In the Footsteps of Harlequin and Pulcinella

Cultural Mobility and Localness of Theatre
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-3-8376-5173-7
Verlag: Transcript Verlag

Buch, Englisch, Band 129, 350 Seiten, Kt, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 225 mm, Gewicht: 543 g

Reihe: Theater

In theater, cultural specifics are performatively established in 'contact zones' and through intersecting gazes of viewers and theater historians in the context of technological development (such as print, the press, television, the Internet). This book traces the cultural mobility of theater by analyzing the history of the Harlequin mask in France, Italy and Poland, as well as the history of the Pulcinella mask. Thus, it shows the way in which these masks participated in building 'Italianness' in the eyes of foreign and local theater audiences. Due to its wide range of contextual fields and modern research methodologies, the book addresses students and researchers from the field of theater and performance studies, media studies, as well as cultural studies, constituting one of the best examples of transdisciplinary modern humanities.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bal, Ewa

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Über Autor(innen)

Ewa Bal, born in 1973, is an associate professor of performance studies at Jagellonian University in Krakow (Poland) and a visiting professor at Sapienza University of Rome, University of Teramo (Italy) and University of Barcelona (Spain). She published widely in the field of performance studies and is also active as translator and editor of several Italian and Polish plays. Her major academic interests are the cultural mobility of performance and theater, language minorities, translation studies, gender and queer studies, as well as (de)postcolonial studies.