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Wrestling in Britain: Sporting Entertainments, Celebrity and Audiences
Benjamin Litherland (University of Huddersfield, UK)
Performance art; Wrestling
Hardback
At the intersection of sport, entertainment and performance, wrestling occupies a unique position in British popular culture.... [more]
Matheus Rocha Pitta: For the Winners the Potatoes
Bethanien Kunstlerhaus
Art & design styles: from c 1960; Installation art; Performance art; Individual artists, art monographs
Paperback
Matheus Rocha Pitta has created a new group of works entitled For the Winners the Potatoes, exhibiting in various locations... [more]
The Odin Teatret Archives
Mirella Schino
Performance art; Theatre Studies
Paperback
The Odin Teatret Archives presents collections from the archives of one of the foremost reference points in global theatre.<br... [more]
Richard Foreman: An American (Partly) in Paris
Neal Swettenham
Performance art; Theatre direction & production
Paperback
Richard Foreman has been writing, directing and designing avant-garde theatre in New York since he first founded his Ontological-Hysteric... [more]
Essays on Theatre and Change: Towards a Poetics Of
Kelina Gotman (King's College London UK)
Performance art; Theatre Studies; Writing & editing guides
Paperback
If theatre is a way of seeing, an event onstage but also a fleeting series of moments; not a copy or double but more vitally... [more]
The Odin Teatret Archives
Mirella Schino
Performance art; Theatre Studies
Hardback
The Odin Teatret Archives presents collections from the archives of one of the foremost reference points in global theatre.<br... [more]
Histories of Performance Documentation: Museum, Artistic, and Scholarly...
Gabriella Giannachi, Jonah Westerman
Performance art
Paperback
Histories of Performance Documentation traces the many ways in which museums have approached performance works from the 1960s... [more]
Moliere Today 2
Michael Spingler
Performance art
Hardback
These essays develop the argument that Moliere needs to be rescued from the pantheon of classical literature and put back... [more]
Richard Foreman: An American (Partly) in Paris
Neal Swettenham
Performance art; Theatre direction & production
Hardback
Richard Foreman has been writing, directing and designing avant-garde theatre in New York since he first founded his Ontological-Hysteric... [more]
Theatre and Dictatorship in the Luso-Hispanic World
Diego Santos Sanchez
Performance art; Theatre Studies; European history; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900
Hardback
Theatre and Dictatorship in the Luso-Hispanic World explores the discourses that have linked theatrical performance and prevailing... [more]
Essays on Theatre and Change: Towards a Poetics Of
Kelina Gotman (King's College London UK)
Performance art; Theatre Studies; Writing & editing guides
Hardback
If theatre is a way of seeing, an event onstage but also a fleeting series of moments; not a copy or double but more vitally... [more]
Re-Enacting the Past: Heritage, Materiality and Performance
Mads Daugbjerg, Rivka Syd Eisner, Britta Timm Knudsen
Performance art; Theatre Studies; Oral history; Cultural studies
Paperback
What is re-enactment and how does it relate to heritage? Re-enactments are a ubiquitous part of popular and memory culture... [more]
Media Practices, Social Movements, and Performativity: Transdisciplinary...
Susanne Foellmer, Margreth Lunenborg, Christoph Raetzsch
Performance art; Media studies; Political activism
Hardback
As individuals incorporate new forms of media into their daily routines, these media transform individuals' engagement with... [more]
Henry Irving and The Victorian Theatre
Madeleine Bingham
Performance art; Theatre Studies; Shakespeare plays
Paperback
Originally published in 1978. Henry Irving achieved an astounding success in Britain and America as an actor; yet he lacked... [more]
English Theatre in Transition 1881-1914
James Woodfield
Performance art; Theatre Studies; Shakespeare plays
Paperback
Originally published in 1984. The turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was a time of considerable change in the... [more]
Nineteenth Century British Theatre
Kenneth Richards (Manchester University, UK), Peter Thomson (Exeter University, UK)
Performance art; Theatre Studies; Shakespeare plays
Paperback
Originally published in 1971. Nineteenth-century theatre in England has been greatly neglected, although serious study would... [more]
The Rise of the Victorian Actor
Michael Baker
Performance art; Theatre Studies
Paperback
Originally published in 1978. Between 1830 and 1890 the English theatre became recognisably modern. Standards of acting and... [more]
Victorian Spectacular Theatre 1850-1910
Michael R. Booth
Performance art; Theatre Studies; Shakespeare plays
Paperback
Originally published in 1981. This study concentrates on one aspect of Victorian theatre production in the second half of... [more]
Sam Shepard V8 Pt 3
Johan Callens
Performance art; Theatre Studies
Hardback
This volume, the first of two, contains the proceedings of the Shepard conference organized in Brussels, 28-30 May 1993, by... [more]
Histories of Performance Documentation: Museum, Artistic, and Scholarly...
Gabriella Giannachi, Jonah Westerman
Performance art
Hardback
Histories of Performance Documentation traces the many ways in which museums have approached performance works from the 1960s... [more]
Black British Drama: A Transnational Story
Michael Pearce
Performance art; Theatre Studies; Black & Asian studies
Paperback
Black British Drama: A Transnational Story looks afresh at the ways black theatre in Britain is connected to and informed... [more]
Transformative Aesthetics
Erika Fischer-Lichte, Benjamin Wihstutz
Theory of art; Performance art; Theatre Studies; Philosophy: aesthetics
Hardback
Aesthetic theory in the West has, until now, been dominated by ideas of effect, autonomy, and reception. Transformative Aesthetics... [more]
Imagined Theatres: Writing for a Theoretical Stage
Daniel Sack
Performance art; Theatre Studies
Paperback
Imagined Theatres collects theoretical dramas written by some of the leading scholars and artists of the contemporary stage.... [more]
Moliere Today 1
Michael Spingler
Performance art
Hardback
Focuses on Moliere's theatre as works to be performed as well as read. The essays deal with the limits which are imposed and... [more]
Spielraum: Jasmina Cibic
Jasmina Cibic
Art & design styles: from c 1960; Sculpture; Installation art; Performance art; Individual artists, art monographs
Hardback
Spielraum is a publication about Jasmina Cibic's latest work. By bringing together performance, sculpture, installation and... [more]
