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  • Viral Performance: Contagious Theaters from Modernism to the Digital Age

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    Description:
    An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative and links to the open-access version can be found at... and Miriam Felton-Dansky’s Viral Performance proposes the concept of the viral as an essential means of understanding socially engaged and transmedial performance practices since the mid-twentieth century.
    Keyword:
    political theater, digital media, media, viral transmission, Artaudian, and performing arts
    Subject:
    Performing arts
    Creator:
    Felton-Dansky, Miriam
    Owner:
    Kirsten Markusic
    Publisher:
    Northwestern University Press
    Language:
    English
    Date Uploaded:
    01/25/2023
    Date Modified:
    01/25/2023
    Date Created:
    2018
    Resource Type:
    Book
    Alternate Identifier:
    eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-3717-2, Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3715-8, and Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3716-5

  • The Unfinished Art of Theater: Avant-Garde Intellectuals in Mexico and Brazil

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    Description:
    An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative and links to the open-access version can be found at... and The Unfinished Art of Theater: Avant-Garde Intellectuals in Mexico and Brazil shows how theater was a key site in the struggle to redefine the relationship between art and social change and the rise of an international avant-garde in both nations from 1917 to 1934.
    Keyword:
    performance studies, avant-garde, Mexico, Brazil, and vanguardias
    Subject:
    Performing arts and Theater
    Creator:
    Townsend, Sarah J.
    Owner:
    Kirsten Markusic
    Publisher:
    Northwestern University Press
    Language:
    English
    Date Uploaded:
    01/25/2023
    Date Modified:
    01/25/2023
    Date Created:
    2018
    Resource Type:
    Book
    Alternate Identifier:
    Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3740-0, Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3741-7, and eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-3742-4

  • Screening Auschwitz: Wanda Jakubowska's The Last Stage and the Politics of Commemoration

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    Description:
    An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative and links to the open-access version can be found at... and Screening Auschwitz is the first and definitive discussion of the classic Polish Holocaust film The Last Stage (Ostatni etap). Directed by Auschwitz survivor Wanda Jakubowska, The Last Stage was the first film of its kind. Marek Haltof has incorporated a wealth of new sources to trace the creation of this...
    Keyword:
    film, cinema, Auschwitz, judaism, movies, and holocaust
    Subject:
    History and Performing arts
    Creator:
    Haltof, Marek
    Owner:
    Kirsten Markusic
    Publisher:
    Northwestern University Press
    Language:
    English
    Date Uploaded:
    01/23/2023
    Date Modified:
    01/23/2023
    Date Created:
    2018
    Resource Type:
    Book
    Alternate Identifier:
    Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3608-3, Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3610-6, and eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-3609-0

  • Cinema of Confinement

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    Description:
    In this book, Thomas J. Connelly draws on a number of key psychoanalytic concepts from the works of Jacques Lacan, Slavoj Žižek, Joan Copjec, Michel Chion, and Todd McGowan to identify and describe a genre of cinema characterized by spatial confinement. Examining classic films such as Alfred Hitchcock's Rope and... and An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative can be found at  www.knowledgeunlatched.org.
    Keyword:
    film theory, captive, Lacan, and confinement
    Subject:
    Performing arts and Psychology
    Creator:
    Connelly, Thomas J.
    Owner:
    Kirsten Markusic
    Publisher:
    Northwestern University Press
    Language:
    English
    Date Uploaded:
    06/08/2022
    Date Modified:
    06/08/2022
    Resource Type:
    Book
    Alternate Identifier:
    Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3922-0, eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-3923-7, and Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3921-3