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This book looks at how performances of Shakespeare in the Second World War (and post-war years) not only commented on the strife happening outside the theatre, but drew audiences together in a shared sense of community as a way of resisting the enemy. This examination is throu...

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Robert Wilson's theatre is the stuff of legend. He has taught theatre-goers to see the world with different eyes.

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Beginning with a brief history of sound in the theatre, Leonard then discusses different sound systems used in theatre, practical considerations and working in different types of theatre. The book also covers the artistic input involved, the production processes, and pays particular attention to musical theatre.

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This is the first book to appear in English about theatre from the entire Nazi period (1933-45) -- .

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The present work . . . a continuation of the earlier [is] a study of one literary genre, the drama . . both in its passive and active relations with the life of the time and with the theatre, the medium without the aid of which the possibilities of the drama as an art form remain only half realized, like a musical score which is never performed.

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The book is a study of theatre's educational role in the 20th and the first years of the 21st centuries. It examines the variety of ways the theatre's educational potential has been harnessed and theorised by the claims made for its value and the tension between theatre as education and theatre as 'art'. -- .

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The seventh edition of an introductory text, this book explains how theatre happens, who makes it happen, and what they do. Aimed at beginning theatre majors, minors, or non-majors, the book covers playwrights, directors, actors, set design, costumes, props, lights, sound, and new technology, as well as the roles of scholars and critics.

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The seventh edition of an introductory text, this book explains how theatre happens, who makes it happen, and what they do. Aimed at beginning theatre majors, minors, or non-majors, the book covers playwrights, directors, actors, set design, costumes, props, lights, sound, and new technology, as well as the roles of scholars and critics.

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This book focuses on the significance and effect of theatrical subject matter in key films in several genres, and ranges from Busby Berkeley to Ingmar Bergman, and from the haunted backstage world of The Phantom of the Opera to the sinister glamour of The Red Shoes and the theatrical politics of Mephisto and The Lives of Others. -- .

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This index of 7000 productions by more than 2000 scenic designers, focuses on photographs of 20th-century sets, renderings and models of theatre and opera productions. The selections appear in 114 books and journals likely to be held by most reserach libraries.

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This book provides biographical and analytical data on significant historical and contemporary practitioners and theorists of the theatrical design field who have contributed to the development of the art.

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Designed primarily for use by students and theatre generalists, this volume contains biographical sketches, arranged alphabetically, of over 300 individuals distinguished for their stage directing. The work also includes appendixes, providing a selected bibliography, and indexes of names and plays.

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The horror film generally presents a situation where normality is threatened by a monster. From this premise, 'Theatricality in the Horror Film' argues that scary movies often create their terrifying effects stylistically and structurally through a radical break with the realism of normality in the form of monstrous theatricality.

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A novel and original reading of Theo Angelopoulos' films arguing for their political and existential depth.

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Theory and Method in Historical Ethnomusicology demonstrates various ways that new approaches to historiographyand the related application of new technologiesimpact the work of ethnomusicologists who seek to meaningfully represent music traditions across barriers of both time and space.