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9780486811222 | Dover Pubns, December 14, 2016, cover price $8.95
Product Description: This beautifully illustrated book conveys the centrality of costume to live performance. Finding associations between contemporary practices and historical manifestations, costume is explored in six thematic chapters, examining the transformative ritual of costuming; choruses as reflective of society; the grotesque, transgressive costume; the female sublime as emancipation; costume as sculptural art in motion; and the here-and-now as history...read more
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9781474236874 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, March 9, 2017, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: This beautifully illustrated book conveys the centrality of costume to live performance.
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9780857855107 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, March 9, 2017, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: This beautifully illustrated book conveys the centrality of costume to live performance.
Product Description: This book, a companion to the author's Pierrot: A Critical History of a Mask (Princeton, 1978), provides a detailed history of nineteenth-century French pantomime, from the feeries of Jean-Gaspard Deburau at the Theatre des Funambules to the cabaret entertainments of Georges Wague at the height of la Belle Epoque...read more
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9780691639789 | Princeton Univ Pr, April 19, 2016, cover price $142.50 | About this edition: This book, a companion to the author's Pierrot: A Critical History of a Mask (Princeton, 1978), provides a detailed history of nineteenth-century French pantomime, from the feeries of Jean-Gaspard Deburau at the Theatre des Funambules to the cabaret entertainments of Georges Wague at the height of la Belle Epoque.
9780691066288 | Princeton Univ Pr, March 1, 1985, cover price $49.50 | About this edition: This book, a companion to the author's Pierrot: A Critical History of a Mask (Princeton, 1978), provides a detailed history of nineteenth-century French pantomime, from the feeries of Jean-Gaspard Deburau at the Theatre des Funambules to the cabaret entertainments of Georges Wague at the height of la Belle Epoque.
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9780691611808 | Princeton Univ Pr, July 14, 2014, cover price $57.00 | About this edition: This book, a companion to the author's Pierrot: A Critical History of a Mask (Princeton, 1978), provides a detailed history of nineteenth-century French pantomime, from the feeries of Jean-Gaspard Deburau at the Theatre des Funambules to the cabaret entertainments of Georges Wague at the height of la Belle Epoque.
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9781532889103 | Createspace Independent Pub, April 22, 2016, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: The actor's tool: Students learn the safe use of body and voice.
Product Description: Kurze Theorie eines körperlichen Ansatzes für das Spiel auf der Bühne. Die Themen Rhythmus, Tempo, Dynamik und Intensität (und einige mehr), abgehandelt aus der Sicht des Körpertheaters. Sowie: Ein Update-Heft für die âAnatomie der Pantomimeâ...read more
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9781514754566 | Createspace Independent Pub, March 27, 2016, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Kurze Theorie eines körperlichen Ansatzes für das Spiel auf der Bühne.
Product Description: Kathakali Dance-Theatre records the art of Kathakali comprehensively, right from the scenario that paved the way for Kathakali's origin and development to its present history. The book chronicles its various facets - the acting, music and costumes, crucial contributions of the masters, momentous incidences, evolution of styles, riveting anecdotes, and related socio-political issues affecting Kerala...read more
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9789385285011 | Niyogi Books, July 10, 2016, cover price $105.00 | About this edition: Kathakali Dance-Theatre records the art of Kathakali comprehensively, right from the scenario that paved the way for Kathakali's origin and development to its present history.
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9781408869093 | Bloomsbury Pub Ltd, January 14, 2016, cover price $11.05
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9781619639515 | Bloomsbury USA, January 5, 2016, cover price $17.99
Product Description: Slapstick comedy has been entertaining audiences for centuries. Within slapstick, comic pain and comic violence are performed to provoke laughter. This book explores just how and why the performance of pain and violence can make us laugh...read more
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9780230364134 | Palgrave Macmillan, July 18, 2014, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: Slapstick comedy has been entertaining audiences for centuries.
Product Description: First published in 1986, this compilation offers a guide to the major aspects of contemporary British theatre. In the period covered, Britain was among the world leaders in theatre as the post-war years saw a remarkable surge in theatrical creativity, associated with the experimental, innovatory and diverse range and styles of playwrights such as John Osborne, Arnold Wesker, Samuel Beckett, Tom Stoppard and Harold Pinter...read more
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9780415638302 | Reissue edition (Focal Pr, September 6, 2012), cover price $170.00 | About this edition: First published in 1986, this compilation offers a guide to the major aspects of contemporary British theatre.
9780389206699 | Barnes & Noble Imports, December 1, 1986, cover price $66.50 | About this edition: This original compilation is a comprehensive guide to every aspect of contemporary British theatre.
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9780415639415 | Routledge, April 7, 2014, cover price $56.95 | About this edition: First published in 1986, this compilation offers a guide to the major aspects of contemporary British theatre.
Product Description: Towards a Theory of Mime is a genuinely unique book about non-verbal communication and performance. Combining a broad global history of the evolution of human communication with an introduction to the general practice of mime, Alexander Iliev traces a lineage from Marceau and Barrault to his own distinguished practice as performer and teacher...read more
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9780415725910 | Routledge, June 4, 2014, cover price $131.95 | About this edition: Towards a Theory of Mime is a genuinely unique book about non-verbal communication and performance.
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9780415725927 | Routledge, July 14, 2014, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Towards a Theory of Mime is a genuinely unique book about non-verbal communication and performance.
Product Description: This rich collection of readings offers a wide-ranging and authoritative survey of clown practices, history and theory, from the origins of the word clown through to contemporary clowning. Covering clowns in theatre, circus, cinema, TV, street and elsewhere, the author's stimulating narrative challenges assumptions and turns orthodoxy on its head...read more
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9780230300149 | Palgrave Macmillan, May 3, 2013, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: This rich collection of readings offers a wide-ranging and authoritative survey of clown practices, history and theory, from the origins of the word clown through to contemporary clowning.
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9780230300156 | Palgrave Macmillan, May 3, 2013, cover price $42.00 | About this edition: This rich collection of readings offers a wide-ranging and authoritative survey of clown practices, history and theory, from the origins of the word clown through to contemporary clowning.
Product Description: The 'ballet d'action' was one of the most successful and controversial forms of theatre in the early modern period. A curious hybrid of dance, mime and music, its overall and overriding intention was to create drama. It was danced drama rather than dramatic dance; musical drama rather than dramatic music...read more
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9781107005495 | Cambridge Univ Pr, August 22, 2011, cover price $99.99 | About this edition: The 'ballet d'action' was one of the most successful and controversial forms of theatre in the early modern period.
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9781935904038, titled "Workin' Mime to Five: The Hidden Secrets of Cruise Ship Pantomimery; Revealed!" | Scb Distributors, May 1, 2011, cover price $17.00
Product Description: Departing from a refreshing look at the ideas of Antonin Artaud, this book provides a thorough analysis of how both Sarah Kane and Samuel Beckett are indebted to his legacy. In juxtaposing these playwrights, De Vos minutely points out how both in their own way struggle with coming to terms with Artaud...read more
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9781611470444 | Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Pr, April 18, 2011, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: Departing from a refreshing look at the ideas of Antonin Artaud, this book provides a thorough analysis of how both Sarah Kane and Samuel Beckett are indebted to his legacy.
Product Description: From his early shorts in the 1910s through his final film in 1967, Charlie Chaplin's genius embraced many arts: mime, dance, acting, music, writing, and directing. The Comedy of Charlie Chaplin: Artistry in Motion examines Chaplin's fusion of these arts in his films, providing new understanding of how movement communicates, how comedy routines are structured, and how stage skills can be translated to the screen...read more
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9780810861428 | Scarecrow Pr, October 30, 2008, cover price $71.50 | About this edition: From his early shorts in the 1910s through his final film in 1967, Charlie Chaplin's genius embraced many arts: mime, dance, acting, music, writing, and directing.
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9780810877801 | Scarecrow Pr, January 30, 2011, cover price $39.00 | About this edition: From his early shorts in the 1910s through his final film in 1967, Charlie Chaplin's genius embraced many arts: mime, dance, acting, music, writing, and directing.
Product Description: "Highly recommended." â Library Journal. One of the most comprehensive handbooks available on Kabuki theatre provides readers with all the information they need to understand and appreciate this exciting amalgam of dramatic and musical arts...read more
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9780486406459 | Dover Pubns, June 1, 1999, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: "Highly recommended.
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