(s): Elena Caoduro • Publisher: Edinburgh UP • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • Subject: History • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismFeuds within fashion houses, megalomaniacs and photoshoot nightmares - fashion and dram...

• Author(s): Oddie William • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Christian Theology - HistoryOn the publication of Orthodoxy in 1908, Wilfrid Ward hailed G. K. Chesterton as a prophetic figure whose tho...

• Author(s): Andrew Laird, Nicola Miller • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Wiley • Subject: History • BISAC: World - Caribbean & Latin AmericanFrom the Back CoverAncient Greece and Rome have long been prominent in Latin America. The mod...

• Author(s): Peter Aleshire • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Wiley • Subject: HistoryTWO OF AMERICAN HISTORY'S MOST BRILLIANT WARRIORS-AND FIERCEST ENEMIES-COME ALIVE "An invaluable addition to western history."-Evan Connell, author of So...

• Author(s): Baar • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Eastern Europe - GeneralPeripheral cultures have been largely absent from the European canon of historiography. Seeking to redress the balance, Mo...

• Author(s): Melvyn Stokes • Publisher: Bloomsbury • Publisher Imprint: Berg • Subject: History • BISAC: United States - GeneralAbout the Book Historians are very much aware of the variety of national and international trends that have shaped his...

• Author(s): Symonds • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - GeneralAbout the Book Seventy years ago, more than six thousand Allied ships carried more than a million ...

• Author(s): Larry Schweikart | Bradley J. Birzer • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Wiley • Subject: HistoryAbout the Book In this authoritative and comprehensive resource, you'll find detailed information on a vast array of topics related ...

• Author(s): Kemp Martin • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Popular Culture - GeneralAbout the Book How does an image become iconic? In Christ to Coke, eminent art historian Martin Kemp offers a high...

• Author(s): Buckner F. Melton Jr. • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Wiley • Subject: HistoryAbout the Book Aaron Burr remains one of the most darkly compelling figures in early United States history. Best known as the man who killed Alexan...