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  • Performing the Cold War in the Postcolonial World

    Theatre, Film, Literature and Things

    Edición de Christopher B. Balme ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Cultures of the Global Cold War
    This volume explores how the Cultural Cold War played out in Africa and Asia in the context of decolonization. Both the United States and the Soviet Union as well as East European states undertook significant efforts to influence cultural life in the newly independent, postcolonial world.The different forms of influence are the subject of this book. The contributions are grouped around four topic ... Leer más

    $54.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Introduction to Theatre Studies

    de Christopher B. Balme ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
    Providing thorough coverage of the methods and tools required in studying historical and contemporary theatre, this Introduction examines the complexities of a rapidly changing and dynamic discipline. Following a cross-cultural perspective, the book surveys the ways theatre and performance are studied by looking initially at key elements such as performers, spectators and space. The central focus ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

  • Theatre, Globalization and the Cold War

    Edición de Christopher B. Balme, Berenika Szymanski-Düll ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book examines how the Cold War had a far-reaching impact on theatre by presenting a range of current scholarship on the topic from scholars from a dozen countries. They represent in turn a variety of perspectives, methodologies and theatrical genres, including not only Bertolt Brecht, Jerzy Grotowski and Peter Brook, but also Polish folk-dancing, documentary theatre and opera production. The ... Leer más

    $80.99 USD

  • The Globalization of Theatre 1870–1930

    The Theatrical Networks of Maurice E. Bandmann

    de Christopher B. Balme ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre
    Between 1895 and 1922 the Anglo-American actor and manager, Maurice E. Bandmann (1872–1922) created a theatrical circuit that extended from Gibraltar to Tokyo and included regular tours to the West Indies and South America. With headquarters in Calcutta and Cairo and companies listed on the Indian stock exchange, his operations represent a significant shift towards the globalization of theatre. ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • The Theatrical Public Sphere

    de Christopher B. Balme ...
    The concept of the public sphere, as first outlined by German philosopher Jürgen Habermas, refers to the right of all citizens to engage in debate on public issues on equal terms. In this book, Christopher B. Balme explores theatre's role in this crucial political and social function. He traces its origins and argues that the theatrical public sphere invariably focuses attention on theatre as an ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • Commedia dell'Arte in Context

    Edición de Christopher B. Balme, Piermario Vescovo, Daniele Vianello ...
    Series series Literature in Context
    The commedia dell'arte, the improvised Italian theatre that dominated the European stage from 1550 to 1750, is arguably the most famous theatre tradition to emerge from Europe in the early modern period. Its celebrated masks have come to symbolize theatre itself and have become part of the European cultural imagination. Over the past twenty years a revolution in commedia dell'arte scholarship has ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

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  • Fractured Times

    Culture and Society in the Twentieth Century

    de Eric Hobsbawm ...
    Eric Hobsbawm, who passed away in 2012, was one of the most brilliant and original historians of our age. Through his work, he observed the great twentieth-century confrontation between bourgeois fin de siècle culture and myriad new movements and ideologies, from communism and extreme nationalism to Dadaism to the emergence of information technology. In Fractured Times, Hobsbawm, with ... Leer más

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  • The Avant Garde

    A Very Short Introduction

    de David Cottington ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    'The avant-garde' is perhaps the most important and influential concept in the history of modern culture. For over a hundred years it has governed critical and historical assessment of the quality and significance of an artist or a work of art, in any medium-if these have been judged to be 'avant-garde', then they have been worthy of consideration. If not, then by and large they have not, and ... Leer más

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  • Utopia/Dystopia

    Conditions of Historical Possibility

    Edición de Helen Tilley, Gyan Prakash, Professor Michael D. Gordin ...
    The concepts of utopia and dystopia have received much historical attention. Utopias have traditionally signified the ideal future: large-scale social, political, ethical, and religious spaces that have yet to be realized. Utopia/Dystopia offers a fresh approach to these ideas. Rather than locate utopias in grandiose programs of future totality, the book treats these concepts as historically ... Leer más

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  • Hip Hop Ukraine

    Music, Race, and African Migration

    de Adriana N. Helbig ...
    Series series Ethnomusicology Multimedia
    "[A] magnificent study . . . adds to the burgeoning scholarship on global hip hop and furthers our knowledge of the African diaspora in Eastern Europe." — Anthropology of East Europe ReviewsFeatured in NPR's "Read These 6 Books About Ukraine"In Hip Hop Ukraine, we enter a world of urban music and dance competitions, hip hop parties, and recording studio culture to explore unique sites of ... Leer más

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  • The Palace Complex

    A Stalinist Skyscraper, Capitalist Warsaw, and a City Transfixed

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • Socialist Heritage

    The Politics of Past and Place in Romania

    de Emanuela Grama ...
    This prize-winning study of post-WWII Romania examines the fraught relationship between national heritage and Socialist statecraft.In Socialist Heritage, ethnographer and historian Emanuela Grama explores the socialist state's attempt to create its own heritage, as well as the ongoing legacy of that project. While many argue that the socialist regimes of Central and Eastern Europe aimed to erase ... Leer más

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