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  • Hamilton, History and Hip-Hop
    Kevin J. Wetmore
    The volume is a collection of scholarly essays and personal responses that contextualizes Hamilton: An American Musical in various frameworks: hip-hop theatre and history, American history, musicals, contemporary politics, queer theory, feminism, and more. Hamilton is arguably the most important piece of American theatre in 25 years in terms of both national impact and shapi...
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    93,84 €

  • The Streaming of Hill House
    Kevin J Wetmore
    Netflix’s The Haunting of Hill House has received both critical acclaim and heaps of contempt for its reimagining of Shirley Jackson’s seminal horror novel. Some found Mike Flanagan’s series inventive, respectful and terrifying. Others believed it denigrated and diminished its source material, with some even calling it a 'betrayal' of Jackson. Though the novel has produced a...
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    54,17 €

  • Uncovering Stranger Things
    Kevin J Wetmore
    The Duffer Brothers’ award-winning Stranger Things exploded onto the pop culture scene in 2016. The Netflix original series revels in a nostalgic view of 1980s America while darkly portraying the cynical aspects of the period. This collection of 23 new essays explores how the show reduces, reuses and recycles ’80s pop culture--from the films of Spielberg, Carpenter and Hug...
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    40,42 €

  • The Oberammergau Passion Play
    Kevin J. Wetmore
    Every ten years since 1634, the Bavarian village of Oberammergau has performed the world’s most famous Passion Play, recounting the last days of Jesus Christ. In 2010, presenting the play for the 41st time, the village broke with tradition to offer a new interpretation for a post-millennial, international audience. Drawing on interviews with villagers and international res...
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    57,56 €

  • Shakespearean Echoes
    Kevin J. Wetmore Jr.
    Shakespearean Echoes assembles a global cast of established and emerging scholars to explore new connections between Shakespeare and contemporary culture, reflecting the complexities and conflicts of Shakespeare’s current international afterlife. ...
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    48,27 €

  • Shakespearean Echoes
    Kevin J. Wetmore Jr.
    Shakespearean Echoes assembles a global cast of established and emerging scholars to explore new connections between Shakespeare and contemporary culture, reflecting the complexities and conflicts of Shakespeare’s current international afterlife. ...
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    66,57 €

  • The Methuen Drama Anthology of Modern Asian Plays
    Jr. Kevin J. Wetmore / Siyuan Liu / Claire Conceison
    A companion volume to Modern Asian Theatre and Performance 1900-2000, this anthology contains nine emblematic scripts from twentieth and twenty-first century Asian theatre. Opening with a history of modern Asian drama and a summary of the plays and their contexts, it features nine works written between 1912 and 2009 in Japan, China, Korea, India, Indonesia and Vietnam. Showcas...
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    62,81 €

  • Modern Asian Theatre and Performance 1900-2000
    Erin B. Mee / Jr. Kevin J. Wetmore / Siyuan Liu
    Modern Asian Theatre and Performance 1900 - 2000 is a ground-breaking survey, tracking the advent of modern drama in Japan, India, China, Korea and Southeast Asia. It considers the shaping power of realism and naturalism, the influence of Western culture, the relationship between theatrical modernisation and social modernisation, and how theatre operates in contemporary Asian s...
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    46,84 €

  • The Theology of Battlestar Galactica
    Kevin J. Wetmore
    The reimagined television series Battlestar Galactica (2005 to 2009 on the Sci Fi Channel), features religion and theology among its central concerns--but does not simply use its myriad faiths as plot devices or background material. Battlestar Galactica is, in and of itself, a theological text. Over the course of 87 episodes and two television movies, the series’ narrative a...
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    42,89 €

  • Post-9/11 Horror in American Cinema
    Jr. Kevin J. Wetmore
    The horror film is meant to end in hope: Regan McNeil can be exorcized. A hydrophobic Roy Scheider can blow up a shark. Buffy can and will slay vampires. Heroic human qualities like love, bravery, resourcefulness, and intelligence will eventually defeat the monster. But, after the 9/11, American horror became much more bleak, with many films ending with the deaths of the entire...
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    48,46 €

  • Back from the Dead
    Kevin J. Wetmore
    Since 1968, the name of motion picture director George Romero has been synonymous with the living dead. His landmark film Night of the Living Dead formed the paradigm of modern zombie cinema; often cited as a metaphor for America during the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights movement, the film used the tenets of the drive-in horror movie genre to engage the sociophobics of lat...
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    42,75 €

  • Catholic Theatre and Drama
    Kevin J. Wetmore
    The relationship between the Catholic Church and theatre has a long and complicated history. This collection of fourteen critical essays seeks to demystify the ties--both practical and ideological--that have long bound Catholicism to theatrical production. This volume offers insights into medieval theatre, Jesuit drama, ballet and opera, modern stagings of medieval liturgica...
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    79,40 €

  • Shakespeare and Youth Culture
    Jennifer Hulbert / Kevin J. Jr. Wetmore / Robert L. York
    This volume deconstructs the underlying assumptions behind youth-culture Shakespeare and then analyzes specific 'texts,' from 10 Things I Hate about You to The Bomb-itty of Errors, from The Sandman to Reviving Ophelia. The authors explore the appropriation of Shakespeare by youth culture and the expropriation of youth culture in the manufacture and marketing of 'Shakespeare.' ...
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    66,59 €

  • Portrayals of Americans on the World Stage
    Kevin J. Wetmore
    This collection of 14 essays explores drama from around the world that depicts the United States and Americans. From eighteenth century German dramas about Native Americans through post-Revolutionary War British plays, to the theaters of contemporary Japan, Mexico, Serbia, Ireland, Ghana and other nations, the contributors consider conflicting representations of Americans. O...
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    57,36 €

  • The Empire Triumphant
    Kevin J Wetmore / Kevin J. Wetmore
    George Lucas’s first Star Wars trilogy shows the influences of its era; Cold War tension is evident in its theme of rebellion against totalitarianism. Recent entries in the Star Wars saga--The Phantom Menace (1999) and Attack of the Clones (2002)--are much more concerned with evil corporations, terrorists, and the corruption of the political process. Each film is influenced ...
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    42,86 €

  • Black Dionysus
    Kevin J. Wetmore
    Many playwrights, authors, poets and historians have used images, metaphors and references to and from Greek tragedy, myth and epic to describe the African experience in the New World. The complex relationship between ancient Greek tragedy and modern African American theatre is primarily rooted in America, where the connection between ancient Greece and ancient Africa is exp...
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    50,04 €

  • The Athenian Sun in an African Sky
    Kevin J. Wetmore
    Western literature has become more influential in Africa since the independence of many of that continent’s countries in the early 1960s. In particular, Greek tragedy has grown as model and inspiration for African theatre artists. This work begins with a discussion of the affinity that modern-day African playwrights have for ancient Greek tragedy and the factors that determi...
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    50,17 €