|
Showing 1 - 15 of
15 matches in All Departments
This book considers arousal as a mode of theoretical and artistic
inquiry to encourage new ways of staging and examining bodies in
performance across artistic disciplines, modern history, and
cultural contexts. Looking at traditional drama and theatre, but
also visual arts, performance activism, and arts-based community
engagement, this collection draws on the complicated relationship
between arousing images and the frames of their representability to
address what constitutes arousal in a variety of connotations. It
examines arousal as a project of social, scientific, cultural, and
artistic experimentation, and discusses how our perception of
arousal has transformed over the last century. Probing "what
arouses" in relation to the ethics of representation, the book
investigates the connections between arousal and pleasures of
voyeurism, underscores the political impact of aroused bodies, and
explores how arousal can turn the body into a mediated object.
This book examines the role of the visual and performing arts in
higher education and argues for the importance of socially engaged
transdisciplinary practices, not just to the college curriculum but
also to building an informed and engaged citizenry. The first
chapter defines and offers an outline for conducting
transdisciplinary research. Chapters two through five present
examples of transdisciplinary projects facilitated in Central
Florida between 2017 and 2022. Topics and methodological frameworks
include ecocriticism and climate change, migration, poverty, and
displacement, ageing and disability, and systemic racism and mass
incarceration. Each chapter includes descriptions of the projects
and outlines how they integrated the essential learning outcomes
articulated by the American Association of Colleges and
Universities in the Liberal Education and America’s Promise
report. A concluding chapter offers reflections on the value of
transdisciplinary collaborative work and poses questions for
further discussions on the role of the arts in higher education.
The book is designed for graduate and undergraduate students,
faculty, and non-academics interested in engaging in
transdisciplinary projects to address complex societal issues.
The Decades of Modern American Playwriting series provides a
comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each
decade from the 1930s to 2009 in eight volumes. Each volume equips
readers with a detailed understanding of the context from which
work emerged: an introduction considers life in the decade with a
focus on domestic life and conditions, social changes, culture,
media, technology, industry and political events; while a chapter
on the theatre of the decade offers a wide-ranging and thorough
survey of theatres, companies, dramatists, new movements and
developments in response to the economic and political conditions
of the day. The work of the four most prominent playwrights from
the decade receives in-depth analysis and re-evaluation by a team
of experts, together with commentary on their subsequent work and
legacy. A final section brings together original documents such as
interviews with the playwrights and with directors, drafts of play
scenes, and other previously unpublished material. The major
playwrights and their plays to receive in-depth coverage in this
volume include: * Tony Kushner: Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia
on National Themes, Part One and Part Two (1991), Slavs! Thinking
About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness (1995) and
A Dybbuk, or Between Two Worlds (1997); * Paula Vogel: Baltimore
Waltz (1992), The Mineola Twins (1996) and How I Learned to Drive
(1997); * Suzan-Lori Parks: The Death of the Last Black Man in the
Whole Entire World (1990), The America Play (1994) and Venus
(1996); * Terrence McNally: Lips Together, Teeth Apart (1991),
Love! Valour! Compassion! (1997) and Corpus Christi (1998).
The Decades of Modern American Playwriting series provides a
comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each
decade from the 1930s to 2009 in eight volumes. Each volume equips
readers with a detailed understanding of the context from which
work emerged: an introduction considers life in the decade with a
focus on domestic life and conditions, social changes, culture,
media, technology, industry and political events; while a chapter
on the theatre of the decade offers a wide-ranging and thorough
survey of theatres, companies, dramatists, new movements and
developments in response to the economic and political conditions
of the day. The work of the four most prominent playwrights from
the decade receives in-depth analysis and re-evaluation by a team
of experts, together with commentary on their subsequent work and
legacy. A final section brings together original documents such as
interviews with the playwrights and with directors, drafts of play
scenes, and other previously unpublished material. The major
playwrights and their plays to receive in-depth coverage in this
volume include: David Mamet: Edmond (1982), Glengarry Glen Ross
(1984), Speed-the-Plow (1988) and Oleanna (1992); David Henry
Hwang: Family Devotions (1981), The Sound of a Voice (1983) and M.
Butterfly (1988); Maria Irene Fornes: The Danube (1982), Mud (1983)
and The Conduct of Life (1985); August Wilson: Ma Rainey's Black
Bottom (1984), Joe Turner's Come and Gone (1984) and Fences (1987).
The Decades of Modern American Drama series provides a
comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each
decade from the 1930s to 2009 in eight volumes. Each volume equips
readers with a detailed understanding of the context from which
work emerged: an introduction considers life in the decade with a
focus on domestic life and conditions, social changes, culture,
media, technology, industry and political events; while a chapter
on the theatre of the decade offers a wide-ranging and thorough
survey of theatres, companies, dramatists, new movements and
developments in response to the economic and political conditions
of the day. The work of the four most prominent playwrights from
the decade receives in-depth analysis and re-evaluation by a team
of experts, together with commentary on their subsequent work and
legacy. A final section brings together original documents such as
interviews with the playwrights and with directors, drafts of play
scenes, and other previously unpublished material. The major
writers and their works to receive in-depth coverage in this volume
include: * William Inge: Picnic (1953), Bus Stop (1955) and The
Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1957); * Stephen Sondheim, Arthur
Laurents and Jerome Robbins: West Side Story (1957) and Gypsy
(1959); * Alice Childress: Just a Little Simple (1950), Gold
Through the Trees (1952) and Trouble in Mind (1955); * Jerome
Lawrence and Robert Lee: Inherit the Wind (1955), Auntie Mame
(1956) and The Gang's All Here (1959).
The Cambridge Companion to American Theatre since 1945 provides an
overview and analysis of developments in the organization and
practices of American theatre. It examines key demographic and
geographical shifts American theatre after 1945 experienced in
spectatorship, and addresses the economic, social, and political
challenges theatre artists have faced across cultural climates and
geographical locations. Specifically, it explores artistic
communities, collaborative practices, and theatre methodologies
across mainstream, regional, and experimental theatre practices,
forms, and expressions. As American theatre has embraced diversity
in practice and representation, the volume examines the various
creative voices, communities, and perspectives that prior to the
1940s was mostly excluded from the theatrical landscape. This
diversity has led to changing dramaturgical and theatrical
languages that take us in to the twenty-first century. These
shifting perspectives and evolving forms of theatrical expressions
paved the ground for contemporary American theatrical innovation.
The Decades of Modern American Drama series provides a
comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each
decade from the 1930s to 2009 in eight volumes. Each volume equips
readers with a detailed understanding of the context from which
work emerged: an introduction considers life in the decade with a
focus on domestic life and conditions, social changes, culture,
media, technology, industry and political events; while a chapter
on the theatre of the decade offers a wide-ranging and thorough
survey of theatres, companies, dramatists, new movements and
developments in response to the economic and political conditions
of the day. The work of the four most prominent playwrights from
the decade receives in-depth analysis and re-evaluation by a team
of experts, together with commentary on their subsequent work and
legacy. A final section brings together original documents such as
interviews with the playwrights and with directors, drafts of play
scenes, and other previously unpublished material. The major
playwrights and their plays to receive in-depth coverage in this
volume include: * Theresa Rebeck: Omnium Gatherum (2003), Mauritius
(2007), and The Understudy (2008); * Sarah Ruhl: Eurydice (2003),
Clean House (2004), and In the Next Room (or the Vibrator Play)
(2009); * Lynn Nottage: Intimate Apparel (2003), Fabulation or
Re-Education of Undine (2004), and Ruined (2008); * Charles Mee:
Big Love (2000), Wintertime (2005), and Hotel Cassiopeia (2006).
An essential volume for theater artists and students alike, this
anthology includes the full texts of sixteen important examples of
avant-garde drama from the most daring and influential artistic
movements of the first half of the twentieth century, including
Symbolism, Futurism, Expressionism, Dada, and Surrealism. Each play
is accompanied by a bio-critical introduction by the editor, and a
critical essay, frequently written by the playwright, which
elaborates on the play's dramatic and aesthetic concerns. A new
introduction by Robert Knopf and Julia Listengarten contextualizes
the plays in light of recent critical developments in avant-garde
studies. By examining the groundbreaking theatrical experiments of
Jarry, Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Artaud, and others, the book
foregrounds the avant-garde's enduring influence on the development
of modern theater.
This book considers arousal as a mode of theoretical and artistic
inquiry to encourage new ways of staging and examining bodies in
performance across artistic disciplines, modern history, and
cultural contexts. Looking at traditional drama and theatre, but
also visual arts, performance activism, and arts-based community
engagement, this collection draws on the complicated relationship
between arousing images and the frames of their representability to
address what constitutes arousal in a variety of connotations. It
examines arousal as a project of social, scientific, cultural, and
artistic experimentation, and discusses how our perception of
arousal has transformed over the last century. Probing “what
arouses” in relation to the ethics of representation, the book
investigates the connections between arousal and pleasures of
voyeurism, underscores the political impact of aroused bodies, and
explores how arousal can turn the body into a mediated object.
The Cambridge Companion to American Theatre since 1945 provides an
overview and analysis of developments in the organization and
practices of American theatre. It examines key demographic and
geographical shifts American theatre after 1945 experienced in
spectatorship, and addresses the economic, social, and political
challenges theatre artists have faced across cultural climates and
geographical locations. Specifically, it explores artistic
communities, collaborative practices, and theatre methodologies
across mainstream, regional, and experimental theatre practices,
forms, and expressions. As American theatre has embraced diversity
in practice and representation, the volume examines the various
creative voices, communities, and perspectives that prior to the
1940s was mostly excluded from the theatrical landscape. This
diversity has led to changing dramaturgical and theatrical
languages that take us in to the twenty-first century. These
shifting perspectives and evolving forms of theatrical expressions
paved the ground for contemporary American theatrical innovation.
The Decades of Modern American Drama series provides a
comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each
decade from the 1930s to 2009 in eight volumes. Each volume equips
readers with a detailed understanding of the context from which
work emerged: an introduction considers life in the decade with a
focus on domestic life and conditions, social changes, culture,
media, technology, industry and political events; while a chapter
on the theatre of the decade offers a wide-ranging and thorough
survey of theatres, companies, dramatists, new movements and
developments in response to the economic and political conditions
of the day. The work of the four most prominent playwrights from
the decade receives in-depth analysis and re-evaluation by a team
of experts, together with commentary on their subsequent work and
legacy. A final section brings together original documents such as
interviews with the playwrights and with directors, drafts of play
scenes, and other previously unpublished material. The major
playwrights and their plays to receive in-depth coverage in this
volume include: * Edward Albee: The American Dream (1960), Who's
Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962), A Delicate Balance (1966) and
Tiny Alice (1964 ); * Amiri Baraka: Dutchman (1964), The Slave
(1964) and Slaveship (1967); * Adrienne Kennedy: Funnyhouse of a
Negro (1964), Cities in Bezique (The Owl Answers and A Beast's
Story, 1969), and A Rat's Mass (1967); * Jean-Claude van Itallie:
American Hurrah (1966), The Serpent (1968) and War (1963).
The Decades of Modern American Drama series provides a
comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each
decade from the 1930s to 2009 in eight volumes. Each volume equips
readers with a detailed understanding of the context from which
work emerged: an introduction considers life in the decade with a
focus on domestic life and conditions, social changes, culture,
media, technology, industry and political events; while a chapter
on the theatre of the decade offers a wide-ranging and thorough
survey of theatres, companies, dramatists, new movements and
developments in response to the economic and political conditions
of the day. The work of the four most prominent playwrights from
the decade receives in-depth analysis and re-evaluation by a team
of experts, together with commentary on their subsequent work and
legacy. A final section brings together original documents such as
interviews with the playwrights and with directors, drafts of play
scenes, and other previously unpublished material. The major
playwrights and their plays to receive in-depth coverage in this
volume include: * Theresa Rebeck: Omnium Gatherum (2003), Mauritius
(2007), and The Understudy (2008); * Sarah Ruhl: Eurydice (2003),
Clean House (2004), and In the Next Room (or the Vibrator Play)
(2009); * Lynn Nottage: Intimate Apparel (2003), Fabulation or
Re-Education of Undine (2004), and Ruined (2008); * Charles Mee:
Big Love (2000), Wintertime (2005), and Hotel Cassiopeia (2006).
The Decades of Modern American Drama series provides a
comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each
decade from the 1930s to 2009 in eight volumes. Each volume equips
readers with a detailed understanding of the context from which
work emerged: an introduction considers life in the decade with a
focus on domestic life and conditions, social changes, culture,
media, technology, industry and political events; while a chapter
on the theatre of the decade offers a wide-ranging and thorough
survey of theatres, companies, dramatists, new movements and
developments in response to the economic and political conditions
of the day. The work of the four most prominent playwrights from
the decade receives in-depth analysis and re-evaluation by a team
of experts, together with commentary on their subsequent work and
legacy. A final section brings together original documents such as
interviews with the playwrights and with directors, drafts of play
scenes, and other previously unpublished material. The major
playwrights and their works to receive in-depth coverage in this
volume include: * David Rabe: The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel;
Sticks and Bones; and Streamers; * Sam Shepard: Curse of the
Starving Class; Buried Child; and True West; * Ntozake Shange: For
colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf;
Spell #7; and Boogie-Woogie Landscapes * Richard Foreman: Sophia =
(Wisdom) Part 3; The Cliffs; Pandering to the Masses: A
Misrepresentation; and Rhoda in Potatoland (Her Fall-Starts).
The Decades of Modern American Drama series provides a
comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each
decade from the 1930s to 2009 in eight volumes. Each volume equips
readers with a detailed understanding of the context from which
work emerged: an introduction considers life in the decade with a
focus on domestic life and conditions, social changes, culture,
media, technology, industry and political events; while a chapter
on the theatre of the decade offers a wide-ranging and thorough
survey of theatres, companies, dramatists, new movements and
developments in response to the economic and political conditions
of the day. The work of the four most prominent playwrights from
the decade receives in-depth analysis and re-evaluation by a team
of experts, together with commentary on their subsequent work and
legacy. A final section brings together original documents such as
interviews with the playwrights and with directors, drafts of play
scenes, and other previously unpublished material. The major
playwrights and their works to receive in-depth coverage in this
volume include: * Eugene O'Neill: The Iceman Cometh (1946), A Moon
for the Misbegotten (1947), Long Day's Journey Into Night (written
1941, produced 1956), and A Touch of the Poet (written 1942,
produced 1958); * Tennessee Williams: The Glass Menagerie (1944), A
Streetcar Named Desire (1947), Summer and Smoke (1948); * Arthur
Miller: All My Sons (1947), Death of a Salesman (1949), and The
Crucible (1953); * Thornton Wilder: Our Town (1938), The Skin of
Our Teeth (1942), Shadow of a Doubt (1943), and The Alcestiad
(written 1940s).
The Decades of Modern American Drama series provides a
comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each
decade from the 1930s to 2009 in eight volumes. Each volume equips
readers with a detailed understanding of the context from which
work emerged: an introduction considers life in the decade with a
focus on domestic life and conditions, social changes, culture,
media, technology, industry and political events; while a chapter
on the theatre of the decade offers a wide-ranging and thorough
survey of theatres, companies, dramatists, new movements and
developments in response to the economic and political conditions
of the day. The work of the four most prominent playwrights from
the decade receives in-depth analysis and re-evaluation by a team
of experts, together with commentary on their subsequent work and
legacy. A final section brings together original documents such as
interviews with the playwrights and with directors, drafts of play
scenes, and other previously unpublished material. The major
playwrights and their works to receive in-depth coverage in this
volume include: * Clifford Odets: Waiting for Lefty (1935), Awake
and Sing! (1935) and Golden Boy (1937); * Lillian Hellman: The
Children's Hour (1934), The Little Foxes (1939), and Days to Come
(1936); * Langston Hughes: Mulatto (1935), Mule Bone (1930, with
Zora Neale Hurston) and Little Ham (1936); * Gertrude Stein: Doctor
Faustus Lights the Lights (1938), Four Saints in Three Acts
(written in 1927, published in 1932) and Listen to Me (1936).
|
You may like...
Ab Wheel
R209
R149
Discovery Miles 1 490
|