Author: George Taylor
Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
Keywords: theatre, victorian, performances, players
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1993-06
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 071904023X
ISBN-13: 9780719040238

The Victorian theatre was one of "feeling". Whatever the genre, melodrama or farce, drawing-room comedy or Shakespeare, actors developed a sign-system of gestures and stage-business in order to convey the passion and pathos of their roles. This survey looks at different theatrical genres to reveal the range of Victorian actors, and to show how changes in repertoire, organization and the social function of entertainment effected the "purpose of their playing". Evidence is drawn from handbooks, reviews, biographies and treatises on the psychology, physiology and aesthetics of acting, to reveal b

Author: Anne Herrma
Publisher: Palgrave Macmilla
Keywords: performances, portraits, poses, moderns, queering
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2000-11-04
List price: $79.95
ISBN-10: 0312233272
ISBN-13: 9780312233273

In Queering the Moderns, Anne Herrmann revisits the narrative of literary modernism and the historical uses of the term queer to explore the emergence of identities specific to modernism. Queer in the modernist period (1910-1945) means strange, odd, out of sorts and although it begins to refer to those who are queer sexually, it does not yet police a hetero-homosexual divide. It means crossing boundaries in unexpected directions, across the Atlantic, across the color line, across literary conventions that dictate autobiographies can’t be written by someone else. Six memoirs that rely on

Authors:Lynda Hart, Peggy Phelan,
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Keywords: performances, feminist, acting
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 1993-08-15
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0472064797
ISBN-13: 9780472064793

The first book-length introduction to and critical analysis of contemporary feminist performance, from Madonna to Karen Finley to Cherrie Moraga

Author: J. Richard Hackma
Publisher: Harvard Business Pre
Keywords: performances, stage, setting, teams, leading
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2002-07-15
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 1578513332
ISBN-13: 9781578513338

Winner of the 2004 George R. Terry Book Award! Teams have more talent and experience, more diverse resources, and greater operating flexibility than individual performers. So why do so many teams either struggle unpleasantly toward an unsatisfactory conclusion-or, worse, crash and burn shortly after launch? J. Richard Hackman, one of the world’s leading experts on group and organizational behavior, argues that the answer to this puzzle is rooted in flawed thinking about team leadership. It is not a leader’s management style that determines how well a team performs, but how well a l

Author: Judith Weston
Publisher: Michael Wiese Productions
Keywords: film, amp, television, performances, memorable, actors, creating, directing
Number of Pages: 314
Published: 1999-07
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0941188248
ISBN-13: 9780941188241

Directing film or television is a high-stakes oppucatiopn - the white water rafting of entertainment jobs. It captures your full attention at every moment, calling on you to commit every resource and stretch yourself to the limit. But for many directors, the excitement they feel about a new project tightens into anxiety when it comes to working with actors. Directing Actors is a method for establishing creative, collaborative relationships with actors, getting the most out of rehearsals, troubleshooting poor performances, and giving directions that are briefer and easier to follow. The f

Author: Frank J. Korom
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Keywords: caribbean, diaspora, indo, performances, trinidad, muharram, hosay
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2002-10-31
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 0812218256
ISBN-13: 9780812218251

The multivocalic rite known as Hosay in the Caribbean developed out of earlier practices originating in Iraq and Iran which diffused to Trinidad by way of South Asian indentured laborers brought to the Caribbean by the British from the mid-1800s to the early decades of the twentieth century. The rituals are important as a Shi’i religious observance, but they also are emblems of ethnic and national identity for Indo-Trinidadians. Frank Korom investigates the essential role of Hosay in the performance of multiple identities by historically and ethnographically situating the event in Middle

Authors:Susan Jackson, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi,
Publisher: Human Kinetic
Keywords: experiences, performances, optimal, keys, sports, flow
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1999-05-19
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0880118768
ISBN-13: 9780880118767

The experience of flow is still one of the least understood phenomena in sport. And yet it is one of the richest, most memorable experiences an athlete will ever know. Some call it a natural "high." Others refer to it as being "in a zone." Whatever the label, flow is that elusive and desired state of consciousness that athletes, coaches, and psychologists have tried to understand, harness, and employ to their benefit ever since Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi first coined the term back in the early 1970s. Written by Susan Jackson and the world-renowned Csikszentmihalyi, Flow in Sports both explains th