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Contemporary Theatre in Educationby Roger Wooster
Intellect 2007; US$ 10.00Theatre in Education emerged in the mid-sixties as a unique hybrid of performance and child-centred learning. Contemporary Theatre in Education charts the creation and adaptation of this 'hybrid' through the changing political, economic and educational environment. It also takes a 'snapshot' of the TIE being created today, considering all the projects being performed in Wales during a single month. The projects are analysed and every TIE director interviewed about the work and the policies of their companies. It becomes very clear that that the distinction between TIE and Childrens Theatre is being blurred. Is it possible for the hybrid to survive? Or have the economics of schools, the post-National Curriculum educational... more...
The Adventure of the Realby Paul Henley
University of Chicago Press 2010; US$ 30.00Though relatively unsung in the English-speaking world, Jean Rouch (1917–2004) was a towering figure of ethnographic cinema. Over the course of a fifty-year career, he completed over one hundred films, both documentary and fiction, and exerted an influence far beyond academia. Exhaustively researched yet elegantly written, The Adventure of the Real is the first comprehensive analysis of his practical filmmaking methods. Rouch developed these methods while conducting anthropological research in West Africa in the 1940s–1950s. His innovative use of unscripted improvisation by his subjects had a profound impact on the French New Wave, Paul Henley reveals, while his documentary work launched the genre of cinema-vérité... more...
The Literary Monster on Filmby Abigail Burnham Bloom
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2010; US$ 35.00Many monsters in Victorian British novels were intimately connected with the protagonist, and representative of both a character's personal failings and the failings of the society in which they lived. By contrast, more recent film adaptations of these novels depict the creatures as arbitrarily engaging in senseless violence, and suggest a modern fear of the uncontrollable. This dichotomy is here analyzed through examinations of the classic novels Frankenstein, Dracula, H. Rider Haggard's She, Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Wells's The Island of Dr. Moreau, and analysis of the 20th century film adaptations of the works. more...
Marilyn Monroe: Private and Undisclosedby Michelle Morgan
Constable & Robinson 2012; US$ 14.57Following a number of sensationalist biographies of Marilyn Monroe in recent years, this comprehensive, meticulously researched volume brings an important fresh perspective on the many controversies in her life. It is essential reading for anyone interested in Marilyn Monroe and the Golden Age of Hollywood. This new edition of Marilyn Monroe: Private and Undisclosed has been thoroughly revised and expanded to include an additional 60,000 words. It reveals a very different Marilyn from the celluloid invention. For the first volume, Michelle Morgan interviewed approximately 100 people who knew or were related to Marilyn in some way, including key figures in her life - family and friends, as well as work colleagues, and more casual acquaintances.... more...
Two Plays by Nicole Burtonby Nicole J. Burton
Boson Books 1997; US$ 12.95DEP-LOVE : If an abandoned 8-year old girl can't find true love with an Egyptian fortune-telling hairdresser, where can she find it? Every month, when Hazel's foster home sends her to Alma's hair salon, Hazel gets more than a shampoo; she gets love. But war breaks out in Egypt, and Alma's family must quickly return home. In their last minutes together, can Alma convince Hazel she is not abandoning her? The ten-minute play, DEP-LOVE , was second-place winner in the Source Theater Summer Festival. FREUDIAN SLIP : This playful one act drama turns on a play on a play on words. Set in a modern office and featuring actors of differing background cultures, FREUDIAN SLIP literalizes and pokes fun at the Freudian concept. For an author... more...
Three Plays by H. Liebermanby Harold Lieberman
Boson Books 1995; US$ 2.99Kafka in Love deals with the last year of Franz Kafka's life. It won the Forest A. Roberts/Playwrighting Contest award and was produced at the Forest Roberts Theatre in Marquett, Michigan. With Ron Moody directing, Alexander Racolin produced the play in London. From the critics on Kafka in Love :Lieberman's script follows the anarchic logic of psychoanalysis, rushing backwards and forwards across Kafka's famous frontier between ordinary life and the terror that seems more real. The material is authentic, the atmosphere that of a Yiddish burlesque house. Striking from an unexpected angle the insight is genuine. The Leavings is a winner of the National Playwrights Showcase prize. When it was produced at the Gallery Theatre in Los... more...
Throne of Strawby Hal Lieberman
Boson Books 2000; US$ 2.99Throne of Straw has been performed in: Los Angeles at UCLA's MacGowan Hall, the Odyssey Theater, and the Los Angeles Actors Theatre; in New York City at the St. Clements; in Cleveland at the Jewish Community Center; at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where Hal Lieberman served as Dramatist-in-Residence. France Culture commissioned a translation that was broadcast nationally. It was published by the University of Wisconsin Press in The Theatre of the Holocaust (1982). Robert Skloot writes, " Throne is an example of the best in Holocaust drama and any drama." Boson Books also offers Three Plays by Hal Lieberman. For an author bio and photo, reviews, and a reading sample, visit bosonbooks.com. more...
Principles of Research Design in the Social Sciencesby Frank Bechhofer; Lindsay Paterson
Routledge 2000; US$ 56.95A stimulating book for social scientists considering the issues involved when deciding upon their research design. more...
Sourcebook on African-American Performanceby Annemarie Bean
Routledge 1999; US$ 46.95The first volume to consider African-American performance between and beyond the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and the New Black Renaissance of the 1990s. more...
Certain Fragmentsby Tim Etchells; Peggy Phelan
Routledge 1999; US$ 45.95An exploration of what lies at the heart of contemporary theatre. Written by the artistic director of Forced Entertainment, it investigates the process of devising performance, theatre's interdisciplinary role, and the city's influence. more...









