Friday, November 14, 2008

New Theatre/Dance books for August-October

Here are the Theatre/Dance books most recently added to the NIU library collection. Please email me with questions or concerns at mchonechase@niu.edu


African American theater: a cultural companion / Glenda Dicker/sun.

Andrew P. Wilson and the early Irish and Scottish national theatres, 1911-1950 / Steven Dedalus Burch ; with a foreword by Robert Skloot.

Arimatsu narumi shibori [videorecording] : celebrating 400 years of Japanese artisan design / produced by Arimatsu Shibori Mutsumi-kai (Japan) ; Studio Galli Productions (USA).

Art of making miniature millinery / Timothy Alberts, M. Dalton-King and Pat Henry.

Asian influence on Hollywood action films / Barna William Donovan.

Autobiography and performance / Deirdre Heddon.

Best plays theater yearbook.

Blood on the stage: milestone plays of crime, mystery, and detection : an annotated repertoire, 1900-1925 / Amnon Kabatchnik.

Body in Hollywood slapstick / Alex Clayton.

Canada on stage: scenes and monologues-- a survey of Canadian theatre-- / edited by Iris Turcott and Keith Turnbull.

Comedy of Charlie Chaplin: artistry in motion / Dan Kamin.

Drama and religion in English provincial society, 1485-1660 / Paul Whitfield White.

Final film of Laurel and Hardy: a study of the chaotic making and marketing of Atoll K / Norbert Aping ; foreword by Glenn Mitchell.

Flights of angels: my life with the Angels of light / Adrian Brooks ; photographs by Daniel Nicoletta.

Furious improvisation: how the WPA and a cast of thousands made high art out of desperate times / Susan Quinn.

Gothic plays and American society, 1794-1830 / M. Susan Anthony.

Heart of practice: within the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards / Thomas Richards.

History of the theatre / Oscar G. Brockett, Franklin J. Hildy.

Humana Festival: the history of new plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville / Jeffrey Ullom.

Improv handbook: the ultimate guide to improvising in comedy, theatre, and beyond / by Tom Salinsky and Deborah Frances-White.

Obituaries in the performing arts.

Reagan: the Hollywood years / Marc Eliot.

Respect for acting / Uta Hagen ; with Haskel Frankel.

Romantic actors and bardolatry : performing Shakespeare from Garrick to Kean / Celestine Woo.

Spanish film, theatre and literature in the twentieth century: essays in honour of Derek Gagen / edited by David George and John London.

Stage directions: writing on theatre, 1970-2008 / Michael Frayn.

Stage presence / Jane Goodall.

Stanislavsky system of acting: legacy and influence in modern performance / Rose Whyman.

Story of 42nd Street: the theaters, shows, characters, and scandals of the world's most notorious street / Mary C. Henderson and Alexis Greene.

Theatre studies: the basics / Robert Leach.

Theatrical improvisation: short form, long form, and sketch-based improv / Jeanne Leep ; with a foreward by Keegan-Michael Key.

Theories of performance / Elizabeth Bell.

Top hat: an illustrated history of its styling and manufacture / by Debbie Henderson.

Transnational exchange in early modern theater / edited by Robert Henke and Eric Nicholson.

Young people, new theatre: a practical guide to an intercultural process / Noël Greig.


Thursday, November 6, 2008

NIU's Theatre/Dance Electronic Journals Collection

The electronic journal collection at NIU's library has changed a little bit since we lost some access to several databases and gained some access through other databases. The following is an alphabetical list of the journals to which we currently have access. As always, questions/comments can be emailed directly to me at mchonechase@niu.edu

American Drama
American Journal of Dance Therapy
American Theatre
Asian Theatre Journal
Australasian Drama Studies
Back Stage
Brecht Yearbook
Carleton Drama Review
Comparative Drama
Dance Chronicle
Dance Magazine
Dance Research
Dance Research Journal
Drama Review
Education Theatre Journal
Entertainment Design
Framework
Journal of Religion and Theatre
Literature in Performance
Medieval & Renaissance Drama in England
Modern Drama
Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film
North Dakota Journal of Speech and Theatre
Opera Quarterly
PAJ
Performing Arts & Entertainment in Canada
Performing Arts Journal
Platform : Postgraduate e-Journal of Theatre and Performing Arts
Plays
Scenario
Screen
Shaw
Stage
TCI
TDR
Text and Performance Quarterly
Theatre
Theatre History Studies
Theatre Journal
Theatre Notebook
Theatre Research International
Theatre Survey
Theatre Topics
Tulane Drama Review