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Horror Studies eBook Series

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  • Theatre and the Macabre

    Edited by Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr., Meredith Conti ...
    Series series Horror Studies
    The 'macabre', as a process and product, has been haunting the theatre - and more broadly, performance - for thousands of years. In its embodied meditations on death and dying, its thematic and aesthetic grotesquerie, and its sensory-rich environments, macabre theatre invites artists and audiences to trace the stranger, darker contours of human existence. In this volume, numerous scholars explore ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Adaptation and Appropriation

    by Julie Sanders ...
    Series series The New Critical Idiom
    From the apparently simple adaptation of a text into film, theatre or a new literary work, to the more complex appropriation of style or meaning, it is arguable that all texts are somehow connected to a network of existing texts and art forms. In this new edition Adaptation and Appropriation explores:multiple definitions and practices of adaptation and appropriationthe cultural and aesthetic ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Theatre and AutoBiography

    Writing and Performing Lives in Theory and Practice

    Edited by Sherrill Grace, Jerry Wasserman ...
    That both autobiography and biography have acquired a position of unprecedented importance over the past 30 years is now obvious. Less obvious are the reasons for this phenomenon. Theorists and students of AutoBiography, a research subject now viewed as respectable in academic circles, have recently mapped the contours and shifting parameters of the autobiographical and the biographical processes, ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Installation and the Moving Image

    by Catherine Elwes ...
    Film and video create an illusory world, a reality elsewhere, and a material presence that both dramatizes and demystifies the magic trick of moving pictures. Beginning in the 1960s, artists have explored filmic and televisual phenomena in the controlled environments of galleries and museums, drawing on multiple antecedents in cinema, television, and the visual arts. This volume traces the lineage ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Museum Materialities

    Objects, Engagements, Interpretations

    Edited by Sandra Dudley ...
    This is an innovative interdisciplinary book about objects and people within museums and galleries. It addresses fundamental issues of human sensory, emotional and aesthetic experience of objects. The chapters explore ways and contexts in which things and people mutually interact, and raise questions about how objects carry meaning and feeling, the distinctions between objects and persons, ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Making a Performance

    Devising Histories and Contemporary Practices

    by Emma Govan, Helen Nicholson, Katie Normington ...
    Making a Performance traces innovations in devised performance from early theatrical experiments in the twentieth-century to the radical performances of the twenty-first century.This introduction to the theory, history and practice of devised performance explores how performance-makers have built on the experimental aesthetic traditions of the past. It looks to companies as diverse as Australia's ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Physical Theatres: A Critical Reader

    Edited by John Keefe, Simon Murray ...
    Physical Theatres: A Critical Reader is an invaluable resource for students of physically orientated theatre and performance. This book aims to trace the roots and development of physicality in theatre by combining practical experience of the field with a strong historical and theoretical underpinning.In exploring the histories, cross-overs and intersections of physical theatres, this critical ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Adaptation in Contemporary Theatre

    Performing Literature

    by Frances Babbage ...
    Series series Methuen Drama Engage
    Why are so many theatre productions adaptations of one kind or another? Why do contemporary practitioners turn so frequently to non-dramatic texts for inspiration? This study explores the fascination of novels, short stories, children's books and autobiographies for theatre makers and examines what 'becomes' of literary texts when these are filtered into contemporary practice that includes ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • Making Site-Specific Theatre and Performance

    A Handbook

    by Phil Smith ...
    This practical, accessible and far-reaching guide to making site-specific theatre and performance emphasises the diversity of approaches to the practice, and explores key principles of space and site. Phil Smith draws on a wide range of interdisciplinary and international performance examples, and uses an innovative variety of exercises, to show students and aspiring performance-makers how to find ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Performing Processes

    Creating Live Performance

    by Roberta Mock ...
    Live performance continues to be created every time it is performed. This book explores the dynamic relationship between creative process, presentation and spectator response to provide students and scholars in Drama with new insights on performance from poetry to pantomime. These essays make parallels between areas of performance that are rarely, if ever, compared. They present the basis for an ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Reframing Immersive Theatre

    The Politics and Pragmatics of Participatory Performance

    Edited by James Frieze ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This diverse collection of essays and testimonies challenges critical orthodoxies about the twenty-first century boom in immersive theatre and performance. A culturally and institutionally eclectic range of producers and critics comprehensively reconsider the term ‘immersive’ and the practices it has been used to describe. Applying ecological, phenomenological and political ideas to both renowned ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • The Routledge Reader in Gender and Performance

    Edited by Lizbeth Goodman, Jane de Gay ...
    The Routledge Reader in Gender and Performance presents the most influential and widely-known, critical work on gender and performing arts, together with exciting and provocative new writings. It provides systematically arranged articles to guide the reader from topic to topic, and specially linked articles by scholars and teachers to explain key issues and put the extracts in context. This ... Read more

    $114.99 CAD