This book provides an accessible yet sophisticated introduction to the significant philosophical issues concerning the performing arts. Presents the significant philosophical issues concerning the performing arts in an accessible style, assuming no prior knowledge Provides a critical overview and a comprehensive framework for thinking about the performing arts Examines the assumption that classical music provides the best model for thinking about artistic performance across the performing arts...
Film and television have never been more prevalent or watched than they are now, yet we still have little understanding of how people process and make use of what they see. And though we acknowledge the enormous role the media plays in our culture, we have only a vague sense of how it actually influences our attitudes and desires. In Perverse Spectators , Janet Staiger argues that studying the interpretive methods of spectators within their historical contexts is both possible and necessary to...
<P>Paul Mazursky's nearly twenty films as writer/director represent Hollywood's most sustained comic expression of the 1970s and 1980s. But they have not been given their due, perhaps because Mazursky's films—both sincere and ridiculous, realistic and romantic—are pure emotion. This makes films like Bob &amp; Carol &amp; Ted &amp; Alice, An Unmarried Woman, and Enemies, A Love Story difficult to classify, but that's what makes a human...
How the internet transformed television Before HBO’s hit show Insecure, Issa Rae’s comedy about being a nerdy black woman debuted as a YouTube web series The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl, her response to the absence of diverse black characters on the small screen. Broad City, a feminist sitcom now on Comedy Central, originated as a web series on YouTube, developed directly out of funny women Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson’s real-life friendship. These...
The best jokes, gags and scenes from a true British comedy classic.Del: You were gun running during the Spanish Civil War?Grandad: Well…that was the best time to do it!‘A man like you needs something to reflect your image – I've got a lovely Skoda in the forecourt.'Boycie (…trying to sell a used car to Del)In the history of British comedy classics, there is no better example than the hugely popular and critically-acclaimed Only Fools and Horses. Set in Peckham, inner London, it chronicles the...
<P>Through her engaged and articulate essays in the Village Voice, C. Carr has emerged as the cultural historian of the New York underground and the foremost critic of performance art. On Edge brings together her writings to offer a detailed and insightful history of this vibrant brand of theatre from the late 70s to today. It represents both Carr's analysis as a critic and her testament as a witness to performances which, by their very nature, can never be...
In 1969, the Village Voice described Minneapolis as "America's second theater city after New York." In the forty-plus years since, the theatrical offerings of Minneapolis and St. Paul have only grown—everything from world-renowned venues to independent stages and innovative festivals—and the Twin Cities hold a prominent place in the national theater scene today. In Offstage Voices, author Peg Guilfoyle provides an in-depth look at this vibrant world...
Odin Teatret blev opfattet som udansk og fremmedartet, da italienske Eugenio Barba og fem unge skuespillere i 1966 indvandrede til Holstebro. Lige siden har teatrets arbejde med erobring af anderledeshed vAeret en stAerk inspiration for bade den danske og den internationale teaterverden – ligesom teatret gennem arene udviklede et frodigt samspil med sin hjemby.En kreds af danske kunstnere og kulturforskere fortAeller her om deres personlige mode og faglige udvekslinger med Odin Teatret, i forlob...
