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Mamamouchi, or The Citizen Turned Gentleman (1672) was Edward Ravenscroft’s playwriting debut. Its rambunctious comedy and star-studded ensemble earned him spectacular success with the London audiences, quickly turning him into one of the most relevant authors of his...
This book proposes entanglement as a useful idiom for understanding the contemporary Manila theatre. Drawing on its Tagalog counterpart, buhol-buhol, entanglement is conceived not only as a juxtaposition among elements, but also as a process of muddling and snaring....
This is the first anthology to explore the fertile intersection of dance and political studies. It offers new perspectives on the connections of dance to governmental, state and party politics, war, nationalism, activism, terrorism, human rights, political ideologies...
Theater HORA, 1993 in Zürich als Kulturwerkstatt für Menschen mit einer geistigen Behinderung entstanden, erobert heute als «freie Republik» die Bühnen weltweit. Dem breiten Spektrum der künstlerischen Arbeit und den aktuellsten Entwicklungen dieses einzigartigen...
Historians regard the Italian home front during the Second World War as an observation post from which to study the relationship between Fascism and society during the years of the collapse of the Mussolini regime. Yet the role of propaganda in influencing that...
This collection of articles offers a comprehensive overview of some of the most current research approaches found in the field of audiovisual translation (AVT) and media accessibility across Europe. The authors, well-known experts in the field of AVT, reflect on new...
With the migration of cinema into the art gallery, artists have been turning, with remarkable regularity and ingenuity, to Alfred Hitchcock-related images, sequences and iconography. The world of Hitchcock’s cinema – a classical cinema of formal unities and narrative...
Subtitling films in another language becomes especially complex when the original language deviates from its standard form. Films that feature non-standard pronunciation, dialects or other varieties of language, especially when juxtaposed with more standard uses, are...
Why was the Bard of Avon so frequently on the agenda of avant-garde writers in Britain, France, Italy, Portugal, Germany and Ireland? This volume explores the rich and diverse landscape of Shakespearean encounters in the tormented aesthetics of pre- and post-World War I...
This collection of essays explores the relationship between art, literature and the stage in France and Belgium in the period 1830-1910. It is the first book to bring together scholarship on this neglected area of study and provides unique insights into current research...
This book investigates allegorical meaning in the ballets Giselle, Coppélia, The Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake, principally by examining their original librettos and costume designs, as well as considering their surviving choreographic legacy. Each ballet is examined...
This book has been inspired by the emphasis that Mark Davie’s studies have put on the cooperative nature of artistic and intellectual pursuits in the humanities. Whilst the importance of connections between intellectuals is often acknowledged in the form of intertextual...
This book explores the linguistic nature of American movie conversation, pointing out its resemblances to face-to-face conversation. The reason for such an investigation lies in the fact that movie language is traditionally considered to be non-representative of...
In a culture increasingly obsessed with the visual, self-image and extreme self-exposure, in which reality is constantly obscured and misrepresented through concealment and spin, the roles display and disguise play in literature, thought and visual culture are...
Serlo, der Prinzipal im Wilhelm Meister, empfiehlt, den Hamlet durch mutige Streichungen bühnentauglich zu machen. Goethe entwirft diese Figur nach Friedrich Ludwig Schröder (1744–1816), einem der erfolgreichsten Regisseure seiner Zeit. Er leitete für mehr als zwanzig...
Die Schauspielerin Lilly Kann machte sich einen Namen auf der deutschen Bühne als hervorragende Interpretin klassischer Hauptrollen. Dieser Band enthält ihre Erinnerungen an eine sechzig Jahre währende Bühnenkarriere. Kann debütierte als 16-Jährige am Bonner...
Dieses Buch beleuchtet Manifestationen des Topos «Heimat» in Romanen, Spiel- und Dokumentarfilmen aus den ersten zwei Jahrzehnten der DDR. Heimat bzw. Heimatsuche wird als kulturanthropologisches Konzept eingeführt, welches sich als ein individuelles, menschliches...
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