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  • Theatre Censorship in Contemporary Europe

    Silence and Protest

    Edited by Anne Etienne, Chris Megson ...
    Series series Exeter Performance Studies
    What are the contexts (political, social, legal, cultural) of theatre censorship in twenty-first-century Europe? Given the abolition of state-sanctioned and institutional forms of stage censorship in the late twentieth century, the prevalence of authoritarian and populist politics, and the escalation of so-called ‘culture wars’, in what ways and to what extent does stage censorship manifest and ... Read more

    $151.99 CAD

  • The Palgrave Handbook of Theatre Censorship

    Edited by Anne Etienne, Graham Saunders ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book incorporates a wide theoretical, cultural, literary and historical engagement in exploring the tension between dramatic productions and the forms of censorship they encounter from creation to reception. The Palgrave Handbook of Theatre Censorship offers global new insights into censorship practices, examining attempts at repression motivated either by fears that audiences gathering ... Read more

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  • Adult Themes

    British Cinema and the X Certificate in the Long 1960s

    Series series Global Exploitation Cinemas
    Between the late 1950s and mid-1970s, British cinema experienced an explosion of X-certificated films. In parallel with an era marked by social, political, and sexual ferment and upheaval, British filmmakers and censors pushed and guarded the permissible limits of violence, horror, revolt, and sexuality on screen. Adult Themes is the first volume entirely devoted to the exploration of British X ... Read more

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  • Arnold Wesker

    Fragments and Visions

    Edited by Anne Etienne, Graham Saunders ...
    This new collection adds significantly to the body of scholarship on this important dramatist. This is the first study of the whole body of Wesker’s work, and has created new interest in this key figure in post-war British theatre.A new study of Wesker’s work is overdue. The editors are recognized scholars in the field with a track record of publication on British theatre. An impressive list of ... Read more

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  • Perspectives on Contemporary Irish Theatre

    Populating the Stage

    Edited by Thierry Dubost, Anne Etienne ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book addresses the notion posed by Thomas Kilroy in his definition of a playwright’s creative process: ‘We write plays, I feel, in order to populate the stage’. It gathers eclectic reflections on contemporary Irish theatre from both Irish theatre practitioners and international academics. The eighteen contributions offer innovative perspectives on Irish theatre since the early 1990s up to the ... Read more

    $128.99 CAD

  • Co-producing Research

    A Community Development Approach

    Series series Connected Communities
    Offering a critical examination of the nature of co-produced research, this important new book draws on materials and case studies from the ESRC funded project ‘Imagine – connecting communities through research’. Outlining a community development approach to co-production, which privileges community agency, the editors link with wider debates about the role of universities within communities. With ... Read more

    $52.99 CAD

  • Territorial Analysis of Environments

    Series series ISTE Consignment
    Territories are currently faced with a wide range of environmental challenges, but suffer from a lack of access to the information and biophysical data that characterizes these challenges.Territorial Analysis of Environments sheds light on how the data produced on environmental change needs to be processed, completed and disseminated so that local players can take ownership of it. The aim is to ... Read more

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    British Cinema in the 1970s

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  • Contemporary Irish Drama and Cultural Identity

    Within the last ten years there has been a renaissance in Irish drama from both sides of the border, including award-winning work which has transfered to London and New York, and has toured Britain as well as Europe and Australia. This book explores the dynamics of the relationship between these representations of Ireland and the fluid nature of cultural identity, especially during a period of ... Read more

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  • J.B. Priestley

    Series series Routledge Modern and Contemporary Dramatists
    J. B. Priestley is the first book to provide a detailed and up to date analysis of the enormous contribution made by this playwright, novelist, journalist and critic to twentieth century British theatre.Priestley was often criticised for being either too populist or too experimental and this study unpicks the contradictions of a playwright and theatre theorist popular with audiences but too often ... Read more

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  • 1956 and All That

    The Making of Modern British Drama

    by Dan Rebellato ...
    It is said that British Drama was shockingly lifted out of the doldrums by the 'revolutionary' appearance of John Osborne's Look Back in Anger at the Royal Court in May 1956. But had the theatre been as ephemeral and effeminate as the Angry Young Men claimed? Was the era of Terence Rattigan and 'Binkie' Beaumont as repressed and closeted as it seems?In this bold and fascinating challenge to the ... Read more

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  • Fifty Modern and Contemporary Dramatists

    Edited by Maggie Gale, John Deeney ...
    Series series Routledge Key Guides
    Fifty Modern and Contemporary and Dramatists is a critical introduction to the work of some of the most important and influential playwrights from the 1950s to the present day. The figures chosen are among the most widely studied by students of drama, theatre and literature and include such celebrated writers as:• Samuel Beckett• Caryl Churchill• Anna Deavere Smith• Jean Genet• Sarah Kane• Heiner ... Read more

    $69.99 CAD