Be More Sarina

T. Davies , S. Ford

Is there anyone with a track record like Sarina Weigman? Undefeated at any finals she is the epitome of success, so shouldn't you... be more Sarina?Here are 80 scenarios in which Sarina would operate with flawless efficiency, such as:Sarina would never wear a...

From Stage to Screen

Shuang Wang

Chinese martial arts cinema is held to be a synthesis drawing on artistic conventions of traditionalChinese theatre. Film sound and music perform as the legitimate heirs of some of the aesthetic ideas and norms of traditionalChinese theatre. This book critically...

Medien und Wirklichkeit im Kino François Ozons und Pedro Almodóvars um 2000

Regine Leitenstern

Um das Jahr 2000 ist vielfach von einer medial bedingten ‚Entwirklichung’ des Realen die Rede, als deren Auslöser der digitale Medienumbruch gilt. Regine Leitenstern untersucht, wie sich die Filme zweier der profiliertesten Vertreter des europäischen Autorenkinos...

The Scandal of Adaptation

Thomas Leitch

The essays in this volume seek to expose the scandals of adaptation. Some of them focus on specific adaptations that have been considered scandalous because they portray characters acting in ways that give scandal, because they are thought to betray the values enshrined...

The Future of Television in the Global South

George Ogola

This book explores how television in the global South is ‘future-proofing’ its continued relevance, addressing its commercial, social and political viability in a constantly changing information ecosystem. The chapter contributions in the book are drawn from countries...

Representations of Policing in Northern Irish Theatre

T. W. Saunders

This monograph provides the first sustained, chronological account of Northern Irish police officers’ representation in theatre. Importantly, its scope comprises a critical period of national and organisational development, beginning with the Partition of Ireland in...

The Friends Book of Lists

Michelle Morgan

Packed with compelling facts and trivia from all ten seasons, The Friends Book of Lists breaks down the memorable series in a collection of 100+ easy-to-digest lists focusing on themes, characters, and favorite moments in an irresistible package. Each entry in this...

Between Laughter and Satire

Conal Condren

This book explores closely related aspects of the historical study of humour. It challenges much that has been taken for granted in a field of study for which history has been marginal. It disputes the conventional genealogical view that humour theory dates from...

Die Inszenierung von Rassismus in der Kulturindustrie

Helen Greiner

Rassismus zeigt sich auf unterschiedlichste Art und Weise: verbal, in physischer Gewalt, ungleicher Repräsentation, sozialer Segregation oder institutionellem Ausschluss. Diese vielfältigen Erscheinungsformen zeigen, dass es verkürzt wäre,Rassismus auf individuelle...

Engaging with Brecht

Bill Gelber

This book makes the case for Bertolt Brecht’s continued importance at a time when events of the 21st century cry out for a studied means of producing theatre for social change. Here is a unique step-by-step process for realizing Brecht’s ways of working onstage using...

Adaptation Before Cinema

Glenn Jellenik , Lissette Lopez Szwydky

Adaptation Before Cinema highlights a range of pre-cinematic media forms, including theater, novelization, painting and illustration, transmedia art, children’s media, and other literary and visual culture. The book expands the primary scholarly audience of...

Rethinking Film Festivals in the Pandemic Era and After

Antoine Damiens , Marijke De Valck

This is an open access book.This edited collection aims to document the effects of Covid-19 on film festivals and to theorize film festivals in the age of social distancing. To some extent, this crisis begs us to consider what happens when festivals...

The Theatre of Martyrdom

Charles Stone

The Theatre of Martyrdom

Charles Stone

Italian Americans in Film

Daniele Fioretti , Fulvio Orsitto

This book examines how Italian Americans have been represented in cinema, from the depiction of Italian migration in New Orleans in the 1890s (Vendetta) to the transition from first- to second-generation immigrants (Ask the Dust), and from the establishment of the...

Designing Broadway

Derek Mclane , Eila Mell

In this richly illustrated and information-packed celebration of Broadway set design, Tony Award–winning designer Derek McLane explores the craft while reflecting on some of the greatest stage productions of the past few decades.Together with other leading set...

Pound and Pasolini

Sean Mark

In October 1967, Pier Paolo Pasolini travelled to Venice to interview Ezra Pound for broadcast on national television. One a lifelong Marxist, the other a former propagandist for the Fascist regime, their encounter was billed as a clash of opposites. But what do these...

ScreenAge

Fenton Bailey

'Like a superheated kernel of corn, the world has gone Pop... Drag has become mainstream. Being gay became cool. From being the criminal outsider, being queer has even become representative of the way the outsider voice is common to us all.'When he moved to New York in...

Romantic Actors, Romantic Dramas

James Armstrong

This book reinterprets British dramas of the early-nineteenth century through the lens of the star actors for whom they were written. Unlike most playwrights of previous generations, the writers of British Romantic dramas generally did not work in the theatre...

Hamlet after Deconstruction

Aneta Mancewicz

Post-war European adaptations of Hamlet are defined by ambiguities and inconsistencies. Such features are at odds with the traditional model of adaptation, which focuses on expanding and explaining the source. Inspired by Derrida’s deconstruction, this book introduces a...