Performing Arts
Why Are Our Pictures Puzzles?
Elkins argues that the intricate meanings that are assigned to pictures are less a matter of insight than a symptom of our culture - a kind of excessive desire for understanding and a demand for clear solutions.
Aesthetics of the Oppressed
Augusto Boal's workshops and theatre exercises are renowned throughout the world for their life-changing effects.
Ballet Beyond Tradition
Anna Paskevska offers new ways to understand the ballet vocabulary in terms of the most recent recent understanding of the body and how it moves.
Alien Bodies
Looks at dance in Germany, France, and the United States during the 1920s and the 1930s, including ballet, modern dance and dance in the cinema and Revue. Artists examined include Josephine Baker, Jean Cocteau, Valeska Gert, and George Balanchine.
A Boal Companion
Assesses the Theatre of the Oppressed (TO) movement in context. This collection looks at the cultural practices, which inform TO, and explore them within a frame of cultural politics and performance theory. The contributors put TO into dialogue with complexity theory.
AS Film Studies
Highlighted with over fifty colour illustrations and line drawings, and including case studies, activities and sample exam questions, this book provides almost every student entering the course with a comprehensive companion to their work.
Cinema And Nation
Cinema and Nation considers the ways in which film production and reception are shaped by ideas of national belonging and examines the implications of globalisation for the concept of national cinema.
British Horror Cinema
Going beyond the Hammer, British Horror Cinema investigates a wealth of horror filmmaking in Britain from early chillers like The Ghoul and Dark Eyes of London to acknowledged classics such as Peeping Tom and The Wicker Man.
The Cinematic City
Illustrated throughout with movie stills, a diverse selection of films, genres, cities and historical periods are examined by leading names in the field to offer an innovative insight into the interconnection of city and screenscapes.
Colonial Encounters in New World Writing, 1500-1786
Susan Castillo's pioneering study examines the extraordinary proliferation of polyphonic or 'multi-voiced' texts in the three centuries following the first contact between Europeans and the indigenous peoples of the Americas.