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Paperback. Fifty years after the publication of Martin Esslin's The Theatre of the Absurd, which suggests that 'absurd' plays purport the meaninglessness of life, thisbook uses the works of fivemajor playwrights of the 1950s to providea timely reassessment of one of the most important theatre 'movements' of the 20th century." Num Pages: 188 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; AN; AS; D. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 251.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 188
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349295203
- ISBN
- 9781349295203
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€ 52.70€ 47.15
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Paperback. No play in the history of the American stage has been as ubiquitous and as widely viewed as Uncle Tom's Cabin. This book traces the major dramatizations of Stowe's classic from its inception in 1852 through modern versions on film. Frick introduces the reader to the artists who created the plays and productions that created theatre history. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 325 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; AN; AS; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 325
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349295647
- ISBN
- 9781349295647
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€ 52.70€ 46.91
€ 52.70
€ 46.91
Paperback. McGee studies historical representation in commodified, popular cinema as expressions of historical truths that more authentic histories usually miss and argues for the political and social significance of mass culture through the interpretation of four recent big-budget movies: Titanic, Gangs of New York, Australia, and Inglourious Basterds . Num Pages: 209 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; APF; APFD; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 209
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349297146
- ISBN
- 9781349297146
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€ 66.10
€ 66.10
Paperback. Series: What is Theatre?. Num Pages: 227 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; AN; D. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 295.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2011
- Number of pages
- 227
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349298402
- ISBN
- 9781349298402
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€ 52.70€ 47.17
€ 52.70
€ 47.17
Paperback. There is a complex relationship between performance, youth, and the shifting material circumstances (social, cultural, economic, ideological, and political) under which theatre for children and youth is generated and perceived. This book explores different aspect of theatre for young audiences using examples from theatrical events globally. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 201 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; AN; AS; JFC; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 275.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 201
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349298426
- ISBN
- 9781349298426
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€ 52.70€ 47.15
€ 52.70
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Illustrations, Optics and Objects in Nineteenth-Century Literary and V...
Patrizia . Ed(S): Di Bello
Paperback. Paying attention to the historically specific dimensions of objects such as the photograph, the illustrated magazine and the collection, the contributors to this volume offer new ways of thinking about nineteenth-century practices of reading, viewing, and collecting, revealing new readings of Wordsworth, Shelley, James and Wilde, among others. Editor(s): Di Bello, Patrizia. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 245 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; AF; DSBF; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 245
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349307463
- ISBN
- 9781349307463
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Condition: New
€ 66.06
€ 66.06
Paperback. This new study argues that modernist literature is characterised by a 'multilingual turn'. Examining the use of different languages in the fiction of a range of writers, including Lawrence, Richardson, Mansfield, Rhys, Joyce and Beckett, Taylor-Batty demonstrates the centrality of linguistic plurality to modernist forms of defamiliarisation. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; CBX; DSA; DSBH5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 315.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 235
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349309573
- ISBN
- 9781349309573
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€ 65.86
€ 65.86
Paperback. "A timely intervention into debates on the representation of feminist and feminine identities in contemporary visual culture. The essays in this collection interrogate how and why certain formulations of feminism and femininity are currently prevalent in mainstream cinema and television, offering new insights into postfeminist media phenomena"-- Editor(s): Waters, M. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; APF; JFC; JFD; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 253
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349310982
- ISBN
- 9781349310982
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€ 127.73
€ 127.73
Paperback. "Bringing the study of Chinese theatre into the 21st-century, Lei discusses ways in which traditional art can survive and thrive in the age of modernization and globalization. Building on her previous work, this new book focuses on various forms of Chinese "opera" in locations around the Pacific Rim, including Hong Kong, Taiwan and California"-- Series: Studies in International Performance. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; AN; AS; JFC; RBG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2011
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349319039
- ISBN
- 9781349319039
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. "Exploring the themes of the event, ephemerality and democracy that mark the encounter between performance and philosophy, this original study elaborates fresh perspectives on the experiences of undoing, fiasco and disaster that shadow both the both stage and everyday life"-- Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; AN; AS; HPN; J. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349322770
- ISBN
- 9781349322770
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€ 66.49
€ 66.49
Paperback. "Using an approach deeply informed by philosophy of art, art history and perceptual psychology, this book places seeing at the centre of an original theory of pictorial representation and explores the ramifications such a theory has for the visual arts"-- Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; AF; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349325191
- ISBN
- 9781349325191
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€ 66.01
€ 66.01
Paperback. "This book is an original volume of essays that sheds new and critical light on current and emerging filmmaking trends and practices in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea. A timely and important contribution to existing scholarship in the field"-- Editor(s): Lee, V. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; APF; APFN; JFC; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 267
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349325597
- ISBN
- 9781349325597
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Condition: New
€ 66.66
€ 66.66
Paperback. A renewed interest in nature, the ancient Greeks, and the freedom of the body was to transform dance and physical culture in the early twentieth century. The book discusses the creative individuals and developments in science and other art forms that shaped the evolution of modern dance in its international context. Editor(s): Carter, A. Num Pages: 190 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; AN; ASD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 190
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349326211
- ISBN
- 9781349326211
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€ 65.86
€ 65.86
Paperback. Through discussion of a dazzling array of artists in India and the diaspora, this bookdelineates a new language of dance on the global stage. Myriad movement vocabularies intersect the dancers' creative landscape, whilecutting-edge creative choreography parodies gender and cultural stereotypes, and represents social issues." Series: Studies in International Performance. Num Pages: 283 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; ASD; HBJF; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2011
- Number of pages
- 283
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349326334
- ISBN
- 9781349326334
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€ 66.95
€ 66.95
paperback. 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: AB; AN; AS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349326358
- ISBN
- 9781349326358
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€ 66.40
€ 66.40
Paperback. Moving across the boundaries of mainstream and experimental circuits, from the affective pleasures of commercially successful shows such as Calendar Girls and Mamma Mia! to the feminist possibilities of new burlesque and stand-up, this book offers a lucid and accessible account of popular feminisms in contemporary theatre and performance. Series: Performance Interventions. Num Pages: 226 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; AN; AS; D; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 226
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349327997
- ISBN
- 9781349327997
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Condition: New
€ 71.42
€ 71.42
Paperback. Editor(s): Thomas, Julia Adeney; Caine, Barbara; Phillips, Mark Salber. Series: Re-Enactment History. Num Pages: 273 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; D; HBG; HBL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 271 x 18. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 273
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349329267
- ISBN
- 9781349329267
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Condition: New
€ 66.10
€ 66.10
Paperback. Anne Fuchs traces the aftermath of the Dresden bombing in the collective imagination from 1945 to today. As a case study of an event that gained local, national and global iconicity, the book investigates the role of photography, fine art, architecture, literature and film in dialogue with the changing German socio-political landscape. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; HBJD; HBL; HBTB; HBWQ; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 216 x 25. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349330867
- ISBN
- 9781349330867
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. The story of how the concept of a pantheon, a building honouring great individuals, spread across Revolutionary Europe and interacted with socio-political and cultural changes. Analysing the canon and iconography of each pantheon, Bouwers shows how the commemoration of war and celebration of nationhood gave way to the protection of elite interests. Series: War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850. Num Pages: 340 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; AMA; HBJD; HBL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 340
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349333448
- ISBN
- 9781349333448
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Condition: New
€ 67.41
€ 67.41
Paperback. This volume inscribes an innovative domain of inquiry, bringing museum and heritage studies to bear on questions of transitional justice, memory and post-conflict reconciliation. As practitioners, artists, curators, activists and academics, the contributorsexplore the challenges of bearing witness to past conflicts." Editor(s): Milton, C.; Patterson, M. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Num Pages: 252 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; HBTB; JFC; JFCX; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349333905
- ISBN
- 9781349333905
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Condition: New
€ 149.83
€ 149.83