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Bastard or Playmate? : Adapting Theatre, Mutating Media and Contemporary Performing Arts / ed. by Robrecht Vanderbeeken, Christel Stalpaert, David Depestel, Boris Debackere.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Theater TopicsPublisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (264 p.) : 57 halftonesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9789089642585
  • 9789048513178
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 792.022
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Theatre Between Performance and Installation -- The Fourth Wall, or the Rift Between Citizen and Government -- Using Recorded Images for Political Purposes -- A Campsite for the Avant-Garde and a Church in Cyberspace -- Echoes from the Animist Past -- Folding Mutants or Crumbling Hybrids? -- Making UNMAKEABLELOVE -- Witness Protection? Surveillance Technologies in Theatrical Performance -- The Work of Art in the Age of Its Intermedial Reproduction -- Rimini Protokoll's Theatricalization of Reality -- Digital Landscapes -- The Productivity of the Prototype -- The Theatre of Recorded Sound and Film -- Doubled Bodies and Live Loops -- Between Solitaire and a Basketball Game -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Names
Summary: This fascinating volume explores the theme of mutating and adapting media in its relation to theatre and performance. Bringing together international scholars and artists, the editors offer a comprehensive overview of the changing nature of theater, focusing on interactivity, corporeality, liveness, surveillance, spectacle, performativity, and theatricality. Bastard or Playmate? shows how dismantling the medium of theater has led to a fertile ground for new art. This wide-ranging and vibrant book provides an excellent guide for readers unfamiliar with the field of intermediality, as well as researchers and experienced theater artists.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Theatre Between Performance and Installation -- The Fourth Wall, or the Rift Between Citizen and Government -- Using Recorded Images for Political Purposes -- A Campsite for the Avant-Garde and a Church in Cyberspace -- Echoes from the Animist Past -- Folding Mutants or Crumbling Hybrids? -- Making UNMAKEABLELOVE -- Witness Protection? Surveillance Technologies in Theatrical Performance -- The Work of Art in the Age of Its Intermedial Reproduction -- Rimini Protokoll's Theatricalization of Reality -- Digital Landscapes -- The Productivity of the Prototype -- The Theatre of Recorded Sound and Film -- Doubled Bodies and Live Loops -- Between Solitaire and a Basketball Game -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Names

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This fascinating volume explores the theme of mutating and adapting media in its relation to theatre and performance. Bringing together international scholars and artists, the editors offer a comprehensive overview of the changing nature of theater, focusing on interactivity, corporeality, liveness, surveillance, spectacle, performativity, and theatricality. Bastard or Playmate? shows how dismantling the medium of theater has led to a fertile ground for new art. This wide-ranging and vibrant book provides an excellent guide for readers unfamiliar with the field of intermediality, as well as researchers and experienced theater artists.

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