Rebecca Schneider Book order

A comprehensive introduction and teaching resource for state-of-the-art Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) using R software. With its practical focus, this book facilitates the teaching, independent learning, and use of QCA with the best available software for students, teachers, researchers, and practitioners in the Social Sciences.

Engaging with remains and remainders of media cultures As new, as current, as now--this is primarily our understanding of technologies and their mediating of our social constructions. But past media and past practices continue to haunt and inflect our present social and technical arrangements. To trace this haunting, two performance theorists and a media theorist engage in this volume with remains and remainders of media cultures through the lenses of theatre and performance studies and of media archaeology. They address the temporalities and materialities of remain(s), the production of obsolescence in relation to the live body, and considerations of cultural memory as well as of infrastructure and the natural history of media culture.

This provocative book meets the supposedly 'live' practices of performance and the 'no-longer-live' historical past at their own dangerous crossroads. Focusing on the 'and' of the title, it addresses the tangled relations between the terms, practices, ideas, and aims embedded in these compatriot - but often oppositional - arts and acts of time

Focusing on the interplay between authenticity and artifice, this collection of essays delves into the significance of the fake in contemporary theatre. Through seven insightful pieces, it analyzes both modern and historical performances, challenging traditional notions of representation and exploring the ritualistic aspects of failure. The work encourages readers to reconsider the value of what is often deemed false in the realm of performance.

An extraordinary resource for practitioners and students of directing providing a collection of ground-breaking interviews, primary sources and essays on twentieth century directing theories and practices around the world.