Theatre Research International
Theatre Research International publishes articles on theatre practices in their social, cultural, and historical contexts, their relationship to other media of representation, and to other fields of inquiry. The journal seeks to reflect the evolving diversity of critical idioms prevalent in the scholarship of differing world contexts (Provided by Publisher).
Operating as the ‘house’ journal of the International Society for the Study of Musicals, Studies in Musical Theatre aspires to provide a forum “to debate a wide range of texts that articulate the musical together with the theatrical…(and bring) together a variety of critical approaches to contribute to the discussion surrounding live performance, the development and form of musical theatre and its value as a cultural product in theory and practice.”
Purchased to reflect and support the growing interest in Musical Theatre from MusB, GRNCM, and Music & Drama students, this thrice-yearly, peer-reviewed publication adds to the library’s developing nexus of holdings in the broad field of popular culture – in both electronic form – databases such as the Popular culture in Britain and America, 1950-1975 collection and the Rolling Stone Archive – and archival materials – most obviously the British Pop Archive. It also aligns with SALC’s current direction of travel in terms of the most recent of the University’s major research platforms – Creative Manchester – and in benefitting developing programme areas – particularly the Creative and Cultural Industries, and others in the digital realm.
The University of Manchester Library provides full access - including article level indexing to ease discovery - to this journal from 2006 onwards.
Contemporary Theatre Review is a peer-reviewed journal of theatre and performance studies. The journal is home to the most rigorous, experimental, and influential scholarly interventions into the study of international theatre and related practices. Publishing the best research on a broad spectrum of performance practices – including mainstream theatre, drama, performance histories; live art and performance art; dance theatre; digital performance; sound; and performative social and applied practices – Contemporary Theatre Review supports and encourages a wide range of methodologies and approaches, especially interdisciplinary inflections. Each issue includes scholarly articles, critical documents (including interviews and forum discussions), book reviews, and ‘backpages’, with an emphasis on the analysis of new, under-represented or otherwise marginalised examples of performance, grounded in their historical, social, cultural and political conditions of production (Provided by Publisher)
The University of Manchester Library provides full access to this journal from 1992 onwards.
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Key journals relating to Drama:
The list of journal titles above was compiled based on recent publishing data for authors from the Department of Drama (extracted from Pure - the University of Manchester's institutional repository).
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