Theatre as Voyeurism

Theatre as Voyeurism

Author: G. Rodosthenous

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-05-16

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 1137478810

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Theatre as Voyeurism (re)defines voyeurism as an 'exchange' between performers and audience members, privileging pleasure (erotic and aesthetic) as a crucial factor in contemporary theatre. This intriguing group of essays focuses on artists such as Jan Fabre, Romeo Castellucci, Ann Liv Young, Olivier Dubois and Punchdrunk.


Theatrical Performance and the Forensic Turn

Theatrical Performance and the Forensic Turn

Author: James Frieze

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-04-09

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 1135009961

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Contemporary theatre, like so much of contemporary life, is obsessed with the ways in which information is detected, packaged and circulated. Running through forms as diverse as neo-naturalistic playwriting, intimately immersive theatre, verbatim drama, intermedial performance, and musical theatre, a common thread can be observed: theatre-makers have moved away from assertions of what is true and focussed on questions about how truth is framed. Commentators in various disciplines, including education, fine art, journalism, medicine, cultural studies, and law, have identified a ‘forensic turn’ in culture. The crucial role played by theatrical and performative techniques in fuelling this forensic turn has frequently been mentioned but never examined in detail. Political and poetic, Theatrical Performance and the Forensic Turn is the first account of the relationship between theatrical and forensic aesthetics. Exploring a rich variety of works that interrogate and resist the forensic turn, this is a must-read not only for scholars of theatre and performance but also of culture across the arts, sciences and social sciences.


Staging the Rage

Staging the Rage

Author: Katherine H. Burkman

Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9780838637630

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This study is divided into four sections, whose general topics trace various manifestations of misogyny in nineteenthand twentieth-century drama. Recent attempts to dismantle and expose relations between gender and spectacle receive attention in a volume that suggests exciting possibilities for a revision of theater.


Dramaturgy of Sex on Stage in Contemporary Theatre

Dramaturgy of Sex on Stage in Contemporary Theatre

Author: Kate Mulley

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-01-16

Total Pages: 138

ISBN-13: 104000900X

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Dramaturgy of Sex on Stage in Contemporary Theatre explores the dramaturgy of sex in contemporary works for the stage in the social, cultural and historical context of the time and place during which they were written and performed. Comprising chapters by writers from across North America and Europe, the book covers an expansive range of plays, musicals and dance performances, from Broadway to the Fringe, from post-AIDS epidemic to post-COVID-19 pandemic. Analysing these intimate moments—both textually and as staged—through an intersectional and critical lens illuminates the way power structures are maintained and codified, and how they can be queered and dismantled onstage and off. This examination of depictions of sex on stage attempts to understand from a dramaturgical and sociological perspective how these depictions have developed over time, and how the rise of intimacy directors has responded to the changes within the contemporary theatrical landscape and in the world at large. This is an essential companion for any scholar or practitioner looking to stage, discuss or understand intimacy in performance.


Dictionary of the Theatre

Dictionary of the Theatre

Author: Patrice Pavis

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 1998-01-01

Total Pages: 492

ISBN-13: 9780802081636

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An encyclopedic dictionary of technical and theoretical terms, the book covers all aspects of a semiotic approach to the theatre, with cross-referenced alphabetical entries ranging from absurd to word scenery.


Being in Contact: Encountering a Bare Body

Being in Contact: Encountering a Bare Body

Author: Mariella Greil

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2021-03-22

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 3110735989

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This choreographed book is dedicated to the phenomenon of the bare body in contemporary performance. This work of artistic research draws on philosophical, biopolitical, and ethical discourses relevant to the appearance of bare bodies in choreography, setting a framework for a reflexive movement between affect and ethics, sensuous address and response. Acts of exposure and concealment are culturally situated and anchored, and are examined for their methodological and nanopolitical significance. The concepts of anarchic responsibility and choreo-ethics lead to a reevaluation of contact, relationship, and solidarity. Choreography is thus understood as a complex field of revelatory experiences based on ecologies of aesthetic perception and ethico-political agency.


Who's Who in Research: Performing Arts

Who's Who in Research: Performing Arts

Author: Intellect Books

Publisher: Intellect Books

Published: 2013-01-01

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 1783201584

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Increasingly, academic communities transcend national boundaries. “Collaboration between researchers across space is clearly increasing, as well as being increasingly sought after,” noted the online magazine Inside Higher Ed in a recent article about research in the social sciences and humanities. Even for those scholars who don’t work directly with international colleagues, staying up-to-date and relevant requires keeping up with international currents of thought in one’s field. But when one’s colleagues span the globe, it’s not always easy to keep track of who’s who—or what kind of research they’re conducting. That’s where Intellect’s new series comes in. A set of worldwide guides to leading academics—and their work—across the arts and humanities, Who’s Who in Research features comprehensive profiles of scholars in the areas of cultural studies, film studies, media studies, performing arts, and visual arts. Who's Who in Research: Performing Arts includes concise yet detailed listings include each academic’s name, institution, biography, and current research interests, as well as bibliographic information and a list of articles published in Intellect journals. The volumes in the Who’s Who in Research series will be updated each year, providing the most current information on the foremost thinkers in academia and making them an invaluable resource for scholars, hiring committees, academic libraries, and would-be collaborators across the arts and humanities.


On Voyeurism: Being Seen on the Modern Stage

On Voyeurism: Being Seen on the Modern Stage

Author: Megan M. Mobley

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 61

ISBN-13:

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Author's abstract: At the end of the nineteenth century, playwrights grew more interested in exploring the ramifications of the gaze, looking and being looked at. For existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre, the gaze causes a never-ending battle between our subjective selves, how we view ourselves, and our objective selves, or how others view us. The knowledge of the Other's gaze allows us to self-reflect on our own existence. Sartre and Oscar Wilde each incorporate the gaze into their plays to explore the battle between our subjective and objective selves, gendered perception, differences in perception, and to undercut or demonstrates the dominant structures of seeing. By first exploring Sartre's No Exit, I can observe how Sartre's three main characters demonstrate Mulvey's theories of the male gaze, a structure of looking which is influenced by the dominant social order. His play offers an exploration of Hélène Cixous' theories on perception, particularly regarding gendered perceptions, and the existential battle between our self-image (being-for-itself) and the Other's perception of ourselves (being-for-others). Wilde's play, on the other hand, allows us to see what comes before Sartre and how his play u1ndercuts the patriarchal nature of the stage and goes against Mulvey's concept of the male gaze.