Duska Radosavljevic

Theatre Criticism

Changing Landscapes

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The world of theatre criticism is rapidly changing in its form, function and modes of operation in the twenty-first century. The dominance of the internet has led to a growing trend of selfappointed theatre critics and bloggers who are changing the focus and purpose of the discussion around live performance. Even though the blogosphere has garnered suspicion and hostility from some mainstream newspaper critics, it has also provided significant intellectual and ideological challenges to the increasingly conservative profile of the professional critic. This book features 16 commissioned contributions from scholars, arts journalists and bloggers, as well as a small selection of innovative critical practice. Authors from Australia, Canada, Croatia, Germany, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Russia, the UK and the US share their perspectives on relevant historical, theoretical and political contexts influencing the development of the discipline, as well as specific aspects of the contemporary practices and genres of theatre criticism. The book features an introductory essay by its editor, Duska Radosavljevic.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 140mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9781472577092
• ISBN-10: 1472577094
• Artikelnr.: 43611222

Autorenporträt

Duska Radosavljevic is a Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Studies at the University of Kent. She has previously worked as the dramaturg at the Northern Stage Ensemble, an education practitioner at the RSC and as a theatre critic for the Stage newspaper. She is the editor of The Contemporary Ensemble (Routledge, 2013) and author of Theatre-Making (Palgrave, 2013).

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Duska Radosavljevic - Theatre Criticism: Changing Landscapes I
Contexts and Histories of Theatre Criticism George Hunka - Style Versus
Substance: American Theatre Criticism Since 1945 Valda Cakare - The Problem
of Reliability: Theatre Criticism in Latvia Savas Patsalidis - From the
Uncritical Certainties of Modernism to the Critical Uncertainties of
Postmodernism: Reviewing Theatre in Greece Kristina Matvienko - Russian
Theatre Criticism: In Search of Contemporary Relevance Margherita Laera -
How to Get Your Hands Dirty: Old and New Models of 'Militant' Theatre
Criticism in Italy Vasco Boenisch - What German Theatre Critics Think and
What Their Readers Expect: An Empirical Analysis of Misunderstandings
Andrew Haydon - A Brief History of Online Theatre Criticism in England II
Critics' Voices Mark Fisher - Do They Mean Me? A Survey of Fictional
Theatre Critics Mark Brown - Between Journalism and Art: The Location of
Criticism in the Twenty-First Century Jill Dolan - Code-Switching and
Constellations: On Feminist Theatre Criticism Maddy Costa - The Critic as
Insider: Shifting UK Critical Practice Towards 'Embedded' Relationships and
the Routes This Opens Up Towards Dialogue and Dramaturgy III Changing Forms
and Functions of Criticism Diana Damian Martin - Criticism as a Political
Event Matthew Reason - Conversation and Criticism: Audiences and Unfinished
Critical Thinking Michelle MacArthur - Crowdsourcing the Review and the
Record: A Collaborative Approach to Theatre Criticism and Archiving in the
Digital Age Natasa Govedic - Articism (Art + Criticism) and the Live Birds
of Passionate Response William McEvoy - Performative Criticism and Creative
Critical Writing IV Samples of Critical Practice Alison Croggon - How to
Think Like a Theatre Critic Open Dialogues - NOTA Alice Saville - Huff
Megan Vaughan - Teh Internet is a Serious Business