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Art & Architecture
Hardcover. The Group Theatre, a groundbreaking ensemble collective, started the careers of many top American theatre artists of the twentieth century and founded what became known as Method Acting. This book is the definitive history, based on over thirty years of research and interviews by the foremost theatre scholar of the time period, Helen Chinoy. Editor(s): Wilmeth, Don B.; Barranger, Milly S., Ph.D. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 296 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; A; AN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 157 x 21. Weight in Grams: 580.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137294593
- ISBN
- 9781137294593
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 45.02
€ 54.99
€ 45.02
Hardcover. This book analyses the romantic drama and the way that passionate love is presented as the central storyline in popular cinema, drawing upon genre studies and sociology. Exploring the passionate love story as a cinematic form, it also contributes, through comparison, to research on the romantic comedy. Num Pages: 181 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF; JFCA; JFD; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 145 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137295378
- ISBN
- 9781137295378
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.03
€ 62.03
Hardcover. Literature and Film, Dispositioned looks to twentieth-century literature's encounter with film as a means to thinking about the locations of thought in literature and literature's location in the world. It includes readings of works by James Joyce, Henry James, and Samuel Beckett, whose Film (1965) forms a concluding focus. Series: Language, Discourse, Society. Num Pages: 191 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; APFA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 145 x 17. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137295446
- ISBN
- 9781137295446
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.31
€ 62.31
Hardcover. This fascinating study explores the multifarious erotic themes associated with the magic lantern shows, which proved the dominant visual medium of the West for 350 years, and analyses how the shows influenced the portrayals of sexuality in major works of Gothic fiction. Series: Palgrave Gothic. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ASZG; DSA; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137298911
- ISBN
- 9781137298911
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.98
€ 139.98
Hardcover. This book explores the literary and cultural history behind certain Christmas and Halloween traditions, and examines the way that they have moved into broadcasting. It demonstrates how these horror traditions have become more domestic and personal, and how they provide a necessary seasonal pause for reflection on our fears. Series: Palgrave Gothic. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APT; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 224 x 16. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137298942
- ISBN
- 9781137298942
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.15
€ 62.15
Hardcover. Contemporary Asylum Narratives marks a transition from traditional modes of diasporic belonging to the need for identifications that encompass the statelessness of refugees and asylum seekers. This book explores representations of asylum seekers and refugees in twenty-first century literature, film and theatre. Num Pages: 249 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; APFA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 145 x 20. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137299055
- ISBN
- 9781137299055
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Hardcover. Masculinity and Irish Popular Culture: Tiger's Tales is an interdisciplinary collection of essays by established and emerging scholars, analysing the shifting representations of Irish men across a range of popular culture forms in the period of the Celtic Tiger and beyond. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JJPR; 3JM; APFA; DSBH; JFCA; JFSJ2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137300232
- ISBN
- 9781137300232
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.82
€ 62.82
Hardcover. Using insights from psychology, sociology, anthropology, and the history of sexuality, Holmberg explores the ambiguity that drives male bonding. Personal interviews with Mamet and with the actors who have interpreted his major roles shed light on how and why men bond with each other and complement close analysis of Mamet's texts. Num Pages: 276 pages, 23 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AN; APF; JFSJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 150 x 20. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137305183
- ISBN
- 9781137305183
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.46
€ 62.46
Hardcover. Children have been exploited as performers and wooed energetically as consumers throughout history. These essays offer scholarly investigations into the employment and participation of children in the entertainment industry with examples drawn from historical and contemporary contexts. Editor(s): Arrighi, Gillian; Emeljanow, Victor. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 260 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AN; JFCA; JFSP1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 218 x 19. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137305459
- ISBN
- 9781137305459
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 98.58€ 82.07
€ 98.58
€ 82.07
Hardcover. Contemporary culture is packed with fantasy and science fiction storyworlds extending across multiple media platforms. This book explores the myriad ways in which imaginary worlds use media like films, novels, videogames, comic books, toys and increasingly user-generated content to captivate and energise contemporary audiences. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFN; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 144 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137306036
- ISBN
- 9781137306036
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 108.85
€ 108.85
Hardcover. Using narrative accounts from a sample of 69 New York City-based musicians of various genres who are self-acknowledged heroin users, the book addresses the reasons why these musicians started using heroin and the impact heroin had on these musicians' playing, creativity, and careers. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; AVA; JFFH1; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 151 x 19. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137308566
- ISBN
- 9781137308566
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.74
€ 62.74
Hardcover. How are issues of authorship engaged by and dynamized within the films of Alfred Hitchcock? Abramson interrogates his oeuvre as an extended, ever shifting meditation on the authorial conflicts endemic to the conditions and processes of cinema production, exhibition, and reception. Num Pages: 293 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 241 x 22. Weight in Grams: 578.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137309693
- ISBN
- 9781137309693
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.15
€ 63.15
Hardcover. This book serves as analysis of the aesthetics of materiality in the multifaceted work of Antonin Artaud, one of Twentieth-Century France's most provocative and influential figures, spanning literature, performance, art, cinema, media and critical theory. Series: Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature. Num Pages: 203 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADF; AN; DSBH; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 145 x 16. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137310576
- ISBN
- 9781137310576
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.31
€ 62.31
Hardcover. This trans-historical collection explores analogue performance technologies from Ancient Greece to pre-Second World War. From ancient mechanical elephants to early modern automata, Enlightenment electrical experiments to Victorian spectral illusions, this volume offers an original examination of the precursors of contemporary digital performance. Series: Palgrave Studies in Performance and Technology. Num Pages: 286 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ANH; AS; TBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 157 x 21. Weight in Grams: 498.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137319661
- ISBN
- 9781137319661
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.46
€ 119.46
Hardcover. Melodrama in Contemporary Film and Television debates the ways in which melodrama expresses and gives meaning to: trauma and pathos; memory and historical re-visioning; home and borders; gendered and queer relations; the family and psychic identities; the national and emerging public cultures; and morality and ethics. Editor(s): Stewart, Michael. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF; APT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 223 x 20. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137319845
- ISBN
- 9781137319845
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.46
€ 62.46
Hardcover. This ground-breaking collection explores the assumptions behind and practices for performance implicit in the manuscripts and playtexts of the medieval and early modern eras, focusing on work which engages with performance-oriented research. Editor(s): Bennett, Susan; Polito, Mary. Num Pages: 284 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; AMG; ANF; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 217 x 20. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137320162
- ISBN
- 9781137320162
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.82
€ 62.82
Hardcover. In the 1950s, science fiction invasion films played a complicated part in supporting and criticizing Cold War ideologies. By reading these invasion narratives as performances of middle-class, white Americans' excitement and anxiety about social and political issues, George shows how they often played out as another round in the battle of the sexes. Num Pages: 206 pages, 15 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJPG; APFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 144 x 219 x 17. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137321572
- ISBN
- 9781137321572
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.74
€ 62.74
Hardback. East Germany's film monopoly, Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft, produced a films ranging beyond simple propaganda to westerns, musicals, and children's films, among others. This book equips scholars with the historical background to understand East German cinema and guides the readers through the DEFA archive via examinations of twelve films. Num Pages: 196 pages, 10 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFGE; 3JJP; APF; KNTC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137322302
- ISBN
- 9781137322302
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.16
€ 62.16
Hardcover. This book reviews the period from the unification of Italy to the fascist era through significant Neapolitan performers such as Gilda Mignonette and Enrico Caruso. It traces the transformation of a popular tradition written in dialect into a popular tradition, written in Italian, that contributed to the production of "American" identity. Series: Italian & Italian American Studies. Num Pages: 280 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DST; 1KBBEY; AVGN; HBTB; JFFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 147 x 21. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137322418
- ISBN
- 9781137322418
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.59
€ 62.59
Hardcover. Works of theatre that depict grievous histories derive their force from making audible voices of the past. Such performances, theatrical or tourist, require the attentive belief of spectators. This engaging new study explores how theatricality works in each instance and how 'playing the part' of the listener can be understood in ethical terms. Num Pages: 265 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 139 x 19. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137322647
- ISBN
- 9781137322647
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.39
€ 62.39