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  • Commemorative Theatricality

    Embodied Dynamics of Memory and Memorial

    by Bryce Lease ...
    Series series Staging Difficult Pasts
    Commemorative Theatricality: Embodied Dynamics of Memory and Memorial rethinks remembrance as an embodied, relational, and contested practice. Moving across museums, memorials, statue parks, urban spaces, and performance works in Central and Eastern Europe, this book examines how memory is not simply preserved or displayed but enacted through bodies, sites, objects, affects, and movement ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

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  • A History of Polish Theatre

    Edited by Katarzyna Fazan, Michal Kobialka, Bryce Lease ...
    Poland is celebrated internationally for its rich and varied performance traditions and theatre histories. This groundbreaking volume is the first in English to engage with these topics across an ambitious scope, incorporating Staropolska, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Enlightenment and Romanticism within its broad ambit. The book also discusses theatre cultures under socialism, the ... Read more

    $138.99 USD

  • Contemporary European Playwrights

    Edited by Maria M. Delgado, Bryce Lease, Dan Rebellato ...
    Contemporary European Playwrights presents and discusses a range of key writers that have radically reshaped European theatre by finding new ways to express the changing nature of the continent’s society and culture, and whose work is still in dialogue with Europe today.Traversing borders and languages, this volume offers a fresh approach to analyzing plays in production by some of the most widely ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • After '89

    Polish theatre and the political

    by Bryce Lease ...
    After '89 takes as its subject the dynamic new range of performance practices that have been developed since the demise of communism in the flourishing theatrical landscape of Poland. After 1989, the theatre has retained its historical role as the crucial space for debating and interrogating cultural and political identities. Providing access to scholarship and criticism not readily accessible to ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Staging Difficult Pasts

    Transnational Memory, Theatres, and Museums

    Edited by Maria M. Delgado, Michal Kobialka, Bryce Lease ...
    This collection of original essays brings together museum, theatre, and performance case studies with a focus on their distinctive and overlapping modes of producing memory for transnational audiences.Whether this is through narrative, object, embodied encounter or a combination of the three, this volume considers distinctions and interactions between memory and history specifically through the ... Read more

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  • The Palace Complex

    A Stalinist Skyscraper, Capitalist Warsaw, and a City Transfixed

    by Michal Murawski ...
    An exploration of the history and significance of the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw, Poland.The Palace of Culture and Science is a massive Stalinist skyscraper that was "gifted" to Warsaw by the Soviet Union in 1955. Framing the Palace's visual, symbolic, and functional prominence in the everyday life of the Polish capital as a sort of obsession, locals joke that their city suffers from ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Postcards from Auschwitz

    Holocaust Tourism and the Meaning of Remembrance

    by Daniel P Reynolds ...
    The uneasy link between tourism and collective memory at Holocaust museums and memorialsEach year, millions of people visit Holocaust memorials and museums, with the number of tourists steadily on the rise. What lies behind the phenomenon of "Holocaust tourism" and what role do its participants play in shaping how we remember and think about the Holocaust?In Postcards from Auschwitz, Daniel P. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Finland

    Modern Architectures in History

    by Roger Connah ...
    Series series Modern Architectures in History
    From as early as 1900 Finland, at that time ruled by Russia, was to see in architecture a political and social vehicle. Modern architecture, with the promises it held for social change and hopes for technological progress, was to become a cultural phenomenon over the course of the twentieth century. This book explores the shape of architecture from Finland’s independence in 1917 until the present ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • The Optimum Imperative: Czech Architecture for the Socialist Lifestyle, 1938–1968

    by Ana Miljacki ...
    Series series Architext
    The Optimum Imperative examines architecture’s multiple entanglements within the problematics of Socialist lifestyle in postwar Czechoslovakia.Situated in the period loosely bracketed by the signing of the Munich accords in 1938, which affected Czechoslovakia’s entrance into World War II, and the Warsaw Pact troops’ occupation of Prague in 1968, the book investigates three decades of Czech ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More

    The Last Soviet Generation

    by Alexei Yurchak, Alexei Yurchak ...
    Series series Princeton Classics
    “[An] extraordinary book.”—Brian Eno • “One of the best books about the U.S.S.R. in its late stage.”—Alexei Navalny, from Patriot: A Memoir • “Not just history, but a pleasure to read, a true work of art.”—Slavoj Žižek • “Extraordinary and brilliant.”—Adam Curtis, director of HyperNormalisationA fascinating exploration of “hypernormalization” in a political system that seemed powerful and eternal ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

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  • The Future of Nostalgia

    by Svetlana Boym ...
    **From an award-winning cultural theorist, the classic work on the intricate relationship between longing and belonging“A remarkable book… brilliant.”―New York Times**Can one be nostalgic for the home one never had? Why is it that the age of globalization is accompanied by a no less global epidemic of nostalgia? Can we know what we are nostalgic for? In the seventeenth century, Swiss doctors ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Grand Hotel Abyss

    The Lives of the Frankfurt School

    by Stuart Jeffries ...
    “Marvelously entertaining, exciting and informative.” —Guardian“An engaging and accessible history.” —New York Review of BooksThis group biography is “an exhilarating page-turner” and “outstanding critical introduction” to the work and legacy of the Frankfurt School, and the great 20th-century thinkers who created it (Washington Post).In 1923, a group of young radical German thinkers and in... ... Read more

    $9.99 USD