Tuesday, February 24, 2009

New Theatre/Dance Books for December

Hello again! Here are Theatre/Dance books added to the library's collection in December. Please feel free to email me at mchonechase@niu.edu. I'm always looking for feedback and suggestions!

Actors Studio and Hollywood in the 1950s: a history of theatrical realism / Mario Beguiristain.

Breathe and speak: a scene book for actors / created by Marc Clopton.

Cambridge introduction to theatre studies / Christopher B. Balme.

Entertainment, propaganda, education: regional theatre in Germany and Britain between 1918 and 1945 / Anselm Heinrich.

Gao Xingjian's idea of theatre : from the word to the image / by Izabella Łabędzka.

Hijikata Tatsumi and Ohno Kazuo / Sondra Fraleigh and Tamah Nakamura.

Integral drama: culture, consciousness and identity / William S. Haney II.

London's Grand Guignol and the theatre of horror / Richard J. Hand and Michael Wilson.

Mask Exploration: the process of character creation and transformation.

Magical life of Marshall Brodien: creator of TV magic cards and Wizzo the wizard / John Moehring.

New music theater: seeing the voice, hearing the body / Eric Salzman and Thomas Desi.

Performance and place / edited by Leslie Hill and Helen Paris.

Playing for time: stories of lost children, ghosts and the endangered present in contemporary theatre / Geraldine Cousin.

Poetics of difference and displacement: twentieth-century Chinese-Western intercultural theatre / Min Tian.

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are dead / by Tom Stoppard ; consulting editor, Henry Popkin.

Routledge companion to directors' Shakespeare / edited by John Russell Brown.

Secrets of voice-over success: top voice-over artists reveal how they did it / Joan Baker.

Secular saints: performing Frida Kahlo, Carlos Gardel, Eva Perón, and Selena / Sarah M. Misemer.

Shakespeare and Garrick / Vanessa Cunningham.

Shakespeare and the power of performance: stage and page in the Elizabethan theatre / Robert Weimann and Douglas Bruster.

Shylock in Germany: antisemitism and the German theatre from the enlightenment to the Nazis / Andrew G. Bonnell.

Stages of conflict: a critical anthology of Latin American theater and performance / edited by Diana Taylor and Sarah J. Townsend ; translation coordinator, Margaret Carson.

Staging Islam in England: drama and culture, 1640-1685 / Matthew Birchwood.

Staging black feminisms: identity, politics, performance / Lynette Goddard.

Theatre censorship: from Walpole to Wilson / David Thomas, David Carlton, Anne Etienne.

Urban theatre in the Low Countries, 1400-1625 / edited by Elsa Strietman and Peter HappeÌ.

Visualizing medieval performance : perspectives, histories, contexts / edited by Elina Gertsman.