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World-Making: Race, Performance, and the Work of Creativity
Artist/Author: Dorinne Kondo | Reference: P3758 | ISBN: 978-1-4780-0094-5 | Type: Publication

Theorizes the racialized structures of inequality that pervade theater and the arts.

Part of The Library of Performing Rights (P3041)

affect theory America Anna Deavere Smith audience creativity critical race David Henry Hwang dramaturgy genre hierarchy institution money playwriting politics psychoanalysis race racism recruitment reparative creativity theatre theory USA

The Silent Cinema Reader
Editor: Lee Grieveson and Peter Krämer | Reference: P3579 | Type: Publication

A comprehensive resource of key writings on early cinema, addressing filmmaking practice, film form, style and content, and the ways in which silent films were exhibited and understood by their audiences, from the beginnings of film in the late nineteenth century to the coming of sound in the late 1920s. 

audience Ben Brewster Ben Singer Birth of a Nation Buster Keaton Cecil B. DeMille censorship Chaplin Charles Maland Charles Musser Charlie Chaplin class D. W. Griffith David Bordwell editing Eisenstein Europe Frank Gray genre history Hollywood Joseph Garncarz morality narrative plot projection publicity Richard Abel Roberta E. Pearson Rudolph Valentino studio Sumiko Higashi Tom Gunning variety shows

The Uses Of Autobiography
Editor: Julia Swindells | Reference: P3487 | ISBN: 978-0748403663 | Type: Publication

The contributors to this book, writing from a variety of subject disciplines and interests, explore a range of the uses of autobiography from the nineteenth-century to the present day, and from Africa, USA, the Middle East, France, New Zealand, as well as Britain.

activism adult learning Africa Alice James anthropology Ato Quayson authorship Brian Ridgers censorship Cheryl-Ann Michael Claire MacDonald Clare Bake community curating David Whitley ethnicity feminism feminist gender genre Gillie Bolton history iconography identity Jane Unsworth Janet Bottoms Janet Frame Laura Marcus literature Margaretta Jolly Maroula Joannou memory militancy Morag Styles Nadia Valman Nelson Mandela Pam Hirsch peace performance art personal politics public public sphere race representation Ruth A Symes Sarah Meer self sentimentality slavery social change social context suffragette testimony Victorian war Winnie Mandela Wole Soyinka women World War II writing

Staging Age: The Performance of Age in Theatre, Dance, and Film
Editor: Valerie Barnes Lipscomb and Leni Marshall | Reference: P3147 | ISBN: 978-0230623651 | Type: Publication

This text explores how performers offer conscious-and unconscious-portrayals of the spectrum of age to their audiences. It considers a variety of media, including theatre, film, dance, advertising, and television, and offers critical foundations for research and course design, sound pedagogical approaches, and analyses.

Part of the Know How: The Study Room Guide on Live Art Live Art and working with older individuals and communities. (P3140)

age ageing Allen Wood Ann E. Kaplan Barbara Dickinson CAPP child childhood children choreography dance female body feminism gender genre Heather Addison intergenerational Janet Hill Jeanne Klein Jessica Berson Lois Weaver Molière Neal King popular culture psychoanalysis Restock Rethink Reflect 4 RRR4 Ruth Pe Palileo Samuel Beckett tap dance voice Wendy Oliver William Shakespeare women youth

Pop Trauma
Artist/Author: Common Culture | Reference: P1783 | ISBN: 978-0-9551763-1-9 | Type: Publication

See Pop Trauma DVD: D1793

Bouncers club comedy commodity common Common Culture consumption counterculture disco genre Local Comics Mobile Disco music Performance Matters Pop Trauma social space stand-up Theodor Adorno Trashing Performance Tribute Singer

Imagining Women (Cultural representations & gender)
Editor: Lizbeth Goodman, Frances Bonner, Richard Allen, Linda Jones & Catherine King | Reference: P0005 | Type: Publication

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Includes contributions by editors as well as Dinah Birch, Alicia Ostriker, Wendy Webster, Michelle Cliff, Alice Walker. This item is part of the Study Room Guide on Performance, Politics, Ethics and Human Rights by Adrien Sina (P0661)

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