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Revenge Drama in European Renaissance and Japanese Theatre
Palgrave Macmillan 2008; US$ 100.00This book is a collection of essays that both explores the tradition of revenge drama in Japan and compares that tradition with the revenge tradition in European Renaissance drama. more...
Catholic Theatre and Drama
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2010; US$ 55.00The relationship between the Catholic Church and theatre has a long and complicated history. This collection of fourteen critical essays seeks to demystify the ties--both practical and ideological--that have long bound Catholicism to theatrical production. This volume offers insights into medieval theatre, Jesuit drama, ballet and opera, modern stagings... more...
Back from the Dead
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2011; US$ 40.00Since 1968, the name of motion picture director George Romero has been synonymous with the living dead. His landmark film Night of the Living Dead formed the paradigm of modern zombie cinema; often cited as a metaphor for America during the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights movement, the film used the tenets of the drive-in horror movie genre to engage... more...
Post-9/11 Horror in American Cinema
Continuum International Publishing 2012; US$ 90.00The horror film is meant to end in hope: Regan McNeil can be exorcized. A hydrophobic Roy Scheider can blow up a shark. Buffy can and will slay vampires. Heroic human qualities like love, bravery, resourcefulness, and intelligence will eventually defeat the monster. But, after the 9/11, American horror became much more bleak, with many films ending... more...
The Theology of Battlestar Galactica
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2012; US$ 40.00The reimagined television series Battlestar Galactica (2005 to 2009 on the Sci Fi Channel), features religion and theology among its central concerns--but does not simply use its myriad faiths as plot devices or background material. Battlestar Galactica is, in and of itself, a theological text. Over the course of 87 episodes and two television movies,... more...
Shakespeare and Youth Culture
Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 34.00A study of the appropriation of Shakespeare by youth culture. more...
Suzan-Lori Parks
Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 49.95Suzan-Lori Parks confirmed herself as one of the most exciting and successful playwrights of her generation when her work Topdog/Underdog was awarded the 2002 Pulitzer Prize, making her the only African American woman to win the award. Despite the cultural weight of this achievement, Parks remains difficult both to pigeonhole and to summarize.... more...
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