Neo-noir

'If only my leg didn't itch' / Parallax views: an introduction / Under the neon rainbow: colour and neo-noir / Audio-noir: audiovisuality in neo-modernist noir / Paranoia and nostalgia: sonic motifs and songs in neo-noir / The end of work: from Double indemnity to Body heat / Worlds without consequence: two versions of film noir in the 1980s / From lonely streets to lonely rooms: prefiguration, affective responses and the Max Payne single-player / The new lower depths: Paris in French neo-noir cinema / The shadow of outlaws in Asian noir: Hiroshima, Hong Kong and Seoul / British neo-noir and reification: Croupier and Dirty pretty things / Laughter in the dark: irony, black comedy and noir in the films of David Lynch, the Coen Brothers and Quentin Tarantino / A woman scorned: the neo-noir erotic thriller as revenge drama / Neo-noir's fatal woman: stardom, survival and Sharon Stone / Fatality revisited: the problem of 'anxiety' in psychoanalytic-feminist approaches to film noir / The thin men: anorexic subjectivity in Fight club and The machinist / Memento: pasting ourselves together through cinema

Passionate communities : reading lesbian resistance in Jane Rule's fiction

The cutting edge

Cutting edge (New York, N.Y.)

Sailing to Galiano: Jane Rule at Home -- The Journey: Crossing Over -- Reading Then, Reading Now -- Reading Queerly -- This Not Quite Promised Land -- Self-Reflections: Growing Up Midcentury, Middle Class, Middle Child -- Readers and Writers: "Language Is as Primal a Drive as Sex" -- The Politics of Fiction: Barbara Gittings, Resisting Lesbian Reader -- Readers Writing -- Resisting Reason -- Sexuality and Citizenship -- Reading Fiction, Doing History -- Defining Histories -- Defining Fictions -- Defining Theories -- Defining Stories -- The Headmistress -- The Married Woman -- Reading the Stories: A Resisting Lesbian Subject -- Revising Fictions: Early Experiments -- "Trapped in the Hope of a Real Articularity" -- Disguising Desire: Not for Myself Exactly -- Denying Desire: This Is Not for You -- Unsettling Women -- Composing Selves: Dueling Narratives -- "Home Movie": Projecting a Lesbian Subject -- Desert of the Heart: Resignifying Sexuality -- From Permanent Resident to Desert of the Heart -- Defining Powers -- Ritual Performances -- Desert Visions -- Reflections of Power -- Memory Board: Resignifying Gender -- Brothers and Sons -- Leave Taking -- Composing Selves: Memory and Personal Histories -- Construction Sites: Narratives of Houses and Homes -- Going Home (Again) -- Home Invasion: "A Television Drama" -- A House of Language: Against the Season -- Under Siege: The Young in One Another's Arms -- Contesting Communities -- Parading Differences -- Mapping Boundaries -- Quarrelsome Communities: Contract with the World.

Weyward Macbeth : intersections of race and performance

Signs of race

Macbeth.

Signs of race.

What is a "weyward" Macbeth? / Weird brothers : what Thomas Middleton's The witch can tell us about race, sex and gender in Macbeth / "Blood will have blood" : violence, slavery, and Macbeth in the antebellum American imagination / The exorcism of Macbeth : Frederick Douglass's appropriation of Shakespeare / Ira Aldridge as Macbeth / Minstrel show Macbeth / Reading Macbeth in texts by and about African Americans, 1903-1944 : race and the problematics of allusive identification / Before Welles : a 1935 Boston production / Black cast conjures white genius : unraveling the mystique of Orson Welles's "Voodoo" Macbeth / After Welles : re -do Voodoo Macbeth / The vo-du Macbeth! : travels and travails of a choreo-drama inspired by the FTP production / A Black actor's guide to the Scottish play, or, why Macbeth matters / Asian-American theatre reimagined : Shogun Macbeth in New York / The Tlingit play : Macbeth and Native Americanism / A post-apocalyptic Macbeth : teatro LA TEA's Macbeth 2029 / Multicultural, multilingual Macbeth / Reflections on Verdi, Macbeth, and non-traditional casting in opera / Ellington's Dark lady / Hip-hop Macbeths, "digitized Blackness," and the millennial minstrel : illegal culture sharing in the virtual classroom / Riddling whiteness, riddling certainty : Roman Polanski's Macbeth / Semper die : marines incarnadine in Nina Menkes's The Bloody Child : an interior of violence / Shades of Shakespeare : colorblind casting and interracial couples in Macbeth in Manhattan, Grey's Anatomy, and Prison Macbeth / Three weyward sisters : African-American female poets conjure with Macbeth / "Black up again" : combating Macbeth in contemporary African-American plays / Black characters in search of an author : Black plays on Black performers of Shakespeare / Oba Macbeth : national transition as national traumission / Selected productions of Macbeth featuring non-traditional casting

Theatre in transformation : artistic processes and cultural policy in South Africa

Theater in transformation

Theatre studies ;

Theater (Transcript (Firm)) ;

Foreword of the editors / Prologue : Time to take stock? The role of theatre in transformation / Arts and culture in South Africa : Taking centre stage on the globe from colonialism, fascism, apartheid and beyond / Pinholes against apartheid : A brief history of political theatre in South Africa / Theatre of resistance : The Funda Community College in South Africa from the 1980s to the 1990s / Unequal brothers : The controversial history of the two leading South African theatres / Performing arts as a social force : South Africa's post-apartheid theatre in the process of transformation / "Taking meat to the knives" : Report of the panel discussion "Political Power of Theatre : Cultural Policy for Theatre in South Africa" / Same old apartheid drama or new democratic play? Report of the panel discussion "The State of Theatre in Soweto" / Soul food : South Africa's theatre shows how the country is seeking its future role / State of the nation's redress re-dressed : The new forms of protest in South African theatre and the theatre of excess / Political theatre and cultural activism in the Free State Province, South Africa : The vacuum left by the death of Thamsanqa Duncan Moleko / Ubulution! A re-imagining of protest and the public sphere in contemporary theatre / Artists as "seismographs", theatre as a "mirror" of society? Conversation with cultural activists : Yvette Hardie, Ismail Mahomed and Omphile Molusi about social transformation / Between traditional practise and contemporary forms : Theatre for young audiences in (South-) Africa / Ideal of a rainbow nation 1 : What theatre arts and cultural policy in Europe can learn from Southern Africa / Cradle of creativity : Cape Town was the capital of theatre for young Audiences / Who's saying what about whom? South Africa's next generation is on a quest for its own identity / Township theatre making : An ethnographic study about a developmental tool for Khayelitsha youth / From "playing" to "working" : Arresting systemic labour regression in the creative economy of theatre in South Africa / Staring dispassionately into the abyss : Director and author Mpumelelo Paul Grootboom from Soweto / Theatre development and cultural policy in rural areas : A grassroots perspective from North West Province, South Africa / Are we actually deeply enough ... with these socio-political questions in our theatres? / Scratching the wounds of the past : A playwright-director's note on the play : Silent Scars / Application of indigenous performance techniques in South African theatre : The case of Mmabana Arts Culture Sports and Foundation, North West Province / Unleashing the caged power of the Black girl : South Africa's sociological theatre landscape / Epilogue : Theatre and the post-apartheid condition

Musical illuminations of Genesis narratives

Library of Hebrew Bible / Old Testament studies ;

Bible. Genesis

Voices of Eve (Genesis 2 -- 3) -- Commentary -- Music -- Jules Massenet and Eve: Mystere (1875) -- Gabriel Faure and La Chanson d'Eve (1910) -- Noah and the Flood (Genesis 6 -- 9) -- Commentary -- Music -- Camille Saint-Saens and Le Deluge (The Flood) (1875) -- Gaetano Donizetti and Il Diluvio Universale (1830) -- Jacques Fromenthal Halevy and Georges Bizet, Noe (1862/69) -- Benjamin Britten and Noye's Fludde (1958) -- Igor Stravinsky and The Flood (1962) -- General Conclusions -- Part 1 The Abraham -- Sarah Narratives (Genesis 12 -- 22) -- Commentary -- Chapter 12: The Call of Abraham; the First Sister -- Wife Narrative -- Chapter 13: Wandering -- Chapter 15 -- Chapter 16: The Birth of Ishmael -- Chapter 17: Circumcision -- Chapters 18 -- 19: The Messengers; Sodom and Gomorrah -- Chapter 20: More Wandering; Second Sister -- Wife Narrative -- Chapter 21: Birth of Isaac, Expulsion of Hagar -- Chapter 22: The Aqedah -- Music -- Abraham in Nineteenth-century Oratorios -- Carl Amand Mangold and Abraham (1860) -- Martin Blumner and Abraham (1862) -- Abraham in Twentieth- and Twenty-first Century Opera -- Kurt Weill and The Eternal Road (1937) -- Ezra Laderman and Sarah (1958) -- Gerald Cohen and Sarah and Hagar (2008) -- Elinor Remick Warren and Abram in Egypt (1961) -- General Conclusions -- Part 2 The Abraham -- Sarah Narratives (Genesis 12 -- 22) -- Aqedah Settings -- Abraham Goldfaden and Akeidas Izchok (1898) -- Ildebrando Pizzetti and La Rappresentazione di Abram e d'Isaac (1928) -- Igor Stravinsky and Abraham and Isaac (1964) -- Judith Kaplan Eisenstein and The Sacrifice of Isaac: A Liturgical Drama (1972) -- Hagar in Song -- Franz Schubert and Hagars Klage (Hagar's Lament; 1811) -- Juan Crisostomo Arriaga and Agar dans le Desert (Hagar in the Desert; 1825) -- Sally Beamish and Hagar in the Wilderness (2013) -- Sarah from Women of Valor Suite by Andrea Clearfield (Text and Music; 2000) -- Rebecca at the Well (Genesis 24) -- Commentary -- Music -- Ferdinand Hiller and Rebecca, Biblisches Idyll (1877) -- Cesar Franck and Rebecca: Scene Biblique (1881) -- Celanie Carissan and Rebecca: Oratorio (1893) -- General Conclusion -- Joseph and His Brothers (Genesis 37 -- 50) -- Commentary -- Music -- George Frederick Handel: Joseph and His Brethren (1744) -- Etienne-Nicolas Mehul and Joseph: opera en trois actes (1807) -- Kurt Weill and The Eternal Road -- General Conclusion -- Annotated Appendix of Additional Works -- Voices of Eve -- Alexander Goehr (1932 -- ), Eve Dreams in Paradise (op. 49) -- Charles Villiers Stanford, Eden (1891) -- Joseph Haydn's The Creation (1796) -- Alessandro Scarlatti, Cain overo Il primo omicidio (Cain or the first homicide) (1707) -- Rodolphe Kreutzer (1766 -- 1831), La Mort d'Abel (The Death of Abel; 1810/revised 1823) -- Stephen Schwartz, Children of Eden (1986) -- Jerry Bock, Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, The Apple Tree (1966) -- Nathaniel Shilkret, The Genesis Suite (1945) -- Noah and The Flood -- Daniel Beltzhoover, The Deluge (1860s) -- Alexander Goehr (1932 -- ), The Deluge (1957) -- Abraham and Sarah Narratives -- Rebecca at the Well -- Joseph and His Brothers.

Nothing but the truth

Topdog/underdog

Top dog/underdog

The brother/sister plays

The Man from Home

New light shine

Yale drama series

Yale drama series.

The Duchess of Malfi [electronic resource]

The comedy of errors [electronic resource]