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  • Readings of Contemporary Circus

    A Dramaturgy

    by Franziska Trapp ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
    What are the characteristics of contemporary circus? In what way does contemporary circus differ from theater, dance, and performance? Where do hybrid forms exist? Where are there observable commonalities? Despite the diversity of contemporary circus performances, are there generalizable characteristics that unite the performances? What potential do these questions have for dramaturgical practice ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • 360° Circus

    Meaning. Practice. Culture

    Edited by Franziska Trapp ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
    This collection aims to map a diversity of approaches to the artform by creating a 360° view on the circus.The three sections of the book, Aesthetics, Practice, Culture, approach aesthetic developments, issues of artistic practice, and the circus’ role within society. This book consists of a collection of articles from renowned circus researchers, junior researchers, and artists. It also provides ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

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  • Contemporary Mise en Scène

    Staging Theatre Today

    by Patrice Pavis ...
    Translated by Joel Anderson ...
    ‘We have good reason to be wary of mise en scène, but that is all the more reason to question this wariness ... it seems that images from a performance come back to haunt us, as if to prolong and transform our experience as spectators, as if to force us to rethink the event, to return to our pleasure or our terror.’ – Patrice Pavis, from the forewordContemporary Mise en Scène is Patrice Pavis’s ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Routledge Dictionary of Performance and Contemporary Theatre

    by Patrice Pavis ...
    The Routledge Dictionary of Contemporary Theatre and Performance provides the first authoritative alphabetical guide to the theatre and performance of the last 30 years.Conceived and written by one of the foremost scholars and critics of theatre in the world, it literally takes us from Activism to Zapping, analysing everything along the way from Body Art and the Flashmob to Multimedia and the ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Theatre at the Crossroads of Culture

    by Patrice Pavis ...
    Translated by Loren Kruger ...
    Western culture has a long and fraught history of cultural appropriation, a history that has particular resonance within performance practice. Patrice Pavis asks what is at stake politically and aesthetically when cultures meet at the crossroads of theatre.?A series of major recent productions are analysed, including Peter Brook's Mahabharata, Cixous/Mnouchkine's Indiande, and Barba's Faust. These ... Read more

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  • Reading bande dessinee

    Critical Approaches to French-language Comic Strip

    by Ann Miller ...
    The increasing popularity of bande dessinee, or French-language comic strip, means that it is being established on university syllabuses worldwide. Reading Bande Dessinee provides a thorough introduction to the medium and in-depth critical analysis with focus on contemporary examples of the art form, historical context, key artists, and themes such as gender, autobiography and postcolonial culture ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Transformative Power of Performance

    A New Aesthetics

    by Erika Fischer-Lichte ...
    Translated by Saskya Jain ...
    In this book, Erika Fischer-Lichte traces the emergence of performance as 'an art event' in its own right. In setting performance art on an equal footing with the traditional art object, she heralds a new aesthetics.The peculiar mode of experience that a performance provokes – blurring distinctions between artist and audience, body and mind, art and life – is here framed as the breeding ground for ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Sound

    An Acoulogical Treatise

    by Michel Chion ...
    Translated by James A Steintrager ...
    First published in French in 1998, revised in 2010, and appearing here in English for the first time, Michel Chion's Sound addresses the philosophical, interpretive, and practical questions that inform our encounters with sound. Chion considers how cultural institutions privilege some sounds above others and how spurious distinctions between noise and sound guide the ways we hear and value certain ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Atlas of Emotion

    Journeys in Art, Architecture, and Film

    by Giuliana Bruno ...
    An award-winning cultural history of how we experience the world through art, film and architectureAtlas of Emotion is a highly original endeavor to map the cultural terrain of spatio-visual arts. In an evocative blend of words and pictures, Giuliana Bruno emphasizes the connections between “sight” and “site” and “motion” and “emotion.” In so doing, she touches on the art of Gerhard Richter and ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Jacques Lacan: Dialectic of Desire and Structure of the sensorial Perception

    by Antonio Rainone ...
    This book aims at outlining what the Dialectic of Desire is in Lacan. Starting from the analysis of the concept of desire-for-desire, I dwell on considering the function that “the desire for the Other” has in structuring, both in the Logic of Fantasy (or of Unconscious) and in the way the phenomenic representation of the Real is established. Moreover I examine how the classical aesthetic theory, ... Read more

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  • Comics and Narration

    by Thierry Groensteen ...
    Translated by Ann Miller ...
    This book is the follow-up to Thierry Groensteen's ground-breaking The System of Comics, in which the leading French-language comics theorist set out to investigate how the medium functions, introducing the principle of iconic solidarity, and showing the systems that underlie the articulation between panels at three levels: page layout, linear sequence, and nonsequential links woven through the ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Archaeologies of Presence

    Edited by Gabriella Giannachi, Nick Kaye, Michael Shanks ...
    Archaeologies of Presence is a brilliant exploration of how the performance of presence can be understood through the relationships between performance theory and archaeological thinking. Drawing together carefully commissioned contributions by leading international scholars and artists, this radical new work poses a number of essential questions:What are the principle signifiers of theatrical ... Read more

    $68.99 USD