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Art and Place
Essays on Art From a Hong Kong Perspective
The book brings together a series of essays about art in Hong Kong written over the last ten years, with the intention of offering a personal chronicle of the Hong Kong art world during a time of great change. Many of the essays concern themselves with the work of local artist...
(2010)
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Hong Kong's Health System
Reflections, Perspectives and Visions
by Gabriel M. L... and John Bacon S...
This is a provocative essay of reflections on traditional mainstream scholarship on Chinese art as done by towering figures in the field such as James Cahill and Wen Fong. James Elkins offers an engaging and accessible survey of his personal journey encountering and interpreti...
(2008)
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At the Epicentre
Hong Kong and the SARS Outbreak
This book documents in letters, photos, and paintings a special friendship between two highly creative individuals who helped shape Chinese culture in the twentieth century — the revered traditional painter Huang Binhong (1865–1955) and the young, cosmopolitan crit...
(2004)
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Unternehmenstheater - vo...
Eine theaterwissenschaftliche Betrachtung
Unternehmenstheater wird zunehmend erfolgreich von Consultingfirmen eingesetzt, um bei großen Unternehmen innerbetriebliche Veränderungen zu begleiten oder Mitarbeiterschulungen durchzuführen, und für vieles anderes mehr. Bei dieser Art von Theater in und ...
(2012)
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Performing America
Cultural Nationalism in American Theater
Performing America provides fresh perspectives on the development of visions of both America and "America"--that is, the actual community and the constructed concept--on a variety of theatrical stages. It explores the role of theater in the construction of American identity, h...
(2009)
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Playing Underground
A Critical History of the 1960s Off-Off-Broadway Movement
Scrupulously researched, critically acute, and written with care, Playing Underground will become a classic account of an era of hard-won free expression. -William Coco "At last---a book documenting the beginnings of Off- Off Broadway theater. Playing Underground is an insight...
(2009)
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Sails of the Herring Fleet
Essays on Beckett
by Herbert Blau
Sails of the Herring Fleet traces esteemed director and theorist Herbert Blau's encounters with the work of Samuel Beckett. Blau directed Beckett's plays when they were still virtually unknown, and for more than four decades has remained one of the leading interpreters of his ...
(2009)
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A Beckett Canon
by Ruby Cohn
Samuel Beckett is unique in literature. Born and educated in Ireland, he lived most of his life in Paris. His literary output was rendered in either English or French, and he often translated one to the other, but there is disagreement about the contents of his bilingual corpu...
(2010)
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Embodying Black Experience
Stillness, Critical Memory, and the Black Body
by Harvey Young
"Young's linkage between critical race theory, historical inquiry, and performance studies is a necessary intersection. Innovative, creative, and provocative." ---Davarian Baldwin, Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of American Studies, Trinity College In 1901, George War...
(2010)
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Arthur Miller's America
Theater and Culture in a Time of Change
Perspectives on America's greatest living playwright that explore his longstanding commitment to forging a uniquely American theater Arthur Miller's America collects new writing by leading international critics and scholars that considers the dramatic world of icon, activist, ...
(2010)
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Illusive Utopia
Theater, Film, and Everyday Performance in North Korea
"North Korea is not just a security or human rights problem (although it is those things) but a real society. This book gets us closer to understanding North Korea beyond the usual headlines, and does so in a richly detailed, well-researched, and theoretically contextualized w...
(2010)
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Not the Other Avant-Garde
The Transnational Foundations of Avant-Garde Performance
Almost without exception, studies of the avant-garde take for granted the premise that the influential experimental practices associated with the avant- garde began primarily as a European phenomenon that in turn spread around the world. These ten original essays, especially c...
(2010)
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Staging Philosophy
Intersections of Theater, Performance, and Philosophy
The fifteen original essays in Staging Philosophy make useful connections between the discipline of philosophy and the fields of theater and performance and use these insights to develop new theories about theater. Each of the contributors—leading scholars in the fields of per...
(2010)
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The Stage Life of Props
by Andrew Sofer
In The Stage Life of Props, Andrew Sofer aims to restore to certain props the performance dimensions that literary critics are trained not to see, then to show that these props are not just accessories, but time machines of the theater. Using case studies that explore the Euch...
(2010)
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Bulldaggers, Pansies, an...
Performance, Race, and Sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance
"James F. Wilson uncovers fascinating new material on the Harlem Renaissance, shedding light on the oft-forgotten gay and lesbian contributions to the era's creativity and Civil Rights. Extremely well researched, compellingly written, and highly informative." ---David Krasner,...
(2010)
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Margaret Webster
A Life in the Theater
In Milly Barranger, Margaret Webster has found the perfect biographer. In Margaret Webster, Milly Barranger has found her perfect subject. She brings to vivid life a fascinating and important theater figure whose public and private lives were of equal interest. In this careful...
(2010)
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Myst and Riven
The World of the D'ni
“Myst and Riven is well-written, interesting, on-topic, insightful, and a real pleasure to read.” —Edward Castronova, Indiana University Video games have become a major cultural force, and within their history, Myst and its sequel Riven stand out as influential examples. Myst ...
(2011)
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No Safe Spaces
Re-casting Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality in American Theater
"No Safe Spaces opens up a conversation beyond narrow polemics . . . Although cross-racial casting has been the topic of heated discussion, little sustained scholarship addresses both the historical precedents and theoretical dimensions. Pao illustrates the tensions and contra...
(2011)
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The President Electric
Ronald Reagan and the Politics of Performance
"In this illuminating, multi-pronged cultural and performance history of such phenomena as Chautauqua and radio, movies, and electrical technology, Timothy Raphael puts together a compelling and sometimes revelatory narrative of how commandingly Reagan mastered the matrix of p...
(2011)
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Die Architekturbücher de...
Vitruvrezeption im Kontext mathematischer Wissenschaften
Die Zehn Bücher über Architektur des antiken Autors Vitruv stellen für die Baukunst der Frühen Neuzeit einen Schlüsseltext dar, anhand dessen man die Bauformen und Techniken der Antike wiederzugewinnen suchte. Dieses Textes nahm sich Mitte des 16. Jahrhunderts einer der bekann...
(2012)
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