Shadow Puppets and Shadow Play

• Author : David Currell
• Publisher : Crowood
• Release : 31 May 2015

Shadow Puppets and Shadow Play is a comprehensive guide to the design, construction and manipulation and presentation of shadow puppets, considered by many to be the oldest puppet theatre tradition. Traditional shadow play techniques, together with modern materials and methods and recent explorations into theatre of shadows, are explained with precision and clarity, and illustrated by photographs that include the work of some of the finest shadow players in the world. Topics covered include an introduction to shadow play, its

• Author : John Harrison
• Publisher : House of Harrison
• Release : 27 May 2016

Shadow Play is the spellbinding continuation of the story started in Shadow Dance. This second book of the Shadow Saga carries the adventure to a whole new level of danger and intrigue! The next steps of the prophecy are moving toward fruition and the world hangs in the balance. Dark forces reveal their plots as the forces of good struggle to uncover them. At each turn, those aligned with light are cut off from their own and lost in the

• Author : P R Adams
• Publisher : Promethean Tales
• Release : 10 August 2019

Escaping death should have been the final act of Commander Faith Benson’s career. Resuscitation technology makes death temporary for essential personnel, and after her run-in with Azoren Federation Marines, Faith finds herself in that position. But she's revived for a specific purpose: a mission that’s just as hopeless as the one that killed the Pandora crew. Once again, she’s sent into Azoren Fedaration space, only this time she's in command of a cobbled-together task force. Their orders:

• Author : Rajorshi Chakraborti
• Publisher : Minotaur Books
• Release : 20 July 2010

An international conspiracy thriller in the vein of The Parallax View— a Salman Rushdie-esque figure uses his latest novel to explain his own disappearance after a journalist's murder Raj Chakraborti, internationally renowned novelist and commentator, has disappeared from public view. What's worse, the police want to question him about the murder of a young journalist. Raj claims to explain everything in chapters from his latest work of fiction about a serial-killer-turned-hired-assassin. Is Raj right to believe that he is being

• Author : William Klaber,Philip Melanson
• Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
• Release : 03 July 2018

This updated edition for the 50th anniversary of Robert F. Kennedy’s murder explores ignored witness accounts, coerced testimony, bullet-hole evidence, and other issues surrounding the political homicide, and is the basis for the new podcast, The RFK Tapes, which debuted at #1 on the iTunes chart, available now. On June 4, 1968, just after he had declared victory in the California presidential primary, Robert F. Kennedy was gunned down in the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel. Captured a few feet away, gun

• Author : Bernard Arps
• Publisher : NUS Press
• Release : 18 April 2016

Javanese shadow puppetry is a sophisticated dramatic form, often felt to be at the heart of Javanese culture, drawing on classic texts but with important contemporary resonance in fields like religion and politics. How to make sense of the shadow-play as a form of world-making? In Tall Tree, Nest of the Wind, Bernard Arps explores this question by considering an all-night performance of Dewa Ruci, a key play in the repertoire. Thrilling and profound, Dewa Ruci describes the mighty Bratasena’

• Author : Fan Pen Li Chen
• Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
• Release : 21 June 2007

In her study of Chinese shadow theatre Fan Pen Li Chen documents and corrects misconceptions about this once-popular art form. Drawing on extensive research and fieldwork, she argues that these plays served a mainly religious function during the Qing dynasty and that the appeal of women warrior characters reflected the lower classes' high tolerance for the unorthodox and subversive.

• Author : Paul Fleischman
• Publisher : Harpercollins
• Release : 01 August 1990

While visiting the county fair, a brother and sister are enthralled by a shadow puppet show presentation of "Beauty and the Beast" in which all the shadows are made by one man.

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 01 August 2021

• Author : H. Jathar Salij
• Publisher : Heinemann Educational Books
• Release : 01 August 1982

• Author : Li Guo
• Publisher : BRILL
• Release : 17 August 2020

This handbook aims at a history of Arabic shadow theatre from the earliest sightings in the tenth century to the turn of the twentieth century. At the core is an analytical documentation of all the known textual remnants and the preserved artifacts of this rich and still living tradition.

• Author : Ward Keeler
• Publisher : Princeton University Press
• Release : 14 March 2017

As with many performing arts in Asia, neither the highly stylized images of the Javanese shadow play nor its musical complexity detracts from its wide popularity. By a context-sensitive analysis of shadow-play performances, Ward Keeler shows that they fascinate so many people in Java because they dramatize consistent Javanese concerns about potency, status, and speech. Originally published in 1987. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton

• Author : Akira Gotō,Amin Sweeney
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 01 August 1976

• Author : Charles Beaumont
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 01 August 1964

• Author : Gerald Kraak
• Publisher : Jacana Media
• Release : 01 August 2021

Shadow Play is a powerful novel of subterfuge, betrayal, and deep bonds of friendship formed during a time of struggle while a new nation, determined to rise, faces intense obstacles. When confronted with his call-up papers for the apartheid army, Matthew flees to Europe. In Amsterdam, he reconnects with his friend Oliver, and falls into a different rhythm of life, but the pull of his homeland never leaves. When he receives an unexpected call from a former activist comrade, he