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  • International Theatre Festivals and Twenty-First-Century Interculturalism

    by Ric Knowles ...
    Series series Theatre and Performance Theory
    Ric Knowles' study is a politically urgent, erudite intervention into the ecology of theatre and performance festivals in an international context. Since the 1990s there has been an exponential increase in the number and type of festivals taking place around the world. Events that used merely to be events are now 'festivalized': structured, marketed, and promoted in ways that stress urban centres ... Read more

    $25.49 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to International Theatre Festivals

    Edited by Ric Knowles ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Theatre and Performance
    The global rise of festival culture and experience has taken over that which used to merely be events. The Cambridge Companion to International Theatre Festivals provides an up-to-date, contextualized account of the worldwide reach and impact of the 'festivalization' of culture. It introduces new methodologies for the study of the global network of theatre production using digital humanities, ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Modern Drama

    Defining the Field

    Edited by Ric Knowles, Joanne Elizabeth Tompkins, W.B. Worthen ...
    Series series Heritage
    Theatre, like other subjects in the humanities, has recently undergone quintessential changes in theory, approach, and research. Modern Drama – a collection of twelve essays from leading theatre and drama scholars – investigates the contemporary meanings and the cultural and political resonances of the terms inherent in the concepts of 'modern' and 'drama,' delving into a range of theoretical ... Read more

    $36.79 USD

  • Performing the Intercultural City

    by Ric Knowles ...
    Series series Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
    In 1971, Canada became the first country to adopt an official policy of multiculturalism. Performing the Intercultural City explores how Toronto—a representative global city in this multicultural country—stages diversity through its many intercultural theater companies and troupes. The book begins with a theoretical introduction to theatrical interculturalism. Subsequent chapters outline the ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Fundamentals of Directing

    by Ric Knowles ...
    Concise and practical, Fundamentals of Directing is a distillation of Ric Knowles’s twenty-five years of experience as a director, teacher of directing, and dramaturge across Canada.Organized to reproduce the chronology of a play’s rehearsal, the book moves through the various stages of the directorial process, from selecting a project through auditioning; working with designers, actors, and ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Theatre and Interculturalism

    by Ric Knowles ...
    Series series Theatre And
    How are hybrid and diasporic identities performed in increasingly diverse societies? How can we begin to think differently about theatrical flow across cultures?Interculturalism is an increasingly urgent topic in the 21st century. As human traffic between nations increases, it becomes imperative to critically re-examine the way cultural exchange is performed. Theatre & Interculturalism surveys ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • Globalization and Contemporary Art

    Edited by Jonathan Harris ...
    In a series of newly commissioned essays by both established and emerging scholars, Globalization and Contemporary Art probes the effects of internationalist culture and politics on art across a variety of media. Globalization and Contemporary Art is the first anthology to consider the role and impact of art and artist in an increasingly borderless world.First major anthology of essays concerned ... Read more

    $42.00 USD

  • Heterotopia and the City

    Public Space in a Postcivil Society

    Edited by Michiel Dehaene, Lieven De Cauter ...
    Heterotopia, literally meaning ‘other place’, is a rich concept in urban design that describes a space that is on the margins of ordered or civil society, and one that possesses multiple, fragmented or even incompatible meanings. The term has had an impact on architectural and urban theory since it was coined by Foucault in the late 1960s but it has remained a source of confusion and debate since. ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Branding Cities

    Cosmopolitanism, Parochialism, and Social Change

    Edited by Stephanie Hemelryk Donald, Eleonore Kofman, Catherine Kevin ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Geography
    Fierce competitiveness between established and emerging major cities, such as Berlin, London, Shanghai and Sydney, has led to a pressure to excel as desirable locations for business, cultural activities, highly skilled migrants and tourists. At the same time, the transformation of settled and new migrant communities creates complex urban borders and variegated representations (academic, cinematic, ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Festivals and the Cultural Public Sphere

    Edited by Gerard Delanty, Liana Giorgi, Monica Sassatelli ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
    Festivals and the Cultural Public Sphere provides the first major social scientific study of these festivals in the wake of their explosion in popularity over the past decade. It explores the cultural significance of contemporary arts festivals from their location within the cultural public sphere, examining them as sites for contestation and democratic debate, and also identifying them as ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Of Boxes and Ceilings

    Fresh Perspectives, #1

    by Pascale Charhon ...
    Series Book 1 - Fresh Perspectives
    Gender relates to the most intimate part of the human self – identity. The individual identity is in constant tension with the social self, and the arts bring this tension to light – be it through autobiographical elements or by reflecting the situation of larger communities or society. Arts that stage (in any form) such a sensitive and intimate topic of gender identity resonate deeply with ... Read more

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  • Eating Chinese

    Culture on the Menu in Small Town Canada

    by Lily Cho ...
    "Chicken fried rice, sweet and sour pork, and an order of onion rings, please."Chinese restaurants in small town Canada are at once everywhere - you would be hard pressed to find a town without a Chinese restaurant - and yet they are conspicuously absent in critical discussions of Chinese diasporic culture or even in popular writing about Chinese food. In Eating Chinese, Lily Cho examines Chinese ... Read more

    $36.89 USD