Performing objects and theatrical things
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Performing objects and theatrical things
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
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Note
Bibliography: p. 241-259
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book rethinks historical and contemporary theatre, performance, and cultural events by scrutinizing and theorizing the objects and things that activate stages, venues, environments, and archives.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: Object Lessons
- Marlis Schweitzer and Joanne Zerdy PART I: ARCHIVAL DIGS 1. Technology and Wonder in Thirteenth-Century Iberia and Beyond
- Christopher Swift 2. 'Nothing but a string of beads': Maud Allan's Salome Costume as a 'choreographic thing'
- Marlis Schweitzer 3. Cartomania and the Scriptive Album: Cartes-de-Visite as Objects of Social Practice
- Nicole Berkin 4. The Linguistic Animation of an American Yorick
- Lezlie C. Cross 5. House Arrest: Museological Performance and the Everyday
- Margaret Werry PART II: EMBODIED RESEARCH PRACTICES 6. The Unfolding Roles of a Walking Map within NVA's Half Life
- Joanne Zerdy 7. Military Memorialization and its Object(s) of Period Purification
- Helene Vosters 8. Entided, Enwatered, Enwinded: Human/More-than-Human Agencies in Site-specific Performance
- Minty Donald PART III: MATERIALIST SEMIOTICS 9. 'All Transparent': Pepper's Ghost, Plate Glass, and Theatrical Transformation
- Aileen Robinson 10. Que(e)rying Theatrical Objects
- Benjamin Gillespie 11. Making the Invisible Visible: Virtual Stage Props and Christopher Marlowe's Dr Faustus
- Joanne Tompkins 12. Relic, Souvenir, or Just Hair?: Exploring the Complexities of Objects as Actants and Things as Mementos in the Merchandise of El Vez, The Mexican Elvis
- Karen Jean Martinson PART IV: EXCAVATING BETWEEN THE LINES 13. Props Breaking Character: The Performance and Failure of Real Objects on the Naturalist Stage
- Kee-Yoon Nahm 14. Bodied Objects: An Analysis of the Whip in George Aiken's Uncle Tom's Cabin and Matthew Lopez's The Whipping Man
- Chandra Owenby Hopkins 15. Translocalized Drums: Mobilizing the Intercultural in the Cantares Mexicanos
- Leo Cabranes-Grant Endnotes Works Cited Index
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