Here are the books in Theatre and Dance that the library received in July (it's a short list on account of it being summer):
Alternative theater in Taiwan : feminist and intercultural approaches / Iris Hsin-Chun Tuan.
Harry Langdon : his life and films / William Schelly.
Performing pasts : reinventing the arts in modern South India / edited by Indira Viswanathan Peterson and Davesh Soneji.
As always, if you have questions regarding this or other books/resources, please let me know (mchonechase@niu.edu).
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Thursday, September 11, 2008
developing the library collection
Last week I started ordering the new theatre and dance materials for this year--I certainly hope that they'll be useful once they get here. The library suspended its approval plan this year, which means that I need to personally hand-pick each item that we'll acquire in theatre and dance. This is harder than it might sound, as it entails careful research and consideration of what we already have, and what we don't have but should. I need to spend 40% of the budget allocated for theatre/dance by November, so, if anyone has some suggestions, I'd love to hear them. My next round of choosing materials will probably be next month sometime, and I plan on focusing ordering copies of plays.
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
New NIU Dance and Theatre books at the library in June
These are the theatre and dance books added to NIU's collection for June. Questions or comments can be directed to me at mchonechase@niu.edu.
Actor's work : a student's diary / Konstantin Stanislavski ; translated and edited by Jean Benedetti.
Art of the Theatre Workshop / compiled and introduced by Murray Melvin.
Messiahs of 1933 : how American Yiddish theatre survived adversity through satire / Joel Schechter.
Migrations of gesture / Carrie Noland and Sally Ann Ness, editors.
Performance style and gesture in western theatre / Nicholas Dromgoole.
Reframing screen performance / Cynthia Baron and Sharon Marie Carnicke.
Royal Court Theatre inside out / Ruth Little & Emily McLaughlin.
Unfriendly witnesses : gender, theater, and film in the McCarthy era / Milly S. Barranger.
Visuality in the theatre : the locus of looking / Maaike Bleeker.
Actor's work : a student's diary / Konstantin Stanislavski ; translated and edited by Jean Benedetti.
Art of the Theatre Workshop / compiled and introduced by Murray Melvin.
Messiahs of 1933 : how American Yiddish theatre survived adversity through satire / Joel Schechter.
Migrations of gesture / Carrie Noland and Sally Ann Ness, editors.
Performance style and gesture in western theatre / Nicholas Dromgoole.
Reframing screen performance / Cynthia Baron and Sharon Marie Carnicke.
Royal Court Theatre inside out / Ruth Little & Emily McLaughlin.
Unfriendly witnesses : gender, theater, and film in the McCarthy era / Milly S. Barranger.
Visuality in the theatre : the locus of looking / Maaike Bleeker.
New Theatre and Dance books at NIU--May 2008
Below are all the titles added to the NIU library for Theatre and Dance in May of this year. Please don't hestitate to contact me with feedback (mchonechase@niu.edu).
Adrian : silver screen to custom label / Christian Esquevin ; foreword by Yeohlee.
Art of the dramatist : and other writings on theatre / JB Priestley ; selected and introduced by Tom Priestley.
Chris Farley show : a biography in three acts / Tom Farley, Jr. and Tanner Colby.
Dancetime! [videorecording] : 500 years of social dance / Dance Through Time ; artistic director/principal choreographer, Carol TeÌten ; script, Morris Bobrow.
Digital practices : aesthetic and neuroesthetic approaches to performance and technology / Susan Broadhurst.
Embodied texts : symbolist playwright-dancer collaborations / Mary Fleischer.
Hiding in plain sight : the secret life of Raymond Burr / Michael Seth Starr.
In township tonight! : South Africa's black city music and theatre / David Coplan.
Jewish identities in German popular entertainment, 1890-1933 / Marline Otte.
Life beyond measure : letters to my great-granddaughter / Sidney Poitier.
Making of Theatrical Reputations Studies from the Modern London Theatre.
Medieval English comedy / edited by Sandra M. Hordis & Paul Hardwick.
Political theatre in post-Thatcher Britain : new writing : 1995-2005 / Amelia Howe Kritzer.
Theatre, intimacy & engagement : the last human venue / Alan Read.
Up till now : the autobiography / William Shatner ; with David Fisher.
Adrian : silver screen to custom label / Christian Esquevin ; foreword by Yeohlee.
Art of the dramatist : and other writings on theatre / JB Priestley ; selected and introduced by Tom Priestley.
Chris Farley show : a biography in three acts / Tom Farley, Jr. and Tanner Colby.
Dancetime! [videorecording] : 500 years of social dance / Dance Through Time ; artistic director/principal choreographer, Carol TeÌten ; script, Morris Bobrow.
Digital practices : aesthetic and neuroesthetic approaches to performance and technology / Susan Broadhurst.
Embodied texts : symbolist playwright-dancer collaborations / Mary Fleischer.
Hiding in plain sight : the secret life of Raymond Burr / Michael Seth Starr.
In township tonight! : South Africa's black city music and theatre / David Coplan.
Jewish identities in German popular entertainment, 1890-1933 / Marline Otte.
Life beyond measure : letters to my great-granddaughter / Sidney Poitier.
Making of Theatrical Reputations Studies from the Modern London Theatre.
Medieval English comedy / edited by Sandra M. Hordis & Paul Hardwick.
Political theatre in post-Thatcher Britain : new writing : 1995-2005 / Amelia Howe Kritzer.
Theatre, intimacy & engagement : the last human venue / Alan Read.
Up till now : the autobiography / William Shatner ; with David Fisher.
New Theatre and Dance books at NIU
Hi,
Every once in awhile, I get a report of what new theater and dance books have been added to the library's collection. Below are all the titles from April. If you're interested in any of them and need help finding them, or offer any other feedback, please let me know! (mchone-chase@niu.edu).
Acting teachers of America : a vital tradition / Ronald Rand & Luigi Scorcia.
Acts and texts : performance and ritual in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance / edited by Laurie Postlewate and Wim Hüsken.
Art of Charlie Chaplin : a film-by-film analysis / Kyp Harness.
Award monologues for women / edited by Patrick Tucker and Christine Ozanne.
Atomic blonde : the films of Mamie Van Doren / Barry Lowe ; foreword by Mamie Van Doren.
Cambridge companion to British theatre, 1730-1830 / edited by Jane Moody and Daniel O'Quinn.
Charm and speed : virtuosity in the performing arts / V.A. Howard.
Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist : adapted in twenty-four scenes with several songs and tableaux / by Neil Bartlett.
Colonial staged : theatre in colonial Calcutta / Sudipto Chatterjee.
Creating physical theater [videorecording] : the body in performance / production, Grant Davies ... [et al.]
Dancing from past to present : nation, culture, identities / edited by Theresa Jill Buckland.
Dancing on the white page : Black women entertainers writing autobiography / Kwakiutl L. Dreher.
Fosse style / by Debra McWaters ; foreword by Ben Vereen ; prologue by Mindy Aloff.
From perversion to purity : the stardom of Catherine Deneuve / edited by Lisa Downing and Sue Harris.
Global foreigners : an anthology of plays / edited by Carol Martin and Saviana Stanescu.
Historical dictionary of American theater : modernism / James Fisher, Felicia Hardison LondreÌ.
Hollywood ambitions : celebrity in the movie age / Marsha Orgeron.
How to choreograph [videorecording] / Cathy Roe Productions.
Julie Andrews : an intimate biography / Richard Stirling.
Laughing and weeping in early modern theatres / Matthew Steggle.
Letters of Ruth Draper : self-portrait of an actress, 1920-1956 / edited by Dorothy Warren ; with a foreword by Sir John Gielgud.
Makeup artist handbook : techniques for film, television, photography, and theatre / Gretchen Davis and Mindy Hall.
Making a performance : devising histories and contemporary practices / Emma Govan, Helen Nicholson, Katie Normington.
Mary Martin, Broadway legend / Ronald L. Davis.
Millennium fashion [videorecording]: the year in fashion / a Videofashion News presentation ; Fashion News World, Inc. ; producer, Elizabeth Uss.
More scenes and monologs from the best new plays : an anthology of new dramatic writing from professionally produced plays / edited by Roger Ellis.
My life in art / Konstantin Stanislavski ; translated and edited by Jean Benedetti.
Onstage [videorecording] / Films for the Humanities & Sciences.
Outsider : John Rockwell on the arts, 1967-2006.
Oxford guide to plays / Michael Patterson.
Panorama of African-American theatre [videorecording] / [produced by] WVIZ-TV ; producers, Carol Bosley, John Scott ; director/editor, John Scott ; conceived and developed by Lucia Colombi, Licia Colombi, Yvetta.
Panorama of African-American theatre [videorecording] / [produced by] WVIZ-TV ; producers, Carol Bosley, John Scott ; director/editor, John Scott ; conceived and developed by Lucia Colombi, Licia Colombi, Yvetta.
Physical theatres : a critical introduction / Simon Murray and John Keefe.
Physical theatres : a critical reader / edited by John Keefe and Simon Murray.
Producing & the theatre business : working in the theatre / edited by Robert Emmet Long ; foreword by Elizabeth Ireland McCann.
Radical acts : theatre and feminist pedagogies of change / edited by Ann Elizabeth Armstrong and Kathleen Juhl.
Rakugo : performing comedy and cultural heritage in contemporary Tokyo / Lorie Brau.
Realism [videorecording] : the artistic form of the truth / direction, Leyla Salem ; script, Carla JimeÌnez, Didac Aparicio ; English script, Chris Scherer ; a co-production of Prodimag, S.L. (Spain) and FIlms Media Group (U.S.A.).
Representing Shakespearean tragedy : Garrick, the Kembles, and Kean / by Reiko Oya.
Scar of visibility : medical performances and contemporary art / Petra Kuppers.
Senses in performance / edited by Sally Banes and AndreÌ Lepecki.
Silent eloquence : Lucian and pantomime dancing / Ismene Lada-Richards.
Summerfolk / by Maxim Gorky ; translated and with an introduction by Stephen Mulrine.
Theatre ecology : environments and performance events / Baz Kershaw.
Theatre, education and the making of meanings : art or instument? / Anthony Jackson.
Theatre in theory, 1900-2000 : an anthology / edited by David Krasner.
Theatre of genocide : four plays about mass murder in Rwanda, Bosnia, Cambodia, and Armenia / edited by Robert Skloot.
Theatrical scene painting : a lesson guide / William H. Pinnell.
Three major plays : Peer Gynt, Rosmersholm, When we dead waken / Henrik Ibsen ; translated by David Rudkin.
Warm-ups and improvisation [videorecording] / Appleseed Productions.
Wooster Group work book / [edited by] Andrew Quick ; with photographs by Paula Court and Mary Gearhart.
Every once in awhile, I get a report of what new theater and dance books have been added to the library's collection. Below are all the titles from April. If you're interested in any of them and need help finding them, or offer any other feedback, please let me know! (mchone-chase@niu.edu).
Acting teachers of America : a vital tradition / Ronald Rand & Luigi Scorcia.
Acts and texts : performance and ritual in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance / edited by Laurie Postlewate and Wim Hüsken.
Art of Charlie Chaplin : a film-by-film analysis / Kyp Harness.
Award monologues for women / edited by Patrick Tucker and Christine Ozanne.
Atomic blonde : the films of Mamie Van Doren / Barry Lowe ; foreword by Mamie Van Doren.
Cambridge companion to British theatre, 1730-1830 / edited by Jane Moody and Daniel O'Quinn.
Charm and speed : virtuosity in the performing arts / V.A. Howard.
Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist : adapted in twenty-four scenes with several songs and tableaux / by Neil Bartlett.
Colonial staged : theatre in colonial Calcutta / Sudipto Chatterjee.
Creating physical theater [videorecording] : the body in performance / production, Grant Davies ... [et al.]
Dancing from past to present : nation, culture, identities / edited by Theresa Jill Buckland.
Dancing on the white page : Black women entertainers writing autobiography / Kwakiutl L. Dreher.
Fosse style / by Debra McWaters ; foreword by Ben Vereen ; prologue by Mindy Aloff.
From perversion to purity : the stardom of Catherine Deneuve / edited by Lisa Downing and Sue Harris.
Global foreigners : an anthology of plays / edited by Carol Martin and Saviana Stanescu.
Historical dictionary of American theater : modernism / James Fisher, Felicia Hardison LondreÌ.
Hollywood ambitions : celebrity in the movie age / Marsha Orgeron.
How to choreograph [videorecording] / Cathy Roe Productions.
Julie Andrews : an intimate biography / Richard Stirling.
Laughing and weeping in early modern theatres / Matthew Steggle.
Letters of Ruth Draper : self-portrait of an actress, 1920-1956 / edited by Dorothy Warren ; with a foreword by Sir John Gielgud.
Makeup artist handbook : techniques for film, television, photography, and theatre / Gretchen Davis and Mindy Hall.
Making a performance : devising histories and contemporary practices / Emma Govan, Helen Nicholson, Katie Normington.
Mary Martin, Broadway legend / Ronald L. Davis.
Millennium fashion [videorecording]: the year in fashion / a Videofashion News presentation ; Fashion News World, Inc. ; producer, Elizabeth Uss.
More scenes and monologs from the best new plays : an anthology of new dramatic writing from professionally produced plays / edited by Roger Ellis.
My life in art / Konstantin Stanislavski ; translated and edited by Jean Benedetti.
Onstage [videorecording] / Films for the Humanities & Sciences.
Outsider : John Rockwell on the arts, 1967-2006.
Oxford guide to plays / Michael Patterson.
Panorama of African-American theatre [videorecording] / [produced by] WVIZ-TV ; producers, Carol Bosley, John Scott ; director/editor, John Scott ; conceived and developed by Lucia Colombi, Licia Colombi, Yvetta.
Panorama of African-American theatre [videorecording] / [produced by] WVIZ-TV ; producers, Carol Bosley, John Scott ; director/editor, John Scott ; conceived and developed by Lucia Colombi, Licia Colombi, Yvetta.
Physical theatres : a critical introduction / Simon Murray and John Keefe.
Physical theatres : a critical reader / edited by John Keefe and Simon Murray.
Producing & the theatre business : working in the theatre / edited by Robert Emmet Long ; foreword by Elizabeth Ireland McCann.
Radical acts : theatre and feminist pedagogies of change / edited by Ann Elizabeth Armstrong and Kathleen Juhl.
Rakugo : performing comedy and cultural heritage in contemporary Tokyo / Lorie Brau.
Realism [videorecording] : the artistic form of the truth / direction, Leyla Salem ; script, Carla JimeÌnez, Didac Aparicio ; English script, Chris Scherer ; a co-production of Prodimag, S.L. (Spain) and FIlms Media Group (U.S.A.).
Representing Shakespearean tragedy : Garrick, the Kembles, and Kean / by Reiko Oya.
Scar of visibility : medical performances and contemporary art / Petra Kuppers.
Senses in performance / edited by Sally Banes and AndreÌ Lepecki.
Silent eloquence : Lucian and pantomime dancing / Ismene Lada-Richards.
Summerfolk / by Maxim Gorky ; translated and with an introduction by Stephen Mulrine.
Theatre ecology : environments and performance events / Baz Kershaw.
Theatre, education and the making of meanings : art or instument? / Anthony Jackson.
Theatre in theory, 1900-2000 : an anthology / edited by David Krasner.
Theatre of genocide : four plays about mass murder in Rwanda, Bosnia, Cambodia, and Armenia / edited by Robert Skloot.
Theatrical scene painting : a lesson guide / William H. Pinnell.
Three major plays : Peer Gynt, Rosmersholm, When we dead waken / Henrik Ibsen ; translated by David Rudkin.
Warm-ups and improvisation [videorecording] / Appleseed Productions.
Wooster Group work book / [edited by] Andrew Quick ; with photographs by Paula Court and Mary Gearhart.
Friday, September 5, 2008
First Posting -- An Introduction
Hello!
This blog is intended primarily for the faculty and instructors in the Theatre and Dance department at NIU. I wanted to introduce myself to you and talk a little bit about what I do.
At the NIU library, I, Sarah McHone-Chase, head the Information Delivery Services Department, which coordinates interlibrary loan requests and document/campus delivery requests. Several months ago, I also started acting as the subject specialist for the Theatre and Dance Department. This means that I am in charge of choosing the theatre and dance research resources that the library will acquire. In addition, should you need a library person to come talk to students about how to find resources at the library, I'm your librarian.
I always welcome feedback. Do you have any suggestions as to what the library should get for Theatre and Dance? Please let me know! In addition, the Theatre and Dance representative to the library is Lori Hartenhoff (email: lorijh@niu.edu) -- if you suggest something to her, she'll suggest it to me.
Please don't hesitate to contact me! My email is mchonechase@niu.edu and my office phone number is 753-9860.
Sarah
This blog is intended primarily for the faculty and instructors in the Theatre and Dance department at NIU. I wanted to introduce myself to you and talk a little bit about what I do.
At the NIU library, I, Sarah McHone-Chase, head the Information Delivery Services Department, which coordinates interlibrary loan requests and document/campus delivery requests. Several months ago, I also started acting as the subject specialist for the Theatre and Dance Department. This means that I am in charge of choosing the theatre and dance research resources that the library will acquire. In addition, should you need a library person to come talk to students about how to find resources at the library, I'm your librarian.
I always welcome feedback. Do you have any suggestions as to what the library should get for Theatre and Dance? Please let me know! In addition, the Theatre and Dance representative to the library is Lori Hartenhoff (email: lorijh@niu.edu) -- if you suggest something to her, she'll suggest it to me.
Please don't hesitate to contact me! My email is mchonechase@niu.edu and my office phone number is 753-9860.
Sarah
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