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Download or read book Urban Drama written by J. Chris Westgate and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-06-20 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identifying an apprehension about the nature and constitution of urbanism in North American plays, Westgate examines how cities like New York City and Los Angeles became focal points for identity politics and social justice at the end of the twentieth century, and how urban crises inform the dramaturgy of contemporary playwrights.
Download or read book Dear Drama written by Braya Spice and published by Urban Books. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever had a friend who just seems to attract trouble, no matter what she does? That's Allure. Just 21, she barely made it out alive from an abusive relationship with her psycho baby daddy, Greg. Poor girl just wants to be loved, but the harder she tries to find the right man, the more wrong her life gets. Whether it's Lavante, who has to stuff socks in his pants to make himself feel manly; or Derek, who would be a fine catch if his bipolar disorder didn't almost get Allure killed; or Bryce, a sweet and sexy cop whose first love is the crack pipe; Allure bounces from one drama to another. Then there's James, strong and stable—until he knocks her up and hits the road. Get ready to laugh—and cry—at Allure's crazy love life.
Book Synopsis Death by Drama and Other Medieval Urban Legends by : Jody Enders
Download or read book Death by Drama and Other Medieval Urban Legends written by Jody Enders and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2005-05-15 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of every legend is true. Or so argues Jody Enders in this fascinating look at early French drama and the way it compels us to consider where the stage ends and where real life begins. This ambitious and bracing study explores fourteen tales of the theater that are at turns dark and dangerous, sexy and scandalous, humorous and frightening—stories that are nurtured by the confusion between truth and fiction, and imitation and enactment, until it becomes impossible to tell whether life is imitating art, or art is imitating life. Was a convicted criminal executed on stage during a beheading scene? Was an unfortunate actor driven insane while playing a madman? Did a theatrical enactment of a crucifixion result in a real one? Did an androgynous young man seduce a priest when portraying a female saint? Enders answers these and other questions while presenting a treasure trove of tales that have long seemed true but are actually medieval urban legends. On topics ranging through politics, religion, marriage, class, and law, these tales, Enders argues, do the cultural work of all urban legends: they disclose the hopes, fears, and anxieties of their tellers. Each one represents a medieval meditation created or dramatized by the theater with its power to blur the line between fiction and reality, engaging anyone who watches, performs, or is represented by it. Each one also raises pressing questions about the medieval and modern world on the eve of the Reformation, when Europe had never engaged more anxiously and fervently in the great debate about what was real, what was pretend, and what was pretense. Written with elegance and flair, and meticulously researched, Death by Drama and Other Medieval Urban Legends will interest scholars of medieval and Renaissance literature, history, theater, performance studies, and anyone curious about urban legends.
Book Synopsis A Thug and His Queen by : Tamicka Higgins
Download or read book A Thug and His Queen written by Tamicka Higgins and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-06-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Thug & His Queen: What Won't You Do?, three worlds are quickly and suddenly colliding. There is Danez and Ronnisha, who live the good life apartment downtown and have love that is stronger than anyone could imagine. Danez's best friend, Lamarcus, is finding himself quickly falling for Rain, a woman everyone else is not sure can be trusted. Qoree has Chocolate Bunny, or Lala, by his side. Little do any of these couple know, their lives are about to change...all over money. One night Lamarcus is kicking it with Rain when he has a surprise guest: Qoree. Qoree is furious that Lamarcus and Danez are making moves in his hood, The Land, without asking him first. Once Lamarcus winds up in the hospital, Danez makes it his goal to get not only get revenge , but also what was taken from Lamarcus' house, money, all while keeping himself and Ronnisha safe. InA Thug & His Queen: What Won't You Do?, betrayal, suspicion, and boldness will lead these three couples in differentdirections ...directions that will soon enough lead to one place and one goal. Ronnisha will quickly find out what it means to be a thug's queen, and everything that comes along with it...
Book Synopsis Living the Drama by : David J. Harding
Download or read book Living the Drama written by David J. Harding and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the middle class and the affluent, local ties seem to matter less and less these days, but in the inner city, your life can be irrevocably shaped by what block you live on. Living the Drama takes a close look at three neighborhoods in Boston to analyze the many complex ways that the context of community shapes the daily lives and long-term prospects of inner-city boys. David J. Harding studied sixty adolescent boys growing up in two very poor areas and one working-class area. In the first two, violence and neighborhood identification are inextricably linked as rivalries divide the city into spaces safe, neutral, or dangerous. Consequently, Harding discovers, social relationships are determined by residential space. Older boys who can navigate the dangers of the streets serve as role models, and friendships between peers grow out of mutual protection. The impact of community goes beyond the realm of same-sex bonding, Harding reveals, affecting the boys’ experiences in school and with the opposite sex. A unique glimpse into the world of urban adolescent boys, Living the Drama paints a detailed, insightful portrait of life in the inner city.
Book Synopsis Theatres of Independence by : Aparna Bhargava Dharwadker
Download or read book Theatres of Independence written by Aparna Bhargava Dharwadker and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theatres of Independence is the first comprehensive study of drama, theatre, and urban performance in post-independence India. Combining theatre history with theoretical analysis and literary interpretation, Aparna Dharwadker examines the unprecedented conditions for writing and performance that the experience of new nationhood created in a dozen major Indian languages and offers detailed discussions of the major plays, playwrights, directors, dramatic genres, and theories of drama that have made the contemporary Indian stage a vital part of postcolonial and world theatre.The first part of Dharwadker's study deals with the new dramatic canon that emerged after 1950 and the variety of ways in which plays are written, produced, translated, circulated, and received in a multi-lingual national culture. The second part traces the formation of significant postcolonial dramatic genres from their origins in myth, history, folk narrative, sociopolitical experience, and the intertextual connections between Indian, European, British, and American drama. The book's ten appendixes collect extensive documentation of the work of leading playwrights and directors, as well as a record of the contemporary multilingual performance histories of major Indian, Western, and non-Western plays from all periods and genres. Treating drama and theatre as strategically interrelated activities, the study makes post-independence Indian theatre visible as a multifaceted critical subject to scholars of modern drama, comparative theatre, theatre history, and the new national and postcolonial literatures.
Download or read book Drama!. written by Tia Hines and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Destiny's wild behavior lands her in serious trouble with the law, it's up to her brother to again rescue her. Having no choice, he accepts a favor from a rogue cop--a favor that he'll soon regret taking that will cost much more than they're willing to pay.
Book Synopsis The City Reader by : Richard T. LeGates
Download or read book The City Reader written by Richard T. LeGates and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third edition juxtaposes the very best publications on the city. It reflects the latest thinking on globalization, information technology and urban theory. It is a comprehensive mapping of the terrain of urban studies: old and new.
Book Synopsis Urban America: Growth, Crisis, and Rebirth by : John Mcdonald
Download or read book Urban America: Growth, Crisis, and Rebirth written by John Mcdonald and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will change the way Americans think about their cities. It provides a comprehensive economic and social history of urban America since 1950, covering the 29 largest urban areas of that period. Specifically, the book covers 17 cities in the Northeast, 6 in the South, and 6 in the West, decade by decade, with extensive data and historical narrative. The author divides his analysis into three periods - urban growth (1950 to 1970), urban crisis (late 1960s to 1990), and urban rebirth (since 1990). He draws on the concepts of the vicious circle and the virtuous circle to offer the first in-depth explanation for the transition from urban crisis to urban rebirth that took place in the early 1990s. "Urban America" is both a message of hope and a call to action for students and professionals in urban studies. It will inspire readers to concentrate on finding ways and means to ensure that the urban rebirth will continue.
Download or read book Drama City written by Larry Moon (Jr.) and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tim Johnson was a convict who lived by the code of the streets "Death before Dishonor". Life took a turn for the worst leaving the test of survival at his feet. Daryl Jenkins and Cliff Porter were Tim's faithful comrades who learned the in's and out's of the drug game, but when the game went sour they saw another side of Tim that couldn't be explained. Tim crossed a thin line with his ex-fiance after she made a promise that she couldn't keep, leaving Tim alone in prison to survive as best as he could. Someone wants him dead. But who? Follow this illicit tale as lust, betrayal and loyalty conflicts and unfold in the city of drama a.k.a. Drama City.
Book Synopsis Interactive Storytelling by : Ulrike Spierling
Download or read book Interactive Storytelling written by Ulrike Spierling and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-11-13 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First Joint International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2008, held in Erfurt, Germany, in November 2008. The 19 revised full papers, 5 revised short papers, and 5 poster papers presented together with 3 invited lectures and 8 demo papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 62 submission. The papers are organized in topical sections on future perspectives on interactive digital storytelling, interactive storytelling applications, virtual characters and agents, user experience and dramatic immersion, architectures for story generation, models for drama management and interacting with stories, as well as authoring and creation of interactive narrative.
Download or read book Drama City written by Colie Levar Long and published by . This book was released on 2014-04-28 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story in this composition of literary madness was based on actual events. All names of all individuals and locations in this story have been changed or purposely made up, to prevent anyone from being incriminated. Any resemblance a character in this story may have to an individual you may know (living or non-living) is unintentionally coinci-dental. (Except for you hot-ass, snitching-ass, back stabbing-ass, lying-ass rats! Let the world look upon you and see you for what you truly are.)"
Download or read book No More Drama written by La Jill Hunt and published by Urban Renaissance. This book was released on 2024-08-20 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La Jill Hunt’s bestselling No More Drama is just as relevant now as it was when it was first released. Veronica "Roni" Black has met her match. The hardcore, never fall in love, marriage is for suckers, is engaged to none other than the player of players, Tobias Sims, aka DJ Terror. Toby has found everything he wants in Roni and more. But just when Toby's ready to settle down and commit, one of his many lady "friends," Darla, is determined not to let anything—or anyone—come between their friendship, especially when Toby is the father of her child. Will Ron learn to trust her man long enough to marry him? Will Toby realize that sometimes being "just a friend" can be fatal to a relationship, and will he finally stand up to his past? The drama continues, and so does the laughter in No More Drama...
Book Synopsis The Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Reader by : Kuan-Hsing Chen
Download or read book The Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Reader written by Kuan-Hsing Chen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-04-22 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asian Cultural Studies or Cultural Studies in Asia is a new and burgeoning field, and the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Journal is at its cutting edge. Committed to bringing Asian Cultural Studies scholarship to the international English speaking world and constantly challenging existing conceptions of cultural studies, the journal has emerged as the leading publication in Cultural Studies in Asia. The Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Reader brings together the best of the ground breaking papers published in the journal and includes a new introduction by the editors, Chen Kuan-Hsing and Chua Beng Huat. Essays are grouped in thematic sections, including issues which are important across the region, such as State violence and social movements and work produced by IACS sub-groups, such as feminism, queer studies, cinema studies and popular culture studies. The Reader provides useful alternative case studies and challenging perspectives, which will be invaluable for both students and scholars in media and cultural studies.
Book Synopsis The Victorian City by : Harold James Dyos
Download or read book The Victorian City written by Harold James Dyos and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume traces the modern critical and performance history of this play, one of Shakespeare's most-loved and most-performed comedies. The essay focus on such modern concerns as feminism, deconstruction, textual theory, and queer theory.
Download or read book Mobile Web 2.0 written by Syed A. Ahson and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2010-12-07 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From basic concepts to research grade material, Mobile Web 2.0: Developing and Delivering Services to Mobile Devices provides complete and up-to-date coverage of the range of technical topics related to Mobile Web 2.0. It brings together the work of 51 pioneering experts from around the world who identify the major challenges in Mobile Web 2.0 appl
Book Synopsis The Intelligible Metropolis by : Nora Pleßke
Download or read book The Intelligible Metropolis written by Nora Pleßke and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2014-08-31 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writings on the metropolis generally foreground illimitability, stressing thereby that the urban ultimately remains both illegible and unintelligible. Instead, the purpose of this interdisciplinary study is to demonstrate that mentality as a tool offers orientation in the urban realm. Nora Pleßke develops a model of urban mentality to be employed for cities worldwide. Against the background of the Spatial Turn, she identifies dominant urban-specific structures of London mentality in contemporary London novels, such as Monica Ali's »Brick Lane«, J.G. Ballard's »Millennium People«, Nick Hornby's »A Long Way Down«, and Ian McEwan's »Saturday«.
