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Author: A. G. Smith
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2003-09
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9780486430393
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThirty disguises, all identified and ready to color, include a mask used by a performer in an ancient Roman tragedy, a Death Mask from Mexico, a Chinese Lion Mask for New Year's celebrations, a water spirit disguise from New Caledonia, as well as masks from Guatemala, India, Nigeria, Egypt, Peru, Borneo, and Burma (Myanmar).
Author: Gary Edson
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2015-07-11
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 1476612331
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor at least 20,000 years, masking has been a mark of cultural evolution and an indication of magical-religious sophistication in society. This book provides a comprehensive understanding of the mask as a powerful cultural phenomenon--a means by which human groupings attempted to communicate their dignity and sense of purpose, as well as establish a continuum between the natural and supernatural worlds. It addresses the distinctive environments within which masks flourished, and analyzes the mask as a manifestation of art, ethnology and anthropology.
Author: Alison Hodge
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 0415194512
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTHE SECOND EDITION OF THIS TITLE, ENTITLED ACTOR TRAINING, IS NOW AVAILABLE. Actor training is arguably the central phenomenon of twentieth century theatre making. Here for the first time, the theories, training exercises and productions of fourteen directors are analysed in a single volume, each one written by a leading expert. The practitioners included are: * Stella Adler * Bertolt Brecht * Joseph Chaikin * Jacques Copeau * Joan Littlewood * Vsevelod Meyerhold * Konstantin Stanislavsky * Eugenio Barba * Peter Brook * Michael Chekhov * Jerzy Grotowski * Sanford Meisner * Wlodimierz Staniewski * Lee Strasbourg Each chapter provides a unique account of specific training exercises and an analysis of their relationship to the practitioners theoretical and aesthetic concerns. The collection examines the relationship between actor training and production and considers how directly the actor training relates to performance. With detailed accounts of the principles, exercises and their application to many of the landmark productions of the past hundred years, this book will be invaluable to students, teachers, practitioners, and academics alike.
Author: Marianne McDonald
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007-05-31
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 1139827251
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis series of essays by prominent academics and practitioners investigates in detail the history of performance in the classical Greek and Roman world. Beginning with the earliest examples of 'dramatic' presentation in the epic cycles and reaching through to the latter days of the Roman Empire and beyond, this 2007 Companion covers many aspects of these broad presentational societies. Dramatic performances that are text-based form only one part of cultures where presentation is a major element of all social and political life. Individual chapters range across a two thousand year timescale, and include specific chapters on acting traditions, masks, properties, playing places, festivals, religion and drama, comedy and society, and commodity, concluding with the dramatic legacy of myth and the modern media. The book addresses the needs of students of drama and classics, as well as anyone with an interest in the theatre's history and practice.
Author: Karl Toepfer
Publisher: Vosuri Media
Published: 2019-08-19
Total Pages: 1320
ISBN-13: 1733249737
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers perhaps the most comprehensive history of pantomime ever written. No other book so thoroughly examines the varieties of pantomimic performance from the early Roman Empire, when the term “pantomime” came into use, until the present. After thoroughly examining the complexities and startlingly imaginative performance strategies of Roman pantomime, the author identifies the peculiar political circumstances that revived and shaped pantomime in France and Austria in the eighteenth century, leading to the Pierrot obsession in the nineteenth century. Modernist aesthetics awakened a huge, highly diverse fascination with pantomime. The book explores an extraordinary variety of modernist and postmodern approaches to pantomime in Germany, Austria, France, numerous countries of Eastern Europe, Russia, Scandinavia, Spain, Belgium, The Netherlands, Chile, England, and The United States. Making use of many performance and historical documents never before included in pantomime histories, the book also discusses pantomime’s messy relation to dance, its peculiar uses of music, its “modernization” through silent film aesthetics, and the extent to which writers, performers, or directors are “authors” of pantomimes. Just as importantly, the book explains why, more than any other performance medium, pantomime allows the spectator to see the body as the agent of narrative action.
Author: Anthony Alan Shelton
Publisher: Figure 1 Publishing
Published: 2021-11-16
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781773271378
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTheatrum Mundi ("the theatre of the world") describes the diversity of masks and performances that originated from the violent struggles between European, Arabic and "New World" civilizations. This authoritative study celebrates over 500 years of Mexican and South American Indigenous dance dramas and explains how mask makers, religious practitioners, masqueraders and entrepreneurs have helped to continuously reinvent, revitalize and express the changing world around them. The culmination of four decades of research by Dr. Anthony Shelton, professor of art history and director of the Museum of Anthropology (MOA) at the University of British Columbia, the text is illustrated by field photographs and images from MOA and other notable mask collections
Author: Deborah Bell
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780786443994
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This book explores the motivations and challenges of artists working to bring the traditional methods and conventions of mask making. Topics include the ways in which mask artists and performers maintain a sense of universality despite varying customs; and the ways in which traditional approaches in mask artistry continue to influence commercial mask performance ventures"--Provided by publisher.
Author: David Wiles
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007-08-09
Total Pages: 25
ISBN-13: 0521865220
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA 2007 study of the mask in Greek tragedy, covering both ancient and modern performances.
Author: Sidney Jackson Jowers
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-15
Total Pages: 542
ISBN-13: 1136746420
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: Toby Wilsher
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006-11-22
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 113412239X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book, from Europe’s leading Mask director and co-founder of the Trestle Theatre Company, provides a fascinating demystification of the process of using masks. Full of simple explanations, and collating over twenty-five years’ experience of writing for, directing and acting in masks, The Mask Handbook examines how masks have the ability to play the fundamental game of theatre – the suspension of disbelief. The Handbook includes: an introduction to the origin of masks advice on preparing, making and using masks tips on writing, devising and directing maskwork lots of fun and effective practical exercises. This accessible and inspiring handbook will empower teachers, directors and actors to fully explore the world of the mask.
