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- The transformative power of performance : a new aesthetics - Erika Fischer-Lichte ; translated by Saskya Iris JainCall Number: PN 1584 .F5713 2008In this book, Erika Fischer-Lichte traces the emergence of performance as 'an art event' in its own right. In setting performance art on an equal footing with the traditional art object, she heralds a new aesthetics.
The peculiar mode of experience that a performance provokes – blurring distinctions between artist and audience, body and mind, art and life – is here framed as the breeding ground for a new way of understanding performing arts, and through them even wider social and cultural processes.
With an introduction by Marvin Carlson, this translation of the original Ästhetik des Performativen addresses key issues in performance art, experimental theatre and cultural performances to lay the ground for a new appreciation of the artistic event.
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- Theatre censorship in Britain : silencing, censure and suppression - Helen FreshwaterCall Number: PN 2044 .G7 .F74 2009Why do people censor? How do we strike a balance between freedom of speech and respect for the sacred? Do we know what we mean by censorship? Theatre Censorship in Britain brings these questions to its exploration of the wide variety of censorship that has shaped theatrical performance in twentieth- and twenty-first century Britain.
Its eight case studies assess the interventions of the Lord Chamberlain - who licensed every performance until 1968 - but they also analyse the powers of censure wielded by the media and public interest groups; the self-censorship of playwrights; and the constraints placed upon producers by public funding bodies and corporate sponsors. They examine the unpredictable outcomes of censorship, deep-seated anxieties about the performative influence of the stage, and the complex questions raised by acts of theatrical censorship and silencing in the context of contemporary debates over civil liberties and freedom of speech.
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| Call# | PN 1584 .F5713 2008 | ||
| Title | The transformative power of performance : a new aesthetics | ||
| Authors | Fischer-Lichte, Erika. | ||
| Publication | New York : Routledge, 2008. | ||
| Call# | PN 1584 .S36 2011 | ||
| Title | Performing remains : art and war in times of theatrical reenactment | ||
| Authors | Schneider, Rebecca | ||
| Publication | Abingdon, Oxon ;New York : Routledge, 2011. | ||
| Call# | PN 1590 .B53 .C357 2011 | ||
| Title | The problem of the color(blind) : racial transgression and the politics of black performance | ||
| Authors | Catanese, Brandi Wilkins | ||
| Publication | Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2011. | ||
| Call# | PN 1590 .G39 .D65 2010 | ||
| Title | Theatre & sexuality | ||
| Authors | Dolan, Jill | ||
| Publication | Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ;New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. | ||
| Call# | PN 1696 .G78 2010 | ||
| Title | Offstage space, narrative, and the theatre of the imagination | ||
| Authors | Gruber, William E. | ||
| Edition | 1st ed. | ||
| Publication | New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. | ||
| Call# | PN 1708 .B645 2011 v. 1 | ||
| Title | As if : an autobiography | ||
| Authors | Blau, Herbert. | ||
| Publication | Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2011- | ||
| Call# | PN 1968 .U5 .D268 2010 | ||
| Title | Lady dicks and lesbian brothers : staging the unimaginable at the WOW Caf� Theatre | ||
| Authors | Davy, Kate. | ||
| Publication | Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2010. | ||
| Call# | PN 1993.5 .A75 .G46 2011 | ||
| Title | Genre in Asian film and television : new approaches | ||
| Authors | Chan, Felicia.; Karpovich, Angelina; Zhang, Xin | ||
| Publication | Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ;New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. | ||
| Call# | PN 1993.5 .A8 .D57 2010 | ||
| Title | Directory of world cinema. Australia & New Zealand | ||
| Authors | Goldsmith, Ben; Lealand, Geoffrey. | ||
| Publication | Bristol, UK ;Chicago, IL : Intellect books, 2010. | ||
| Call# | PN 1993.5 .C4 .C539 2011 | ||
| Title | Chinese women's cinema : transnational contexts | ||
| Authors | Wang, Lingzhen. | ||
| Publication | New York : Columbia University Press, c2011. | ||
| Call# | PN 1993.5 .C4 .C4422 2011 | ||
| Title | The Chinese cinema book | ||
| Authors | Lim, Song Hwee; Ward, Julian. | ||
| Publication | Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ;New York :London : Palgrave Macmillan ;British Film Institute, 2 | ||
| Call# | PN 1993.5 .C4 .F788 2010 | ||
| Title | 101 essential Chinese movies | ||
| Authors | Fowler, Simon. | ||
| Publication | Hong Kong : Earnshaw Books, c2010. | ||
| Call# | PN 1993.5 .C4 .H78 2003 | ||
| Title | Projecting a nation : Chinese national cinema before 1949 | ||
| Authors | Hu, Jubin. | ||
| Publication | Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press 2003. | ||
| Call# | PN 1993.5 .C6 .H667 2011 | ||
| Title | Hong Kong screenscapes : from the new wave to the digital frontier | ||
| Authors | Cheung, Esther M. K.; Marchetti, Gina; See Kam, Tan | ||
| Publication | Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, c2011. | ||
| Call# | PN 1993.5 .E19 .E275 2011 | ||
| Title | East Asian cinemas : regional flows and global transformations | ||
| Authors | Lee, Vivian P. Y. | ||
| Publication | Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ;New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. | ||
| Call# | PN 1993.5 .G3 .S934 | ||
| Title | Der Stummfilm : Konstruktion und Rekonstruktion | ||
| Authors | Ledig, Elfriede | ||
| Publication | M�nchen : Verlegergemeinschaft Schaudig/Bauer/Ledig, 1988. | ||
| Call# | PN 1993.5 .I846 .G69 2011 | ||
| Title | From Iran to Hollywood and some places in-between : reframing post-revolutionary Iranian cinema | ||
| Authors | Gow, Christopher. | ||
| Publication | London ;New York : I.B. Tauris, 2011 | ||
| Call# | PN 1993.5 .T28 .H66 2011 | ||
| Title | Taiwan cinema : a contested nation on screen | ||
| Authors | Hong, Gou-Juin | ||
| Edition | 1st ed. | ||
| Publication | New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. | ||
| Call# | PN 1993.5 .T28 .I85 2005 | ||
| Title | Island on the edge : Taiwan new cinema and after | ||
| Authors | Berry, Chris; Lu, Feiyi. | ||
| Publication | Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, 2005. | ||
| Call# | PN 1993.8 .N5 .L784 2011 | ||
| Title | Live life as a film maker [videorecording]. | ||
| Authors | New Zealand Film and Television School. | ||
| Publication | [Wellington, N.Z.] : New Zealand Film and Television School, [2011] | ||
| Call# | PN 1995 .C934 2011 | ||
| Title | Critical visions in film theory : classic and contemporary readings | ||
| Authors | Corrigan, Timothy.; White, Patricia; Mazaj, Meta. | ||
| Call# | PN 1995 .F68 1983 | ||
| Title | Circles of confusion : film, photography, video : texts, 1968-1980 | ||
| Authors | Frampton, Hollis | ||
| Publication | Rochester, N.Y. : Visual Studies Workshop Press, 1983. | ||
| Call# | PN 1995.75 .D59 2011 | ||
| Title | 100 silent films | ||
| Authors | Dixon, Bryony.; British Film Institute. | ||
| Publication | Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK ;New York : Palgrave Macmillan on behalf of the British Film | ||
| Call# | PN 1995.9 .E96 .R39 2011 | ||
| Title | A history of experimental film and video : from the canonical avant-garde to contemporary British practice | ||
| Authors | Rees, A. L. | ||
| Edition | 2nd ed. | ||
| Publication | [Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire] :London : Palgrave Macmillan ;British Film Institute, 2011. | ||
| Call# | PN 1995.9 .L58 .P53 2011 | ||
| Title | Picturing Tolkien : essays on Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings film trilogy | ||
| Authors | Bogstad, Janice M.; Kaveny, Philip E. | ||
| Publication | Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2011. | ||
| Call# | PN 1997 .P98 .P762 2000 | ||
| Title | Pulp fiction | ||
| Authors | Polan, Dana B.; British Film Institute. | ||
| Publication | London : BFI Publishing, 2000. | ||
| Call# | PN 1997 .S3783 .S245 2011 | ||
| Title | The servant | ||
| Authors | Sargeant, Amy; British Film Institute. | ||
| Publication | London ; Palgrave Macmillan on behalf of the British Film Institute, 2011. | ||
| Call# | PN 1998.3 .P938 .G287 2011 | ||
| Title | Gaylene Preston film retrospective | ||
| Authors | Wiles, Mary M. | ||
| Publication | [Christchurch, N.Z.] : University of Canterbury, [2011] | ||
| Call# | PN 1998.3 .W366 .A577 1989 | ||
| Title | Andy Warhol film factory | ||
| Authors | O'Pray, Michael. | ||
| Publication | London : BFI Pub., 1989. | ||
| Call# | PN 2039 .B5775 2011 | ||
| Title | Reality principles : from the absurd to the virtual | ||
| Authors | Blau, Herbert. | ||
| Publication | Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2011. | ||
| Call# | PN 2039 .E96 2008 | ||
| Title | On the uses of the fantastic in modern theatre : Cocteau, Oedipus, and the monster | ||
| Authors | Eynat-Confino, Ir�ne. | ||
| Edition | 1st ed. | ||
| Publication | New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. | ||
| Call# | PN 2039 .P47 2009 | ||
| Title | Performance and the city | ||
| Authors | Hopkins, D. J.; Orr, Shelley.; Solga, Kim | ||
| Publication | Houndmills ;New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. | ||
| Call# | PN 2041 .W37 .T56 2009 | ||
| Title | Performance in place of war | ||
| Authors | Thompson, James; Hughes, Jenny.; Balfour, Michael | ||
| Publication | London : Seagull, 2009, c2008. | ||
| Call# | PN 2044 .G7 .F74 2009 | ||
| Title | Theatre censorship in Britain : silencing, censure and suppression | ||
| Authors | Freshwater, Helen. | ||
| Publication | Basingstoke ;New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. | ||
| Call# | PN 2049 .K45 2009 | ||
| Title | Theatre & politics | ||
| Authors | Kelleher, Joe. | ||
| Publication | Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire [England] ;New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. | ||
| Call# | PN 2049 .K669 2010 | ||
| Title | Theatre & interculturalism | ||
| Authors | Knowles, Richard Paul | ||
| Publication | Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. | ||
| Call# | PN 2049 .R35 2009 | ||
| Title | Theatre & human rights | ||
| Authors | Rae, Paul. | ||
| Publication | Basingstoke, Hampshire [England] ;New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. | ||
| Call# | PN 2051 .H37 2009 | ||
| Title | Theatre & the city | ||
| Authors | Harvie, Jen. | ||
| Publication | Basingstoke ;New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. | ||
| Call# | PN 2053 .V28 2011 | ||
| Title | The Vakhtangov sourcebook | ||
| Authors | Vakhtangov, Evgenii; Malaev-Babel, Andrei. | ||
| Publication | Abington, Oxon ;New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2011. | ||
| Call# | PN 2061 .B293 2012 | ||
| Title | Acting : onstage and off | ||
| Authors | Barton, Robert | ||
| Edition | 6th ed. | ||
| Publication | Australia ;United States : Wadsworth/Cengage Learning, c2012. | ||
| Call# | PN 2061 .T47 2008 | ||
| Title | Theatre arts on acting | ||
| Authors | Senelick, Laurence. | ||
| Publication | London ;New York : Routledge, 2008. | ||
| Call# | PN 2062 .O12 2011 | ||
| Title | Stanislavski in practice : exercises for students | ||
| Authors | O'Brien, Nick | ||
| Publication | New York, NY : Routledge, 2011. | ||
| Call# | PN 2091 .S6 .C65 2008 | ||
| Title | The sound of theatre : a history | ||
| Authors | Collison, David. | ||
| Publication | Eastbourne [England] : PLASA, 2008. | ||
| Call# | PN 2272.5 .P35 .C37 2010 | ||
| Title | Performing bodies in pain : medieval and post-modern martyrs, mystics, and artists | ||
| Authors | Carlson, Marla. | ||
| Edition | 1st ed. | ||
| Publication | New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. | ||
| Call# | PN 2277 .N52 .M3 .F529 2011 | ||
| Title | Mabou Mines : making avant-garde theater in the 1970s | ||
| Authors | Fischer, Iris Smith. | ||
| Publication | Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, c2011. | ||
| Call# | PN 2287 .P477 .H854 2011 | ||
| Title | He's still here : the biography of Joaquin Phoenix | ||
| Authors | Howden, Martin. | ||
| Publication | London : John Blake, 2011. | ||
| Call# | PN 2297 .C38 .D0111 2011 | ||
| Title | The Reverend Billy Project : from rehearsal hall to super mall with the Church of Life After Shopping | ||
| Authors | D., Savitri.; Talen, William; Solomon, Alisa | ||
| Publication | Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, c2011. | ||
| Call# | PN 2589 .A854 2010 | ||
| Title | Actors and acting in Shakespeare's time : the art of stage playing | ||
| Authors | Astington, John. | ||
| Publication | Cambridge ;New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010. | ||
| Call# | PN 2821 .K95 2009 | ||
| Title | Theatre, facilitation, and nation formation in the Balkans and Middle East | ||
| Authors | Kuftinec, Sonja | ||
| Publication | Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. | ||
| Call# | PN 2881.5 .B575 | ||
| Title | Theatre and the world : performance and the politics of culture | ||
| Authors | Bharucha, Rustom | ||
| Publication | London ;New York : Routledge, 1993. | ||
| Call# | PN 3171 .N53 2009 | ||
| Title | Theatre & education | ||
| Authors | Nicholson, Helen | ||
| Publication | Basingstoke ;New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. | ||
| Call# | PN 3307 .I8 .L48 2010 | ||
| Title | Theatre in co-communities : articulating power | ||
| Authors | Lev-Aladgem, Shulamith | ||
| Publication | Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ;New York : Palgrave, 2010. | ||
| Call# | PN 6112 .R68 2010 | ||
| Title | The Routledge drama anthology and sourcebook : from modernism to contemporary performance | ||
| Authors | Gale, Maggie B.; Deeney, John F. | ||
| Publication | London ;New York : Routledge, 2010. | ||
| Call# | PN 6112 .T43 2011 | ||
| Title | Theater of the avant-garde, 1950-2000 : a critical anthology | ||
| Authors | Knopf, Robert; Listengarten, Julia | ||
| Publication | New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, 2011. | ||
| Call# | PR 2986 .G733 2009 | ||
| Title | Shakespeare and impure aesthetics | ||
| Authors | Grady, Hugh. | ||
| Publication | Cambridge, UK ;New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009. | ||
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- A decade of Forced EntertainmentThis DVD provides a map of the period between 1984 and 1994 - a map that is at the same time accurate, haunted, fictitious and false. Part performance and part illustrated lecture, it presents a tenth-birthday look back at the Forced Entertainment company.







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