Author: Otis SkinnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Mad Folk of the Theatre
Author: Otis SkinnerCommonweal
Author: Performing Site-Specific Theatre
Author: A. BirchPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137283491
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This book investigates the expanding parameters for site-specific performance to account for the form's increasing popularity in the twenty-first century. Leading practitioners and theorists interrogate issues of performance and site to broaden our understanding of the role that place plays in performance and the ways that performance influences it
Theatre Arts Magazine
Author: Sheldon CheneyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
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Author: Theatre Arts Magazine
Author: Theatre Arts Monthly
Author: The Booklist
Author: Mad Tales from Bollywood
Author: Dinesh BhugraPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 1134955855
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
This is the first book to investigate how mental illness is portrayed in Hindi cinema. It examines attitudes towards mental illness in Indian culture, how they are reflected in Hindi films, and how culture has influenced the portrayal of the psychoses. Dinesh Bhugra guides the reader through the history of Indian cinema, covering developments from the idealism of the 1950s to the stalking, jealousy and psychopathy that characterises the films of the 1990s. Critiques of individual films demonstrate the culture’s approach towards mental illness and reflect the impact of culture on films and vice versa. Subjects covered include: Cinema and emotion Attitudes towards mental illness Socio-economic factors and cinema in India Indian personality, villainy and history Psychoanalysis in the films of the 60s. Mad Tales from Bollywood will be of interest to psychiatrists, mental health professionals, students of media and cultural studies and anyone with an interest in Indian culture.
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