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Funny Frames
Continuum International Publishing 2010; US$ 100.00Taking its cues from the cinematic innovations of the controversial Austrian-born director Michael Haneke, Funny Frames explores how a political thinking manifests itself in his work. The book is divided into two parts. In the first, Oliver C. Speck explores some of Haneke’s Deleuzian traits – showing how the theoretical concepts of the... more...
Visions of Struggle in Women's Filmmaking in the Mediterranean
Palgrave Macmillan 2010; US$ 95.00In this survey, contributors examine issues of women's rights violations in Mediterranean countries as represented in politically engaged films of the region. more...
Offstage Space, Narrative, and the Theatre of the Imagination
Palgrave Macmillan 2010; US$ 90.00This book is a uniquely situated study of the various ways that playwrights have conceived of extrascenic space and how they have caused spectators to picture it. more...
She Who Laughs, Lasts!
Zondervan 2009; US$ 10.99Ann Spangler has collected the funniest stories from today's funniest women between the covers of one book. more...
Dreaming in the Middle Ages
Cambridge University Press 1992; US$ 42.00Stephen Kruger considers previously neglected material and arrives at a new understanding of this literary genre, and of medieval attitudes to dreaming in general. more...
A Different Direction
Hillcrest Media Group, Inc. 2010; US$ 7.50The living theatre is potentially the most affecting of all the arts. It not only explores who we are and where we are going, but how we are connected. As we are inundated with other versions of mass media, we have nearly forgotten how important that connection is. We cannot afford to lose the power of this art at this time in our history. more...
The Medieval Poet as Voyeur
Cambridge University Press 1993; US$ 42.00In his new book, leading medievalist A. C. Spearing provides the only study of the many scenes of secret watching and listening in medieval love-stories, and of the way that the central importance of these scenes encourages both the poets and their readers to imagine themselves as voyeurs in relation to what they read. more...
Reservation Reelism
University of Nebraska Press 2011; US$ 50.00In this deeply engaging account, Michelle H. Raheja offers the first book-length study of the Indigenous actors, directors, and spectators who helped shape Hollywoods representation of Indigenous peoples. Since the era of silent films, Hollywood movies and visual culture generally have provided the primary representational field on which Indigenous... more...
Avant-Garde Performance and Material Exchange
Palgrave Macmillan 2010; US$ 85.00Assembling a remarkable group of scholars, these essays explore how the circulation and exchange of 'vectors of the radical' shape the avant-garde. Mapping the movement of scripts, theatre activists, performances, and other material entities, they provide unprecedented perspectives on the transnational performance culture of the avant-garde. more...
Filming and Performing Renaissance History
Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 85.00Over the last century, many 16th- and 17th-century events and personalities have been brought before home, cinema, exhibition, festival and theatrical audiences. This collection examines these representations, looking at recent television series, documentaries, pageantry, theatre and popular culture in various cultural and linguistic guises. more...









