This study investigates a range or current research domains, methodologies and methods in theatre and performance studies. Case studies provide evidence of the usefulness of certain methods for particular projects.
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The fatal female figure has been a recurrent one in literature, the visual arts and cinema. Originating in early forms of stories and myths, such as those of Eve, the Sirens and Medusa, fatal women have been the focus of narratives of good and evil, of desire and danger and ofte…
These essays trace the femme fatale across literature, visual culture and cinema, exploring the ways in which fatal femininity has been imagined in different cultural contexts and historical epochs, and moving from mythical women such as Eve, Medusa and the Sirens via historical…
Ghosts of the Asia-Pacific War in Contemporary Japan -- Lingering Legacies of the War: Performance and Specters at Yasukuni Shrine -- Returning Kamikaze: Popular Culture, Affect, and Theatrical Repetition -- Staging Response-ability: Historical Omissions and the Audience -- Beco…
Women in Asian performance: aesthetics and politics
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Women in Asian performance: aesthetics and politics
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Erasure -- The woman thing: issues and advances for women in Southeast Asian traditions / Kathy Foley, University of California Santa cruz -- Women in a man's world: gender and power in Japanese Noh theatre / Barbara Geilhorn, Manchester University -- "Just like a woman": female…
"This book revives what was unique, strange, and exciting about the variety of performances that took place in the realms of the French kings and Burgundian dukes. Laura Weigert brings together a wealth of visual artifacts and practices to explore this tradition of late medieval…
Volume 1. From the Romans to the Enlightenment "An Illustrated History of British Theatre chronicles the history and development of theatre from the Roman era to the present day. As the most public of arts, theatre constantly interacted with changing social, political, and inte…
"An Illustrated History of British Theatre chronicles the history and development of theatre from the Roman era to the present day. As the most public of arts, theatre constantly interacted with changing social, political, and intellectual movements and ideas, and Robert Leach's…
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Illustrations -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I: Genealogies, Contexts And Traditions -- 1 Performances of Philosophy in Ancient Greece and in Modernity: Suddenly a P…
"Cultural Responses to Occupation in Japan examines how the performing arts, and the performing body specifically, have shaped and been shaped by the political and historical conditions experienced in Japan during the Cold War and post-Cold War periods. This study of original an…
