New Books, March 2009

Greetings!

Here are the new Theatre/Dance resources that were added to the library's collection in March.

Abbott and Costello on the home front: a critical study of the wartime films / Scott Allen Nollen.

Acting for life: a textbook on acting / Jack Frakes.

Acting in television commercials for fun and profit / Squire Fridell.

Acting on impulse: reclaiming the Stanislavski approach : a practical workbook for actors / John Gillett.

Actor training the Laban way: an integrated approach to voice, speech, and movement / Barbara Adrian ; illustrations by Chelsea Clarke.

African costumes and textiles from the Berbers to the Zulus: the Zaira and Marcel Mis collection / preface by John Mack ; texts by Anne-Marie Bouttiaux, Frieda Sorber, Anne Van Cutsem ; photographs by Mauro Magliani.

African theatres and performances / Osita Okagbue.

Alice project [videorecording]: creative arts therapy in action / Films Media Group.

American plays and musicals on screen: 650 stage productions and their film and television adaptations / Thomas S. Hischak.

Ancient Greek costume: an annotated bibliography, 1784-2005 / Linda Jones Roccos.
Antigone now: a short drama / by Melissa Cooper.

Architecture of drama: plot, character, theme, genre, and style / David Letwin, Joe Stockdale, Robin Stockdale.

Body speaks / Lorna Marshall.

Bringing down the house: the crisis in Britain's regional theatres / Olivia Turnbull.

Broadway musicals, 1943-2004 / John Stewart ; foreword by Hal Prince.

Cambridge companion to performance studies / edited by Tracy C. Davis.

Clark Gable: tormented star / David Bret.

Comedy matters: from Shakespeare to Stoppard / William W. Demastes.

Contemporary circus: art of the spectacular / Ernest Albrecht.

Enter the playmakers: directors and choreographers on the New York stage / Thomas S. Hischak.

Eros and power in English Renaissance drama: five plays by Marlowe, Davenant, Massinger, Ford and Shakespeare / edited by Curtis Perry.

Feminism and theatre / Sue-Ellen Case ; with a foreword by Elaine Aston.

Film actors organize: union formation efforts in America, 1912-1937 / Kerry Segrave.

Fred Astaire / Joseph Epstein.

From the Greek mimes to Marcel Marceau and beyond: mimes, actors, Pierrots, and clowns : a chronicle of the many visages of mime in the theatre / Annette Lust ; foreword by Marcel Marceau.

Greek theatre in context / Eric Dugdale.

Joan Crawford: the enduring star / Peter Cowie ; foreword by Mich Lasalle ; afterword by George Cukor.

Late plays of Tennessee Williams / William Prosser.

Lollipop: vaudeville turns with a Fanchon and Marco dancer / Reva Howitt Clar ; edited by Mimi Melnick.

Lucid body: a guide for the physical actor / Fay Simpson.

Marie Dorval: France's theatrical wonder: a book for actors / Bettina Knapp.

Marilyn: the last goddess / Jerome Charyn.

Masculinity, corporality and the English stage, 1580-1635 / Christian M. Billing.

Mock stars: Indie comedy and the dangerously funny / by John Wenzel.

Modern Russian theater: a literary and cultural history / Nicholas Rzhevsky.

Movement training for the modern actor / Mark Evans.

Mrs. Ziegfeld: the public and private lives of Billie Burke / Grant Hayter-Menzies ; foreword by Eric Myers.

Musical theatre: a history / John Kenrick.

Out on the edge: America's rebel comics / [edited by] Mike Player.

Patterns of fashion 4: the cut and construction of linen shirts, smocks, neckwear, headwear and accessories for men and women, c. 1540-1660.

Performing Shakespeare: [preparation, rehearsal, performance] / Oliver Ford Davies.

Performing magic on the western stage: from the eighteenth century to the present / edited by Francesca Coppa, Lawrence Hass, and James Peck ; foreword by Eugene Burger.

Period costume for stage & screen. Patterns for outer garments / Jean Hunnisett ; illustrations by Jill Spanner, Fiona Ffoulkes, and Kathryn Turner.

Pina Bausch / Royd Climenhaga.

Plays of Beth Henley: a critical study / Gene A. Plunka.

Robert Lepage / Aleksandar Saša Dundjerović.

Screen media arts: an introduction to concepts & practices / Hart Cohen, Juan Salazar, Iqbal Barkat.

Silent comedy / Paul Merton.

Special make-up effects for stage & screen: making and applying prosthetics / by Todd Debreceni.

Spectacle and public performance in the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance / edited by Robert Stillman.

Spectacle of suffering: Clara Morris on the American stage / Barbara Wallace Grossman.

Staging stigma: a critical examination of the American freak show / Michael M. Chemers ; foreword by Jim Ferris.

Street scenes: staging the self in immigrant New York, 1880-1924 / Esther Romeyn.

Struggle, defeat or rebirth: Eugene O'Neill's vision of humanity / Thierry Dubost.

Theater without theater / Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Museu Colecção Berardo, Arte Moderna e Contemporânea.

Theatre Workshop: Joan Littlewood and the making of modern British theatre / Robert Leach.

Theatre and globalization: Irish drama in the Celtic Tiger era / Patrick Lonergan.

Theatre arts on acting / edited, with an introduction, by Laurence Senelick.

Theatre as human action: an introduction to theatre arts / Thomas S. Hischak.

Theatre management: producing and managing the performing arts / David M. Conte, Stephen Langley.

Theatre of Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio / Claudia Castellucci ... [et al.] ; photographs by Luca Del Pia.

Theatre of roots: redirecting the modern Indian stage / Erin B. Mee.

Theatres of the Troubles: theatre, resistance and liberation in Ireland / Bill McDonnell.

Tony Kushner: new essays on the art and politics of the plays / edited by James Fisher.

Tony Pastor, father of vaudeville / Armond Fields.

Truth: personas, needs, and flaws in the art of building actors and creating characters / Susan Batson.

Truth in comedy: the manual of improvisation / Charna Halpern, Del Close, Kim "Howard" Johnson.

William Inge and the subversion of gender: rewriting stereotypes in the plays, novels, and screenplays / Jeff Johnson ; foreword by Jackson R. Bryer.

Ziegfeld: the man who invented show business / Ethan Mordden.

As always, please feel free to email me with comments and questions at mchonechase@niu.edu.