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Theatre to Cinema is the first book-length study for nearly fifty years of the relations between early cinema and nineteenth-century theatre. A ground-breaking examination of how film-makers in Europe and America assimilated and adapted nineteenth-century theatrical and acting styles.

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We all have a body, but how does it impact upon our day to day life? This book sets out to explore how ordinary women, men and children talk about their bodies, through four central themes: -* physical and emotional bodies* illness and disability* gender* ageing.A coherent collection of such empirical research, The Body in Everyday Life provides an accessible introduction to the sociology of the body, a field previously dominated by theoretica...

This collection of key texts brings together for the first time material from around the world. Radical Street Performance maps out the terrain of street performance, examining its multitude of purposes, forms and audiences.

The contributors of this collection consider the issues relating to gender from these different settings and discuss their findings with reference to the implications for early childhood education.

Exploring the Language of Drama introduces students to the stylistic analysis of drama. Written in an engaging and accessible style, the contributors use techniques of language analysis, particularly from discourse analysis, cognitive linguistics and pragmatics, to explore the language of plays.The contributors demonstrate the validity of analysing the text of a play, as opposed to focusing on performance. Divided into four broad, yet intercon...

Full of contemporary ideas and activities for 10 weeks of class or whole-school worship. Themes include: creation and authority, beginnings and endings, listening and love. Each topic is explored through use of a variety of media. Classroom activities and follow-up work are also suggested.

Methods in Epilepsy Research is a guide for the reproduction of well characterized and readily interpretable experimental models of epilepsy to which state-of-the-art molecular biology techniques can be applied. It also considers the appropriate application of reductionist techniques to experimental models of epilepsy. TOC:Electroshock. - Chemoconvulsions. - Kindling. - Brain Slice Preparation for Epilepsy Research. - In Vivo Massed Trial Stim...

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First full length discussion of hyperreality. Perry provides the reader with a full length discussion of the origins of the concept, nuances of meaning and case studies of hyperrealism - European tourism, American telivision etc.

In "Russian After Lenin, " Vladimir Brovkin offers a comprehensive cultural, political, economic and social history of developments in Russia in the 1920s. By examining the contrast between Bolshevik propaganda claims and social reality, Brovkin explains how Communist representations were variously received and resisted by workers, peasants, students, women, teachers and party officials. He presents a picture of cultural diversity and rejectio...

An 1998 art historical study of the way in which images and words differ as 'signs'.

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From Sojourner Truth to Patricia J. Williams, Black feminists have recognized the mutual dependence of race and gender. Author Valerie Smith explores the myriad ways race and gender shape lives and social practices, not to deny the validity of black women's experience, but to resist deploying a uniform model of black women's lives.

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