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Strategic Planning in the Arts A Practical Guide

Kaiser Michael M.

ISBN: HB: 9781512601749, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, October 2018
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Planning today is more important than ever. Both acquisition and allocation of resources are increasingly difficult for arts organizations as a result of emerging technologies, reduced arts education, aging donors, and the advent of new forms of ente...

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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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Poetry

Strange Footing Poetic Form and Dance in the Late Middle Ages

Chaganti Seeta

ISBN: PB: 9780226548043, ISBN: HB: 9780226547992, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 colour plates, 25 halftones

For premodern audiences, poetic form did not exist solely as meter, stanzas, or rhyme scheme. Rather, the form of a poem emerged as an experience, one generated when an audience immersed in a culture of dance encountered a poetic text. Exploring the...

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Reference

Character, Scene, and Story New Tools from the Dramatic Writer's Companion

Dunne Will

ISBN: PB: 9780226393506, ISBN: HB: 9780226393476, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Will Dunne first brought the workshop experience down to the desk level with "The Dramatic Writer's Companion", offering practical exercises to help playwrights and screenwriters work through the problems that arise in developing their scripts. Now w...

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Reference

Dramatic Writer's Companion (Second Edition) Tools to Develop Characters, Cause Scenes, and Build Stories

Dunne Will

ISBN: PB: 9780226494081, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In just eight years, "The Dramatic Writer's Companion" has become a classic among playwrights and screenwriters. Thousands have used its self-contained character, scene, and story exercises to spark creativity, hone their writing, and improve their s...

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Nikolaj Evreinov "The Storming of the Winter Palace"

Arns Inke, Sasse Sylvia, Tchoubarov Igor

ISBN: PB: 9783037349915, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, October 2017
250 pp., 22x13.9 cm, 20 colour plates, 85 halftones

In 1920, on the third anniversary of the October Revolution, dramatist Nikolai Evreinov directed a cast of 10,000 actors, dancers, and circus performers – as well as a convoy of armored cars and tanks – in "The Storming of the Winter Palace". The mas...

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Theatre Theory Reader Prague School Writings

Drozd David

ISBN: PB: 9788024635781, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, September 2017
646 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 46 halftones

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The "Theatre Theory Reader" provides the first comprehensive and critical anthology of texts reflecting on the development of the theater theory of the Prague School – or Prague Linguistic...

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Dumb Type Reader

Eckersall Peter, Scheer Edward, Shintaro Fujii

ISBN: PB: 9788763544931, University of Chicago Press, Museum Tusculanum Press, August 2017
256 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm, 20 colour plates

From the 1980s into the early 2000s, the Japanese group Dumb Type mounted multimedia performances that broke substantial new ground in new media dramaturgy and influenced countless performers to follow. This book gathers essays on the group's work, a...

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Performing Arts

Points of Convergence Alternative Views on Performance

Dziewanska Marta, Lepecki Andre

ISBN: PB: 9788364177385, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, March 2017
240 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm, 40 colour plates, 20 halftones

Not for sale in Poland! Thanks to its very nature, performance enters into natural dialogue with art, new media, politics, and the social sphere as a whole. Always happening in the here and now, and with a unique freedom and openness to the unknown...

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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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