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Talking Pictures: How to Watch Movies
Ann Hornaday
Performance art; Films, movies & cinema; Film theory & criticism; Film movie guides & reviews
Hardback
A veteran film critic offers a lively, opinionated guide to thinking and talking about movies-from Casablanca to Chinatown,... [more]
Jasmin Vardimon's Dance Theatre: Movement, memory and metaphor
Libby Worth (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK), Jasmin Vardimon
Performance art; Theatre direction & production; Dance
Paperback
Jasmin Vardimon's Dance Theatre offers an unusual, intimate insight into the devising and training processes of a choreographer... [more]
Dennis Oppenheim: Body Performance 1969 -73
Nick Kaye, Amy Van Winkle Oppenheim
Art & design styles: from c 1960; Performance art; Individual artists, art monographs
Hardback
Dennis Oppenheim was a pioneer in the fields of earthworks, conceptual art, body art, and performance. This title follows... [more]
Shakespeare and Renaissance Literary Theories: Anglo-Italian Transactions...
Michele Marrapodi
Performance art
Paperback
Throwing fresh light on a much discussed but still controversial field, this collection of essays places the presence of Italian... [more]
Serious Fun: The Power of Improvisation for Learning and Life
Ruth Yamamoto
Performance art; Acting techniques; Other performing arts
Paperback
The importance of play and fun to people's lives cannot be stressed enough in today's cultural climate of high stress, high... [more]
World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre: The Americas
Don Rubin, Carlos Solorzano
Performance art; Theatre Studies
Hardback
The second volume of WECT documents artistic development all over the Americas, country by country. Overall, the volumes record... [more]
Medieval Theatre in Context: An Introduction
John Harris
Performance art; Theatre Studies
Hardback
First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company. [more]
Luigi Pirandello in the Theatre
Susan Bassnett, Jennifer Lorch
Performance art; Theatre Studies
Hardback
First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. [more]
The Concrete Body: Yvonne Rainer, Carolee Schneemann, Vito Acconci
Elise Archias
Art & design styles: from c 1960; Performance art
Hardback
Offering an incisive rejoinder to traditional histories of modernism and postmodernism, this original book examines the 1960s... [more]
Theatre of Animation
Marion Baraitser
Performance art; Theatre Studies
Hardback
Published in 1999, 'Theatre of Animation' is a valuable addition to the field of performance. [more]
The Dance Theatre of Kurt Jooss
Suzanne Walther
Performance art; Theatre Studies; Dance
Hardback
First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. [more]
Jasmin Vardimon's Dance Theatre: Movement, memory and metaphor
Libby Worth (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK), Jasmin Vardimon
Performance art; Theatre direction & production; Dance
Hardback
Jasmin Vardimon's Dance Theatre offers an unusual, intimate insight into the devising and training processes of a choreographer... [more]
Shakespeare and Venice
Graham Holderness
Performance art
Paperback
A study that describes and chronicles the mythology of Venice that was formulated in the Middle Ages. It focuses on how that... [more]
Terrence McNally: A Casebook
Toby Silverman Zinman
Performance art; Theatre Studies; Literary studies: plays & playwrights
Paperback
Nine authorities write about McNally's work, and Zinman interviews the playwright about his work, his love of opera, his ideas... [more]
Blue Man World
Blue Man Group
Performance art; Theatre Studies; Dance & Performing arts
Hardback
The long-awaited and first-ever Blue Man Group book, published on the occasion of their 25th anniversary. As entertaining... [more]
: David Rabe (1988): A Stage History and a Primary and Secondary Bibliography...
Philip C. Kolin
Performance art; Theatre Studies; Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Literary studies: plays & playwrights; Bibliographies, catalogues, discographies
Hardback
In the twenty years that preceded the publication of this book in 1988, David Rabe was in the vanguard of playwrights who... [more]
Singularities: Dance in the Age of Performance
Andre Lepecki (Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, USA)
Art & design styles: from c 1960; Performance art; Dance
Paperback
How does the production of performance engage with the fundamental issues... [more]
From Boal to Jana Sanskriti: Practice and Principles
Sanjoy Ganguly
Performance art; Theatre Studies; Creative therapy (eg art, music, drama)
Hardback
Jana Sanskriti is internationally recognised as the most iconic post-Boalian Theatre of the Oppressed operation in the world... [more]
New Performance/New Writing
John Freeman
Performance art; Theatre Studies; Creative writing & creative writing guides
Paperback
Contemporary theatre is going through a period of unparalleled excitement... [more]
Performing in Comedy: A Student's Guide
Ian Wilkie (University of London Institute for Education)
Performance art; Theatre Studies; Acting techniques
Paperback
Ian Wilkie contends that comic acting is a distinct art form, and as such demands a unique skillset. By exploring the ways... [more]
The Body in Performance
Patrick Campbell
Performance art; Theatre Studies; Acting techniques
Hardback
This collection of specially commissioned essays from both academics and practitioners - in some cases one and the same person... [more]
Theatre and Everyday Life: An Ethics of Performance
Alan Read, Myilibrary
Performance art; Theatre Studies
Hardback
Read examines the relationship between an ethics of performance, a politics of place and a poetics of the urban environment.... [more]
Lynn Hershman Leeson: Civic Radar
Andreas Beitin, Pamela Lee, Peggy Phelan, Ruby Rich
Performance art; Individual artists, art monographs
Hardback
First comprehensive monograph of the international star of media art [more]
Stanislavsky and Yoga
Sergei Tcherkasski
Performance art; Theatre Studies; Acting techniques; Theatre direction & production
Hardback
This book deals with one of the most important sources of the Stanislavsky System - Yoga, its practice and philosophy. Sergei... [more]
New Performance/New Writing
John Freeman
Performance art; Theatre Studies; Creative writing & creative writing guides
Hardback
Contemporary theatre is going through a period of unparalleled excitement... [more]
