Rising from the Flames: The Rebirth of Theater in Occupied Japan, 1945-1952
ISBN: 9780739128183 / Angielski / Twarda / 462 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On August 15, 1945, when the war ended, almost all of Tokyo and Osaka's theaters had been destroyed or heavily damaged by American bombs. The Japanese urban infrastructure was reduced to dust, and so, one might have thought, would be the nation's spirit, especially in the face of nuclear bombing and foreign occupation. Yet, less than two weeks after the atom bombs had been dropped, theater began to show signs of life. Before long, all forms of Japanese theater were back on stage, and from death's ashes arose the flower of art. Rising from the Flames contains sixteen essays, many accompanied...
On August 15, 1945, when the war ended, almost all of Tokyo and Osaka's theaters had been destroyed or heavily damaged by American bombs. The Japanese...
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748,02 zł |
British Asian Theatre: Dramaturgy, Process and Performance
ISBN: 9780230211384 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides an introduction to British Asian theatre over the past 30 years. Hingorani explores and examines productions from major British Asian theatre companies (including Tara Arts, Tamasha, Kali Theatre), providing students with the theoretical tools and practical examples with which to gain study the performance practices of British Asian theatre.
This book provides an introduction to British Asian theatre over the past 30 years. Hingorani explores and examines productions from major British Asi...
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570,57 zł |
British South Asian Theatres: A Documented History [With DVD]
ISBN: 9780859898324 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. British South Asian theater has been one of the most significant features of diasporic artistic activity throughout the world in the last thirty years, yet its remarkable achievements have been largely ignored by mainstream media and scholars. With British South Asian Theatres, Graham Ley and Sarah Dadswell aim to reverse such neglect. Drawing on unpublished archives and an extensive series of interviews on the history of British theater, these essays document the presence of South Asians on the British stage, from magicians of the nineteenth century to the performers of today. A... British South Asian theater has been one of the most significant features of diasporic artistic activity throughout the world in the last thirty ye... |
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389,03 zł |
British South Asian Theatres: A Documented History [With DVD]
ISBN: 9780859898331 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. British South Asian theater has been one of the most significant features of diasporic artistic activity throughout the world in the last thirty years, yet its remarkable achievements have been largely ignored by mainstream media and scholars. With British South Asian Theatres, Graham Ley and Sarah Dadswell aim to reverse such neglect. Drawing on unpublished archives and an extensive series of interviews on the history of British theater, these essays document the presence of South Asians on the British stage, from magicians of the nineteenth century to the performers of today. A... British South Asian theater has been one of the most significant features of diasporic artistic activity throughout the world in the last thirty ye... |
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129,68 zł |
Alternative Chinese Opera in the Age of Globalization: Performing Zero
ISBN: 9780230245655 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bringing the study of Chinese theatre into the 21st-century, Lei discusses ways in which traditional art can survive and thrive in the age of modernization and globalization. Building on her previous work, this new book focuses on various forms of Chinese 'opera' in locations around the Pacific Rim, including Hong Kong, Taiwan and California.
Bringing the study of Chinese theatre into the 21st-century, Lei discusses ways in which traditional art can survive and thrive in the age of moderniz...
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192,30 zł |
The Dancing Word: An Embodied Approach to the Preparation of Performers and the Composition of Performances
ISBN: 9789042033306 / Angielski / Miękka / 219 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The product of over eighteen years of embodied research by the author, "The Dancing Word "presents a systemic and phenomenological description of a contemporary intercultural theatre practice. This volume offers a blueprint for both training and collaborative performance creation that integrates the best of western laboratory theatre with the practice and ontological underpinnings of Chinese martial ("Wushu") and healing/self care ("Qigong") arts. This is a book for theatre practitioners, students, scholars, and those interested in exploring transcultural methodologies.
The product of over eighteen years of embodied research by the author, "The Dancing Word "presents a systemic and phenomenological description of a co...
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279,45 zł |
Hijikata Tatsumi and Butoh: Dancing in a Pool of Gray Grits
ISBN: 9780230120402 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hijikata Tatsumi's explosive 1959 debut Forbidden Colors sparked a new genre of performance in Japan - butoh: an art form of contrasts, by turns shocking and serene. Since then, though interest has grown exponentially, and people all over the world are drawn to butoh's ability to enact paradox and contradiction, audiences are less knowledgeable about the contributions and innovations of the founder of butoh. Hijikata Tatsumi and Butoh traces the rollicking history of the creation and initial maturation of butoh, and locates Hijikata's performances within the intellectual, cultural, and...
Hijikata Tatsumi's explosive 1959 debut Forbidden Colors sparked a new genre of performance in Japan - butoh: an art form of contrasts, by turns shock...
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384,63 zł |
A Silent Thunder
ISBN: 9780881451160 / Angielski / Miękka / 66 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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63,20 zł |
Performing Hybridity in Colonial-Modern China
ISBN: 9781137306104 / Angielski / Twarda / 245 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Shanghai in the early twentieth century, a hybrid theatrical form, wenmingxi, emerged that was based on Western spoken theatre, classical Chinese theatre, and a Japanese hybrid form known as shinpa. This book places it in the context of its hybridized literary and performance elements, giving it a definitive place in modern Chinese theatre.
In Shanghai in the early twentieth century, a hybrid theatrical form, wenmingxi, emerged that was based on Western spoken theatre, classical Chinese t...
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192,30 zł |
CROSSINGS on a BRIDGE of LIGHT: The Songs and Deeds of GESAR, KING OF LING as He Travels to Shambhala Through the Realms of Life and Death
ISBN: 9780974597430 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. CROSSINGS ON A BRIDGE OF LIGHT is a tale of boundless compassion as it inspires the journey through the joys and sorrows of life and death. Tibet's great warrior hero, Gesar of Ling discovers that his mother has lost her way and fallen into the torments of hell. Riding his magic horse, the primordial power of mind itself, he then travels though all the hallucinations of existence to liberate her. His journey reaches its apex in four visions of the enlightened rulers of the Kingdom of Shambhala. Thus he establishes a path of awakening for all beings. Gesar's inner journey, his encounters with...
CROSSINGS ON A BRIDGE OF LIGHT is a tale of boundless compassion as it inspires the journey through the joys and sorrows of life and death. Tibet's gr...
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77,55 zł |
Itinerarios, Viajes Y Contactos Japón-Europa
ISBN: 9783034311953 / Hiszpański / Twarda / 1028 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Japon sigue siendo un misterio para los europeos que han sentido el hipnotismo y la magia de este pais por su apego a la tradicion y su imparable avance tecnologico que lo situa a la cabeza de las vanguardias especializadas. Este enigma cautiva a especialistas de todos los campos de investigacion que no han sido capaces de dar respuesta independientemente a la incognita del pais del sol naciente. Por eso este volumen pretende unir las investigaciones, estudios y analisis de diferentes disciplinas que ayuden a resolver el enigma japones. El hilo conductor de todas las aportaciones es el del...
Japon sigue siendo un misterio para los europeos que han sentido el hipnotismo y la magia de este pais por su apego a la tradicion y su imparable avan...
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730,28 zł |
Kinbaku: The Art of Rope Bondage
ISBN: 9780957627505 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Kinbaku is the Japanese word for rope bondage: In the west it is often referred to as Shibari. Although it originated in Japan as a means of restraint and torture, during the last hundred years it has also been used as an activity which gives emotional, physical, and visual pleasure for the participants. Nawashi Murakawa, the Artistic Director of the annual London festival of the Art of Japanese Rope Bondage provides the historical context for the practice which goes back 12000 years. He also explains how Kinbaku has developed as a dramatic art form which is performed in front of audiences in...
Kinbaku is the Japanese word for rope bondage: In the west it is often referred to as Shibari. Although it originated in Japan as a means of restraint...
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108,72 zł |
British Asian Theatre: Dramaturgy, Process and Performance
ISBN: 9780230211391 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An introduction to British Asian theatre over the past 30 years. Hingorani explores and examines productions from major British Asian theatre companies (including Tara Arts, Tamasha, Kali Theatre), providing students with the theoretical tools and practical examples with which to study the performance practices of British Asian theatre.
An introduction to British Asian theatre over the past 30 years. Hingorani explores and examines productions from major British Asian theatre companie...
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176,31 zł |
Theatre and Performance in the Asia-Pacific: Regional Modernities in the Global Era
ISBN: 9780230366480 / Angielski / Twarda / 253 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Theatre and Performance in the Asia-Pacific is an innovative study of contemporary theatre and performance within the framework of modernity in the Asia-Pacific. It is an analysis of the theatrical imaginative as it manifests in theatre and performance in Australia, Indonesia, Japan and Singapore.
Theatre and Performance in the Asia-Pacific is an innovative study of contemporary theatre and performance within the framework of modernity in the As...
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192,30 zł |
Wondrous Brutal Fictions: Eight Buddhist Tales from the Early Japanese Puppet Theater
ISBN: 9780231146586 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Wondrous Brutal Fictions presents eight seminal works from the seventeenth-century Japanese sekkyo and ko-joruri puppet theaters, many translated into English for the first time. Both poignant and disturbing, they range from stories of cruelty and brutality to tales of love, charity, and outstanding filial devotion, representing the best of early Edo-period literary and performance traditions and acting as important precursors to the Bunraku and Kabuki styles of theater. As works of Buddhist fiction, these texts relate the histories and miracles of particular buddhas, bodhisattvas,...
Wondrous Brutal Fictions presents eight seminal works from the seventeenth-century Japanese sekkyo and ko-joruri puppet theaters, many translat...
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480,48 zł |
Gladiator Games: Sheffield Theatres with Theatre Royal Stratford East Present
ISBN: 9781840026245 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On the eve of his release from Feltham Young Offenders Institution, Zahid Mubarek, a young British-Asian man, was attacked by his racist cellmate. One week later he died of his injuries. How was this allowed to happen? Based on evidence and interviews given to the Zahid Mubarek Inquiry, this new play traces the Mubarek family's pursuit of the truth. On the eve of his release from Feltham Young Offenders Institution, Zahid Mubarek, a young British-Asian man, was attacked by his racist cellmate.... |
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62,19 zł |
Sugar Mummies
ISBN: 9781840026559 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Welcome to the twenty-first century, where women travel across the world in search of sex, love, and liberation but the reality is that hard cash equals hard men. Sugar Mummies is a funny, provocative, and revealing study of the pleasures and pitfalls of female sex tourism by the author of Gladiator Games. Welcome to the twenty-first century, where women travel across the world in search of sex, love, and liberation but the reality is that hard cash e... |
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62,19 zł |
What Fatima Did
ISBN: 9781840029765 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. - A] lively provocative play. . . . This is the work of a writer with a future.--Guardian
- A] lively provocative play. . . . This is the work of a writer with a future.--Guardian
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51,82 zł |
On Thrones of Gold
ISBN: 9780674734036 / Angielski / Twarda / 423 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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292,71 zł |
Expressionism and Its Deformation in Contemporary Chinese Theatre
ISBN: 9781433105357 / Angielski / Twarda / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Expressionism and Its Deformation in Contemporary Chinese Theatre provides both rigorous readings of dramatic works as well as a historical overview of Chinese theatre from the 1980s to the present. Expressionism becomes a discursive locus to be incorporated and even transformed during a critical phase in the modernization of Chinese drama during the post-Maoist era.
Six leading Chinese dramatists (Gao Xingjian, Lin Zhaohua, Huang Zuolin, Xu Xiaozhong, Meng Jinghui, and Stan Lai) are clear representatives of opening up a new world of modern Chinese drama. They embody each of the... Expressionism and Its Deformation in Contemporary Chinese Theatre provides both rigorous readings of dramatic works as well as a historical ove...
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435,39 zł |