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Hardcover. Adorno and Performance offers the first comprehensive examination of the vital role of performance within the philosophy of Theodor W. Adorno. Capacious in its ramifications for contemporary life, the term 'performance' here unlocks Adorno's dialectical thought process, which aimed at overcoming the stultifying uniformity of instrumental reason. Editor(s): Daddario, Will; Gritzner, Karoline. Series: Performance Philosophy. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 217 x 20. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137429872
- ISBN
- 9781137429872
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.93
€ 64.93
Paperback. Adorno and Performance offers the first comprehensive examination of the vital role of performance within the philosophy of Theodor W. Adorno. Capacious in its ramifications for contemporary life, the term 'performance' here unlocks Adorno's dialectical thought process, which aimed at overcoming the stultifying uniformity of instrumental reason. Editor(s): Daddario, Will; Gritzner, Karoline. Series: Performance Philosophy. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; AN; AS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 339.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349491957
- ISBN
- 9781349491957
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.62
€ 63.62
Hardcover. The first philosophical study devoted solely to acting, offering a meditation on the spillover from acting to life Num Pages: 286 pages. BIC Classification: ANC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 617.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472072132
- ISBN
- 9780472072132
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 89.71€ 81.16
€ 89.71
€ 81.16
Hardcover. Exploring the performance of masculinity on and off the nineteenth-century American stage, this book looks at the shift from the passionate muscularity to intellectual restraint as not a linear journey toward national refinement; but a multitude of masculinities fighting simultaneously for dominance and recognition. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 262 pages, 11 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; AN; JFSJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 138 x 223 x 19. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230340459
- ISBN
- 9780230340459
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 50.80€ 45.69
€ 50.80
€ 45.69
Paperback. Investigates how and why the performance of American masculinity changed so dramatically on and off the nineteenth-century American stage. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 262 pages, 11 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AN; AS; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 262
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349343041
- ISBN
- 9781349343041
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.80€ 45.50
€ 50.80
€ 45.50
Hardcover. The importance of pleasure, humor, and frivolity in shaping LGBT lives and activism Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: AN; JFSK1; JFSK2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472118533
- ISBN
- 9780472118533
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 69.91€ 63.94
€ 69.91
€ 63.94
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- The University of Michigan Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472035670
- ISBN
- 9780472035670
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 30.54
€ 35.99
€ 30.54
Paperback. Investigates the relationship between performance culture and the cultivation of charitable sentiment in America, exploring the distinctive practices that have evolved to make the plea for charity legible and compelling. Num Pages: 224 pages, 10 black & white photographs. BIC Classification: AN; JFD; JFFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472036554
- ISBN
- 9780472036554
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.72
€ 39.72
Hardcover. Bhatia argues that Indian theatre was a central force in the struggle against oppressive colonial and postcolonial structures, as it sought to undo various scheme of political and cultural power through engagement with subjects derived from mythology, history, and available colonial models such as Shakespeare. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; AN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 164 x 22. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472112630
- ISBN
- 9780472112630
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 80.39€ 72.98
€ 80.39
€ 72.98
Hardback. Examining theatre economics, rhetorical acting, cross-dressing, the staging of 'self', and the alignment of motherhood and work, this book reveals how actresses drew on changing models of gender to achieve phenomenal levels of success over the eighteenth-century. By doing so it sheds new light on the cultural significance of female performance. Num Pages: 201 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 3JF; AN; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 218 x 15. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 2015th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230298330
- ISBN
- 9780230298330
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.52
€ 123.52
Paperback. Num Pages: 201 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AB; AN; AS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 275.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 201
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349334483
- ISBN
- 9781349334483
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 132.39
€ 132.39
Paperback. Now in its third edition, this guide outlines the techniques needed to achieve success in getting acting work. It covers all aspects of casting, including gaining a place on a drama course, landing a part in a film, TV commercials or theatre, and becoming a radio or TV presenter. Num Pages: 128 pages, N/A. BIC Classification: ANC; VSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 137 x 5. Weight in Grams: 180.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 128
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780713668216
- ISBN
- 9780713668216
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 25.29
€ 29.99
€ 25.29
Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AN; VSC. Category: (XV) Technical / Manuals. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Publisher
- Sentient Publications United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781591810209
- ISBN
- 9781591810209
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 24.17
€ 35.99
€ 24.17
Paperback. The Ramlila at Ramnagar, Varanasi is a unique theatrical and religious event, an annual, month-long enactment of the Ramayana story. The performance covers a whole town and involves an entire community. Documenting the unique tradition, this book talks about the svarupas, effigies, masks, Ramayanis, Vyasas, gods, goddesses, demons and monkeys. Num Pages: 258 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: AN; HRLF; JHMC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 162 x 21. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781905422203
- ISBN
- 9781905422203
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.66
€ 43.66
Despite its remoteness, Kentucky emerged as a prime site for theatrical activity in the "Wild West" of the 1790s and beyond. This work is a social and architectural history of Kentucky's theatres, paying special attention to the actors who performed in them and the audiences who saw it all. Num Pages: 192 pages, 45 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBSK; AMGC; AN; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 22. Weight in Grams: 503.
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- The University Press of Kentucky United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813121628
- ISBN
- 9780813121628
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.44
€ 41.44
Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ANC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 518.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S. United States
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781559360623
- ISBN
- 9781559360623
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.02
€ 18.02
Hardcover. This book argues that a trans-disciplinary dialogue between the art of acting and the art of philosophical thinking urges us to create a new image of both thought and theatrical performance. Whilst acting is revealed in its at once utmost creative and philosophical dimension, thinking itself becomes a form of artistic practice. Series: Performance Philosophy. Num Pages: 120 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137596338
- ISBN
- 9781137596338
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 38.33
€ 38.33
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Revised, Updated
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474239776
- ISBN
- 9781474239776
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 5.97
€ 23.99
€ 5.97
Paperback. Actors and Icons of the Ancient Theater examines actors and their popular reception from the origins of theater in Classical Greece to the Roman Empire. Num Pages: 248 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; AN; DSBB; HBJD; HBLA1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 229 x 11. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118782880
- ISBN
- 9781118782880
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.69
€ 38.69
Hardback. Actors and Icons of the Ancient Theater examines actors and their popular reception from the origins of theater in Classical Greece to the Roman Empire. This insighful new text offers the first systematic survey of evidence for the spread of theater outside Athens and the impact of the expansion of theater upon actors and dramatic literature. Num Pages: 248 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: ANC; DS; HB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405135368
- ISBN
- 9781405135368
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 133.02
€ 133.02