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From the Greeks and Shakespeare to the "Ramayana" and the "Mahabharata", war has often been a major theme of dramatic performances. This work looks at theater and performances that often occur quite literally as bombs are falling, as well as during times of ceasefire and in the aftermath of hostilities.

Maps the distance that film theory has traveled in the Anglo-American academy and India in the past decades, inviting questions such as: How do we make sense of this new academic interest in popular Indian cinemas? How should we begin to understand Indian popular culture as a result?

Since 1986, the Burning Man Festival has evolved from founder Larry Harvey's personal healing ritual into a cultural movement where ceremony, religion, visual art, and performance converge on an epic scale. This work explores the spectrum of performance and ritual practices within Black Rock City from the everyday to wild spectacle.

By charting the history of the philosophy of conflict in Western discourse, the author offers a critique of contemporary notions of war and terror.

Explains how and why cartoons work, why they matter and why the reactions of the offended are often an even blunter political weapon than the cartoons themselves.

Attempts to disentangle the varieties of offence, to trace the origins of our situation to the failed identity politics of the 1970s and the new language of human rights, and to distinguish between the duty to offend and the temptations of cultural chauvinism.

An anthology of seven contemporary Israeli plays. It looks into the variety of Israeli drama, theatre, and performance, reflecting central questions of identity in Israeli society. It includes an introduction discussing the theatrical contexts of the plays and some of the major issues that Israeli society deals.

Examines the various kinds of censorship which have oppressed homosexual men and women. Discussing artists as diverse as Marcel Proust, Benjamin Britten, WH Auden and Terence Rattigan, Saki and Ronald Firbank, this book explores the true nature of "camp" and the rich tradition of subversive and comic art created by the censoring of the sexual.

Explores the role of music and cultural memory in shaping and creating diasporic identities. Illustrated throughout with halftones and accompanied by a compact disc of musical examples from many of the traditions discussed, this title is of interest to scholars of ethnomusicology and cultural anthropology.