This volume explores the gendered subaltern’s struggle against multiple levels of marginalization. Through theatrical interventions, it underscores how the body becomes a site of identity, oppression and resistance, and interrogates notions of family, society and identity.
The Global and Local Appeal of Kneehigh Theatre Company
This book explores “Brand Kneehigh,” defining how the theatre company’s Cornish identity achieved global appeal. Analyzing key productions, it reveals the tensions between local and global interests and investigates Kneehigh’s unique solution: their performance space, the Asylum.
This collection of papers examines circus history, life, the relationship of circus to society, and its impact on the arts. “This fascinating collection showcases the cultural depth of the circus in historical and contemporary settings.” —Janet M. Davis
What are the characteristics of media in small nations? This collection brings together perspectives and case-studies from across Europe to explore the challenges and advantages, providing insights into media policy, representation, and national identity.
The Nation on Screen
This book focuses on the complex discourses of the nation in the television of twelve countries. It examines how the nation is staged in news, fiction, and entertainment, revealing it as a site of struggle: everywhere and nowhere, endlessly discussed but never grasped.
The Paramilitary Hero on Turkish Television
This book explores nationalism and masculinity in Turkey through the popular television serial, Valley of the Wolves. Drawing on in-depth viewer interviews, it examines the central paramilitary hero and how audiences construct meaning and pleasure from the text.
The People’s Pictures
When the UK’s National Lottery began funding “the people’s pictures,” a debate was sparked. Should public money support popular hits the public wants to see, or experimental cinema that requires state support? This book explores the controversies.
Digital processes affect the perception of time, space, and identity. This book invites a shift of perception, proposing the “Point of Being” as an alternative to the “Point of View” to situate the self in our physical and digital world.
The Post-Industrial Landscape as Site for Creative Practice
This book investigates the role of material memory in the post-industrial landscape and the ways landscape can host many forms of creative practice. Material memory’s role in public artworks and political installation art is detailed, within the post-industrial landscape.
This pioneering book introduces the “feminine,” a dimension of film not reducible to women’s experience. Exploring this Jungian concept through movies spanning seven decades, it enhances the appreciation of film as a depth psychological medium.
The Shakespearean Linkages in Unnayi Warrier’s Nala Charitham
Unnayi Warrier’s ‘Nala Charitham’ is a popular Kathakali drama of romance, treachery, and banishment. Drawing from Hindu mythology, this book insightfully compares the story’s complex characters with Shakespeare’s plays, giving the captivating tale a new perspective.
Niestorowicz discusses the creative capabilities of people with simultaneous impairment of sight and hearing. She presents a study of the act of creation performed by deafblind people, which makes it possible to propose a vision of reality as conveyed through their sculptures.
Since Plato, the relationship between theatre and learning has been seen as powerful, dangerous, and complex. This volume investigates this intersection, as researchers and practitioners consider the tensions and failures that make learning through theatre so engaging.
Theatre Theory and Performance
Biswas offers a starting point for a much-needed critical interrogation of theatre today. He looks at the constant features of European theatre and brings in some Indian elements, before scrutinising the symbiosis that has been functioning for some time.
Recent decades in Spain and Latin America have seen transnational voices, typically stereotyped or alienated in the West, gain increasing presence in cultural texts. These essays explore new ways of seeing and interpreting the Middle East and the East in contemporary films.
Trends in Radio Research
This book explores radio’s adaptation to the digital era. Drawing on international research from countries like the UK, Spain, and Brazil, chapters investigate key issues, including new business models, the function of community radio, and the future of the radio spectrum.
Truth, Dare or Promise
This book explores the innovations and limitations of art and documentary. International practitioners and theorists address themes of personal experience and representations of the past, examining the overlaps between gallery installation and cinematic screening.
Understanding Bollywood
Explore how Bollywood films reveal the cultural politics of India. This book analyses the on-screen evolution of Indian women, charting their journey from subjugation to empowerment and the fight for human rights.
Artists are collaborating with scientists and communities to encourage pro-environmental behavior. This book unites 28 contributors to examine the vital role of the arts in provoking change and making connections to ecology, science, and Indigenous culture.
Utopia and Neoliberalism in Latin American Cinema
This book reflects upon the crisis and recovery of utopia, from classic Greece to the neoliberal era in Latin America. Using decolonialist theory, it contributes a new model of analysis for Latin American cinema: “the allegory of the motionless traveler.”