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  • Theatre of the Oppressed

    de Augusto Boal ...
    Traducido por Charles A. McBride ...
    The innovative Brazilian playwright, director and international lecturer explicates Aristotle's poetics and the philosophies of Machiavelli, Hegel and Brecht to determine the extent to which their chief components--imitation, catharsis and, ultimately, audience control--serve up to support the status quo of a society rather than facilitate change. ... Leer más

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  • Theatre of Movement and Gesture

    Published in France in 1987, this is the book in which Lecoq first set out his philosophy of human movement, and the way it takes expressive form in a wide range of different performance traditions. He traces the history of pantomime, sets out his definition of the components of the art of mime, and discusses the explosion of physical theatre in the second half of the twentieth century. Interviews ... Leer más

    $55.99 USD

  • Indigenous Educational Models for Contemporary Practice

    In Our Mother's Voice

    Series series Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education
    What is the philosophy that should drive native education policy and practice? In July 1997 a group of native educational leaders from the United States (including Alaska and Hawai'i), Canada, Australia, and New Zealand gathered to define a potential solution to this question. This book passes on the individual educational philosophies of the participants and captures the essence of each in a ... Leer más

    $66.99 USD

  • The Grotowski Sourcebook

    Series series Worlds of Performance
    This acclaimed volume is the first to provide a comprehensive overview of Jerzy Grotowski's long and multi-faceted career. It is essential reading for anyone interested in Grotowski's life and work. Edited by the two leading experts on Grotowski, the sourcebook features: *essays from the key performance theorists who worked with Grotowski, including Eugenio Barba, Peter Brook, Jan Kott, Eric ... Leer más

    $80.99 USD

  • In Defence of Theatre

    Aesthetic Practices and Social Interventions

    Why theatre now? Reflecting on the mix of challenges and opportunities that face theatre in communities that are necessarily becoming global in scope and technologically driven, In Defence of Theatre offers a range of passionate reflections on this important question.Kathleen Gallagher and Barry Freeman bring together nineteen playwrights, actors, directors, scholars, and educators who discuss the ... Leer más

    $29.99 USD

  • Trumpets in the Mountains

    Theater and the Politics of National Culture in Cuba

    Trumpets in the Mountains is a compelling ethnography about Cuban culture, artistic performance, and the shift in national identity after 1990, when the loss of Soviet subsidies plunged Cuba into a severe economic crisis. The state's response involved opening the economy to foreign capital and tourism, and promoting previously deprecated cultural practices as quintessentially Cuban. Such ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Theatre of Fear & Horror: Expanded Edition

    The Grisly Spectacle of the Grand Guignol of Paris, 1897-1962

    de Mel Gordon ...
    "Bloodcurdling shrieks, fiendish schemes, deeds of darkness, mayhem and mutilation—we all have a rough idea of what Grand Guignol stands for. But until now it has been hard to find out much more about it than that. According to the American theater historian Mel Gordon, no major history of the theater so much as mentions it, although it is a form of entertainment that held its own on the Paris ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Why Theatre Matters

    Urban Youth, Engagement, and a Pedagogy of the Real

    What makes young people care about themselves, others, their communities, and their futures? In Why Theatre Matters, Kathleen Gallagher uses the drama classroom as a window into the daily challenges of marginalized youth in Toronto, Boston, Taipei, and Lucknow. An ethnographic study which mixes quantitative and qualitative methodology in an international multi-site project, Why Theatre Matters ... Leer más

    $30.99 USD

  • Performing Animality

    Animals in Performance Practices

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Performing Animality provides theoretical and creative interventions into the presence of the animal and ideas of animality in performance. Animals have always played a part in human performance practices. Maintaining a crucial role in many communities' cultural traditions, animal-human encounters have been key in the development of performance. Similarly, performance including both living animals ... Leer más

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  • Disability Theatre and Modern Drama

    Recasting Modernism

    Series series Critical Companions
    Bertolt Brecht's silent Kattrin in Mother Courage, or the disability performance lessons of his Peachum in The Threepenny Opera; Tennessee Williams' limping Laura Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie and hard-of-hearing Bodey in A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur; Samuel Beckett's blind Hamm and his physically disabled parents Nagg and Nell in Endgame – these and many further examples attest to ... Leer más

    $30.99 USD

  • Language across Difference

    Ethnicity, Communication, and Youth Identities in Changing Urban Schools

    de Django Paris ...
    Once a predominantly African-American city, South Vista opened the twenty-first century with a large Latino/a majority and a significant population of Pacific Islanders. Using an innovative blend of critical ethnography and social language methodologies, Paris offers the voices and experiences of South Vista youth as a window into how today's young people challenge and reinforce ethnic and ... Leer más

    $47.99 USD

  • Cognition in the Globe

    Attention and Memory in Shakespeare’s Theatre

    de E. Tribble ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Early modern playing companies performed up to six different plays a week and mounted new plays frequently. This book seeks to answer a seemingly simple question: how did they do it? Drawing upon work in philosophy and the cognitive sciences, it proposes that the cognitive work of theatre is distributed across body, brain, and world. ... Leer más

    $80.99 USD