John Heilpern, USA
Conference of the Birds is John Heilpern's true story of an extraordinary journey In December 1972, the director Peter Brook and an international troupe of actors (Helen Mirren and Yoshi Oida among them) left their Paris base to emerge again in the Sahara desert. It was the start of an 8,500 mile expedition through Africa without precedent in the history of theatre. Brook was in search of a new beginning that has since been revealed in all his work - from Conference of the Birds and Carmen to The Mahabharata and beyond. At the heart of John Heilpern's brilliant account of the African experiment is a story that became a search for the miraculous.
November 1999: 234 x 156: 336 pp
Pb: 0-87830-110-0:
Critical Dictionary of Film and Television Theory
Edited by Roberta Pearson, University of Wales, UK
and Philip Simpson, Canterbury Christchurch College,
UK
Consultant Editors: David Black, William Urricchio, Gill
Branston
This dictionary contains all you need to know about the major theoretical approaches used in the study of the moving image. It provides beginning students with an introductory map of the field, and more experienced students and scholars a quick and accessible reference reminder of all basic concepts. Key features:
- over 400 entries of 500 to 3,000 words
- suggestions for further reading
- fully indexed and cross-referenced.
November 2000: 246 x 174: 544 pp
Hb: 0-415-16218-1
David Mamet's Glengarry Glenn Ross
Text and Performance
Edited by Leslie Kane, Westfield State College, USA
Mamet's criticism of American society, theatrical inventiveness images of alienation and betrayal, sensitivity to language, and continuing productivity make him one of today's leading playwrights. This critical collection of eight original essays and two recently published essays examines Mamet's development from the beginning of his career to the present.
Studies in Modern Drama Volume 8 January 2000:
216x 140
Hb: 0-8153-1877-4:
| Pb: 0-8153-3590-3:
David
Hare
Casebook
Edited by Hersh Zeifman
The first collection of original essays devoted exclusively to the work of one of Britain's finest and most provocative playwrights, this volume includes an up-to-date chronology and a complete bibliography. The collection begins with a refreshingly candid interview with Hare in which he discusses the whole sweep of his remarkable career, focusing particularly on his theatre trilogy of the 1990s. Following the interview are three incisive essays that range widely over Hare's considerable body of work: 16 stage plays, eight theatrical collaborations and 11 screenplays for film and television. Nine lively and opinionated essays examine individual Hare plays and films from his initial success Slag (1970) to his most recent play The Absence of War (1993).
Casebooks on Modern Dramatists
Published March 2000: 230 x 152
Pb: 0-8153-3635-7:
Dramatic
Arts and Cultural Studies
Acting against the Grain
Kathleen Berry
With the current, fast-paced, major philosophical challenges to modern life and its institutional constricts, artists and teachers involved in the dramatic arts are faced with demands to create a lucid post-modern play of ideas and forms. This book presents a wide range of contemporary theories borrowed from cultural studies augmented with practical implications that support dramatic artists in their struggle to create possible multiple realities for a post-modern future. Teachers, directors, writers, students, and many others involved in the dramatic arts will benefit from the discussions of cultural studies and the connections to the dramatic arts. An introductory chapter by Shirley Steinberg, a leading educator and drama teacher, provides a context for the basic premises of cultural studies and the dramatic arts.
Teaching and Thinking
Published May 2000: 216 x 140: 256 pp
Hb: 0-8153-0931
-7: | Pb: 0-8153-3727-2:
MAJOR WORK -first published in 1958
2nd Edition
Edited by Glynne Wickham, formerly of the University of Bristol, UK
5 Volume Set June 2001, 234 x 156
Volumes also available individually