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Acting in the Academy looks at ways of re-empowering students as they prepare for a career in performance, contending that many aspects of contemporary actor training in the US are outdated and limiting. Peter Zazzali calls for a reconceptualization of the standard courses in voice and speech, movement, or performanc

At the heart of aesthetics lie fundamental questions about value in art and the objectivity of aesthetic valuation. A theory of aesthetic value must explain how the properties of artworks contribute to the values derived from contemplating and appreciating works of art.

Originally published in 1990, and re-issued in 2020 with an updated Preface, this book shows how the UK has become a nation of home owners, and the effect it has had on peoples lives, the impact which it has had on British society and the implications for those who have hitherto been excluded.

This groundbreaking work is an attempt at providing a conceptual framework to synthesize urban and ecological dynamics into a common framework. The greatest challenge for urban ecologists in the next few decades is to understand the role humans play in urban ecosystems. The development of an integrated urban ecological approach is crucial to advance ecological research and to help planners and managers solve complex urban environmental issues. This book is a major step forward.

A World Elsewhere is Steven Berkoff’s bold attempt to describe his multifarious theatrical works, the part analysis and part confession of an artist whose work has been performed all over the world.

This book offers a uniquely complete and rigorous study of sound propagation and scattering in moving media that have deterministic and random inhomogeneities in adiabatic sound speed, density, and medium velocity. It is a resource for engineers and scientists who work in atmospheric and oceanic acoustics, aeroacoustics, outdoor noise control, a

Acting for the Camera: Back to One is a how to book with simple, practical steps to achieve a professional performance on camera.

From Aristotles theory of tragic katharsis onwards, theorists of the theatre have long engaged with the question of what spectatorship entails. This question has, directly or indirectly, often been extended to the investigation of acting. Acting, Spectating, and the Unconscious approaches the unco

This volume brings together the finest research on aesthetics and the philosophy of art by stalwart critics and leading scholars in the field.

This book is written from the perspective of a practicing engineer with 35 years of experience now working in the academic world to pass on lessons learned over the course of a structural engineering career. It covers topics that will enable beginning structural engineers to gain an advanced understanding prior to entering the workforce.

This volume brings together a range of academic perspectives - from media and film studies, medicine, medical history, gender studies, history, and cultural studies - to bear on the archive, shedding light on memories, discourses, trauma, and activism.

This book analyzes practices of collecting in European art museums from 1989 to the present, arguing that museums actualize absence both consciously and unconsciously, while misrepresentation is an outcome of the absent perspectives and voices of minority community members which are rarely considered in relation to contemporary art.

This volume deals with the development of Chinese theatre from 1900 to 1949, covering the prosperity of Peking Opera, the advent of play and colorful local dramas.

Drawing on recent theoretical frameworks from critical disability studies and art education including normalcy, ableism, dis/ability and Crip theory, this book offers an analysis of the conceptualisation of ability in art education and its relationship with disability.

This groundbreaking work is an attempt at providing a conceptual framework to synthesize urban and ecological dynamics into a common framework. The greatest challenge for urban ecologists in the next few decades is to understand the role humans play in urban ecosystems. The development of an integrated urban ecological approach is crucial to advance ecological research and to help planners and managers solve complex urban environmental issues. This book is a major step forward.

Aeroform: Designing for Wind and Air Movement provides a comprehensive introduction to applying aerodynamic principles to architectural design. It presents a challenge to architects and architectural engineers to give shape to the wind and express its influence on architectural form.

This book brings together, for the first time, twenty-two chapters on arts marketing and audience development. It provides an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the traditions, philosophies and approaches which underpin our ideas about increasing audiences for the arts.