Bøger i Theater: Theory/Text/Performance serien

Proposes that theatre spectatorship has made a significant contribution to the historical development of a distinctive bourgeois sensibility, characterized by the cultivation of distance. This study of history, class, and spectatorship offers proof of 'why theatre matters', and demonstrates the importance of examining the question historically.

Reveals the international and intercultural connections within contemporary performance from Oceania, focusing on theatre, performance art, art installations, dance, film, and activist performance in sites throughout Oceania and in Australia, Asia, North America, and Europe.

Examines Samuel Beckett's relationship with the visual arts, in an effort to shed new light on the author's work and on his thinking on aesthetics. Lois Oppenheim argues that Beckett was a profoundly visual artist whose work reflects a preoccupation with the visual as a paradigm of creativity.

Analyzes and synthesizes modern critical acting theories, their historical evolution, and their relationship to one another, enabling students, teachers, and professionals to comprehend the different aesthetic possibilities for actors. This work identifies six categories of twentieth-century acting.

An original and valuable assessment of American political theater in the 1960s and 1970s

Presents a range of critical and theoretical methods, and applies them to contemporary and historical performance genres - from stage plays, dance-dramas, performance art, cabaret, stand-up comedy, and jazz to circus, street theater, and shamanistic ritual. This edition features sixteen essays, which are organized into nine theoretical categories.

Analyses uses of space, time, media communication, and corporeality in protests such as virtual sit-ins, flash mobs, scarfazos, and hashtag campaigns, arguing that these protests not only challenge hegemonic power but are also socially transformative.

In a time of intensifying xenophobia and anti-immigration measures, this book examines the impulse to acquire a deeper understanding of cultural others. Immersions in Cultural Difference takes readers into the heart of immersive simulations. The author queries the ethical stakes of these encounters, including her own in relation to the field research she undertakes.

The first philosophical study devoted solely to acting, offering a meditation on the spillover from acting to life

Sheds light on the critical role that women artists have played in the evolution of the American avant-garde

American history as theater, and theater as the heart of American life

A rich, historically grounded exploration of why theater and performance matter in the modern world

Explores how North Korean state-sponsored propaganda performances - including public spectacles, theater, film, and other visual media including posters - shape everyday practice in a country where the performing arts are not only a means of entertainment but also a forceful institution used to regulate, educate, and mobilize people.

Space in Performance examines the way theater buildings function to frame the performance event, the organization of audience and practitioner spaces within the building, the nature of the stage and the modes of representation it facilitates, and the relationship between the real space of the theater and the fictional places that are evoked.

During her lifetime (1755-1831), English actress Sarah Siddons was an international celebrity acclaimed for her performances of tragic heroines. We know what she looked like, but what of her famous voice, reported to cause audiences to hyperventilate or faint? In lively and engaging prose Judith Pascoe takes readers on a journey to discover how the actor's voice actually sounded.

A revealing exploration of Northern proslavery sentiment during the period before the Civil War

Examines one of the most radical and enduring changes introduced during the Civil Rights era - multiracial and cross-racial casting practices in American theatre. Multiracial casting is explored first through its history, then through its artistic, political, and pragmatic dimensions. It then focuses on case studies from the dominant genres of contemporary American theatre.

Spotlights spectacular acts of racial violence--from police stops (racial profiling) to lynching campaigns--and shows how African American men and women have employed performance to respond to the intrusion of such events within their daily lives. Masterful