Studies In The Arab Theater And Cinema

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The Arab theatre and cinema are among the most neglected subjects in the studies of Oriental literature and research into the history of theatre. This book, written by the acclaimed scholar Jacob M. Landau and first published in 1958, is a survey of the development of the Arab theatre and cinema as cultural and social phenomena and goes a long way in shedding some light on these neglected subjects.

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Genre : Social Science
Author : Jacob M. Landau
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2016-03-22
File : 279 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781317246268


World Encyclopedia Of Contemporary Theatre Volume 4 The Arab World

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One of the first internationally published overviews of theatrical activity across the Arab World. Includes 160,000 words and over 125 photographs from 22 different Arab countries from Africa to the Middle East.

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Genre : Performing Arts
Author : Don Rubin (Series Editor)
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2003-09-02
File : 322 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781134929856


Acting

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A groundbreaking, cross-cultural reference work exploring the diversity of expression found in rituals, festivals, and performances, uncovering acting techniques and practices from around the world. Acting: An International Encyclopedia explores the amazing diversity of dramatic expression found in rituals, festivals, and live and filmed performances. Its hundreds of alphabetically arranged, fully referenced entries offer insights into famous players, writers, and directors, as well as notable stage and film productions from around the world and throughout the history of theater, cinema, and television. The book also includes a surprising array of additional topics, including important venues (from Greek amphitheaters to Broadway and Hollywood), acting schools (the Actor's Studio) and companies (the Royal Shakespeare), performance genres (from religious pageants to puppetry), technical terms of the actor's art, and much more. It is a unique resource for exploring the techniques performers use to captivate their audiences, and how those techniques have evolved to meet the demands of performing through Greek masks and layers of Kabuki makeup, in vast halls or tiny theaters, or for the unforgiving eye of the camera.

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Genre : Performing Arts
Author : Mary Beth Osnes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release : 2001-12-07
File : 453 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781576078044


Modern Arabic Literature

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An introduction to Modern Arabic Literature, from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present

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Genre : Social Science
Author : Paul Starkey
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Release : 2014-03-11
File : 233 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780748696536


Essays In Arabic Literary Biography 1850 1950

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The essays, which discuss authors in a variety of literary genres and across the spectrum of the region concerned-from Iraq in the East to Tunisia in the West-provide clear evidence of the gradually changing roles of the indigenous and the imported which are an intrinsic feature of the movement known in Arabic as al-bahada (cultural revival) and the way in which Arab litterateurs chose to respond to the inspiration that such changes inevitably engendered. --

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Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Author : Roger Allen
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Release : 2009
File : 408 Pages
ISBN-13 : 3447061413


Cultural Mobility

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Cultural Mobility offers a model for understanding the patterns of meaning that human societies create. It has emerged under the very distinguished editorial guidance of Stephen Greenblatt and represents a new way of thinking about culture and cultures with which scholars in many disciplines will need to engage.

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Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
Author : Stephen Greenblatt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release : 2010
File : 283 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780521863568


Theater In The Middle East

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The collected essays from noteworthy dramatists and scholars in this book represent new ways of understanding theater in the Middle East not as geographical but transcultural spaces of performance. What distinguishes this book from previous works is that it offers new analysis on a range of theatrical practices across a region, by and large, ignored for the history of its dramatic traditions and cultures, and it does so by emphasizing diverse performances in changing contexts. Topics include Arab, Iranian, Israeli, diasporic theatres from pedagogical perspectives to reinvention of traditions, from translation practices to political resistance expressed in various performances from the nineteenth century to the present.

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Genre : Drama
Author : Babak Rahimi
Publisher : Anthem Press
Release : 2020-07-27
File : 216 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781785274480


The Rowman Littlefield Handbook Of Christianity In The Middle East

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This work represents the current and most relevant content on the studies of how Christianity has fared in the ancient home of its founder and birth. Much has been written about Christianity and how it has survived since its migration out of its homeland but this comprehensive reference work reassesses the geographic and demographic impact of the dramatic changes in this perennially combustible world region. The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook of Christianity in the Middle East also spans the historical, socio-political and contemporary settings of the region and importantly describes the interactions that Christianity has had with other major/minor religions in the region.

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Genre : Religion
Author : Mitri Raheb
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Release : 2020-12-15
File : 711 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781538124185


Encyclopedia Of Arabic Literature

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This reference work covers the classical, transitional and modern periods. Editors and contributors cover an international scope of Arabic literature in many countries.

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Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Author : Julie Scott Meisami
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Release : 1998
File : 460 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0415185726


Shakespeare And The Arab World

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Offering a variety of perspectives on the history and role of Arab Shakespeare translation, production, adaptation and criticism, this volume explores both international and locally focused Arab/ic appropriations of Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets. In addition to Egyptian and Palestinian theatre, the contributors to this collection examine everything from an Omani performance in Qatar and an Upper Egyptian television series to the origin of the sonnets to an English-language novel about the Lebanese civil war. Addressing materials produced in several languages from literary Arabic (fuṣḥā) and Egyptian colloquial Arabic (‘ammiyya) to Swedish and French, these scholars and translators vary in discipline and origin, and together exhibit the diversity and vibrancy of this field.

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Katherine Hennessey
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Release : 2019-07-17
File : 282 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781789202601