Search results for “[subject: entertainment-performing-arts]”

• Author(s): Alice Marshall (Vale) • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Theater - GeneralAlice Marshall explores the question 'What do you think entertainment is?' by challenging the reader to consider and for...

• Author(s): Jason Price • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Theater - History & CriticismIn this book, theatre historian Jason Price looks at the relationships and exchanges that took place between high ...

• Author(s): Anthony Howell | A. Howell • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Theater - GeneralThis finely illustrated book offers a simple yet comprehensive 'grammar' of a new discipline. Performance Art first became pop...

• Author(s): Cara Harker • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Theater - Direction & ProductionFoundations for Performance Training: Skills for the Actor-Dancer explores the physical, emotional, theoretical...

• Author(s): A. Shay • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Theater - History & CriticismExamining performers from the ancient Mediterranean world to the modern Islamic Middle East, including India and Pakistan...

• Author(s): Brooke M. Haney • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Theater - Direction & ProductionA History of Intimacy Professionals in Entertainment is the first book that explores the evolution of intimacy coordin...

• Author(s): Emma Govan | Helen Nicholson | Katie Normington • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Theater - GeneralMaking a Performance traces innovations in devised performance from early theatrical experiments in the t...

• Author(s): Sara Jane Bailes • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Theater - Stagecraft & ScenographyWhat does it mean to "fail" in performance? How might staging failure reveal theatre's potential to expa...

• Author(s): Adam Ainsworth • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • BISAC: Theater - GeneralThere is no fourth wall in popular performance. The show is firmly rooted in the here and now, and the per...

• Author(s): Mary Simonson • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Dance - ModernWhile female performers in the early 20th century were regularly advertised as dancers, mimics, singers,...

• Author(s): Paul Bouissac • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic • BISAC: Linguistics - PragmaticsWhat is a live performance? And why is semiotics the best approach for the analysis and interpretation of the pe...

• Author(s): L.M. Bogad • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Theater - Stagecraft & ScenographyPerforming Truth answers the most pressing questions facing any theatre-makers who are wrestling with how to p...

• Author(s): Daniel Schulze • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • BISAC: Theater - History & CriticismAuthenticity is one of the major values of our time. It is visible everywhere, from clothi...

• Author(s): Vânia Rodrigues • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Theater - History & CriticismThis volume takes stock of the ways in which the regimes of artistic creation and production intersect, lendin...

• Author(s): Teresa Brayshaw • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Theater - GeneralThe Twentieth-Century Performance Reader has been the key introductory text to all types of performance for over fifteen years...

• Author(s): M. Pizzato • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Theater - History & CriticismFrom the Inside Flap"A fascinating analysis, based on research in psychoanalysis, evolutionary psychiatry, and neurosc...

• Author(s): Amy Bryzgel • Publisher: Manchester University Press • Publisher Imprint: Manchester University Press • BISAC: Theater - History & CriticismThis volume presents the first comprehensive academic study of the history and developmen...

• Author(s): Philip Hancock • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Industries - Media & CommunicationsThis open access book focuses on the distinctive experiences of freelance and self-employed live performers ...

• Author(s): Tancredi Gusman • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Acting & AuditioningThis book investigates the practices of reconstructing and representing performance art and their power to shape this a...

• Author(s): Pil Hansen • Publisher: Methuen Drama • Publisher Imprint: Methuen Drama • BISAC: Dance - GeneralThis international collection brings together scientists, scholars and artist-researchers to explore the cognition of memory through the...

• Author(s): Susanne Foellmer • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Theater - GeneralArtists especially from dance and performance art as well as opera are involved to an increasing degree in the transfer betwe...

• Author(s): Marco Pustianaz • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Theater - History & CriticismWritten soon before and in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic, when theatre ground to a halt and spectatorshi...

• Author(s): Tony Lidington • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: CircusThis volume is the first authoritative historical textbook to look at the origins, development and evolution of seaside pierrot troupes an...

• Author(s): G. Arrighi • Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Theater - History & CriticismChildren have been exploited as performers and wooed energetically as consumers throughout history. These es...

• Author(s): Henry Frederic Reddall • Publisher: Hutson Street Press • Publisher Imprint: Hutson Street Press • BISAC: Theater - GeneralWit and Humor of the Stage is a delightful collection of anecdotes, jokes, and humorous observations related t...

• Author(s): Stark Young • Publisher: Tradd Street Press • Publisher Imprint: Tradd Street Press • BISAC: Theater - History & Criticism"The Theater" provides a profound and insightful exploration into the essence of the dramatic arts, written...

• Author(s): A. Sikes • Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Theater - History & CriticismSikes traces the shifting role of performance in the fashioning of subjectivity from the Modern to the Postmod...

• Author(s): Baldyga Natalya • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: Music, Theatre & Films • BISAC: Language Arts - Composition & Creative WritingWhile eighteenth-century playwright and critic Gotthold...

• Author(s): Julia Listengarten • Publisher: Methuen Drama • Publisher Imprint: Methuen Drama • BISAC: Theater - History & CriticismShortlisted for the 2023 TaPRA Edited Collection Prize This book considers arousal as a mode of theoretical an...

• Author(s): Michael Issacharoff | Robin F. Jones • Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary • Publisher Imprint: University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary • BISAC: Theater - GeneralThis book is a volume in the Penn Press Annive...

• Author(s): Richard Cadena • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Theater - Stagecraft & ScenographyNow in its fourth edition, Electricity for the Entertainment Electrician and Technician is a comprehensive, practical...

• Author(s): Various • Publisher: Tradd Street Press • Publisher Imprint: Tradd Street Press • BISAC: Storytelling"Favorite Characterizations of Elias Day; Readings, Monologues, Sketches" is a vibrant collection of performance pieces that showcas...

• Author(s): Michael W. Barrett • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Theater - History & CriticismThis first-hand account offers the story of Boris Nieslony and how he is remembered within the context of performance ...

• Author(s): Erika Fischer-Lichte | Saskya Jain • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Theater - History & CriticismIn this book, Erika Fischer-Lichte traces the emergence of performance as 'an art event' in its own ri...

• Author(s): Matthew Reason • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Theater - History & CriticismThis volume brings together dynamic perspectives on the concept of liveness in the performing arts, engaging wi...

• Author(s): Catherine Hindson • Publisher: Manchester University Press • Publisher Imprint: Manchester University Press • BISAC: Theater - History & CriticismFrom the Back CoverThis study focuses on seven women who used the fin-de-siècle's p...