This guide is designed to help you find information and resources for Drama and Theatre Studies.
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Novanet allows you to search for articles across many but not all library databases. Certain key databases, including MLA, are not searchable using Novanet.
Novanet can be a good place to start searching for articles on some topics but it does not replace searching individual library databases.
These are just two of the library databases you can search to find scholarly information on drama. For a complete list of key Drama Studies databases, please see:
Just a few titles recently added to our collections:
Queering Drag: Redefining the Discourse of Gender-Bending by "Theatrical gender-bending, also called drag, is a popular form of entertainment and a subject of scholarly study. However, most drag studies do not question the standard words and ideas used to convey this performance genre. Queering Drag offers redefinition of the genre centralized in the performer's construction and presentation of a "queer" version of hegemonic identity, and it models a new set of tools for analyzing drag as a process of intents and methods enacted to effect specific goals."
History and Film by A Tale of Two Disciplines addresses the representation of history in cinema, a much-argued debate on the need to understand cinematic history in its own terms and develop a certain vocabulary for discussing historical films, their relation to public history, and their impact on public historical consciousness. With case studies ranging from The Thin Red Line and Life is Beautiful, to The Fog of War and The Last Bolshevik, Thanouli bridges the gap between history and film studies and lays the foundations for a new visual historiography.
Austerity and the Public Role of Drama : Performing Lives-In-Common by "This book asks what, if any, public role drama might play under Project Austerity – an intensification phase of contemporary liberal political economy. It investigates the erosion of public life in liberal democracies, and critiques the attention economy of deficit culture, by which austerity erodes life-in-common in favour of narcissistic performances of life-in-public."
Staged Normality in Shakespeare's England by "This book looks at the staging and performance of normality in early modern drama. Analysing conventions and rules, habitual practices, common things and objects, and mundane sights and experiences, this volume foregrounds a staged normality that has been heretofore unseen, ignored, or taken for granted."To find more books and e-books, search Novanet and e-book collections listed on the library's E-books page.
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