2008, ISBN: 0415458560

Taschenbuch

[EAN: 9780415458566], Used, very good, [SC: 0.0], [PU: Routledge], A book about what performance actually does for actors and audience, focused particularly on more experimental events. S… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780415458566], Used, very good, [SC: 0.0], [PU: Routledge], A book about what performance actually does for actors and audience, focused particularly on more experimental events. So while there's no shortage of words such as autopoesis, mediatization and semioticity in The Transformative Power of Performance, it's really about simple but powerful things: among them sight, touch, smell, voices, laughter, ecstasy, reality. "When an actor playing Hamlet walks across the stage it primarily signifies the reality of the actor walking across the stage. The actor is not just pretending to walk. He is actually walking and changing reality through his act. The context alone allows for the walk to acquire another meaning - for example Hamlet walking to Gertrude's chamber." Such are the steps from which this book works up to matters such as "John Cage's event theory, Austin's establishment of the concept of the performative in linguistic theory, Judith Butler's work on performative acts and gender, the contributions of the Cambridge anthropologists to ritual study, [and] Peggy Phelan and Philip Auslander's discussions of presence", to quote the useful introduction by Marvin Carlson. The book itself is in very good condition, no markings to the text, still very tightly bound, with just a few marks of shelf wear and handling: a little bit of bumping to the corners of the covers, some faint dog-earing to the top right corner of some pages towards the back, some small creases in the bottom corner of a few pages also towards the back. The translation is by Saskya Iris Jain, and is good and lively, for example in recounting performances by the inevitable Joseph Beuys and figures lesser-known outside Germany such as Christoph Schlingensief. "When crossing the stage before the eyes of those already seated, the spectators had to take on the role of actors whether they liked it or not." Why? "The production was conceived as an experiment to empower the German citizens after sixteen years of disempowerment due to Kohl's chancellorship - it gave them public appearance as agents.", Books<

2008, ISBN: 9780415458566

Taschenbuch

Routledge, Taschenbuch, Auflage: 1, 240 Seiten, Publiziert: 2008-06-05T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, 0.68 kg, Verkaufsrang: 1060055, Theaterkritik, Theater, Bühne, Film, Kunst & Kultur,… Mehr…

Routledge, Taschenbuch, Auflage: 1, 240 Seiten, Publiziert: 2008-06-05T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, 0.68 kg, Verkaufsrang: 1060055, Theaterkritik, Theater, Bühne, Film, Kunst & Kultur, Kategorien, Bücher, Taschenbücher, Fremdsprachige Bücher, Englische Bücher, Routledge, 2008<