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Viennese-born actor Adolf Wohlbrück enjoyed huge success on both stage and screen in Germany during the 1920s and 1930s, becoming one of the first truly international stars. After leaving Nazi Germany for Hollywood in 1936, he changed his name to Anton Walbrook and then...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
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2021-01-21
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The essays in this volume explore how the humanities can contribute to an understanding of a fundamental aspect of human life: work. This volume explores how German literature has grappled with understanding work in times of disruptive change brought about by...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-09-03
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This book offers a theory and methodology of transmedia arts activism within the technocultural and sociopolitical landscape of expanded documentary production, distribution, reception and participation. Through a detailed analysis of the author’s transmedia project on...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-07-23
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Over the last two decades, philosophers have been increasingly inclined to consider science fiction films as philosophical exercises that center on the nature of human consciousness and existence. Albert Camus’ philosophy of the absurd, however, has almost never been...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-06-17
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'Playboys of the Western World is a model of contemporary performance studies.'
'The book is remarkably well-focused: half is a series of production histories of Playboy performances through the twentieth century in the UK, Northern Ireland, the USA, and Ireland. The...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-06-15
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This is a book of insight and imagination. It is a literary tour de force, where 28 Irish plays are examined and their rich cultural context exposed in a way that educates and excites. To read Anne O'Reilly's analysis leaves one longing to return to theatre and to play....
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-04-16
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For over fifty years, the Dublin Theatre Festival has been one of Ireland’s most important cultural events, bringing countless events, bringing countless new Irish plays to the world stage, while introducing Irish audiences to the most important international theatre...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-04-16
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Out of History is the first book to appear on the work of award-winning Irish author Sebastian Barry. Barry is recognized as one of Ireland's greatest living writers and his works now appear regularly on syllabuses in U.S.colleges, in Irish Studies and in Drama...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-04-09
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'The Drunkard is a wonderfully eloquent play.’Young Edward Kilcullen's life is blighted by alcohol. Lawyer McGinty desires possession of all the Kilcullens ever owned and relishes the prospect of his demise. However, the temperance preacher and philanthropist Sir Arden...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-04-08
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The essays collected in Edna O’Brien: New Critical Perspectives illustrate the range, complexity and interest of O’Brien as a fiction writer and dramatist. Together they contribute to a broader appreciation of her work and to an evolution of new critical approaches, as...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-04-08
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Last year when Garry Hynes asked me to edit a book on Synge, I realised that a great seachange had taken place in relation to his work. Once, he would have been viewed by many readers and writers as an old-fashioned figure whose influence was harmful, whose...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-04-08
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Just once in a while, actors and performers change the whole way in which they approach the words in their scripts. Such a change happened in the early-to-middle years of the twentieth century; and the person behind it was "Dadie" Rylands. He was a man with an ear...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-03-10
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The lively, informative and incisive collection of essays sheds fascinating new light on the literary interrelations between Ireland, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Czech Republic. It charts a hitherto under-explored history of the reception of modern Irish culture...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-02-11
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With such plays as The Beauty Queen (1996), The cripple of Irishman (1997), The Lonesome West (1997), A skull in Connemara (1997), The Lieutenant of Irishmore (2001), and The Pillowman (2003) Martin McDonagh has made a huge reputation for himself internationally,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2019-12-05
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The book presents a theory of relationships between the forms of devotion and early drama genres.The historical background is the circumstances of the Church becoming independent of the Empire. A theological and philosophical aspect of the transformation of piety at the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2019-07-18
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What role does nature play in the cultural world of the theatre? Is the auditorium not a natural environment, and how can theatre and nature aesthetics co-exist in the productive expression of performance? Re-Place: Irish Theatre Environments proposes a new way of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-08-03
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Talking Shakespeare is a collection of essays on Shakespeare’s plays and politics and their impact in the world today. Originally given as provocative talks on Shakespeare at some of the most prestigious universities, conferences, and theatres around the world, they...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-07-28
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'A sparkling memoir ... A delight from start to finish' NINA STIBBE 'Anyone who loves the theatre will love this book' ZOË WANAMAKER In 1980s London, Sweetpea Slight is en route to drama school when she is snapped up to work as an assistant to the maverick theatre...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2017-07-06
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The author presents the method of research and creation in dance and theater in Brazil, called Bailarino-Pesquisador-Intérprete (Dancer-Researcher-Performer, BPI), which was created by the author herself. Through field research of ritual and Brazilian popular...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-05-09
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This book presents a new approach to early English theatre by exposing a genuine relationship between monastic performances and theatricality. It argues that modern theatre was reinvented in Anglo-Saxon monasteries by monks who were required to transform themselves by...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-04-11
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