Theatre & Performance Studies: Products

By Dustin Goltz

Comic Performativities: Identity, Internet Outrage, and the Aesthetics of Communication studies patterns of criticism and public debate in the relationship between humour, identity, and offense. In an increasingly reductive and politically charged debate, right-wing pundits argue leftist politics…

Paperback – 2019-04-01 
Routledge

By Andrew R. Walkling

English Dramatick Opera, 1661–1706 is the first comprehensive examination of the distinctively English form known as "dramatick opera", which appeared on the London stage in the mid-1670s and lasted until its displacement by Italian through-composed opera in the first decade of the eighteenth…

Hardback – 2019-03-29 
Routledge
Ashgate Interdisciplinary Studies in Opera

Edited by Johannes Riis, Aaron Taylor

Characters are central to our experiences of screened fictions and invite a host of questions. The contributors to Screening Characters draw on archival material, interviews, philosophical inquiry, and conceptual analysis in order to give new, thought-provoking answers to these queries. Providing…

Hardback – 2019-03-29 
Routledge
AFI Film Readers

By Richard Kostelanetz

For this American edition of his legendary arts dictionary of information and opinion, the distinguished critic and arts historian Richard Kostelanetz has selected from the fuller third edition his entries on North Americans, including Canadians, Mexicans, and resident immigrants. Typically, he…

Paperback – 2019-03-25 
Routledge

By Carmel Conn

The second edition of Using Drama with Children on the Autism Spectrum takes the perspective that support for the learning and development of children should have the purpose of giving them the freedom to be more fully who they are and able to function more effectively as themselves in a wider…

Paperback – 2019-03-25 
Routledge

By Freddy Decreus

The Ritual Theatre of Theodoros Terzopoulos outlines the story of the Athenian-based Attis Theatre and the way its founder and director, Theodoros Terzopoulos, introduced bio-energetic presences of the body on the stage, in an attempt to redefine and reappraise what it means today not only to have…

Hardback – 2019-03-20 
Routledge

Edited by Peter Eckersall, Helena Grehan

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Politics is a volume of critical essays, provocations, and interventions on the most important questions faced by today’s writers, critics, audiences, and theatre and performance makers. Featuring texts written by scholars and artists who are diversely…

Hardback – 2019-03-19 
Routledge
Routledge Companions

By James Alburger

The Art of Voice Acting covers all aspects of the craft and business of performing voiceover. This sixth edition is reorganized and completely updated to include the latest information on how to get started in voiceover, performing techniques, setting up a personal recording space, voiceover demos…

Paperback – 2019-03-19 
Focal Press

By Barbara Freedman Doyle

Great visual storytelling is possible on a minimal budget, but you have to spend a lot of energy thinking and planning. In Understanding Design in Film Production, author Barbara Freedman Doyle demonstrates how to use production design, cinematography, lighting, and locations to create an effective…

Paperback – 2019-03-14 
Routledge

By Georgina Guy

Examining the artistic, intellectual, and social life of performance, this book interrogates Theatre and Performance Studies through the lens of display and modern visual art. Moving beyond the exhibition of immaterial art and its documents, as well as re-enactment in gallery contexts, Guy's book…

Paperback – 2019-03-07 
Routledge
Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

Edited by Daniel O'Quinn, Kristina Straub, Misty G. Anderson

The Routledge Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Performance brings together a selection of particularly memorable performances, beginning with Nell Gwyn in a 1668 staging of　Secret Love, and moving chronologically towards the final performance of John Philip Kemble's…

Paperback – 2019-03-04 
Routledge

By Marett Leiboff

This book brings the insights of theatre theory to the jurisprudential, in order to elaborate a new practice of responsibility. The theatrical, which here forms the basis of a theatrical jurisprudence, draws upon the forms of theatre theory that took shape in the 20th century, as they constitute…

Hardback – 2019-03-03 
Routledge
Space, Materiality and the Normative