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"What are the possibilities for understanding the role of performance in emerging theories such as affect, new materialism, posthumanism and post-qualitative research? Building on the idea that the power of theatre and performance lies in its ability to move beyond its own influence and traditional research paradigms, this edited text is concerned with not only the methods but also the theoretics of affect and performance. The chapters include work that models theoretical practices in the writing, and demonstrates how theorising affect and its qualitative research methods is itself a performative practice"-- Provided by publisher

• Section A: Political Economy of African Language Media
• The Political Economy of Indigenous Language Media in Nigeria and the Challenge of Survival in Digital Age / Toyosi Olugbenga Owolabi
• Language politics, political economy and sustainability of African language press in Zimbabwe / Phillip Mpofu
• Section B: Mixed Bag -- Failure and Success of African Language Newspapers
• In the dead end: the decline of the indigenous language press in post-colonial Zimbabwe / Allen Munoriyarwa
• Making sense of Mmega Dikgang's Shift from Setswana to English / Tshepang Bright Molale and Phillip Mpofu
• The extinction of siSwati-language newspapers in the Kingdom of Eswatini / Maxwell V. Mthembu and Carolyne M. Lunga
• Indigenous language media in Zimbabwe -- Kwayedza and Umthunywa -- and the struggle for survival: Views from mainstream media journalists / Albert Chibuwe
• Indigenous language media and the survival game: the Alaroye newspaper example / Obasanjo Joseph Oyedele and Jendele Hungbo
• Section C: Management and Sustainability of African Language Media
• Reimagining the future of indigenous language Press in the digital era / Oyesomi, kehinde Onyenankeya, Kevin and Onyenankeya, Oluwayemisi
• A survey of management, organisation, structure, content and column of the contemporary Yoruba newspaper / Tola Osunuga
• Sustaining African language newspaper business: the Yorùbá language example from Nigeria / Clement Adéníyì Àkàngbé
• Section D: Towards quality -- African Language Journalism Development
• The significance of African storytelling in journalism / M.A. Wendpanga Eric Segueda and David Anderson Hooker
• African Language Journalism in Ghana and the Quest for Quality Journalism: An Investigation of Peace / FM Akpojivi Ufuoma and Fosu Modestus
• Editorial Policies and the isiXhosa language newspapers at Caxton Media and Independent News Media / Mbuyekezo Njeje and Albert Chibuwe
• Section E: Focus on the Broadcast Media
• News Syndication in Local Language Broadcasting in South Africa: Hegemonic Infiltration or Hybridity? / Tendai Chari
• Section F: Borrowing a Leaf
• African Language Newspaper Sustainability: Lessons to Learn from Asia / Abiodun Salawu.

This edited volume considers why the African language press is unstable and what can be done to develop quality African language journalism into a sustainable business. Providing an overview of the African language journalism landscape, this book examines the challenges of operating sustainable African language media businesses. The chapters explore the political economy and management of African language media and consider case studies of the successes and failures of African language newspapers, as well as the challenges of developing quality journalism. Covering print and digital newspapers and broadcast journalism, this book will be of interest to scholars of media and journalism in Africa.
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• Section A: Political Economy of African Language Media
• The Political Economy of Indigenous Language Media in Nigeria and the Challenge of Survival in Digital Age / Toyosi Olugbenga Owolabi
• Language politics, political economy and sustainability of African language press in Zimbabwe / Phillip Mpofu
• Section B: Mixed Bag -- Failure and Successes of African Language Newspapers
• In the dead end : the decline of the indigenous language press in post-colonial Zimbabwe / Allen Munoriyarwa
• Making sense of South African Mmega Dikgang's Shift from Setswana to English / Tshepang Bright Molale and Phillip Mpofu
• The extinction of siSwati-language newspapers in the Kingdom of Eswatini / Maxwell V. Mthembu and Carolyne M. Lunga
• Indigenous language media in Zimbabwe -- Kwayedza and Umthunywa -- and the struggle for survival: Views from mainstream media journalists / Albert Chibuwe
• Indigenous language media and the survival game: the Alaroye newspaper example / Obasanjo Joseph Oyedele and Jendele Hungbo
• Section C: Management and Sustainability of African Language Media
• Reimagining the future of indigenous language Press in the digital era / Oyesomi, kehinde Onyenankeya, Kevin and Onyenankeya, Oluwayemisi
• A survey of management, organisation, structure, content and column of the contemporary Yoruba newspaper / Tola Osunuga
• Sustaining African language newspaper business: the Yorùbá language example from Nigeria / Clement Adéníyì Àkàngbé
• Section D: Towards quality -- African Language Journalism Development
• The significance of African storytelling in journalism / M.A. Wendpanga Eric Segueda and David Anderson Hooker
• African Language Journalism in Ghana and the Quest for Quality Journalism: An Investigation of Peace / FM Akpojivi Ufuoma and Fosu Modestus
• Editorial Policies and the isiXhosa language newspapers at Caxton Media and Independent News Media / Mbuyekezo Njeje and Albert Chibuwe
• Section E: Focus on the Broadcast Media
• News Syndication in Local Language Broadcasting in South Africa: Hegemonic Infiltration or Hybridity? / Tendai Chari
• Section F: Borrowing a Leaf
• African Language Newspaper Sustainability: Lessons to Learn from Asia / Abiodun Salawu

This edited volume considers why the African language press is unstable and what can be done to develop quality African language journalism into a sustainable business. Providing an overview of the African language journalism landscape, this book examines the challenges of operating sustainable African language media businesses. The chapters explore the political economy and management of African language media and consider case studies of the successes and failures of African language newspapers, as well as the challenges of developing quality journalism. Covering print and digital newspapers and broadcast journalism, this book will be of interest to scholars of media and journalism in Africa.
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The drama takes place in a small Nigerian town during a violent and unexpected storm. A Nigerian-American woman named Chioma answers a knock at her door and is horrified to see a boy with a severe head wound standing at her doorstep. He reaches for her, and his touch burns like fire. Something is very wrong. Haunted and hunted, Chioma must embrace her heritage in order to survive. John Jennings and David Brame's graphic novel collaboration uses bold art and colors to powerfully tell this tale of identity and destiny.

"In Game of Thrones, potent and intimate narratives of love and passion can be found within the grand landscapes of heroism, honour and death. In this vital follow-up to Winter Is Coming (2015), acclaimed medievalist Carolyne Larrington explores themes of power, blood-kin, lust and sex in order to put entirely fresh meanings on the show of the century"-- Provided by publisher.

• Realism and the imagination
• Fantasy and reality
• Subjective realities
• Ruptured realities
• Documentary: art of the real?

From their very inception, movies have served two seemingly contradictory purposes. On one hand, they transport us to fantastical worlds and display mind-boggling special effects. On the other, they can document actual events and immerse us in scenarios that feel so realistic, we might forget we are watching a work of fiction. Alternative Realities explores how these distinctions between cinematic fantasy and filmic realism are more porous than we might think. Through a close analysis of CGI-heavy blockbusters like Wonder Woman and Guardians of the Galaxy, it considers how even popular fantasies are grounded in emotional and social realities. Conversely, it examines how mockumentaries like This is Spinal Tap satirically call attention to the highly stylized techniques documentarians use to depict reality. Alternative Realities takes us on a journey through many different genres of film, from the dream-like and subjective realities depicted in movies like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Memento, to the astonishing twists of movies like Shutter Island and The Matrix, which leave viewers in a state of epistemic uncertainty. Ultimately, it shows us how the power of cinema comes from the unique way it fuses together the objective and the subjective, the fantastical and the everyday.
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• Volume
• 1. Post-1970 : Theatre X, Mabou Mines, Goat Island, Lookingglass theatre, Elevator Repair Service, and Siti Company
• volume
• 2. Post -1995 : Rude Mechs, The Builders Association, Pig Iron, Radiohole, The Civilians, and 600 Highwaymen.

• Acknowledgements
• Contributors
• 1.Introduction: Conceptualizations, Mediations, and Remediations of the American Weird Julius Greve (University of Oldenburg) and Florian Zappe (University of Goettingen)
• Part One: Concept
• 2. A Doxa of the American Weird Dan O'Hara (Independent Scholar, UK)
• 3. The Oozy Set: Toward a Weird(ed) Taxonomy Johnny Murray (Independent Scholar, UK)
• 4. Validating Weird Fiction as an (Im)Possible Genre Anne-Maree Wicks (University of Southern Queensland, Australia)
• 5. Woke Weird and the Cultural Politics of Camp Transformation Stephen Shapiro (University of Warwick, UK)
• 6. The Weird in/of Crisis, 1930/2010 Tim Lanzendoerfer (University of Frankfurt, Germany)
• 7. After Weird: Harman, Deleuze, and the American "Thing" Daniel D. Fineman (Occidental College, USA)
• 8. Concerning A Deleuzean Weird: A Response to Dan Fineman Graham Harman (Southern California Institute of Architecture, USA)
• Part Two: Medium
• 9. Get Out, Race and Formal Destiny (on Common Weirdness) Eugenie Brinkema (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
• 10. From a Heap of Broken Images Towards a Postcolonial Weird: Ana Lily Amirpour's Western Landscapes
• Maryam Aras (University of Bonn, Germany)
• 11. "It is in Our House Now": Twin Peaks, Nostalgia, and David Lynch's Weird Spaces Oliver Moisich and Markus Wierschem (University of Paderborn, Germany)
• 12. Demolishing the Blues: Captain Beefheart as Modernist Outsider Paul Sheehan (Macquarie University, Australia)
• 13. Weird Visual Mythopoeia: On Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle Florian Zappe (University of Goettingen, Germany)
• 14. Hidden Cultures and the Representation and Creation of Weird Reality in Alan Moore's Providence Alexander Greiffenstern (Independent Scholar, Germany)
• 15. Alien Beauty: The Glamour of the Eerie Fred Francis (Independent Scholar, UK)
• 16. Conspiracy Hermeneutics: The Secret World as Weird Tale Tanya Krzywinska (Falmouth University, UK)
• 17. Afterword: Weird in the Walls Roger Luckhurst (Birkbeck, University of London, UK)
• Index.
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Hitherto classified as a form of genre fiction, or as a particular aesthetic quality of literature by H. P. Lovecraft, the weird has now come to refer to a broad spectrum of artistic practices and expressions including fiction, film, television, photography, music, and visual and performance art. Largely under-theorized so far, The American Weird brings together perspectives from literary, cultural, media and film studies, and from philosophy, to provide a thorough exploration of the weird mode. Separated into two sections - the first exploring the concept of the weird and the second how it is applied through various media - this book generates new approaches to fundamental questions: Can the weird be conceptualized as a generic category, as an aesthetic mode or as an epistemological position? May the weird be thought through in similar ways to what Sianne Ngai calls the zany, the cute, and the interesting? What are the transformations it has undergone aesthetically and politically since its inception in the early twentieth century? Which strands of contemporary critical theory and philosophy have engaged in a dialogue with the discourses of and on the weird? And what is specifically "American" about this aesthetic mode? As the first comprehensive, interdisciplinary study of the weird, this book not only explores the writings of Lovecraft, Caitlin Kiernan, China Mieville, and Jeff VanderMeer, but also the graphic novels of Alan Moore, the music of Captain Beefheart, the television show Twin Peaks and the films of Lily Amirpour, Matthew Barney, David Lynch, and Jordan Peele.
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• List of illustrations
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: National Travels in an International World: Overseas Performances 1940-1990
• Chapter 2: A Kiwi Hedda Gabler: Downstage on the Festival Stage
• Chapter 3: Performing Mana: Taking Maori Theatre to the Globe
• Chapter 4: Skin Tight's World Flight: The Production of New Zealand Plays by International Companies
• Chapter 5: Beyond Biculturalism: Touring Pasifika and Transnational Theatre
• Chapter 6: Exporting Culture: Indian Ink Theatre Company
• Chapter 7: Selling the Nation at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe
• Chapter 8: Making Meaning: Responses to Aotearoa New Zealand at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2019
• Chapter 9: Cultural Apocalypse: The Generation of Z: Apocalypse in London Conclusion: Departure, Arrival, Return Appendix: Aotearoa New Zealand Theatre Productions Performed Overseas.
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Aotearoa New Zealand in the Global Theatre Marketplace offers a case study of how the theatre of Aotearoa has toured, represented and marketed itself on the global stage. How has New Zealand work attempted to stand out, differentiate itself, and get seen by audiences internationally? This book examines the journeys of a dynamic range of culturally and theatrically innovative works created by Aotearoa New Zealand theatre makers that have toured and been performed across time, place and theatrical space: from Moana Oceania to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, from a Maori Shakespeare adaptation to an immersive zombie theatre experience. Drawing on postcolonialism, transnationalism, cosmopolitanism and globality to understand how Aotearoa New Zealand has imagined and conceived of itself through drama, the author investigates how these representations might be read and received by audiences around the world, variously reinforcing and complicating conceptions of New Zealand national identity. Developing concepts of theatrical mobility, portability and the market, this study engages with the whole theatrical enterprise as a play travels from concept and scripting through to funding, marketing, performance and the critical response by reviewers and commentators. This book will be of global interest to academics, producers and theatre artists as a significant resource for the theory and practice of theatre touring and cross-cultural performance and reception.
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• Applied theatre : an introduction / Nicola Abraham
• Lexicon of key concepts / Nicola Abraham and Tim Prentki
• Introduction to poetics of representation / Tim Prentki
• Rabelais and his world / Mikhail Bakhtin
• Brecht on theatre / Marc Silberman, Steve Giles and Tom Kuhn (eds.)
• Laughing and yelling in the trouble : spaces of consensual courage / Sonia Norris and Julie Salverson
• Provoking intervention : spaces of consensual courage / Adrian Jackson
• 'Lift your mask' : geese theatre company in performance / Andy Watson
• Geographies of hope / Michael Balfour and Julie Dunn
• Culturally producing and negotiating women's rugby / Colette Conroy and Sarah Dickinson
• Introduction to ethics of representation / Nicola Abraham
• The work of representation / Stuart Hall
• On the political / Chantal Mouffe
• Choosing the margin as a space of radical openness / bell hooks
• Drama for moral education in mainland China : tensions and possibilities / Joe Winston and Chenchen Zeng
• 'I never knew I had so many health rights'
• developing a health manifesto with young people living in Hillbrow / Katharine Low, Gerard Bester, Phana Dube and Ben Gunn
• Inside bitch : clean break and the ethics of representation of women in the criminal justice system / Anna Herrmann and Caoimhe McAvinchey with contributions from Lucy Edkins, Jennifer Joseph, TerriAnn Oudjar, Jade Small, Deborah Pearson and Stacey Gregg
• The ethics of aesthetic risk / Gareth White
• Transition and challenge ethical concerns in prison theatre / Marianne Knudsen and Bjørn Rasmussen
• Theare for democracy / Brendon Burns
• Introduction to participation and inclusion / Nicola Abraham
• Theatre of the oppressed / Augusto Boal
• Selections from the prison notebooks / Antonio Gramsci
• Participation / Majid Rahnema
• On arrival / Sara Ahmed
• Mobile arts for peace (MAP) : curriculum for music, dance and drama in Rwanda / Ananda Breed, Kurtis Dennison, Sylvestre Nzahabwanayo, and Kirrily Pells
• Lest all things be held unalterable : Brecht's message to 'zombie democracies' / Marina Henriques Coutinho
• Being imperfect : breakin' away from competitive battling in Singapore / Adelina Ong
• The gratitude enquiry : investigating reciprocity in three community projects / Sue Mayo
• Introduction to intervention / Tim Prentki
• Profit over people / Noam Chomsky
• When people play people / Zakes Mda
• Drama as a process for change / Dorothy Heathcote
• Prospero.digital / Paul Sutton
• Unexpected resilience of the participant performance model for playback theatre / Jonathan Fox
• Introduction to border crossing / Tim Prentki
• Border crossings / Henry Giroux
• Decolonising the mind / Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
• Home, away, and back again / Jan Cohen Cruz
• Brecht in Sicily : crossing borders / Salvo Pitruzzella
• The transacting project / Catherine McNamara
• Introduction to change / Nicola Abraham
• Problem-posing situated and multicultural learning / Ira Shor
• Synthetic culture and development / Renato Constantino
• Child rights theatre for development with disadvantaged and excluded children in South Asia and Africa / Michael Etherton
• Opening doors, not filling boxes : policy kinesis and youth performance with the Black Friars Theatre Company, Aotearoa, New Zealand / Nicola Abraham and Cristian Almarza
• Educaswitch : preventing bullying and advocating social and emotional literacy in schools for children and young people in Chile / Nicola Abraham and Cristian Almarza
• Planting dream-seeds in the wind when the point is to change / Syed Jamil Ahmed
• Applied theatre in global meltdown / Tim Prentki.

"The Applied Theatre Reader is the first book to bring together new case studies of practice by leading practitioners and academics in the field and beyond, with classic source texts from writers such as Noam Chomsky, bell hooks, Mikhail Bakhtin, Augusto Boal, and Chantal Mouffe. This new edition brings the field fully up to date with the breadth of applied theatre practice in the Twenty First Century, adding essays on playback theatre, digital technology, work with indigenous practitioners, inter-generational practice, school projects, and contributors from South America, Australia and New Zealand. The Reader divides the field into key themes, inviting critical interrogation of issues in applied theatre whilst also acknowledging the multi-disciplinary nature of its subject, crossing fields like theatre in educational settings, prison theatre, community performance, theatre in conflict resolution, interventionist theatre, and theatre for development. A new lexicon of Applied Theatre and further reading for every section will equip readers with the ideal tools for studying this broad and varied field. This collection of critical thought and practice is essential to those studying or participating in the performing arts as a means for positive change"-- Provided by publisher.

"Anglo-American culture is marked by a gladiatorial impulse: a deep cultural fascination in watching men fight each other. The gladiator is an archetypal character embodying this impulse and his brand of violent and eroticised masculinity has become a cultural shorthand that signals a transhistorical version of heroic masculinity. Frequently the gladiator or celebrity fighter - from the amphitheatres of Rome to the octagon of the Ultimate Fighting Championships - is used as a way of insisting that a desire to fight, and to watch men fighting, is simply a part of our human nature. This book traces a cultural interest in stories about gladiators through twentieth and twenty-first-century film, television and videogames"-- Provided by publisher

"This book looks at the many genres of science fiction (literature, television, film, etc.) to examine ways in which people have grappled with their fears of technology"-- Provided by publisher.

Responding to a lack of studies on the film festival's role in the production of cultural memory, this book explores different parameters through which film festivals shape our reception and memories of films. By focusing on two Asian American film festivals, this book analyzes the frames of memory that festivals create for their films, constructed through and circulated by the various festival media. It further establishes that festival locations-both cities and screening venues-play a significant role in shaping our experience of films. Finally, it shows that festivals produce performances which help guide audiences towards certain readings and direct the film's role as a memory object. Bringing together film festival studies and memory studies, 'Asian American Film Festivals' offers a mixed-methods approach with which to explore the film festival phenomenon, thus shedding light on the complex dynamics of frames, locations, and performances shaping the festival's memory practices. It also draws attention to the understudied genre of Asian American film festivals, showing how these festivals actively engage in constructing and performing a minority group's collective identity and memory.
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• Critique et le fantôme d'Acéphale
• Georges Bataille : Critique et la révolte
• Bataille-Kojève-Critique : la souveraineté et le sérieux
• Georges Bataille-Éric Weil : correspondance et antipodie
• Maurice Blanchot, compagnon de route de Critique ?
• Critique allemande. De l'exégèse phénoménologique à sa négation matérialiste.

"Cet ouvrage constitue les actes de la première session du colloque "La revue Critique : passions, passages" qui s'est tenu au Centre culturel international de Cerisy-la-Salle et à l'IMEC du 14 au 21 juin 2019. Il concerne la première époque de Critique, revue générale des publications françaises et étrangères, fondée en 1946 par Georges Bataille aux Éditions du Chêne, dirigée officiellement par Georges Bataille, codirigée dans les faits par Georges Bataille et Éric Weil, publiée par les Éditions du Chêne, puis par les Éditions Calmann-Lévy, enfin par les Éditions de Minuit à partir de 1950. Premier ouvrage collectif consacré à Critique, il complète les publications existantes en apportant des points de vue diversifiés sur la revue et offre un aperçu sur l'histoire intellectuelle des années d'après-guerre à travers l'évocation de certains épisodes et acteurs importants."--Page 4 of cover.

"While the Dublin Gate Theatre (est. 1928) has become renowned for introducing experimental foreign drama to Ireland, this study is the first to analyse how the Gate also sought to become a site of avant-garde nationalism and to contribute to Irish identity formation in the nation's first post-independence decades"-- Provided by publisher.

• Series Editors' Introduction Introduction
• 1. Bad Girls, Dirty Bodies
• 2. Bad Girls Happen to Things
• 3. Magnification and the Unknown
• 4. RubberDoll: Success and the Significance of Sexual Otherness
• 5. Commodification of Cult and 'Alterative' Femininities
• 6. The Shadows of Safe Femininity Conclusion Bibliography Index.
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What makes a woman 'bad' is commonly linked to certain 'qualities' or behaviours seen as morally or socially corrosive, dirty and disgusting. In Bad Girls, Dirty Bodies, Gemma Commane critically explores the social, sexual and political significance of women who are labelled 'bad', sluts or dirty. Through a variety of case studies drawn from qualitative and original ethnographic research, she argues that 'Bad Girls' disrupt heterosexual normativity and contribute new embodied knowledge. From neo-burlesque, sex-positive and queer performance art, to explicit entertainment and areas of popular culture; Commane situates 'bad' women as sites of power, possibility and success. Through the combination of case studies (Ms T, Empress Stah and RubberDoll, Mouse and Doris La Trine), Gemma Commane offers a challenge to those who think that sexual, slutty, bad, and dirty women are not worth listening to. Significantly, she unpicks the issues generated by women who are complicit in the subjugation, policing and marginalization of 'other' women, both in popular culture and in sites of subcultural resistance.
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• Introduction
• Reading the Dark Knight
• Queering the Caped Crusader
• Investigating the World's Greatest Detective
• Chapter One: Dragged into Desire: Bruce Wayne's Woman Problem
• Traces of Batman
• Desire and the Dark Knight
• The Bat and the Cat
• Chapter Two: Lavender Lapels and Poison Pansies: The Joker as Queer Trickster
• The Man Who Laughs
• Straight and Narrow
• The Fraternity of Saps
• Death of the Family
• Chapter Three: With the Lights Out: The Then and There of Gotham City
• Of Other Spaces
• Profound Silences
• No Man's Land
• List of Comics.
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This cultural analysis of visual and narrative elements within Batman comics provides an important exploration of the ways readers and creators negotiate gender, identity, and sexuality in popular culture. Thematic chapters investigate how artists, writers, and fans engage with, challenge, and interpret gendered and sexual representations by focusing on one of the most popular and heated fictional rivalries ever inked: that of Batman and the Joker. The monograph provides critical insights into ways queer reading practices can open new forms of understanding that have generally remained implicit and unexplored in mainstream comics studies. This accessible and interdisciplinary approach to the Caped Crusader and the Clown Prince of Crime engages diverse fields of scholarship such as Comics Studies, Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Literature, Psychoanalysis, Media Studies, and Queer Theory.
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