The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas (Taylor Diana)(Paperback)

The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas (Taylor Diana)(Paperback)

In The Archive and the Repertoire preeminent performance studies scholar Diana Taylor provides a new understanding of the vital role of performance in the Americas. From plays to official events to grassroots protests, performance, she argues, must be taken seriously as a means of storing and

Television History, the Peabody Archive, and Cultural Memory (Thompson Ethan)(Paperback)

Television History, the Peabody Archive, and Cultural Memory is the first edited volume devoted to the Peabody Awards Collection, a unique repository of radio and TV programs submitted yearly since 1941 for consideration for the prestigious Peabody Awards. The essays in this volume explore the

Digital Memory and the Archive (Ernst Wolfgang)(Paperback)

In the popular imagination, archives are remote, largely obsolete institutions: either antiquated, inevitably dusty libraries or sinister repositories of personal secrets maintained by police states. Yet the archive is now a ubiquitous feature of digital life. Rather than being deleted, e-mails and

Community Archives: The Shaping of Memory (Bastian Jeannette A.)(Pevná vazba)

How do archives and other cultural institutions such as museums determine the boundaries of a particular community, and of their own institutional reach, in constructing effective strategies and methodologies for selecting and maintaining appropriate material evidence? This book offers guidance on

Presente!: The Politics of Presence (Taylor Diana)(Paperback)

In Presente Diana Taylor asks what it means to be physically and politically present in situations where it seems that nothing can be done. As much an act, a word, an attitude, a theoretical intervention, and a performance pedagogy, Taylor maps presente at work in scenarios ranging from

Religion and Cultural Memory: Ten Studies (Assmann Jan)(Paperback)

In ten brilliant essays, Jan Assmann explores the connections between religion, culture, and memory. Building on Maurice Halbwachs's idea that memory, like language, is a social phenomenon as well as an individual one, he argues that memory has a cultural dimension too. He develops a persuasive

Critical Perspectives on Cultural Memory and Heritage: Construction, Transformation and Destruction (Apaydin Veysel)(Paperback)

Critical Perspectives on Cultural Memory and Heritage focuses on the importance of memory and heritage for individual and group identity, and for their sense of belonging. It aims to expose the motives and discourses related to the destruction of memory and heritage during times of war, terror,

Community Archives, Community Spaces - Heritage, Memory and Identity(Paperback / softback)

This book traces the trajectory of the community archives movement, expanding the definition of community archives to include sites such as historical societies, social movement organisations and community centres, and explore new definitions of what community archives might encompass, particularly

Cultural Memory and Western Civilization: Functions, Media, Archives (Assmann Aleida)(Paperback)

Slaying Goliath: The Passionate Resistance to Privatization and the Fight to Save America's Public Schools (Ravitch Diane)(Paperback)

From one of the foremost authorities on education and the history of education in the United States, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education, author of the bestselling Reign of Error--an impassioned, inspiring look at the ways in which parents, teachers, activists--citizens--are successfully

Libraries, Archives, and Museums: An Introduction to Cultural Heritage Institutions Through the Ages (Stauffer Suzanne M.)(Paperback)

The work provides a thorough background for students and professionals in the fields of library, archives, and museum resource management, preservation, and administration

Applied Theatre: Performing Health and Wellbeing (Baxter Veronica)(Paperback)

Applied Theatre: Performing Health and Wellbeing is the first volume in the field to address the role that theatre, drama and performance have in relation to promoting, developing and sustaining health and wellbeing in diverse communities. Challenging concepts and understanding of health, wellbeing

Miss America's God: Faith and Identity in America's Oldest Pageant (McMichael Mandy)(Pevná vazba)

The Miss America pageant has extraordinary staying power. Despite the cultural winds of the past century, Miss America continues to captivate the nation, giving America what it wants most--sex, entertainment, competition, religion, and even self-discovery. In Miss America's God, Mandy McMichael

Managing Your Career in Theater and the Performing Arts (Field Shelly)(Paperback / softback)

Offers career tips and guidance for the theater and performing arts

Reclaiming 42: Public Memory and the Reframing of Jackie Robinson's Radical Legacy (Naze David)(Pevná vazba)

Reclaiming 42 centers on one of America's most respected cultural icons, Jackie Robinson, and the forgotten aspects of his cultural legacy. Since his retirement in 1956, and more strongly in the last twenty years, America has primarily remembered Robinson's legacy in an oversimplified way, as the

For the Record: On Sexuality and the Colonial Archive in India (Arondekar Anjali)(Paperback)

Anjali Arondekar considers the relationship between sexuality and the colonial archive by posing the following questions: Why does sexuality (still) seek its truth in the historical archive? What are the spatial and temporal logics that compel such a return? And conversely, what kind of 'archive'

Staging the Archive: Art and Photography in the Age of New Media (Van Alphen Ernst)(Paperback)

Dedicated to art practices that mobilize the model of the archive, Staging the Archive demonstrates the ways in which such archival artworks probe the possibilities of what art is and what it can do. Through a variety of media, methodologies and perspectives, the artists surveyed here also

Making Home: Orphanhood, Kinship and Cultural Memory in Contemporary American Novels (Monteith Sharon)(Paperback)

Explores the figure of the orphan child in a broad selection of contemporary US novels by popular and critically acclaimed

The School of the Americas: Military Training and Political Violence in the Americas (Gill Lesley)(Paperback)

Located at Fort Benning in Columbus, Georgia, the School of the Americas (soa) is a U.S. Army center that has trained more than sixty thousand soldiers and police, mostly from Latin America, in counterinsurgency and combat-related skills since it was founded in 1946. So widely documented is the

Slay the Spanish! (Taylor Timothy)(Paperback)

Former US Open Champion Timothy Taylor presents a repertoire for Black against the universally popular Spanish Opening (Ruy Lopez). The backbone of Black's repertoire is based on the Modern Steinitz Defence, which has justifiably earned a reputation as an important alternative to the main lines

New Directions in Social and Cultural History (Noakes Lucy)(Paperback)

What does it mean to be a social and cultural historian today? In the wake of the 'cultural turn', and in an age of digital and public history, what challenges and opportunities await historians in the early 21st century? In this exciting new text, leading historians reflect on key developments in

Mitrokhin Archive - The KGB in Europe and the West (Andrew Christopher)(Paperback / softback)

Connect the Dots: The Collective Power of Relationships, Memory and Mindset in the Classroom (Taylor Tricia)(Paperback)

Connecting the Dots presents three key interconnected areas of focus that will have the most impact on teaching and learning. 1. Building Strong Relationships: creating a sense of belonging, establishing norms and high expectations; and understanding barriers, like unconscious bias and

Libraries and Archives in the Digital Age (Mizruchi Susan L.)(Paperback)

The role of archives and libraries in our digital age is one of the most pressing concerns of humanists, scholars, and citizens worldwide. This collection brings together specialists from academia, public libraries, governmental agencies, and non-profit archives to pursue common questions about