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  • Disability Culture and Community Performance

    Find a Strange and Twisted Shape

    de P. Kuppers ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Performances in hospices and on beaches; cross-cultural myth making in Wales, New Zealand and the US; communal poetry among mental health system survivors: this book, now in paperback, presents a senior practitioner/critic's exploration of arts-based research processes sustained over more than a decade - a subtle engagement with disability culture. ... Leer más

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    Series series The Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs
    For six desperate years, Willie Sterner’s skill as a painter saved him from death at the hands of the Nazis. Faced with inhumane conditions in slave labour camps and grieving the loss of his close-knit family, Sterner relied on courage and ingenuity to hold onto his dignity. Through almost random luck, he came under the protection of the famed Oskar Schindler and became his personal art restorer. ... Leer más

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  • The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam

    A full-color graphic memoir inspired by the award-winning documentary-and the life and mystery of China's greatest magician.Who was Long Tack Sam?He was born in 1885. He ran away from Shangdung Province to join the circus. He was an acrobat. A magician. A comic. An impresario. A restaurateur. A theater owner. A world traveler. An East-West ambassador. A mentor to Orson Welles. He was considered ... Leer más

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  • Opening Act, The

    Canadian Theatre History 1945–1956

    The conventional opinion is that professional Canadian theatre began in 1953 with the founding of the Stratford Festival. But Susan McNicoll asks how this could be, when the majority of those taking the stage at Stratford were professional Canadian actors. To answer this question, McNicoll delves into the period to show how in fact the unbroken chain of Canadian professional theatre began just ... Leer más

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  • Irish Drama, Modernity and the Passion Play

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book discusses Irish Passion plays (plays that rewrite or parody the story of the Passion of Christ) in modern Irish drama from the Irish Literary Revival to the present day. It offers innovative readings of such canonical plays as J. M. Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World, W. B. Yeats’s Calvary, Brendan Behan’s The Hostage, Samuel Beckett’s Endgame, Brian Friel’s Faith Healer and Tom ... Leer más

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  • Theatre and Residual Culture

    J.M. Synge and Pre-Christian Ireland

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book considers the cultural residue from pre-Christian Ireland in Synge’s plays and performances. By dramatising a residual culture in front of a predominantly modern and political Irish Catholic middle class audience, the book argues that Synge attempted to offer an alternative understanding of what it meant to be “modern” at the beginning of the twentieth century. The book draws extensively ... Leer más

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  • Eugene O’Neill’s One-Act Plays

    New Critical Perspectives

    Edición de M. Bennett, B. Carson ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Eugene O'Neill, Nobel Laureate in Literature and Pulitzer Prize winner, is widely known for his full length plays. However, his one-act plays are the foundation of his work - both thematically and stylistically, they telescope his later plays. This collection aims to fill the gap by examining these texts, during what can be considered O'Neill's formative writing years, and the foundational period ... Leer más

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  • Can Islam Be French?

    Pluralism and Pragmatism in a Secularist State

    de John R. Bowen ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics
    Can Islam Be French? is an anthropological examination of how Muslims are responding to the conditions of life in France. Following up on his book Why the French Don't Like Headscarves, John Bowen turns his attention away from the perspectives of French non-Muslims to focus on those of the country's Muslims themselves. Bowen asks not the usual question--how well are Muslims integrating in France?- ... Leer más

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  • Musical Theatre

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    Musical Theatre: A History is a new revised edition of a proven core text for college and secondary school students – and an insightful and accessible celebration of twenty-five centuries of great theatrical entertainment.As an educator with extensive experience in professional theatre production, author John Kenrick approaches the subject with a unique appreciation of musicals as both an art form ... Leer más

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  • Educational Theatre for Women in Post-World War II Italy

    A Stage of Their Own

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book explores an important moment in Italian women’s theatre and cultural history: plays written for all-women casts between 1946 and the mid-1960s, authored for the most part by women and performed exclusively by women. Because they featured only female roles, they concentrated on aspects of specifically women’s experience, be it their spirituality, their future lives as wives and mothers, ... Leer más

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  • In Defence of Theatre

    Aesthetic Practices and Social Interventions

    Why theatre now? Reflecting on the mix of challenges and opportunities that face theatre in communities that are necessarily becoming global in scope and technologically driven, In Defence of Theatre offers a range of passionate reflections on this important question.Kathleen Gallagher and Barry Freeman bring together nineteen playwrights, actors, directors, scholars, and educators who discuss the ... Leer más

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  • The Rise of Victimhood Culture

    Microaggressions, Safe Spaces, and the New Culture Wars

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The Rise of Victimhood Culture offers a framework for understanding recent moral conflicts at U.S. universities, which have bled into society at large. These are not the familiar clashes between liberals and conservatives or the religious and the secular: instead, they are clashes between a new moral culture—victimhood culture—and a more traditional culture of dignity. Even as students ... Leer más

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