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Richard Pochinko (1946-89) played a pioneering role in North American clown theatre through the creation of an original pedagogy synthesizing modern European and indigenous Native American techniques. In Clown Through Mask, Veronica Coburn and onetime Pochinko apprentice Sue Morrison lay out the methodology of the Pochinko style of clowning and offer a bold philosophical framework for its interpretation. Morrison is today a leading teacher of Pochinko's Clown through Mask technique and this book extends significantly the literature on this underdocumented form of theatre.
Two major regulatory activities have framed global media policies since World War II: the New World Information and Communication Order (NWICO) and the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). This title offers an account from the 1970s onwards of the major issues concerning information flows in international geopolitics.
A unique contribution to an emerging field, this book explores musical strategies of organization as viable alternative means of organizing theatrical work. It includes insightful essays by a group of international contributors and interviews with important practitioners, shedding light on historical and theoretical aspects of composed theatre.
Octave Mirbeau was one of the most prolific literary figures of France's storied Belle Epoque. This volume contains his two most celebrated plays for the first time in English-language translation: Business is Business and Charity. The book also includes an introduction contextualizing the works and the translation and adaptation process.
Since the 1990s, popular culture the world over has frequently looked to the 'hood for inspiration, whether in music, film or television. Habitus of the Hood explores the myriad ways in which the hood has been conceived - both within the lived experiences of its residents and in the many mediated representations found in popular culture. Using a variety of methodologies including autoethnography, textual studies and critical discourse analysis, contributors analyse and connect these various conceptions.
Examines socio-political contexts and local reception of films. This title expands the literature on Iranian cinema to local/national dimensions. It examines the work of filmmakers whose work has received little critical attention abroad, despite being widely popular and critically acclaimed inside Iran.
Whilst there is a growing body of academic work on New Zealand film and television, this book adresses relatively little exists on industries, institutions and policy.
Between 1930 and 1960, popular female dramatists, including Paola Riccora, Anna Bonacci, Clotilde Masci and Gici Ganzini Granata, set the stage for a new generation of feminist theatre and the development of contemporary Italian women's theatre as a whole. Now largely forgotten, the lives and works of these dramatists are reintroduced into the scholarly conversation in Italian Women's Theatre, 1930-1960. Following a general introduction, the book presents a selection of dramatic works, rounded out by commentary, performance histories, critical analyses and biographical information.
Raises questions about the interplay in contemporary theatre between the processes of rehearsal and the theatrical metaphors that shape our everyday dealings with trauma, including death. This title features essays in the areas of Performance Studies, Sociology, Death Studies/Health and Social Care, and more.
Beyond the Dance Floor is a study about the women who DJ electronic dance music. It focuses on the relationship between women and the conceptions of gender and technology. The author explores issues such as the politics of identity and representation, women-centred DJ communities and the role female DJs and producers play in dance music culture.
Peter Weir's three-decade creative journey from Australia to Hollywood is considered in light of the recent theories on transnational cinema and through an examination of four key films. The films' analyses integrate interviews with Weir and his closest collaborators. The book concludes that Weir is both an Australian and a 'Hollywood' filmmaker.
Presents reviews of 46 film scenes in their encounters with Parisian topography as it intersects with characters, plots, and narrative. This volume examines how the "City of Light" is reinvented through each director's lenses: successive representations add magic to the already mythical city.
With a new collaborative venture between Manuel Vason and forty of the most visually arresting artists working with performance in the United Kingdom, this book brings together newly commissioned images and essays to explore new ways of bridging performance and photography.
Spanish Cinema is one of the most diverse and interesting to international level; but lacks communication platforms and detailed analysis. This title focuses on the main corpus of Spanish movies that have left an indelible tread through different generations of spectators and a place where users can read full analysis of the best films.
Provides a fresh account of landscape photography which focuses on the settler societies of the United States and Australia. This title demonstrates the influence of settler societies on landscape photography, in which photographers captured the fascination with and the appeal of the land and its expense.
Presents an undertaking of the trends, patterns and prospects of the Bangladeshi media. This book covers the country's various mass media, new media, public relations and policy issues surrounding it. It brings together communication and media scholars from within and outside of Bangladesh.
A collection of essays that examines Greek cinema from the silent era to the present as an aesthetic, cultural and political phenomenon. It uses a range of methodological tools to investigate its changing forms and meanings, and locates Greek cinema in the context of the emerging study of peripheral European cinemas.
A collection of essays that proposes 'spatialities' as a conceptual environment in which to consider the increasingly evolving concept of the spatial. It includes chapters that address the interstitial, the liminal and the relational and processes of deformation, distribution and stratification.
Digital technologies are playing an instrumental role in transforming the contemporary museum today. This book is designed around contextual studies - of the themes of virtuality and the art of exhibition, and topics relating to digital mediation, spatial practice, the multimedial museum and curatorial design - and exhibitions.
From bleak expressionist works to the edgy political works of the New German Cinema to the feel-good "Heimat" films of the postwar era, "Directory of World Cinema: Germany" aims to offer a wider film and cultural context for the films that have emerged from Germany--including some of the East German films recently made available to Western audiences for the first time. With contributions by leading academics and emerging scholars in the field, this volume explores the key directors, themes, and periods in German film history, and demonstrates how genres have been adapted over time to fit historical circumstances. Rounding out this addition to the Directory of World Cinema series are fifty full-color stills, numerous reviews and recommendations, and a comprehensive filmography.
This book guides readers through unfamiliar textual landscapes where 'being' is defined as an act rather than a form. Drawing on Paul Ricoeur's notion of intersubjective narrative identity as well as the catastrophe theory of Gilles Deleuze, Jac Saorsa creates an alternative perspective from which to interpret and engage with the world around us.
Television drama has emerged as the dominant medium of contemporary storytelling in Italian society. Informed by the nation's historical and cultural heritage, the narratives offer insight into Italian society and competing versions of Italian identity, highlighting the wide array of television programming available outside of Britain and the US.
This volume addresses the great directors and key artistic movements of France, but also ventures beyond these films and figures by examining many neglected but intriguing French films. Essays explore stylistic elements, cultural contexts and various conceptions of cinema in France. The book also includes film reviews illustrated by screenshots.
World Film Locations: Dublin offers an engaging look at the many incarnations of the city onscreen through 50 synopses of the key scenes - either shot or set in Dublin - accompanied by a generous selection of full-colour film stills. Sophisticated yet accessible, this volume will undoubtedly take its place on the shelves of film buffs and those interested in Irish culture.
Includes articles that provide an examination of the significance of Istanbul in the critically acclaimed director Nuri Bilge Ceylan's cinema, the city's representation in films made in the West and in Turkey in different periods. This title also features articles that focus on key locations, such as the famous train station Haydarpasa and more.
Includes short synopses of 44 scenes from films that illustrate the changing ways in which the city of Madrid has appeared on screen in a variety of genres by an eclectic range of directors. This book also includes a selection of six spotlight essays that look at key directors, themes, and significant periods from Madrid's rich filmic history.
Kinesthetic empathy describes the ability to experience empathy by observing another human being's movements. Kinesthetic Empathy in Creative and Cultural Practices offers innovative and critical perspectives on a variety of topics, encouraging readers to sidestep the methodological and disciplinary boundaries associated with the arts and sciences.
Through a compilation of essays and profiles, Brit Wits shows how and why humour has been such a powerful catalyst and expressive force in rockers' work. Ellis trains his attention on those whose music and persona exude defiance to investigate the nature of rock humour and how these groups have used it to attack prevailing social structures.
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