Chinese Shadow Theatre - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Chinese Shadow Theatre write by Fan-Pen Li Chen. This book was released on 2007. Chinese Shadow Theatre available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In her study of Chinese shadow theatre Fan-Pen Li Chen documents and corrects misconceptions about this once-popular art form. She argues how a traditional folk theatre reflected and subverted Chinese popular culture.
Visions for the Masses
Visions for the Masses - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Visions for the Masses write by Fan-Pen Li Chen. This book was released on 2004. Visions for the Masses available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection of Chinese shadow plays contains seven selected traditional shadow plays from the Qing and early Republican periods from Shaanxi and Shanxi. A minor operatic genre, the Chinese shadow theatre provides one of the best avenues for examining the mentality and sense of humor of the silent masses. Although Shaanxi sports the largest number of shadow traditions in China and is where the art form is most vibrant, its shadow plays have never before been published in either Chinese or English. Translated from rare hand-copied play scripts, this volume includes the most literary and refined plays of the genre as well as coarser popular plays and farcical Post-midnight skits. It also features a survey of the state of the shadow theatre in contemporary China, extensive critical introductions and bibliography.
Shadow Woman
Shadow Woman - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shadow Woman write by Grant Hayter-Menzies. This book was released on 2013-10-01. Shadow Woman available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Kansas-born Pauline Benton (1898-1974) was encouraged by her father, one of America's earliest feminist male educators, to reach for the stars. Instead, she reached for shadows. In 1920s Beijing, she discovered shadow theatre (piyingxi), a performance art where translucent painted puppets are manipulated by highly trained masters to cast coloured shadows against an illuminated screen. Finding that this thousand-year-old forerunner of motion pictures was declining in China, Benton believed she could save the tradition by taking it to America. Mastering the male-dominated art form in China, Benton enchanted audiences eager for the exotic in Depression-era America. Her touring company, Red Gate Shadow Theatre, was lauded by theatre and art critics and even performed at Franklin Roosevelt's White House. Grant Hayter-Menzies traces Benton's performance history and her efforts to preserve shadow theatre as a global cultural treasure by drawing on her unpublished writings, the recollections of her colleagues, the testimonies of shadow masters who survived China's Cultural Revolution, as well as young innovators who have carried on Benton's pioneering work.
The Shadow Puppet Theatre of Malaysia
The Shadow Puppet Theatre of Malaysia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Shadow Puppet Theatre of Malaysia write by Beth Osnes. This book was released on 2014-01-10. The Shadow Puppet Theatre of Malaysia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This comprehensive book explores the Malaysian form of shadow puppet theatre, highlighting its unique nature within the context of Southeast Asian and Asian shadow puppet theatre traditions. Intended for a Western audience not familiar with Asian performance and practices, the text serves as a bridge to this highly imaginative form. An in-depth examination of the Malaysian puppet tradition is provided, as well as performance scripts, designs for puppet characters, instructions for creating a shadow screen, and easy directions for performance. Another section then considers the practical, pedagogical, and ethical issues that arise in the teaching of this art.
Shadow Theatres and Shadow Films
Shadow Theatres and Shadow Films - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shadow Theatres and Shadow Films write by Lotte Reiniger. This book was released on 1970. Shadow Theatres and Shadow Films available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
