A Cultural History of Theatre in the Modern Age (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Solga, Kim

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

To call something modern is to assert something fundamental about the social, cultural, economic and technical sophistication of that thing, over and against what has come before. A Cultural History of Theatre in the Modern Age provides an interdisciplinary overview of theatre and performance in their social and material contexts from the late 19th century through the early 2000s, emphasizing key developments and trends that both exemplify and trouble the various meanings of the term 'modern', and the identity of modernist theatre and performance.

Highly illustrated with 40 images, the ten chapters each take a different theme as their focus: institutional frameworks; social functions; sexuality and gender; the environment of theatre; circulation; interpretations; communities of production; repertoire and genres; technologies of performance; and knowledge transmission.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. August 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350135482
• Artikelnr.: 58420999

Autorenporträt

Kim Solga is is Associate Professor of Theatre Studies at Western University, Canada. Her books include Performance and the City (2009), Performance and the Global City (2013), Violence Against Women in Early Modern Performance (2009), and A Cultural History of Theatre: The Modern Age (Methuen Drama, 2017).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Series Preface Editor's Acknowledgements Introduction: The Impossible Modern Age Kim Solga
Western University
Canada 1 Institutional Frameworks: Theatre
State
and Market in Modern Urban Performance Michael McKinnie
Queen Mary University of London
UK 2 Social Functions: Consumers and Producers Nicholas Ridout
Queen Mary University of London
UK 3 Sexuality and Gender: New Stories and New Spaces on the Modern Stage Kirsten Pullen
Texas A&M University
USA 4 The Environment of Theatre: 'Home' in the Modern Age Kim Solga
Western University
Canada and Joanne Tompkins
The University of Queensland
Australia 5 Circulations: Visual Sovereignty
Transmotion
and Tribalography Jill Carter
University of Tornoto
Canada
Heather Davis-Fisch
University of the Fraser Valley
USA and Ric Knowles
University of Guelph
Canada 6 Interpretations: The Stakes of Audience Interpretation in Twentieth-Century Political Theatre Dassia N. Posner
Northwestern University
USA 7 Communities of Production: A Materialist Reading with an Offstage View Christin Essin
Vanderbilt University
USA and Marlis Schweitzer
York University
Canada 8 Genres and Repertoires: Redressing the Nation in Ireland and Japan Michelle Liu Carriger
University of California
Los Angeles
USA and Aoife Monks
Queen Mary University of London
UK 9 Technologies of Performance: Machinic Staging and Corporeal Choreographies Ashley Ferro-Murray
University of California
Berkeley
USA and Timothy Murray
Cornell University
USA 10 Knowledge Transmission: Media and Memory Sarah Bay-Cheng
Bowdoin College
USA Notes Bibliography Index