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  • Performance and Cultural Politics

    by Elin Diamond ...
    Performance and Cultural Politics is a groundbreaking collection of essays which explore the historical and cultural territories of performance, written by the foremost scholars in the field. The essays, exploring performance art, theatre, music and dance, range from Oscar Wilde to Eric Clapton; from the Rose Theatre to U.S. Holocaust museums. The topic includes: * Sex Play: Stereotype, Pose and ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Unmaking Mimesis

    Essays on Feminism and Theatre

    by Elin Diamond ...
    In Unmaking Mimesis Elin Diamond interrogates the concept of mimesis in relation to feminism, theatre and performance. She combines psychoanalytic, semiotic and materialist strategies with readings of selected plays by writers as diverse as Ibsen, Brecht, Aphra Behn, Caryl Churchill and Peggy Shaw.Through a series of provocative readings of theatre, theory and feminist performance she demonstrates ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Caryl Churchill

    Edited by Elaine Aston, Elin Diamond ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Caryl Churchill's plays are internationally performed, studied and acclaimed by practitioners, theatre scholars, critics and audiences alike. With fierce imagination the plays dramatise the anxieties and terrors of contemporary life. This Companion presents new scholarship on Churchill's extraordinary and ground-breaking work. Chapters explore a cluster of major plays in relation to pressing ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Performance, Feminism and Affect in Neoliberal Times

    Edited by Elin Diamond, Denise Varney, Candice Amich ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book is a provocative new study of global feminist activism that opposes neoliberal regimes across several sites including Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe, Latin America and the United States. The feminist performative acts featured in the book contest the aggressive unravelling of collectively won gains in gender, sexual and racial equality, the appearance of new planes of discrimination, ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • The Struggle Continues: Robbie McCauley

    Scripts, Essays, & Reflections

    by Robbie McCauley, Daniel Alexander Jones, Omi Osun Joni L. Jones, Charlotte Meehan, Ed Montgomery, Carl Hancock Rux, Maureen Shea, Pamela Sneed ...
    A consummate compendium that highlights the work of an audacious, incomparable theatremaker.A vital presence in the avant-garde theatre movement since the 1970s, Robbie McCauley worked as a playwright, director, and performer for many decades, garnering international acclaim for her thought-provoking work. Her plays consistently confronted uncomfortable truths about race and racism in America by ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Genders

    by David Glover, Cora Kaplan ...
    Series series The New Critical Idiom
    The concept of gender continues to be a central issue in literary and cultural studies, with a significance that crosses disciplinary boundaries and provokes lively debate. In this fully revised and updated second edition, David Glover and Cora Kaplan offer a lucid and illuminating introduction to ’gender’ and its implications, including:an overview of the critical language and concepts ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Gay and Lesbian Writing

    Edited by Hugh Stevens ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    In the last two decades, lesbian and gay studies have transformed literary studies and developed into a vital and influential area for students and scholars. This Companion introduces readers to the range of debates that inform studies of works by lesbian and gay writers and of literary representations of same-sex desire and queer identities. Each chapter introduces key concepts in the field in an ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Beginning theory

    An introduction to literary and cultural theory: Fourth edition

    by Peter Barry ...
    Series series Beginnings
    Beginning theory has been helping students navigate through the thickets of literary and cultural theory for over two decades. This new and expanded fourth edition continues to offer readers the best single-volume introduction to the field.The bewildering variety of approaches, theorists and technical language is lucidly and expertly unravelled. Unlike many books which assume certain positions ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Matter of Black Lives

    Writing from The New Yorker

    Edited by Jelani Cobb, David Remnick ...
    A collection of The New Yorker's groundbreaking writing on race in America—including work by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Hilton Als, Zadie Smith, and more—with a foreword by Jelani CobbThis anthology from the pages of the New Yorker provides a bold and complex portrait of Black life in America, told through stories of private triumphs and national tragedies, political vision ... Read more

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Postmodernism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Christopher Butler ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Postmodernism has been a buzzword in contemporary society for the last decade. But how can it be defined? In this Very Short Introduction Christopher Butler challenges and explores the key ideas of postmodernists, and their engagement with theory, literature, the visual arts, film, architecture, and music. He treats artists, intellectuals, critics, and social scientists 'as if they were all ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • I Am Not Your Negro

    A Companion Edition to the Documentary Film Directed by Raoul Peck

    by Velvet Films, Inc., Raoul Peck ...
    Series series Vintage International
    **NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In his final years, one of America’s greatest writers envisioned a book about his three assassinated friends, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King. His deeply personal notes for the project had never been published before acclaimed filmmaker Raoul Peck mined them to compose his Academy Award-nominated documentary.“Thrilling…. A portrait of one man’s confrontation ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Complete Idiot's Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism

    by Steven J. Venturino PhD ...
    From Plato to Freud to ecocriticism, the book illustrates dozens of stimulating-and sometimes notoriously complex-perspectives for approaching literature and film. The book offers authoritative, clear, and easy-to-follow explanations of theories that range from established classics to the controversies of current theory. Each chapter offers a conversational, step-by-step explanation of a single ... Read more

    $10.99 USD