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Liveness on Stage : Intermedial Challenges in Contemporary British Theatre and Performance / Claudia Georgi.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Contemporary Drama in English Studies ; 25Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (274 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110345902
  • 9783110395044
  • 9783110346534
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 792.0941/09051 23
LOC classification:
  • PN2595.132 .G46 2014
  • PN2595.132 .G46 2014
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 (Inter–)Mediality -- 2 Drama, Theatre and (Inter–)Mediality -- 3 Mediation, Mediatisation and Liveness -- 4 Liveness on Stage -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Index of Performances -- General Index
Dissertation note: Dissertation Universität Göttingen 2012. Summary: Theatre is traditionally considered a live medium but its ‘liveness’ can no longer simply be taken for granted in view of the increasing mediatisation of the stage. Drawing on theories of intermediality, Liveness on Stage explores how performances that incorporate film or video self-reflexively stage and challenge their own liveness by contrasting or approximating live and mediatised action. To illustrate this, the monograph investigates key aspects such as ‘ephemerality’, ‘co-presence’, ‘unpredictability’, ‘interaction’ and ‘realistic representation’ and highlights their significance for re-evaluating received notions of liveness. The analysis is based on productions by Gob Squad, Forkbeard Fantasy, Station House Opera, Proto-type Theater, Tim Etchells and Mary Oliver. In their playful approaches these practitioners predominantly present such media combination as a means of cross-fertilisation rather than as an antagonism between liveness and mediatisation. Combining an original theoretical approach with an in-depth analysis of the selected productions, this study will appeal to scholars and practitioners of theatre and performance as well as to those researching intermedial phenomena.
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Dissertation Universität Göttingen 2012.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 (Inter–)Mediality -- 2 Drama, Theatre and (Inter–)Mediality -- 3 Mediation, Mediatisation and Liveness -- 4 Liveness on Stage -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Index of Performances -- General Index

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Theatre is traditionally considered a live medium but its ‘liveness’ can no longer simply be taken for granted in view of the increasing mediatisation of the stage. Drawing on theories of intermediality, Liveness on Stage explores how performances that incorporate film or video self-reflexively stage and challenge their own liveness by contrasting or approximating live and mediatised action. To illustrate this, the monograph investigates key aspects such as ‘ephemerality’, ‘co-presence’, ‘unpredictability’, ‘interaction’ and ‘realistic representation’ and highlights their significance for re-evaluating received notions of liveness. The analysis is based on productions by Gob Squad, Forkbeard Fantasy, Station House Opera, Proto-type Theater, Tim Etchells and Mary Oliver. In their playful approaches these practitioners predominantly present such media combination as a means of cross-fertilisation rather than as an antagonism between liveness and mediatisation. Combining an original theoretical approach with an in-depth analysis of the selected productions, this study will appeal to scholars and practitioners of theatre and performance as well as to those researching intermedial phenomena.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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