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  • Staging Monstrous Bodies

    Questioning Normative Orders

    Edited by Michael Mark Chemers, Ekaterina Trachsel, Gerald Siegmund ...
    Staging Monstrous Bodies: Questioning Normative Orders brings together global perspectives from leading and emerging scholars to explore the intersections of monster studies and performances studies.Divided into three parts, the volume explores the connection between monstrosity and performance, such as representations of violence, gender and sexuality contexts, disability studies perspectives, ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Monstrous Utopias

    Performance and the Radical Possibility of Hope

    Edited by Michael Mark Chemers, Analola Santana ...
    Monstrous Utopias examines how monsters in performance, theatre, media, and literature reflect and subvert societal understandings.This book considers the ethical and hopeful work of monsters and examines ways in which playwrights, theatre and performance artists, film artists, drag artists, dancers, cultural practitioners, and activists have engaged the monster to reflect the ongoing fears ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Three Plays by Luis Valdez

    Fin del Mundo, Valley of the Heart, Adíos Mamá Carlota

    by Luis Valdez ...
    Collecting together Fin del Mundo, Valley of the Heart, and Adíos Mamá Carlota, this book compiles the latest plays of Luis Valdez and explores how they stand to be considered masterpieces by the man who brought the world Zoot Suit and La Bamba.Luis Valdez has been described as the “last of the great American playwrights,” referring to a Golden Age of U.S. playwriting that began with Eugene O ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Freak Inheritance

    Eugenics and Extraordinary Bodies in Performance

    Edited by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Michael Mark Chemers, Analola Santana ...
    The long-awaited follow-up to Garland-Thomson's field-defining book Freakery, Freak Inheritance illuminates the convergence of the freak show era with the eugenics era, explicating the cultural work of the freak show as a compelling range of performances of cultural and social Others that emerge as eugenic targets from the late 19th century into the 20th century and beyond. This book explores the ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Ghost Light

    An Introductory Handbook for Dramaturgy

    by Michael Mark Chemers ...
    Series series Theater in the Americas
    A new edition of the celebrated introduction to dramaturgy training and practiceSince its release in 2010, Ghost Light: An Introductory Handbook for Dramaturgy has become the international standard for dramaturgy training and practice. The first textbook introduced students to the “ghost light” model of dramaturgy—a creatively engaged, artistically vibrant approach that draws on extensive ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • Systemic Dramaturgy

    A Handbook for the Digital Age

    by Michael Mark Chemers, Mike Sell ...
    Series series Theater in the Americas
    Working theatrically with technologySystemic Dramaturgy offers an invigorating, practical look at the daunting cultural problems of the digital age as they relate to performance. Authors Michael Mark Chemers and Mike Sell reject the incompatibility of theatre with robots, digital media, or video games. Instead, they argue that technology is the original problem of theatre: How can we tell this ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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    A Poem Containing a History of Poetry

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    **Literary critic Ryan Ruby uncovers the secret history of poetry in a mock-academic verse essay filled with wit and wisdom.One of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2024**Prophet. Entertainer. Courtier. Criminal. Revolutionary. Critic. Scholar. Nobody. Epic in sweep, Context Collapse is the secret history of the poet—from Bronze Age Greece and Renaissance Italy to the cafés of Grub Street and the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Critical Play

    Radical Game Design

    by Mary Flanagan ...
    An examination of subversive games like The Sims—games designed for political, aesthetic, and social critique.For many players, games are entertainment, diversion, relaxation, fantasy. But what if certain games were something more than this, providing not only outlets for entertainment but a means for creative expression, instruments for conceptual thinking, or tools for social change? In Critical ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Theater

    Edited by Nadine George-Graves ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Theater collects a critical mass of border-crossing scholarship on the intersections of dance and theatre. Taking corporeality as an idea that unites the work of dance and theater scholars and artists, and embodiment as a negotiation of power dynamics with important stakes, these essays focus on the politics and poetics of the moving body in performance both on and ... Read more

    $51.29 USD

  • The State of Art Criticism

    Edited by James Elkins, Michael Newman ...
    Series series The Art Seminar
    Art criticism is spurned by universities, but widely produced and read. It is seldom theorized and its history has hardly been investigated. The State of Art Criticism presents an international conversation among art historians and critics that considers the relation between criticism and art history and poses the question of whether criticism may become a university subject.Contributors include ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Politics

    Edited by Rebekah J. Kowal, Gerald Siegmund, Randy Martin ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    In recent decades, dance has become a vehicle for querying assumptions about what it means to be embodied, in turn illuminating intersections among the political, the social, the aesthetical, and the phenomenological. The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Politics edited by internationally lauded scholars Rebekah Kowal, Gerald Siegmund, and the late Randy Martin presents a compendium of newly ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • Relentless Progress

    The Reconfiguration of Children's Literature, Fairy Tales, and Storytelling

    by Jack Zipes ...
    Can fairy tales subvert consumerism? Can fantasy and children's literature counter the homogenizing influence of globalization? Can storytellers retain their authenticity in the age of consumerism? These are some of the critical questions raised by Jack Zipes, the celebrated scholar of fairy tales and children's literature. In this book, Zipes argues that, despite a dangerous reconfiguration of ... Read more

    $54.99 USD