Theatrical Worlds

From the University of Florida College of Fine Arts, Charlie Mitchell and distinguished colleagues from across America present an introductory text for theatre and theoretical production. This book seeks to give insight into the people and processes that create theater. It does not strip away the feeling of magic but to add wonder for the artistry that make a production work well.

The Literariness of Media Art

“Language can be this incredibly forceful material—there’s something about it where if you can strip away its history, get to the materiality of it, it can rip into you like claws” (Hill in Vischer 1995, 11). This arresting image by media artist Gary Hill evokes the nearly physical force of language to hold recipients in its grip. That power seems to lie in the material of language itse…

Technical Theatre Practicum Textbook

Technical Theatre II (Intermediate) CHAPTER 1: JOBS IN TECHNICAL THEATRE CHAPTER 2: WORKING IN A NEW VENUE CHAPTER 3: PERFORMANCE ETIQUETTE CHAPTER 4: THE ACTOR SCENE BREAKDOWN CHAPTER 5: SCENERY CHAPTER 6: STAGE PROPERTIES CHAPTER 7: STAGE LIGHTING CHAPTER 8: COSTUMES CHAPTER 9: SOUND CHAPTER 10: BLOCKING NOTATION CHAPTER 11: PRODUCTION REPORTS CHAPTER 12: CUEING SCRIPTS

Culture Management : Strategy and marketing aspects

"Dr Lukasz Wroblewski's book Culture Management: Strategy and Marketing Aspects clearly recognises that the pressures on the cultural sector in the 21st Century are greater than ever before. Based on robust academic research within a practical industry context, this book addresses all the key issues related to marketing strategy and planning for the cultural industries. It will be an invaluable…

An American Playgoer in London : A Chronicle of West End and Fringe Performan…

Overview: Over forty-plus years, Joseph Donohue spent many days in London libraries researching thea­trical subjects and many after­noons and evenings in London theatres, witnessing almost one hundred twenty-five productions of original plays and revivals and recording his exper­ience in a series of metic­ulously kept journals.

Ecology & Wonder in the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks World Heritage Site

Ecology & Wonder makes several remarkable claims: The greatest cultural achievement in the Western Canadian mountain region may be what has been preserved, not what has been developed. Protecting the spine of the Rocky Mountains will preserve crucial ecological functions. Because the process of ecosystem diminishment and species loss has been slowed, an ecological thermostat has been kept alive…

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Natural Stone and Architectural Heritage

This book is made up of contributions dealing with heritage stones from different countries around the world. The stones are described, as well as their use in vernacular and contemporaneous architecture. Heritage stones are those stones that have special significance in human culture. Examples include some very important stones that have been either neglected because they are no longer extract…

Architecture in the Anthropocene : Encounters Among Design, Deep Time, Scienc…

Research regarding the significance and consequence of anthropogenic transformations of the earth’s land, oceans, biosphere and climate have demonstrated that, from a wide variety of perspectives, it is very likely that humans have initiated a new geological epoch, their own. First labeled the Anthropocene by the chemist Paul Crutzen, the consideration of the merits of the Anthropocene thesis…

Alberta’s Lower Athabasca Basin Archaeology and Palaeoenvironments

Over the past two decades, the oil sands region of northeastern Alberta has been the site of unprecedented levels of development. Alberta’s Lower Athabasca Basin tells a fascinating story of how a catastrophic ice age flood left behind a unique landscape in the Lower Athabasca Basin, one that made deposits of bitumen available for surface mining. Less well known is the discovery that this flo…