Genre and performance: film and television

Genre and performance: film and televisionThis book explores how popular film and television genres frame our understanding of on screen performance. It brings together innovative and inspiring work on this topic from both renowned and newer academics in the field and examines a much neglected area.

namely: the relation of language and the body

An esteemed group of contributors discuss the varieties of lesbian and gay representation to deconstruct and redefine notions of national identity and culture in a diverse European context

This new biography provides an account of the career of Reg Prentice

Topics include coastal adaptation

and represents the author's thoroughgoing revision of his originally self-published and limitedly available Lycian Lexicon

Brody traces the development of southwestern pottery from the prehistoric Anasazi through modern Pueblo

Locates the films in their autobiographical as well as social and historical context

The book shares twelve examples of contemporary research-based theatre scripts and commentaries

This book is unique

Genuinely interdisciplinary

This book is about proxy war and the politics of state-wrecking in Afghanistan and examines how proxy war undermined the US-led state-building project in Afghanistan

Cartomancy and Tarot in Film will be of interest to scholars of esoteric studies