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Film Studies

Performing Arts

Film, Music, Memory

Hoeckner Berthold

ISBN: PB: 9780226649757, ISBN: HB: 9780226649610, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
320 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 48 colour plates, 44 halftones,

Film has shaped modern society in part by changing its cultures of memory. "Film, Music, Memory" reveals that this change has rested in no small measure on the mnemonic powers of music. As films were consumed by growing American and European audience...

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Performing Arts

In Performance

Citizens of Tokyo Six Plays

Hirata Oriza

ISBN: PB: 9780857425515, Seagull Books, September 2019
360 pp., 19x15.2 cm, 7 halftones

"Citizens of Tokyo" is the first collection in English of plays by one of Japan's most important contemporary playwrights, Oriza Hirata, whose works have been performed all over the world. The first part of Citizens of Tokyo, "At Home and Abroad," pr...

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Performing Arts

Melodramatic Moment Music and Theatrical Culture, 1790-1820

Hambridge Katherine G., Hicks Jonathan

ISBN: HB: 9780226543659, University of Chicago Press, July 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones, 8 line drawings

We seem to see melodrama everywhere we look – from the soliloquies of devastation in a Dickens novel to the abject monstrosity of Frankenstein's creation, and from Louise Brooks's exaggerated acting in "Pandora's Box" to the vicissitudes endlessly re...

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Performing Arts

Guilty Pleasures: Theater, Piety, and Immorality in Seventeenth-Century France Yale French Studies, Number 130

Harris Joseph, Prest Julia

ISBN: PB: 9780300221633, Yale University Press, March 2017
160 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

The latest volume of the Yale French Studies Series reexamines the vexed relationship between the theater and contemporary conceptions of morality in seventeenth-century France. Although the Catholic Church condemned the power of plays to stir up com...

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Film Studies

Performing Arts

Moses Complex Freud, Schoenberg, Straub/Huillet

Holl Ute

ISBN: HB: 9783037346235, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, February 2017
336 pp., 21.6x16.5 cm, 42 colour plates, 15 halftones

Moses has long been a source of modern fascination. For Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis, Moses was a particularly fruitful subject for the study of memory and historiography. He also held great interest for the visual and performing arts. In the 192...

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History of Art

Ancient World

Art of Ancient Greek Theater

Hart Mary L.

ISBN: HB: 9781606060377, Getty Publications, September 2010
176 pp., 28.7x24.6 cm, 75 colour illus., 67 black&white illus.

This is an exploration of Greek theatre as seen through its many depictions in classical art. "The Art of Ancient Greek Theater" addresses the vibrant imprint that ancient Greek tragedy and comedy left on the visual arts of classical Greece. Theatric...

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Jewish Studies

Moscow Yiddish Theater Art on Stage in the Time of Revolution

Harshav Benjamin, Harshav Barbara

ISBN: HB: 9780300115130, Yale University Press, January 2008
256 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 39 colour images, 49 black&white illus.

The Moscow Yiddish Theater (later called GOSET) was born in 1919 and almost immediately became one of the most remarkable avant-garde theaters in Europe. It flourished in the 1920s but under Bolshevik pressure soon lost much of the originality that h...

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