Argentine filmmaking from the mid-1990s to the present has enjoyed worldwide success. New Argentine Cinema explores this cinema in order to discover the...

"...Argentine filmmaking from the mid-1990s to the present has enjoyed worldwide success. New Argentine Cinema explores this cinema in order to discover the.... Argentine filmmaking from the mid-1990s to the present has enjoyed worldwide success. New Argentine Cinema explores this cinema in order to discover the elements that have made for this success, in relation to the country's profound political, social, and cultural crisis during the same period. Jens Andermann shows how the most recent wave ..."

In these two volumes of original essays, scholars from around the world address the history of British colonial cinema stretching from the emergence of cinema...

?The number of people living under British colonial rule in the two decades after 1945 shrank from 700 million to 5 million, amid the fractious and...

This definitive interdisciplinary collection by leading scholars probes the theoretical and historical contexts of films made about the American past, from...

"...This definitive interdisciplinary collection by leading scholars probes the theoretical and historical contexts of films made about the American past from.... This definitive interdisciplinary collection by leading scholars probes the theoretical and historical contexts of films made about the American past from silent film to the present. The book offers a fresh assessment of studio era historical filmmaking and its legacy across a range of genres.. "Smyth has assembled a stellar cast of auth..."

Germany’s national film industry has been undergoing a remarkable resurgence since the beginning of the new millennium. German language films have been...

Theatre and performance practice has the power to make visible the hidden world of the prison. This book explores how theatre makers stage critical questions...

"...Theatre and performance practice has the power to make visible the hidden world of the prison. This book explores how theatre makers stage critical questions.... Theatre and performance practice has the power to make visible the hidden world of the prison. This book explores how theatre makers stage critical questions about prison in society – through specific texts and productions about prison, and theatre taking place in prisons. Theatre can, it argues, provoke much-needed public engagement w..."

Throughout the history of the nation-state, theatre has contributed to the construction and reappraisal of the nation and national identities. This book argues...

"...Throughout the history of the nation-state, theatre has contributed to the construction and reappraisal of the nation and national identities. This book argues.... Throughout the history of the nation-state, theatre has contributed to the construction and reappraisal of the nation and national identities. This book argues that ideas of the nation are constantly in flux and explores the way theatre engages with such changes according to different geographical, political, economic, social and cul..."

This book explains the critical validity of using sexuality as a lens for examining theatres creation and reception. The book offers clear introductions to...

"...This book explains the critical validity of using sexuality as a lens for examining theatres creation and reception. The book offers clear introductions to.... This book explains the critical validity of using sexuality as a lens for examining theatres creation and reception. The book offers clear introductions to sexual identity politics, ways of reading sexuality on stage and a select history of LGBTQ theatre, including a reading of Split Britches/Bloolips production Belle Reprieve.. ..."

This groundbreaking and innovative book is about the place of World Cinema in the cultural imaginary. It also repositions World Cinema in a wider discursive...

New Takes in Film-Philosophy offers a space for the advancement of the film-philosophy debate by some of its major figures. Fifteen leading academics from...

"...New Takes in Film-Philosophy offers a space for the advancement of the film-philosophy debate by some of its major figures. Fifteen leading academics from.... New Takes in Film-Philosophy offers a space for the advancement of the film-philosophy debate by some of its major figures. Fifteen leading academics from Philosophy and Film Studies develop new approaches to film-philosophy, broaden theoretical analyses of the topic and map out problems and possibilities for its future. The collection ex..."

Now in paperback and with a new Preface, this collection of writings from international contributors who specialize in a diverse range of digital art and...

In the first conceptual overview of current practices and debates in theatre education, Helen Nicholson explores the contribution that professional theatre...

Engaging Audiences provides an insightful introduction to spectatorship from the perspective of cognitive studies. Using performances of several plays and a...

Urban studies has long understood the city as a 'text'. What would it mean now to use performance to rethink that metaphor? This book, now in paperback,...

A collection of scholarly essays, in paperback for the first time, Violence Performed is a timely intervention that explores the constitutive relationship...

"...A collection of scholarly essays, in paperback for the first time, Violence Performed is a timely intervention that explores the constitutive relationship.... A collection of scholarly essays, in paperback for the first time, Violence Performed is a timely intervention that explores the constitutive relationship between violence and performance in a variety of geopolitical spaces. Using the optic of performance studies, the authors offer fresh theoretical perspectives on questions of local/glob..."

Visuality in the Theatre, now in paperback for the first time, proposes a new theoretical approach to the dynamics of looking engendered in the theatre....

"...Visuality in the Theatre, now in paperback for the first time, proposes a new theoretical approach to the dynamics of looking engendered in the theatre..... Visuality in the Theatre, now in paperback for the first time, proposes a new theoretical approach to the dynamics of looking engendered in the theatre. Visuality, this book argues, is not something we look at but something that we create by looking. Visuality is an embodied experience involving more than just the optical senses. The relati..."