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The Second Birth of Theatre: Performances of Anglo-Saxon Monks

Miroslaw Kocur

This book examines performative practices of Anglo-Saxon monks and provides fresh insights into the origins of early English theatre. The author argues that modern European theatre was reinvented in medieval…

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The Power of Theater: Actors and Spectators in Ancient Rome

Miroslaw Kocur

This book examines performative practices of the ancient Romans, and provides fresh insights into the contexts of the Roman theater. The author suggests looking at ancient Rome as a large…

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Theater and the Sacred in the Middle Ages

Andrzej Dabrowka,Andrzej Dabrowka

The book presents a constructivist theory of relations between artistic forms and religious phenomena ( recapitulatory aesthetics ). The main theoretical concepts and knowledge resources are religion as a cultural…

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On the Origins of Theater

Miroslaw Kocur

This book presents an interdisciplinary investigation into the emergence of the actor and the theater. It explains the role of bipedality, toolmaking and trance in the evolution of the performer…

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Cinematic Echoes of Covenants Past and Present: National Identity in the Historical Films of Steven Spielberg and Andrzej Wajda

Christopher Garbowski

The author analyzes selected historical films of Steven Spielberg and Andrzej Wajda with respect to historical memory and its impact on national identity. The Holocaust, self-scrutiny in historical memory, and…

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Japanese Avant-Garde and Experimental Film

Agnieszka Kiejziewicz

The book shows the connections between Japanese historical avant-garde movements and new Japanese experimental films. The author provides insight into the development of Japanese avant-garde visual culture and experimental aesthetics…

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The Theatre of the Absurd, the Grotesque and Politics: A Study of Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard

Jadwiga Uchman

The book discusses the political dramas of Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard regarding their employment of the two critical terms used in its title. It provides a new…

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Truth, Beauty, and the Common Good: The Search for Meaning through Culture, Community and Life

Christopher Garbowski

The examination of the transcendentals of truth, beauty and the good in this work stems from the perspective of Christian humanism, moral psychology and perfecting ourselves. From such a point…

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Performance of Identity of Polish Tatars: From Religious Holidays to Everyday Rituals

Barbara Pawlic-Miskiewicz

The work presents performances of identity of Polish Tatars who are followers of Islam. Based on research and observations, it provides reconstruction of patterns, or performative scripts, of certain holidays…

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Grotowski in Iran

Masoud Najafi Ardabili

Jerzy Grotowski and the Laboratory Theatre presented his famous performance The Constant Prince to Iranian audiences in 1970. Artists who encountered Grotowski in person were fascinated by him. They applied…

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Shakespeare in 19th-Century Opera

Alina Borkowska-Rychlewska

The book analyses selected 19th-century operas based on Shakespeare’s plays from the perspective of their relations to the literature, aesthetics and philosophy of the Romantic period. The texts discussed here…

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The Cinema of Iceland: Between Tradition and Liquid Modernity

Sebastian Jakub Konefal

The book focuses on the history and evolution of the national and transnational cinema from Iceland. The author analyses popular topics and narrative strategies in Icelandic films. The research covers…

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The Long Shadow of Don Quixote

Magdalena Barbaruk

The book argues that Don Quixote and Quixotism are relevant to cultural studies. Changing interpretations of Don Quixote reveal cultural dynamics, and Quixotism is value-loaded. The soaring humanistic interest in…

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Conflict and Controversy in Small Cinemas

This book presents first-of-a-kind studies of films dealing with events of the recent past. The authors point to new phenomena which have been exposed by film directors. They deal with…

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In the Footsteps of Harlequin and Pulcinella: Cultural Mobility and Localness of Theatre

Ewa Bal

The series aims at presenting innovative cross-disciplinary and intercultural research in performance practice and theory. The series focuses on promoting groundbreaking methodologies and new directions in studying performative culture. The…

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Wanda Jakubowska Revisited

Monika Talarczyk

The book by Monika Talarczyk is devoted to the life and work of Wanda Jakubowska (1907-1998), Polish film director, author of The Last Stage (1948), who is said to be…

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Political Music: Communication and Mobilization

The volume concentrates on the deployment of music in diverse political and social conditions. The authors argue that a specific type of music, namely political music, may be identified in…

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