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Mapping Landscapes for Performance as Research
Palgrave Macmillan 2009; US$ 95.00Although the sciences have long understood the value of practice-based research, the arts and humanities have tended to structure a gap between practice and analysis. This book examines differences and similarities between Performance as Research practices in various community and national contexts, mapping out the landscape of this new field. more...
Tiny Acts of Rebellion
Michael O'Mara 2010; US$ 9.99Let?s face it, who has the time or inclination to topple a government these days? With daily obligations like video games and heavy drinking, it?s hard to find the time to even get a parking ticket overturned. Never fear, there are hundreds of ways to revolt against the tedium of everyday life. Whether it?s making rude gestures to a hotel clerk under... more...
Disputatio 1200?1800
De Gruyter 2010; US$ 168.00A disputation is an academic debate with fixed rules. Both in oral and written form it was a characteristic feature of university life of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age. As genre and interaction model, it had an impact even outside the universities. The articles in this book illuminate different aspects of the disputation in the period between... more...
Classical Literary Careers and their Reception
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 86.00Wide-ranging study by leading experts focusing on the careers of Virgil, Horace and Ovid and the responses they provoked. more...
Self-Reference in Literature and Music
Editions Rodopi 2010; US$ 56.00This volume contains a selection of nine essays with an interdisciplinary perspective. They were originally presented at the Sixth International Conference on Word and Music Studies, which was held at Edinburgh University in June 2007 and was organized by the International Association for Word and Music Studies (WMA). The contributions to this volume... more...
Saturday Night Live, Hollywood Comedy, and American Culture
Palgrave Macmillan 2010; US$ 90.00This book addresses how Saturday Night Live's confrontational, boundary-pushing approach spilled over into film production, contributing to some of the biggest hits in Hollywood history. more...
Ingrid Bergman
Faber & Faber 2010; US$ 13.99?Ingrid Bergman was far more than just a sweet, virtuous, ?natural? Swedish girl?she was a dark sensualist over whom many men might go mad. Her very gaze delivered a climate of adult romantic expectation.? Adored by millions for her luminous beauty and elegance, at the height of her career Bergman commanded a love that has hardly ever been... more...
A Companion to Henslowe's Diary
Cambridge University Press 1988; US$ 36.00A thorough analysis of Philip Henslowe's diary which provides a unique source of information on Elizabethan repertory theatre. more...
The Dude Abides
Zondervan 2009; US$ 11.99Join award-winning author and columnist Cathleen Falsani as she explores the serious existential questions raised in the movies of the wildly popular and always irreverent Coen brothers. Coen fans and film lovers will appreciate Falsani's unique blend of contemporary insight and spiritual discernment that is both entertaining and illuminating. more...
The Profession of the Playwright
Cambridge University Press 1992; US$ 46.00This book examines the working world of the playwright in nineteenth-century Britain. more...









