Bleeker Visuality in the Theatre

The Locus of Looking
2008
ISBN: 978-0-230-58336-8
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 228 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Performance Interventions

This book presents an exploration of the under-explored terrain of visuality, demonstrating the use of new theoretical insights into vision for the analysis of theatre and performance and simultaneously shows theatre and performance to be an excellent 'theoretical object' for exploring the cultural, historical and embodied character of visuality.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bleeker, M.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Perspective and the Paradox of Post-Dramatic Subjectivity 'Step Inside': Absorption, Focalisation and the Subject of Vision Plato's Theatre Navel Gazing as Critical Practice Retheatricalizing Sexuality in the Field of Vision Disorders that Consciousness Can Produce Death, Digitalization and Dys-Appearance Theatre at the Threshold of the Visible World Visions of Cultural Difference

Über Autor(innen)

MAAIKE BLEEKER is Professor of Theatre Studies at Utrecht University, Netherlands. She has previously lectured at the School for New Dance Development, the Piet Zwart postgraduate programme in Fine Arts and the Department of Theatre Studies at the University of Amsterdam. She also works as a dramaturg for various theatre directors, choreographers and visual artists.