Performing Arts Journal articles

Recent articles from Performing Arts Journal

Proposals, correspondence, editorials.
May 1, 1995... From proposal to Sr. Luis Humberto Mota Enciso, Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara, July 1991 As to any course or seminar focus and content, I am always concerned with the real potential of contemporary broadcasting media-as an essential tool or art for enlightening modern society...

A lesson plan for a course in film history.
May 1, 1995... First my credentials. I have been teaching a variety of film-related courses for close to eight years, and I have been lecturing on film to lonely crowds for close to fifteen. My classes have ranged in size from a seminar six to a semaphore six hundred in such institutions as The School of...

What is cinema?
May 1, 1995... There things are . . . Why manipulate them? --Roberto Rossellini Cinema is a manipulation of reality through image and sound. --Alain Resnais Of all the books on film issued these past two years, in desperate anarchy, from the major publishing houses, the selection of essays assembled...

It's only a movie.
May 1, 1995... I see movies, talk about them, and write about them all the time; why should it be so enervating even to consider sitting down and formulating my general approach in terms of a course? Although I accepted this commitment in good faith, I found myself postponing its accomplishment. When I...

The arts and education.
May 1, 1995... During the past decade, traditional cultural studies have faced enormous challenges. Post-structuralism, multiculturalism, and the politicization of culture have destabilized notions of the aesthetic, and this has had consequences in the arts in terms of American social policy. At...