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  • Ecology and Climate in Theatre and Australian Performance

    by Peta Tait, Denise Varney, Lara Stevens ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre
    Charting a history of theatrical resistance to environmental exploitation, this study places drama and theatrical performance staged in Australia within the context of international scholarship to address major concerns about changing ecological systems. Exploring the staging of calamities ranging from droughts and floods to forest fires and rising seas, it examines a strikingly diverse body of ... Read more

    $106.99 USD

  • Eleanor and Mary Alice

    by Peta Tait ...
    Eleanor Roosevelt’s epic flight across Japanese patrolled sea to Australia in 1943 during WWII stands out as heroic. Evading Winston Churchill’s visit to the USA for his meetings with her husband, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Eleanor confesses to Mary Alice Evatt that she is dreading the official receptions in Australia. Artist Mary Alice, who is married to Doc Herbert Evatt, Minister of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Circus Bodies

    Cultural Identity in Aerial Performance

    by Peta Tait ...
    This pioneering study is one of the major publications in the increasingly popular and largely undocumented area of circus studies.Through photographs and illustrations, Peta Tait presents an extraordinary survey of 140 years of trapeze acts and the socially changing ideas of muscular action in relation to our understanding of gender and sexuality. She questions how spectators see and enjoy aerial ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Forms of Emotion

    Human to Nonhuman in Drama, Theatre and Contemporary Performance

    by Peta Tait ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
    Forms of Emotion analyses how drama, theatre and contemporary performance present emotion and its human and nonhuman diversity.This book explores the emotions, emotional feelings, mood, and affect, which make up a spectrum of ‘emotion’, to illuminate theatrical knowledge and practice and reflect the distinctions and debates in philosophy, neuroscience, psychology, and other disciplines. This study ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • The Routledge Circus Studies Reader

    Edited by Peta Tait, Katie Lavers ...
    The Routledge Circus Studies Reader offers an absorbing critical introduction to this diverse and emerging field. It brings together the work of over 30 scholars in this discipline, including Janet Davis, Helen Stoddart and Peta Tait, to highlight and address the field’s key historical, critical and theoretical issues. It is organised into three accessible sections, Perspectives, Precedents and ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Theory for Theatre Studies: Emotion

    by Prof. Peta Tait, Susan Bennett, Kim Solga ...
    Series series Theory for Theatre Studies
    Theory for Theatre Studies: Emotion explores how emotion is communicated in drama, theatre, and contemporary performance and therefore in society. From Aristotle and Shakespeare to Stanislavski, Brecht and Caryl Churchill, theatre reveals and, informs but also warns about the emotions. The term 'emotion' encompasses the emotions, emotional feelings, affect and mood, and the book explores how these ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Performing Emotions

    Gender, Bodies, Spaces, in Chekhov's Drama and Stanislavski's Theatre

    by Peta Tait ...
    In Performing Emotions, Peta Tait's central argument is that performing emotions in realism is also performing gender identity. Emotions are phenomena that are performable by bodies, which have cultural identities. In turn, these create cultural spaces of emotions. This study integrates scholarship on realist drama, theatre and approaches to acting, with interdisciplinary theories of emotion, ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Fighting Nature

    Travelling Menageries, Animal Acts and War Shows

    by Professor Peta Tait ...
    Series series Animal Publics
    Throughout the 19th century, animals were integrated into staged scenarios of confrontation, ranging from lion acts in small cages to large-scale re-enactments of war. Initially presenting a handful of exotic animals, travelling menageries grew to contain multiple species in their thousands. These 19th-century menageries entrenched beliefs about the human right to exploit nature through war-like ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Feminist Ecologies

    Changing Environments in the Anthropocene

    Edited by Peta Tait, Denise Varney, Lara Stevens ...
    This edited volume critically engages with ecofeminist scholarship. It tracks the ongoing dialogue between women’s issues and environmental change by republishing the work of pioneering scholars and activists in the field. Together with new essays by contemporary ecofeminist scholars, the book uncovers the dialectical relationship between environmental and feminist causes, the relational ... Read more

    $134.99 USD

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    Elegant ideas deserve elegant expression. Sword dispels the myth that you can’t get published without writing wordy, impersonal prose. For scholars frustrated with disciplinary conventions or eager to write for a larger audience, here are imaginative, practical, witty pointers that show how to make articles and books enjoyable to read—and to write. ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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  • Practice as Research

    Approaches to Creative Arts Enquiry

    Edited by Estelle Barrett, Barbara Bolt ...
    Practice-led research is a burgeoning area across the creative arts, with studio informed doctorates frequently favoured over traditional approaches to research. Practice as Research: Approaches to Creative Arts Enquiry is specifically designed as a training tool and is structured on the model used by most research programmes. A comprehensive introduction lays out the book's framework and ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Beyond Art

    by Dominic McIver Lopes ...
    Dominic McIver Lopes articulates and defends a 'buck passing theory of art', namely that a work of art is nothing but a work in one of the arts. Having traced philosophical interest in theories of art to a reaction to certain puzzle cases of avant-garde art, he argues that none of the theories that have dominated philosophy since the 1960s adequately copes with these works. Whereas these theories ... Read more

    $32.39 USD