Theatre studies
Results 1201 - 1224 of 1693
Theatre studies
Paperback. As outdoor entertainment venues in American cities, pleasure gardens were public spaces where people could explore what it meant to be American. Stubbs examines how these venues helped form American identity and argues the gardens allowed for the exploration of what it meant to be American through performance, both on and off the stage. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 190 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; HBJK; HBL; HBTB; JFF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 251.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 190
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349460021
- ISBN
- 9781349460021
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.36€ 45.65
€ 53.36
€ 45.65
Hardcover. Performing Cities is an edited volume of contributions by a range of internationally renowned academics and performance makers from across the globe, each one covering a particular city and examining it from the dynamic perspectives of performances occurring in cities and the city itself as performance. Editor(s): Whybrow, Nicolas. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: AN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 209 x 21. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 2014th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137032522
- ISBN
- 9781137032522
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.40
€ 67.40
Hardcover. Editor(s): Rivere De Carles, Nathalie. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 239 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JB; 3JD; AN; DSB; DSG; JPSD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 219 x 20. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137436924
- ISBN
- 9781137436924
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.81
€ 127.81
Hardcover. Editor(s): Street, Anna. Series: Performance Philosophy. Num Pages: 356 pages, 12 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349951918
- ISBN
- 9781349951918
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.67
€ 139.67
Hardcover. This collection of essays sets out to challenge the dominant narrative about Victorian theatre by placing the practices and products of the Victorian theatre in relation to Victorian visual culture, through the lens of the concept of 'Ruskinian theatre', an approach to theatre which values its educative purpose as well as its aesthetic expression. Editor(s): Heinrich, Anselm; Newey, Kate; Richards, Jeffrey. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JH; AN; DSBF; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 455.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2009th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230200593
- ISBN
- 9780230200593
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. Urban studies has long understood the city as a 'text'. What would it mean now to use performance to rethink that metaphor? Performance and the City queries the role theatre and performance play in urban policy, architecture, and civic history, while also exploring their important place in the memories created in the wake of urban trauma. Editor(s): Hopkins, D. J.; Orr, Shelley; Solga, Kim. Series: Performance Interventions. Num Pages: 283 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; AS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 149 x 21. Weight in Grams: 504.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230204973
- ISBN
- 9780230204973
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.16
€ 67.16
Hardcover. EPUB Editor(s): Forsyth, Alison; Megson, Chris. Series: Performance Interventions. Num Pages: 275 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 139 x 225 x 21. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 270
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230221154
- ISBN
- 9780230221154
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.03
€ 128.03
Hardcover. Assembling a remarkable group of scholars, these essays explore how the circulation and exchange of 'vectors of the radical' shape the avant-garde. Mapping the movement of scripts, theatre activists, performances, and other material entities, they provide unprecedented perspectives on the transnational performance culture of the avant-garde. Editor(s): Sell, Mike. Series: Performance Interventions. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; AS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 148 x 20. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230241343
- ISBN
- 9780230241343
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.82
€ 66.82
Hardcover. Considering both making political performance and making performance politically, this collection explores engagements of political resistance, public practice and performance media, on various scales of production within structures of neoliberal and liberal government and power. Editor(s): Lichtenfels, Peter; Rouse, John. Series: Studies in International Performance. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; AS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 26. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230278561
- ISBN
- 9780230278561
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.55
€ 67.55
Paperback. This topical collection, now in paperback, explores the relationship between violence and performance. The authors offer fresh theoretical perspectives and examine media as diverse as street theatre, performance art, photography and cinema in locations as diverse as Korea and South Africa to India and Israel. Editor(s): Anderson, Patrick; Menon, Jisha. Series: Studies in International Performance. Num Pages: 405 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; JFFE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 141 x 215 x 24. Weight in Grams: 512.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 412
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230298392
- ISBN
- 9780230298392
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 72.90
€ 72.90
Hardcover. This project investigates the implications of technology on identity in embodied performance, opening up a forum of debate exploring the interrelationship of and between identities in performance practices and considering how identity is formed, de-formed, blurred and celebrated within diverse approaches to technological performance practice. Editor(s): Broadhurst, Susan; Machon, Josephine. Series: Palgrave Studies in Performance and Technology. Num Pages: 256 pages, 25 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AN; ASZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 141 x 20. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230298880
- ISBN
- 9780230298880
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. Consisting of critical analyses, theoretical provocations and practical reflections by leading scholars/practitioners from the fields of performance studies, live art and creative technology, these essays examine the rise of intimate performance works and question the socio-historical contexts provoking those aesthetic and affective developments. Editor(s): Chatzichristodoulou, Ms Maria; Zerihan, Ms Rachel. Series: Palgrave Studies in Performance and Technology. Num Pages: 284 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; AS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 144 x 22. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230348868
- ISBN
- 9780230348868
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.07
€ 67.07
Hardcover. Following the ground-breaking Performance and the City, this new volume explores what it means to create and experience urban performance - as both an aesthetic and a political practice - in the burgeoning world where cities are built by globalization and neoliberal capital. Editor(s): Hopkins, D. J.; Solga, Kim. Series: Performance Interventions. Num Pages: 296 pages, 1 black & white tables, 44 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AN; AS; JFSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 144 x 21. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230361676
- ISBN
- 9780230361676
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.55
€ 67.55
Hardcover. This book investigates the expanding parameters for site-specific performance to account for the form's increasing popularity in the twenty-first century. Leading practitioners and theorists interrogate issues of performance and site to broaden our understanding of the role that place plays in performance and the ways that performance influences it Editor(s): Birch, Anna; Tompkins, Joanne. Series: Performance Interventions. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; AS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230364059
- ISBN
- 9780230364059
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.88
€ 127.88
Hardcover. Examining the ways in which national theatres have formed and evolved over time, this new collection highlights the difficulties these institutions encounter today, in an environment where nationalism and national identity are increasingly contested by global, transnational and local agendas, and where economic forces create conflicting demands. Editor(s): Wilmer, S. E. Series: Studies in International Performance. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; AN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 504.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230521094
- ISBN
- 9780230521094
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.28
€ 67.28
Hardcover. This topical collection explores the relationship between violence and performance. The authors offer fresh theoretical perspectives and examine media as diverse as street theatre, performance art, photography and cinema in locations as diverse as Korea and South Africa to India and Israel. Editor(s): Anderson, Patrick; Menon, Jisha. Series: Studies in International Performance. Num Pages: 405 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; JFFE. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 139 x 25. Weight in Grams: 596.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 412
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230537262
- ISBN
- 9780230537262
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.36
€ 68.36
Hardcover. This book looks at modes of performance and forms of theatre in Nineteenth-century Britain and Ireland. On subjects as varied as the vogue for fairy plays to the representation of economics to the work of a parliamentary committee in regulating theatres, the authors redefine what theatre and performance in the Nineteenth century might be. Editor(s): Davis, Tracy C.; Holland, Peter. Series: Redefining British Theatre History. Num Pages: 285 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSBF; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 595.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230572560
- ISBN
- 9780230572560
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.88
€ 67.88
Hardcover. This is the first book to explore the relationship between experimental theatre and performance making in France. Reflecting the recent return to aesthetics and politics in French theory, it focuses on how a variety of theatre and performance practitioners use their art work to contest reality as it is currently configured in France. Editor(s): Finburgh, Clare; Lavery, Carl. Series: Performance Interventions. Num Pages: 259 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; AN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 262
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230580510
- ISBN
- 9780230580510
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.47
€ 67.47
Paperback. Dramaturgy of the Real on the World Stage, in paperback for the first time, brings together an incredible range of international theatre thinkers, plays and performance texts that ask questions about how we have come to understand reality and truth in the twenty-first century and analyse the presentation of non-fiction on the international stage. Editor(s): Martin, Carol L. Series: Studies in International Performance. Num Pages: 327 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 144 x 18. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137016942
- ISBN
- 9781137016942
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.52
€ 127.52
Hardcover. There is extraordinary diversity, depth, and complexity in the encounter between theatre, performance, and human rights. Through an examination of a rich repertoire of plays and performance practices from and about countries across six continents, the contributors open the way toward understanding the character and significance of this encounter. Editor(s): Becker, Florian; Hernandez, Paola; Werth, Brenda G. Num Pages: 297 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; HPS; JFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 159 x 21. Weight in Grams: 582.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 326
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137027092
- ISBN
- 9781137027092
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.36€ 48.05
€ 53.36
€ 48.05
Hardcover. Religious life and public life are both passionately performed, but often understood to exclude one another. This book's array of voices investigates the publics hailed by religious performances and the challenges they offer to theories of the democratic public sphere. Editor(s): Edelman, Joshua; Chambers, Claire; Du Toit, Simon. Num Pages: 302 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AGR; AN; AS; HRAM; JFSR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 22. Weight in Grams: 486.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137338624
- ISBN
- 9781137338624
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.36
€ 66.36
Hardcover. Theatre and Ghosts brings theatre and performance history into dialogue with the flourishing field of spectrality studies. Essays examine the histories and economies of the material operations of theatre, and the spectrality of performance and performer. Editor(s): Luckhurst, Mary; Morin, Emilie. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ANF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 220 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137345066
- ISBN
- 9781137345066
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. This volume investigates the rise of human rights discourses manifested in the global spectrum of theatre and performance since 1945. Essays address topics such as disability, discrimination indigenous rights, torture, gender violence, genocide and elder abuse. Editor(s): Morin, Emilie; Luckhurst, Mary. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJP; AN; JPVH; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 20. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137362292
- ISBN
- 9781137362292
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.16
€ 150.16
Hardcover. While remapping the region by examining enduring historical and cultural connections, this study discusses multiple traditions and practices of theatre and performance in five South Asian countries within their specific political and socio-cultural contexts. Editor(s): SenGupta, Ashis. Series: Studies in International Performance. Num Pages: 272 pages, 10 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FK; AN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 218 x 20. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137375131
- ISBN
- 9781137375131
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.25
€ 67.25