Performing Arts

This collection presents a selection of essays written from a point of view that has dance, movement, or performance at its centre, and examines the intellectual and material relationship to the art form from which they are conceived. The themes that emerge from the...

This collection of contemporary scenes provides the student actor, as well as professional and untrained performers, with material from some of the best plays ever written. Each selection contains critical information on characters, setting, and background to give a clear sense of what the...

This first of two volumes explores how contemporary Asian popular culture reflects and critiques social issues. The authors, from different scholarly backgrounds, examine how shows like Squid Game present a scathing critique of oppressive socio-economic structures, conceptualize national heterotopias, utopias, and dystopias, and facilitate...

Cinematically Rendering Confucius marks the first book-length enquiry into China's first two big screen treatments of arguably the best-known and most influential thinker in world history: Confucius. By interweaving methods drawn from Film Studies, Comparative Philosophy, and Media Archaeology in response to broader calls...

This book maps an emerging cycle of films made by Iranian diasporic women filmmakers and produced outside of Iran, focusing on five significant examples: Shirin Neshat's Women Without Men (2009), Sepideh Farsi's Red Rose (2014), Maryam Keshavarz's Circumstance (2011), Ana Lily Amirpour's A Girl...

Successful cult films like The Host and Snowpiercer proved to be harbingers for Bong Joon Ho's enormous breakthrough success with Parasite. Joseph Jonghyun Jeon provides a consideration of the director's entire career and the themes, ambitions, techniques, and preoccupations that infuse his works. As...

Praise for The Unofficial Batman: The Animated Interviews"You didn't know how much you didn't know. The ultimate definitive guide to Batman: The Animated Series."-Jean MacCurdy, President, Warner Bros. Animation, 1989-2001. Winner, two Daytime Emmys, one Primetime Emmy, Lifetime Achievement Award from the Burbank International...

Moulin Rouge meets The Greatest Showman in this romance between a vaudeville star and a showbiz tycoon who find love at the turn of the twentieth century--framed by mischievous commentary of a contemporary young historian. It's 1897, and a new fashion for thin threatens...

Drawing on thirty years of making theatre with objects, this field-defining book maps the terrain of applied puppetry. Through a range of case studies both personal and practical, Matt Smith offers a reflective and engaging study which provides makers, thinkers and students alike with...

In 1989, the Artistic Director of a San Francisco circus, Judy Finelli, met briefly with Lu Yi, the Director of the Nanjing Acrobatic Troupe, in upstate New York. It was, as Judy now calls it, "a moment that changed circus forever." Lu Yi would...

Theater on the Cape began in 1916 when a group of artists and writers in Provincetown mounted a production of a one-act play, Bound East for Cardiff, by a little-known playwright, Eugene O'Neill. They staged the play in a rickety old theater on a...

Can you imagine a post-petroleum world? African Energy Worlds in Film and Media joins energy humanists committed to undoing our deep dependence on fossil fuels and advancing equitable energy transitions by advancing this vision with a spotlight on African perspectives.African cinema is a rich...

Can you imagine a post-petroleum world? African Energy Worlds in Film and Media joins energy humanists committed to undoing our deep dependence on fossil fuels and advancing equitable energy transitions by advancing this vision with a spotlight on African perspectives.African cinema is a rich...

The official behind-the-scenes art book for Marvel's Disney+ animated series X-Men '97 The Art X-Men '97 takes fans behind the scenes of Marvel Animations' Emmy-nominated revival to X-Men: The Animated Series. Picking up where the original series left off when it aired its final...

This new and updated edition covers the full life's work of iconic director Wes Anderson, including Asteroid City, The French Dispatch, and his collection of four short films for Netflix. Loaded with rich imagery and detailed analysis of his incredible films - including the...

En Valor, agravio y mujer Leonor pretende recobrar su honra ante Don Juan. Éste le ha prometido matrimonio y no ha cumplido su promesa. En venganza Leonor se viste con atuendos masculinos, técnica común en el teatro de su tiempo. Luego, se oculta bajo...

From the critically acclaimed hit television show on HBO, comes a cocktail book designed to bring the elegant resort experience to your home. With 60 cocktails to take you from Hawaii to Sicily to Thailand, an exotic escape awaits you in every glass. With...

The first ever account of the making of the cinematic classic The Way We Were starring Barbara Streisand and Robert Redford, revealing the full story behind its genesis and continued controversies, its many deleted scenes, its much-anticipated but never-filmed sequel, and the real-life romance...

The Slingerland Book is a Slingerland family and business history. Slingerland was the world's largest drum company in two eras; the 1920s and 1960s. The company was family owned through both eras. While no Slingerland family members were actually drummers, most company executives were,...

What is unique and essential about theater? What separates it from other arts? Do we need "theater" in some fundamental way? The art of theater, as Paul Woodruff says in this elegant and unique book, is as necessary - and as powerful - as...