Tag: Performing Arts

• 5 Essential Book for Performing Arts Studies

  

  Here are five books that delve into feminism, gay rights, pedagogy, HIV/AIDS activism, and more while breaking new ground in performing arts studies (e.g., including previously unpublished plays, contextualizing the work of an acclaimed playwright in the history of gay American theater, and comprehensively detailing how women playwrights disrupted and created different kinds of femininity…

  Cambria Press

  December 7, 2021

  Cambria Press, Performing Arts

  academic publisher, Cambria Press, Christopher Pullen, Doug Risner, John Clum, Kevin J. Wetmore, Lynne Greeley, Mary Elizabeth Anderson, Performing Arts, queer studies, theater, theater studies

• Hou Hsiao-hsien’s THE ASSASSIN Released – Watch Trailer

  Hou Hsiao-hsien’s latest film, The Assassin, was released this past weekend.  It stars Shu Qi, the Taiwanese actress who is a major star across Greater China. Click here to watch a trailer from The Assassin. Hou Hsiao-hsien’s reputation as one of the most beloved auteur film directors active today is well deserved. His work has garnered more…

  Cambria Press

  August 31, 2015

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, Cambria Press

  #AAS2016, Asian Studies, Berlin Film Festival, Cambria author, Cambria Press, Cambria publication, Cannes Film Festival, Chinese cinema, Christopher Lupke, East Asian Studies, Hou Hsiao-hsien, John Clum, Performing Arts, Shu Qi, Sinophone, Taiwan, Taiwanese cinema, The Assassin, Venice Film Festival, Victor Mair, World Cinema

• #WeNeedDiverseBooks: Awkward Stages: Plays About Growing Up Gay

  Awkward Stages: Plays About Growing Up Gay edited by John Clum (Duke University) and Sean Metzger includes plays by top North American contemporary playwrights: EDITH CAN SHOOT THINGS AND HIT THEM by A. Rey Pamatmat SISSY by Ricardo Abreu Bracho SLIPPING by Daniel Talbott AGOKWE by Waawaate Fobister FROM WHITE PLAINS by Michael Perlman, in collaboration…

  Cambria Press

  August 21, 2015

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations

  #fridayreads, #MLA16, #WeNeedDiverseBooks, A. Rey Pamatmat, aawaate Fobister, adolescent, adolescent years, AGOKWE, ATHE, Cambria Press, Cambria publication, Daniel Talbott, EDITH CAN SHOOT THINGS AND HIT THEM, FROM WHITE PLAINS, Gay Teen, homosexuality, John Clum, LGBT studies, Michael Perlman, Performing Arts, plays, Ricardo Abreu Bracho, Sean Metzger, sexuality, SISSY, SLIPPING, teenage, theatre

• #Humanities Scholarship – Important and Growing

  An excellent article from Inside Higher Ed regarding scholarship in the humanities, in which William (Bro) Adams, the head of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), said on Thursday that he wants to push humanities scholarship to become more directly connected to helping address the nation’s contemporary problems. There are also encouraging numbers from…

  Cambria Press

  January 20, 2015

  AAS, Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, African Studies, Africana Studies, Asian Studies, Australasian Studies, China, Chinese, Culture, Film Studies, History, International Studies, Latin American Studies, Literary Criticism, Literary Studies, Literature, MLA, Music, New Scholarly Books, Performing Arts, Theatre, Women’s Studies

  Africa, African Studies, Ana Lucia Araujo, Asia, Asian studie, Australia, Australian literature, Brazil, China, Chinese, Classicism, Contemporary literature, culture, Duke University, Film studies, gender politics, globalism, globalization, homosexuality, Howard University, human trafficking, humanities, Inside Higher Ed, John Clum, Latin America, Latin American Studies, Literary theory, Medievalism, Moses Ochonu, Nanyang Technological University, National Endowment for the Humanities, nationalism, NEH, Neil Murphy, Nickolas Haydock, Orientalism, Performing Arts, Román de la Campa, Sinophone, slavery, Susan Lever, theatre, Toyin Falola, University of Pennsylvania, University of Puerto Rico, University of Sydney, University of Texas at Austin, Vanderbilt University, Victor Mair