A collection of essays by scholars and artists exploring theatre’s role in political awareness through the voice of the marginalized. It shows how the theatre of differences denounces prejudice and regains its role as the brain and lungs of the community.
This volume digitally reconstructs a 15th-century Book of Hours that was dismembered by a notorious dealer. It restores a cultural treasure, confronts the ethical challenges of manuscript destruction, and advocates for the preservation of our shared heritage.
This essay collection analyzes recurring images of dismemberment on the western stage, from Classical Tragedy to contemporary drama. Contributors ask what a dismembered body means, revealing how drama’s dismemberment as a form challenges representation itself.
Docudrama Performs the Past
Docudramas offer performance as persuasion. By re-creating true stories of war, tragedy, and the lives of noteworthy individuals, they perform the past. This performance of memory makes the memories of others our own, shaping public memory itself.
Documents on the Balkans – History, Memory, Identity
This book explores how Balkan films produce identities based on memory, often in response to the 1990s conflicts. Case studies connect the ‘private space’ of everyday lives to macro-debates, making this a powerful contribution to cultural and visual history.
This book shows that Eugene O’Neill’s modern American drama is a survey on the politics of desire and the power of doom. The city is the stage where his protagonists, as desiring machines, try to evade modern closed circles of power, anticipating concepts from Gilles Deleuze.
Dossier Chris Marker
A study of Chris Marker’s works, focusing on the dynamic interplay of political and subjective agency. It is this very conflict that animates all of Marker’s extensive works, which act as a “mask” or “screen” for forces that reside beyond the frame.
Double Desire
Double Desire challenges the tendency by critics to perpetuate an aesthetic apartheid between Indigenous and Western art. It argues for imaginative transcultural practices that resist assimilation and open contemporary art beyond its Western trajectory.
Doubling the Duality
This book explores the aesthetic and cultural integration of live action and animation. It argues that even in an era of seamless digital effects, their differences and dialogues remain a significant source for the evolution of cinematic language.
Dramatic Interactions
A collection of essays on teaching foreign languages, literatures, and cultures through theater. With innovative approaches and rich examples, this book affirms the effectiveness of using drama to improve communication, intercultural competence, and self-expression.
Dramatising Disaster
As the imagining of disaster intensifies in media, it is vital to understand how it is presented. Dramatising Disaster presents new research focused not on a specific event, but on the wider topic of disaster in popular culture.
Early English Tragedy, Ibsen, and Drama’s Mirroring Rhythm
This book explores the constraints of language, the healing rhythms of drama, and the vigor of the Greek tradition. Its conviction is that the imagination has the power to establish new worlds in language—a perennial home for constructive thought.
This book explores how 1990s criticism reshaped the cinematic portrayal of Turkey’s Early Republican Period. It examines how historical films about the Republic’s founding were influenced by a new scrutiny of nationalism and the previously untouchable ideals of the era.
This collection of peer-reviewed papers, from an international conference in Japan, explores the cultural cross-fertilisation between the literatures of East and West. The collection demonstrates the stimulating effect of cross-cultural literary studies.
Echo and Narcissus
While film studies has turned from spectator theory to audience research, this book argues for a productive nexus between them. It offers a revised model of the spectator through a re-reading of Ovid’s myth of Echo and Narcissus.
Edward Burne-Jones on Nature
This study of Edward Burne-Jones’s paintings explores his vision of nature. It reveals how he fused scientific observation with symbolic interpretation to create the fantastical landscapes and magical imagery of his allegorical, fantasy, and dream cycles.
These performance texts explore disability, inclusion, and diversity in our 21st-century culture. Offering challenging, evenly divided roles and exciting historical subjects, they provide ample scope for ensemble acting and group production.
Ein Kabinettstück der Schauspielkunst / A Showpiece of the Art of Acting
Dieses Buch zeichnet die Theaterlaufbahn der Schauspielerin Ursula Dinkgräfe (1947-1987) nach. Sie war in der Theaterszene hoch geschätzt, aber ohne Filmruhm. Ein unberücksichtigtes Kapitel deutscher Theatergeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts.
Elemental Sculpture
This book explores Elemental Sculpture, a tendency in contemporary art defining a new relationship between sculpture and nature. It examines its development in the works of Hepworth, Moore, and Calder, and includes sculptures from the author’s 35-year career.
Eloquent Design
From cave to computer, Eloquent Design explores ancient image-making as a basis for understanding the modern uses of image-texts in New Media. It proposes a generative method called “Rhetorical Vision” for creating innovative image-texts.