Theatre studies Books

Based on theatrical research of unusual depth and enterprise, Theatre as a Weapon (1986) shows how the workers' theatre of the 1920s and 1930s transformed the social function of theatre. Drawing largely on unpublished sources, it provides lively case...

Voice and Identity draws from the knowledge and expertise of leading figures to explore the evolving nature of voice training in the performing arts. The authors look through both practical and theoretical lenses as they connect voice studies to equity,...

This book uses a mixed methods research study of the career experiences of theatre graduates in the U.S. to provide data on employment patterns and job satisfaction.

This book explores a point where performing art meets human interaction and investigates the application of human factors' principles in this field. From music to magic shows, performances are analyzed from a human factors perspective. This book offers a...

Theatrical Violence Design offers the reader a complete education in the theory and practice of designing violence for the theater.

 This volume reshapes a contemporary understanding of research in theatre and performance arts. Bringing together distinguished scholars from all over the world, the book serves as an arena for international scholars to introduce innovative research...

This volume focuses on the theatre history of Asian countries, and discusses the specific context of theatre modernization in Asia. While Asian theatre is one of the primary interests within theatre scholarship in the world today, knowledge of Asian...

This book adopts a refreshing approach by examining Hokkien theatre in a region connected by maritime networks, notably southern Fujian, Taiwan, Kinmen and Singapore. It considers how regional theatre is shaped by broader socio-cultural and political...

This book critically engages with the study of theatre and performance in colonial India, and relates it with colonial (and postcolonial) discussions on experience, freedom, institution-building, modernity, nation/subject not only as concepts but...

A Voice Actor's Guide to Audio Description Performance is a comprehensive resource written to enhance the quality of audio description (AD) for blind audiences. ​ It emphasizes the importance of treating AD as a craft, focusing on creating immersive...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2016 im Fachbereich Theaterwissenschaft, Tanz, Note: 1,7, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Theaterwissenschaftliches Institut (TWM)), Veranstaltung: Das Musical und seine Ursprungstexte Roman, Film und Wirklichkeit,...

Das Lexikon enthält sämtliche für die Sprechwissenschaft relevanten Begriffe - insgesamt etwa 1000 Lemmata, ausgewählt auf Basis der sprechwissenschaftlichen Fachliteratur der letzten vierzig Jahre. Die Terminologie der Disziplin speist sich neben den...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2015 im Fachbereich Medien / Kommunikation - Mediengeschichte, Note: 1.5, Universität Zürich (Seminar für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Ziel der vorliegenden Arbeit ist es, bedeutende...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Theaterwissenschaft, Tanz, Note: 2,3, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (Institut für Theater- und Medienwissenschaft), Veranstaltung: Kulturen, Funktionen und Wahrnehmungsformen der...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2013 im Fachbereich Theaterwissenschaft, Tanz, Note: 1,7, Freie Universität Berlin (Institut für Theaterwissenschaft), Veranstaltung: Basismodul Theaterhistoriographie (PS 17 515), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: „Weltklimabericht:...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2014 im Fachbereich Theaterwissenschaft, Tanz, Note: 1,0, Universität Wien (Theater-, Film- und Medienwissenschaft), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: "Aus der Anonymität der Alltäglichkeit ins prüfende Scheinwerferlicht der...

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Medien / Kommunikation - Mediengeschichte, Note: 1,0, Universität Passau, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Eine vergleichende Analyse der Berichterstattungen rund um den Mauerfall in Ost und West in Printmedien...

Sammelband aus dem Jahr 2014 im Fachbereich Theaterwissenschaft, Tanz, Note: 1, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Lange galten kommerzielle Tanzstile als „Stiefkind" in der Tanzwelt: Als Kunstform wurden sie nicht ernst genommen, für die pädagogische Arbeit...

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Kunst - Management, Vermarktung, Note: 1,3, Hochschule Fresenius; Köln (Media Management), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In der vorliegenden Bachelor Arbeit bestand die Aufgabenstellung darin, das bestehende...

El presente volumen que se entiende como una invitación a viajar por nuevas cartografías del deseo femenino se dedica a un estudio transnacional de cuestiones de construcción de género, cuerpo, mirada, queerness y deseo femenino en la cultura fílmica y...

Since the 1880s, electrical energies started circulating in European theaters, generated from fossil fuels in urban power plants. A mysterious force, which was still traded as romantic life force by some and for others had already come to stand...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2021 im Fachbereich Theaterwissenschaft, Tanz, Note: 2,7, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main (Neuere Philologien), Veranstaltung: Ringv. Kritisieren: Distanz und Engagement., Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese...

This book develops media archaeological approaches to theatre and intermediality. As an age-old art form, theatre has always embraced 'new' media. To create theatrical effects and optical illusions, theatre makers were ready to integrate state-of-the-art...

This book assembles texts by renowned academics and theatre artists who were professionally active during the wars in former Yugoslavia. It examines examples of how various forms of theatre and performance reacted to the conflicts in Serbia, Croatia,...

This collection of essays addresses emergent trends in the meeting of the disciplines of phenomenology and performance. It brings together major scholars in the field, dealing with phenomenological approaches to dance, theatre, performance, embodiment,...

This book shows that Shakespeare continues to influence contemporary Irish literature, through postcolonial, dramaturgical, epistemological and narratological means. International critics examine a range of contemporary writers including Eavan Boland,...

This book theorizes the baroque as neither a time period nor an artistic style but as a collection of bodily practices developed from clashes between governmental discipline and artistic excess, moving between the dramaturgy of Jesuit spiritual...

This book examines the intersection between sound and modernity in dramatic and musical performance in Manila and the Asia-Pacific between 1869 and 1948. During this period, tolerant political regimes resulted in the globalization of capitalist relations...

This book recounts the personal and professional life of Thomas Souness Hamblin (1800-1853), Shakespearean actor and Bowery Theatre manager. Primarily responsible for the popularity of "blood and thunder" melodramas with working class audiences in New...

This book is a collection of essays on neglected aspects of the Great War. It begins by asking what exactly was so "Great" about it, before turning to individual studies of various aspects of the war. These fall broadly into two categories. Firstly...

This book works to 'make change strange' from and for the field of theatre and performance studies. Growing from the idea that change is an under-interrogated category that over-determines theatre and performance as an artistic, social, educational, and...

This book argues that the digital revolution has fundamentally altered the way musicals are produced, followed, admired, marketed, reviewed, researched, taught, and even cast. In the first hundred years of its existence, commercial musical theatre...

This book considers the pedagogy of the theatre laboratory, focusing on seminal theatre group Odin Teatret. It provides a detailed discussion of the historical background to theatre laboratories, including their conception, before moving on to...

This book analyzes the interaction of crimes, punishments, and Bernard Shaw in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It explores crimes committed by professional criminals, nonprofessional criminals, businessmen, believers in a cause, the police, the...

This book shows how Shakespeare's excellence as storyteller, wit and poet reflects the creative process of conceptual blending. Cognitive theory provides a wealth of new ideas that illuminate Shakespeare, even as he illuminates them, and the theory of...

This book is the first full-length monograph to focus on Punchdrunk, the internationally-renowned theatre company known for its pioneering approach to immersive theatre. With its promises of empowerment, freedom and experiential joy, immersive...

This book addresses the notion posed by Thomas Kilroy in his definition of a playwright's creative process: 'We write plays, I feel, in order to populate the stage'. It gathers eclectic reflections on contemporary Irish theatre from both Irish theatre...

This book brings together the fields of theatre, gender studies, and psychology/sociology in order to explore the relationships between what happens when women engage in violence, how the events and their reception intercept with cultural understandings...

This book asserts the extraordinary quality of mid-twentieth century playwright Terence Rattigan's dramatic art and its basis in his use of subtext, implication, and understatement. By discussing every play in chronological order, the book also ...

This book provides an overall history of the regional theatre movement in the US, while also utilizing specific accomplishments and failures in addition to crucial administrative and artistic decisions to chart larger developments in American theatre,...

Multilingual Dramaturgies provides a study of dramaturgical practices in contemporary multilingual theatre in Europe. Featuring interviews with international theatremakers, the book gives an insight into diverse approaches towards multilingual...

This book examines the institutional contexts of dramaturgical practices in the changing political landscape of 20th century Germany. Through wide-ranging case studies, it discusses the way in which operationalised modes of action, legal frameworks and...

Defining class broadly as an identity categorization based on status, wealth, family, bloodlines, and occupation, Intersectionalities of Class in Early Modern English Drama e xplores class as a complicated, contingent phenomenon modified by a wider range...

This book provides key critical tools to significantly broaden the readers' perception of theatre and performance history: in line with posthuman thought, each chapter engages Actor-Network Theory and similar theories to reveal a comprehensive range of...

This book offers a critical account of film performances by nonprofessional actors. Nonprofessional actors - actors without previous acting training or experience - have performed in films since the days of the Lumière brothers. Generally associated with...