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Author: Marlis Schweitzer
ISBN: 9781137402448

by Marlis Schweitzer; Joanne Zerdy

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Performing Objects and Theatrical Things rethinks historical and contemporary theatre, performance, and cultural events from the perspective of the objects and things that activate stages, venues, environments, and archives. Embracing methodologies from across the humanities and social sciences, we understand physical materials as actants, with particular frequencies, energies, and potentials to affect human and nonhuman worlds. The texts, stage properties, instruments, costumes, photographs, and detritus that animate this collection emerge from the thirteenth- to the twenty-first century, traversing sites across Europe and North America. Challenging anthropocentric narratives that foreground humans as sole agents, our authors present object and 'thingcentric' methodologies that range from deeply personal autoethnographic reflections and close textual readings to carefully researched archival studies and rhizomatic explorations of an object's journey from one place and time to another.

Details

Title Performing Objects and Theatrical Things
Author Marlis Schweitzer; Joanne Zerdy
Binding Hardcover
Pages 264
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Palgrave MacMillan
Date 2014-09-05
Illustrated Yes
Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
ISBN 9781137402448 / 113740244X
Weight 1.15 lbs (0.52 kg)
Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.9 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 2.29 cm)
Themes
- Aspects (Academic): Theatrical Aspects
Library of Congress subjects Theater - Historiography, Symbolic anthropology
Library of Congress Catalog Number 2014022926
Dewey Decimal Code 792.01

About the author

Nicole Berkin, The Graduate Center, CUNY, USA Leo Cabranes-Grant, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Lezlie C. Cross, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA Minty Donald, University of Glasgow, UK Benjamin Gillespie, The Graduate Center, CUNY, USA Chandra Owenby Hopkins, Converse College, USA Karen Jean Martinson, Chicago State University, USA Kee-Yoon Nahm, Yale University, USA Aileen Robinson, Northwestern University, USA Christopher Swift, New York City College of Technology, CUNY, USA Joanne Tompkins, University of Queensland, Australia Helene Vosters, York University, Canada Margaret Werry, University of Minnesota, USA