Outputs (58)

Watching jazz: Encounters with jazz performance on screen (2016)
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Elsdon, P. (2016). B. Heile, P. Elsdon, & J. Doctor (Eds.). Watching jazz: Encounters with jazz performance on screen. Oxford University Press

Watching Jazz: Encounters with Jazz Performance on Screen is the first systematic study of jazz on screen media. Where earlier studies have focused almost entirely on the role and portrayal of jazz in Hollywood film, the present book engages with a p... Read More about Watching jazz: Encounters with jazz performance on screen.

Theatrical Reality: Space, Embodiment and Empathy in Performance (2016)
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Edinborough, C. (2016). Theatrical Reality: Space, Embodiment and Empathy in Performance. Intellect

Performance, dramaturgy, and scenography are often explored in isolation, but in Theatrical Reality, Campbell Edinborough describes their connectedness in order to investigate how the experience of reality is constructed and understood during perform... Read More about Theatrical Reality: Space, Embodiment and Empathy in Performance.

Music, technology, and education: Critical perspectives (2016)
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King, A., & Himonides, E. (Eds.). (2016). Music, technology, and education: Critical perspectives. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315596945

The use of technology in music and education can no longer be described as a recent development. Music learners actively engage with technology in their music making, regardless of the opportunities afforded to them in formal settings. This volume dr... Read More about Music, technology, and education: Critical perspectives.

Music and Gesture (2016)
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King, E., & Gritten, A. (Eds.). (2016). Music and Gesture. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315091006

This volume showcases key theoretical ideas and practical considerations in the growing area of scholarship on musical gesture. The book constructs and explores the relations between music and gesture from a range of differing perspectives, identifyi... Read More about Music and Gesture.

From the chanson française to the canzone d’autore in the 1960s and 1970s. Authenticity, Authority, Influence (2015)
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Haworth, R. (2015). From the chanson française to the canzone d’autore in the 1960s and 1970s. Authenticity, Authority, Influence. Routledge

Classical Hollywood cinema: Point of view and communication (2015)
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Zborowski, J. (2015). Classical Hollywood cinema: Point of view and communication. Manchester University Press

© James Zborowski 2016. All rights reserved. This book offers a new approach to filmic point of view by combining close analyses informed by the tools of narratology and philosophy with concepts derived from communication studies. Each chapter stages... Read More about Classical Hollywood cinema: Point of view and communication.

Meyerhold and the Cubists: Perspectives in Painting and Performance (2015)
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Skinner, A. (2015). Meyerhold and the Cubists: Perspectives in Painting and Performance. Intellect

This book offers a rich analysis of collage practices in the theatre of Vsevolod Meyerhold. Focusing on the philosophical and formal tenets of the form, and supporting her analysis with wide-ranging examples from both theatre and fine art, Amy Skinne... Read More about Meyerhold and the Cubists: Perspectives in Painting and Performance.

El conocimiento de la realidad a través de la ficción: Una lectura epistemológica de Borges y Cortázar (2015)
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Riberi, A. (2015). El conocimiento de la realidad a través de la ficción: Una lectura epistemológica de Borges y Cortázar. Walter Frey

This brief study deals with aspects related to fantastic literature in Borges and Cortázar, and of the worldviews that originate in it. Both Borges and Cortázar redefine the fantastic in epistemological terms, so that their own study can be considere... Read More about El conocimiento de la realidad a través de la ficción: Una lectura epistemológica de Borges y Cortázar.

Hybrid identity and the utopian impulse in the postmodern Spanish-American comic novel (2015)
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McAleer, P. (2015). Hybrid identity and the utopian impulse in the postmodern Spanish-American comic novel. Boydell & Brewer

An important but often overlooked function of comedy is its intrinsic relation to questions of identity. This relationship, furthermore, is connected to another traditional feature of comedy: the utopian impulse. This book analyses these functions of... Read More about Hybrid identity and the utopian impulse in the postmodern Spanish-American comic novel.

Focus on festivals: Contemporary European case studies and perspective (2015)
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Bianchini, F. (2015). C. Newbold, C. Maughan, J. Jordan, & F. Bianchini (Eds.). Focus on festivals: Contemporary European case studies and perspective. Goodfellow publishers

This book presents a contemporary overview of our most ubiquitous cultural phenomena - festivals. It is able to do so by taking a powerful and unique case-study focused, theoretically rigorous and pan-European approach. It comes from a hugely expert... Read More about Focus on festivals: Contemporary European case studies and perspective.

Victorians on screen: The nineteenth century on British television, 1994-2005 (2014)
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Kleinecke-Bates, I. (2014). Victorians on screen: The nineteenth century on British television, 1994-2005. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137316721

© Iris Kleinecke-Bates 2014. All rights reserved. Victorians on Screen investigates the representation of the Victorian age on British television from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s. Structured around key areas of enquiry specific to British televisi... Read More about Victorians on screen: The nineteenth century on British television, 1994-2005.

Caravaggio in film and literature: Popular culture's appropriation of a Baroque genius (2014)
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Rorato, L. (2014). Caravaggio in film and literature: Popular culture's appropriation of a Baroque genius. Maney Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315095967

© Modern Humanities Research Association and Taylor and Francis 2014. All rights reserved. The idea of writing a book about fictional representations of Caravaggio came to me as far back as 2004 when I was writing a paper on art as inauguration in Pi... Read More about Caravaggio in film and literature: Popular culture's appropriation of a Baroque genius.

Handsome heroes and vile villains: Masculinity in Disney's feature films (2014)
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Davis, A. (2014). Handsome heroes and vile villains: Masculinity in Disney's feature films. John Libbey Publishing

From dwarves to princes, heroes to heartbreakers, the Disney treatment of male characters in the studio’s animated features.

Theatre, performance and technology: the development and transformation of scenography (2013)
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Baugh, C. (2013). Theatre, performance and technology: the development and transformation of scenography. Palgrave Macmillan

Chris Baugh explores how developments and changes in technology have been reflected in scenography throughout history. Taking into account the latest research, his new edition examines moving light technologies, the internet as a platform of performa... Read More about Theatre, performance and technology: the development and transformation of scenography.

Haggis Hunting: fifty years of new playwrighting in Scotland (2013)
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McKean, K. S. M., & McCartney, N. (2013). N. McCartney, & K. S. Morgan McKean (Eds.). Haggis Hunting: fifty years of new playwrighting in Scotland. Edinburgh University Press

Guest editors Nicola McCartney and K.S Morgan McKean have created a wonderful theatre-based issue of the Review, which tied in beautifully with the Haggis Hunting: 50 Years of New Playwriting in Scotland conference.

Keith Jarrett's The Köln Concert (2013)
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Elsdon, P. (2013). Keith Jarrett's The Köln Concert. Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aosobl/9780199779253.001.0001

Keith Jarrett ranks among the most accomplished and influential pianists in jazz history. His Köln Concert stands among the most important jazz recordings of the past four decades, not only because of the music on the record, but also because of the... Read More about Keith Jarrett's The Köln Concert.

Intimacy across visceral and digital performance (2012)
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Chatzichristodoulou, M., & Zerihan, R. (2012). R. Zerihan, & M. Chatzichristodoulou (Eds.). Intimacy across visceral and digital performance. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137283337

Intimacy Across Visceral and Digital Performance is an edited collection designed to address a diverse set of critical responses to and practical interrogations of the notion of being intimate in emergent and hybrid performance practices, aiming to e... Read More about Intimacy across visceral and digital performance.

České pokusy o Shakespeara : dějiny českých překladů Shakespeara doplněné antologií neznámých a vzácných textů z let 1782-1922. (Czech attempts at Shakespeare) (2012)
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Drábek, P. (2012). České pokusy o Shakespeara : dějiny českých překladů Shakespeara doplněné antologií neznámých a vzácných textů z let 1782-1922. (Czech attempts at Shakespeare). Větrné mlýny

A History of Czech Translations of Shakespeare with an Anthology of Unknown and Rare Texts from the Years 1782-1922. The history of Czech translations of Shakespeare dates back to the 1780s when the first versions of Shakespeare’s plays were printed.... Read More about České pokusy o Shakespeara : dějiny českých překladů Shakespeara doplněné antologií neznámých a vzácných textů z let 1782-1922. (Czech attempts at Shakespeare).

Violent women in print : representations in the West German print media of the 1960s and 1970s (2012)
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Bielby, C. (2012). Violent women in print : representations in the West German print media of the 1960s and 1970s. Camden House

As the controversy surrounding the release of Uli Edel and Bernd Eichinger's 2008 feature film The Baader Meinhof Complex demonstrates, West Germany's terrorist period, which reached its height in the "German autumn" of 1977, is still a fascinating -... Read More about Violent women in print : representations in the West German print media of the 1960s and 1970s.

Czech stage art and stage design (2011)
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Drábek, P., Billing, C., & Drabek, P. (2011). Czech stage art and stage design. Masarykova univerzita

A special issue of the peer-reviewed journal Theatralia/Yorick on Czech scenography, stage design and historical periods of Czech stage art. Co-edited and introduction co-written with Christian M. Billing.