ISBN: 0073382167 Binding: Paperback Edition: 7 Author(s): Edwin Wilson, Alvin Goldfarb Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages Number of Pages: 464
Edwin Wilson and Alvin Goldfarb combine the best of theatrical elements and history in this best-selling introductory text Theatre: The Lively Art is designed both to prepare and inspire students to become lifelong audience members if not actual participants in theatre With its clear narrative concise presentation and vibrant visual program Theatre: The Lively Art is appropriate for introductory theatre courses at any college or university The seventh edition continues to highlight the diversity within theatre while streamlining the text's organization and updating its coverage of the latest processes techniques and technologies in theatrical design and production
Manga Kamishibai: The Art of Japanese Paper Theater
ISBN: 081095303X Binding: Hardcover Edition: Author(s): Eric P. Nash Publisher: Abrams ComicArts Number of Pages: 304
Before giant robots space ships and masked super heroes filled the pages of Japanese comic books--known as manga--such characters were regularly seen on the streets of Japan in kamishibai stories Manga Kamishibai: The Art of Japanese Paper Theater tells the history of this fascinating and nearly vanished Japanese art form that paved the way for modern-day comic books and is the missing link in the development of modern manga During the height of kamishibai in the 1930s storytellers would travel to villages and set up their butais (miniature wooden prosceniums) through which illustrated boards were shown The storytellers acted as entertainers and reporters narrating tales that ranged from action-packed westerns period pieces traditional folk tales and melodramas to nightly news reporting on World War II More than just explaining the pictures a good storyteller would act out the parts of each character with different voices and facial expressions Through extensive research and interviews author Eric P Nash pieces together the remarkable history of this art and its creators With rare images reproduced for the first time from Japanese archives including full-length kamishibai stories combined with expert writing this book is an essential guide to the origins of manga
Local Acts: Community-Based Performance in the United States (Rutgers Series on the Public Life of the Arts)
ISBN: 0813535506 Binding: Paperback Edition: Author(s): Jan Cohen-Cruz Publisher: Rutgers University Press Number of Pages: 232
"Cohen-Cruzs book is a highly effective local (and global) act in itself; paralleling the culturally democratic acts it is inspired by Local Acts will in turn inspire others"Lucy R Lippard author of The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered SocietyAn eclectic mix of art theater dance politics experimentation and ritual community-based performance has become an increasingly popular art movement in the United States Forged by the collaborative efforts of professional artists and local residents this field brings performance together with a range of political cultural and social projects such as community-organizing cultural self-representation and education Local Acts presents a long-overdue survey of community-based performance from its early roots through its flourishing during the politically-turbulent 1960s to present-day popular culture Drawing on nine case studies including groups such as the African American Junebug Productions the Appalachian Roadside Theater and the Puerto Rican Teatro Pregones Jan Cohen-Cruz provides descriptions of performances and processes first-person stories and analysis She shows how the ritual side of these endeavors reinforces a sense of community identification while the aesthetic side enables local residents to transgress cultural norms to question group habits and to incorporate a level of craft that makes the work accessible to individuals beyond any one community The book concludes by exploring how community-based performance transcends even national boundaries connecting the local United States with international theater and cultural movements
ISBN: 0495391042 Binding: Paperback Edition: 2 Author(s): William Missouri Downs, Wright, Erik Ramsey Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Number of Pages: 512
THE ART OF THEATRE: THEN AND NOW Second Edition explores issues of diversity and creativity presents a full day-in-the-life of theatre and offers comprehensive coverage of theatre history The authors make timely and relevant connections between theatre and the familiar world of television and film to help students understand how the living art of theatre relates to and influences today's screen entertainment For flexibility in the way you teach THE ART OF THEATRE is available in two versions THE ART OF THEATRE: THEN AND NOW contains 17 chapters 7 of which cover theatre history in both Western and non-Western contexts THE ART OF THEATRE: A CONCISE INTRODUCTION features 12 chapters and a briefer treatment of theatre's key movements
The Kamishibai Classroom: Engaging Multiple Literacies Through the Art of "Paper Theater"
ISBN: 1591588731 Binding: Paperback Edition: 1 Author(s): Tara McGowan Publisher: Libraries Unlimited Number of Pages: 150
Kamishibai is an interactive storytelling form that allows students to develop mastery of multiple literacies while also learning to combine these literacies effectively The Kamishibai Classroom: Engaging Multiple Literacies Through the Art of "Paper Theater" introduces innovative ideas for using kamishibai performance and story creation as a teaching tool The hands-on interactive workshops outlined here were all developed in public school classrooms and other venues in the United States and are perfect for getting students involved in the fun and learning that occur when they create and perform original storiesThis elaborately illustrated guide provides step-by-step instructions for implementing kamishibai workshops in the classroom and integrating them into interactive performances across the disciplines and for all ages It covers a broad range of techniques used by kamishibai practitioners in Japan past and present showing the connections from early traditions of picture-storytelling in Japan up to present-day manga and anim
Introduction to Theatre Arts Teacher's Guide: A 36-Week Action Workbook for Middle Grade and High School Students and Teachers
ISBN: 1566080916 Binding: Paperback Edition: Teacher Author(s): Suzi Zimmerman Publisher: Meriwether Pub Number of Pages: 356
This companion guide to the student's action workbook makes teaching this class easy and fun It includes the answers to all questions It provides lesson plans a weekly calendar a survival guide for a substitute poster ideas evaluation forms hand-outs planning materials for fundraising events and awards More teaching-assists than you will ever need
Digital Performance: A History of New Media in Theater, Dance, Performance Art, and Installation (Leonardo Books)
ISBN: 0262042355 Binding: Hardcover Edition: annotated edition Author(s): Steve Dixon Publisher: The MIT Press Number of Pages: 825
Winner 2008 Lewis Mumford Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Technics given by the Media Ecology Association (MEA) and Winner Music and the Performing Arts category 2007 ProfessionalScholarly Publishing Awards for Excellence Competition presented by the Association of American Publishers Inc
The past decade has seen an extraordinarily intense period of experimentation with computer technology within the performing arts Digital media has been increasingly incorporated into live theater and dance and new forms of interactive performance have emerged in participatory installations on CD-ROM and on the Web In Digital Performance Steve Dixon traces the evolution of these practices presents detailed accounts of key practitioners and performances and analyzes the theoretical artistic and technological contexts of this form of new media art
Dixon finds precursors to today's digital performances in past forms of theatrical technology that range from the deus ex machina of classical Greek drama to Wagner's Gesamtkunstwerk (concept of the total artwork) and draws parallels between contemporary work and the theories and practices of Constructivism Dada Surrealism Expressionism Futurism and multimedia pioneers of the twentieth century For a theoretical perspective on digital performance Dixon draws on the work of Walter Benjamin Roland Barthes Jean Baudrillard and others
To document and analyze contemporary digital performance practice Dixon considers changes in the representation of the body space and time He considers virtual bodies avatars and digital doubles as well as performances by artists including Stelarc Robert Lepage Merce Cunningham Laurie Anderson Blast Theory and Eduardo Kac He investigates new medias novel approaches to creating theatrical spectacle including virtual reality and robot performance work telematic performances in which remote locations are linked in real time Webcams and online drama communities and considers the "extratemporal" illusion created by some technological theater works Finally he defines categories of interactivity from navigational to participatory and collaborative Dixon challenges dominant theoretical approaches to digital performanceincluding what he calls postmodernisms denial of the newand offers a series of boldly original arguments in their place
An Introduction to the Art of Theatre: A Comprehensive Text- Past, Present, And Future
ISBN: 1566081173 Binding: Paperback Edition: Author(s): Marsh Cassady Publisher: Meriwether Publishing Number of Pages: 353
This is a readable workable text that deals with everything about theatre and the artists who make theatre possible Styles of drama staging production directing and acting along with all backstage functions are defined in detail Theatre history and the business of theatre are covered fully for the use of both students and instructors
The Necessity of Theater: The Art of Watching and Being Watched
ISBN: 0195394801 Binding: Paperback Edition: Author(s): Paul Woodruff Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA Number of Pages: 272
What is unique and essential about theater What separates it from other arts Do we need "theater" in some fundamental way The art of theater as Paul Woodruff says in this elegant and unique book is as necessary - and as powerful - as language itself Defining theater broadly including sporting events and social rituals he treats traditional theater as only one possibility in an art that - at its most powerful - can change lives and (as some peoples believe) bring a divine presence to earth The Necessity of Theater analyzes the unique power of theater by separating it into the twin arts of watching and being watched practiced together in harmony by watchers and the watched Whereas performers practice the art of being watched - making their actions worth watching and paying attention to action choice plot character mimesis and the sacredness of performance space - audiences practice the art of watching: paying close attention A good audience is emotionally engaged as spectators; their engagement takes a form of empathy that can lead to a special kind of human wisdom As Plato implied theater cannot teach us transcendent truths but it can teach us about ourselves Characteristically thoughtful probing and original Paul Woodruff makes the case for theater as a unique form of expression connected to our most human instincts The Necessity of Theater should appeal to anyone seriously interested or involved in theater or performance more broadly
