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Answers the question, ""What can I do with a major in...?" This series helps students explore career options within their field of study. From assessing ind......

"Performing Chekhov" is a unique and remarkably comprehensive guide to Chekhov's plays in performance. Drawing on extensive interviews with actors, directors......

39 Microlectures: In Proximity of Performance is a collection of miniature stories, parables, musings and thinkpieces on the nature of reading, writing, art,......

The Advertising Handbook is a critical introduction to the practices and perspectives of the advertising industry. Sean Brierley explores the structures of t......

Taking issue with many orthodox views of "Film Noir," Frank Krutnik argues for a reorientation of the compulsively engaging area of Hollywood cultural produc......

"European Paganism" uncovers the facts about pagan rituals and worship, presenting the observations of ancient and medieval pagans themselves and the fulmina......

A unique survey of the small supporting roles--such as foils, feeds, attendants, and messengers--that appear in Shakespeare's plays. World-renowned Shakespea......

Journey with a Collection of Portraits is a captivating account of Kathleen Notman's colourful life and how her experiences, and the people she met, influenc......

Kathleen Notman teaches unorthodox ways of creating art that encourages people to look at life differently, to find alternative solutions to problems and to ......

This book begins with an abbreviated background on the origins and development of European Modernism. This is followed by attention to a transitional phase m......

Meta-physics and mechanics in the nude, with sex and drugs. An exploding dossier of words and photography of a doomed and perfect relationship, retrofitted w......

Renowned artist and design legend Malcolm Grear has permanently shaped the graphic design field with his work, writing, and teaching. His best-selling and no......

Views television drama from a cultural studies perspective, examining the active agency of both viewers and media practitioners. Tulloch looks at genres such......

Moliè re's plays are the cornerstone of the French Classical dramatic repertoire. Adapted and exploited in his day by dramatists of the English Restorat......

How did women write in the colonial period? Is there a specifically female genre of travel writing? "Discourses of Difference" unravels the complexities of ......

An entertaining and highly illuminating account of Commedia's origins as a popular theatrical form, plus a practical and timely step-by-step guide to using c......

Fragments of ancient belief have been incorporated into folklore and Christian dogma with the result that its original tenets have merged with the myths and ......

In Victorian society--rigidly stratified by both income and occupation--performers were drawn from various class backgrounds and enjoyed a unique degree of s......

A detailed analysis of oppositional theatre as radical cultural practice in its various efforts to subvert the status quo. Its demonstrates how oppositional ......

Mary Midgley in this book discusses the high spiritual ambitions which tend to gather around the notion of science, and, in particular, some very odd recent ......