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  • The Cambridge Guide to Mixed Methods Research for Theatre and Performance Studies

    Edited by Tracy C. Davis, Paul Rae ...
    We often know performance when we see it – but how should we investigate it? And how should we interpret what we find out? This book demonstrates why and how mixed methods research is necessary for investigating and explaining performance and advancing new critical agendas in cultural study. The wide range of aesthetic forms, cultural meanings, and social functions found in theatre and performance ... Read more

    $95.19 USD

  • Liberal Lives and Activist Repertoires

    Political Performance and Victorian Social Reform

    by Tracy C. Davis ...
    This ambitious study traces the strategies of human rights activists to show how world-changing reform movements were shaped by women and men from modest backgrounds who were deeply attuned to the power of performance. Tracy C. Davis explores nineteenth-century reform campaigns through the pioneering work of a family of activists – prominent anti-slavery lecturer George Thompson, his daughter ... Read more

    $34.49 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance Historiography

    Edited by Tracy C. Davis, Peter W. Marx ...
    Series series Routledge Companions
    The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance Historiography sets the agenda for inclusive and wide-ranging approaches to writing history, embracing the diverse perspectives of the twenty-first century and Critical Media History.Written by an international team of authors whose expertise spans a multitude of historical periods and cultures, this collection of fascinating essays poses the ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Stages of Emergency

    Cold War Nuclear Civil Defense

    by Tracy C. Davis ...
    In an era defined by the threat of nuclear annihilation, Western nations attempted to prepare civilian populations for atomic attack through staged drills, evacuations, and field exercises. In Stages of Emergency the distinguished performance historian Tracy C. Davis investigates the fundamentally theatrical nature of these Cold War civil defense exercises. Asking what it meant for civilians to be ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Uncle Tom's Cabins

    The Transnational History of America's Most Mutable Book

    by Stefka Mihaylova, Tracy C. Davis ...
    As Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin traveled around the world, it was molded by the imaginations and needs of international audiences. For over 150 years it has been coopted for a dazzling array of causes far from what its author envisioned. This book tells thirteen variants of Uncle Tom’s journey, explicating the novel’s significance for Canadian abolitionists and the Liberian ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Actresses as Working Women

    Their Social Identity in Victorian Culture

    by Tracy C. Davis ...
    Series series Gender in Performance
    Using historical evidence as well as personal accounts, Tracy C. Davis examines the reality of conditions for `ordinary' actresses, their working environments, employment patterns and the reasons why acting continued to be such a popular, though insecure, profession. Firmly grounded in Marxist and feminist theory she looks at representations of women on stage, and the meanings associated with and ... Read more

    $225.00 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Performance Studies

    Edited by Tracy C. Davis ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Since the turn of the century, Performance Studies has emerged as an increasingly vibrant discipline. Its concerns - embodiment, ethical research and social change - are held in common with many other fields, however a unique combination of methods and applications is used in exploration of the discipline. Bridging live art practices - theatre, performance art and dance - with technological media, ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

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    Edited by Greig Crysler, Stephen Cairns, Hilde Heynen ...
    "Offers an intense scholarly experience in its comprehensiveness, its variety of voices and its formal organization... the editors took a risk, experimented and have delivered a much-needed resource that upends the status-quo."- Architectural Histories, journal of the European Architectural History Network"Architectural theory interweaves interdisciplinary understandings with different practices, ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to Art and Politics

    Edited by Randy Martin ...
    Series series Routledge Art History and Visual Studies Companions
    The Routledge Companion to Art and Politics offers a thorough examination of the complex relationship between art and politics, and the many forms and approaches the engagement between them can take.The contributors - a diverse assembly of artists, activists, scholars from around the world – discuss and demonstrate ways of making art and politics legible and salient in the world. As such the 32 ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Making a Performance

    Devising Histories and Contemporary Practices

    by Emma Govan, Helen Nicholson, Katie Normington ...
    Making a Performance traces innovations in devised performance from early theatrical experiments in the twentieth-century to the radical performances of the twenty-first century.This introduction to the theory, history and practice of devised performance explores how performance-makers have built on the experimental aesthetic traditions of the past. It looks to companies as diverse as Australia's ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Research Methods for Architecture

    by Ray Lucas, Raymond Lucas ...
    While fundamentally a design discipline, architectural education requires an element of history and theory, grouped under the term ‘research’. However, many students struggle with this part of their course. This practical handbook provides the necessary grounding in this subject, addressing essential questions about what research in architecture can be.The first part of the book is a general guide ... Read more

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  • John A

    The Man Who Made Us

    by Richard J. Gwyn ...
    The first full-scale biography of Canada’s first prime minister in half a century by one of our best-known and most highly regarded political writers.The first volume of Richard Gwyn’s definitive biography of John A. Macdonald follows his life from his birth in Scotland in 1815 to his emigration with his family to Kingston, Ontario, to his days as a young, rising lawyer, to his tragedy-ridden ... Read more

    $14.99 USD