Metatheatrical dramaturgies of violence: staging the role of theatre
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- About the Cover Image -- Contents -- 1 Introduction: Staging the Role of Theatre -- Preface -- Plays Aren't Real -- Scope of Study -- Contemporary Metadrama -- Problems of Staging Violence -- Re/animation -- Simplification -- Appropriation and Mis/identification --...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Cham
Springer International Publishing AG
2021
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| In: | Year: 2021 |
| Further subjects: | B
Violence in the theater
B Violence in literature B Electronic books B Drama-History and criticism |
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| Summary: | Intro -- Acknowledgements -- About the Cover Image -- Contents -- 1 Introduction: Staging the Role of Theatre -- Preface -- Plays Aren't Real -- Scope of Study -- Contemporary Metadrama -- Problems of Staging Violence -- Re/animation -- Simplification -- Appropriation and Mis/identification -- Violence, Theatricality, Representation -- Metatheatricality and Violence -- Metatheatricality Foregrounds the Creative Decision-Making Process -- Metatheatricality Emphasizes the Structural Causes of Violence -- Metatheatricality Deauthorizes Representational Privilege -- Metatheatricality Reminds Us That Spectatorship Is Never Neutral -- Book Structure -- Lastly… -- References -- 2 Performative Violence and Self-Reflexive Dramaturgy: A Study of Guillermo Calderón's Kiss and Other Works -- Introduction -- "Shut-In, but Hearing the Gunshots" -- "Bombs Are Falling from the Sky. What Else Do You Need to Know?" -- Staging Performative Violence -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 "Touching Something Real": The Critique of Historical and Theatrical Methodology in Jackie Sibblies Drury's We Are Proud to Present… -- Introduction -- "Doing Anything Other Than What's Real": Illuminating Historical Injustice -- "Where Are All the Africans?": Exposing Theatrical Bias -- Something… -- Conclusion -- References -- 4 The Ethics of Imagining Others: The Limits of "Performative Witness" in Michael Redhill's Goodness and Erik Ehn's Thistle -- Introduction -- Theatrical Witness and Authorship -- The Unhappy Performativity of Goodness in Rwanda -- Staring Down Genocide: "A Wonderful Feeling" -- Thistle: "All This I Saw" -- Conclusion -- References -- 5 Staging Rage: A Feminist Perspective on Theatrical Self-Reflexivity in Ella Hickson's The Writer and Tim Crouch's The Author -- Introduction -- The Author: Enraging the Spectator. |
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| Item Description: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (231 pages) |
| ISBN: | 3030851028 |