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  • The Globalization of Theatre 1870–1930

    The Theatrical Networks of Maurice E. Bandmann

    by 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. ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • The Theatrical Public Sphere

    by 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 ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • The Cambridge Introduction to Theatre Studies

    by 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 ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Performing the Cold War in the Postcolonial World

    Theatre, Film, Literature and Things

    Edited by 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 ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Theatre Institutions in Crisis

    European Perspectives

    Edited by Christopher Balme, Tony Fisher ...
    Theatre Institutions in Crisisexamines how theatre in Europe is beset by a crisis on an institutional level and the pressing need for robust research into the complex configuration of factors at work that are leading to significant shifts in the way theatre is understood, organised, delivered, and received.Balme and Fisher bring together scholars from different disciplines and countries across ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Commedia dell'Arte in Context

    Edited by 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 ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

  • Theatre, Globalization and the Cold War

    Edited by 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 ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

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  • The Avant Garde

    A Very Short Introduction

    by 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 ... Read more

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  • Utopia/Dystopia

    Conditions of Historical Possibility

    Edited by Helen Tilley, Gyan Prakash, Professor Michael D. Gordin ...
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  • Hip Hop Ukraine

    Music, Race, and African Migration

    by Adriana N. Helbig ...
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  • The Palace Complex

    A Stalinist Skyscraper, Capitalist Warsaw, and a City Transfixed

    by Michal Murawski ...
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