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71. Theatre and Performance in Digital Culture

    From Simulation to Embeddedness

    By Matthew Causey

    Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

    Theatre and Performance in Digital Culture examines the recent history of advanced technologies, including new media, virtual environments, weapons systems and medical innovation, and considers how theatre, performance and culture at large have evolved within those systems. The book examines the...

    Published October 12th 2009 by Routledge
72. Ritual and Event

    Interdisciplinary Perspectives

    Edited by Mark Franko

    Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

    Ritual today can be encountered in the midst of catastrophic and transforming events. This collection reassesses and revises traditionally understood relationships between ritual and politics, ritual and everyday life, ritual and art making, and ritual and disaster.The methodologies...

    Published October 12th 2009 by Routledge
73. Science and the Stanislavsky Tradition of Acting

    By Jonathan Pitches

    Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

    Providing new insight into the well-known tradition of acting, Science and the Stanislavsky Tradition of Acting is the first book to contextualise the Stanislavsky tradition with reference to parallel developments in science. Rooted in practice, it presents an alternative perspective based on...

    Published September 29th 2009 by Routledge
74. City/Stage/Globe

    Performance and Space in Shakespeare's London

    By D.J. Hopkins

    Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

    This interdisciplinary study theorizes the interaction of individual performance and social space. Examining three categories of space – the urban, the theatrical, and the cartographic – this volume considers the role of performance in the production and operation of these...

    Published September 16th 2009 by Routledge
75. Soviet Music and Society under Lenin and Stalin

    The Baton and Sickle

    Edited by Neil Edmunds

    Series: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies

    This book investigates the place of music in Soviet society during the eras of Lenin and Stalin. It examines the different strategies adopted by composers and musicians in their attempts to carve out careers in a rapidly evolving society, discusses the role of music in Soviet society and people's...

    Published August 13th 2009 by Routledge
76. Aesthetics and Material Beauty

    Aesthetics Naturalized

    By Jennifer A. McMahon

    Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

    In Aesthetics and Material Beauty, Jennifer A. McMahon develops a new aesthetic theory she terms Critical Aesthetic Realism - taking Kantian aesthetics as a starting point and drawing upon contemporary theories of mind from philosophy, psychology, and cognitive science. The creative process does...

    Published June 21st 2009 by Routledge
77. Swinging the Vernacular

    Jazz and African American Modernist Literature

    By Michael Borshuk

    Series: Studies in African American History and Culture

    This book looks at the influence of jazz on the development of African American modernist literature over the 20th century, with a particular attention to the social and aesthetic significance of stylistic changes in the music....

    Published June 8th 2009 by Routledge
78. Tragic Seneca

    An Essay in the Theatrical Tradition

    Edited by A. J. Boyle

    Published May 15th 2009 by Routledge
79. The Quest for Gentility in China

    Negotiations Beyond Gender and Class

    Edited by Daria Berg, Chloe Starr

    Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

    The quest for gentility has shaped Chinese civilization and the formation of culture in China until the present day. This book analyzes social aspirations and cultural practices in China from 1550 to 1999, showing how the notion of gentility has evolved and retained its relevance in China from late...

    Published May 11th 2009 by Routledge
80. Elite Theatre in Ming China, 1368-1644

    By Grant Guangren Shen

    Series: Routledge Studies in the Early History of Asia

    Theatre occupied a particularly important place in the life of the elite, for whom owning a theatre troupe was highly fashionable and for whom theatre performances were an integral part of formal gatherings, various rituals and ceremonies. Based on an exploration of original historical records,...

    Published April 28th 2009 by Routledge