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A Sourcebook on African-American Performance
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 49.95A Sourcebook on African-American Performance is the 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. As with all titles in the Worlds of Performance series, the Sourcebook consists of classic texts as well as newly commissioned pieces by notable... more...
The Routledge Guide to Broadway
Taylor & Francis 2006; US$ 19.95The Routledge Guide to Broadway is the second title in our new student reference series. It will introduce the student to the Broadway theater, focusing on key performers, writers, directors, plays, and musicals, along with the theaters themselves, key awards, and the folklore of Broadway. Broadway is the center of American theater, where all the great... more...
John Gielgud
Simon & Schuster 2010; US$ 30.00Sir John Gielgud's career as an actor was perhaps the most distinguished of any of his generation, and, in a lifetime that spanned almost a century, he appeared in hundreds of theatrical productions and films, receiving virtually every honor given, including an Academy Award. Now, in this wonderfully insightful biography, fully authorized and written... more...
Men at Play
Editions Rodopi 2008; US$ 70.00How are masculinities enacted in Australian theatre? How do Australian playwrights depict masculinities in the present and the past, in the bush and on the beach, in the city and in the suburbs? How do Australian plays dramatise gender issues like father-son relations, romance and intimacy, violence and bullying, mateship and homosexuality, race relations... more...
La Traduction spécialisée
Les Presses de l'Universite d'Ottawa 2011; US$ 24.99Cet ouvrage présente les fondements théoriques et les principes méthodologiques de la traduction spécialisée en général, et plus particulièrement de la traduction spécialisée de l'anglais vers le français. Il s'ouvre sur une description des particularités des langues de spécialité portant sur une typologie des textes et une classification des genres... more...
Indian Theatre
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 178.00This book sets out from the question: why have so many western theatre workers come to India and what were they looking for? What is it that seemed to be lacking in western performance and understanding of the nature and function of theatre? Locating Indian theatre as a major site of reappraisal and renewal both in India and in the world of performance,... more...
My Lucky Stars
Random House Publishing Group 2011; US$ 7.99An Academy Award-winning actress and the internationally bestselling author of Out on a Limb delivers her touching, warm, and headline-making memoir. In My Lucky Stars Shirley MacLaine talks candidly and personally about her four decades in Hollywood, especially about the men and women--her "lucky stars"--who touched and challenged her life. ... more...
The Leper's Bell
Birlinn 2011; US$ 11.83The Billy Connolly of the Gàidhealtachd? ? Calum Macdonald, Runrig 'Utterly compelling? - BBC Radio Scotland ?It is a rewarding, if sometimes harrowing journey for the reader as Maclean wrestles with his demons and his identity amid ?cultural schizophrenia?. One is left feeling a deal of sympathy for this most talented, fascinating and charismatic... more...
Jessie Wallace
John Blake Publishing 2011; US$ 5.82She's back! After several years away from our screens, Eastenders favourite Kat Moon had finally returned to Albert Square -- with her much-loved husband Alfie in tow. The nation has long been fascinated with the on/off relationship between the pair and, in this fascinating biography, the actress who brings Kat to life is uncovered.Only days after... more...
The Tricky Part
Souvenir Press 2011; US$ 18.94At the age of 12 Martin Moran was involved in a sexual relationship with an older man, a counsellor from a Catholic boy's camp. Thirty years later, he set out to find and confront his abuser. The Tricky Part is the story of the man Martin Moran became, and the ambiguous relationship with his abuser that would mark his life. Growing up in an ordinary... more...









