Tuesday, September 9, 2008

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 Londré.

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 Jiménez, 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 André 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.

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