Mei Lanfang And The Twentieth Century International Stage

Author : M. Tian
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137010436
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mei Lanfang and the Twentieth-Century International Stage written by M. Tian and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-01-02 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book-length study in any language of the presence and influence of Mei Lanfang, the internationally known Chinese actor who specialized in female roles on the twentieth-century international stage. Tian investigates Mei Lanfang's presence and influence and the transnational and intercultural appropriations of his art.

Author : E. Essin
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137108398
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stage Designers in Early Twentieth-Century America written by E. Essin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-12-23 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By casting designers as authors, cultural critics, activists, entrepreneurs, and global cartographers, Essin tells a story about scenic images on the page, stage, and beyond that helped American audiences see the everyday landscapes and exotic destinations from a modern perspective.

Author : Min Tian
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000737837
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Spectre of Tradition and the Aesthetic-Political Movement of Theatre and Performance written by Min Tian and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book interrogates anew the phenomenon of tradition in a dialogical debate with a host of Western thinkers and critical minds. In contrast to the predominantly Western approaches, which look at traditions (Western and non-Western) from a predominantly (Western) modernist perspective, this book interrogates, from an intercultural perspective, the transnational and transcultural consecration, translation, (re)invention, and displacement of traditions (theatrical and cultural) in the aesthetic-political movement of twentieth-century theatre and performance, as exemplified in the case studies of this book. It looks at the question of traditions and modernities at the centre of this aesthetic-political space, as modernities interculturally evoke and are haunted by traditions, and as traditions are interculturally refracted, reconstituted, refunctioned, and reinvented. It also looks at the applicability of its intercultural perspective on tradition to the historical avant-garde in general, postmodern, postcolonial, and postdramatic theatre and performance and to the twentieth-century "classical" intercultural theatre and the twenty-first-century "new interculturalisms" in theatre and performance. To conclude, it looks at the future of tradition in the ecology of our globalized theatrum mundi and considers two important interrelated concepts, future tradition and intercultural tradition. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in performance studies.

Author : Min Tian
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9622099076
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Poetics of Difference and Displacement written by Min Tian and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intercultural theater is a prominent phenomena of twentieth-century international theater. This books views intercultural theatre as a process of displacement and re-placement of various cultural and theatrical forces, a process which the author describes as 'the poetics of displacement'.

Author : L. Vidler
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137437073
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Performance Reconstruction and Spanish Golden Age Drama written by L. Vidler and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-09 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanish Golden Age drama has resurfaced in recent years, however scholarly analysis has not kept pace with its popularity. This book problematizes and analyzes the approaches to staging reconstruction taken over the past few decades, including historical, semiotic, anthropological, cultural, structural, cognitive and phenomenological methods.

Author : J. Westgate
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137357681
Total Pages : 459 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Staging the Slums, Slumming the Stage written by J. Westgate and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on traditional archival research, reception theory, cultural histories of slumming, and recent work in critical theory on literary representations of poverty, Westgate argues that the productions of slum plays served as enactments of the emergent definitions of the slum and the corresponding ethical obligations involved therein.

Author : Helen Krich Chinoy
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137294604
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Group Theatre written by Helen Krich Chinoy and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-11-06 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Group Theatre , a groundbreaking ensemble collective, started the careers of many top American theatre artists of the twentieth century and founded what became known as Method Acting. This book is the definitive history, based on over thirty years of research and interviews by the foremost theatre scholar of the time period, Helen Chinoy.

Author : Paul Bevan
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900430794X
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Modern Miscellany written by Paul Bevan and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-11-02 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Modern Miscellany Paul Bevan demonstrates that in the 1930s the Chinese cartoon was not only important in the sphere of Shanghai popular culture but that it occupied a central place in the primary discourse of Chinese modern art history.

Author : N. Pressley
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137415185
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Playwriting and the Anti-Political Prejudice written by N. Pressley and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-06 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty years after Tony Kushner's influential Angels in America seemed to declare a revitalized potency for the popular political play, there is a "No Politics" prejudice undermining US production and writing. This book explores the largely unrecognized cultural patterns that discourage political playwriting on the contemporary American stage.

Author : Daphne Lei
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350040487
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Methuen Drama Handbook of Interculturalism and Performance written by Daphne Lei and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-02 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Methuen Drama Handbook of Interculturalism and Performance explores ground-breaking new directions and critical discourse in the field of intercultural theatre and performance while surveying key debates concerning interculturalism as an aesthetic and ethical series of encounters in theatre and performance from the 1960s onwards. The handbook's global coverage challenges understandings of intercultural theatre and performance that continue to prioritise case studies emerging primarily from the West and executed by elite artists. By building on a growing field of scholarship on intercultural theatre and performance that examines minoritarian and grassroots work, the volume offers an alternative and multi-vocal view of what interculturalism might offer as a theoretical keyword to the future of theatre and performance studies, while also contributing an energized reassessment of the vociferous debates that have long accompanied its critical and practical usage in a performance context. By exploring anew what happens when interculturalism and performance intersect as embodied practice, The Methuen Drama Handbook of Interculturalism and Performance offers new perspectives on a seminal theoretical concept still as useful as it is controversial. Featuring a series of indispensable research tools, including a fully annotated bibliography, this is the essential scholarly handbook for anyone working in intercultural theatre and performance, and performance studies.