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Author: Mike Pearson
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 0415194571
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTheatre/Archaeology is a provocative challenge to disciplinary practice and intellectual boundaries. It brings together radical proposals in both archaeological and performance theory to generate a startlingly original and intriguing methodological framework.
Author: Takeshi Inomata
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
Published: 2006-03-09
Total Pages: 347
ISBN-13: 0759114404
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPerformances in the premodern communities shaped identities, created meanings, generated and maintained political control. But unlike other social scientists, archaeologists have not worked much with these concepts. Archaeology of Performance shows how the notions of theatricality and spectacle are as important economics and politics in understanding how ancient communities work. Without sacrificing conceptual rigor, the contributors draw on the wide-ranging literature on performance. Without sacrificing material evidence, they try to see how performance creates meaning and ideology. Drawing on evidence from societies large and small, Archaeology of Performance offers an important new ways of understanding ancient theaters of power.
Author: Frank Sear
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2006-07-20
Total Pages: 612
ISBN-13: 0191518271
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a definitive architectural study of Roman theatre architecture. In nine chapters it brings together a massive amount of archaeological, literary,and epigraphic information under one cover. It also contains a full catalogue of all known Roman theatres, including a number of odea (concert halls) and bouleuteria (council chambers) which are relevant to the architectural discussion, about 1,000 entries in all. Inscriptional or literary evidence relating to each theatre is listed and there is an up-to-date bibliography for each building. Most importantly the book contains plans of over 500 theatres or buildings of theatrical type, as well as numerous text figures and nearly 200 figures and plates.
Author: Michael Shanks
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-06-03
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 1315419165
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArchaeology is a way of acting and thinking—about what is left of the past, about the temporality of what remains, about material and temporal processes to which people and their goods are subject, about the processes of order and entropy, of making, consuming and discarding at the heart of human experience. These elements, and the practices that archaeologists follow to uncover them, is the essence of the archaeological imagination. In this extended essay, renowned archaeological theorist Michael Shanks offers his colleagues and students a window on this imaginative world of past and present and the creative role archaeology can play in uncovering it, analyzing it, and interpreting it.
Author: Nele Wynants
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2019-01-12
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9783319995755
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book develops media archaeological approaches to theatre and intermediality. As an age-old art form, theatre has always embraced ‘new’ media. To create theatrical effects and optical illusions, theatre makers were ready to integrate state-of-the-art technics and technologies, and by doing so they playfully explored and popularized scientific knowledge on mechanics, optics and sound for live audiences. This book highlights this obvious but often overlooked relation between media developments and the history of intermedial theater. By considering the interplay between present intermedial performances and their archaeological traces, the authors assembled here revisit old and often forgotten media approaches and theatre technologies. This archaeology is understood less as the discovery of a forgotten past than as the establishment of an active relationship between past and present. Rather than treating archaeological remains as representative tokens of a fragmented past that need to be preserved, the authors stress the return of the past in the present, but in a different, performative guise.
Author: Julian Bowsher
Publisher: Mola (Museum of London Archaeology)
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781907586125
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn relation to the latest archaeological evidence Bowsher sets out the rich dramatic history of London theatrical venues from 1567 to 1642, detailing the builders, actors, playwrights and audiences: what they wore and ate, where they drank and fought, where they lived and died. He includes illustrations, quotes, jokes, and guides to walks.
Author: Peter Meineck
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2017-07-14
Total Pages: 239
ISBN-13: 1315466562
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines classical Greek theatre, asking how ancient drama operated in performance and became such an influential social, cultural and political force. Meineck approaches Greek theatre from the perspective of the cognitive sciences as an embodied live enacted event, and analyses how different performative elements acted upon audiences to create absorbing narrative action, emotional intensity, intellectual reflection and empathy. This was the key to the transformative artistic and social power that enabled Greek drama to advance alternate viewpoints. He also explores what the model of Greek drama can reveal about live theatre's value in cultural, social and political discourse today.
Author: Marvin Carlson
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 153
ISBN-13: 0199669821
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTheatre is one of the longest-standing art forms of modern civilization. Taking a global look at how various forms of theatre - including puppetry, dance, and mime - have been interpreted and enjoyed, this book explores all aspects of the theatre, including its relationship with religion, literature, and its value worldwide.
Author: Julian Beck
Publisher:
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780998279398
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Gabriella Giannachi
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 0415557674
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe essays in this book seek to explore how the performance of presence can be understood through the relationships between performance theory and archaeological thinking. They ask questions such as: How presence is achieved through theatrical performance? What makes memory come alive? Where does perfomance practice and its documentation begin?
